The Glooms turn Mount Jollywood into a volcano, forcing Queen Delightful to surrender her crown. However, when the Glooms are unable to stop the eruption, the 7D are tasked to travel all over the lands to retrieve the seven gem fragments that together form the Rock of Sages.
This episode has the following tropes
- Artifact of Doom: The Rock of Sages can be either good or evil (mostly evil when it's in the hands of Lord Grudgemunger).
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption:Narrator: The 7D went to Mount Jollywood to—
Grumpy: Stop it from blowin' its lid. - The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed. The Glooms manage to overthrow Queen Delightful and rule over Jollywood for a little while.
- Blackmail Backfire: Hildy didn't think through her plan and instead sends the 7D to solve the mess she made.
- Book Ends: The episode starts with a song and then ends with a song.
- Brick Joke: Grim mentioning his so-called Aunt Gladys giving him and Hildy the spell to turn Mount Jollywood into a volcano. Later he's seen writing a letter to "Aunt Gladys".
- The Cameo: Both the Magic Mirror and the Crystal Ball make their brief appearances in this episode.
- Call-Back:
- The Rock of Sages was first mentioned and seen since “Welcome to the Neighborhood”.
- The story of how the Seven Sages defeated Lord Grudgemunger is shown.
- Chekhov's Skill: As stated by Doc, Lord Grudgemunger needed the 7D's (sans Doc) skills to get the Rock of Sages, for example:
- Sneezy's sneeze helped him find the green gem in the Black Diamond Dunes.
- Sleepy found the blue gem after taking a brief nap only to find a lump in it prompting him to search in the Leaning Tower of Mattresses.
- Dopey found the orange gem thanks to his Plucky Comic Relief and ability to talk with animals.
- Bashful's Chameleon Camouflage helped him get the violet gem.
- Happy's ability to conduct helped him get the yellow gem.
- Grumpy's Hair-Trigger Temper helped him get the red gem.
- Cliffhanger Copout: A commercial break occurs after Hildy lets Happy-Water-Ballooney Day continue and gets pelted by water balloons.
- Continuity Nod:
- The Shiffle-nosed Nergandingsliger makes its third appearance after "Free Teensy" and "Uncle Humidor".
- The 7D and Grim are one of the other people that do the tizzy, the third being Grandmommers Whimsical, and the second being Lord Starchbottom.
- The live-action dancing chicken man appears again from "Mirror, Mirror".
- Crazy-Prepared: Apparently, in case of any volcanic emergency, you have to break open the glass with the scroll inside.
- Darker and Edgier: In the previous episodes, the Glooms would just come up with a Zany Scheme to overthrow Queen Delightful. This time they used a spell that almost commits genocide and forced the Queen to give them the crown. Then after the 7D were tasked to stop the volcano from erupting, Lord Grudgemunger uses it to suck out all the magic in the land including magic items that are sentient. To add salt to the wound, he creates a monster that almost kills the 7D.
- Darkest Hour: The Glooms have dethroned Queen Delightful, Jollywood is in jeopardy due to a volcano about to erupt and Lord Grudgemunger has possession over the Rock of Sages and takes all the magic in Jollywood. Luckily things get better.
- Delayed "Oh, Crap!": When the Glooms realize that there's no spell to stop the eruption:Hildy: Grim, stop the volcano.
Grim: Okey-doke, Hildy-Wildy. [he leaves but then returns] Uh... how?
Hildy: Surely your Aunt Gladys included instructions on how to stop the volcano.
Grim: (takes out the spell) Uh, jalapeno & Hilde;o, Sloppy Joe. Nope, nothing about that.
Narrator: Then it dawned upon the Glooms.
The Glooms: We can't stop the volcano! - De-power: Lord Grudgemunger takes away all magic in Jollywood. Luckily, he gets all the magic drained from him.
- The Door Slams You: While trying to get the orange gem, a squirrel takes it to its home and slams the door on Dopey's face.
- Exact Words: Grim tries to stop the volcano by making it snow. It does snow...on the inside of the castle.
- Expy: The monster that Lord Grudgemunger summons with the Rock of Sages is clearly a Palette Swap version of Chernabog.
- Foreshadowing:
- The Glooms were given a spell sent by a relative of Grim's. Y'know, Lord Grudgemunger was a relative of Grim's.
- When we see Lord Grudgemunger for the first time, he wears a blackish-blue robe. Then when the 7D meet the narrator, he wears clothes that look a bit familiar.
- When the Seven Sages separate the gem fragments, one of them (who looks similar to Doc) stuffs the fragment in his hat.
- While singing, the scroll tells Doc to look for the indigo fragment in the Conical Cap of Truth. The scroll was referring to something else.
- Sneezy was assigned to look for the green gem in the Black Diamond Dunes. When we get a brief glimpse of the place during the scroll's song number, the sand looks a lot like pepper.
- Bashful was assigned to look for the violet gem in the Vines of Vamoose. Notice how the narrator calls the Vines of Vamoose "venomous".
- Funny Background Event: Starchbottom is seen running like crazy while the Queen, the 7D and Grim starting doing a tizzy.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Lord Grudgemunger has this when he uses the Rock of Sages.
- Got Me Doing It: After the Queen does a tizzy, the 7D start doing it too and then Grim gets in on the action.
- Government in Exile: Being the legitimate monarch forced from her position, Delightful is still the rightful ruler of Jollywood.
- Green and Mean: Lord Grudgemunger’s skin is green and he’s the Big Bad.
- Hammerspace: Who knew these mattresses hide a lot of large and unusual stuff?
- Hope Spot: When the 7D put together the gem fragments to form the Rock of Sages, it looks that they’re going to use it to stop the volcano.That is until the narrator reveals his true identity.
- Identical Grandson: It might've been implied that the 7D are the descendants of the Seven Sages. And they look identical to the Seven Sages.
- It Makes Sense in Context: The 7D being assigned to go to the specific places to get a specific fragment makes sense in context. For example:
- Happy, Grumpy and Doc were assigned to get the gem fragments that suits them. Happy was assigned to get the yellow gem fragment since yellow is a cheery and warm colour, like him. Grumpy was assigned to get the red gem fragment because of his Hair-Trigger Temper and red symbolizes anger. Doc was assigned to find the indigo fragment because indigo symbolizes wisdom and he is smart.
- Dopey and Sneezy were assigned to go to the places that suit them. Dopey is sent to the Sycamores of Shush because he can't talk. Sneezy was sent to the Black Diamond dunes because it's filled with the stuff that makes him sneeze.
- Bashful and Sleepy were assigned to go to the places and get the gem fragments that suit them. Bashful was assigned to get the violet gem fragment because of his Shrinking Violet personality, and he was sent to the Vines of Vamoose because the whole area looks like his clothes. Sleepy was assigned to get the blue gem fragment since blue is associated with tranquillity and he is pretty laid-back. Coincidentally, another reason why he was sent to get the blue gem was because his clothes were blue. He was sent to the Leaning Tower of Mattresses because well, he loves to sleep.
- Left the Background Music On: A variation of it. Turns out the narration was coming from Lord Grudgemunger (under the guise of the narrator) who was reading from a book this whole time.
- Literal-Minded: After Hildy states that everyone will be toast if the Queen doesn't surrender, Grim states he loves toast.
- Location Song: Happy and all of Jollywood sing about...well Jollywood.
- Look Behind You: How Lord Grudgemunger steals the Rock of Sages and how The Seven Sages take it back from him.Lord Grudgemunger: (off-screen) Hey is that Bigfoot over there?
(later)
The Seven Sages: Look! The Loch Ness Monster! - Loophole Abuse: The narrator states he needs to read the whole story, after Grumpy asked him to skip ahead. Then Dopey finds a way to end this story quicker and save Jollywood by writing an alternative ending.
- The Man Behind the Man: Lord Grudgemunger was the one to send the volcano spell to the Glooms along with tricking the 7D into getting him the gem fragments that make up the Rock of Sages.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!":
- When the 7D find out that the narrator is Lord Grudgemunger.
- When the 7D see the volcano monster Lord Grudgemunger made with the Rock of Sages.
Bashful: TRIPLE FLOOM!!! - Metaphorgotten: The narrator states that Grumpy was on a wild goose chase. Cue Grumpy chasing a flock of geese.
- Musicalis Interruptus: The song "The Jolliest Land of All" abruptly stops when we see Grumpy being his usual self.
- Mundane Made Awesome: The 7D use water balloons when they were fighting the volcano monster.
- Mythology Gag: The episode starts with a book opening, similar to the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Near-Villain Victory: After all the magic in Jollywood gets drained, and when Lord Grudgemunger uses it to create a large volcano monster, Dopey creates an alternate ending to save Jollywood.
- Never Trust a Trailer: From the promo of “The Rock of Sages”, you would get the impression that the Glooms are the Big Bad of this episode along with the fact that the 7D are going to save Jollywood with the Rock of Sages.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Lord Grudgemunger (under the guise of the narrator) tells the 7D he needs to read each and every word in the book. This gives Dopey the opportunity to make an alternative ending so that he can read the whole ending and save Jollywood.
- Oh, Crap!:
- When Sneezy realizes the black sand is pepper and when the pepper wave is coming towards him.
- When Bashful comes face-to-face with snakes in the Vines of Vamoose.
- Origins Episode: A part of the episode shows the origins of Jollywood and how the Seven Sages defeated Lord Grudgemunger.
- Power Glows: After draining all the magic in Jollywood, Lord Grudgemunger glows yellow.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Happy and Sneezy deliver some pretty impressive ones to the volcano monster.Happy: Hey good-lookin'! Over here! (throws water balloons at the monster)
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Sneezy: You need to cool off! (sneeze-blasts balloons at the monster) - Produce Pelting: Not really food pelting but the Glooms get pelted by water balloons by the villagers.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": Grumpy can be heard saying this when the Queen was about to give up the throne to the Glooms.
- Red Sky, Take Warning: The sky immediately turns red after the Glooms turned Mt. Jollywood into a volcano.
- Record Needle Scratch: This happens with the song "The Jolliest Land of All".
- Recycled Animation: There are several uses of this during the song "The Jolliest Land of All" note .
- Rule of Three:
- Three ingredients are needed for the volcano spell.
- Bashful says "Floom" three times.
- Grumpy snarls at a dragon three times to get the red gem.
- Dopey shakes a tree with his rump three times to get the acorns to fall.
- Sadistic Choice: The Glooms gives Queen Delightful one: either she gives up the throne to them or Jollywood is buried in lava. Even though she was reluctant, she chose the first option.
- Shout-Out:
- The Leaning Tower of Mattresses is a pun on the real-life attraction Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- Lord Grudgemunger saying "I've got the power" is a reference to the song by Snap!.
- Sleepy finding the gem between the mattresses is a reference to The Princess and the Pea.
- Skewed Priorities: Lord Grudgemunger states that he's about to control all the magic in the world, but worries about finding his reading glasses more.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Apparently the Vines of Vamoose are full of snakes and are an obstacle that Bashful faces.
- Snowball Fight: After making the castle snow, Grim asks Hildy to have a snowball fight and the latter response by flinging the snowball in his face
- Split Screen: This happens when the crown is removed from Hildy's head and is moved to Delightful's head when the latter is made queen again.
- Stealth Pun: The Narrator states Doc was having trouble of his own until Bashful drops in.
- Stock Audio Clip: Hildy screaming Grim's full name is the same one used in "The Big Bash".
- Coincidentally, Bashful's scream was reused from that same episode.
- Sudden Musical Ending: After defeating Lord Grudgemunger, the episode immediately ends with a song.
- Team Rocket Wins: The Glooms finally secure the throne after numerous failed attempts.
- Tempting Fate: Happens twice. After finding the violet gem, Bashful states that he must've been nervous for nothing. That is until the sound of a hissing snake is heard. And after retrieving the gem, he says "Who's the man?" and then the snakes surround him and squeezes him until he goes flying.
- Title Drop: It's been dropped several times.
- Took a Level in Badass: The rest of the 7D fight the volcano monster using water balloons.
- Transformation Sequence: As the Narrator reveals his true form. His skin becomes green. His hair turns dark blue. When his transformation is complete, he reveals himself to be Lord Grudgemunger.
- Triumphant Reprise: All of Jollywood sing a reprise of "The Jolliest Land of All" from the beginning of the episode after Lord Grudgemunger is defeated.
- Unexpectedly Dark Episode: See Darker and Edgier.
- The Usurper: Hildy Gloom threatens to destroy the kingdom and makes Delightful relinquish the kingdom to her.
- Visual Pun: The obstacle Bashful faces to get the violet gem are a bunch of vine snakes
. - Wham Line:
- When the Hildy asks Grim to stop the volcano:
Grim: Okey-doke, Hildy-Wildy. [he leaves but then returns] Uh...how?Hildy: Surely your Aunt Gladys included instructions on how to stop the volcano.Grim: (takes out the spell) Uh, jalapeño, Sloppy Joe. Nope, nothing about that.- When The 7D have the Rock of Sages assembled:
Narrator: Oh, but I'm afraid this story doesn't end with [the 7D] stopping the volcano.Happy: Oh, I betcha it ends with a song.Narrator: No. It ends with me revealing my true identity.- The Reveal on who really sent the volcano spell to the Glooms:
Lord Grudgemunger: I have been behind everything! Even I sent the Glooms the spell to make the volcano! - Wham Shot: The Narrator revealing himself as Lord Grudgemunger.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unclear whether the 7D stopped the eruption or not since the episode immediately ends in song.
- Wild Take: The 7D do this after Lord Grudgemunger reveals his true form.
- Who Writes This Crap?!: In-Universe example. Lord Grudgemunger says that he detests the ending of the story that Dopey wrote.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Literally. Apparently Bashful is not a fan of snakes.
