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Recap / All Hail King Julien S 05 E 10 For Whom The Bell Gods Toll

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Julien and Maurice fought Thrax / as the crowd held their breath
Although they were victorious, / Maurice may have fallen to his death!
Sage and Clover found a lunch box of time / to save Koto from his life of crime.
Smart Mort learned to accept his big brain / and journeyed to a new Dimensional plane
And Sugarbottoms freed some snails!

Chapter Dix

Julien has no will to go on with Maurice dead, and winds up in Frank-ri La, where he is put on trial for his life. Maurice has survived and has been taken in by the Ancient Bell Gods, who reveal their true identity. Mort challenges Morticus Khan for control of the Mort army.

Tropes:

  • Blatant Lies: Karl's claim that he orchestrated Koto's takeover of the kingdom in an elaborate plan to kill Julien is extremely far fetched, not to mention contradictory to Karl's usual M.O. and it is immediately called out by Uncle Julien.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Mort asks if he missed the first act of the movie or something
  • Continuity Cavalcade: Character witnesses at Julien's afterlife trial are all characters that have died throughout the series; Magic Steve, Captain Ethan, Karen, the Butterfly Queen, Vigman Wildebeest, King Julien the Terrible and... Willie?
  • Continuity Nod:
    • Masikura had mentioned that when you die, your spirit goes to Frank-ri La where your life will be judged. This is more or less what happens to Julien here.
    • When Karl claims that everything that happened so far has all been part of his plan, we are shown a flashback to Julien and Koto's meeting in "Koto Plain and Tall" only this time instead of Julien knocking out the snake by landing on it, Karl scares it away with an airhorn.
    • Mort attempts to defeat Morticus Khan with an image of The Feet, but Morticus simply laughs it off as he is immune to the feet. This was also demonstrated in "The Wrath of Morticus Khan", but Mort would have had no way of knowing that.
    • When it's King Julien the Terrible's turn to testify, Julien feels relief that Julien the Terrible is far too Obviously Evil to seem sympathetic, only for it to be revealed that Julien the Terrible's spirit is still the pile of ash he was reduced to at the end of "Election".
  • Death is Cheap: Julien walks into a mine and ends up in Frank-ri La and is unable to return, having been killed for real instead only being mostly dead. Fortunately, Piney is the judge and Julien's friend, so he overrules Julien's death sentence and returns him to life.
  • Enemy Mine: Karl has arrived and is perfectly willing to help King Julien reclaim his throne; if only so that Karl can attempt to take it for himself later.
  • A Fool for a Client: After absent-mindedly eating the shrimp cocktail assigned as his attorney, Julien acts as his own laywer in the guise of his Chairlemurtable identity. Naturally, his defense fails to sway the jury.
  • Gambit Roulette: Karl claims the entire Koto incident up to this point had been an elaborate plan to defeat Julien that he arranged, but Uncle Julien has a really hard time buying that.
  • Heroic BSoD: Maurice's apparent death hits Julien so hard he doesn't even notice that he's wandered into a minefield until he's already killed himself.
  • Kangaroo Court: When your character witnesses are all your dead enemies, there tends to be a bias against you.
  • Noodle Implements: Julien's death somehow lead to Willie's.
  • Reset Button: When Julien wins his life back, this is how it is handled; Julien is simply sent back to before he died, at roughly the point where the episode begins.
  • The Reveal:
  • Shout-Out: From what we are told, Mort is essentially an Immortal.
  • Third Line, Some Waiting: As a result of the past episode, Clover's plotline is not addressed in this episode and instead that time goes to following Maurice.

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