Line #40 Recap/CentralParkS2E03FistaPuffsMetsOutJustice


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2	'''[[Recap/CentralPark Index]]'''\
3	'''Season One''': [[Recap/CentralParkS1E1EpisodeOne 1]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E2SkatersCircle 2]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E3HatLuncheon 3]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet 4]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon 5]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E6RivalBusker 6]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E7SquirrelInterrupted 7]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven 8]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight 9]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS1E10AFishCalledSnakehead 10]]\
4	'''Season Two''': [[Recap/CentralParkS2E01CentralDark 1]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E02MothersDaze 2]] \| '''3''' \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E04OfCourseYouRealizeThisMeansWard 4]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E05DownToTheUnderwire 5]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E06TheShadow 6]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E07ADecentProposal 7]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E08SirBricksALot 8]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E09ABoatifulMind 9]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E10BeeIsForBrandenham 10]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E11ThePaigeriarchy 11]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E12CastleSweetCastle 12]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E13CelesteWeForget 13]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E14TheBalladOfJohnnieLee 14]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E15WhereTheresSmoke 15]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS2E16TheLyinInWinter 16]]\
5	'''Season Three''': [[Recap/CentralParkS3E01AStarIsOwen 1]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E02PaigesNextChapter 2]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E03IceIceNotBaby 3]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E04ATriptychDownMemoryLane 4]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager 5]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E06AMatterOfLifeAndBoeuf 6]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E07SlumberDogMollyAnAire 7]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E08LunarPalaver 8]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E09AKillerDeadline 9]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E10MoneyCandy 10]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E11ThePuffsGoPoof 11]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E12AHotDogToRemember 12]] \| [[Recap/CentralParkS3E13TheBrandenpireStrikesBack 13]] -]]]]]
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8	->'''Original release date:''' June 25, 2021
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10	->'''Written by:''' Chuck Tatham\
11	'''Directed by:''' Mario D'anna
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13	->''♫ So we try to be more than enough\
14	Trying to be strong and tough\
15	Try to be something we're not\
16	Try to fit a different plot\
17	Proving we're bold without causing a fuss\
18	We're trying so hard to be us\
19	Will it ever be enough? ♫''
20	-->--'''Molly, "Trying Too Hard"'''
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22	After Molly had a bad time during her field trip, she draws her experiences in her comic starring Fista Puffs. In the comic, Fista Puff is trying to pass a test to see if she's worthy of joining the Pow Pow Boom Booms.
23	[[folder:Songs]]
24	* The Fista Puffs Theme Song
25	-->'''Written by:''' Brent Knopf\
26	'''Performed by:''' Jessica Childress & Emmy Raver–Lampman\
27	'''Additional Vocals:''' Kelly Pratt, Moorea Masa, Emily Goldstein, & Angelica Cox
28	* Pow Pow Boom Booms - Shauna, Hazel, & Molly
29	-->'''Written by:''' Creator/JoshGad and Ben Romans\
30	'''Performed by:''' Creator/AmberRuffin, Music/EsterDean, & Emmy Raver–Lampman\
31	'''Additional Vocals:''' Keiko Agena & Angelica Cox
32	* No One's Home - Owen, Paige, Molly, & Cole
33	-->'''Written by:''' Brent Knopf\
34	'''Performed by:''' Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/KathrynHahn, Emmy Raver–Lampman, & Creator/TitussBurgess
35	* Trying Too Hard - Molly & Monster
36	-->'''Written by:''' Kate Anderson & Elyssa Samsel\
37	'''Performed by:''' Emmy Raver–Lampman & Michael James Scott
38	[[/folder]]
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40	!!Tropes:
41	* ArtShift: A majority of this episode is done in the style of Molly's drawings.
42	* BeYourself: The song ''Trying Too Hard'' is Molly taking a serious look at how she tries to suppress or modify her behavior to impress others, when really she should embrace her uniqueness and quirks.
43	* BuffySpeak: In the song "Pow Pow Boom Booms", Sha-Boom refers to a giant octopus monster as an "octopus thingy".
44	* CallBack: At the start of the Fista-Puffs credits, the scenes initially consist of comic panels from the first season.
45	* ChromaticArrangement: In "Trying Too Hard" and the meta-confrontation leading up to it, Fista-Puffs is colored in red, Drawing!Molly is colored in blue, and Feetsa-Puffs is colored in green.
46	* FearSong: "No One's Home" is about the drawing!Tillermans singing about how when you feel something bad is happening to you it's better to avoid your problems by hiding away and pretending it doesn't exist. Drawing!Molly and the real Molly realizes this feels wrong.
47	* GreenEyedMonster: Molly gets jealous on her museum trip when a friend of Hazel's, Shauna, joins them and she's able to make Hazel laugh while Molly just makes herself look awkward for trying to join in. She even makes Shauna a villain in her comic and blames her for Fista Puff losing her powers.
48	* GroundhogDayLoop: Fista-Puffs keeps getting defeated by the monster over and over again in the simulation.
49	* IAmGreatSong: Shauna and Hazel sings "Pow Pow Boom Booms" to explain how great their group is.
50	* LetMeTellYouAStory: After Molly tells her family about her problem, Paige tells her a story when she was her age, despite the fact the family already knows about it. When she was young, she wanted to be friends with Stacey Blankeship and her friends so she rode on a roller coaster with them despite knowing she always throws up on them. While she sat next to Stacey, the ride operator lets them go twice and on the second ride Paige accidentally threw up in Stacey's mouth. After that they never became friends and Stacey never came back to school because she moved; Paige doesn't think that's why she moved but she feels like it might've been. The point of her story was to tell Molly she shouldn't try too hard to impress others.
51	* MediumAwareness: While Fista Puffs and her supporting cast have always made meta-commentary, when Molly's drawn family starts to ask about her comic, they realize they are also in a comic drawn by the actual Molly, and the conversation gets... very convoluted.
52	* MesACrowd: "Trying Too Hard" is sung by a multitude of Mollys, Fista-Puffses, and Feetsa-Puffses. It serves as a metaphor for her conflict of how she struggles with how she wants to see herself, how she expects others to see her, and how she really is.
53	* MindScrew: The climax has the Drawing!Tillermans arguing with Real!Molly and Drawing!Molly who, in turn, is arguing with Drawing!Fista Puffs. Even Fista Puffs starts making her own comic superhero alter-ego. It gets very meta.
54	* NestedStory: Real!Molly is drawing a story about herself, while Drawing!Molly is drawing a story about Fista-Puffs, who eventually draws her own superhero Feetsa-Puffs, mostly to call out Real!Molly for using drawing as an escape for avoiding her emotions.
55	* ShoutOut:
56	** During "Pow Pow Boom Booms", Sha-Boom suggests doing a plot similar to the storyline of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', which is lampshaded by Fista-Puffs.
57	** The former leader of the Pow Pow Boom Booms looks a lot like She-Ra.
58	** Sha-Boom mentions they have more dough than [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]].
59	** The last monster at the end during "Pow Pow Boom Booms" resembles [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]].
60	** At the end of "No One's Home", Owen, Paige, and Cole dress up like the Tethered from ''Film/{{Us}}'' with them holding scissors, Paige sings they can "move your family underground and live off rabbits that you found", with Cole holding up a paper people chain and crawling like Pluto.
61	** Drawing!Paige says she saw that movie with Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson, in reference to ''Film/StrangerThanFiction''.
62	* SpecialEditionTitle: Sort of. While the show rarely has a dedicated opening credit, this episode has Fista-Puffs be the star of her own opening credits.
63	* SpecialGuest: "Pow Pow Boom Booms" is written by Creator/JoshGad and Ben Romans.
64	* YouWereTryingTooHard: Fista Puffs keeps failing to defeat the Minotaur in the simulation when they fight. After Molly reflects on her experience and realize she was trying too hard to try to impress Hazel and Shauna, Fista Puff realize the Minotaur is in an area where the walls are thick and has solid steel doors and all she has to do is just trap it inside after rescuing the old man inside.
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66	->''♫ Get dirty with the Pow Pow Boom Boom\
67	Pow Pow Boom Boom\
68	When we walk into the room\
69	All you monsters gonna feel some pain soon\
70	The world may seem all doom and gloom\
71	Till you open up a can of Pow Pow Boom Boom ♫''

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