Line #9 Recap/CornerGasAnimatedS3E3PactRat


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"You think we put on the wrong shirts?" "I can't see a thing out of these glasses..."]]
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4	'''A Plot:''' Emma plans to do some spring cleaning, but Oscar is a huge pack rat that insists he'll eventually fix all the trash in their shed.
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6	'''B Plot:''' Davis swerves the cop car into a ditch, and blames it on a herd of goats blocking the road. Karen and Fitzy urge him to investigate who let them loose from the local farm, and fine the culprit for repairs.
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8	'''C Plot:''' Fitzy asks Wanda and Hank to deal with the town's rat problem, bribing them with nice shirts. Lacey urges them to exterminate them all, since rats are bad for business.
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10	* BadLiar: Karen's attempt to help Davis protect himself is so bad, Davis ends up confessing to crashing the car just to relieve her of the burden.
11	* BloodKnight: Lacey is ''very'' enthusiastic about killing the rats before they breed out of control...[[ThouShaltNotKill until she's asked to do the deed herself]].
12	* BrainsAndBrawn: Fitzy chose Wanda to be the brains of the Special Rodent Unit, and Hank for...his willingness to get close to vermin.
13	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Fitzy wants ''someone'' charged for the cop car crash and letting goats loose, whether it be for negligence, mischief, or bestiality...though he quickly retracts that last one.
14	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Hank thinks that rats [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles live in sewers and train turtles to fight]], but Wanda claims that's only in cartoons...and then she immediately looks around nervously.
15	* BrickJoke: The C Plot begins with Fitzy anxious because Wullerton was declared to be vermin-free. The episode ends with Wanda and Hank using a large cheese wheel Helen sold to Davis to send the town's rats to Wullerton.
16	* CallBack:
17	** The cops question Zeke and Ike about letting the goats loose, since they stole Davis' bees during his stint as a beekeeper in "[[Recap/CornerGasAnimatedS1E03NoneOfYourBeefwax None of your Beefwax]]".
18	** The debate over whether mice prefer cheese or hard candy comes back from the live-action episode "[[Recap/CornerGasS5E09GameSetAndMouse Game, Set, and Mouse]]", with the rats eventually found snacking on Brent's Halloween candy and the S.R.U. sticking some candy in the cheese wheel they roll out of town to get the rats to leave.
19	* DarkSecret: Brent panics when he realizes his parents are cleaning their shed, because he's been constantly lying to them about tidying up their shed in the past, and has secretly been storing a whole box of Halloween candy there...which ties into the C Plot because it's also been attracting rats.
20	* DrunkWithPower: Wanda and Hank immediately get into their SRU (Special Rodent Unit) roles, acting like cops.
21	* GoodCopBadCop: Wanda and Hank try this at one point to get information...out of a rat.
22	* GossipEvolution: Brent gets upset at Lacey for claiming Corner Gas might have a rat or two, since the town tends to get worked up over little things. On cue, someone asks Brent if he's feeling okay, since there's a rumor he got rabies from all the rats that he's been harboring. Before then, someone misheard Hank's speculation that Brent was responsible for 4 to 6% of the rat problem, thinking he said 46%. And then there's the matter of Helen supposedly making her own cheese...
23	* IGaveMyWord: Davis urges Karen to keep quiet on the fact that he both crashed the car and let loose some goats to cover it up, because they made a "Back-Pact" to have each other's backs. She ends up agreeing to cover for him, and in the end, Davis covers for her in turn when she accidentally breaks Fitzy's favorite mug.
24	* ManChild: The Halloween candy Brent's been hiding was collected when he and Hank were seventeen-and-a-half years old.
25	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Multiple townsfolk are convinced Helen makes her own cheese, when the truth is that, just one time, she merely bought too much cheese on sale at Costco and sold the excess.
26	* PinkIsForSissies: The replacement vehicle that Davis and Karen have to drive around in while the cop car is broken is a very unflattering pink.
27	* TheScapegoat: Davis blames crashing the car (and later, Fitzy's broken mug) on goats. [[LampshadeHanging He even mentions]] how literal he's being when he admits it to Karen.
28	* ShoutOut: Someone hoots in the background when Fitzy asks Davis and Karen to find out who let the goats out, referencing "Who Let the Dogs Out" by The Baha Men. The movies Film/OldYeller and Film/{{Alien}} are also directly mentioned...and people are aghast when Brent claims to have never seen either film.
29	* ThouShaltNotKill: As much as Lacey hates the rats, when asked if she'd like to do the honors of torching the shed they've been trapped in, she thinks the act of actually killing them would be monstrous.

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