The Apprentice is a Minecraft Let's Play series where Kim learns to play on the Yogscast server with help from established players. It has a Spiritual Successor in the form of Flux Buddies.
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The Apprentice contains examples of:
- Angrish: Kim, upon finding Sjin flooded her house with chickens, and also has no idea how to get rid of them.
- Awesome, but Impractical:
- It turns out that Duncan's castle is pretty much impossible to navigate without either flight or Nigh-Invulnerable armour. In fact, despite containing dozens of advanced machines and seemingly endless supplies of valuable resources, it doesn't even have a bed. Duncan never noticed.
- And also his spaceship is once again noted to have a very slow movement speed. This time it's put into perspective when Kim wonders what it could do to Sipsco, and Duncan estimates it would take four real life days of running time for the ship to get there.
- Buried Alive: Sjin's suggested solution to the chicken flood. Kim calls him out on it, especially when he notes they'd all drown due to her house being over a flooded quarry.
- Call-Back: The tower Duncan gives Kim at his castle contained one of Zoey's giant mushrooms before Kim started decorating. Also a mythology gag
- Clothing Damage: Kim's Minecraft skin is scorched and battered looking when she arrives at Duncan's castle, as well as seemingly being covered in dirt. Not that surprising given where she'd just come from.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Sips and Sjin both indulge in this when Kim tries joining Sipsco. Duncan starts to get this more and more as his arc progresses.
- Continuity Nod: The early arc at Sjin's farm overlaps heavily with his Feed the World series. for instance there are references to Strawfingers at one point. Also, the swarm of chickens that Sjin unleashed in Feed The World reappears in episode 4.
- Dynamic Entry: Duncan's arc opens with him seemingly introducing a new episode of Duncan's Laboratory, only to be cut off as Kim falls from the sky and lands in the castle's fountain.
- Easily Forgiven: Duncan traps Kim in her tower due to her apparent flux exposure. 100 days later, Kim digs herself out, and tracks down Duncan rather angrily, but apart from shouting a lot, she never actually did anything to him, and simply picked up as his apprentice where she left off.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: When Duncan shows Kim the Wine cellar.Kim: I don't drink though..
Kim: Rum! I love Rum! - Jerkass: Sips literally starts his arc of the series by beating Kim with a stick and yelling "You're fired!" This sets the trend for the next two episodes, until he decides to get rid of her, and fires her in a more literal sense.
- Leeroy Jenkins: After Sjin floods Kim's house with chickens, she eventually solves it by running in with her Sword and killing them all by hand. Lampshaded with a word for word Shout-Out.
- Locked into Strangeness: After the massive flux exposure in episode four at Duncan's lab, Kim's arms and hands are stained purple. She only noticed this after Duncan pointed it out.
- Mythology Gag: Much of Kim's first appearance at Duncan's lab seems to echo Rythian and Zoey, her entrance falling from the sky is the most notable example.
- Naïve Newcomer: Kim herself. The series is based around her learning how to play minecraft, and more recently how to use some of the mods installed on the Yogcraft server.
- Out of the Frying Pan: Invoked by Kim upon landing at Duncan's castle and being told that there is a dangerously high level of flux. Duncan tries to assure her it's actually safe. Then warns her that opening a certain door would instantly kill her. And also not to go anywhere near the nuclear sphere.
- Running Gag: In Duncan's arc, him and Kim repeatedly get drunk.
- Shout-Out:
- "Today Kim, we're gonna cancel the apocalypse".
- "Why is the rum always gone?"
- Stuff Blowing Up: Lots.
- Sips decides to demolish part of the old Sipsco plant, and has Kim rig it with TNT and redstone. He triggers the detonation before she gets clear, and blows her up as well.
- Much later, Duncan shows Kim where Nether stars come from. By spawning a Wither. In his own courtyard. The blast was bigger than he remembered it being.
- The castle eventually gets taken out when a reactor explodes, kicking off their Galacticraft series.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Kim tells Duncan Sips blew her up, he assures her he won't several times.Duncan:That Sips, always blowing people up, not that I would ever do anything like that
- Trickster Mentor: Duncan has to date caused the most harm to Kim out of anyone she's been apprenticed to, but is also the least malicious, doing most of his damage through practical jokes.
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- Kim calls Sjin out on a few things, for instance flooding her house with Chickens, and then selling her out to Sips during the Sipsco phase.
- She gets rather aggressive towards Duncan after having to dig her way out of her own tower.
