Written and storyboarded by Calvin Wong and Minty Lewis
Skips tells Mordecai and Rigby the story of how he became immortal.
Tropes
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Gary and the Guardians of Eternal Youth make up the Student Goverment.
- Doomed by Canon: Desdemona.
- Downer Ending: Lampshaded by Mordecai. Skips' origin story ends with Desdemona dead and Klorgbane set up to return in a hundred years.
- Everyone Went to School Together: Well, everyone who's immortal, that is.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: A half-hour episode focusing on Skips' past and considered more dramatic and action-packed than comedic.
- Friendship Trinket: The locket Walks/Skips gives Desdemona.
- Hidden Depths: When trying to schedule a fight with Klorgbane, he turns out to only be available during the dance because he is surprisingly involved in a lot of extra curriculum.
- High School: The story follows Skips/Walks, his girlfriend Desdemona, the Guardians of Eternal Youth, Gary, and Klorgbane when they were high school students.
- High-School Dance: The climax takes place during prom.
- The Lost Lenore: Desdemona becomes this for Skips.
- Origins Episode: For Skips.
- Proper Lady: Desdemona seems to be one in that she disapproves of Walks' fighting.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Klorgbane gets Desdemona killed, Walks gets the Fists of Justice and proceeds to beat the hell out of him, ending by punching him into orbit.
- Teen Drama: The atmosphere shows shades of this.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Desdemona.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Guardians of Eternal Youth warn Walks that if he's immortal he will see everyone he loves grow old and die. Walks says that he already lost the one woman he ever loved and ever will love.
- Before Skips tells the story, Mordecai and Rigby talk about how awesome it would be to be immortal, but by the end, they have a newfound appreciation for mortality.
