Funny / Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

"I'm in love with Wallace Wells!"

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General.

• Robot 0-1popping up at random.

Episode 1: "Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life"

• After Knives witnesses Sex Bob-Omb perform:
  Knives: Wow... you might be the best band of all time...
  Kim: We're not.
• Scott's first real conversation with Ramona is as awkward as ever, him bringing up how Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic SatAM aired at the same time, were tonally different, and had the same actor playing Sonic.
• Scott explains that Wallace is his cool gay roommate who lets him use his card. Ramona assumes that means they have a sugar daddy relationship.
  Scott: …sugar what?
• Wallace and Stacy note that Knives is very happy at the show... despite them telling Scott to break up with her.
  Wallace: Boy, seems like nobody delivered crushing news to you today...
  Knives: Crushing? Like, a bad kind of crushing?
• Stephen is freaking out because Crash and the Boys ducked out, meaning Sex Bob-Omb has to open.
  Kim: I heard the Boys left. It was just going to be Crash.
  Young Neil: ''You can’t call a band “Crash”. Crash is a cult classic car crash sex film shot right here in Toronto.
  Kim: Wow, I didn't know you were a cinephile.
  Young Neil: What's a cinephile?
• Ramona tells Julie that she's "kind of involved" with someone in the band. Knives cheerily says so is she. Julie looks ready to scream.
  Julie: Who are you dating in the band?
• When the band starts playing, Knives faints in sheer joy. Everyone stares.
• When Matthew crashes the gig, he is upset to learn that Scott didn't even read the letter he had sent him. He gets even madder when nobody, not even Scott, really takes him seriously.
  Scott Pilgrim: Wait, hold on! ...Who are you exactly and why are we fighting?
  Matthew Patel: Aren't you Scott Pilgrim?
  Scott Pilgrim: Depends who's asking.
  Matthew Patel: It is I, Matthew Patel, Ramona's first evil ex-boyfriend!
  [Scott confusedly glances over at Ramona, who just awkwardly shrugs]
  Scott Pilgrim: Cool... And you're here, because...?
  Matthew Patel: Didn't you read my letter?
  Scott Pilgrim: Kind of...
  Matthew Patel: [gasps in disbelief] I hand-delivered it during a BLIZZARD!
  Scott Pilgrim: ...Remind me what it said exactly?
  [Matthew gasps in shock then growls in anger]
  Matthew Patel: It said, Ramona Flowers has seven evil exes, each more powerful than the last! [whiny tone] IT WAS A VERY DETAILED LETTER!
• Matthew's victory over Scott shocks everybody, including the announcer.
  KO???

Episode 2: "A League of Their Own"

• Matthew's disappointment that, after apparently killing Scott, Ramona not only rejects him again, but everyone just kinda wanders off.
  • Apparently Matthew - and EVERYONE ELSE IN THE LEAGUE - just assumed that Ramona would want to get back together with whoever killed Scott, and they are shocked when this isn't the case.
• Envy arriving at Scott's funeral to belittle him and turn it into a concert.
  • The song she sings, by the way? A cover of "I Will Remember You" that starts out as emotional and sad as the original... before completely diverging into an entirely unfitting (but nonetheless catchy) upbeat pop rendition.
  • The fact that, as soon as Envy arrived, NOBODY cared anymore about Scott, except Scott's family and Ramona, and during and after Envy's impromptu song, EVERYBODY left with Envy... except Ramona, who still mourns Scott.
    • And all that's in Scott's casket are the coins dropped when he vanished.
• Matthew invites everyone to a meeting in Gideon's secret lair, even Gideon, who was already in the lair when receiving the invite.
  Gideon: Did I just get invited to my own secret lair?
• This exchange, when all the evil exes are meeting up in Gideon's lair, and Lucas and Todd begin talking about acting:
  Todd Ingram: Vegans have perfect photographic memory. I could memorize an entire script [snap] just like that.
  Lucas Lee: I don't even read the scripts anymore; I just say the first thing that pops into my head. It's called being in the moment.
  Roxie Richter: Is that why half the lines in your last movie were, "Let's party"?
  Lucas Lee: Dunno. Didn't watch it!
  • And his response to being offered a drink is simply "Let's Party!"
• When Matthew and Gideon bring their fight to the roof, the background music shifts to ominous voices chanting "EVIL! EXES! EVIL EXES!"
• While all the exes are standing out in the rain, Todd uses his vegan powers to protect himself from the rain. Roxie glances at him and remarks that she should stop eating meat.

Episode 3: "Ramona Rents a Video"

• Kim offers to play some music with Knives to get their emotions out. Knives turns out to be a really good bass player.
  Stephen: How long have you been playing bass!?
  Knives: Uh... what time is it?
  Stephen: Four P.M.?
  Knives: Then... (counting on her fingers) four hours.
• Ramona's encounter with Julie Powers:
  Julie: You changed your hair! What's up, Ramona?
  Ramona: Oh, nothing major. Just somebody kidnapped Scott Pilgrim and faked his death.
  Julie: You're f**king joking...
  [Ramona shrugs]
  Julie: [To Stacey] Stacey, I'm taking my 15!
  [Stacey drops a plate]
  Stacey: You took your 15 twenty minutes ago! And would you stop swearing? We have f**king customers!
  Julie: F**K MY LIFE! [growls, then dismissively scoffs as she goes to talk to Ramona] Tell. Me. Everything.
• Ramona goes to Julie to explain how Scott is alive, and she even found video evidence of him being kidnapped through a portal. Julie complains the entire time that "someone kidnapped Scott and got my hopes up that he died."
• Wallace happens to be at the cafe waiting for his croissant, clearly hung over and not all there after a night on the town.
  Wallace: Did you say Scott's alive?
  Ramona: Yeah.
  Wallace: [drunkenly laughs] Ah, trippy. Well, if you see him, tell him I changed the locks. And if you see me, remind me to change the locks.
• Julie tries to go on break when Ramona arrives. Stacey complains that she just went on break. So Julie just... ignores her customers.
  Customer: Excuse me, I asked for an iced americano? This is a hot americano—
  Julie: THEN ADD SOME ICE CUBES TO IT! You stupid f*ck.
• Kim immediately understands Ramona's explanation of subspace.
  Ramona: You know you're the first person in Canada to understand?
  Kim: No wonder you're putting us out of business.
  Ramona: ...Canada?
  Kim: Video stores.
• Scott apparently owes the store $3,500 in late fees, with Kim even joking that he must've faked his death to get out of paying.
• Roxie bursts into the store, out of the order of exes, to claim Ramona early.
  Roxie: Rox you like a hurricane!
  Ramona: Why are you even...
  Roxie: Shh, shh, shh, shh. I'm here for us, Ramona. First in line to win your heart. Because I have something the others never will.
  Ramona: Which is what, exactly?
  Roxie: Emotional intelligence. None of these boys know how to talk about their feelings.
  Ramona: What you fail to mention is that when it comes to feelings, you're as clueless as the boys.
  Roxie: That is so unfair! You're just impossible to talk to!
  Ramona: You want to talk about feelings? Start talking.
  [beat]
  Roxie: I've got a better idea. Let's fight about 'em!
  [fight graphic starts]
  • And when the fight is announced, Ramona doesn't look ready. If anything, she looks like she really doesn't wanna go through with this.
• During Roxie and Ramona's fight, they somehow get thrown into the movies on the shelves and end up fighting through various movie scenes. When it seems like Roxie has the upper hand, Kim pauses the video and rewinds it a few beats. Roxie, for her part, thinks that was cheap but resigns herself to getting walloped.
  • And then when they get thrown out of the movie, Roxie dashes towards Kim and smashes her remote to bits before Ramona pulls her back in.
• After the two fight and hash things out, Ramona states that she'd like to remain being friends with Roxie.
  Roxie: With benefits?
  Ramona: No benefits.
  Roxie: Worth a shot. [turns to Kim] What about you?
  Kim: Oh, I'm not... Hmm.
  (Kim and Roxie, for just a moment, lock lips)
  Roxie: No sparks.
  Kim: Eh, worth a shot.
  Roxie: What about your hot coworker? Is she coming back?
  Ramona: Okay, it's time for you to leave.
  (Roxie walks out the front door and waves goodbye, cheerily scatting to the melody of "Whistle Stop" as she leaves)
• Ramona is in a good mood with how she settled things with Roxie... and then realizes that she's going to have to do this with all seven of them.
• Gideon Gordon Graves' real name. Gordon Goose. The entire franchise, Scott and Ramona were being targeted by a guy named Gordon Goose.
  • Even funnier when you realize the famous joke about Canadians being afraid of geese due to how vicious they are.
  • Among his trials after losing his fortune is being unable to get a reservation at McDonald's.
    Gordon: They laughed when I called!

Episode 4: "Whatever"

• In what is probably the best licensed needle drop of the series, Lucas Lee is introduced skating to, of all songs, Liam Lynch's "United States of Whatever".
• Young Neil's screenplay turns out to be the main canon events of the series from when Scott actually defeats Matthew Patel. To Ramona's horror, Envy is playing her. And based on what little we see of her performance, Meryl Streep she ain't.
• Young Neil gives Ramona a tour of the set on a golf cart. It immediately becomes clear that he has no idea what's going on.
  Young Neil: Did you know in the U.S. these are called Mario Karts?
  Ramona: That can't be true.
  Young Neil: How would you know that?
  Ramona: I'm from the U.S.
  Young Neil: Oh. Well, they're definitely called that in Japan.
  Ramona: Pretty sure that's not true either.
• Shortly after Young Neil drops off Ramona at Lucas Lee’s trailer.
  Young Neil: No problem! I know my way around the studio.
  (Drives offscreen… and crashes)
  Young Neil: (From offscreen) I DON'T KNOW WHERE I AM!
  (Ramona awkwardly smiles at the viewer.)
• Wallace is played by a "famously heterosexual" actor who can't stop hitting on every woman he sees. Wallace steals his spot in the movie just by being himself.
  Director: Have you ever acted before?
  Wallace: I thought about it. Decided against it because I was worried I'd be too good at it.
• Lucas Lee, playing Scott in Young Neil's movie, comments on the fictional version of himself being tricked into grinding to death, noting that he would never fall for that. He also comments that he would never be dumb enough to do something as career-ending as dating a high schooler. Ramona points to the TV where a gossip show is showing him dating the actress playing Knives.
  Lucas Lee: MY GOD.
  • To be fair, he points out that she's a 31 year old woman playing a 17 year old.
    • Extra layer of funny because Ellen Wong was 24 when she played Knives in 2010, and she was older than Michael Cera.
  • The fact that Lucas Lee WOULD have been defeated by being tricked into grinding to death, if Scott didn't got kidnapped, because we know how it actually played out before in both the comics and the movie.
• Just the entire concept of the episode's big fight scene: Lucas Lee VS. a horde of TMZ paparazzi dressed as ninjas. At one point, they turn into a tidal wave, and then physically transform into swarm of roaches as they Zerg Rush Lucas.
  • One Fridge funny moment: No one ever calls them "paparazzi ninjas," just "paparazzi." Implying that this is all perfectly ordinary behavior for paparazzi.

Episode 5: "Lights. Camera. Sparks?!"

• Ramona has to take a job as Envy's stunt double to stay on set. She, Ramona Flowers, has to be the stunt double for the character Ramona Flowers. It naturally leads to a lot of confusion on set.
  Interviewer: You're the stunt double for Ramona Flowers and your name is also Ramona Flowers?
  (Ramona thinks for a second, then sheepishly smiles, eyes awkwardly widened, and nods. An ID box then appears, crediting "Ramona Flowers" as "Ramona Flowers Stunt Double")
• Todd takes over the role of Scott. In his first scene, he is supposed to put his hand on Envy-as-Ramona's back as they walk. It immediately turns into an impromptu make-out/sex session. Every time. 41 takes later, Todd is on top of Envy, screaming and tearing his shirt off while Envy howls like a wolf, and the director is tearing his hair out.
• Young Neil's thoughts on the difficulties of shooting Todd and Envy?
  Young Neil: A movie set is kinda like a chemistry set. Some people just have too much chemistry. And what happens when you mix a bunch of volatile chemicals?
  Interviewer: You get an explosion.
  Young Neil: You do?! That's dangerous! Why are we mixing volatile chemicals on a movie set in the first place?!
• Todd Ingram falls in love with Wallace Wells after they kiss during a scene. What follows is a montage of Wallace asking Todd if he'd like to "run lines" in his trailer, then proceeding to have sex inside. The fact that Todd's trailer rocks harder and faster every time it cuts to him and Wallace "running lines."
  Young Neil: I don't remember writing that part...
  • Envy's horrified face when the director tells Todd and Wallace to kiss.
• The documentary crew asks how Ramona feels about the whole film, and her role as a stunt double for an actress playing her. Ramona calmly says she doesn't care, because she's just here to get close to Todd to find out if he kidnapped Scott and faked his death with a vegan portal. She doesn't notice that the film crew has stopped walking.
  Cameraman: Uh, what?
• This moment from the behind-the-scenes documentary:
  Edgar Wrong (director): I'd even go so far as to say Toronto is a character in the movie. A major character.
  Young Neil (screenwriter): Really? He said that? Who did he cast to play Toronto?
• How does Todd break his vegan diet after being dumped by Wallace? A KFC bucket's worth of poutine.
• Envy tries to fight Wallace... and he immediately summons his four stunt doubles. Despite having originally been a minor character with no fight scenes.
  Envy: Four stunt doubles!? They only gave me one.
  Wallace: It's in my contract. Get a better lawyer, baby.
• Envy grabs her stunt double to fight Wallace's stunt doubles, despite Ramona being in the middle of an interview.
• The entire fight between Ramona vs. Wallace's stunt doubles.
  • The documentary crew comes along, and they're very confused when the announcer calls out the fight.
    Cameraman: Who said that!?
    Announcer: Uh, nobody!
  • The moment the fight starts, Ramona is very confused as to what scene requires her to fight four copies of Wallace. She then ends up clashing head-on with none other than "Straight Wallace" who had been demoted into a stunt double much to her confusion.
    Ramona: Straight Wallace? You're a stunt double now?!
    Straight Wallace: Why are you acting like that's weird? You made the exact same career change.
    Ramona: Well, I did it for very specific reasons.
• Ramona makes a great showing against the stunt doubles... but what actually defeats them is Wallace constantly heckling them from the sidelines.
  Stunt Double: [openly crying] We can deal with the physical abuse, but not the emotional abuse!
  • Having had enough of Wallace and Envy's feud, Ramona breaks up the fighting and asks the latter what her character has against Wallace in the first place only for Envy state that It's Personal and it has nothing to do with the movie, scene then cuts to Wallace talking to the cameraman.
    Wallace (non-chalantly): I broke her boyfriend.
• The director is so shocked to be fired by Matthew, he drops his jaw, screams, and explodes into coins.
• Matthew is a little shocked to learn that Scott is still alive, showing that despite having newfound confidence, it's still a little fragile.
  Matthew: I didn't win?
  Ramona: No.
  Matthew: He's not dead?
  Ramona: Nope.
  Matthew: ...Is he mad at me?
  Ramona: I don't know, dude!
• Apparently, ALL of this nonsense happened in just THREE days, as a shocked Ramona learns (note that within this time, Todd got Wallace as a sailor tattooed on his chest, as the page image demonstrates), and they only had three scenes canned and have gone over-budget by at least $15 million.

Episode 6: "WHODIDIT"

• Lucas Lee calling Goose:
  Gordon: You're go for Goose.
  Lucas Lee: I'm looking for Graves, Gideon. Who the Hell is Goose?
  Gordon: You've reached the adult formerly known as Gideon Graves. It's "The Goose" now. Gordon Goose.
  Lucas Lee: That's cool. You know, Lucas isn't my real name, actually. It's Luke.
  Gordon: That's not even remotely the same thing.
• Lucas and Goose becoming fast friends and immediately getting into shenanigans like having a paintball fight and building a whole skate ramp. Julie is significantly unimpressed since they do all of this in her living room while she's at the grocery store.
  Julie: I was gone for ninety ***ing minutes!
• Julie admits to Ramona that she's really attracted to Gordon when he's brewing plans to get revenge on Matthew Patel. But now he's a total loser who sits around her house watching anime.
• Julie gets ready to murder Gordon and Lucas for what they did to her house, complete with the announcer calling out the fight. Ramona jumps in and defuses the situation.
  Ramona: Let's all be adults about this, for once.
• Lucas Lee says he's flat broke—he can't even afford a first-class ticket back home.
  Lucas Lee: The only jobs I can get are in animated series. Lucas Lee is live-action or nothing.
• Ramona's conclusion after Todd is confirmed not to be the creator of the vegan portal used to kidnap Scott. Said in absolute seriousness:
  Ramona: What's more powerful than a human vegan?
  Young Neil: Two human vegans?
  Ramona: No... a robot vegan. (The group gasps) A robot that's never eaten meat. A robot that's never had any dairy. A vegan without the inherent flaws of humanity.
  • And as Scott confirms, this is exactly right.

Episode 7: " 2 Scott 2 Pilgrim"

• Fifteen years in the future, Toronto has flying cars and hover-buses.
  Old Scott: Turns out that the future is even more futuristic than anyone predicted!
• Old Scott started a band with the Old Katayanagi Twins called "Pop'n Twinbee." What's their latest hit? A cover of Konya Wa Hurricane from the original Bubblegum Crisis. Will Forte as Old Scott singing Konya Wa Hurricane is a thing that now happened.
• The fact that the entire catalyst of the plot - that is, the original storyline being disrupted - was Old Scott misinterpreting Old Wallace's sarcastic suggestion to build a Time Machine and stop himself from dating Ramona as a serious idea.
  Old Wallace: Buddy, I was obviously joking.
  Old Scott: Oh, NOW you tell me...
• Old Wallace presses Old Scott to tell regular Scott the truth, with the implication that they are now a couple. Scott then proceeds to tell Scott that Wallace's husband...works for Nintendo.
  Scott (awestruck): Where they make the video games?
  Old Scott and Old Wallace: Yes
  Scott: Does he get every game for free?
  Old Scott: Yes!
  Old Wallace: No, he doesn't!
• A moment of levity after Old Scott loses his temper with Young Scott and storms off:
  Scott: ...Is Old Me okay?
  Old Wallace: Remember how you were after Envy Adams dumped you? It's like that times ten.
  Scott: Oh no...
• When Scott starts using Robot 0-1 to catch up on the events of the series, his first stop is the Rockit, just after he was “killed”. Cue the scuff as Scott causes the little guy to run in place next to the railing like a video game glitch.
• Turns out Young Neil didn't write the screenplay of the original timeline. Future Ramona did so that Scott could know their story… but she did base it off a memoir by Old Young Neil.
  • Even if he did write a whole book, Young Neil clearly won't be winning the Pulitzer anytime soon. (Scott and Ramona loved each other very, very, very, very, very much.)
• How easily the Scott-Knives-Ramona love triangle is handled. Apparently, a temporal kidnapping really helps avoid a lot of drama:
  Scott: And maybe this isn't the best time to have this realization, but I probably shouldn't have been dating you in the first place. Apparently, a 23-year-old dating a high schooler is frowned upon by society.
  Knives: Scott, I'm glad you're alive... but I'm also glad you died.
• Old Ramona meeting Ramona and having her picture taken with her. The two Ramona's find the whole thing so awkward that they give up on posing all together.
• Scott and Ramona trying to kiss, only for a force field to appear between their lips to prevent them to kiss. They try to kiss many times, only for the force field to blast them away from each other.
  • The group shows their kissing problems to their friends. Cue Knives laughing at their misfortune. Considering Scott cheated on her with Ramona, it's hard not to laugh alongside Knives for Scott's predicament.

Episode 8: "The World Vs Scott Pilgrim"

• Scott tries to fight the Evil Exes. Unfortunately, each time he faces one, it turns into an Anti-Climax since they all are no longer interested in fighting him.
  • He first attacks Todd by destroying his bucket of buttered popcorn. However, Todd is still in love with Wallace, asking Scott obsessive questions about him. Cue to Wallace appearing and completely rejecting Todd, resulting in him running off in tears.
  • He then meets Matthew, who refuses to fight Scott because he wants to focus on his musical.
  • Gideon offers his hand to Scott and then clarifies that he moved on to Julie, who calls Scott a psycho maniac.
  • Scott asks Lucas and Roxie if they made the force field, but they ignore him in favor of seeing Matthew's musical.
  • The Twins refuse to fight Scott since their robot told them that they are friends with him in the future.
  • After Ramona realizes that none of her Exes were responsible, Scott is dismayed because there were no fights or kisses, complaining about the ending.
• Scott and Ramona take their seats. And then all of the Evil Exes (excluding Matthew on stage) make fun of Scott's inability to kiss Ramona by daring him to kiss her. Scott is clearly frustrated and embarrassed.
• We don't actually see any of the musical, but everything that we hear of it is hilarious:
  • The opening number recreates Scott and Wallace's morning conversation back in the first episode.
  • Ramona has a number where she melodramatically wonders how to tell Scott that her exes are evil.
  • An entire song is dedicated to the idea that bread makes you fat.
• Even Older Scott kidnaps everyone from the show and explains how he spent ten years training to fight everyone. Scott and Ramona flatly say that he basically hid in his house for ten years. Even Older Scott is rather put out.
• Even Older Scott punches the highlight out of Knives's hair.
• Ramona gives all the Exes weapons from her hammerspace bag. Todd's is... broccoli. Apparently all he needs to get his vegan powers back is one vegan meal.
• During the fight, Todd’s shirt rides up, showing that he still has the Wallace tattoo from episode 5.
• The Katayanagi Twins call for Robot 0-1 to attack with a Rocket Punch (complete with Gratuitous Japanese), as it launches its fists at Even Older Scott...who just No Sells the attack, with the fists even making a squeaky noise upon contact.
• With only the two of them left to fight Even Older Scott, Scott proposes he and Ramona attack him together...but takes a pause to tie his shoelaces.
  • Making it funnier is that Scott's left shoe is still missing, having come off earlier when Even Older Scott hit him, and the camera even shows his bare left foot when he stops to tie the laces on his remaining shoe. Seems a bit late to worry about that, Scott.
• Super Ramona's appearance has both Scott and Even Older Scott in awe, with Scott excitedly looking at his older self and saying it's just like Sonic the Hedgehog 3, while Older Scott says Sonic 2 before backpedaling and saying 3 as well, even though he was technically right if they're talking about the first appearance of Super Sonic.
  • This actually adds an additional layer of humor to the exchange as it implies that present Scott hadn't beat the special stages in Sonic 2 and thus wouldn't know that Super Sonic's first appearance was in that game. Which means at some point during his ten year isolation, Even Older Scott revisited the game and beat the special stages to unlock Super Sonic. His backpedaling being a way of avoiding spoilers for his past self.
• Super Ramona notes that Scott is just an idiot kid, and Even Older Scott is a real mess, prompting the younger Scott to point at his older self like a schoolboy and say this:
  Scott: Ooooh kick his ass Super Ramona!
• In the epilogue, Lucas Lee is working at the coffee shop with Flair Bartending. Kim says "whatever" to him, and he blushes.
  Stacey: [on the phone] Yeah, it's pretty annoying, but the tips are good, and I get to stare at his butt all day.
• Several times during the show Wallace dismisses the idea of "sparks" (the apparently in-universe sparkly effect that shows up whenever two characters in love kiss). During the Epilogue, Wallace kisses a guy he met on vacation in Paris (Mobile, from the original source material) and is shocked to discover that apparently sparks are real.
• The episode cuts to credits and starts playing…the Plumtree song “Scott Pilgrim.”

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