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Recap / The Secret Show S 2 E 4 Ammonites Rule

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Victor and Anita travel to the home planet of the Ammonites to pay the rent of the Earth with a rare flower.

Changed Daily's Name: Nibbles McPea

Secret Tropes uncovered:

  • Alliterative Name: The spaceship to Ammonia is called Professor Professor Professor. Victor and Ray both also say "Professor Professor Professor, Professor Professor" when talking to Professor Professor as well.
  • Diabolus ex Machina: The plastic replica of the extinct orchid Nibbles McPea gives to the Ammonites ends up melting when the Impostors' superheated ship crashes on Ammonia. As a result, humans are forced to live on the moon at the end.
  • Green Aesop: Care for the environment. The slipper orchid went extinct due to climate change, and U.Z.Z. are tasked with settings things right at the end of the episode by the Ammonites. They're forced to find a dodo, replant the rainforest, sort out the ozone, and other implied environmental changes.
  • Once an Episode:
    • Sweet Little Granny is not in the studio, and Ray and the U.Z.Z agents briefly fill in for her, before getting an alert to clear the time-slot, despite everyone's begrudging comments.
    • Anita and Victor enter from the top of the frame after the title sequence, with them driving their skybikes in space.
    • Changed Daily's name in this episode is "Nibbles McPea".
  • Replaced with Replica: The flower used as payment (a rare slipper orchid from the top of Mt. Kinabalu of the South China Sea) is chosen to confirm the Earth is being cared for. However, said species of flower went extinct years ago due to global warming, so U.Z.Z. have to use a plastic replica of the flower as payment.
  • Space Whale Aesop: Don't try and fool the Earth's owners with a plastic orchid.
  • Take That!: Towards Ikea, as Professor Professor dissuades comparisons to the Portals' parts to "Swedish drawers", and that parts were missing.

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