"After the events of the Manga, Juno's just trying to get by with a loving dominatrix of a girlfriend, a pining for a certain stag, and having to work under an absolutely bonkers boss. That boss, however, is running out of time to live and is willing to do ANYTHING to stay alive...which winds up leading to an adventuring involving Torque, Jeri, mad science, nightclub orgies, and the resurrected head of the prophet, Nostradamus! Things kinda escalate from there..."
- 0% Approval Rating: Mr. Brussard, the CEO of Brussard Incorporated, who constantly belittles and insults everyone around him, even when he desperately needs their help. Hell, his employees throw a party at his company over his upcoming death.
- A Day in the Limelight: This story puts Juno as one of the major characters of the story, alongside previous contestant Jeri and previous Arena winner Torque.
- All for Nothing: What Juno getting Nostradamus' head for Mr. Brussard amounted to, as not only do they don't even get to attempt the brain experiment, but both Brussard and Nostradamus end up dead by the end of the story.
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: Knowing that Mr. Brussard is going to die soon, the employees at Brussard Incorporated throw a party in celebration of this in chapter 4.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Mr. Brussard describes the symptoms he's gotten from his brain tumor as losing his sense of taste, seeing double, and he's pretty sure he's been getting calls from Kluckonix the Chicken God.
- Ascended Extra: Juno, previously having only appeared in the last chapter of the 11th episode, is now a central character to the story.
- Back from the Dead: Jeri's Omnigizer machine successfully revives Nostradamus' head in chapter 4.
- Boom, Headshot!: After wounding Lew by firing several bullets into his body, Brussard finishes off the serpent by shooting him in the brain. He also kills Nostradamus this way.
- Bond One-Liner: Mr. Brussard delivers one to Lew that also doubles as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner when Lew comes upon Odette’s corpse:
- Mr. Brussard: "Sorry about your date. She got a little choked up about having to abandon me."
- Brain Transplant: The solution that Mr. Brussard comes up with to save himself from death is to take his bad brain out and replace it with a healthy one.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: When Juno, Mr. Brussard, and Odette enter Jeri's lab the first time, they notice tables covered in cigar-stubs, pizza boxes on the side, and some cum stains on the walls.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Bakerra's explanation for why she's suddenly in the story in chapter 5:
- Baskerra: "Sorry, but the movie ended with a ridiculous hybrid and that's the way this is ending too! This episode almost wrote itself into a corner! You should thank me!"
- Later in the chapter she takes Notradamus' head and Lew's body with her as it spares her from having to write a more elaborate ending.
- The Bus Came Back: Juno. Jeri, Toqrue, and to a lesser extent Sheila, Legoshi, and Haru all make a return in this episode.
- The Cameo: Among those that make a brief appearance for the orgy in chapter 3 include Legoshi, Haru, Ellen, Rokume, and (possibly) Bill, Pina, and Els.
- Chekhov's Gun: A dark example comes from Odette's necklace, which the narration explains was a gift from Mr. Brussard before he became the ill-tempered person he is today. In the last chapter Mr. Brussard uses the necklace to choke Odette to death.
- Cigar Chomper: Mr. Brussard and oddly enough Jeri share this trait. Though in the latter's case he just likes the little puffs he can make with them.
- Continuity Nod: After Juno gets introduced to the synthetic Xenomorph Jeri and the unusual (as in she has arms, which serpents don't have in the Beastars universe) serpent Torque, she states that she should be used to this ever since the dragon attack.
- Upon getting a closer look at Juno, Torque comments that she kinda looks like a wolf she used to know.
- Crash-Into Hello: When Odette leaves Jeri's lab to get some fresh air, she bumps into a viper named Lew, who was coming through the portal she entered through.
- Definitely Just a Cold: The beginning of the story shows signs that there is definitely something wrong with Mr. Brussard, but he won't admit it. He then receives a visit from the doctors that tell him that he has a brain tumor.
- Description Cut: When Mr. Brussard goes to talk to Nostradamus again in chapter 4, he hopes that his workers are as miserable as he is. It then cuts to said workers holding a party at his company building over his impending demise.
- Diabolus ex Machina: Baskerra Hellmane shows up out of nowhere in the last chapter so she can fuse Nostradamus' head onto Lew's body since the movie ended with a hybrid creature and so shall this story. She also takes the head and body with her so our heroes don't have to worry about anything.
- Disney Villain Death: When the Nostradamus/Lew hybrid rings the church bell, it causes Mr. Brussard to get woozy and lean on the guard-rails, which then break and cause Brussard to fall to his death.
- Eye Scream: Torque threatens Mr. Brussard that if he calls her a freak again he'll be picking globs of venom from his eyes.
- Face Death with Dignity: Knowing that Mr. Brussard is going to kill him, Nostradamus closes his eyes and waits for the inevitable.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Chapter 4 ends with Nostradmus claiming to Lew that he will be the one to destroy Brussard and that he's worried about Lew, but the systems go down to recharge before he can fully warn the viper. In chapter 5 Lew is killed by Mr. Brussard. Also in chapter 5 just before Brussard kills him, he foretells that he will meet his end when the bell tolls, which is what happens later in the same chapter.
- For Doom the Bell Tolls: Nostradamus foretells that Mr. Brussard will meet his end when the bell tolls. Sure enough, the Nostradamus/Lew hybrid ringing the church bell is what causes Mr. Brussard's death.
- Genre Savvy: Torque, who frequently makes comments about how Jeri's experiment will horribly go wrong.
- Get Out!: When Mr. Brussard discovers the head of Nostradamus is alive for the first time, he demands everyone else leave the lab so he can talk to Nostradamus.
- Go Out with a Smile: As Juno looks back at Nostradamus' hanging head, she notices that he has a peaceful expression on his face.
- Groin Attack: After doing some graverobbing for Mr. Brussard, Juno tells Sheila that if he forces her to do anything else, she's going to tear off his manhood the first chance she gets.
- If I Can't Have You…: Brussard, realizing that Odette is planning on running away with Lew when he dies, strangles Odette to death with her necklace.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In the narration, the humans that fired at Juno after taking Nostradamus' head failed to land a serious shott on her despite boasting about a 98% chance of hitting her.
- When Torque fails to land a shot on Mr. Brussard despite having an 87% chance of hitting him, her dialogue after this implies that this has been an issue she's been having for a while.
- Implied Death Threat: When Jeri considers giving Mr. Brussard the brain of Harry Houdini, Torque comments that she’ll make him disappear if they let her have him.
- Insane Troll Logic: Mr. Brussard thinks that inserting a new brain into his body will cause the personality of that brain to think like Mr. Brussard, essentially because he says so.
- It's All About Me: Mr. Brussard, who constantly boasts about how big and mighty he is or will be. In fact, his first conversation with Nostradamus is him demanding that he is Mr. Brussard.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: After Juno tells Sheila what she had done while she was away in chapter 3:
- Sheila: "So...let me get this straight. You met up with two aliens, your boss wanted you to get himself a new brain to put into his body, and forced you to rob the brain of a famed fortune-teller to do it?"
Juno: "Y-Yeah. It sounds insane when I say it out loud."
- Losing Your Head: Once he is revived by Jeri's Omnigazer machine, he’s able to continue talking as though his head wasn't detached from his body.
- Ludicrous Gibs: When Lew's decapitated body falls on top of Mr. Brussard’s body, it crushes much of Brussard's body into bloody paste.
- Madonna-Whore Complex: Mr. Brussard has this view on Odette. When she's with Brussard he treats her like a treasure that isn’t to be touched. But when he realizes that Odette is hanging out with Lew he views it as her cheating on him. He even calls her a harlot as he's choking her to death.
- Mad Scientist: Jeri in this episode has gotten into the hobby of becoming a scientist, with his lab looking like something out of a science fiction B-movie. Torque even calls him this trope a couple times. Despite his methods he's doing it for altruistic intentions.
- Murder-Suicide: After the Nostradamus/Lew hybrid rings the bells to make Mr. Brussard fall to his death, the hybrid then hangs itself.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Jeri sees that his brain experiment resulted in the death of Nostradamus and Lew, he decides to never mess with science again. He even volunteers to take the heat for everything that's happened, but Baskerra makes it so that he won't have to do that.
- No Body Left Behind: Of the bodies of those that died in the church, Baskerra takes Nostradamus' head and Lew's body with her, and Mr Brussard's body drops under the sea when a portal suddenly opens underneath it. It's then feasted on by a mysterious creature in the sea.
- Noodle Incident: When we cut back to Odette and Lew in chapter two, Lew's wrapping up a story about Torque getting her hands on some sugar that led to a hilarious karaoke session.
- After failing to land a shot on Mr. Brussard, even with an 87% chance of hitting him, Torque complains that this is the seventh time this has happened.
- Chapter 5 begins with Torque and Jeri returning from a mission they were on, covered in grunge and Torque having eaten the hostage takers… right in front of the hostages.
- Not Me This Time: When Jeri and Torque witness the sudden fusion of Nostradamus' head and Lew's body, Torque immediately asks Jeri what did he do, to which Jeri swears that this wasn't him. They quickly find out that it was Baskerra who made the hybrid.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Juno successfully graverobbing and getting away with Nostradamus' head in chapter 3, with dialogue implying that escaping with the head wasn’t easy.
- Off with His Head!: When Juno comes back from graverobbing Nostradamus' body, she comes back to Jeri and Torque with his head.
- When the Nostradamus/Lew hybrid hangs itself, the rope wrapped around the neck causes the stitching holding the head to the body to tear, leaving only the head hanging.
- Porn with Plot: This story focuses on one man who's willing to use anyone and anything he can to save himself from certain death…there’s also an orgy at the Menagerie in the middle of the story.
- Pun: The title of the second chapter, "How to Get Ahead of Life".
- Rapid-Fire "No!": Jeri after seeing the ruined head of Nostradamus and Lew’s corpse in his lab.
- Reunion Kiss: When Juno returns to Shelia from graverobbing for Mr. Brussard, the first thing she does is give her a big kiss.
- Rhetorical Request Blunder: When Juno suddenly receives a call while having a conversation with her girlfriend, she states that somebody had better be dying. The call then turns out to have been from Mr. Brussard, who informs her that the doctors said he’s dying. To which she reacts with a half-shocked/half-relieved "...oh..."
- Sanity Slippage: Mr. Brussard, facing impending death with the tumor in his head, an overgrowing sense of paranoia, and having his fortune destroyed from Nostradamus intentionally giving him the wrong advice, goes on a rampage in chapter 5 that results in the deaths of Odette, Lew, Nostradamus, and himself.
- Sex Starts, Story Stops: The third chapter pauses the story to focus on the orgy that happens at the Menagerie, with almost all the characters in the story participating in it.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The subplot of Lew's attempts to get Odette away from Brussard's stranglehold on her as Brussard snaps and ends up killing the both of them.
- The Stinger: When our heroes leave the church after everything that's happened, one more portal opens up. One that opens underneath Mr. Brussard’s body and drops it into the sea where it's devoured by a creature. A creature... from the haunted sea.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Even with the advent of fish protein and a sudden influx of monstrous sea creatures for the carnivore to chow down on largely pacifying them, prejudice between herbivores and carnivores hasn't gone down easily and still exists, but it is dying down.
- Take That!: When Jeri considers giving Mr. Brussard the brain of Theodore Roosevelt, Juno says no politicians since she doesn't want Brussard to end up worse.
- Tempting Fate: Double subverted; As Juno is running home from the party at Brussard Incorporated, she says out loud that aside from Sheila forgetting to trim her claws before sex, she can’t think of a bad thing that happened this night. When nothing happens she says it again, and nothing still happens. When she considers just forgetting what happened this week, THAT'S when Mr. Brussard and the Nostradamus/Lew hybrid run past her, with Torque and Jeri in hot pursuit.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Nostradamus, who ends up dying twice over the course of the last chapter.
- Two-Faced Aside: When trying to confront Mr. Brussard and the Nostradamus/Lew hybrid in the church, Torque tries to convince them to surrender and she promises them just a trip to the slammer, and then turns around to Jeri and Juno and tells them that she’s shooting the both of them.
- Visual Pun: The donkey Mr. Brussard constantly acts like an ass to everyone he meets.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The episode is one for the 1957 film "The Man Without A Body" but set in the Beastars universe, with Torque and Jeri as the scientists in charge of the experiment.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Torque exclaims "You've gotta be fucking kidding me." when she finds out that Juno actually went through with getting Nostradamus' head for Mr. Brussard.
- You See, I'm Dying: The plot kicks off by Mr. Brussard calling Juno and telling her that the doctors showed him he has a brain tumor.
