Line #21 Recap/TheCriticS1E3MartysFirstDate


1	At his school, Marty falls in love with a Cuban girl named Carmen and goes on a date with her, but after it goes bad, he tries to win her heart, even going far as following her to Cuba.
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5	* ActionizedSequel: Spoofed; Jay, Marty and Carmen hope to go see ''Film/TheRedBalloon'', unaware it's actually a sequel, ''Revenge of the Balloon'', complete with the boy being surrounded by terrorists led by a [[Film/DieHard Hans Gruber]] {{Expy}} and him letting go of the balloon for it to escape. And also has a scene with the military looking for it via radar and Creator/StevenSeagal telling off the General.
6	* AffablyEvil: UsefulNotes/FidelCastro is warm-hearted for a brutal communist dictator and a loving grandfather to Carmen.
7	* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: What a Mexican airport clerk does to Jay so he can get a flight to Cuba (since he's an American citizen and can't fly a Mexican plane unless he was a Mexican citizen). But he gets caught by authorities after them thinking he's a lunatic. But before the boat ride, the clerk shows up and demands to be married, with Jay being honest about his intentions and with the clerk admitting she's marrying him so she can be a Mexican citizen. Jay was touched about the honesty of the sham marriage. And later on, she announces her plans to divorce him and take half his money.
8	* BadDate: Marty's first date with Carmen doesn't go well, with her falling asleep during the movie and Jay even getting carjacked.
9	* BaitAndSwitch: After Jay was mistaken for a mental patient and forced upon a boat, it appears he's going on a boat with screaming mental patients, but then it's revealed he's going on a boat, which is akin to a cruise.
10	* TheBigDamnKiss: Both Marty and Carmen trade eadch other with these at the end while in Cuba.
11	* ABirthdayNotABreak: To win Carmen over after she tells him how her grandfather aid how America will choke on the excess of capitalism, Marty mentions that he choked on a scented candle and got his nose caught in a mousetrap and adds it was the worst birthday he ever had.
12	* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: During the international food fight, one piece of stray food hits the French table causing all of the kids to immediately put up their hands in surrender.
13	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Jay does this after being mugged for his car keys, asking him what good are the keys when he doesn't have the car, [[DelayedReaction then it dawned on him his intentions.]]
14	* DrivenToSuicide: Zig-zagged in a chain reaction sequence. During the classroom presentation about Career Day, Jay erases some of the chalk drawing from Horst the German artist, which devastates him, causing him to jump out of a window and falling on top of a hedge deer (he's OK though). That results in the man making the hedge deer devastated and him jumping off and landing on a cement worker's sidewalk. The worker in question is apathetic though.
15	* {{Foodfight}}: What happens in the cafeteria after a disagreement on a trade between the kids. Marty even protects Carmen from getting hit, with her being attracted by his bravery.
16	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After seeing Marty and Carmen kiss, Catro ponders on the innocence of children and considers chaning his communist ways (or at least being more peaceful), but Jay puts a stop to that after he insults him, not aware of who he really is.
17	* HypocriticalHumor: During lunch:
18	---> '''Marty:''' You know something? You were the best dad there.\
19	'''Jay:''' Oh, please, son. It wasn't a competition. (Turns to a Yankees baseball player and his son) Well, hello, loser. (The father and son duo walk away as Jay chuckles satisfied with himself.)
20	* LittleStowaway: Marty hides in a cello case to get in the plane heading to Cuba.
21	* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: or in Marty's case, a lunch tray, shielding him and Carmen during the foodfight.
22	* OhCrap: Jay does this twice:
23	** First when he, Carmen and Marty expect to see ''The Red Balloon'', when it turns out it's actually its actionized sequel.
24	** And again, when he unknowingly insults Fidel Castro and Marty points out who he is.
25	* OhCrapSmile: Marty does this after the security guards bump into him on the plane while using the cello case as a disguise.
26	* PhenotypeStereotype: Carmen is Cuban and has brown skin.
27	* RaceForYourLove: What Marty does, but he ends up going to Cuba to find Carmen.
28	* ShotAtDawn: After Jay insults Fidel Castro, he claims he's more softer than his image, then puts Jay to a firing squad, telling the to shoot to wound. But it's implied Jay got out of the shooting when he tells them he gave a good review to ''Film/TheMamboKings''.
29	* StartOfDarkness: Shown in a flashback, with Fidel Castro being a proud American citizen on a date with a woman, discussing their plans, but gets rejected for making out due to his beard and after being told off by UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, he determines America will pay someday, then pushing the date out and headed back to Cuba.
30	* StreetPerformer: A homeless bum takes the cello Marty threw in the trash to stow away in the plane and plays it. He starts off well and people give him money, [[YankTheDogsChain but after playing a bad note, they take their money back.]] But it works out for him as he's later seen playing a sold out concert at Carnegie Hall.

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