Line #32 Recap/AmericanDragonJakeLongS01E20RingAroundTheDragon


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4	->[[EpisodeCodeNumber Production Code]]: 117
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6	When an 8-year-old giant named Hobie runs away from home to join a popular wrestling league, Jake must go undercover as a wrestler and beat the young giant in the ring so Hobie's greedy manager will release him from his contract, allowing Jake to take Hobie back home to his parents.
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9	* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite Hobie's large amount of baby fat, he's able to easily grab Jake and leap high into the air for a massive frog-splash.
10	* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Hobie has a great love of wrestling and was able to seek out and join a professional league by himself, but he also understands that he's an odd-one-out when it comes to most giants and that his parents would take no pleasure in being forced to fight.
11	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Kodiak Mack is just a normal human in a bear costume, yet he's able to punch through solid trees and drag a large bed with two giants sleeping in it.
12	* ChekhovsGun: Johnathan's rhyme about how to escape a bear chasing you may be cheesy, but it serves Jake well in tripping up the Bear-like wrestler.
13	* CostumeTestMontage: Trixie and the rest of Team Dragon have Jake try on several different outfits for his Dragonfire persona.
14	* CurbStompCushion: Jake's dragon powers allow him to make short work of most of the other wrestlers, though each one of them either gets a hit or two in or forces Jake on the defensive.
15	* FromBadToWorse: It's bad enough Hobie worries his parents sick about when he runs away from home, but it gets worse when he unwittingly tells his greedy manager about the existence of giants, prompting said-manager to capture all the giants so he can force them to wrestle.
16	* FunWithAcronyms: The wrestling league Hobie and Jake both join is called the King Extreme Wrestling League, or K.E.W.L., which sounds like "cool".
17	* GentleGiant: If Hobie's parents to be believed, giants by nature are peaceful despite their size.
18	* TheGimmick: Each K.E.W.L. wrestler has some gimmick or theme that they exemplify.
19	* GoodParents: Jakes parents are this, but at times, he's too annoyed at them to see he has it good. The same goes with the giants who ask Jake for his help finding their missing son Hobie.
20	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
21	* MeaningfulEcho: A variation. Throughout the episode, Jake's parents leave sticky notes everywhere for their son as a way of letting him know they love him. Towards the end, when he makes breakfast for them, he leaves them two halves of a sticky note message saying he loves them.
22	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jake's inability to talk with Hobie out of earshot of King Hammer results in the tycoon learning that there is an entire village of giants out there for him to exploit.
23	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: King Hammer is a pretty obvious parody of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon.
24	* ParentsInDistress: A variation where it's not the main character's parents in trouble: it's Hobie's parents.
25	* PermaStubble: Jonathan sports a five o'clock shadow when he first gets up in the morning to find that Jake has made his parents breakfast.
26	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Jake, when his opponent chomps down on his tail during a wrestling match.
27	* ThatPoorCat: A cat can be heard screaming when Hammer throws Jake out of the wrestling center. More justified than most examples since he threw him into a back alley.
28	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Apparently neither the other wrestlers nor the audience find it suspicious when "Dragonfire" uses his claws and tail, easily lifts Hobie, breathes fire, and flies during his matches. Fu Dog was also somehow able to sit in the audience undisguised and cheer loudly without drawing attention to himself
29	* TheWalrusWasPaul: Doesn't really exist as anything more than a ShoutOut, but the Flying Walrus hypes himself by shouting "I am the Walrus!" while fighting Jake.
30	* WeirdCurrency: At the end of the episode, when Trixie sells all her clothing merchandise to one of the giants, she finds out too late that giants use fish as money.
31	* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Jake presents himself to King Hammer as Dragonfire, King Hammer remarks that the dragon form looks fake.

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