Line #32 Recap/TangledTheSeriesS1E03FitzherbertPI


1	Eugene sets out to find a role for himself in the castle and decides to be a royal guard. The Captain of the Guard, however, isn't so eager to have a former crook and rulebreaker under his command. Meanwhile, a famous artist comes to paint Rapunzel's portrait at the castle.
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4	!!Tropes in this episode include:
5	* BookDumb: Apparently, Eugene only went to school for three days and as such, he's woefully terrible at math.
6	* BootCampEpisode: This episode deals with Eugene attempting to join the Corona Royal Guard, complete with the Captain as the DrillSergeantNasty and lots of TrainingFromHell.
7	* BothSidesHaveAPoint:
8	** The Captain believes in a regiment that can follow orders, obey rules and show discipline. For this reason he doesn't trust Eugene, who hates following orders and rules. Eugene realizes that the Captain has a point when a crossbow's safety catch saves his life. He preemptively turns down what he thinks is the Captain offering his job back.
9	** Eugene is also right in that criminals won't wait for guards to follow rules and catch them. He's good at thinking outside the box. The Captain realizes this when the real artist coming to do Rapunzel's portrait shows up, BoundAndGagged, which proves Eugene's theory.
10	*** The Captain also gets a point (in a [[JerkassHasAPoint jerk-is-right]] sense) when he fires Eugene for not only neglecting to do his job, but neglecting to do it in the correct time stamp.
11	* BoxedCrook: Eventually, this becomes Eugene's new role in the castle. The Captain doesn't want him as a guard, and Eugene decides he doesn't want to work for the Captain. Eugene decides to instruct the royal guard in how criminals act and behave.
12	* CallBack:
13	** Cassandra's dad doesn't want to hire Eugene because the latter is a rulebreaker and humiliated him badly during the quest to get the crown.
14	** Eugene mentioned in the ''Tangled'' film that crime went down overnight after the Lost Princess was found. We see him offering his services as a former criminal to help the Royal Guard catch thieves.
15	** Many of Rapunzel's talents and hobbies that appeared in "When Will My Life Begin?" from the first movie are referenced here, with everything she considers having in her portrait.
16	* CharacterTitle: The episode is named "Fitzherbert P.I.", after Eugene.
17	* DefrostingIceQueen: Cassandra becomes nicer to Eugene on seeing him make a genuine effort to become a guard. She realizes that he really wants to turn his life around, and isn't just a GoldDigger who wants to sink his claws into Princess Rapunzel.
18	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: 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.
19	* DirtyCoward: Shorty more or less indicates he would willingly abandon women and children to a thief for money.
20	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Big-Nose doesn't want to say that he agrees with Cassandra that Eugene's not good at anything but being a criminal, but he has independently come to the same conclusion. Then again, he may have been trying to placate Eugene because he and everyone doesn't so much care about Eugene's personal problems.
21	* DrillSergeantNasty: We see the Captain of the Guard in action as the drill instructor. However, he has a ''special'' nastiness reserved for Eugene, AKA Flynn Rider.
22	* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though Eugene says Cassandra would be thrilled if he failed the guard training, she actually is disappointed that her father is breaking the rules to make sure Flynn Rider doesn't earn the uniform.
23	* 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.
24	* ExtraDigits: Corona's former King Robin the Eleventh is called that for having eleven fingers. When a thief steals his portrait and leaves a fake one, the switch is noticed because King Robin is portrayed as having only ten digits in the fake one.
25	* FailureMontage: Eugene's job search has him fail bakery because of OvenLogic, fail at a taxi service because he rushes to the wrong destination, and in a twist succeed at being a cobbler but get fired because he robbed his boss in the past.
26	* {{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. Apparently, math was the real enemy.
27	* GratuitousItalian: A plot point. The impersonator painter uses 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.
28	* HiddenDepths:
29	** 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 upon hearing this.
30	** Queen Arianna's royal portrait indicates she has many talents and interests, even if so in a clumsy way.
31	* IDontPayYouToThink: Captain directly tells Eugene this after he's given dungeon duty and he questions the assignment.
32	* KingBobTheNth: Subverted. Robin XI is known as such because he had eleven fingers.
33	* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: A variant; when each realizes that the other has a point, the Captain and Eugene tell the person or horse nearest to them to never mention it.
34	* LiteralMinded: Feldspar the Cobbler's response after he finds out Eugene was the one who stole a crate of his boots in the past:
35	-->'''Eugene''': Does this mean I'm getting the boot?\
36	'''Feldspar''': No! It means you're getting fired!
37	* TheLoad: Shorty does nothing except follow Eugene around like some sort of human dog, thinking the boot camp was the men's room, not pay attention to what's going on, and gets pushed in the water.
38	* MovingTheGoalposts: Eugene lampshades that the Captain is doing this with regards to his training. Cassandra tells Eugene to outwit her father at doing it. When Eugene ''does'' succeed, the Captain decides to assign him to dungeon duty--which is one of the thankless jobs.
39	* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: As part of crossbow wielding procedure, the safety ''must'' always be on. This is what saves Eugene when he got cornered by the art crook who stole the crossbow. But after Eugene takes it back, his finger slipped and the dart went off.
40	* [[OldShame/InUniverse Old Shame]]: Queen Arianna's opinion of her royal portrait. Unlike all the other portraits, she has hers covered in a tarp and shoved into a dark forgotten room of the castle.
41	* OvenLogic: Eugene reasons that if a pie bakes in one hour at 300 degrees, then 600 degrees will do the same in half the time. Cue burnt pie.
42	* PetTheDog: Cassandra tells Eugene that as a rulebreaker he knows how to outwit someone breaking the rules. She also believes him when he realizes that the "painter" that came to do Rapunzel's painting was an impostor.
43	* PoliceAreUseless: It's shown the guards suffer from this problem because they use predictable tactics which allow criminals to slip by easily. The Captain of The Guard attempts to correct this problem by having Eugene enlighten others on how to think like a thief to catch one.
44	* ReassignedToAntarctica: The Captain gives Eugene dungeon duty because it's grim task that is so idiot-proof and isn't convinced that a former criminal has what it takes to be a part of Corona's elite.
45	* 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 it, but he gets fired because he robbed the guy a year prior.
46	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: The captain can make and break the rules simply because he can, and does so to make sure Eugene washes out and doesn't make it. However, Eugene decides to beat the captain at his own game.
47	* ShoutOut: A subtle one to ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst''. The first job Eugene attempts is being a baker's assistant. King Roland the Second temporarily became a baker in "The Baker King". One of the other jobs he tries his hand at is being a cobbler. That used to be Queen Miranda's job before she married King Roland.
48	* StylisticSuck: The impersonator does a ''terrible'' portrait of Rapunzel. Even Eugene can't find anything nice to say about it. This clues him in that the painter isn't the real one.
49	* TrainingFromHell: Naturally, the Royal Guard are Corona's elite, so this is to be expected, but the Captain ''really'' had it out for Eugene with the training he put him through.
50	* XanatosGambit: The Captain's plan for Eugene to prevent him from becoming a Royal Guard: The captain can sabotage his training, and if Eugene washes out, he doesn't make it. If Eugene passes, then he gets an undesirable, yet idiot-proof assignment so that he can't possibly be a liability to the guard. It's a win-win for the Captain.

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