A road trip comprising of Pop, Linda Stotch, Stewie Griffin, Eric Cartman, and SpongeBob. This could only go so well.
Airdate: February 25, 2022"Road Rage" is the first episode of the second season of Gory Toons.
Linda and Pop are going on a road trip while taking a few kids along. However, the little rascals gotten into a fight over a lollipop, causing the candy to fling into Linda's hair. And things are about to get messy from her.
"Road Rage" contains the following:
- Adults Are Useless: Pop does absolutely nothing when Linda's rage potentially threatens everybody's lives. The other dads are just as helpful, since they simply coward behind Pop.
- Anvil on Head: Linda is baited into getting crushed by an anvil. Similarly, Pop gets his head smashed in by an anchor.
- Asshole Victim: Sure, Cub was definitely going overboard in killing his father over some Oreos, but it's at least a breather seeing Cub being the one killing Pop.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Linda is usually tender and quiet, but in this episode, she appears to have a horrifying temperament.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: For a normally shy and not very talkative woman, Linda does grow a rather massive spine in this episode. She manages to strangle Wario and even Stephen fears her.
- Blowing a Raspberry: Wario delivers one to our protagonists when they are stuck in traffic. Man, he shouldn't have done that...
- Character Development: Linda Stotch was originally just Butters' mom. This episode gave her an additional trait of having a horrifying temper.
- Cross-Popping Veins: Linda when she really started to become angry.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:
- Kirby is dropped into a meat-grinder and gets ripped apart.
- Linda is crushed by an anvil.
- In similar vein to the previous death, Pop is crushed by an anchor.
- Choke Holds: A consequence of pissing off an already stressed-out Linda, Wario gets strangled to death by her.
- A Day In The Lime Light: Surprisingly enough, Linda Stotch (Butters' mother) is the lead this time around. Granted, Pop is also a prominent character as always too, but SpongeBob is a mere cameo in this episode.
- Debut Queue: This episode marks Eric Cartman as the last main character introduced in Gory Toons.
- Disproportionate Retribution: At the end of the episode, Cub deliberately kills Pop with an anchor just because he ate the last Oreo.
- Dirty Coward: Though clearly witnessing Linda beating up Wario, Pop doesn't intervene and blatantly drives off, abandoning Linda as well.
- Disaster Dominoes: Eric Cartman bullies Stewie without any provocation by smacking him with a lollipop. Stewie punches said lollipop into Linda's hair, pissing Linda off. Wario taunts Linda off while in a traffic jam. Linda is angered. Pop does absolutely nothing except panic.
- Elongating Arm Gag: Linda stretches her arm several feet to grab Kirby and toss him into a meat grinder.
- Evil vs. Evil: Stewie and Cartman are both sociopathic children who are both remarkably clever but incredibly short-sighted. In a meta-sense, both characters were also the instigators of the entire conflict.
- Fat Bastard: Strange pattern.
- Cartman perfectly establishes two of his infamous traits; his gluttony and love for antagonizing others.
- Meanwhile, Wario, the fat treasure hunter, sticks his tongue out at Linda.
- From Bad to Worse: Stewie and Cartman annoy Linda while in a traffic jam. Cue to Wario blowing a raspberry at Linda...
- Henpecked Husband: Stephen is a nervous wreck upon learning the news that Linda is angry.
- High-Pressure Emotion: After Wario rudely blows a raspberry at Linda, she is infuriated while boiling like a teakettle. Her face remaining pretty much the same doesn't help the tension.
- Karmic Death: Linda is crushed by an anvil right after she has beaten up Wario and killed Kirby.
- Kick the Dog: Cartman spent the entirety of his role in the episode taunting Stewie Griffin with his lollipop.
- Wario had no reason to taunt Linda. Actually, factoring in the episode's narrative, he was Bullying a Dragon.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Appears that almost anything can tick off Linda Stotch.
- Jerkass Ball: Normally, Linda is one of the least violent characters. Here, she is depicted as explosive and ferocious.
- Out of Focus: SpongeBob makes an appearance only in the beginning, where he is completely a Living Prop who plays no significance on the episode's plot at all.
- Road Trip Plot: Pop and Linda were driving the kids to somewhere, but none of them would behave. Because of their unruly attitude towards each other, Linda is pissed.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Both Stewie and Cartman were the ones who first provoked Linda, but proceeding the scene that took place inside the vehicle, neither of them showed up for the rest of the episode.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Wario, Kirby, Linda Stotch, and Pop die in this episode.
- Through a Face Full of Fur: A strange one. When Linda begins strangeling Wario, his cap turns blue alongside his face.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Stewie Griffin, Eric Cartman, SpongeBob, Russell, The Mole, Stephen Stotch, Gerald Broflosvki, Butters Stotch, Randy Marsh, and Squidward survives this episode.
- Token Good Teammate: Even putting aside Linda being an abusive parent, Pop having incompetence that usually means a terrible death for Cub, Eric Cartman being a bigoted and anti-semitic psychopath, and Stewie being a malicious infant determined for world domination, SpongeBob was the only one to not contribute to this fiasco.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Technically, Stewie and Cartman's feud is what caused Linda's anger to fuse.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Beyond the scene taking place in the vehicle, Eric Cartman and Stewie Griffin had essentially vanished from the plot, even though both were indirectly responsible for basically the entire premise.
