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* SlicesDicesAndMakesJulienneFries: Or in this case "Dices, slices, and runs out of gas."

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* SlicesDicesAndMakesJulienneFries: Or in this case "Dices, slices, and When attempting to prune Bushroot with a weed whacker, DW proclaims, "It dices! It slices! It... runs out of gas."gas!"
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* ShoutOut: The two bullies are named Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson. They are also designed similar to characters seen in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** This episode's title is a reference to the French fairy tale, ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. This episode was also released the same year as [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Disney's own animated film adaptation]].
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The two bullies are named Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson. They are also designed similar to characters seen in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: After believing that Bushroot will go after Dean Tightbill next for defunding his experiments on plants, Darkwing and Launchpad immediately board up his office so Bushroot can't get in. Once they're done, Launchpad asks Darkwing how ''they're'' going to get out.

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: DidntThinkThisThrough: After believing that Bushroot will go after Dean Tightbill next for defunding his experiments on plants, Darkwing and Launchpad immediately board up his office so Bushroot can't get in. Once they're done, Launchpad asks Darkwing how ''they're'' going to get out.
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Bushroot goes straight from being an idealistic scientist and FriendToAllLivingThings to kidnapping and murder upon finding out that he has superpowers.
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* NerdyBully: Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson are even nerdier than Bushroot, but they're also bigger, more confident, and more successful, and they bully him mercilessly.

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* ShoutOut: The two bullies are named [[Creator/GaryLarson Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson]]. They are also designed similar to characters seen in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.

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* PunnyName: Bushroot's female colleague is called Dr. Rhoda Dendron.
* ShoutOut: The two bullies are named [[Creator/GaryLarson Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson]].Larson. They are also designed similar to characters seen in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.
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* IWillShowYouX: Bushroot replies, "I'll give you dangerous!" in response to Darkwing's catchphrase, "Let'sGetDangerous" and has his cactus shoot needles at Darkwing.

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* IWillShowYouX: Bushroot replies, "I'll give you dangerous!" in response to Darkwing's catchphrase, "Let'sGetDangerous" "LetsGetDangerous" and has his cactus shoot needles at Darkwing.
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* IWillShowYouX: Bushroot replies, "I'll give you dangerous!" in response to Darkwing's catchphrase, "Let'sGetDangerous" and has his cactus shoot needles at Darkwing.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: After believing that Bushroot will go after Dean Tightbill next for defunding his experiments on plants, Darkwing and Launchpad immediately board up his office so Bushroot can't get in. Once they're done, Launchpad asks Darkwing how ''they're'' going to get out.
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* ShoutOut: The two bullies are named [[Creator/GaryLarsson Dr. Gary and Dr. Larsson]]. They are also designed similar to characters seen in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.

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* ShoutOut: The two bullies are named [[Creator/GaryLarsson [[Creator/GaryLarson Dr. Gary and Dr. Larsson]].Larson]]. They are also designed similar to characters seen in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.
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* ShoutOut: The two bullies are named [[Creator/GaryLarsson Dr. Gary and Dr. Larsson]]. They are also designed similar to characters seen in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.
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* {{Transflormation}}: A non-fatal example happens to Bushroot himself, turning him into a human-plant hybrid. By contrast, what happens to his two bullies is ([[NeverSayDie implied to be]]) a fatal example of this trope, with the two transformed into inanimate plants.

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* {{Transflormation}}: A non-fatal example happens to Bushroot himself, turning him into a human-plant duck-plant hybrid. By contrast, what happens to his two bullies is ([[NeverSayDie implied to be]]) a fatal example of this trope, with the two transformed into inanimate plants.
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* {{Transflormation}}: A non-fatal example happens to Bushroot himself, turning him into a human-plant hybrid. By contrast, what happens to his two bullies is ([[NeverSayDie implied to be]]) a fatal example of this trope, with the two transformed into inanimate plants.
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* SlicesDicesAndMakesJulienneFries: Or in this case "Dices, slices, and runs out of gas."
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* DirtyCoward: Bushroot's bullies are okay with bullying him before and after his transformation, but when he demonstrates his plant manipulating powers on them, they're reduced into whimpering heaps before their deaths.

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* DisneyDeath: It appears that Bushroot dies from the lawnmower. Then a bud of him reappears and starts to recuperate.

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* DisneyDeath: It appears that Bushroot dies from the lawnmower. Then [[GoodThingYouCanHeal a bud of him reappears and starts to recuperate.recuperate]].



* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see what Bushroot's vines do to his bullies.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: GoryDiscretionShot:
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We don't see what Bushroot's vines do to his bullies.bullies.
** The audience is spared the sight of the lawnmower chopping up Bushroot.
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* NowYouTellMe: Combined with NotNowKiddo, Darkwing is using vines to make a disguise to catch Bushroot, only to informed by Rhoda that he's using poison ivy.

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* NowYouTellMe: Combined with NotNowKiddo, Darkwing is using vines to make a disguise to catch Bushroot, only to be informed by Rhoda that he's using poison ivy.
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* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: At one point, darling ends up reading Launchpad's laundry list while going over the case file.

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* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: At one point, darling Darkwing ends up reading Launchpad's laundry list while going over the case file.
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* OhWaiThisIsMyGroceryList: At one point, darling ends up reading Launchpad's laundry list while going over the case file.

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* OhWaiThisIsMyGroceryList: OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: At one point, darling ends up reading Launchpad's laundry list while going over the case file.
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* NowYouTellMe: Combined with NotNowKiddo, Darkwing is using vines to make a disguise to catch Bushroot, only to informed by Rhoda that he's using poison ivy.
* OhWaiThisIsMyGroceryList: At one point, darling ends up reading Launchpad's laundry list while going over the case file.
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Darkwing Duck discusses the origins of one of his strangest nemeses, a plant-powered duck named Dr. Bushroot. The doctor was trying to make sure his funding doesn't get cut. To do so, he experimented on himself and turned into a hybrid.

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Darkwing Duck discusses the origins of one of his strangest nemeses, a plant-powered duck named Dr. Bushroot. The doctor was trying to make sure his funding doesn't get cut. To do so, he experimented on himself and turned into a plant-duck hybrid.



* DamselInDistress

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* DamselInDistressDamselInDistress: Bushroot captures Rhoda, planning to turn her into a PlantPerson so they can be together.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Darkwing and Rhoda have this for Bushroot, even as they oppose him.

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* SympathyForTheDevil: Darkwing and Rhoda have this for Bushroot, even as they oppose him.him.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Darkwing just straight up executes Bushroot at the end. Yes, he can regenerate, but this is the first time fighting him so Darkwing wouldn't have known that yet.
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* DamselInDistress
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* EntitledToHaveYou: After he gets changed into a PlantPerson,

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* EntitledToHaveYou: After he gets changed into a PlantPerson, Bushroot acts this way toward Rhoda. She's creeped out after his HeWhoFightsMonsters moment.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After the {{Jerkass} scientists make fun of him, and Bushroot discovers his powers, he decides to get rid of them via "accident". After the plants engulf them, the police and Darkwing are bewildered by the topiary silhouettes left behind.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After the {{Jerkass} {{Jerkass}} scientists make fun of him, and Bushroot discovers his powers, he decides to get rid of them via "accident". After the plants engulf them, the police and Darkwing are bewildered by the topiary silhouettes left behind.
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Darkwing Duck discusses the origins of one of his strangest nemeses, a plant-powered duck named Dr. Bushroot. The doctor was trying to make sure his funding doesn't get cut. To do so, he experimented on himself and turned into a hybrid.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Bushroot was a pretty nice guy, all things considered. Then he becomes one of Darkwing's most formidable foes.
* DisneyDeath: It appears that Bushroot dies from the lawnmower. Then a bud of him reappears and starts to recuperate.
* EntitledToHaveYou: After he gets changed into a PlantPerson,
* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: Bushroot's bullies are fellow scientists.
* FramingDevice: The story plays out as Darkwing narrates the case from one of his many files.
* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see what Bushroot's vines do to his bullies.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After the {{Jerkass} scientists make fun of him, and Bushroot discovers his powers, he decides to get rid of them via "accident". After the plants engulf them, the police and Darkwing are bewildered by the topiary silhouettes left behind.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Averted; Bushroot has the same machine that transformed him to use on Rhoda.
* PlantPerson: Bushroot becomes this. He plans to do the same to Rhoda.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Bushroot tests his machine on himself to make sure his funding isn't cut.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Darkwing and Rhoda have this for Bushroot, even as they oppose him.

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