Corey's Once an EpisodeSpoof Aesops. Most of the time he takes a certain subject (usually related to the episode) and either turns it into incomprehensible ramblings or makes up something that sounds meaningful, which Laney lampshades they could have used for lyrics.
Kin and Kon's Rock Lore, which are all ridiculous parodies of Classical Mythology and absurd versions of music history.
Kin (reacting to a car driven by Kon crashing through the movie screen): Oooh, cool! 3-D!
When Kin tells Kon that drive-ins were popular long, long ago, Kon has the exact same imagination sequence again, except Kin is now a caveman, and instead of a car, a dinosaur crashes through the screen and eats him.
The Running Gag of Kin and Kon's future selves, as well as the payoff at the end.
This exchange:
Corey: What's the one thing Grojband never does? Laney: Give up? Kin: Surrender? Kon: Back down? Corey: No! Grojband never quits!
Trina telling Mina that "you're not in this episode", and the resulting Brick Joke when Mina tells her that she can't help because "I'm not in this episode".
All of Grojband's failed attempts to get Cherry Grapestain to notice them.
Corey: Dudes! We need to find Cherry Grapestain at the premiere tonight. The future of the band depends on it. Laney: You didn't know who she was two seconds ago. How could she be the future? Corey: Shhh... Lanes, this isn't the time for very good questions.
Dance of the Dead
The Evil Black Music and Cheese Boutique store clerk, and how ridiculously cheerful and positive she is.
Laney trying to return the amp to said clerk
Laney: We'd like to return one evil magic amp please. Clerk: Okay, just a few simple questions. Kin:Apparently no, it's not a costume.(Laney snarls at him) Clerk: Thanks, next question. Are you unhappy with the color of the amp? Laney: No. Clerk: Super! Did the amp fail to glow in the dark? Laney: No. It actually looks pretty cool. Clerk: Yay! Did zombies happen? Laney: That's the one. Clerk: Sorry, but our return policy doesn't cover re-animation of the dead. Laney: For serious? Is it too late to lie and say the color thing instead?
Laney's heart jumping out of her mouth and saying "That's it, I'm out of here." after Corey ends up crushing her hopes of confessing his feelings to her for the umpteenth time.
Trina being completely unaware of Nick Mallory's zombified state due to being too lovestruck to see reality.
Pox 'N Roll
Corey trying to play charades with electric oven mitts.
Offscreen Party Guest: "One word. Two words. Three? Four? Five? Six!?"
Laney getting shocked after giving herself a facepalm with said oven mitt.
Grojband attempting to play a game of hot potato using a microwaved potato... only to find the oven mitts take the urgency out of it.
This dialogue that occurs just before Mayor Mellow quarantines everyone in a giant bubble.
Corey: "No need to ruin the party mellow. Why do you always have to burst our bubble?" Laney: "Why did you emphasize "mellow" and "bubble" in a foreshadowy kind of way?" Corey: "Really? I thought it was more punny than foreshadowy."
Trina failing to get her kiss with Nick Mallory. Why? Because a random guy for absolutely no reason tells Nick to look at him, causing his lips to turn away from Trina's.
Nick Mallory making chickenpox bumps disappear from his skin by simply staring at them.
The episode starts off with Kin, Laney, and Kon being amazed by a record player.
Laney: So it spins... and music plays? Kin: Yup. It came before CDs. Kon: You mean coasters? Laney: And what came before records? Kin: Nothing. I think it was always just records.
After Kin and Kon narrowly escape Mayor Mellow sealing their escape tunnel with hot wax, Kon comments that he'd look more surprised about it if his eyebrows hadn't burned off in their escape.
The song "I'm Running from the Puppets". Especially the part where Kon screams "STRAIGHT INTO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-CK"
Laney's puppet of herself is a man puppet with a mustache and 5 o'clock shadow. Everyone treats it as totally normal.
Laney: D'oh! Forget it, I'll just grow a beard.
Kin and Kon gushing over how indistinguishable their puppets are from each other.
"AAAH! SCARY PUPPET!"
Corey says that they don't have lyrics for their upcoming puppet show, prompting Kin to remark, "That seems to be a recurring theme."
Corey's ridiculous excitement and enthusiasm for being in the studio audience for a preschooler show, which is made even funnier by how Laney, Kin, and Kon clearly feel extremely awkward about being there as well.
It then enters Crosses the Line Twice territory when the Bubble Bunch Band animatronics start getting destroyed. Corey's horrified reaction is hilariously contrasted with how excited Laney and Kin are by the chaos happening in front of them.
Trina refusing to give Mina her chocolate milk. When she tells Mina there is no chocolate milk left, she then takes out another box and drinks it in front of her with a menacing glare on her face.
Indie Road Rager
This quote:
Corey: (Looking at Kon's back) "Yep, those are back nipples."
In this episode, it's revealed that Kin gets the funding for his inventions from Laney, who pays him 2 dollars every day. When Laney pulls away her funding, the random stunt duck leaves in a huff, and when Laney agrees to start funding Kin's research again, the duck happily returns.
"I don't know any bee puns but I'm going to run Corey over with my car!"
BEES TASTE VERY STINGY!
Math of Kon
Wen Kin looks into Kon's brain through his eyes to find out why he's bad at math, he sees that the inside of his brain is filled with anthropomorphic numbers running around on fire.
Trina (as Trigonometrina) explains to Mina why she likes math.
Trina: What's even most great is how you can use it to make revenge formulas where all the variables are the things your enemies do that bug you, and you multiple them all togetherand x equals how much vengeance you dish out! Mina: ...uh, I also like two.
This ends up revealing Trina's fears that Nick Mallory might love Mina more than her, humiliating Trina in the process. An embarrassed Trina tries laughing this off but ends up being pissed off beyond belief.
Corey coming into the garage on a giant mower and screaming.
Earlier, Kin presents Laney and Kon with his new "memory-erasing mallet" (which is just an ordinary rubber mallet) that he claims will erase memories with a single wack, erm, "treatment". When Corey barges in on the mower, Laney tells Kin to "'treat' him twice".
"Come on Lanes, it's mowing down all of the corn for us. What mower do you want?" "That's a coin in the pun jar." "PUN JAR!!!"
The genies observing said wishing battle. Clearly, they don't know very much about Corey and Trina's relationship.
Cleat: This is worse than that time we gave wishes to that dog and cat. Bessie: They're family. They'll realize they love each other soon. (Gilligan Cut to Corey and Trina continuing their wishing battle with each other in space)
The Newmans get turned gigantic by one of Trina's wishes and use their size to mess around, with Lenny taking a giant hat-shaped sign and wearing it on his head. But when Corey begin to wish away his wishes, they are restored to normal size and get squashed flat by Lenny's hat.
Kin and Kon's Rock Lore story about how jug music was invented during a heat wave by two hillbillies who ran out of root beer.
Laney: And they toured around playing awesome jug tunes forever, right? Kon: No, they died of thirst. Kin: Didn't you see how wavy it was?
Mina asks Trina if she wants to go to the hoedown by showing her a video for it on her phone. The latter responds by throwing the former's phone out of the window, destroying the phone.
After that, Trina says to Mina that she hates country music so much it makes her teeth hurt. Then the sound of Grojband practicing jug music is heard, and Trina holds the side of her mouth and says "Ow".
Trina wishes away Grojband's musical talent. When Corey, Laney, and Kin try their instruments, they simply break. When Kon taps his drums, the drums catch fire. Cue him and Kin freaking out.
Corey: We just need to find another genie and wish up a fix. (grabs a jug and starts rubbing it) Laney: Core, finding another genie in the same pile of jugs should be- (a genie bursts out of Corey's jug) ...impossible? Corey: Finding one genie should have been impossible too. Roll with it, Lanes.
All You Need is Cake
When the kids are eating the giant cake, the subtitles translate all of their speech to "Om nom nom".
Another gem from Mina: "I wish I was 20% polyester".
Trina acting so melodramatic over a sweater to the point where she cries and goes into Diary Mode because of it.
One of Trina's photos from her times with her sweater Pinkredible is of her and Pinkredible in the car, with Pinkredible in the front passenger seat (complete with seatbelt) and a visible annoyed Mina being forced to sit in the back.
Laney burying Kin and Kon in sand, causing them to get attacked by a mob of crabs.
Corey's incredibly confused reaction to Laney declaring that Corey loves her.
Kin and Kon reminisce over photos of their memories with Grojband, including one of them reminiscing over photos of their memories with Grojband.
Kon:"We had so many happy times!" Kin: "It feels like just yesterday even though it was today!"
Helmet
While quite a number of the transitions are worth a chuckle, one of the best is this one:
Also this when the helmet reveals its evil scheme to destroy every flaw in Peaceville.
(Corey, Laney, and Kon all glare at Kin) Kin: Okay! Okay! I won't put an "evil" switch on the next helmet! Promise. Laney: And no escape rockets! Kon: Or laser eyes! Kin: FINE! I'll stick to hats!
"That helmet is a danger to your head!" "That's irony, right?"
Monster of Rock
The whole thing about El Chewpoocaca and the toilet, and kids saying "grrglft" as he kidnaps them.
The one kid who was looking happily at a photo of a toilet: "Aw yeah, now that's what I'm talking about."
Kon imagining the things he could do with superpowered burps, such as moving a boat, creating balloon animals, and being able to change the channel on the TV.
Laney's comment on Kin and Kon's El Chewpoocaca story. "That's just Hansel and Gretel with a monster... and a toilet."
"Finally! One of the monsters we believe in is real!" - Kin's first reaction to meeting El Chewpoocaca.
The montage of Grojband adopting the vegan lifestyle, with everyone but Corey (who is hypnotized by the plant) having a lot of trouble adjusting to it.
Laney complains to the hypnotized Corey about all the weird things the plant is making them do to become vegans.
Laney: This plant is ruining the band! None of this is us! Corey: I know it's a big change but being vegan means wearing leaves and never using soap for some reason. Laney: NO! Being vegan is just not eating or using any animal products! Corey: Laney! What is it with you and being right all the time?!
How Corey manages to lure the plant into a trap.
Corey: Hey, plant! Come in here for no good reason! Plant: No good reason? That's reason enough for me!
Creepaway Camp
During the band's performance of the song "Welcome to My Nightmare" (No, not the one by Alice Cooper), The Newmans' facial expressions turn into :O. Like this.
"Camp Screamley, eh? That sounds familiar, in a foreshadowy kind of way."
"That's why this place sounded familiar!" "In a foreshadowy kind of way!"
Laney's Cuteness Proximity reactions to Blade Stabbington's pet rat Biteface.
Blade Stabbington forgetting to turn off his Nightmare Face, freaking out Corey every single time.
After Mina mistakes a swamp gunk-covered Trina for a swamp monster, she apologizes to what appears to be a still swamp gunk-smothered Trina for it... only for the real Trina to appear right behind her, and the swamp gunk being a real swamp monster.
Zoohouse Rock
Kin stealing everyone's catchphrases.
"Stolen line Transition!"
The icing on the cake is at the end where he shoved Corey aside so that he could steal his line.
Kin: "Thanks for coming out everyone!" (closes garage door) "And Kin gets the hat trick!"
Nick Mallory believes that zoos are literally animal prisons, as in, the animals are felons.
Kin and Kon testing out Kin's new music-powered massage chair.
Laney asks Corey why he's wearing a bear costume.
Laney: What's with the outfit, Core? Corey: Remember yesterday when we were talking about outfits for the band? (pulls down a flashback) Flashback!Kin (who is wearing socks on his head and hands): What if we all wore hats and matched our socks?!
Kin: Nothing? Last time I combined Chuggers Cola and Blastymouth Candy, I lost three teeth. Laney: Too bad we can't reach that vending machine. (cut to a kid buying a crowbar from a vending machine that sells escape tools)
Smash Up Terby
Kin and Kon arguing over codenames.
Kin: This is Rock God to Music Man. Come in, Music Man. Kon: "Go" for Rock God. Kin: No, Kon, I'm Rock God, you're Music Man. Kon: Uh, negative. I am Rock God, over. Kin:NO, I—Forget it. Are you ready to initiate Plan B, over. Kon: Initiating Plan B— Kin & Kon: ROCK GOD, OVER!
Grojband completely botching their unity chant by all chanting different things at the same time.
Kon flirting with Trina.
Kon: So Trina, did I ever tell you that I am a volunteer fireman, in a video game that I am playing currently? Trina: Ew! It's talking at me! Mina: I think you're supposed to stop, drop, and roll or something? Trina: That's when you're drowning, duh.
Trina points a finger at Kon telling him there will be no farting while she's driving Grojband. Kon responds by cheekily pulling her pointing finger, causing her to fart. The smug expression on his face when he does this is what really sells it.
This:
Corey: Commence "Operation make Trina look dumb in front of Hunky Nick Mallory so she writes in her diary and we can steal her words and put them into wicked lyrics" is now in (takes an extremely deep breath) play! Laney: Catchy title.
Queen Bee
While Laney and Trina are trying to break a bee hive pinata blindfolded, Trina insults the band and a ticked off Laney literally goes ninja and easily slices her target. Trina tries to one-up her only to find out she hit everything EXCEPT her target. She even breaks Mayor Mellow's ribs in the process.
Mayor Mellow:(As he's disqualifying Trina) "... a Queen Bee you will NOT be!"
Laney's thought bubble after Corey told her that she never needs to wear a dress again. Don't get it? The thought bubble features a wedding cake.
Grojband botching their unity chant again. Which is then followed by a Wicked Cool Transition featuring a confused Kon surrounded by question marks while the singers shout "Whozza? Whatsa? What Now?"
"I really wanna be disgusted by this, but it's kinda fascinating."
Laney ranting about pageants.
Kin: Core, a gig is a gig, but a pageant is... Laney:(angry) Filthy! Dainty! Frilly! Fancy-pantsy! Clicky-shoesy! Creepy-smiley! RIDICULOUS! (calm)In short, I think they're strange.
Kon: Our little sweetie is blossoming like a... I don't know any flower names. Kin: I think I'm about to cry! Laney: You will cry if I get called a little sweetie again!
Dreamreaver
Kin and Kon's "booty scene".
Corey: Woah! Woah woah woah! Guys, I had zero preparation for that jelly. Kin: But it was bootylicious, right?
BUTT RAINBOWS
Kin and Kon's butt rainbow song.
We blast away on our stinky rays. Hey! Wow, This is cool! How do we land?
Corey asks the band to pool in all the money they've got with them. Everyone throws in their pocket crud, which totals up to a mere 5 cents. Kon then eats a gumball in the pile, reducing their money count to 0.
Kon (tucking in another Kon): Shhh, he's sleeping! (takes off on a butt rainbow) (cut to Corey with the most confused expression on his face)
Grojband prepares to make their music video.
Corey: Let's do it! Grojband powers, rocktivate! (Grojband make the horns symbol and put their hands in the air) Laney: Uhh, guys? We don't actually have any powers. (Everyone gets sad and lowers their hands) Corey: Buuut, we will in our video! Corey/Laney/Kin/Kon: Grojband powers, rocktivate!
CREEPY KIN TRANSITION
"Huh. Dead and lifeless. Looks like the inside of Trina's head to me."
Grojband's ping pong montage in the style of a Hong Kong martial arts movie, complete with Corey somehow managing to desync his lips from his speech.
Kin: We can do this [make a music video]. Just look at how sweet our ping pong montage was. Kon: Yeah, too bad no one caught that on camera. (The band stares at the camera)
Grojband prepares to enter Trina's mind.
Kin: There's only one thing we can do [to reawaken Trina]! Laney:Get her to a doctor? Kin & Kon: Connect our minds using science helmets and enter her dream! Corey: Whew! Glad there's a simple logical solution.
Kin explains to his bandmates that "no megaphone, bucket of water, or screaming monkey" can wake up Trina in her comatose state. Cut to Corey, Laney, and Kon respectively holding exactly what you think they are holding before sheepishly throwing them away.
Kin and Kon talking about buying souvenir spoons for their mother while in Trina's mind.
Kon: Yeah, a crazy spoon, because it will be all dreamy-ish. Like made out of sounds! Or maybe the spoons... are forks! Laney: I should really reconsider who I'm friends with.
Develops into a Brick Joke when Kin returns with a novelty spoon from the dream world that turns out to be a fork.
The show lampshading the forgotten plot point of 3-D Dave's TV sale, aka the whole reason Grojband made a music video in the first place.
Corey: "This video's already destroyed one world. It's better off buried. 3-D Dave will have other sales." Kin: "Who?"
Super Zeroes
Nick Mallory's little brother... Mick Mallory. Who talks just like his brother. And looks like a pint-sized version of him.
Trina being so determined to expose the Justice Band as frauds that she was willing to let herself fall to her death. She completely flips out and enters Diary Mode when Corey and co. end up saving her life.
Corey: Heroes don't need things to work out, Lanes. The joy is in doing the job and getting hurt and never having anybody thank you or know your name, and you can't put a value on that. Kin: I made $600 off of flashlight signals. Corey: A truly heroic sum.
All of Grojband's superhero deeds, which are just mundane acts blown out of proportion by Chance Happening, forcing the band to run all over town. They're completely exhausted from having to help people before the day is even over.
Trina comes up with a plan to thwart the Justice Band.
Trina: I need you to bake another cake and help me destroy Corey! Mina: That's going to be hard. Kids love superheroes. Trina: Hmm, so you're saying I should cause something super-dangerous just to prove they can't stop it and show these kids they're not heroes? Mina: ...No. Trina: That's perfect! I'll need your cat!
The plan itself and how pretty much everything goes wrong. Trina has to throw Mina and her cat Dr. Purrs into a tree; Laney has a delayed reaction to Corey ordering her to save them; and finally Mina and Dr. Purrs get flung into the sky, with the latter then landing on Trina and scratching up her face before Mina crashes on top of Trina too. After that, everyone present cheers at the unharmed cat, completely ignoring the battered teenage girls beside them.
In general, seeing Mina and Trina's Personality Swap caused by the Bonkerton Comet and how they act in this state, with the tables being completely turned on Trina.
Laney: Meh, Bonkerton Comet. Just because crazy stuff usually happens doesn't mean it will this time. Kin: Guys, how's this for crazy?! (Kon and Laney stare at him in confusion) Hm. (pulls out script) Sorry, that was Corey's line. Corey:(enters garage) Guys, how's this for crazy?!
Many of the weird happenings caused by the Bonkerton Comet's reality-warping flashes count.
Corey: What is that thing?! Kin: Smashius! He's the knight that the Four Squalls fought. We kind of imagined him. Laney: And it became real?! Kon: I don't think you understand how hard we were imagining. Mayor Mellow (running around in circles, panicking): Blame that comet! I know I do! And now Smashius will destroy us all! (another flash occurs and Mayor Mellow is suddenly lying in a hammock) Mayor Mellow: Man, this hammock sure is nice. Thanks, comet! (falls asleep)
"You order a sandwich with no pickles... BAM! Maybe the sandwich shows up with pickles on! Maybe you walk into a closet... And BAM! Tigers wash the pickles!"
Kin and Kon explain LARP to Corey and Laney.
Kon: It's like Halloween, but with costumes and pretending to be things! No candy, though. Kin: Unless you're a candy wizard.
Nick Mallory is unable to flee from Lord Smashius due to his knight armor immobilizing him. His reaction is to simply shrug it off as "the price of coolness".
This bit.
Lord Smashius: All shall be crushed! Kon: You think he'd say "smashed".
"I knew it! There's two guys inside of every horse!" - Kon on pantomime horses
"Great news, guys! It turns out we won't really be executed. However, we will have to play our dead bodies for the rest of the day."
Line of Credit
Grojband desperately trying hard to look "tough" and badass when in reality that's not really their thing. Extra points for Corey's attempted Badass Boast.
Corey: "Listen up everybody! We're Grojband, the toughest band on the streets of Peaceville! You think you're on the front page of the bad news? Ha! You're more like the flyer that falls out and you don't even notice and if you did, maybe you'd be all excited for like, a second, cause maybe there's a sale on bubblegum and unicorns, so you pick it up and realise it's only for lawn care, but you wouldn't know that cause you can't read yet and if you could, it still wouldn't matter because you don't even own a lawn!"
The song in the episode. Its pretty much a parody of Nu Metal... directed at delinquent preschoolers.
Kin complains that his sideways cap is making him dizzy, resulting in a Running Gag of him randomly losing his balance and falling on his side at inopportune times.
The whole subplot of Trina designing her own version of Peaceville and forcing Mina to build a scale model replica of it.
Mina: Wow! Three malls! Trina: One for me and Nick to go to. One for me to go to myself, for Trina time. And one for everyone else. But that one burned down. Mina: Is that a colosseum?! Trina: Nick's gotta fight tigers shirtless somewhere. Mina: Umm, this is pretty big. We might need actual cement. Trina: And steel! You want Nick to fight in an unreinforced tiger-dome! Also learn to weld.
Kin hiding inside of Kon by opening up his body like a garbage can and jumping in.
Corey wearing his pants low in his delinquent outfit. When Kin asks him how they haven't fallen down completely yet, Corey claims they're held up through pure toughness. He then attempts to walk to demonstrate, only to fall down because of how low he's wearing his pants.
"I'm sure they'll tire themselves out soon."
"I WOULDN'T COUNT ON IT!!!"
Hair Today, Kon Tomorrow
Kon's logic that restores him to his normal self after his Delusions of Doghood:
Kon: (after staring at his hands): "Dogs don't have fingers, I must be a drummer!"
"Good thing that dog wash was right next to the dog hair incinerator."
"Being a dog was great! Everyone scratches your tummy and the world is your bathroom!"
On the Air and Out to Sea
Nick Mallory forgives Corey for anything Corey does to him.
Corey: "Sorry, Nick!" (Corey pushes Nick off the plank.) Nick: "Nick assumes Corey has his reasons."
How the episode starts off.
Kin: Six Thousand Songs of Summer is set to download and will be done in... eleven minutes. Kon: Eleven minutes?! What are we?! Cavemen?! Kin: Our primitive ancestors probably would have experienced even longer download times. Kon: In the future, music will be able to float through the air, and we'll be able to catch it with a magic box! Kin: Yeah! It'll look like this! (takes out a makeshift radio) Kon: Wow! Kin: I call it a magic air music wave decoder!
Kin and Kon set up the radio dish for Corey's pirate radio station, with Laney supporting the bottom of their ladder.
Kin: Almost done. Don't let go! Kon: Go on let go? Kin: No! Don't let go! Kon: Phew! We almost had one of those misunderstandings where you say don't and then I do it. But I won't let go! Laney: What's that? Let go? Okay. (releases ladder) Kin & Kon: Aaaaahhh! (*CRASH*)
Corey explains in his Final Thoughts that one's friends never tune them out. It then zooms out to reveal Kin, Kon, and Laney chatting amongst each other and not paying attention in the slightest to Corey's monologue.
Ahead Of Our Own Tone
Kin goes back in time and brings back a lemon tree, only to discover he caused lemonade to never be invented. He shouts a Big "NO!" in response to this.
Leads to a Brick Joke when Kin stays behind in the past to reinvent lemonade.
Laney: So this is the future? Doesn't look like much has changed. Kin: Or hasn't it?... (pulls out a glass of lemonade and drinks it)
The fact that at the end of the episode, Grojband is unable to return to the past, leaving them all stuck 1 year in the future. Corey is not at all bothered by this, saying that it makes them a retro band now.
The start of the episode.
Kin: Guys, what comes to mind when I say "picking"? Kon: Butt? Corey: Nose? Laney: I'm going with nose. Kin: Feast your eyes on the ultimate picking... (Corey and Laney make sounds of revulsion while Kon looks excited)in junk sale finds!(Corey and Laney breathe sighs of relief while Kon looks disappointed)
"Guys, we should totally be ahead of our time too!" "By creating a new and innovative sound?" "Pfft, that's way too hard. We'll just go one year into the future and see what music's like, then come back to unleash the trend before anyone else!"
Grojband challenging Cyborg!Trina.
Trina: Impossible! You were gone FOREVER! Corey: Forever just ran out! Laney: Looks like the past is back to haunt you, Trina Kon: Your future is about to be history! Kin: Did everyone make a time travel joke already? Is there time for one more? Does that count as mine?
Kon's obsession with stroking Future!Kin's beard.
"And then came THE RECKONING!!!... And then came tea time. Then nap time. Then MORE RECKONING!!!!"
Love in a Nethervator
Mina stopping her own heartbeat under Trina's orders.
Kon pushing every single button on the Nethervator, causing everyone to groan.
Kon: Hey, if we're riding this thing to our fiery end, I wanna have fun.
Mina getting beaten up by an inexplicable Giant Spider.
Kon asking at the end of the episode if the Button Keeper died, only for Corey to sign off the episode and slam the garage door down.
Six Strings of Evil
This exchange:
Kin: Corey's guitar is evil and will destroy the town! It's in a book! Laney: Guys, you can't believe everything you read. (her phone buzzes and she checks) Oh, no! Corey says his guitar is evil and is trying to destroy the Peaceville Dam! Kon: Oh, so we're going to believe everything you read?!
The episode begins with Corey practicing the same guitar riff over and over, to the annoyance of his bandmates.
Kon: Guys, remember when this riff wasn't all we heard ever? Because I don't. Kin: I started and finished my first novel. It's about a guitar riff that bored everyone - wait for it - TO DEATH! Laney: Ugghh! This couch is going to have an epic butt print. Or my butt is going to have an epic couch print. Either way, it's lose-lose.
Corey's reactions to the Blue Star of Rocklympus destroying everything that makes music.
(when the Star smashes some windchimes) You monster! Those are soothing! (when the Star destroys an ice cream truck)Keeping ice cream from kids! You're more evil than bagpipes! (when the Star attacks The Newmans) Okay, that was fun! Only because I hate The Newmans!
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Rockersize
Kin and Kon arguing over what to call the giant muscular old ladies.
Kon: Can we call them "Grannapes"? Kin: No! "Gorrilandmas"!
"Yes! He picked my name!" - Kin after Corey casually uses "gorillandmas" when discussing his plan.
"For once, I don't see how lyrics are gonna help [stop the giant old ladies]. We need a tank!"
Kon asking at the end of the episode if Grojband ever got around to doing the entire thing that started the episode - trying to get a gig at Barney's gym playing exercise music. Corey responds with a blunt "no" before signing off the episode.
Corey's face after the band's amps explode from them playing at maximum volume at extreme speeds.
Grin Reaper
The Brick Joke when Torbo is revealed to be a robot. Tim Beresford's deadpan delivery of his character's line is what really sells it.
Kon: "Didn't I call this at, like, scene two?"
IT WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS!
Buzz Newsworthy interviews Torbo
Torbo: Stardust Kisses for everyone! Buzz: Excuse me, sir, who are you and how are you happy enough to make your own music appear from nowhere? Torbo: My name is Torbo, and I'm from a place next to Dreamland where the roads are paved with joy! Buzz: Are you insane? Torbo: Nope, I'm just happy all the time! You can hide from any problem behind a smile! Meet me in the heart of your town and I'll show you how! Buzz: Seems legit to me, folks.
Kin and Kon get outfitted with Torbo's happiness-inducing bracelets.
Kin: Cool! It matches my glasses! Kon: Huh? Kin: Uh, is what I would say if I knew what accessorizing was.
Rock the House
All of Lenny's scenes, especially when he competes against his gender opposite, Laney.
(as Carrie slowly pushes him towards the slope) "Aahhhhh! Too fast! Toooo faaaaaaast!"
Laney saying that she will end Lenny with a demonic voice. Poor Lenny is left utterly terrified by his Grojband counterpart.
GOTTA BE ALIVE TO DRIVE!
This exchange:
Carrie: Ready to lose again Corey? Corey: Hey! We're never ready when we lose, and beating us at curling is going to be a lot harder than beating us at pinball. Laney: Man, we have got to work on his trash talk.
Earlier in the same scene, Kon hopes that Grojband's challengers will be "the winners from Champion High [because] they always lose!"
Trina trying to impress Nick with her curling. However, she believes Nick loves hair curling, not curling the sport. She also ends up burning her hair as she desperately tries to get Nick's attention.
Kin creates a one-man band machine at the start of the episode. When Laney asks him why he made it, he explains it's in case all of them except Corey get burned to death at a chili cook-off.
Trina getting cut from both the scarf-knitting team and the cheerleading team. In both cases, it was because she had somehow managed to set everything around her on fire.
Trina: I don't know why it set on fire, it just did! Am I team captain or what?
Mayor Mellow is shocked by how dangerous the extreme curling competition is and states that a good mayor would ban such a tournament. He then immediately tells the competitors to have fun and leaves.
Trina forcing Mina to let the cheerleading squad dogpile her.
War and Peaceville
Trina causes the entire town of Peaceville to riot and separate after tampering with a time capsule all so she can give Nick Mallory a hug only to find that Nick gave up his cool persona to be as lame as possible for tradition (It Makes Sense in Context). Needless to say Trina doesn't want anything to do with him at this point... until she is told that liking such a nerd would be more romantic because it was "forbidden love".
Laney's Trina impersonation.
(speaks in a high-pitched voice) Like, ultra-forbidden and junk or whatever. (scoffs as she does a Hair Flip)
Trina completely shutting down when Nick Mallory decides to adopt the nerd lifestyle. Her utter silence and shocked expressions are priceless.
Mina (painting the shocked Trina's nails): I hope you like the color. And talk again. I'm scared! Corey:: Trina, you've gotta hug Nick. Trina (exact same expression as before): Up has become down. Left has become Wednesday.
Myme Disease
A Black Comedy example is an angry mob destroying a statue they thought was a really good statue performer, only for it to later turn out that it REALLY WAS a really good statue performer.
The Unreveal of Nick's incredibly beautiful painting of Trina. Trina eventually flips out over being unable to see it and enters Diary Mode as a result.
Pretty much all the miming jokes, with some truly over-the-top ones like throwing an imaginary grenade that actually explodes or making toast that Grojband can actually smell being burnt. They also double as a Moment of Awesome when Corey starts using the same tricks against them, such as using a key to lock up the busking space they're fighting over.
"But I locked the door! Aw, man! They snuck in through the window!"
Kon-Fusion
Grojband getting fused with their gender doppelganger opposites, The Newmans. Also everyone else's horrified and disgusted reactions to the fusions.
Trina tries to fuse with Nick Mallory so she will never be separated with him. She finally manages to fuse with him... only to find out his head has become A LOAF OF BREAD from accidentally fusing with it.
Also, Trina accidentally fusing her fingernails with some of Mina's blue nail polish, and later Mina's glasses.
Trina: Gasp! Ew! Your polish fused with my nails! So uncool forever! Mina: But mermaid blue is this year's "it" color. Trina: This year is so last season.
Corey lifting up Carrie's skirt along with a very angry look on her face during his Final Thoughts.
Kon asking how they are going to be able to use the washroom in their fused forms.
Kin and Kim being jealous of Kon bonding with Konnie.
Grojband and The Newmans claiming that they don't look anything like each other when DJ Fusion refuses to combine them for being practically the same band.
"If I get anymore you, I might as well give up and marry your cat!" "Dr. Purrs likes the bachelor life!"
Carrie: Dude, that was weird. Does he always give speeches? Laney: Yeah.
Inn Err Face
Trina refuses to sweat because its "for farmers" and LITERALLY FORCES THE SWEAT TO GO BACK IN HER.
This exchange:
Laney: Kin says your fan thingy didn't work! Your sister's a robot! Corey: And what destroys all robots? Laney: A can opener? A bus? Dynamite?! Corey: Emotions, fella! We gotta make Trina cry! Laney: You sure I can't sell you on the dynamite idea?
STOMACH BILE SELFIE!!!
Kon tickling Trina's insides, causing her to laugh uncontrollably while flirting with Nick Mallory.
Kon in general doesn't seem to understand that he's not dreaming throughout his and Kin's "Fantastic Voyage" Plot, much to Kin's frustration.
Kon: What a beautiful night. Kin: Kon, that pink sky is Trina's skin. If she explodes, this beautiful night will be all over the gym! Kon: Awesome! I can't wait to see how I'll dream that up! I bet it'll be all (makes fireworks noises). (Kin simply glares at him with an annoyed look on his face)
Kon trying to stay awake for as long as possible so that his dreams will be more awesome when he sleeps.
"Yeesh. I love it when Trina explodes, but not like this."
Laney reads out Kin's message of his plans to her and Corey. Also, the accompanying transition has Kon angrily slapping Kin for suggesting the initial plan.
"Kin says they're headed for Trina's sweat glands. Kon vetoed Plan (rolls eyes)'P'."
Kin explains that in order to rescue Kon, he needs his shrink ray and a minisub. Cue Trina immediately giving him his shrink ray because it wasn't a flamethrower like she hoped for.
Laney: Wow. That's convenient. Corey: It gets convienient-er (points to a minisub)
"Kin and Kon must be terrified." "THEY SHOULD BE BUT THEY'RE NOT!!!"
Corey's Final Thoughts.
Corey: Maybe guy, but sometimes, things don't need to be healed. Like our insides, they're gooey and gross for a reason and sometimes, an "inner journey" might just make things worse. Forcing a dream inside, might force something more important outside and the next thing you know, you're exploding all over the gym. (zoom out to reveal Laney, Kin, and Kon all visibly disturbed) Laney: I don't think I'll sleep tonight.
Who Are You
The whole episode and its one huge Take That! to hipster culture.
"He doesn't know any songs or care about music? This is the greatest band of all time."
The fact that Corey becomes a hipster by unlearning everything he knows. As Laney remarks, the fact he doesn't know anything anymore makes him "the perfect hipster".
"Wow, a double rainbow!" "Meh." "He's right! You should have been a triple rainbow!"
It's even funnier if you're a Whovian when you realize the glasses Hipster!Corey wears resembles the Rory Cam from "The Girl Who Waited".
Caring!Corey is so concerned with the band's safety that he wraps them up in bubble wrap, puts them in a giant package and mails them to their gig.
Laney being annoyed by Caring!Corey and how sugary he is.
Corey remarking that he's "seen that harsh judging eye roll [of hipsters] somewhere before". Cue Laney glaring at him with an annoyed expression on her face.
Corey gets an Idea Bulb and rushes off. The bulb then falls to the ground and shatters, prompting Laney to say "I'm not cleaning that".
Trina's incredibly convoluted scheme to become popular with the hipster crowd.
Corey states that Grojband will be popular with hipsters because no one has ever heard of them. Cut to Kate and Allie squealing in front of their garage, prompting Corey to then slam the garage door and tell the rest of Grojband that they should probably sneak out through the back door.
Kon insisting that Kin's Shoe-niversities have a stupid name and they should instead be called Ed-shoe-cations.
Pop Goes the Bubble
Chance Happening reports that Mayor Mellow wants people to stop flushing their cheese down the toilet because it's creating tons of sewer gas. Laney asks who would even do that, causing Kin and Kon to stare at each other awkwardly. Cue Cutaway Gag of the two enthusiastically flushing cheese down the toilet and cheering them on in a race ("Go Gouda!" "Cheddar's better!").
Present!Kin & Kon (awkwardly): Uhh... no one... Yeah, that's weird...
Chance Happening and Buzz Newsworthy report on Bubble Fest.
Chance: And how many flavors [of pop] will our bubble lovers have to choose from? Buzz: It's got to be thousands! Chance: I was hoping for millions, Buzz. Buzz: Well, good. Because that's what I meant, Chance!
Mayor Mellow gets a bottle cap to the brain that makes him hate bubbles so much that he sends a kid to life in prison simply for blowing some bubble gum.
And then when Mayor Mellow gets the bottle cap out his brain, an inexplicable second one falls out as well.
Mayor Mellow: Huh? Where did that one come from?
One of the bubbles from Kin's bubble machine gets in his eye. His response is "I've created a monster!"
Kin and Kon's montage of unsuccessfully trying to make the Bubble Fest soda all fizzy again, featuring many Amusing Injuries at Kin's expense (with Kon then laughing at him).
And then after the montage is over, they remember that they had the bubble-making machine from earlier.
Also the exchange between them before the montage.
Kon: Getting bubbles back into this soda should be easy for us! We built a time machine! Kin: Well, I built a time machine. Kon: Yeah, but I was the one who laughed at you when you said you could do it. I motivated you with my delightful laughter! (eyes widen in realization and he then laughs at Kin) Kin:(looks at viewer) Ugh, let's just get to the montage already.
Laney, Kin, and Kon toasting some pop bottles and drinking them at the end of the episode... only to realize they drank the sewer pop. Cue Vomit Discretion Shot.
Trina's eyes going all red and bloodshot from trying to keep Nick Mallory happy by maintaining eye contact with him.
Corey being a gentleman with Laney swerves from cute to funny in an instant.
While Laney's solo song "You're So Untrue" counts as a Moment of Awesome for her, its almost impossible to take her seriously when she's jumping up and down, especially given her short height.
Mayor Mellow agrees to let Grojband play Candy jams' opening act when Corey tells him Laney is their band leader.
Corey: Wait! (grabs Laney, who is casually scratching her nose) I think Laney's a lady. She's full of rage! (Laney pulls her hand down and looks embarrassed) Corey: Don't let the nose picking fool you! She's the boss of us, really! Mayor Mellow: A girl leading a band of boys and picking her nose like a champ! You're in! (Corey squees) Laney:(taps Corey's shoulder) Ahem. A) I was scratching my nose; and B) what are you doing?! Corey: C'mon, Lanes! You earned a shot to rock the mic, and we can't play the show any other way! You couldn't pick a better reason! Laney: Say "pick" again! Say it.
All of Kin and Kon's attempts to make girls scream, and how they don't seem to get that Corey wants fangirl screaming and not horror screaming. However, the best one is probably when Kin suggests Kon should bite the head off a bat, which Kon does in front of Corey and the Groupies, except he uses a baseball bat and leaves only a very confused Corey, Kate, and Allie.
HOMONYM TRANSITION!!!
Kin and Kon trying to scare Laney at the start of the episode.
Kin & Kon (leap out of Laney's bass case): BOO! SURPRISE MONSTER!!! Laney (casually strumming her bass): Nope. Not scared. Sorry. Kin & Kon (sad): Boo. Sad monster. Kon (whiney tone): Corey! Tell Laney to scream like a girl! It's cool! Laney (mocking Kon's tone): Corey! Tell Kon that you can't tell me what to do! Corey: You're right, Lanes. And so is Kon. Screaming girls are cool. A legion of screaming girls is a sure sign that your band rocks. And I know just where to find some! Kin: Crime scenes? Kon: The spider factory?
Candy Jams witnesses Trina go Diary Mode
Candy Jams: What was that about? Corey (uncertain): Every lady rages in her own way?
The Bandidate
Corey wants to give Trina more and more political power so that Grojband will have more of a reason to protest against her as a band with a political statement.
Laney: Oh, and the answer to your next question is "No! Do not make Trina the ruler of Earth!" Corey: That's right. We are gonna need a bigger message! Laney: Uuuggh.
Kin and Kon performing a parody of Schoolhouse Rock! to explain to Laney and Corey how they can make Trina the mayor of Peaceville using a town bylaw.
Laney: That last part didn't rhyme. Kin: It's a song about a municipal bylaw. What more do you want?
"Let's bring down a government!"
The entire town of Peaceville has enough of Trina's corruption, not for unfair laws and tyranny but for hiding the fact she has a pimple.
At one point, an old lady holds up a rope implying the people of Peaceville WANTED TO HANG TRINA. Thankfully, they just throw garbage at her and run her out.
Trina putting her crown on Mina's head before making her getaway from the angry Peaceville mob.
"WHAT. MESSAGE?!"
Kin and Kon show off their new glowing bracelets.
Corey: "Guys, are those bracelets supposed to be a fashion statement?" Laney: "That statement being, 'Hey look at my crazy bracelet!'"
Grojband needs to make Trina mayor of Peaceville by forcing Mayor Mellow to go on vacation. Corey shows Mayor Mellow an envelope that he says has something in it that will convince him to "leave town for a while". Mayor Mellow fears they've discovered something shady he's covered up and flees. Corey then opens the envelope, revealing it to contain... a brochure for a trip to Barbados.
KIDS SHOULDN'T PLAY IN SEWERS!!!
"I have to say I expected Trina to make an even larger gold statue of herself. She's matured a little." - Laney's reaction to Mina making the giant gold statue of Trina.
The Pirate Lounge for Me
This scene.
Laney: How do we pull this off?! We'd have to dig our own hole below theirs, and leave the medallions there for them to dig to! Corey: Huh. I was just going to dump them in the hole and see what happens, but let's just do what you said! (Laney makes this face and faints)
Laney getting annoyed by Corey's usage of old sayings. "You're not really talking if no one knows what you're saying."
Kin casually mentioning to Laney that the reason why he tests all his dangerous inventions on Kon is because he's actually a clone of the original Kon, and that he has a whole closet full of Kon clones. Kon's face when overhearing Kin's statement sells it.
Corey's Final Thoughts for the episode.
Corey: Sure, gold's really valuable but that's only because it's beautiful, rare, and really valuable. Gold is also very soft, and wouldn't you rather have something solid to hold in your heart? Like diamonds, or cholesterol.
Hologroj
A Black Comedy example: Trina slowly loses her sanity and believes nothing is real, thanks to the confusion of the holograms.
Also, everyone else in Peaceville believing Trina is having trouble coping with Corey's "death" during her initial insistence that Grojband is alive.
The episode begins with Laney, Kin, and Kon playing baseball with a watermelon.
Laney: So, all I need to do is just hit the melon, and I get ownership of Kon? Kin: Yep! Laney (to Kon): You're going to love being my sister.
Grojband coming back home from the park after feeding squirrels... with Kon being inexplicably battered and bruised all over and having squirrels biting him.
Corey: Ah, feeding squirrels is the best. Kon: Until you ask to share, and they get all greedy and bitey! And I didn't know they don't like to be hugged!
And then Grojband notices their holograms have escaped, prompting Kon to try and round them up. He gets his ass completely whopped by them.
Grojband faking their deaths... and still getting barely any attention.
Also, everyone in Peaceville mistaking Grojband's holograms for ghosts.
The episode ends with everybody still thinking Grojband are dead while the real Grojband is just a cover band.
The Snuffles with Snarffles
Trina plots against Grojband.
Trina (stroking Wheelie): So... Corey made that video that helped that puppy you hate. Uncool. We don't like that at all. Mina (holding Dr. Purrs): But I don't hate that puppy. Trina: Totes morale, Wheelie. (backs into shadows) Mina: Oh, she's talking to her cat! That's a bad sign. Isn't that right, Dr. Purrs?
Corey: Grojband is going to help a puppy! Laney: Yes! Finally, one of these I can get behind!
Corey is surprised to learn that Kon follows Mayor Mellow on Bleater.
Kon: Local politics affects us all. And sometimes he bleats cool haikus.
Grojband being given the key to the city by Mayor Mellow.
Kon: Finally! A chance to use this huge gold key ring! (grabs the key to the city and puts it on a giant key ring)
Trina's Cuteness Proximity reactions to seeing Wheelie using a death laser to try and slice Corey in half.
Bee Bop A Loofah
Laney lampshading how Grojband always gets their gig ideas.
Laney: So is Grojband going to enter the stationary marathon because running in place is our new destiny? Corey: Lanes, that would never work. Laney: It's just you usually see something and suddenly decide we're gonna do it- Corey: It's not always so sudden.
Laney: You gotta let it go, Core. We can't fill up the reservoir. Corey: That's it! We can fill up the reservoir! Laney: How does your brain work!?
After the town's water reservoir is restored by Grojband, Chance Happening reports that most of Peaceville no longer stinks, glaring at Buzz Newsworthy when she emphasizes it. While Chance continues to report, Buzz takes a quick sniff at his pits and then tries to feign innocence.
Grojband randomly breaking into people's showers and playing. With Corey scream-singing every single time.
Corey: I don't get it. It's like people don't like strangers in their bathroom. Laney:What a shame. Guess that means we have to- Corey: That's it! We'll play our music into their showers through the pipes! Kon: You totally called it, Laney! Laney: I didn't call anything!
Trina rings a bell, calling Mina over with a glass of lemonade she gives to Trina. Trina rings the bell again and Mina return with a straw. Trina rings the bell for the third time, prompting Mina to return and tell her, "I don't know how to force lemonade through the straw, Trina."
Corey is weirded out by the fact that Kin and Kon take baths together.
Corey: You guys are taking a bath?... Kon: We were stinky. Corey: Together? Kin: We're brothers. Corey: In my tub? Kin & Kon: We're twins!
Nick Mallory once again breaking the laws of nature with his sheer coolness. Despite not taking a shower in weeks like the rest of Peaceville, he still doesn't stink when everybody else does. "Nick Mallory doesn't do stink. It's very un-Nick."
Corey's bad attempt at dancing. Bonus points for the animators making him look goofier.
Laney: Congrats, you dance like a mom.
This subverted rhyme from the episode's song.
If it's a smell test that you wanna pass Scrub your feet, wash your pits, and don't forget your-GLUTEUS MAX!
Also the Running Gag from Kin bringing up how Kon sold magic beans for a giant crate full of Christmas-scented air fresheners. After they sell their air fresheners to everyone in Peaceville, Kin and Kon are able to buy the beans back for 2.8 million dollars. "They could grow anything!" "Even a bike-yacht-plant!"
Trina praying to the "Shower Gods"
Mina: There aren't any shower gods. I tried to tell her but she threatened me with their vengeance! Corey: I think only family knows what to do in this case. Unless you want the VENGEANCE OF THE SHOWER GODS!
A-Capella-Lips Now
Nick Mallory apparently updates his social media status every time he inhales and exhales. Trina follows it with utmost fanaticism. Then a blackout strikes and Trina starts freaking out about the possibility that Nick Mallory may no longer be breathing, prompting her to rush off so she can give Nick mouth-to-mouth.
"You really shouldn't tell people what to do! It's an unflattering quality, Mina!" - Trina
Corey tells the band that even though a blackout has hit Peaceville, Grojband is still gonna play.
Corey: We're going to strip things down to the bare essentials. Kin & Kon (excited tones): We're going to play naked?! (they take off their shirts) Corey: Uhhh, no. We're going to play unplugged. Kin & Kon (awkward tones; putting their shirts back on): Huh. Of course. Yeah. Who didn't know that?
When the table in the newscast gets destroyed, it reveals that Buzz Newsworthy doesn't wear pants when he does the news.
Trina uses the old "got you nose" trick on Two Junior, one of the delinquent preschoolers from "Line of Credit", literally removing his nose from his face and using it to control him and his cronies so she can establish her own kingdom.
Corey: Trina, what are you doing?! Trina: You will address me as YOUR HIGHNESS! Corey:Riiiggghhht. I'll update your contact info. In the meantime, you might wanna stop bossing babies around. It's kinda creepy.
Corey manages to "overthrow" Trina's "kingdom" by giving Two Junior and his gang applesauce and turning off their TV. When the tykes begin to smear Trina with their sticky hands, she flips out and goes Diary Mode.
Trina having to climb out of the super deep pit they threw her in. She gets knocked back down the first time by the episode's song blaring through a makeshift phone, and when she finally gets out, Nick Mallory tosses a bag of his "violent seasickness" into the hole, knocking her back in.
The Running Gag of Kon being convinced that he needs a ticket to get into the very concert he and the rest of Grojband are performing at. What makes it even better is that the concert is free admission. Also, Laney's reactions to his stupidity are priceless.
Soulin' Down the Road
Mina carrying an unconscious Trina around and engaging in fun activities with her a la Weekend at Bernie's. What makes it even better is that Mina seems to be completely unaware of the fact Trina is unconscious throughout the whole thing.
Grojband being completely shocked by Nick Mallory taking a liking to Car!Trina, to the point where he was willing to make out with her.
The Wicked Cool Transition even has a wedding cake that has figures of Nick Mallory and Car!Trina decorated on it, with the singers saying "This could lead to something!".
"This isn't the 50s, Corey! People don't have feelings anymore!"
Another gem from Kon:
(excited) Think [Car!Trina]'ll drive us home? (whiney) We've done a lot of walking today...
Corey suggests amplifying their souls so they can master soul music, leading to this classic example of Kin's Creepy Child and Mad Scientist qualities.
Kin: I think I can build something that'll help us. (dramatically with evil expression)Or cause untold horrors!(Evil Laugh)
Car!Trina going on a shopping spree at the mall and terrorizing everyone else while at it. As Trina happily tells Corey, she can crush so much more of people than just their spirits now.
That's My Jam
One of the prizes for winning the jam contest was a hug from Nick Mallory. Corey wins and Trina is obviously pissed.
Kin and Kon start off the episode by throwing blueberries at a wall and seeing which ones are good (which are the ones that don't go splat).
"Ugh, is he gonna scream whenever I spread him all over toast, and junk?" - Trina's reaction to learning Jammy can talk.
Another gem from Trina. "Making other people happy is, like, what firemen do! And they're tired all the time!"
Trina just laughs after Mina gets an Ash Face when Jammy zaps her.
For Hat and Country
During the episode's song, Corey talks about his "gal" with an outline of Laney's head popping up.
This dialogue:
Trina: "And now your losing your weak country! I'm so fake-sad!" Kon: "Keep it down, you foreigner!"
Laney's Sarcastic Clapping when Corey tells Laney that he's finally realized he's had a bad idea.
Trina's logic for trying to stop Corey from acquiring a new hat? She doesn't want to have to learn to hate a whole new one.
The episode begins with Corey, Laney, and Kon playing cards.
Laney: 3 sixes. Corey:4 sixes. Laney: What?! You can't have four! Kon:23 sixes. Corey:You're cheating! Kon (threatening tone): What did you say? Corey: I said you're cheating! Kon (happy tone): Oh, yeah, for sure. Cheating pretty hard, actually. I've still got like 10 sixes left. (opens his sleeves, and a bunch of cards pour out) Or more. (a torrent of cards floods out and knocks Corey over)
"This message was paid for and brought to you by Grojland."
EXISTING HEAD TRANSITION!!!
It's In The Card
Kin and Kon discuss Valentine's Day chocolates.
Kin: Nothing says love like a heart-shaped box of chocolates. Kon: They should come in kidney-shaped boxes! Nothing says I love you like giving someone a kidney!
The Valentine's Day newscast.
Chance Happening: Make the person next to you feel special if you mean it or not! (hands a flower to Buzz) Buzz Newsworthy: This just in. It is possible to win at caring. (gives a vase full of flowers to Chance, who glares at him; Buzz then smugly winks at the viewer)
Kon eating Corey's heart-tipped arrows.
Grojband decides to create a Valentine's card song, but (as usual) they don't have lyrics. Laney points they "can't just sing 'love' over and over again". Cue Gilligan Cut of Corey, Kin, and Kon singing "love" over and over again, while Laney looks on in both confusion and annoyance.
Trina smashing through the window and attacking the mailman to get her Valentine's Day card from Nick Mallory. However, the letter turns out to be from some guy named Jason. Trina is left confused and furious.
Corey replacing his bandmates with crudely-constructed dummies made from random junk and discussing with them about his plan for Grojband to play on the Moon so they can do epic stage jumps.
"Oh, Mina. It's so cute that you think we're close enough to break up." - Trina.
Grojband losing the feeling in their arms due to holding up the cards for a long period of time.
Corey closing the Garage Door with his feet because of this.
Corey's Final Thoughts during all of this.
"...But [love] is never ever in our teeth. If it is, you should see a dentist."
A Freeze-Frame Bonus example: one of the episode's Wicked Cool Transitions is "YETIS EAT A LOT OF FOOD!!!!", during which a bunch of food items fall from above. One of the items visible is a human baby.
Corey's Final Thoughts getting interrupted by Gary playing his saxophone.
Group Hug
Mina demanding to know where Trina is with a demonic voice, terrifying the Groupies.
The Groupies kidnap Grojband and chain their feet to the floor. Laney simply takes her shoe off to get out, but Kin and Kon beg for her to put it back on due the overwhelming stench that then comes out.
"I will not eat your captivity waffles!... Wait do they have blueberry in them?" 'nods' "Fine, I will eat your captivity waffles!"
Kin trying to stop Kon from eating all the spray cheese Grojband has for their Groupie Appreciation Day.
Trin crushing a Chirping Cricket in her room after getting no response from Mina (due to having fired her as her follower and thrown her into a bottomless hole).
The Groupies creating a complete full-scale replica of Grojband's garage in their house, except everything is on the opposite side of where it is in Corey's house. According to them, "an exact copy would have been creepy".
Curse of the Metrognome
After Corey and Laney accidentally kiss, Laney tries to get another from Corey. Cue his Once per EpisodeSpoof Aesop.
Word of God says he needs to figure out how the kiss made him feel before he could come up with a conclusion.
When the Metrgnome first appears, Kon believes him to be "Tiny Santa" and hugs it. Kin tells him it's too short to be Tiny Santa and is more like a hover-baby".
Metrognome: Baby?! I'm a thousand and a half! Corey: Why would someone brag about being so old?
STICKY NICK TRANSITION!!!
Mina getting stuck in the glue Trina set up to catch Nick and suffering from a Potty Emergency.
Pretty much all of the timing jokes caused by the Metrognome stealing Grojband's (and everything else in Peaceville's) timing. Take the very first one for instance.
Corey: Let me finish my iced tea. (Corey spills the drink over himself and then opens his mouth; he realizes what happened and looks confused) Kon: Ha! Looks like that iced tea just finished you!
All of Grojband's failed attempts to catch the Metrognome caused by their lack of timing.
"Could you tell me wh—" "Time to get a watch! Ha!... Hmm, I seem to have lost my comedic timing."
The crowd chanting with the New Year's countdown after the Metrognome steals its timing. "10! 4! 7! 5! 8! 5! 2!"
Mayor Mellow demanding Grojband to dance at the end of the episode and the band does a generic cartoony dance to goofy music.
Dueling Buttons
Trina's Solo Shredder song, which is just her saying Nick Mallory's name over and over again.
When Trina sees Corey entering the Solo Shredder contest, she tries to impress Nick Mallory by telling him about how lame she thinks video games are. Nick Mallory tells her that he "digs games, gamer dudes,... and gamer girls." Three guesses as to what she does next.
Corey tells Kon, Kin, and Laney all about Solo Shredder, prompting this exchange between his bandmates.
After losing to Trina in Solo Shredder, Corey goes into a obsessive phase with the video game. It takes Laney karate kicking the fake guitar out of his hands to get him to stop.
Laney: So... it's that bad! And what's that stench? Kin: Eventually the gamer become so obsessed, a shield of toxic stink forms to ward off interventions. Kon: Man, that's like a Force 10 Stink Shield! Kin: And note that subject's "gamer claw". Soon, his hand will be rendered useless for anything other than Solo Shredder. Kon: Or maybe scaring babies! Laney: Maybe if we put a real guitar back in his hand, he'll snap out of his obsession. Kin: Or we take him to the daycare and watch the fireworks.
Kon briefly falls into the same gamer trance as Corey when Kin attempts to hypnotize Corey out of his obsessive phase. Kin quickly whacks his brother on the head, restoring him to normal, and says, "Dude, seriously?"
After discovering that Trina's Nick song has become a huge hit, Corey gets really angry to the point where it seems like HE is going to go into Diary Mode... but he doesn't.
Corey: HER song?! Hottest thing in music?! Grrrr! Laney:(pats his head) Breathe. Corey: I've been breathing my whole life, and it's got me nothing! And now TRINA HAS A HIT SONG! SHE HAS MY DREAM!AND I CAN'T EVEN MASTER A FAKE GUITAR!!!!... Guys, I need some time alone...
Corey: STOP SINGING THAT!!! IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE REAL LYRICS!!!.. Wait!... (starts thinking) Wait... (continues thinking) Wait some more... (continues thinking) Kon (to Kin; stage whisper): I think we broke Corey.
Kin and Kon attempting to move checkerboard pieces by using video game controllers.
Kin and Kon observe Corey's Big "NO!" reaction to losing to Trina.
Kon: When someone falls to their knees and screams like that, something is wrong, right? Kin: Last time you did that, you just burnt your popcorn. Kon: This isn't that bad, is it?!
Hear Us Rock!
Mayor Mellow tells Grojband that Trina just told him on the phone not to believe their claims the world is coming to an end.
Mayor Mellow: Someone just called to say you're totally biting the doom style of a super-dead dance troupe from South whatever, and this end of the world talk is some mega-junk, and stuff. Kon: Who was that mystery caller?
"In times like these, there's only one thing to say... Mayor Mellow and his precious democracy are dead! Long live Mayor Mohawk and his reign of terror!"
That whole scene with Trina confessing her love to Nick Mallory.
Trina (dramatic): Nick, all this time and I never told you I... dramatic pause... love you. Nick (nonchalant): Thanks, Trina Riffin. I'm glad you didn't tell me. It would have been awkward for both of us. Fumps up. (fistbumps Trina and leaves) (Trina stands motionless and then shatters into pieces)
The people of Peaceville learn the world actually is coming to an end.
Mayor Mellow: A meteor is about to destroy the world!!! (the people of Peaceville gasp) (the meteor then reveals itself to be a disguised alien spacecraft) Mayor Mellow: Oh. It's just a spaceship. Cool. (the spaceship moves to reveal a meteor behind it) Mayor Mellow: There's a meteor behind it!!! Man, this day is a real roller coaster ride.
The Orb Experience returns.
Corey: G'ORB! Hey, man, how's it going?! G'ORB: You still think you can beat The Orb Experience in a battle of the bands, huh?! Corey: Yup. We mostly think that because that's what happened last time. G'ORB: We weren't ready! You cheated! I was sick! Whatever! Get a faceful of my revenge meteor! And things are good, thanks for asking. Laney:So, you're gonna destroy Earth because you're a sore loser? G'ORB: Did I stutter?! YES!!! Corey: Oh, I see. Crush us with a rock, since you couldn't beat us with rock music! Kon: Ooooh! (high-fives Kin) G'ORB: There was something in my orb!!!
Barney allows Trina to join Corey in his trip into space to save the world.
Barney: She asked if she could go. I figured, hey, family's great, but it could be even greater if it's smashed together in a crater! (laughs) Oh, that rhymed. Corey (snarky tone): For once, I'm glad my sister would rather watch me fail than live.
Kin believes that there's no chance Grojband will survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere even if they do manage to destroy the meteor, even betting a million dollars on it. However, he's ultimately proven wrong.
Kin: I can't believe we survived! Our rock music must have formed- Kon: A big, fat 'who cares?! WE'RE ALIVE!!!' You owe me a million bucks! Kin (smugly): We never shook hands.
At the end, after Corey gives his Final Thoughts (which was filled with Corey/Laney Ship Tease), he comes to a very important realization: he should be writing his speeches down, as they'd make great lyrics.
that those are Kin's nipples.
