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AFKAK uses a time machine to go back to 2004 and prevent his past self from shooting his dad in the testicles.


  • Alternate Timeline: This mainly takes place in an alternate timeline, where Kevin never shot Randall in the balls. Because of this, several things are so much better;
    • Paradise is more technologically advanced, now having bigger buildings and flying cars.
    • Dusty is a super buff athlete, who's not fat or out-of-shape at all.
    • Fitz is in perfect mental health and is still married to the Dolphin Queen.
    • Bullet is sober and also acts like a regular dog, unburdened by human thoughts.
    • Robby and Delbert are two very classy gentlemen, who became openly gay millionaires.
    • Dobby is named Dobert and looks normal, though he's still only capable of saying his name.
    • Frank Flipperfist is named Frank Fingerfist and has fully-functioning fingers, which he uses to play piano and finger women.
    • Hopson became the president and has a 100% approval rating.
    • Donald Trump fell into the river habitat at the zoo and was raped to death by hippos.
    • The Crawfords are extremely wealthy and live in a luxurious mansion.
    • Randall is a happy father with perfectly intact balls, who never gets mad about anything.
    • Karen could afford to get plastic surgery to make herself look like Carmen Electra.
    • The Crawford family also has four additional siblings, who were born after the altered day in question, all of whom are extremely successful (a doctor, a scientist, a film director, and an astronaut).
    • Hobo Cop, while still homeless, works as a medical doctor and now goes by "Hobo Doc".
    • Brickleberry was never canceled and in this universe, is a famous, groundbreaking series that won a bunch of Emmys and NAACP awards.
    • Gina is married to Kevin and acts looks and acts like him.
  • Annoying Laugh: Dusty demands Ricky Ricardo laugh his signature laugh from the show. Ricky Ricardo laughs this loud, annoying laugh all throughout the credits of the episode.
  • Ate His Gun: 5-year-old Kevin commits suicide this way, upon seeing the disheartening loser he's destined to grow up to become.
  • Bait-and-Switch:
    • Although he was mainly time traveling around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop Bill Cosby... from making that godawful Fat Albert movie.
    • Bullet runs offscreen and Fitz yells in his direction to stop doing drugs and alcohol, stop raping that woman, and stop urinating on the child's birthday cake. It turns out that he's not talking to Bullet, he's talking to Andy Dick, who's doing all that messed up shit next to Bullet.
  • Bound and Gagged: Dusty has Ricky Ricardo tied to a chair and imprisoned in his apartment.
  • Colonized Solar System: Neil Crawford colonized Mars.
  • Cure for Cancer: Marie Crawford invented this.
  • Expendable Clone: One of Kevin's siblings created clones for the sole purpose of moving condiments. Randall kills the only one we see while shouting "I am God!".
  • Fantastic Racism: Apparently, saying "Take Me to Your Leader" to an alien is considered a racist stereotype nowadays.
  • Fictional Disability: A running gag in this episode is for people to bring up "Patton Oswalt Disease", which is whatever illness that causes Patton Oswalt to look the way he does.
  • Flashback: This episode has two flashback montages to previous episodes: The first shows how Baby Kevin has secretly been sabotaging AFKAK at various plot points throughout the season and the second shows past moments in the series, where Kevin/AFKAK has exhibited being a complete loser.
  • Foreshadowing: Kevin listening to The Crawford Kids happily singing the positive motivational song, "Just Give Yourself a Shot" alluded to how later in the episode, he solved his problems by killing his past self via gunshot.
  • Grandfather Paradox: Averted. AFKAK goes back in time to see his 5-year-old self. When his 5-year-old self sees the kind of person he'll end up being in the future, he immediately commits suicide by gunshot. This in no way affects present-day AFKAK as he still remains alive and well. AFKAK also goes back in time to himself earlier on in his time travel journey and shoots his past self dead. This doesn't change the fact that he's still alive today.
  • Grew a Spine: AFKAK hits a turning point in his character development in this episode when he finally learns how to stand up for himself for a change, after realising how much of an Extreme Doormat he'd been (including letting himself get evicted by his sex dolls and letting his father take away his name). AFKAK stands up to his abusive father and reclaims the name "Kevin", reclaims his apartment by scaring all of the sex dolls out of it with violence, and also asserts dominance over his little brother, earning his respect.
    [AFKAK grabs Randall by the shirt collar and slaps him silly]
    AFKAK: My name is KEVIN! Say it! SAY MY NAME!
    Randall: AH! KEVIN! Your name is Kevin!
  • Groin Attack: As AFKAK hangs from the bridge, he gets several of these from passing by boats pelting his balls silly, finishing off with a boxing kangaroo on a jetpack.
    AFKAK: At least it ended on a fun one.
  • Hamster-Wheel Power: The time machine is powered by a gerbil running on his wheel.
  • Infodump: A bit of this happens to help explain to Kevin all the differences in the alternate timeline, even if the dialogue sounds completely unnatural.
    Fitz: Hey, guys. My doctor just told me that I have no mental issues... which is weird because I've never had any mental issues before.
  • It's a Wonderful Plot: AFKAK sees how everyone's lives are so much better in the alternate timeline, where he never shot his dad in the balls.
  • Killing Your Alternate Self: Kevin kills the version of himself who was going to swap his dad's gun with a water gun.
  • Language Barrier: AFKAK doesn't understand a word of Ricky Ricardo's Spanish, when the latter pleads for help.
    Ricky: El gordo loco me secuestró y me obliga a decir mis eslóganes! note 
    AFKAK: ...Gracias.
  • Lost in Character: Randall gets lost in character during sexual foreplay with Karen.
    Randall: I'm not Randall. I'm Felipe, the Australian AC guy! And you hired me to do a job, 'member?
    Karen: Oh, well in that case, maybe there's another job I can give you.
    Randall: What, are you crazy!? I can't risk my job for sex with a client! I got a kid with Patton Oswalt disease!
  • Magic A Is Magic A:
    • AFKAK questions how a fully-functioning time machine can be constructed from a colander, a Super Nintendo, a gerbil running on his wheel and Dusty tells him to quit asking questions and just go with it.
      AFKAK: So, how does this work? Does it take into account the manifold possibilities laid out in quantum mechanics?
      Dusty: Seriously, Kevin? It's a colander, a gerbil, and a goddamned Super Nintendo. We don't gotta get all Rick and Morty up in here.
      AFKAK: But in terms of general relativity—
      Dusty: Kevin! You're confusing our fans. The audience is high. The writers are high. So, let's just start the motherfucking tit-sucking STORY!
    • Another joke like this occurs, when Kevin tries to talk to Bullet in the alternate timeline, only for Fitz to look at him confused and let him know that dogs can't talk ... despite the fact that it was recently established that he was married to a talking dolphin.
  • Mid-Suicide Regret: AFKAK jumps off a bridge to kill himself but then chickens out and grabs onto the bridge, saving himself.
  • Murder by Suicide: This episode reveals that Kevin intentionally tried to make AFKAK kill himself by destroying his life beyond repair. He reprogrammed his sex dolls to make them kick AFKAK out of his apartment, ruined AFKAK's chances with a porn star, and tricked him into thinking that Gina was being mind-controlled by Charles Lovely so she would think he's insane and definitively reject him. Kevin's plan only fell through because AFKAK chickened out of his suicide, at which point Kevin gives up and plans to shoot AFKAK himself.
  • Not Quite Dead: Turns out Norf wasn't killed in the last episode, after all. He survived getting shot in the head because his metabolism is slower than that of an elderly turtle.
  • Our Time Travel Is Different: Apparently, in this show, there's no such thing as a grandfather paradox, since killing your past self has no effect on your present self.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: AFKAK goes back in time to stop his younger self from shooting his dad in the balls, by replacing the gun his past self used with a water gun. This causes little Kevin to just harmlessly squirt water at his dad's balls and instead of sterilizing the latter, make him cum profusely.
  • Shout-Out: AFKAK briefly tries to distract Baby Kevin from shooting him by saying it's Duck Season.
  • Successful Sibling Syndrome: In the alternate timeline, Kevin has four younger siblings (Marie, Logan, Steven, and Neil), who are all high-achieving national heroes, who helped attain world peace. Meanwhile, Kevin works as a janitor at Goopy Goobers, cleaning shit off the floor.
  • Temporal Paradox: Strangely enough, this is completely averted. AFKAK even kills his past self twice and it doesn't affect him in the slightest.
  • Time Travel Episode: This episode's main plot is mostly about AFKAK traveling through time.
  • We Will All Fly in the Future: In the good future, Paradise has a bunch of flying cars.

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