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  • Baby See, Baby Do: When Three tells One to keep her eye on the ball, she repeats, "On the ball".
  • Buffy Speak: When the brain gain works on making the man go backwards but renders him unable to go forwards, Three remarks, "Too much backwards".
  • Death by De-aging: Five imagines an old man turning into a slightly younger man, then a middle-aged man, then a young man, then a teen, a preteen, a grade-schooler, a preschooler, a toddler, then finally a baby before disappearing completely.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: This is the only episode where Four isn't seen looking for a number, for the numberjack on the mission to land on. Instead, Six seems to land in the carpark immediately after he's launched.
  • Gone Horribly Right: The brain gain succeeds in making the man go backwards, but it makes him only capable of going backwards.
  • Involuntary Dance: At one point, the Blob makes the man move his arms and legs around as though dancing, and eventually do the splits.
  • Literal-Minded: When Three tells One to keep her eye on the ball, One turns around and stares directly at the ball.
  • Merlin Sickness: Five imagines an old man aging backwards after getting blobbed.
  • Non Sequitur: When it's Two's turn to pass the ball, he randomly says, "Left! Right!".
  • Share the Male Pain: When Four sees the footage of the man being forced to do the splits, he remarks, "Ooh, that's painful!".
  • Subverted Catchphrase: Instead of "Anything could happen!", Five says, "That Problem Blob could make almost anything happen!".
  • Tempting Fate: Five remarks, "Let's hope there's no more trouble!", and then a split second later, more trouble arises.
  • Throwing Off the Disability: In Five's imagining of an old man de-ageing, when he turns middle-aged he throws away his walking stick, then when he turns into a young adult he throws away his glasses.

 
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Only in a children's show will Death by De-aging be depicted as a simple "pop".

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