Are you serious, monkey? That is the most generic fortune I have ever heard! Technically, it's not even a fortune, it's more like advice, or a motto...
If there's one thing I do not believe in, it's fortune tellers. And if there's a second thing I do not believe in, it's fortune tellers who also happen to be monkeys!
— Eugene
Eugene and Rapunzel are on a date in the forest when they run into Vigor the Visionary, a psychic monkey. Eugene is convinced he's a fraud, but Rapunzel wants to give it a try, only to receive a generic fortune. When, afterwards, Vigor gets stolen, Eugene and Rapunzel realize some friends they met previously (Season 1) are back, and they are reunited with them.
This episode provides examples of:
- Agent Scully: Eugene, while Rapunzel plays Agent Mulder, when it concerns the accuracy of Vigor's clairvoyance.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Eugene even lampshades this, seeing how he has seen magic hair, magic black rocks, and a fencing horse, yet the one thing he doesn't believe in is fortune tellers.
- Breather Episode: This episode has no direct nor indirect importance to the gang's quest following the black rocks.
- The Bus Came Back: Angry and Red from last season are back for another adventure.
- Contrived Coincidence: When Angry finds the house her family supposedly is in, the Daylight Thieves, who are there at the time but don't know Angry is coming or even exists, just happen to be a man and a woman of the right age to be Angry's parents. Even more contrived is that Angry is Asian or Ambiguously Brown (a minority in Corona) and the two thieves just happen to be one Asian and one white; so they can perfectly pass fine for Angry's parents. Of course, this conveniently lets the thieves take advantage of Angry.
- Costume Evolution: Inverted. Rapunzel and Eugene wear their Season 1 outfits in this episode, possibly because they were dressing up for their date.
- Damsel out of Distress: Once the Daylight Thieves have gotten rid of Eugene and Rapunzel, they turn their attention to Angry and Red and things don't look good. By the time Eugene and Rapunzel have made their way back to the cottage, they immediately expect the two kids to be in trouble... only to find the thieves have been hogtied, gagged and thrown on the floor.
- Do Wrong, Right: Eugene scolds the girls about stealing again, but also adds that they should at least steal something more valuable than a phony psychic monkey.
- Hope Spot: Angry seems to have found her family, who even keep Red as an additional member. Everything seems to end happily with one big sweet reunion. But as Rapunzel and Eugene are leaving, the latter gets this funny feeling that something's not right. Then they discover that Vigor took a piccolo from the couple's house. A mahogany piccolo said to have been stolen by the infamous Daylight Thieves.
- It Was with You All Along: Angry's search for her family is a bust and she feels hopeless about ever finding her family again. But then Eugene convinces her that Red is her family, being the one person who's always there for her during her lowest times. Angry proceeds to give Red her family necklace, declaring Red as her family and to remind herself she isn't alone.
- Meaningful Name: Snake Canyon, as one might expect, is home to many snakes.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Towards the end, Eugene relays to Red how a year ago, he was a thief after a crown while Rapunzel wanted to find lanterns in the sky. When Angry wonders what this has to do with her, Eugene shares wisdom that, like her, he and Rapunzel were chasing something they thought would bring them true happiness. But then they both realized they should've been searching for someone who truly cared about them (each other). He uses this wisdom to help Angry realize that, while she's been searching for her lost family, Red's been real family to her all along.
- Phony Psychic: Eugene is convinced the monkey doesn't have any powers and is just lucky or acting on instinct, and that the old lady scammed them out of their silver.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Angry and Red pull this at the end when they can't pay.
- Tarot Motifs: Vigor the monkey fortuneteller at a certain point plays a deck of Tarot cards. Most of the cards shown are indeed cards that in real life are in most Tarot decks note . In particular, Vigor pulls the "Wheel of Fortune" card, which indeed is card no. X in most standard decks.
