Fifty Shades of Red
Capt. Butch Flowers holds a tryout for the sergeant of Red Team's Blood Gulch outpost and interviews candidates for Blue Team.
This episode has examples of:
- Dumbass Has a Point: Sarge assumes that the rubber bullets the soldiers were given for training were due to an error and switches them for live rounds. When Lemons questions how he came to that conclusion, Sarge notes that they used a real bomb for training earlier, something Lemons can't exactly offer a rebuttal for.
- Foregone Conclusion: Played for Laughs. The other Red soldiers that are competing against Sarge for the position of… Sergeant.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently, Tucker got into some trouble with a minor who claimed she was 18.
- Prequel: The second episode of the prequel trilogy.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: All of the sergeant candidates have the same mindset as Sarge.
- Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: The interview montage shows each answer given by the candidates in order — candidate 1, candidate 2, candidate 3 (Tucker), then back to candidate 1 for the next question, etc. The interviewer's questions are left out, but candidate 1 repeats each one in some way, providing context for both his answer and the others.Candidate 1: I would say my greatest strength is my love for following rules.
Candidate 1: Where do I see myself in five years? Hopefully, with your job! [laughs]
Candidate 1: Gosh, why ‘‘did’’ I join the military? You know, I just wanted to make a difference. Fight for my fellow man.
Candidate 1: My deepest regret? Oh, golly. I mean, probably not telling my mom "I love you" more before shipping off. - Terrible Interviewees Montage: Blue Team's candidates are seen in such a fashion. The second guy just keeps saying what a great listener he is (and later fails to answer a question because he wasn't listening), and Tucker is, well, Tucker. The first candidate could be seen as an exception since he is decent and honest with his answers and seems like a Nice Guy, but since Butch Flowers is looking for bad candidates to join Blue Team, he was never really a good option.
