History Recap / TangledTheSeriesS1E03FitzherbertPI

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** It's hard to find a regular job after you have a reputation as a criminal, especially during this time period. Downplayed because he only loses ''one'' job because of this. He loses the others for being incompetent.
** The Captain of the Guard isn't going to trust you if you managed to steal a valuable crown from him and break out of prison with the help of a MisfitMobilizationMoment.
** Eugene passes the exams to become a guard. That doesn't translate to him serving well as a guard. There's also the fact that Eugene is not the type of guy who follows orders. Plus, he expects to see some action right away, but like any new recruit gets saddled with the crappier assignments like dungeon duty instead.
** It pays to be fundamentally good at math. Eugene lost at least two of his jobs (including his guard duty) because of poor miscalculation (respectively his OvenLogic and his approach at doing twice the rounds to get a longer break).

* RealityEnsues:
** It's hard to find a regular job after you have a reputation as a criminal, especially during this time period. Downplayed because he only loses ''one'' job because of this. He loses the others for being incompetent.
** The Captain of the Guard isn't going to trust you if you managed to steal a valuable crown from him and break out of prison with the help of a MisfitMobilizationMoment.
** Eugene passes the exams to become a guard. That doesn't translate to him serving well as a guard. There's also the fact that Eugene is not the type of guy who follows orders. Plus, he expects to see some action right away, but like any new recruit gets saddled with the crappier assignments like dungeon duty instead.
** It pays to be fundamentally good at math. Eugene lost at least two of his jobs (including his guard duty) because of poor miscalculation (respectively his OvenLogic and his approach at doing twice the rounds to get a longer break).

* LiteralMinded: The Cobbler's response after he finds out Eugene was the one who stole a crate of his boots in the past:

'''Cobbler''': No! It means you're getting fired!

* RuleOfThree: Eugene's first attempt at a job has him take an old lady home, but it's the wrong house. The second attempt has Eugene bake a pie, but he followed OvenLogic. In the third job, Eugene is actually ''successful'' at, but he gets fired because he robbed the guy a year prior.

* GratuitousItalian: PlayedForDrama. The impersonator painter invokes this when coming to the palace, but Eugene catches on because the Italian is "atrocious". The actual painter speaks fluent English, and his accent is lighter.

* NoExceptYes: When Eugene asks the other crooks whether they agree with Cassandra's description of him as a "two-bit hood", the big-nosed thug says that they don't ''agree'' with her, as such. They simply happen to have come to the same exact conclusion, is all.

* DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife: Now that he's no longer a criminal, Eugene decides to figure out what he wants to do. He definitely wants to be more than Rapunzel's "almost-fiancee", but it seems his criminal skills keep him from getting a real job, and he can't just be in the castle as a stray from the gutter.

** It pays to be fundamentally good at math. Eugene lost at least two of his jobs (which includes his guard duty) because of poor miscalculation (respectively his OvenLogic and his approach at doing twice the rounds to get a longer break).

* HiddenDepths: Eugene speaks fluent Italian. That's when he gets suspicious of the impersonator painter who messes up his subject-verb tense. The Captain is surprised on hearing this.
** Also, Queen Arianna's royal portrait indicates she has many talents and interests, even if it does so in a clumsy way.

** It pays to be fundamentally good at math. Eugene lost at least two of his job (which includes his guard duty) because of poor miscalculation (respectively his OvenLogic and his approach at doing twice the rounds to get a longer break).

** It pays to be fundamentally good at math. Eugene lost at least two of his job (which includes his guard duty) because he poorly miscalculated his timing.

* ExactWords: The objective of the final obstacle course was to make it through until the whistle blows, which the Captain times with an hourglass. Just when he's about to cross the finish line, Eugene goes back to claim Shorty, coming in slightly late. The Captain brags, until ''Eugene'' blows the whistle after he and the other trainees have crossed the line. The Captain never mentioned that they had to beat the hourglass, or that he had to be the one to blow the whistle.

* RuleOfThree: Eugene's first attempt at a job has him take an old lady home, but it's the wrong house. The second attempt has Eugene bake a pie, but he left it in the oven too long. In the third job, Eugene is actually ''successful'' at, but he gets fired because he robbed the guy a year prior.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Eugene fails bakery because of OvenLogic and it foreshadows how he eventually loses a later job as a palace guard. As per his dungeon duty, he's supposed to make one round every five minutes. When he makes two rounds in a row to have a ten-minute-break, the dungeon inmate under his watch takes advantage of this to escape.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Eugene fails bakery because of OvelLogic and it foreshadows how he eventually loses a later job as a palace guard. As per his dungeon duty, he's supposed to make one round every five minutes. When he makes two rounds in a row to have a ten-minute-break, the dungeon inmate under his watch takes advantage of this to escape.