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2[[caption-width-right:320:''"[[ExpositoryThemeTune Come with me, we'll go and see a place called Candied Island!]]"'']]
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4->''"Comedy, or at least the kind of comedy I like, are the ones that make you feel a bit uncomfortable and then hit you with a great joke."''
5-->-- '''Show creator Creator/ThuropVanOrman'''
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7From the mind of Thurop Van Orman (previously of ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 The Powerpuff Girls]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'') comes ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'', a [[{{Pun}} whale of a tale]] about an adventure-seeking young boy, a washed-up pirate, and a whale.
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9Flapjack ([[DescendedCreator voiced by Van Orman]]) is a cheerful yet gullible orphan [[RaisedByWolves raised by a motherly whale]] named Bubbie (Roz Ryan). One day, they rescue a pirate named Captain K'nuckles[[note]]pronounced [[PretentiousPronunciation "Kuh-nuckles"]][[/note]] (Creator/BrianDoyleMurray) who regales Flapjack with tales of a mystical place called Candied Island, which he's spent much of his life searching for. Enamored by this, and much to the chagrin of Bubbie, Flapjack decides to help him on this quest for Candied Island and dreams of being a great adventurer like K'nuckles. Unfortunately, not only is K'nuckles [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything not the adventurer he once was]], but the trio doesn't even know where to ''begin'' looking for the fabled island, leading them into a series of marvelous mishaps.
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11And that just barely touches the surface of this Creator/CartoonNetwork animated series set in the screwed-up port town of [[NotSoSafeHarbor Stormalong Harbor]]. To make a long story short, this show is very, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids very]], ''[[DerangedAnimation very]]'', ''[[GrotesqueGallery very]]'', ''[[BlackComedy very]]'' weird.
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13The show debuted on June 5, 2008. Towards the end of its run, the show became ScrewedByTheNetwork, unlike ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', concluding with a short six-episode third season and a series finale that aired completely unadvertised on August 31, 2010 -- only people who were following Van Orman on his Website/DeviantArt page were even aware it was airing.
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15It is virtually impossible to overstate how much of an impact this particular series left on the modern animation industry. Arguably one of the most influential animated series of the 2000s, ''Flapjack'' helped forge the careers of such animators as Creator/PendletonWard, J.G. Quintel and Creator/AlexHirsch throughout its short run, who would later use the experience and skills they gained working with Van Orman to create what would later be known as ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', which in turn would go on to change the entire animation landscape forever.
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21* AbnormalAmmo:
22** One episode featured a guy using a cannon that fired angst-ridden children.
23** Peppermint Larry's Caramel Cannon.
24* AccidentalTruth: In "These Boots Were Made for Walking (On Your Face)," K'nuckles tells a pair of thugs searching for Flapjack to search for him in a pile of old diapers as that is one of Flapjack's favorite hiding places, while he sneaks off to talk to Bubbie. However, it turns out Flapjack ''really was'' hiding in a pile of diapers and the thugs capture him.
25* AmbiguouslyGay: The Real Adventurer. [[spoiler:Even though he has a girlfriend/wife, he still has an interest in Flapjack, and wants to adopt him]].
26* AmbiguousTimePeriod: WHEN exactly Flapjack takes place is never clear. It’s implied this series takes place sometime during the 18th or 19th century. Though there are some anachronistic tidbits here or there like Peppermint Larry having a more 1950s wardrobe among other things. Though given the show MAY be set in an AlternateUniverse the matter of WHEN it takes place is highly up for debate.
27* AndADietCoke: In "Who's That Man In The Mirror?" K'nuckles attempts to lose weight by foregoing exercise and drinking nothing but Diet Maple Syrup.
28* AngerIsHealthyAesop: Played for laughs, in Revenge, K'nuckles notices that Flapjack is being extremely docile with the other sailors and is concerned that Flapjack is being taken advantage of. K'nuckles encourages him to show some anger and get revenge on his enemies but it goes wrong because Flapjack keeps helping them by accident. In the end, K'nuckles gets beaten up after Flapjack reveals that he made him clean the boat so well it shows how ugly the other sailors are, which makes Blubbie the whale say that Flapjack is too nice to have any enemies.
29%%* AnthropomorphicFood: Candy Wife, [[CompanionCube maybe...]]
30* AntiRoleModel: Captain K'nuckles doesn't always have Flapjack's best interests in mind and is frequently selfish. Flapjack looks up to him anyway, and K'nuckles does view Flapjack as his best (and only) friend.
31* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Happens in "Low Tidings," although K'nuckles response to the question ("That Scoops Pennington is a hack?") does at least follow logically from what had gone before. Flapjack was actually suggesting that they take the place of the two sick actors in the Low Tide Day pageant.
32* ArtShift:
33** Poseidon went from normal (for this show) animation to live action in the ChristmasEpisode.
34** The series finale featured a live-action segment with Thurop playing K'nuckles and his daughter as Flapjack. And she. Was. [[http://i.imgur.com/C4ysQyI.jpg Cute]].
35* AuthorityInNameOnly: In "Over the Moon," K'nuckles declares himself to be 'The Moon King' and starts giving orders to the moon.
36* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The concept is parodied in the Moon episode with: "Captain K'nuckles, King. '''Moon King.'''"
37* AxCrazy: The townsfolk of Stormalong Harbor in general can turn into violence without much prompting.
38* BathroomBreakout: In "Liar, Liar, You for Hire?" Flapjack escapes from Captain Johnny's ship by flushing himself down the toilet, which is inexplicably connected to Stormalong's sewer system.
39* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "Wishing Not So Well," K'nuckles wishes to be left alone and immediately finds himself in a Stormalong that contains no other people. It doesn't work out so well for him.
40* BedouinRescueService: A Liliputian variety appears in "Lost at Land."
41* BenevolentArchitecture: When K'nuckles and Flapjack are in a runaway trolley, we cut to Stormalong's resident GadgeteerGenius, having just completed a ramp-like structure: "I call it R.A.M.P! '''R'''adical '''A'''scension-" [[spoiler: Then the trolley smashes right through it]].
42%%* BigNo
43* BiggerOnTheInside:
44** Stormalong Harbor is a bigger community than it looks from the outside. It even has a slum and an upper-class quarter. In any case, it seems unlikely that it really has a population of no more than one hundred, as one of the episodes suggest.
45** Bubbie the whale. You can practically live in their.
46* BigWhat: One that extends to the TheEnd screen of "S.S. K'nuckles."
47-->'''K'nuckles''': Eh, I never learned to sail anyways.\
48'''Flapjack''': WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
49* BlownUpwardByABlowhole: Despite spending most of her time at the surface, Bubbie the whale can blow people through her blowhole, although Flapjack and Knuckles don't do this often.
50* BucketHelmet: One of the urchins in Stormalong wears a saucepan with eyeholes cut in it as a helmet. He also wears an eyepatch over the helmet.
51%%* ButtMonkey: Flapjack and K'nuckles.
52* CallBack: At the end of "Rye Ruv Roo," [[spoiler:a newspaper is shown with the Colonel elected as mayor]]. Guess who wins at the end of "Mayor May Not" several episode later?
53* CannotTellAJoke: Lolly Poopdeck. In "Day Without Laughter," he attempts to become a comedian, but the punchlines to all his jokes consist of really strained puns based on his own name.
54%%* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin
55* CantLiveWithoutYou: Once all of Stormalong was infected by the Plague, K'nuckles goes off to find Flapjack living on Plague Island and tells him that Stormalong couldn't live without him. Flapjack thinks of this as being a LivingEmotionalCrutch when K'nuckles told him that they couldn't live without him, but then he tells him that they ''literally'' can't live without him. Flapjack's blood contained the antidote.
56* CardCarryingVillain: The "Low Tidings Special" reveals that a considerable number of the Stormalong townsfolk (including Captain K'nuckles) are perfectly aware of their less than morally acceptable and savory character and try to hide to avoid supernatural retribution until [[spoiler: the SpoofAesop becomes also about being proud about their choices in life and band together to fight for their right to be evil.]]
57* CatchPhrase:
58** "Adventure!"
59** "Hmm, yes."
60* CheerfulChild: Flapjack could give [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Spongebob]] a run for his money on sheer cheerfulness.
61* ConstructedWorld: The world of Flapjack shows some elements of this, the most notable example being in the episode, "Lost at Land," in which we get to see [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/FlapjackWorld_9072.GIF Flapjack's world from space]] (making it a PatchworkMap too).
62* ContinuityNod: It's safe to assume that if either of the Inventors show up, there's a continuity nod or two. An example is the Grand Flying Contraption, it was destroyed at the end of "Several Leagues Above the Sea," but in "The Return of Sally Syrup," the Inventor's Brother has been working on a new and improved version.
63* ConvectionSchmonvection: In "Off with His Hat," the anthropologist falls into an active volcano, but is fine because she lands on a floating chunk of rock. She then then gets erupted out of the volcano.
64* CoolShip: Flapjack calls Bubbie, "The fastest ship in the sea" despite, you know, Bubbie ''being a whale''.
65* CrapsackWorld: Stormalong Harbor is seriously [[WretchedHive one screwed up place]].
66* CrazyCatLady: Flapjack accidentally lets all of the cats escape from the home of one in "Who Let the Cats Out of the Old Bag's House?"
67%%* CreepyMonotone: Doctor Barber. [[VerbalTic Mmm. Yes.]]
68* CrossdressingVoices:
69** Parodied in "Flapjack Goes to a Party," when Flapjack attends a birthday party for a "Kelly." When he asks where she is, [[GenderBlenderName a boy named Kelly]] who is rather obviously voiced by a woman steps out from the crowd, offended, and tells Flapjack [[ContinuityNod "You're the one who looks like a girl!"]]
70** The episode "Something's a Miss" is dedicated to this concept.
71** The Dock Hag is voiced by Creator/DaranNorris.
72** In UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}, Bubbie is voiced by a man named Creator/AndreaZalone. [[GenderBlenderName Andrea is a male name in Italian]].
73* CryingWolf: In "Liar, Liar, You For Hire?" K'nuckles claims to know where Candied Island is. At the end of the episode, he really does see Candied island but no one will believe him.
74* CuteCreatureCreepyMouth: One episode has a cat that looks fairly normal... until [[GrossUpCloseUp the camera closes in]] to show that the cat has, among [[BlackEyesOfEvil other things]], a LampreyMouth with needle-like teeth.
75* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Have you ever had to make a decision that would decisively decide every decision that you would ever decide?"
76* DependingOnTheArtist: So often you can tell who storyboarded the episode by style alone. [[http://www.toonzone.net/2009/06/different-styles-in-the-marvelous-misadventures-of-flapjack/ Some examples here]].
77* DerangedAnimation: The visually deranged imagery of deformed faces, weird creatures and surreal situations is one thing, but the deranged behavior of the characters and the script in particular are deranged on another level alltogether.
78* DisproportionateRetribution:
79-->Oh, tryin' to be friends, but people are jerks,\
80So I'm gonna put some fleas on you\
81[[InnocentInaccurate And the fleas'll have the plague, and they'll make you cough a lot,]]\
82[[InnocentInaccurate And then you'll be too sick to hurt my feelings anymore.]]
83** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXlnNhADSak In context]]
84** "Under the Sea Monster" shows that the community of Stormalong punishes falsely ringing the alarm bell for sea monsters (even if it was by mistake) by removing the perpetrator's hands that rang it, his mouth that uttered it and his tongue for saying it and they are then banished for life in which case it means being catapulted into the ocean with a giant straw in their mouth.
85* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: K'nuckles acquires one (along with a top hat) when he becomes Mayor of Stormalong in "Mayor May Not." He doesn't really look the part, even when he dresses the part.
86* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
87** Every one of Bubbie and K'nuckles' arguments sound suspiciously LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. Then there's the obsession with 'candy', and especially K'nuckles stash of [[QuickNip Maple Syrup]], which adds a whole new layer to their relationship.
88** Bubbie and K'nuckles' LikeAnOldMarriedCouple relationship is really, ''really'' played up in "Come Home, Cap'n." Lampshaded by Thomas Hatch during his song, when while pretending to be Flapjack, he calls them a husband and a wife. Cue Capt'n's and Bubbie's hilarious 'wut' faces.
89** The entirety of "K'nuckles and his Hilarious Problem" and his candy addiction. When you get to the point where you have scenes of K'nuckles chugging a bottle of maple syrup, stumbling, slurring, and finally falling down the stairs, they're not even trying to be subtle anymore.
90** Lady Nickelbottom has an enormous "beauty" mark on the top of her head, which, in her conversation with Flapjack (who was standing in for Doctor Barber), is implied to be a tumor [[BlackComedy that is possibly malignant]].
91** K'nuckles' termites in "What's Eatin' Ya Cap'm?"
92** The whole "get foreigners oil" thing.
93** The very literal cathouse, where sailors go to spend time with the cats.
94* DoubleEntendre: There are a few of these.
95** One of the larger ones was when, after being chased by a barber they thought was trying to kill them, K'nuckles says "Whew! I thought you were going to kill us! Now... do you have anywhere I can ''swab my poop deck?''"
96** Dr. Barber and sweepers: "Oh no he did nooooooooot!"
97** The Character Eight Armed Willy wears an eyepatch, so an alternate nickname for him is One Eyed Willy.
98** After Flapjack states that Bubbie could beat any ship in a race, a sailor says "That whale couldn't beat my legless mermaid!"
99* DramaticWind: The Real Adventurer's hair, which flows even inside Bubbie's mouth. [[spoiler:It only stops flowing when Flapjack rejects him.]]
100%%* DrowningMySorrows: K'nuckles occasionally, though it is maple syrup.
101%%* DrunkOnMilk: K'nuckles and maple syrup.
102* DudeLooksLikeALady: In one episode several people mistake Flapjack for a girl, with one man asking if Flapjack would ''marry his son'' because he believed he had a [[CrossDressingVoices girl's voice]].
103* EatTheEvidence: In "Candy Colleague," Flapjack disposes of the eponymous colleague by eating him while Doctor Barber is out of the room.
104* EdibleAmmunition: Peppermint Larry's caramel cannon.
105* EvenEvilHasStandards: Most of the time is K'nuckles who inspires this reaction most often from other not so innocent characters. One example is in his bullying of Candy Wife. Lolly Poopdeck, the military-like Captain and the Bald Pirate laughed while he threw drinks from her hand and slapped her with her face, but when he covered her with pickle juice he was alone in his laughing as the rest were like take it easy, too far dude.
106** And another more oscillating reaction occurred when K'nuckles got beaten up by the three bullying sailors Satch, Patch and Hatch. Most of the witnesses like the angry Captain and the Pirates thought it disgusting given how much of a pushover K'nuckles is. Then again they didn't have a problem with making fun of that pushover when it appeared that he got beaten up by Flapjack. When an angry K'nuckles threw down Flapjack and landed on him to prove that he could at least beat up a kid the enraged patrons kicked him out as they despise people beating up on kids.
107** Another time while a mother was screaming for her baby who was floating in shark-infested waters, a crowd of many of Stormalong's miscreants were watching stupefied while he chose instead to mock her and make some fart jokes. One of the pirates even asked him earnestly
108--->''K'nuckles, what's wrong with you?''
109* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[spoiler:Tee Hee Tummy Tums]]. He's so beautiful that a crowd of men form around him and throw money at him just to see his face.
110-->''"PLEASE!! Lemme see yo' face!"''
111* EldritchLocation: The area of the ocean that lies West of Stormalong, which is said to lead to the edge of the world. Just uttering the word "West" there summons sea monsters, and while the horrifying visions Knuckles and Flapjack have are brought on by drinking sea water, there seems to be ''something'' abnormal with the area.
112* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Evil Inventor's twin brother's "Grand Flying Contraption" (it even says so in the blueprints) from "20,000 Leagues Above the Sea"
113* EyeCam: In "Something's A Miss", we see from Flapjack's POV as he is blinking and recovering after his voice-change surgery.
114* FakeUltimateHero: Captain K'nuckles
115* FakedGiftAcceptance: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the episode "Bubbie's Tummy Ache". When Flapjack journeys to Bubbie's stomach to find out the cause of her pain, he notices that Bubbie didn't swallow the breakfast he prepared for her some time ago, which she supposedly had eaten. Bubbie admits Flapjack is a terrible cook.
116* FallingInLoveMontage: Doctor Barber and Candy Colleague get one in "Candy Colleague."
117* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In No Syrup For Old Flapjacks a stack of rotting pancakes gains sentience and proceeds to knock out King Hotcakes hard enough to ''break his neck'', and according to Flapjack is now the new ruler of Maple Syrup Island. Yes, this is one screwed up show.
118* FanDisservice: Multiple occasions. Special mention goes to K'nuckles kissing the Dock Hag's [[GrossUpCloseUp foot]].
119%%* TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles
120%%* FatIdiot: Dr. Barber and Lolly Poopdeck.
121%%* FemaleMonsterSurprise: Cammie.
122%%* ForbiddenFruit: "Mind the store, [[ShmuckBait don't look in the drawer]]."
123* FormFittingWardrobe: Flapjack's pants fit like a skin on a grape.
124* ForScience: Doctor Barber regularly performs surgery for no reason. This surgery could be necessary, dangerous and almost always turns out bad.
125* FriendOrIdolDecision: A variation. In "Flapjack Goes To Party," he must choose between hiding his true identity and shunning his "family" to win the approval of his peers or admit that he is that "weirdo Flapjack" and forever be an outcast.. .he chooses option B obviously.
126%%* TheFullNameAdventures
127* GainaxEnding:
128** [[spoiler: Instead of finally ending the show with the three making it to Candied Island, they get turned into RealLife people instead.]] Huh?
129** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9SI1lZUG_o An unofficial episode where Flapjack and co reach Candied Island (made by a five year old no less) does exist however.]]
130* GettingHotInHere: Flapjack and K'nuckles climb a mountain and assume it's going to be hot at the top because it's closer to the sun, so they do this. Of course, they were wrong about the top of the mountain being hot....
131* GiantEnemyCrab: There is one at the beginning of episode "My Guardian Angel."
132* GiantMedicalSyringe: The show features this in the episode "K'nuckles is a Filthy Rat." Said episode has Flapjack adopt a flea-ridden rat and name it after Captain K'nuckles. The fleas eventually infect everyone with the Bubonic Plague. Heartbroken, Flapjack agrees to take the rat to Plague Island at Bubbie's request and after releasing it is told that as he's the only healthy person left, the doctor needs his blood to make an antidote for the plague. [[WideEyedIdealist Flapjack]] remarks that it's nice to be needed and maintains a happy disposition even after seeing the doctor holding a needle several times his size.
133-->'''Doctor:''' Don't you mean nice to be ''[[{{Pun}} needled?]]''
134%%* GrotesqueGallery: Virtually everyone that isn't the three main leads are this.
135* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: During the episodes where Bubbie isn't involved with the main plot, we’re left with the gleeful adventure seeking Flapjack and grumpy, lazy {{Jerkass}} K'nuckles.
136* GRatedDrug: The show makes more sense when you replace candy with alcohol. Hell, with they way they use it, the candy probably is a symbol for weed/anything that gets you high. That leaves Candy Island to be a very special place.
137* GrossoutShow: Probably rivals ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Cannabis does accurately represent the effects of candy on K'nuckles and Flapjack.
138* GrossUpCloseUp: Oh so much. So so so ''SOOOO MUCH!'' In fact, this show contains extensive amounts of [[ExtremeCloseUp extremely gratuitous]] [[GrossUpCloseUp gross-up close-ups]], that it makes the likes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' looks like Franchise/CareBears by comparison at times.
139* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Played around very strangely in "Sea Legs" where a giant leaves his bottom half behind temporarily.
140* HellIsThatNoise: Not is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuPQHxA0TVI the cat with the]] NightmareFace terrifying to look at, but it emits an equally chilling sound. ''"Eeeeerrrrggg..."''
141* HereBeDragons: West is portrayed as this.
142* HeroicComedicSociopath: Doctor Barber is usually on the side of Flapjack and K'nuckles, and often helps them. This doesn't mean that he is above performing grotesque experiments or generally being creepy, however.
143--> "Goods news sir, you got the plague..."
144* HistoricalInJoke: In one episode Flapjack and K'nuckles fall prey to a bar with trapdoors in the floor, through which over-candied sailors would be spirited away and enslaved. Anyone familiar with the local lore of Portland, Oregon will recognize the Shanghai Tunnels in this episode; in fact, the only real difference is that in real life they used alcohol (also, more people insist that with the Shanghai Tunnels, it really happened).
145* HoldingTheFloor: In "Shave and a Haircut and Two Friends" after the barber steals Flapjack's and K'nuckles' map to Candied Island, Bubbie distracts him and his sailors by pretending to be in need of a haircut. It works, and Flapjack and K'nuckles board their ship and take the map, only to be caught by the barber.
146* HourglassPlot: In "Foot Burn", K'nuckles remembers the first time he rode on the trolley, and met a girl whom he later pushed into the sea to get eaten by a squid. This girl turns out to be the current trolley conductor, whom K'nuckles has insulted several times. At the end of the episode, the woman pushes K'nuckles into the sea to get eaten by a squid.
147* HumanPopsicle: This happens when Flapjack and K'nuckles go hiking in the mountains.
148* HurricaneOfPuns:
149** An episode with the "Stormalong Harbor Pun-off" consisted of a huge string of these.
150** When K'nuckles and Flapjack had to can fish as part of community service, Flapjack said: "Yes we CAN! It'll be just like shooting fish in CAN! Nice work if you CAN get it. So CAN it, you loose CAN-non!"
151** If you were a treasure chest, you would LIE at the bottom of the ocean! You would LIE in a ''LIE''GHTHOUSE full of ''LIE''ONS and ''LIE''MA BEANS!
152** "You think you're RED-y for my rhymes? You'll soon be GREEN as envious limes! I see you're not YELLOW, fellow, ''but I don't want to make you BLUE, SO GET A CLUE, AND '''PUR-PULL THE PLUG BEFORE YOU PLAY, OR I'LL OR-RANGE A RAINBOW ON YOUR PARADE!'''''
153* TheHyena: Flapjack.
154* HypocriticalHumor: Bubbie, frequently. She'll give K'nuckles no end of grief for not being a good role model and later she does EXACTLY what she berated K'Nuckles for. Flapjack calls her on it frequently, too.
155* ILied: K'nuckles says on mutltiple occasions (although he's not [[TemporarilyAVillain always]] [[IncidentalVillain a villain]]).
156* IdiotHero: Flapjack himself.
157* ImpossibleTask: In the episode "Willy," Flapjack bets a man that he can capture Eight Armed Willy or [[ThePromise he will never say]] [[CatchPhrase "adventure"]] again. Willy has the reputation of killing everybody he meets, so it seems that Flapjack is [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption doomed]]. [[spoiler: Being the main character, Flapjack of course [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu succeeds]], with the help of K'nuckles and the Stormalong Writer's Guild.]]
158* InnocentInaccurate: A particularly odd case; a plague rat drastically oversimplifies the effects of the plague... possibly because its brain is too small to fully comprehend them.
159* InsaneTrollLogic: K'nuckles mind seems to function on a mixture of this and KnowNothingKnowItAll.
160* InTheStyleOf: Arguably, Music/TomWaits.
161* ITakeOffenceToThatLastOne: Peppermint Larry refuses to extend credit to Flapjack and Cap'n K'nuckles because "Everybody knows you don't have any money!" K'nuckles indignantly replies "Stop lyin'! Not ''everyone'' knows that."
162* ItTastesLikeFeet: "This candy tastes like horse poop, Cap'n!"
163* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In "Fastest Man Alive," Flapjack and K'nuckles go to the under-sea inventor seeking help in escaping the constable on the bicycle. Flapjack proposes a bicycle with three wheels called a "tricycle," and the inventor proposes methods of transportation he invented that never became popular, such as the "automobile," the "heliocopter" (helicopter), and the "rocket." K'nuckles rejects all of these ideas.
164%%* JerkAss: K'nuckles and a few other Stormalong residents, DependingOnTheWriter.
165%%* {{Keet}}: Flapjack.
166%%* KidsAreCruel: "Flapjack Goes to a Party"
167%%* KnowNothingKnowItAll: K'nuckles.
168* LargeHam: Lord Nickelbottoms, both when he behaves authoritatively and expects everyone to follow the etiquette and even more when he shows his slovenly adventurous side.
169* {{Leitmotif}}: Whenever the Real Adventurer spoke.
170* LetsMeetTheMeat: "No Syrup For Old Flapjacks."
171** In "Careful What You Fish For," K'nuckles and Flapjack catch a fish which they attmpt to eat. the fish begs for its life claiming, amongst other things, that it has a girlfriend
172* LiteralMinded: When Captain K'nuckles is standing in line to register a boat and, after drinking an excessive amount of water, needs to go to the bathroom. He asks the Banker in front of him to hold his spot while he goes to the bathroom. The man cuts a hole in the ground and holds it.
173* LostHimInACardGame: Subverted. K'nuckles bets Flapjack in a card game, but actually wins. But still, Flapjack is insulted enough that he leaves to become a banker.
174-->'''K'nuckles:''' "What d'ya got?"\
175'''Player:''' '''"Pair of TWOS!!!"'''\
176'''K'nuckles:''' (shows hand) "Pair of threes."\
177(Player runs off crying)
178** Subverted again (but in another sense played straight), in that K'nuckles win's somebody ''else's'' kid sidekick in that card game
179* LoveTriangle: It's implied at the end of ''Lovebugs'' that [[spoiler:K'nuckles]] ''may'' have a thing for [[spoiler:Candy Wife]]. [[spoiler:It gets [[ContinuityNod payoff]] in ''Candy Cassanova'', when K'nuckles runs away with Candy Wife so he can marry her.]]
180* LyricalDissonance: The upbeat, albeit gravelly-voiced "Plague Song"
181* MadDoctor: Take a guess. Here's a hint: he provides the page quote.
182* MadnessMantra: In "Fastest Man Alive," K'nuckles goes crazy after being constantly arrested by a constable on a bicycle. He curls up in a ball, impersonating the bike's bell: going "Ching. Ching. Ching."
183* MamaBear: Well, more like a Mama Whale, but still ...
184* MediumBlending: From the start! This is in the opening credits.
185* MistakenForPregnant: Happens to K'nuckles a few times in "Who's That Man in the Mirror?", oddly.
186* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Barber is far too obsessed with performing [[MedicalHorror strange surgeries]] on people.
187* MushroomSamba: Drinking sea water sends Flapjack and K'nuckles down a trippy hallucination in the episode "How the West Was Fun."
188* MyBelovedSmother: Dr. Barber and his mom who lives in his drawer.
189%%* MusicalEpisode: "All Hands on Deck"
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193* NerfArm: One weapon is a giant nerf pointing hand, with which one pokes people. In one fight, the "hand" was pulled off of its handle, only to reveal an actual sword. Despite this, the party holding the sword declared himself to be defenseless and jumped off the whale/ship.
194* NeverSayDie: "I'd rather not live!"
195** But more importantly, the show seems to consciously avoid using the word "slave." And this is significant, since Flapjack and K'nuckles are forced into slavery on at least three different occasions.
196* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The main characters consist of [[AllLovingHero Flapjack]] (nice), [[LazyBum Capt]][[TheCynic ain]] [[BadLiar K'nuckles]] (mean) and {{Gentle Giant}}/{{Mama Bear}}/occasional {{Hypocrite}} Bubbie (in-between).
197* NightmareFetishist: Doctor Barber.
198* NightmareFace: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuPQHxA0TVI THAT DAMN CAT.]]
199** It has BlackEyesOfEvil and a mouth full of sharp teeth. If you feel brave enough to see a picture of it, go over to [[NightmareFuel/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack this show's Nightmare Fuel page]]. Again, [[SchmuckBait you]] [[ContentWarnings have]] [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned been warned]].
200* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Doctor Barber, again.
201--> ''''' "Suuuuuuuurgery."'''''
202* NoCartoonFish: Some of the time averted some of the time played straight like in one episode featuring ''live action'' fish.
203* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Inventor is a parody of James Mason, keeping with his debut episode being a ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' parody. Jeff Bennett even does a pretty good impression.
204* NotSoSafeHarbor: Stormalong Harbor.
205* OceanOfAdventure: Flapjack and his friend Captain K'nuckles often sail the waters surrounding their home of Stormalong Harbor in search of the mythical Candied Island. While they never find it, they do run across all manner of strange islands and bizarre characters.
206%%* OlderSidekick: K'nuckles is an old man.
207* OlderThanTheyLook: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHyU0craHKg "GROW UP? I'M THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD!"]] (Cue GrossUpCloseUp)
208* OpeningShoutOut: In "Two Old Men and A Lock Box," when Richard and Michard start to explain how they came to be in their current predicament. We're treated to a new version of the opening credits and theme song that identifies Richard and Michard as the K'nuckles and Flapjack of their generation.
209%%* OrphanageOfFear: Flapjack gets sent to one in "Oh, You Animal".
210* OurMonstersAreWeird: The Skymaids and those horrible fish/hair monsters count as two of many examples
211* OurMermaidsAreDifferent
212-->'''K'nuckles''': ...Mermaids are weird.
213* OverlyLongGag: Lolly Poopdeck's painfully drawn out delivery of a punchline (which is his own name!) in "Day Without Laughter."
214* ParentalBonus: "Where'd you get the mud?"
215%%* ParentalAbandonment
216%%* {{Pirate}}
217%%* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything
218%%* ThePlague: Played for laughs.
219* PlayingATree: In the Low Tides day pageant, a boy plays the tide. He sits down when asked to lower.
220* ThePowerOfLove: It gives Flapjack the power to play billiards perfectly. When playing against Peppermint Larry, Flapjack actually causes every single pool ball ''to fly straight up through the ceiling'' and '''''orbit around the moon in a figure eight''''' before falling back down into the pool table holes. '''''IN ONE SHOT.''''' To make the whole scene complete; ''there's even a '''Carmina Burana'''-like chorus playing as the BGM''.
221* PrehensileHair: The fish head and hair monsters made by Dr Barber in "Fish Heads."
222* PunBasedTitle: Almost every single episode.
223* PungeonMaster:
224** They devoted an entire episode for this, and it's pretty much the only reason for stand-up comedian Punsy [=McHale=]'s existence. He doesn't take it well when he is on the receiving end of some punny put-downs or when people stop finding him funny, but to his credit he genuinely values them so much that he bonds with [[spoiler: his ex-rival Peppermint Larry]] because he is the only one who appreciates them as much.
225** Ropes Pierre, but the only kind of puns he makes are [[IncrediblyLamePun bad ones]] about ropes. [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny He's "knot" funny.]]
226** Flapjack himself will do this on occasion, usually to end an episode.
227%%* PuppyLove: Flapjack and Sally Syrup.
228%%* QuickNip: Captain K'nuckles' [[GRatedDrug maple syrup]]
229* QuirkyDoctor: Dr. Barber is, as his name implies, a part-time doctor and a part-time barber. Once he stole a map from K'nuckles and Flapjack to get to Candied Island. He lives with his mother and stands around on the docks all day, soliciting potential customers for either of his occupations, and as such he is very unnerving to the citizens of Stormalong Harbor. He has a mysterious creature in his basement to whom he feeds hair to.
230* RaisedByWolves: Flapjack was raised by Bubbie, an intelligent, talking whale, who loves him dearly. Bubbie is kinder, smarter, and more moral than basically every human on the show. And yet she thinks that [[NotSoSafeHarbor Stormalong Harbor]] is a safer place for Flapjack to live than Candied Island -- the rationalization being that it's better to live in a stable populated place than risk life and limb to find Candied Island, even if the stable place ''is'' Stormalong.
231* RapidHairGrowth: Brings an episode with a {{snake oil salesman}} (it is eel in universe) that sells one of these.
232* RealDreamsAreWeirder:
233-->'''Skymaid''': "Keep wishing, and all your dreams will come true!"\
234'''Flapjack''': "Even the scary ones?"\
235'''Skymaid''': "Ahahahahahahahahahahaha... '''YES.'''"
236* RightBehindMe: Happens when K'nuckles is mocking Worthington in "Who's Moochin' Who?"
237* RunningGag: Every time a man is about to tell he flashback, he announces it by saying "Back when I was handsome..." Even if they looked exactly the same back then.
238* SamusIsAGirl:
239** Cammie the ogre, who is voiced by [[ScaryBlackMan Kevin Michael]] [[CrossdressingVoices Richardson.]] Though she does have [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics a bow]]...
240** In the episode where Flapjack is confused as a girl, he meets a huge, ugly buff man with a ''girly'' voice. But the "guy" turns out to be a woman whose wig keeps falling off.
241* SassyBlackWoman: Bubbie's voice invokes this.
242* SchmuckBait: Pretty much the entire plot of "Mind the Store, Don't Look in the Drawer."
243* TheScottishTrope:
244** Saying the word "west" tends to summon very weird and eldritch creepies.
245** "French fry? You want french fry?"
246* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Tee Hee Tummy Tumms.
247* SeriesGoal: Flapjack and K'nuckles' goal throughout the series is to find Candied Island. While they finally find the island, they never ''physically'' step on it, but Flapjack tastes it by spitting and sucking his spit back up.
248* SeriousBusiness: Shopping for fancy pants.
249* SharkPool: Captain Johnny has one on board his ship in "Liar, Liar, You For Hire?" However, the shark is really [[spoiler:cardboard]].
250* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: [[CelibateHero "I don't love women,]] not men, not anything!" Which isn't entirely true...
251* ShoutOut:
252** The episode "Whale Times" makes reference to the Cartoon Network programming block the series aired on in the United States at the time.
253-->'''Flapjack:''' Bubbie sure knocked him down to size!\
254'''K'nuckles:''' Har! Har! Tharsday!
255** The intro song contains a couple modified lines from the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountain." The ongoing search for Candied Island could even be a WholePlotReference to the song.
256** A Platform/VirtualBoy vibe from that sequence in "How The West Was Fun"?
257** Candied Island was based on a Dairy Queen ad Thourp van Orman used to see a lot as a child. He claims he was always more interested in exploring a world made of candy than he was eating it.
258* ShowSomeLeg: The entirety of the episode "Sea Legs," albeit [[FanDisservice giant, green, horrid legs in short shorts.]]
259* SimpletonVoice: Peppermint Larry, courtesy of [[WesternAnimation/ChalkZone Jeff]] [[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Bennett]].
260* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Very cynical for a kids show. The series takes place in a CrapsackWorld with ugly, deformed JerkAss characters. The only amounts of idealism from this series comes from the naive optimism of the main character.
261* SoBeautifulItsACurse: A male example. Well it is a curse if the mere sight of this beauty reduces people into drooling idiots who just can't get enough of it and will give anything just for one more chance to look at it. And well when the source of it wishes to be appreciated for the quality of his merchandise instead.
262* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The K in K'nuckles is pronounced.
263* SpiritualSuccessor: [[WebVideo/FamiliarFaces Chad Rucco]] makes a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHaehH1KxE strangely persuasive case]] in an AprilFoolsDay video that the series could be considered an AnimatedAdaptation of the 1994 Chris Elliot vehicle ''Cabin Boy.''
264* StatusQuoIsGod: Despite their efforts at adventuring, the duo never quite set foot on Candied Island. They've certainly seen it, but lack any evidence to support their claims. The episode "Over the Moon" had Flapjack and Captain K'Nuckles see and nearly touch Candied Island...but since it wasn't the Grand Finale, the moon's gravitational pull grabbed them back and they were forced to watch the sugar-coated island float off into the distance. At least Flapjack was able to taste it...
265* StealthPun: Miss Leading. Say it out loud.
266* StockScream / ScreamingAtSquick: A deep scream is heard whenever a GrossUpCloseUp occurs.
267* StylisticSuck: Most of the original songs are sung off-tempo and off-key, with awkward lyrics. The general consensus is that they are ''awesome.''
268* SuperCop: Parodied/deconstructed with the constable who invented the bicycle, which allowed him to easily pursue and capture criminals, in "Fastest Man Alive." He ended up only chasing and arresting Flapjack and K'nuckles, which he did at every opportunity, even when they weren't doing anything wrong, making their lives miserable and becoming the not-so heroic HeroAntagonist for that episode.
269* TakeThat: The episode "Panfake" was a poke at a Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation series that was being made at the exact same time. The show, which Cartoon Network successfully got Disney to scrap, shared the same premise and character dynamics as ''Flapjack''. The name of said cartoon? [[http://milesthompsonportfolio.blogspot.com/2012/12/poopdeck-walt-disney-animation-2008.html Poopdeck]].
270* TakingOverTheTown: The pirates do this to Stormalong in "100 Percensus." And rely one-hundred and percent on their numbers.
271* TelegraphGagSTOP: Done by Lolly Poopdeck in "Who's Moochin' Who?"
272* ThatCameOutWrong: In "Oh, You Animal," Bubbie attempts to explain about her and Flapjack:
273-->"He doesn't live ''with'' me. He lives ''inside'' me. (pause) My mouth. He lives inside my mouth. (pause) That sounds weirder than it is."
274* ThatLiarLies: You LIED! If you were a treasure chest, you would LIE at the bottom of the ocean! You would LIE in a ''LIE''GHTHOUSE full of ''LIE''ONS and ''LIE''MA BEANS!
275** "Boy, that guy sure sounds like a really big liar."
276* ThirdPersonPerson: Cammie hate sardines! And Cammie hate saying Cammie all the time! [[TheWoobie But, if Cammie didn't say Cammie, then no one will say Cammie.]]
277* TickleTorture: In "These Boots were Made for Walking (On Your Face)" the gang searching for K'nuckles kidnap Flapjack and attempt to force him to tell them were Kn'uckles is by tickling him.
278* ToiletTeleportation: In "Liar, Liar, You For Hire?", Flapjack escapes from Captain Johnny's ship by flushing himself down the toilet (which, for some reason, is connected to Stormalong's sewer system).
279* TooDumbToLive: Very nearly literally true with K'Nuckles when he eats the last remaining fruit in Stormalong Harbor, and an angry, scurvy-induced mob threatens to carve him up to retrieve the fruit. And more than half of the series plots wouldn't have been kicked off if it wasn't for K'nuckles almost uncanny ability to lack higher mental functions.
280* TookALevelInJerkass: Sally Syrup seems to be acting harsher and more abrasively than in her initial appearance though it may just had been her limited screen-time and role in the first season. Along with the fact that she was frustrated and bored in Stormalong.
281* {{Tuckerization}}: Punsy [=McHale=] is named after show animator Patrick [=McHale=]. Unlike most Tuckerizations [[NightmareFuel this is more of a disservice]].
282* TravelingLandmass: Candied Island.
283* TrueMeaningOfChristmas: Subverted in "Low Tidings" -- K'Nuckles learns the "better to give than to receive" Aesop...but it's made moot when [[spoiler:Poseidon states that everyone can get gifts now, no matter whether they've been good or bad. You know, just like in RealLife.]]
284* VerbalTic: Doctor Barber... Hmmm?... Yes?
285* VillainyFreeVillain: The early episode "That's a Wrap" had Peppermint Larry rewarding Flapjack and Knuckles handsomely for bringing him candy wraps.[[spoiler: It turns out that somehow those wraps were part of a map that would give away the location of Candied Island. Which of course he didn't tell them. But apart from being rude about it and calling them idiots behind their backs, he didn't really do anything wrong or go back on his deal with them.]] Unlike Knuckles who cheated Flapjack out of his share and stole from him the last piece.
286* WalkThePlank: In "Liar, Liar, You For Hire?", Captain Johnny makes K'nuckles walk the plank into a [[spoiler: cardboard cutout]] SharkPool despite having the sea nearby. And all around them.
287* WeirdMoon: There was an entire EPISODE that centered around this trope. A weird human-faced, talking, extremely gullible moon.
288* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The location of Stormalong harbor is never established though in the episode "No Syrup for Old Flapjack" an obnoxious German man is mentioned suggesting that the series takes place in the real world in relation to where that guy was from.
289* WholePlotReference: ''The Highlandlubber'' is an extended parody/deconstruction of ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', presenting it's Ramirez expy as [[spoiler:an escapee from Stormalong's Insane Asylum thinking he's immortal and jumping into a volcano to prove it]]
290* WideEyedIdealist: Flapjack, of course. Bubbie interestingly enough, plays WomenAreWiser completely straight compared to Knuckles, while being less than accurate in her optimistic opinion of Stormalong Harbor.
291* WouldntHitAGirl: In "Sally Syrup Returns" Sally tries to beat a pirate in a fight by acting helpless and saying "You wouldn't hit a girl, would ya?" but after he backs down and she starts kicking his butt, he grabs her and holds her at arm's length. [[DudeLooksLikeALady Flapjack]] tries the same trick on a different pirate, but it turns out to be a woman and she kicks his butt.
292* WriteWhoYouKnow: InUniverse; when Peppermint Larry starts putting on puppet shows, they revolve around "Pancake" and "Captain K'neecaps" and how lame they are.
293* YouMeanXmas: Low Tides Day. The episode was titled "[[PunBasedTitle Low Tidings]]." Remember "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen"? The end of the episode has the holiday changed significantly to more resemble Christmas... sort of.
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