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* BatmanGambit: Cricket pretends to surrender to Gramma and give up the fight to trick her into letting her guard down so he can pin her and complete the rite of passage.
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* TheChessmaster: How Cricket wins against Gramma. He tricks her into letting her guard down by pretending to give up the fight, so she is sentimental enough for him to give the final blow.
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* WrestlerOfBeasts: As per family tradition, Cricket has to wrestle a fierce animal in order to earn the Green name.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Can he prove he can win the Green family name?]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Can he prove he can win the Green family name?]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Beware of the tater's curse!]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Beware of the tater's curse!]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: While Cricket is fighting Gramma and Tilly and Bill try to stop him, it seems as if Cricket is going to give up the fight and willingly fail the rite of passage, knowing he truly is a Green by heart. But then he tackles Gramma and pins her down with the quilt, admitting a true Green never lets his guard down, thus he completes the passage and becomes an official Green.
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* MeaningfulEcho: "Never let your guard down."
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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: In his first attempt to wrestle an animal, Cricket removes all his clothes except his underwear; after Gramma warns him of the CelestialDeadline, she tells him to put his clothes back on as he looks hideous.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only episode to date that shows the Greens selling something that isn't under the name Green Family Farms.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only episode to date that shows the Greens selling something that isn't under the name Green Family Farms.Farms, as that was before they officially opened their business in "Supermarket Scandal".
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only episode to date that shows the Greens selling something that isn't under the name Green Family Farms.
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* CurbStompBattle: Cricket immediately loses to Keys' horse Buttercup in a matter of seconds, as one glomp to her behind scares her away without even pinning her down.
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* VersusTitle: The episode title itself.
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* RuleOfThree: Cricket's attempts to fight an animal. First, he wrestles the horse Keys found, but is easily outmatched; second, he wins a fight with a squirrel, but Gramma doesn't count such because she doesn't consider them "real-life monsters"; third, he fakes a fight with a lion by using ketchup for blood, but the truth is immediately let out.
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* RuleOfThree: Cricket's attempts to fight an animal. First, he wrestles the horse Keys found, but is easily outmatched; second, he cannot fight a dog because it has a leash, and is thus not a wild animal; third, he wins a fight with a squirrel, but Gramma doesn't count such because she doesn't consider them "real-life monsters"; third, he fakes a fight with a lion by using ketchup for blood, but the truth is immediately let out.monsters".
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Cricket is tasked to do the Green Family Rite of Passage where he must wrestle an animal before sundown to become a true Green, but there aren’t as many wild animals in Big City; while setting up the family food truck, Cricket finds a blue potato and believes the whole family has become unlucky because of it.
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'''Cricket Versus'''
Cricket is tasked to do the Green Family Rite of Passage where he must wrestle an animal before sundown to become a true Green, but there aren’t as many wild animals in BigCity; while setting up the family food truck, Cricket finds a blue potato and believes the whole family has become unlucky because of it.
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!!Cricket Versus:"Cricket Versus" contains examples of:
Cricket is tasked to do the Green Family Rite of Passage where he must wrestle an animal before sundown to become a true Green, but there aren’t as many wild animals in Big
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'''Blue Tater'''
While setting up the family food truck, Cricket finds a blue potato and believes the whole family has become unlucky because of it.
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* AnAesop:
** Never give up.
** Your foe might have been with you all along.
** Never give up.
** Your foe might have been with you all along.
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* AnAesop:
** Never give up.
**AnAesop: [[HiddenInPlainSight Your foe might have been with you all along.]]
** Never give up.
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* MissingMom: The first episode that mentions the Greens' mother.
* RuleOfThree: Cricket's attempts to fight an animal. First, he wrestles the horse Keys found, but is easily outmatched; second, he wins a fight with a squirrel, but Gramma doesn't count such because she doesn't consider them "real-life monsters"; third, he fakes a fight with a lion by using ketchup for blood, but the truth is immediately let out.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: When Gramma shows the special quilt that shows the various Greens fighting their respective animals in the rite of passage, she shows patches of Tilly fighting a horse and Bill fighting an eagle. We don't get to see their mother's patch but we do get comments on it.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: When Gramma shows the special quilt that shows the various Greens fighting their respective animals in the rite of passage, she shows patches of Tilly fighting a horse and Bill fighting an eagle.a hawk. We don't get to see their mother's patch but we do get comments on it.
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* ComicBookTime: Actually averted here. This is one of few moments to mention the show's time period; the year 2018 is visible on Tilly's "lucky coin" (which is also the year the series premiered), suggesting this is when the current "date" is set.
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* ShoutOut: While Gramma is thinking of last names Cricket should change his to should he fail the right of passage, she suggests "[[Creator/StephenHawking Hawking]]" and "[[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]".
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* ShoutOut: While Gramma is thinking of last names Cricket should change his to should he fail the right rite of passage, she suggests "[[Creator/StephenHawking Hawking]]" and "[[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]".
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* ShoutOut: While Gramma is thinking of last names Cricket should change his to should he fail the right of passage, she suggests "[[Creator/StephenHawking Hawking]]" and "[[Creator/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]".
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* ShoutOut: While Gramma is thinking of last names Cricket should change his to should he fail the right of passage, she suggests "[[Creator/StephenHawking Hawking]]" and "[[Creator/AlbertEinstein "[[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]".
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* ShoutOut: While Gramma is thinking of last names Cricket should change his to should he fail the right of passage, she suggests "[[Creator/StephenHawking Hawking]]" and "[[Creator/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]".
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* CelestialDeadline: If a Green doesn't pin an animal before the sun goes down, they won't be a Green anymore and would have to change their last name to something else.
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* CelestialDeadline: If a Green doesn't pin an animal before the sun goes down, they won't be a Green anymore and would will have to change their last name to something else.
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* SecondEpisodeMorning: Being the first segment of the second episode, it begins with Cricket waking up on the day he is to take on the Green family rite of passage.
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* SecondEpisodeMorning: Being the first segment of the second episode, it begins with Cricket waking up on the day he is to take on the Green family rite of passage.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: According to Cricket, when under the curse of the blue tater, the fridge in the Kludge would fall on someone, the deep fryer would burn their face off, and salt would get in their eyes.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: When Gramma shows the special quilt that shows the various Greens fighting their respective animals in the right of passage, she shows patches of Tilly fighting a horse and Bill fighting an eagle. We don't get to see their mother's patch but we do get comments on it.
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* SecondEpisodeMorning: Being the first segment of the second episode, it begins with Cricket waking up on the day he is to take on the Green family rite of passage.
* TakeOurWordForIt: When Gramma shows the special quilt that shows the various Greens fighting their respective animals in theright rite of passage, she shows patches of Tilly fighting a horse and Bill fighting an eagle. We don't get to see their mother's patch but we do get comments on it.
* TakeOurWordForIt: When Gramma shows the special quilt that shows the various Greens fighting their respective animals in the
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* CelestialDeadline: If a Green doesn't pin an animal before the sun goes down, they won't be a Green anymore and would have to change their last name to something else.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: When Gramma shows the special quilt that shows the various Greens fighting their respective animals in the right of passage, she shows patches of Tilly fighting a horse and Bill fighting an eagle. We don't get to see their mother's patch but we do get comments on it.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: When Tilly tosses her lucky coin in the air at the start, if you look closely you can see it has two heads on either side.
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* OnlySaneMan: Tilly is the only one who doesn’t believe in the blue potato's bad luck story.
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* OnlySaneMan: Tilly is the only one who doesn’t doesn't believe in the blue potato's bad luck story.story.
* RecordNeedleScratch: Heard when Cricket first discovers the blue potato.
* RecordNeedleScratch: Heard when Cricket first discovers the blue potato.
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* AnAesop: Don’t believe everything you hear, some stories might not be true.
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* AnAesop: Don’t Don't believe everything you hear, some stories might not be true.true.
* BigNo: By Gramma when Cricket touches the blue potato.
* EyeScream: When trying to prove the curse of the blue potato to Bill, Cricket sprinkles salt which gets all over his eyes and stings them.
* BigNo: By Gramma when Cricket touches the blue potato.
* EyeScream: When trying to prove the curse of the blue potato to Bill, Cricket sprinkles salt which gets all over his eyes and stings them.
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: Cricket has to decide whether to put the potato in the sour cream and end the bad luck, or destroy it and the bad luck would go on presumably forever. He chose the latter, which ends up giving them good luck instead.
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* AnAesop:
** Never give up.
** Your foe might have been with you all along.
** Never give up.
** Your foe might have been with you all along.
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* TwoSidedCoin: Tilly's "lucky penny" is actually two pennies glued tails side to tails side so that it always lands on heads.
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* TwoSidedCoin: TwoHeadedCoin: Tilly's "lucky penny" is actually two pennies glued tails side to tails side so that it always lands on heads.
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* LoopholeAbuse: The rules of the Green rite of passage are to pin down "the toughest critter around." After failing to find an animal tough enough to fight in the city, Cricket decides to fight Gramma, since she's the toughest around. Gramma allows it.
* NoodleImplements: To perform the ritual to counter the effects of the blue potato, Gramma needs snake venom, dirt from a freshly dug grave, and sour cream. She already has the first two in her purse, but Tilly keeps eating the sour cream.
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* SuperstitionEpisode: The episode revolves around Cricket and the Greens suffering bad luck because of the potato.
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* SuperstitionEpisode: The episode revolves around Cricket and the Greens suffering bad luck because of the potato.potato.
* TwoSidedCoin: Tilly's "lucky penny" is actually two pennies glued tails side to tails side so that it always lands on heads.
* TwoSidedCoin: Tilly's "lucky penny" is actually two pennies glued tails side to tails side so that it always lands on heads.
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Cricket is tasked to do the Green Family Rite of Passage where he must wrestle an animal before sundown to become a true Green, but there aren’t as many wild animals in Big City; while setting up the family food truck, Cricket finds a blue potato and believes the whole family has become unlucky because of it.
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* MatchCut: After Cricket successfully pins Gramma down on three completing the rite of passage, the view dissolves from a shot of him standing heroically atop her to the same image sewn on the family quilt.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Cricket has until the sun sets to pin an animal down and complete the rite of passage, or he won’t be a Green anymore.
* RiteOfPassage: The Green Family has one — find an animal, wrestle it, and pin it down for three seconds before sunset.
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* AnAesop: Don’t believe everything you hear, some stories might not be true.
* OnlySaneMan: Tilly is the only one who doesn’t believe in the blue potato's bad luck story.
* SuperstitionEpisode: The episode revolves around Cricket and the Greens suffering bad luck because of the potato.
!! Cricket Versus:
* MatchCut: After Cricket successfully pins Gramma down on three completing the rite of passage, the view dissolves from a shot of him standing heroically atop her to the same image sewn on the family quilt.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Cricket has until the sun sets to pin an animal down and complete the rite of passage, or he won’t be a Green anymore.
* RiteOfPassage: The Green Family has one — find an animal, wrestle it, and pin it down for three seconds before sunset.
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* AnAesop: Don’t believe everything you hear, some stories might not be true.
* OnlySaneMan: Tilly is the only one who doesn’t believe in the blue potato's bad luck story.
* SuperstitionEpisode: The episode revolves around Cricket and the Greens suffering bad luck because of the potato.
