Season 1, Episode 15: Death Takes a Holiday
Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
- Death Takes a Holiday: Inverted. The episode is actually about gods losing their immortality to a special flower.
- Immortal Breaker: The flowers on the island make it so that gods become like mortals. Most of the visiting gods are subsequently killed by angry mortals.
- Ironic Episode Title: Death Takes a Holiday is the trope where mortals as a whole lose the ability to die or can't reach the afterlife, persisting as undead or ghosts. This episode features immortal gods becoming like mortals and most of them dying.
- Knew It All Along: Stupendous accidentally kills all the Argonauts as they come into port, with Homer as the only survivor. She, Hippocampus and Schlub try to take advantage of Homer's blindness and try to convince him that the Argonauts were still alive. But after going along with it for a while, Homer reveals that he figured it out immediately and was just stringing them along.
