Recap / Paradise PDS 02 E 07 Paradise PD Meets Brickleberry

In 2015, Comedy Central canceled Brickleberry. Five years later, they were revived for "the most unnecessary crossover ever" with Brickleberry's companion show Paradise PD.

The episode continues where "Flip the Vote" left off with Gerald Fitzgerald (the kingpin of Argyle Meth) winning the town's election as Mayor, criminalizing all law enforcement in Paradise and driving away Paradise PD. Randall's plan is for Paradise PD to use Brickleberry as asylum and stay there for the rest of their lives and never go back to Paradise, but Woody Johnson refuses to grant asylum because he hates Randall.

Tropes

• Adaptational Badass: Ethel in this crossover is capable of summoning animals such as bald eagles and a bear to her to accomplish either combating or chasing an opponent down. In the original series, she was nothing more than a devoted animal lover and didn't have this kind of power.
• Adolf Hitlarious: Randall gives Woody a piece of his mustache to wear as his own mustache, only for Woody's new mustache to end up looking like a Hitler mustache.
• Appropriate Animal Attire: Bullet makes a joke about how as a dog, he isn't required to wear clothes.
• Berserk Button: Randall hits Woody's by insulting Malloy.
  Randall: Jesus, Woody. It's just a stupid bear.
  [Woody snatches Randall's gun and point it at him]
  Woody: ONE MORE WORD!!! And I'll blow that queefing chin right off of your head!
• Black Comedy Rape: This episode has a lot of that.
  • Connie, when informed that Gina wants to be with Dusty, decides to trap Dusty in a ditch, dress up as him, hide Gina's contacts so that she'll agree to do it with her at night. Though then Connie realizes Gina is much rougher at sex than she is, and Connie can't handle it.
  • While Denzel and Bullet are very high from smoking weed all day, Hopson tries to take advantage of this and tell him they have to perform sex on the hallucination god-like figure he's portraying in their minds if they wish to return home.
  • And of course, there's Randall repressing his childhood memories.
    Randall: NO DENMASTER DAN! GET OUT OF MY TENT!
• Brain Transplant: Dr. Kuzniak switches brains with a duck.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Bullet assures us that we can expect to hear a lot of these jokes in the crossover.
• The Cameo:
  • Due to the overarching storyline, Gerald Fitzgerald was unable to serve a major role in this episode and was the only main cast member to not interact with any Brickleberry characters. His only appearance was at the beginning of the episode, where he told Thester to go look for Paradise P.D. and during the intro animation.
  • Karen makes a cameo, but only to down her sorrows of losing re-election as mayor, throw it up and drink it again. She has no lines (though the next time we see her, she's glad she was drunk through this episode and was disappointed that the episode wasn't a crossover with the Netflix show Big Mouth).
  • Other P.D. characters who make brief and forgettable cameos in this crossover are Thester, Hancock, Delbert, and Hobo Cop. None of which involved the characters interacting with anyone or anything from Brickleberry.
• Commonality Connection: Gina and Ethel started off as rivals, but find they have a lot in common and become best friends in the end.
• Continuity Nod: Many to Brickleberry.
  • Malloy reminds everyone of their finale episode, "Global Warning" and questions why they're not currently dead if the crossover takes place after that but Steve argues that the "Armoogeddon" comic books justify this, as in these comics, he saved the day and set everything back to normal.
  • Woody fears he'll have to sell his Cocaine Yacht, which he had previously gotten in "In Da Club".
  • Woody remembers when Bobby kidnapped Malloy in "Welcome to Brickleberry".
  • Denzel's cabin has that Pimp Cup that Steve gave him from "Race Off!".
  • When Jorge's strip club's lights are turned on, the strippers revert to their animal forms as it turns out they are all wild animals Jorge bought to replace all his previous sex workers. This is a nod to the Brickleberry episode "Write 'Em Cowboy" where Malloy discovers that Jorge's strip club is dark to cover up the fact that his strippers are old, ugly, fat, and basically have anything that would be considered Fan Disservice.
  • A Squabbit is seen in Dr. Kuzniak's hospital, from "Squabbits".
  • Dusty is seen eating a 99% cacao bar, continuing the series-long running gag from Brickleberry, of this being trademark favorite food.
• Crossdresser: Hopson brings back his alter-ego, "Hopsaletta", when hitting in Denzel.
  • Later on at the titty bar, Hopson goes in drag again and this time, Randall, Kevin, and Bullet join him with everyone going in disguise as strippers to catch Poachmaster General.
• Crossover: This episode is a crossover between Paradise P.D. and Brickleberry. It's acknowledged as such by Malloy who complains it's unnecessary (and, in the next episode, Karen is relieved that she slept through it).
• Crossover Couple:
  • Connie Cunaman and Gina Jabowski get together for a sex romp in this episode, even if Connie had to trick her by dressing as Dusty.
  • Hopson also wanted to screw Denzel at one point when he overheard Denzel saying he hopes Hopson has a sister.
• Cutaway Gag: Denzel has a cutaway to that time he got high with Snoopy and Woodstock from Peanuts.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Woody was revealed to have been horrifically abused during his childhood, mostly by his alcoholic mother, who locked him in a closet and beat him. He had a brief shining moment of happiness when Mavis took him away from his abusive home so he could move in with Randall. However, Randall only got jealous of Woody so he beat himself up and blamed it on him, leading to Woody getting kicked out of the house and sent straight back to his abusive home again, which only made things even more painful for him.
• Demoted to Extra: Although Malloy was a primary character, if not the signature and most advertised one from Brickleberry, here he only appears for a few seconds and has very little dialogue.
• Destination Defenestration: According to Bodean, Bobby Possumcods accidentally killed himself by jumping out the window.
• Distaff Counterpart: Connie is this to Dusty. They bond pretty well over it... until Connie traps Dusty in a hole to have Gina to herself.
• Dog Got Sent to a Farm: The Bullet this series follows is revealed to be the sixth in a line of many other Bullets who had to get put down.
• Evil Poacher: Poachmaster General.
• Expy: Every Paradise P.D. character (except Fitz) meets their Brickleberry counterpart.
• Fanservice: This crossover is the biggest fattest instance of fanservice both shows have done so far, being a full-blown crossover episode between the two shows than fans have been asking for and writing fanfictions about ever since Paradise PD first aired.
• Feud Episode:
  • Woody claims he hates Randall for separating him from the Crawford family's house (as Randall didn't want to share his own mother with his cousin) and made Woody go back to living with his abusive alcoholic mother Anita.
  • Between Gina and Ethel who form a rivalry over who is the better cop.
• Foreshadowing: During the fight, Dusty is shown dropping right where Malloy was.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you pause at the right time during the fight, you'll notice that when Denzel knocks Dusty to the ground, Malloy can briefly be seen getting crushed under him.
• Given Name Reveal: It's revealed that Randall's mom's name is "Mavis".
• Hate at First Sight: Gina was quick to hate pretty much every member of Brickleberry, but her hatred for Ethel was a bit more direct.
  Gina: I guarantee you I can take the poacher down before some tree cop with an old lady name. Ethel!
  Ethel: What was that, Gina? It's hard to hear you over your crazy eyes. Look, I'm catching the poacher because I'm the best ranger here.
  Gina: Oh, congratulations. You're the best ranger in Cancelberry.
  Ethel: Oh, Gina? Go fuck yourself.
• Helium Speech: Connie inhales helium to sound like Dusty.
• Hidden Villain: Poachmaster General.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Woody's childhood with his mother.
  [Woody plays with a dead rat in a dusty old closet and Anita sticks her boob through a hole in the wall]
  Woody: Sweet! Breakfast!
• Hookers and Blow: Jorge complains that his usual strippers (and hookers) were doing too much cocaine, so he had to purchase animals and have them serve as the new strippers for his club, but they're also addicted to cocaine except according to him they do it slightly less so.
• Hypocritical Humor: Woody tells Randall, "I never wanted to hear that stupid annoying voice of yours again!" Bullet then looks at the camera breaking the fourth wall saying the viewer should be ready for more jokes like these.
• I Have Your Wife: Or bear, really. The Poachmaster General turns out to be behind the disappearing animals in the park, and claims that he's the one who kidnapped Malloy and will only return him to Woody for $100,000.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction:
  Randall: One of our cops turned out to be a criminal!
  Denzel: Oh, let me guess? The only black guy.
  Randall: Hey! We are NOT racist!! (beeps his car's lock chain while glaring back suspiciously at Denzel)
• Killed Off for Real: Bobby O'Possumcods. According to BoDean, he accidentally killed himself while he was tripping balls.
• Long-Lost Relative: Woody and Randall are revealed to be cousins.
  Randall: We needed a place to hide, Woody and, well I knew my cousin would take us in.
  Woody: FUCK YOU, RANDALL! You are dead to me! I never want to hear that stupid, annoying voice of yours, again!
• Mad Eye: Ethel calls Gina "crazy eyes" and Gina's eyes start talking like crazy people.
• Medium Blending: When Bullet and Denzel get high, they start hallucinating things in many different animation styles. There's even a gag where Bullet and Denzel hallucinate themselves in live-action.
  Denzel: Holy shit.
• Mushroom Samba: Bullet and Denzel get high off of edible gummibears and start hallucinating all kids of crazy shit.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Randall feels awful when he remembers that he was the one who ruined Woody's life when they were children.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Inverted. Gina has astigmatism in this episode (despite having never suffered this before) so that the plot will allow for Connie to trick Gina into thinking she's Dusty by stealing her contact lenses.
• Oh, Crap!: Connie when she realizes how rough Gina actually is.
  Connie: What the fuck?!
• Out of Focus:
  • Due to the plot, Fitz barely even has any more than three lines in this episode, only appearing at the very beginning of the show, telling Thester to go look for the cops. He is also the only P.D. character not to interact with anybody from Brickleberry.
  • Karen is also blackout drunk for the entire episode and doesn't even get any dialogue aside from vomiting into her beer bottle and drinking it again.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: Dusty and Connie sing the theme song to The Golden Girls. Yes. That's PD now. Feel old yet?
• Ransom Drop: Woody and Poachmaster General do this but Poachmaster General gets his Briefcase Full of Money just before Randall gets his bag of bear, allowing for Poachmaster General to screw Woody over and run off with the cash and the bear.
• The Reveal: The reason Woody and Randall sound and behave so similar to each other is that they're cousins.
• Rule of Three: Hopson says that he likes his men like he likes his coffee. Hot, black, and up his ass.
• Saving the Orphanage: Brickleberry's side of the plot is about Brickleberry National Park getting foreclosed because of Woody's failure to pay the mortgage.
• Self-Deprecation:
  • The two shows insult each other, though the insults are mainly biased toward Brickleberry.
    Bullet: You can expect to hear a lot of these kinds of jokes.
  • Randall goes on to explain how Brickleberry was critically panned. In this context, he was talking about the park but it's obvious this was a double-entendre for the eponymous TV show.
  • Woody says that Brickleberry is getting foreclosed due to their show's cancelation.
  • Denzel tells Steve that he wasn't funny at all in 2015 (the year the final season aired).
  • The Brickleberry rangers can't even agree on what actually happened at their park before this episode began, because they're all still alive but back in the finale they were killed (which Malloy brought up but only he and Steve remember the cows). Steve protests that in the ensuing comic books he saved the day and prevented all that from happening as his Big Damn Heroes moment, but no one except him accepts the comic books as canon (though it's hard to dismiss it as canon because the two creators Waco and Roger did write the books).
  • Denzel is quick to assume that the bad guy on their team just so happened to be the only black character, as sort of a passive-aggressive way of calling the writers of Paradise P.D. a bunch of racists.
  • Gina mocks Brickleberry for being canceled, by calling their park "Cancelled-Berry".
  • Gina claims that Brickleberry rangers aren't actual policemen but merely tree cops, despite how they actually do carry guns and are state law enforcement.
  • Gina claims Ethel is the kind of name for an old lady.
  • Dr. Kuzniak refers to Randall as "Netflix Woody" and Kevin as "Ginger Steve", taking a jab at how every character from Paradise P.D. is more or less a carbon copy of a cast member of Brickleberry.
  • Ethel complains the writers of both shows can't make proper dialogue for female characters.
  • Once more, Brickleberry insults itself when Malloy says that nobody will be seeing them again.
  • In the next episode, Karen denigrated Brickleberry as "Family Guy in the Woods" due to its similar format of being a sitcom of 21-minute episodes that have multiple subplots running, with five human characters and one talking animal along with use of cutaway gags (except Brickleberry keeps theirs very brief, Family Guy can go well over 2 minutes with their cutaway gags).
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: It turns out that Malloy was trapped underneath Dusty's body fat the entire time.
• Shout-Out:
  • Hopson's sexual pass at Denzel is an almost direct take on a quote from a little girl in the movie, Airplane.
    Hopson: I like my men like I like my coffee. Hot, black, and up my ass.
  • Firecracker Jim's groin is blasted by dynamite into resembling a Demagorgon's head.
  • Denzel smoked weed with Snoopy and Woodstock before.
  • Denzel mentions the movie The Dark Crystal.
• Special Edition Title: The opening ends with the force outside the Brickleberry ranger station instead of headquarters.
• Story Reset: Brickleberry gets this since back in the series finale, everyone but Steve and Bobby got killed by space cows. Except for Steve and Malloy, nobody remembers anything about the space cows. Steve tries to bring up the comic book series Armoogeddon published by Dynamite Entertainment and written by two hillbilly nerds (Waco O'Guin and Roger Black). Woody isn't convinced, claiming Steve didn't save jack shit and Connie dismisses the comic books as being non-canon, despite how the creators of the show actually did indeed write the books.
• Take That!: When Connie spots Dusty making figures of the Golden Girls out of his own feces, Connie calls him an aspiring artist much like Jim Carrey.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Dusty and Connie become the best of friends when they find out they both like The Golden Girls but Connie wants to steal Dusty's lover for herself, so she knocks him out cold and throws him in a ditch.
  Connie: Oops. Did I do that?
• Wimp Fight: Between Steve and Kevin.
• With Friends Like These...: Dusty complains about how Paradise PD refuses to see him as a friend, mostly because his obesity makes him obnoxious to be around since he farts too much and it smells bad and since his huge size makes them nearly suffocate from lack of space in the Humvee they used to flee town. He spends most of his stay in Brickleberry grieving and stress-eating candy bars because Paradise PD are put off by his huge weight.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: When he was younger, Randall beat himself up to make it look like Woody did so just because he didn't want to share his mother with him.