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Recap / Totally Spies S 2 E 23 Matchmaker

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After a mysterious dating booth suddenly appeared out of nowhere, every girl in Beverly Hills is head over hills for their new boyfriends who seemed too good to be true from them, including Sam and Alex. Clover (who is on dating hiatus after a bad date), however, finds this all suspicious and investigates the true nature of these booths and their boyfriends.


This episode provides examples of:

  • A Day in the Limelight: Focuses mostly on Clover trying to investigate the dating booths and later, save her best friends and other girls from rejection.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Dominique and Caitlin each have a nickname for their respective fake boyfriends.
    • Dominique calls hers 'Roy Friend'
    • Caitlin calls her fake boyfriend 'Peetie Pie'
  • Cassandra Truth: When Clover tries to warn Sam and Alex about their fake boyfriends, they instead scoff her off and blamed her dating hiatus for not even gonna try out the Arrow Through the Heart dating booth, leaving her in tears. Thankfully after Clover reveals Eugene's ruse, they apologized for their behavior.
  • Don't Tell Mama: Defied. Clover decides the best punishment for Eugene is to inform his very large, very scary, and very angry mother about his plan. The woman bursts into the gym screaming his name, with Eugene letting out an epic Big "NO!" that doesn't even begin to convey just how screwed he is.
  • The Dreaded: Eugene is completely terrified of his mother, and even Clover's scared of her. However, she isn't too scared to let Mrs. Snit know what her baby boy is up to...
  • Easily Forgiven: When Sam and Alex realize that Clover had been telling the truth all along, they are immediately remorseful over how they had treated her earlier. Alex even out rights ask Clover if she can forgive them. Clover does because they are her best friends and because she knows just how crazy people can get when it comes to crushing on someone.
  • Evil Is Petty: Just because one girl dumped Eugene, he plans on getting his revenge on other girls who had nothing to do with his heartbreak.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Clover's desired punishment for Eugene is both appropriate and utterly cruel. She told his mom.
    Eugene: Wh-what, what are you gonna do? Throw me in jail?
    Clover: You wish!
  • Formula-Breaking Episode: One of the few episodes that not only doesn't feature Jerry summoning the girls and providing them with a new mission and a few new gadgets. Instead, it focuses on Clover with her using her old gadgets stored in her house.
  • High-School Dance: This episode focuses on the school's Sweetheart Valentine's Day Dance.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Eugene's attention to detail in crafting his disguises proves to be his undoing when his sumo wrestler form puts a fist through a gym catwalk and gets stuck, at which point Clover manages to use his heavier form against him to send Eugene crashing to the ground.
  • Humiliation Conga: Eugene gets one at the end. First, Clover exposes how he was all the boyfriends, after he falls through the upper deck above the gym. Then the girls throw the rings he gave them at him while shouting threats. Then his mother arrives, and finally, he’s arrested by WHOOP. It’s even a video example.
  • Intentional Heartbreaker: Eugene Snit, who, having had his heart broken by his girlfriend on Valentine's Day a year previously, vowed to do the same to every single girl in Beverly Hills High. Using stolen technology to posse as numerous different individuals and admirers, he seduced every single girl, then planned to stand them all up at the big Valentine's Day dance.
  • It's Personal: After realizing that Eugene is connected to every girl's supposed perfect boyfriends, she finally decides to confront Eugene once and for all.
    Clover: Okay, Eugene. If all's fair in love, then This Means War!
  • Misplaced Retribution: Eugene's reason for all of his crimes is because he got rejected by a girl on Valentine's Day last year, so rather than taking revenge on her by using his holographic projection device to seduce her as her ideal boyfriend before rejecting her, he decides to do so to all of the girls who had nothing to do with him by using his dating booths.
  • Not Good with Rejection: This episode's villain, Eugene is bitter for being rejected by a girl on Valentine's Day so he hatches a plan where he uses a device to disguise himself as the ideal boyfriend for the females at Beverly High School. He plans to make them fall in love with him and then dump them at Valentine's day dance in order to get revenge on all women. However, Clover stops him before he can dump the girls and reveals his ruse.
  • Oh, Crap!: Twice.
    • First this is the group reaction of every girl in the auditorium as Clover uses Eugene's hologram projector to reveal his identity as all of their boyfriends. One girl faints.
    • Second is Eugene's growing horror as he hears rather ominous footsteps making their way to the gym entrance, before:
      Mrs. Snit: EUGENE!
      Eugene: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
  • Only Sane Man: Clover ends up as this in the episode as her best friends become completely besotted with their new boyfriends to the point that they plan on dropping out of school to spend more time with them. The other girls who were scammed by Arrow Through the Heart aren't any better.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Sam and Alex plan on dropping out of school because they want to spend more time with their boyfriends they went on a date with once, the normally boy crazy spy is alarmed to the point that she conducts her own investigation to get to the bottom of why her best friends are acting so boy crazy.
  • Stood Up: What Eugene did to the girls of Beverly High on the night of the Valentine's dance.
  • Stout Strength: Eugene's hologram machine lets him shift into a sumo wrestler form to fight Clover, making him stronger and also heavier.
  • Temporary Bulk Change: Eugene's hologram generator is apparently capable of making hard light disguises, since he's never shown having any trouble physically touching the girls he dates or letting them touch him. Thus he can make himself taller or more muscular to appear more attractive, or in Clover's case can make himself heavier and stronger to fight her.
  • This Means War!: When Clover realizes that Eugene Snit is the guy disguising himself as the various boys going out with many of the girls in her high school including Sam and Alex, she says this word for word.
  • Through His Stomach: When Clover tried to tell her friends about how they were being deceived and that their dream boyfriends weren't all what they seemed, they were in the school kitchen baking pies.
  • Valentine's Day Episode: Involves a matchmaking booth at the mall pairing up the girls at Beverly Hills High with their supposed dream dates. Clover suspects something's too good to be true, and finds out the girls are all dating the same guy.
  • Woman Scorned: Eugene is a genderbent version of this. After Eugene was dumped by the love of his life on a previous Valentine's day, he proceeded to plot to get his revenge by deceiving the girls of Beverly High by pretending to be their ideal boyfriend and then standing them up on the night of the Valentine's dance and then dumping them afterwards.

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