Line #10 Recap/TangledTheSeriesS1E11PascalsStory


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3	->Nobody could ever take your place in my heart. Or on my shoulder!
4	-->--'''Rapunzel, to Pascal'''
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6	Rapunzel's royal responsibilities, and her relationship with Eugene, take up so much of her time, that she's spending less time with Pascal, who begins to feel neglected and like he does not fit into Rapunzel's new life. After Rapunzel stands him up for a dinner, and a misunderstanding makes Pascal think Rapunzel doesn't feel he's her best friend anymore, Pascal runs away--to Rapunzel's tower. Rapunzel, Eugene and Cassandra go to the tower as well. Meanwhile, a snake is hunting Pascal, and we learn about a sad part of Pascal's past and how he met Rapunzel.
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9	!!This episode provides examples of:
10	* AMinorKidroduction: The episode starts with Pascal as a baby (or at least very young) and Rapunzel as a little girl (between four and six). Once they meet and agree to stay together, there's a montage of them growing up together before showing Pascal as an adult and Rapunzel at seventeen.
11	* AnAesop: You can still love your old friends/family while making room in your heart for new ones, but make sure that you remember to let the old friends know that they're loved.
12	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Pascal is shown to be a baby when Rapunzel is a little girl. Assuming that she was between the ages of four and six when they met, that would mean that Pascal was between 12 and 14 by the time the events of the movie came along. In real life, chameleons on average only live to be about three years old in the wild, with a possibility of ten years in captivity. However, Pascal is depicted as though he were a young adult (possibly around the age of Rapunzel). [[note]] It would hardly be the first time Disney ignored the natural average life spans of one of their [[AnimalCompanion Animal Companions]].[[/note]]
13	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: When they first met, baby Pascal (who'd just climbed up to the tower) was bitten by a snake that was about to eat him. Rapunzel (only a little girl at the time) whacked out the snake's tooth with a frying pan and threw it out of the tower. She then used her healing powers to save Pascal before the snake's poison could kill him. From that point on, Pascal's remained her loyal AnimalCompanion, with this episode being the first and only time he'd ever leave her side.
14	* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Cassandra wants Rapunzel to get back to her royal duties, Eugene tries warning her that Rapunzel is very upset about Pascal going missing and not to press her. Dismissing him, Cassandra goes ahead with telling Rapunzel to call off the search to focus on "more important" duties. Rapunzel whirls on her lady-in-waiting and ''loses '''all''' of her shit in absolute fury'', declaring that ''nothing'' is being done until Pascal is found. Cassandra backs off in fear while Eugene simply comments to her, "I would do what she says."
15	** Child!Rapunzel ''smashes a snake in the face with a frying pan.''
16	* CallBack:
17	** Rapunzel smashes a snake that's hunting Pascal and ends up in her tower with her frying pan, in the exact same way she smashed Flynn with it in the movie.
18	** Flashbacks of Rapunzel (as a child) interacting with Pascal in her tower, show them doing the same things they did during "When Will My Life Begin?", a.o. them playing chess.
19	** The episode marks a return to the tower where Rapunzel grew up in. Eugene decides to stay down below as he refuses to "die in the same place twice". With that snake up there, it was a wise choice indeed. Rapunzel's previous length of hair (now brown) Eugene chopped off is still lying on the floor.
20	* ChekhovsSkill: From the beginning of ''Tangled'' on, Rapunzel was shown to be an excellent painter, though that was just a hobby. Now when Pascal is missing, she draws a sketch of him herself (which, Eugene remarks, is well-done), so her drawing skill comes in handy as she doesn't need to go find an artist to do it.
21	* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a tiny baby chameleon, Pascal's mother sent him down a river to escape a snake that was after them, getting killed in the process by the deadly snake (and little Pascal witnessing it). Pascal ended up falling over a waterfall and washed up near Rapunzel's tower. He is drawn by a young Rapunzel's singing voice and decided to check things out, climbing up her tower as said-snake followed behind him. As he made it to her window, the snake bit and killed him. Rapunzel knocks the snake out of the tower and heals Pascal using her hair's healing power. After this, Pascal decided to stay with her.
22	* DisneyDeath: Pascal almost died from the snake's attack as a baby, but little Rapunzel uses her hair to revive him.
23	* EurekaMoment: When Rapunzel is wondering where Pascal could’ve gone, she notices the purple button she gave him the night they met on the floor. After looking at it for a moment, she then looks at one of the murals on her bedroom wall and figures out where he is; ''the Tower''.
24	* {{Jerkass}}: Lance acts very mean to Pascal, by not only eating the dinner Pascal was supposed to eat with Rapunzel, but also entrapping Pascal under a glass bowl, and rubbing it in to Pascal that Rapunzel wouldn't care about him anymore. In his defense, this was still before he received the CharacterDevelopment he'd get later.
25	* JerkassHasAPoint: Granted it's pretty cruel of him to say so, Lance is partly on the nose about how Rapunzel probably won't bother to show up at Pascal's dinner, since Rapunzel's been making less and less time for the little chameleon due to her royal duties.
26	* HeroicSacrifice: In the beginning, we learn that Pascal's mother pulled one so he could get away from the snake. What's tragic is that it would have been in vain had Rapunzel not found Pascal and saved him.
27	* MoodWhiplash: We are treated to views and objects that serve as a grim reminder of the darkest moment in the film--the remains of Rapunzel's hair, the broken mirror, the shot of the chain Gothel used, only to later be superimposed with visions of happy memories Pascal had made with Rapunzel.
28	* MythologyGag: The white snake tries to grab Pascal's tail the exact same way that Maximus tried to grab Rapunzel's hair in the original film.
29	* OriginsEpisode: This episode reveals how Pascal ended up in the tower where Mother Gothel used to keep Rapunzel locked in.
30	* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Pascal is a victim of this twice:
31	** He thinks Shorty is giving him a pep talk, but he was actually talking to a dead potted plant.
32	** He hears Rapunzel call Eugene "my best friend" as she enters a room. Thus he doesn't hear her add "...after Pascal" as she closed the door behind her. Thinking that he's not Rapunzel's best friend anymore, Pascal runs away.
33	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[KickTheDog Lance gives one to Pascal about how he should really be mad at Rapunzel for standing up their dinner rather than him for eating it]] In the ending painting montage, we see Pascal making Lance clean up all the dishes as he happily watches him struggle.
34	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Or, ''one'' red eye, take warning. The snake that attacks Pascal has a red eye (and a yellow one) and is very bad news.
35	* [[TheRunaway Running Away From Home]]: Feeling unappreciated, Pascal runs away from the castle and back to the tower.
36	* SeriousBusiness: Cassandra explains to Rapunzel that playing chess is a matter of life and death, and that she takes beating her opponent very, very seriously.
37	* SuperPersistentPredator: The snake, which somehow followed baby Pascal up a tower and survived getting whacked by young Rapunzel. When Pascal goes back to the tower after 13 years, the snake is still trying to hunt him down.
38	* TraumaButton: Rapunzel flinches when she sees the tower again, and entering and climbing it is a struggle.
39	* WakingNonSequitur: When Rapunzel startles Eugene awake, the first words out of his mouth are "Leave my cheek bones out of this!"
40	* WhereItAllBegan: This episode revisits the one place where everything began--the tower. It was where Rapunzel was kept by Mother Gothel, raised, and most of all, where she met Pascal.

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