Follow TV Tropes

Following

Recap / Black Dynamite S 1 E 1 "Just Beat It" or "Jackson Five Across Yo' Eyes"

Go To

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_dynamite_animation_youtube_009_0001.jpg
He he he!
After Cream Corn saves young Michael Jackson from an assassination attempt (while not helping Black Dynamite and the gang fight a troupe of black ninjas), he and the pint-sized pop star become good friends. However, once Michael gets on Black Dynamite's nerves, Cream Corn leaves, only to be subjected to the physical abuse of Jackson, who they all discover is actually an alien trying to take over the world.

Tropes for this episode include:

  • Conservation of Ninjutsu: Black Dynamite and his friends (sans Cream Corn) wind up getting swarmed with ninjas at the beginning of the episode.
  • Cool Versus Awesome: Black Dynamite and Ninjas vs. Invading, Frickin' Laser Beam-Shooting Michael Jackson Aliens
  • Generic Ethnic Crime Gang: The ninjas in this episode are treated as a street gang causing havoc in the Black Community.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Michael Jackson is revealed to be half human, half Mamasaymamasamamacoosa.
  • Ice-Cream Koan: The ninja offers us this wisdom towards the end of the episode. Surprisingly, Black Dynamite not only understands, but considers it the most intelligent thing anyone's said.
    "Ninjas do wrong to each other sometimes, and in that way, the force of the Earth comes around the moon, and at that presence, the dirt, it overshadows the grass, and you like, "I can’t cut this grass. There’s no sun coming through". So in order to enable each other, the two fruits have to look each other in the eye, understand we can only be ripe as the ripe is wrong. You know what I mean?"
  • McNinja: Many of the ninjas featured in the episode are black.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Abusive child Michael Jackson is unflattering. His nose comes off and it gets creepy. Tearing his black face off revealing THAT horror show speaks for itself.

Top