Infectious Personality
Year produced: 2006
Production code: 308a
Original U.S. air date: 2/21/2009
Oh me, oh my!
The one with the weird gas.
"Infectious Personality" contains examples of:
- Berserk Button: After being exposed to the asteroid dust, Sheldon becomes aggressive and specifically hates flowers, becoming increasingly enraged whenever he sees or hears about them.
- Brick Joke: After realizing it's not directly her causing the infection, Jenny leaves behind a protective suit she was wearing with the two nerds, one of them immediately getting close to it. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that there was still some dust left in the suit, and the nerd has turned into a giant monster.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Dr. Wakeman becomes incredibly dumb after being infected, but she's still able to point out to Jenny that, instead of isolating herself to the point of leaving Earth so she doesn't infect anyone else, she can simply find a cure instead.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Dr. Wakeman notes that the reason Jenny's friends seemed to have come down with the illness was their proximity to her... with Jenny being mere feet behind her, at which point she too gets infected.
- Fartillery: Tuck is able to use his farts to move at breakneck speeds and temporarily fly by propelling himself in the air, though it quickly stops being fun for him when his body starts to build up so much gas that he inflates like a balloon and fly around uncontrollably.
- Gasshole: Tuck after being exposed to the dust Jenny brings home from outer space. It starts off with his farts being strong enough to he could fly, but then it escalates to where his body inflates with his own gas.
- Improperly Paranoid: Brad's symptom after being exposed to the dust causes him to become increasingly paranoid about everything without reason.
- Inflating Body Gag: Tuck's farts build up in his body, and the gas causes him to inflate like a balloon. By the climax, he's big enough for a kid to mistake him for parade balloon.
- It's All My Fault: Jenny, when she learns that not only was she a carrier for the infection, but she was ultimately the cause thanks to destroying the asteroids, as they contained microorganisms that she sent into the cold of space.
- Magic Pants: Tuck's clothes are able to stretch to accommodate his ballooning body, even when he's big enough to mistaken for a parade balloon.
- No Ontological Inertia: Tuck is big enough to be a parade balloon by the time he's cured and is instantly turned back to normal once he is, with all the gas that he's build up immediately disappearing.
- Not Himself: Brad, Sheldon, and Dr. Wakeman all experience personality shifts after being exposed to the asteroid dust. Brad becomes paranoid about everything, Sheldon becomes aggressive, and Dr. Wakeman becomes dumb. The only exception is Tuck, who instead develops an immense farting problem.
- Properly Paranoid: Jenny, while looking for a cure for her friends and family's condition, wears a special suit to prevent her from potentially infecting others, though she leaves it behind when she realizes it's the dust causing the problem, not herself. Unfortunately, it turns out she was still carrying some of the microorganisms that caused the infection on her, as one of the people she left the empty suit gets infected, turning into a giant monster.
- Skewed Priorities: Dr. Wakeman is more concerned with the fact that Jenny's still covered in space dust than the fact that her friends are completely trashing her lab.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Dr. Wakeman, even after being infected and reduced to a dumb state, points out to Jenny that she can simply find a cure rather than isolate herself away from Earth entirely.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: The infection eventually causes Sheldon to mutate, turning his upper body into that of a gorilla, shredding his shirt along the way. He spends the rest of the episode that way, with it being more noticeable once he's cured and all the hair that was covering his body disappears.
- Wilting Odor: At one point, Tuck's farts are shown to be capable of melting a wall away.
Trash Talk
Year produced: 2006
Production code: 308b
Original U.S. air date: 2/21/2009
Jenny.... in space!
The one with Jenny, Brad and Tuck going to space.
"Trash Talk" contains examples of:
- Bookends: The episode starts with the trio arguing over a game and the episode ends with the trio (plus one) arguing over a game.
- The Cameo: The U.S.S. Enterprise appears for a few seconds to dump some garbage on the asteroid.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Krackus is the only one who even considers using Jenny to power up a rocket ship he had built so he, Smytus, and Vexus could escape the asteroid.
- Rules Lawyer: Jenny uses the rules of a Monopoly-esque game to win at the beginning of the episode, with Brad and Tuck calling her out on winning on a technicality. Then at the end, Jenny is on the opposite side as the alien cat they hitchhiked with uses the rules that only he can read to win a game of 3-D Chess.
- Sanity Slippage: Not as extreme as most cases, but it's clear being stuck on the asteroid upon her banishment from Cluster Prime has taken a toll on Vexus' sanity, as she acts noticeably more foolish than before.
- Skewed Priorities: Basically, if their name wasn't "Jenny" or "Krackus", then chances are whoever is speaking is more concerned with something much more minor than escaping an asteroid. Brad and Tuck are still bitter over losing a board game to Jenny, Smytus wants a new pair of legs, and Vexus is the walking definition of Revenge Before Reason.
- Unexplained Recovery: While he's clearly in bad shape, having lost his legs, Smytus is shown to have survived getting blown up during the events of "Escape From Cluster Prime." Krackus too, assuming he didn't leave Smytus' ship in time.
- Villainous Breakdown: As noted above, it's apparent that Vexus has finally lost it after her constant defeats by Jenny and being stranded on an asteroid for who knows how long. She attempts to blow up the asteroid she, Smytus, and Krackus are stranded on with the intent of escaping in a spaceship made of a coffee can that's too small to hold any of them, for one thing.
- Worf Had the Flu: How does one keep Jenny grounded to an asteroid for the duration of the episode? Inflict her with robot-paralysis, of course!
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: How Vexus tricks Jenny into falling for her trap early on.
