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* SecretTestOfCharacter: It turns out the Hi-Nee Council had been deliberately piling on the butt jokes, waiting for someone to admit the whole thing is ridiculous and burst out laughing.

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: It turns out the entire thing is a test of honesty. The Hi-Nee Council are tired of people kissing-up to them for favors, and had been deliberately piling on the butt jokes, waiting for someone to admit the whole thing is ridiculous and burst out laughing.
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* YouAreWorthHell: For Wander and Sylvia, the time they spend together is not wasted, even if they're trapped trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentwrong.

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* YouAreWorthHell: For Wander and Sylvia, the time they spend together is not wasted, even if they're trapped trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentwrong.SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.

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** Wilbur and Orbble Wright are an obvious parody of Wilbur and Orville Wright who made the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.

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** Wilbur Wilmur and Orbble Wright are an obvious parody of Wilbur and Orville Wright who made the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.

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* SimilarSquad: Wander and Sylvia travel back to what looks like the events of "The Picnic"... but actually involves a showdown between Major Threat and his rival Admiral Admirable, who much like Emperor Awesome is based on a sea creature (a narwhal) and has body part-themed minions (his "Foot Soldiers").



* SimilarSquad: Wander and Sylvia travel back to what looks like the events of "The Picnic"... but actually involves a showdown between Major Threat and his rival Admiral Admirable, who much like Emperor Awesome is based on a sea creature (a narwhal) and has body part-themed minions (his "Foot Soldiers").



* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Its what frustrates Sylvia the most about time travel.


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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Its what frustrates Sylvia the most about time travel.
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** One of the Hi-Nees straight up goes by Princess Butt-for-a-Face.
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** Wander sees Lord Hater in a spider web, which happens in a future episode of the show, "The Search for Captain Tim".

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* TheButterflyEffect: Sylvia warns Wander of this trope happening due to their time travel. Wander is [[ComicallyMissingThePoint more fascinated by the mention of butterflies.]]

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* BrickJoke: We finally see the goofy face Wander was making in "The Picnic" when he said he "usually makes ''this'' face".
* TheButterflyEffect: Sylvia warns Wander of this trope happening due to their time travel. Wander is [[ComicallyMissingThePoint [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy more fascinated by the mention of butterflies.]]



** During the flashback to the time Sylvia met Wander, she faces off against Killbot 85, presumably the predecessor of Killbot 86 from "The Bounty". She even repeats a variation of his CatchPhrase: "It never hurts to help . . . yourself."

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** During the flashback to the time Sylvia met Wander, she faces off against Killbot 85, presumably the predecessor of Killbot 86 from "The Bounty". She even repeats a variation of his Wander's CatchPhrase: "It never hurts to help . . . yourself."
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** When Wander says "Gotta get back...Back to the past!", he's clearly referencing the theme song for WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack.

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* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Invoked by the Hi-Nees with their guests being instructed not to laugh. In addition to having butts for faces, they have doorbells that sound like toilets flushing, StealthPun paintings and food, and one UnfortunateName after another. Wander breaks down into hysterics on hearing "pou pou platter".

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The Hi-Nees know that their faces look ridiculous, and they may as well find the joy in it. Sylvia thanks them at the end for giving her a big laugh in turn.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Invoked by the Hi-Nees with their guests being instructed not to laugh.laugh and having as much ToiletHumor as possible. In addition to having butts for faces, they have doorbells that sound like toilets flushing, StealthPun paintings and food, and one UnfortunateName after another. Wander breaks down into hysterics on hearing "pou pou platter".



* ShaggyDogStory: After all that trouble, the Hi-Nees' words of wisdom were exactly what Wander told Sylvia at the start.

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* ShaggyDogStory: After all that trouble, the Hi-Nees' words of wisdom were exactly what Wander told Sylvia at the start. Still, Sylvia admits it's been a while since she was able to laugh.



* FinalFirstHug: Old!Wander and Old!Sylvia hug each other as they cease to exist.



* HeroicSacrifice: Old!Sylvia and Old!Wander RetGone themselves so that their past selves will never buy the Time Orrble juice.



* WhenItAllBegan: We see Wander and Sylvia's first meeting, when she was a bounty hunter and he was her bounty.

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* WhenItAllBegan: We see Wander and Sylvia's first meeting, when she was a bounty hunter and he was her bounty.bounty.
* YouAreWorthHell: For Wander and Sylvia, the time they spend together is not wasted, even if they're trapped trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentwrong.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Among all of the stills of the previous episodes, two of them are completely new. One is of a monkey in a spacesuit, and another is some kind of pirate ship with orbble sails. WordOfGod is that they served a major purpose for season 3 and they wanted to sneak them in.


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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Its what frustrates Sylvia the most about time travel.

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* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Invoked by the Hi-Nees with their guests being instructed not to laugh. In addition to having butts for faces, they have doorbells that sound like toilets flushing, StealthPun paintings and food, and one UnfortunateName after another. Wander breaks down into hysterics on hearing "pou pou platter".
* {{Corpsing}}: Sylvia instructs Wander ''not'' to laugh in the presence of the Hi-Nees. At first he's struggling actively, to the point where she has to let him laugh on the balcony, but manages to sober up in time for the audience with the Hi-Nees. Then Sylvia corpses, causing him and the Hi-Nees to laugh as well.
* CurseCutShort: Wander cuts off Sylvia before she says, "I was about to laugh my-"



* DudeNotFunny: Sylvia invokes this to keep Wander from {{Corpsing}}. He reminds himself that Dominator destroying the galaxy is no laughing matter and manages to put on a sober face.



* SheCleansUpNicely: Sylvia dons a ballgown quite well; Wander does the same with a fancy suit and ruff collar.



* UnfortunateName: "Hi-Nee," "Butt-ler," "Pou pou platter".



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** During the flashback to the time Sylvia met Wander, she faces off against Killbot 85, presumably the predecessor of Killbot 86 from "The Bounty".

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** During the flashback to the time Sylvia met Wander, she faces off against Killbot 85, presumably the predecessor of Killbot 86 from "The Bounty". She even repeats a variation of his CatchPhrase: "It never hurts to help . . . yourself."
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Wander says this when he and Sylvia get trapped at the station 50 years before they arrived there in the present. Sylvia says she doesn't blame him, though they seek to correct their mistake after taking TheSlowPath.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Inverted; after capturing Wander as a bounty, Sylvia and he became friends eventually. She even named him "Wander"!
* FailedASpotCheck: Wander should've checked the labels on the Orrble pumps.


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* MindScrew: Trying to describe time travel invokes this.


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* Really700YearsOld: Wander, given he hasn't aged in between stopping Major Threat and stopping Lord Hater, millenia apart.


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* TimeyWimeyBall: Discussed. Wander and Sylvia manage to RetGone their old selves by stopping them from getting the Time-Orrble juice.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sylvia tells Wander that they should "Stop wasting time looking at past episodes...of our lives."

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sylvia tells Wander that they should "Stop "We can't keep wasting our time looking at watching past episodes...of our lives."



* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Wander and Sylvia stop their past selves from accidentally purchasing the time orbbles.



* ShoutOut: Wander tells Sylvia that his encounter with Major Threat happened [[Franchise/StarWars "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.]]"

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Wander tells Sylvia that his encounter with Major Threat happened [[Franchise/StarWars "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.]]"]]"
** Wilbur and Orbble Wright are an obvious parody of Wilbur and Orville Wright who made the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
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* StableTimeLoop: Sylvia and Wander end up giving the Wright Brothers the idea of inventing Time Obrbles.

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* StableTimeLoop: Sylvia and Wander end up giving the Wright Brothers the idea of inventing Time Obrbles.Orbbles.
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* SlowPath: Wander and Sylvia end up running the Orbble station while the Wright Brothers invent Time Orbbles. More than fifty years later, their present day selves arrive...

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* SlowPath: TheSlowPath: Wander and Sylvia end up running the Orbble station while the Wright Brothers invent Time Orbbles. More than fifty years later, their present day selves arrive...
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* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Sylvia has to stop Wander from meeting their former selves in fear of what that might cause to their future.



* SimilarSquad: Wander and Sylvia travel back to what looks like the events of "The Picnic"... but actually involves a showdown between Major Threat and his rival Admiral Admirable, who much like Emperor Awesome is based on a sea creature (a narwhal) and has body part-themed minions (his "Foot Soldiers").

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* SimilarSquad: Wander and Sylvia travel back to what looks like the events of "The Picnic"... but actually involves a showdown between Major Threat and his rival Admiral Admirable, who much like Emperor Awesome is based on a sea creature (a narwhal) and has body part-themed minions (his "Foot Soldiers").Soldiers").
* ShoutOut: Wander tells Sylvia that his encounter with Major Threat happened [[Franchise/StarWars "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.]]"
* SlowPath: Wander and Sylvia end up running the Orbble station while the Wright Brothers invent Time Orbbles. More than fifty years later, their present day selves arrive...
* StableTimeLoop: Sylvia and Wander end up giving the Wright Brothers the idea of inventing Time Obrbles.
* TemporalParadox: Sylvia worries that they might cause one, and has to stop Wander from doing anything that could alter their future (although that's what they end up doing anyway).
* WhenItAllBegan: We see Wander and Sylvia's first meeting, when she was a bounty hunter and he was her bounty.
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* RetGone: Old!Sylvia and Old!Wander fade away after they change history and prevent their past selves from accidentally taking the Time Orbbles.

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* RetGone: Old!Sylvia and Old!Wander fade away after they change history and prevent their past selves from accidentally taking the Time Orbbles.Orbbles.
* SimilarSquad: Wander and Sylvia travel back to what looks like the events of "The Picnic"... but actually involves a showdown between Major Threat and his rival Admiral Admirable, who much like Emperor Awesome is based on a sea creature (a narwhal) and has body part-themed minions (his "Foot Soldiers").

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** Clips and stills from nearly all the episodes of the series can be seen during Wander and Sylvia's time travel.

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** Clips and stills from nearly all the episodes of the series can be seen during Wander and Sylvia's time travel.travels.



** Killbot 86 from "The Bounty" is seen.

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** During the flashback to the time Sylvia met Wander, she faces off against Killbot 85, presumably the predecessor of Killbot 86 from "The Bounty" is seen.Bounty".



* OldShame: Sylvia's life as a bounty hunter is this for her.

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* OldShame: Sylvia's life as a bounty hunter is this for her.her.
* RetGone: Old!Sylvia and Old!Wander fade away after they change history and prevent their past selves from accidentally taking the Time Orbbles.
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* TheButterflyEffect: Sylvia warns Wander of this trope happening due to their time travel. Wander is [[ComicallyMissingThePoint more fascinated by the mention of butterflies.]]
* CallBack:
** Clips and stills from nearly all the episodes of the series can be seen during Wander and Sylvia's time travel.
** Major Threat from "The Good Bad Guy" is seen meeting Wander back when he was a villain, and Wander was indeed called "Tumbleweed" in the past.
** Killbot 86 from "The Bounty" is seen.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sylvia tells Wander that they should "Stop wasting time looking at past episodes...of our lives."
* OldShame: Sylvia's life as a bounty hunter is this for her.
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* VisualPun: Everything associated with the Hi-Nee is shaped like butts and poop. As Sylvia and Wander walk down a hallway the pictures on the walls are all visual puns

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* VisualPun: Everything associated with the Hi-Nee is shaped like butts and poop. As Sylvia and Wander walk down a hallway the pictures on the walls are all visual punspuns of euphemisms, such as a picture of a bomb being dropped or a cow sitting in a pie.
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* VisualPun: Everything associated with the Hi-Nee is shaped like butts and poop.

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* VisualPun: Everything associated with the Hi-Nee is shaped like butts and poop. As Sylvia and Wander walk down a hallway the pictures on the walls are all visual puns
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* ShaggyDogStory: After all that trouble, the Hi-Nees' words of wisdom were exactly what Wander told Sylvia at the start.
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* RealityEnsues: The court of the Hi-Nees is so loaded with DoubleEntendre ToiletHumor that it must either be a ridiculously ContrivedCoincidence, or done deliberately. Turns out it's the latter.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: At the end when Sylvia makes a butt joke, Wander quickly silences her and says that it's too cruel.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: At the end when Sylvia makes a butt joke, Wander quickly silences her and says that it's too cruel.crude.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: At the end when Sylvia makes a butt joke, Wander quickly silences her and says that it's too cruel.
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* TheFaceless: The faces of the Hi-Nees are never shown. Probably for the best.


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* NotSoAboveItAll: After all that talk to Wander about staying serious, Sylvia is the one who laughs first in front of the Council.


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* StealthPun: The pictures on the hallway.


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* HurricaneOfPuns: For starters, Wander and Sylvia are trying to impress the "Hi-Knee" Council.

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* HurricaneOfPuns: For starters, Wander and Sylvia are trying to impress the "Hi-Knee" "Hi-Nee" Council.

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*DoubleEntendre: Oh brother, and ''how''.
*HehHehYouSaidX: Wander gets a serious case of this throughout the episode.
*HurricaneOfPuns: For starters, Wander and Sylvia are trying to impress the "Hi-Knee" Council.
*SecretTestOfCharacter: It turns out the Hi-Nee Council had been deliberately piling on the butt jokes, waiting for someone to admit the whole thing is ridiculous and burst out laughing.
*ToiletHumor: The ''entire'' episode is crammed with as many butt and poop jokes as the WOY crew could get away with.
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'''The Party Poopers'''

Wander fights a massive case of the giggles while trying to impress a race of beings with unusual faces.

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'''The Waste of Time'''

When Wander and Sylvia accidentally buy Time Orbbles, Sylvia must keep Wander focused or risk being lost in time forever.

!!Tropes appearing in ''The Waste of Time''

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