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* KnightOfCerebus: Fusilli is one of the darkest villains of the show and is one of the only characters that got away with killing Muriel.
* MoodWhiplash: After the previous episode was nothing short of comical, this one coming next was quite dark.

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* KnightOfCerebus: Fusilli is one of the darkest villains of the show and is one of the only characters that got away with killing successfully killed Muriel.
* MoodWhiplash: After the previous episode was nothing short of comical, this one coming next was quite dark.unexpected.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Signing up doesn't ensure fame and fortune as it's very blatantly a scam. Not that Muriel and Eustace realize.
* KnightOfCerebus: Fusilli is one of the darkest villains of the show and is one of the only characters that got away with killing Muriel.


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* OhCrap: Courage when he realizes Fusilli's true motives and that he's next on the chopping block. It doesn't take long before the trope is in effect again when Courage watches in horror as he failed to rescue Muriel and Eustace.
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* MoodWhiplash: After the previous episode was nothing short of comical, this one coming next was quite dark.

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* BittersweetEnding: Courage manages to stop Fusilli's spree of turning people into lifeless puppets, but he still failed to prevent the transformation of Eustace and Muriel into such puppets.

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* BittersweetEnding: Courage manages to stop Fusilli's spree of turning people into lifeless puppets, but he still failed to prevent the transformation of Eustace and Muriel into such puppets. Fortunately, NegativeContinuity fixes this.


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* WhamShot: When Courage unknowingly opens a door after being hit by the pie, he finds a bunch of people turned into puppets and that he's next.

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'''Little Muriel'''

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'''Little Muriel'''
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'''The Great Fusilli'''

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'''The
A freak tornado turns Muriel into a rowdy toddler who drives Courage up the wall.
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Great Fusilli'''
Fusilli]]



!! These episodes contain examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: Courage manages to stop Fusilli's spree of turning people into lifeless puppets, but he still failed to prevent the transformation of Eustace and Muriel into such puppets.
* FountainOfYouth: The tornado that destroys the Bagg household somehow causes Muriel to age down to a 3-and-a-half year old toddler.
* PuppetPermutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.

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!! These episodes contain examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: Courage manages
A mysterious puppeteer tries to stop Fusilli's spree of turning people into lifeless puppets, but he still failed to prevent the transformation of make Eustace and Muriel into such puppets.
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!!"Little Muriel" features examples of the following tropes:

* FountainOfYouth: The tornado that destroys the Bagg household somehow causes Muriel to age down to a 3-and-a-half year old toddler.
* PuppetPermutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.
3-and-a-half-year-old toddler.



* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.

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* SimilarItemConfusion: Courage accidentally repaints Muriel's rocking chair with a can of fast-drying ''glue'' instead of fast-drying paint. This, combined with Eustace accidentally nailing the rocking chair itself to the floor, leaves Muriel unable to get out of the chair and escape to the storm cellar when the tornado arrives, resulting in her getting swept up in it when the tornado rips the chair out of the floor.
* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot pilot, to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.age.

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!!"The Great Fusilli" features examples of the following tropes:

* BittersweetEnding: Courage manages to stop Fusilli's spree of turning people into lifeless puppets, but he still failed to prevent the transformation of Eustace and Muriel into such puppets.
* PuppetPermutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in the Great Fusilli's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusilli is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.
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* FountainOfYouth: The tornado that destroys the Bagg household somehow causes Muriel to age down to a 3-and-a-half year old toddler.
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* BittersweetEnding: Courage manages to stop Fusilli's spree of turning people into lifeless puppets, but he still failed to prevent the transformation of Eustace and Muriel into such puppets.

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* PuppetPermutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.



* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.
* PuppetPermutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.

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* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.
* PuppetPermutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.
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* ToyTransmutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.

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* ToyTransmutation: PuppetPermutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.
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* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.

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* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.age.
* ToyTransmutation: Turns out that this is the fate that awaits those who perform in The Great Fusili's plays, as they are turned into marionette puppets for him to play with. Courage is unable to save Muriel and Eustace from such a fate, but he unintentionally ensures that Fusili is forced to perform and get turned into a puppet himself.

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!!Tropes:'''Little Muriel'''

'''Original air date:''' 7/14/2000 ''(produced in 1999)''

'''Production code:''' CCD-113a

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'''The Great Fusilli'''

'''Original air date:''' 7/14/2000 ''(produced in 1999)''

'''Production code:''' CCD-113b

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* RapidAging: Invoked by Courage, who decides to dump Little Muriel into a tornado in the southern hemisphere to restore her back to the kindly old lady she was.



* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.
* RapidAging: Invoked by Courage, who decides to dump Little Muriel into a tornado in the southern hemisphere to restore her back to the kindly old lady she was.

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* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.
* RapidAging: Invoked by Courage, who decides to dump Little Muriel into a tornado in the southern hemisphere to restore her back to the kindly old lady she was.
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* RunningGag: Eustace spends the entirety of the episode getting knocked out by one thing or another. Each time he wakes up, something hits in the head to prevent him from handling the little Muriel situation.
* SpoiledBrat: Little Muriel is a brat who constantly wants to perform all sorts of shenanigans and forces Courage to cook multiple batches of macaroni based on her picky desires, only for her to dump the last batch onto the dog, revealing that she actually hates macaroni. To make matters worse, she performs dangerous stunts, scares Courage with Eustace's "Ooge-Booga-Booga" mask, and makes annoying revving sounds on the plane that prompt everyone onboard, including the pilot to parachute out of the plane. Courage is so fed up with her that he decides to return her to her proper age.
* RapidAging: Invoked by Courage, who decides to dump Little Muriel into a tornado in the southern hemisphere to restore her back to the kindly old lady she was.

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