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  • Wei-Chen's first attempt at using the staff.
  • Guanyin is a millennia-old goddess who's helped thousands and saved lives. So why is she struggling with an IKEA coffee table?!
  • Wei-Chen defeats Pigsy by distracting him with food.
  • Wei-Chen using his father's legendary magic staff to help Jin TP a statue.
  • The cheesy 1970's-style intro to Sun Wukong's flashback.
  • Guanyin turning into a hoarder and refusing to throw out old soy sauce packets.
  • Lady Rocky gets a customer to pay $100,000 for a pair of earrings by claiming they're ancient Chinese jewelry. Then she opens a drawer and reveals she has several identical pairs.
  • Simon and Christine try to get revenge on a rude restaurant manager.
  • Anuj looks through several pop-culture versions of the Bull Demon and Wei-Chen comments on their accuracy. One version has chainsaws for hands.
  • Bull Demon is a shapeshifter hiding in the crowd at the soccer match so the heroes draw him out by putting on a play that mocks him as a petty, pathetic, try-hard poser. Bull Demon gets so angry he attacks them in the guise of Jin's middle-aged science teacher.
  • Everyone thinks Wei-Chen and Bull Demon's climactic battle is All Part of the Show even when they start flying.
  • The Sequel Hook where Princess Iron Fan shows up in Jin's house and threatens his parents. Unfortunately, she says it in Mandarin so Jin asks her to repeated it more slowly.

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