With its trippy, surreal, and vaguely menacing tone, Bugbo has lots of funny moments to offer.
"Under the Oak"
- Bugbo is talking to Gerbo when he suddenly cuts himself off mid-sentence because he is infuriated by the tree next to him.Bugbo: How are you today, Gerb- what's this. (camera zooms out to show the tree)
Gerbo: Oh, this? It's a... big tree, I think.
Bugbo: (sternly) I don't like it. I want it gone. Joe, cut it down. - After finding a hole beneath the tree, Bugbo plays a game of "What Would Gradient Joe Do?" with the audience. The third option is "Do nothing," which turns out to be right, as Gradient Joe just stands there. Bugbo's response is very passive aggressive.Bugbo: (quickly) Well, Joe, it's very unlike you to refuse to take initiative, but if that's the way you want to be, I can't stop you.
(Beat)
(Bugbo shoves Gradient Joe down the hole) - When Bugbo and friends enter the underground circus, Bugbo wasn't expecting the Hollow Clown, leading to this hilariously awkward moment:Bugbo: Even better, Gerbo. A whole, underground carnival, all to ourselves!
Hollow Clown: (interrupting Bugbo during the last word) Hello, you three.
Bugbo: Oh, I didn't- I didn't know you were here. Hello. - The Freeze-Frame Bonus in the circus where you can briefly see what looks like a nuke. With a clown face on it. It's never touched upon or explained, which leaves you to wonder why a circus of all places has a nuke.
- When Bugbo and friends first meet the mayor, the mayor tries to call security. Bugbo says "That won't work" in a rather menacingly calm tone. This is never really explained or elaborated on. Considering some of Bugbo's other actions, it's very likely that he killed the security guards before coming onstage.
- The scene where Bugbo kills the mayor in the middle of his speech.Mayor: Hey, you can't be here! I'm giving a speech!
Bugbo: (quickly) No you aren't.
(cut back to the mayor, who has suddenly become a lifeless skeleton)
"A Familiar Foe"
- When Gerbo and Gradient Joe enter Thomas Flyswatter's lair, he talks to them through a Big Mouth Billy Bass.
- Thomas Flyswatter sends a swarm of bees to attack Gerbo and Joe. But since they left the door open, the bees just fly right past them and go out the door.
- Thomas Flyswatter claims in his backstory that he accidentally fell onto the conveyer belt in the factory. The animation shows a person very clearly climbing onto the conveyer belt and lying down on it. He also claims that he couldn't get off the conveyer belt. There is a Big Red Button on the wall to stop the conveyer belt. Some accident.
- "I was crushed, melted, and spun around really fast!"
- The fact that Thomas Flyswatter blames Bugbo for his horrific transformation, even though there's no indication that Bugbo had anything to do with it.
- Gerbo comes up with a plan to save Bugbo. While he's beginning to relay his plan to Gradient Joe, Bugbo is using whatever black magic is hiding behind that cheeky grin to make him and Thomas Flyswatter swap places so that Thomas is in the deathtrap he set up for Bugbo.
