Line #6 Recap/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandyS6E4


1	!!Modern Primitives
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3	Fred Flintstone is unfrozen in the present day and is taken in by Billy.
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5	* AsideGlance: Fred gives one to the camera when Billy doesn’t understand that he’s giving him his name and renames him.
6	* BaitAndSwitch: Mandy declares that the group needs "a fast set of wheels" to capture the escaped Fred. We cut to the main trio sitting in a monster truck...which promptly pulls away, revealing that they're actually sitting on top of Irwin's bicycle (them being "in" the truck was an illusion).
7	* BehindTheBlack: Fred manages to completely destroy Billy's house within the ''single second'' that Billy left him alone in the living room.
8	* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Actively discussed to be the case with Fred. It happens again when he and Billy are frozen together until millennia later when humanity has apparently gone extinct and Earth has been taken over by giant aliens.
9	* HumanPopsicle: Turns out that Fred Flintstone was frozen at the end of his own series. Billy thaws him out using Grim's scythe, and much mayhem ensues.
10	* HypocriticalHumor: Harold comments that Gladys probably won't want "a filthy, disgusting animal" in the house. He's referring to Fred, but the shot shows him looking just as (if not more) filthy and disgusting as the actual caveman.
11	* NuclearFamily: Butterbean begins demanding Fred start one of these with her now that he’s kidnapped her.
12	* ShoutOut: Given that [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]] is the guest star, there are a ton to his home series:
13	** Fred has a bit of PokemonSpeak and can only say various arrangements of [[CharacterCatchphrase "Yabba-Dabba-Doo."]] He does seem capable of learning contemporary English (he recognizes that Billy is asking him for his name and replies "Fred") but doesn't use it.
14	** Upon discovering a record player, Fred grabs a bird outside and uses its beak for the needle, a reference to the RunningGag of animals doing household chores on ''The Flintstones.''
15	** When Fred kidnaps Miss Butterbean and steals Principal Goodvibes's car, he shoves his feet through the floor and runs along the road, which is how all the vehicles in Bedrock were powered.
16	** A non-''Flintstones'' example: when the heroes are flying on Irwin's bike, they're briefly silhouetted against the moon, a direct homage to ''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial.'' Just in case the audience doesn't get it, Billy says the situation reminds him "of that movie about the extraterrestrial."
17	* ShaggyDogStory: Fred ends up frozen again, this time in a block of sherbet, so the trio reburies him in the front yard just where they found him. Mandy [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this with the remark "What a waste of an episode."
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19	!!Giant Billy and Mandy All Out Attack
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21	Grim takes Billy and Irwin to Japan to see kaiju battles.
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23	* TheCameo: The Grape Ape had his head shoved into a volcano in a previous battle.
24	* ControlFreak: Mandy is enraged that Grim would dare take the others for an excursion against her orders and immediately goes to retrieve them.

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