History Recap / WanderOverYonderS2E14TheFamilyReunionTheRival

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* AbsenteeActor: Wander and Sylvia are absent for the fifth time this season.

]* ContinuityNod:

* CinderellaCircumstances: Sylvia at home, forced to carry in the groceries, chop a mountain of potatoes and carrots, and clean up the dining room after her brothers create a mess. To Sylvia's credit, she tries to take it in stride.
* ContinuityNod:

* NoSympathy: Sylvia's mom doesn't seem to pick up that Sylvia only wanted a ''break'' from Dominator chasing her and Wander, not to permanently retire from galaxy heroics. She immediately puts Sylvia back in CinderellaCircumstances as a brutal form of ShooTheDog. It is implied that "taking a break" is Sylvia's way of simply running away from her problems, but the episode does not confirm or deny this.

* VillainTeamUp: Peepers is worried that Dominator and Awesome will do this, and Hater worries the romantic version of this will happen.

-->'''Wander:''' Frabdrazzit, that's ''ENOUGH!''

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The Skullship has six "smooching" rooms; Hater assumes that Dominator has at least two.
** "Jerry! Get out of there! We didn't send you to spy on the inside of a closet!"
** Hater saying YoureJustJealous to Peepers. Given the HoYay between them . . .
** Emperor Awesome [[ShakingTheRump shakes his ass]] in front of Dominator until she grabs his ass and drags him into another room. Her expression makes it obvious she's annoyed by it, but Awesome's expression shows he clearly enjoys it.

** During Wander's {{Squee!}} over Sylvia offering to introduce him to her family, an instrumental snippet from the "Happy Birthday Song" from "The Birthday Boy" plays.

* CowardlyLion: Jerry. He goes on the mission with fear and enthusiasm, but being a {{Mook}} . . .

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: After Dominator blows apart Emperor Awesome's ship, his flaming license plate flies at the camera, [[CameraAbuse cracking the screen]].

** While Sylvia’s Family chows down on meat, Wander requests to have a salad instead; he’s a vegetarian as revealed in “The Battle Royale”.

* ContinuityNod: Dorothy has Hater's wanted posters of Wander and Sylvia on the wall, along with a newspaper clipping of Wander and Sylvia liberating Bingleborp from "The Greatest".

* MyParentsAreDead: It's implied Sylvia's dad passed away, based on what Dorothy says to her.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Sylvia's family start fighting again, Wander finally has enough and goes into SuddenlyShouting and use of UnusualEuphemism to get them to stop.

* ShoutOut: Sylvia's mom is named Dorothy. After their species was previously announced as the "Zbornak", this takes the reference to ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' to its [[BrickJoke logical conclusion]]. (Bonus: Sylvia calls her mother "Ma", which is what Dorothy calls her mother Sophia in ''The Golden Girls'')

* AbusiveParents: Dorothy acts as one to Sylvia, constantly nagging her use of [[UnusualEuphemism "language"]] and making her do all the chores. She justifies it as the need to send Sylvia back out into the galaxy to save other people.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Hater is too excited that Dominator remembered his name, and that she ''isn't'' dating Emperor Awesome, to take much notice that A) Dominator just encased Awesome in hardened lava and had him carted off, either to the dungeons or [[KilledOffForReal a worse fate]], and B) he and Peepers (who are still in their Fist Fighter disguise) should start running for the lives like the rest of Awesome's minions.

** A the end credits, Dominator doesn't do any harm to Jerry (the Watchdog accidentally left by Hater and Peepers).

* SomethingWeForgot: Hater and Peepers left Jerry on the Skullship.

* {{Fantastic|Racism}} RacistGrandma: Sylvia's grandmother calls Wander a "filthy space hippie" and thinks he keeps trying to steal her purse.