Web Animation / AstroLOLogy

The stars are misaligning. ^note Left to right: Leo, Pisces, Capricorn, Aquarius, Sagittarius, Libra, Scorpio, Aries, Virgo (bottom), Taurus (top), Cancer, and the Gemini twins.

AstroLOLogy is a Malaysian animated series that was created by Lemon Sky Development and released several prototype shorts in 2016 before officially premiered in 2018, and is focused on short, comedic stories starring anthropomorphic versions of the western zodiac symbols, each with a personality that is supposed to fit those who are born under their symbols' constellations. The series contains no dialog and tells its stories through the visuals, with each episode being released as part of a short compilation or "chapter" and ending with a short fortune message that relates to the character that stars in that episode.

The official YouTube channel can be found here. WildBrain also owns the international distribution rights to the series and has it on some of their channels.

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AstroLOLogy contains the following tropes:

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• 6 Is 9: In "A Capricorn Delivery", Gemini try to impede Capricorn's delivery to their house by flipping the 9 on their door to a 6, but he just uses a tracking app on his phone to find them.
• 30 Minutes, or It's Free!: A variant in "A Capricorn Delivery": when Capricorn gets held up in traffic delivering pizzas to Taurus and Gemini, Taurus points out that he arrived in 31 minutes, so Capricorn gives him five more pizzas for free. Gemini try to take advantage of this and order from him again while trying to sabotage his efforts to get to them on time, but he makes the delivery with a few seconds to spare.
• Agony of the Feet:
  • In "Pinheads", Gemini disguise themselves as a woman to mess up Taurus while he's about to bowl, causing him to drop the ball on his foot.
  • In "Hot Christmas", Scorpio hides mousetraps in the snow to catch whoever keeps rebuilding his snowman. The next day, he sees that they still did and he ends up stepping on a mousetrap himself, falling over and onto the others.
  • In "Leo's Many Faces", Leo's training involves stepping on hot coals.
  • Another Scorpio example in "You Won't Like Scorpio When He's Mad", where he Hulks Out after stepping on a plastic brick.
• Alien Abduction: Done to Aquarius in "Abducted!" His curiosity leads to him wandering around the ship and causing general mayhem, very narrowly almost hurling the ship into the sun before one of the aliens stops him and they send him back to where they found him.
• Alien Among Us: "Outerspace Imagination" centers around Pisces being convinced that Aquarius is an alien. He's not, but at the end, it turns out that Gemini are.
• Alien Invasion: Sagittarius spends most of "In the Zone" playing a video game where she fights aliens, oblivious to everything around her, including an attack from real aliens. By the time she beats the Final Boss, she sees that her apartment was destroyed in the attack.
• The Alleged Car: At the beginning of "The Taurus Mobile", Taurus pulls up to the car dealership in a very busted-up pickup truck.
• Almost Kiss: In "Bumper to Bumper", Aries interrupts a kiss between Cancer and Leo as they are riding bumper cars.
• Alternative Foreign Theme Song: While the original version uses a brief instrumental tune for its opening and fortune messages, the Japanese dub adds an extra opening with the song "Hate and Love" by Byua Musume Reloaded and a longer end credits sequence with "Wish Upon a Star" by Akihiro Sakamoto.
• Amplified Animal Aptitude: In "Monkey on the Moon", Aquarius is prepping a monkey for travel to the moon, but the monkey won't take anything seriously, so Aquarius copies his own intelligence into its brain to make it smarter. It works a little too well when the monkey tricks Aquarius into taking the rocket to the moon instead.
• Amusing Injuries: Characters are regularly beaten, flattened, electrocuted, and blown up, and the females aren't exempt.
• Anthropomorphic Food: In "Taurus' Magical Bakes", Taurus makes a gingerbread man that comes to life, then several gingerbread animals that do the same thing. He bakes some oval-shaped cookies in the hopes that cookies without faces will stay inanimate, but one of them ends up growing a face and limbs anyway.
• Anti-Climax: "Color Me Mad" ends with Cancer receiving her red belt for her karate training and then declining to fight Taurus for her black belt. As it turns out, she just wanted the red belt to go with her pinafore.
• Ash Face: Often happens when a character is caught in an explosion, such as Taurus, Aquarius, Scorpio and Cancer in "Joke's on You" when Taurus drops a bottle of cooking oil onto an active grill, or Sagittarius and Virgo at the end of "Saggi's Baking Misadventures" from an exploding mixer.
• Aspect Ratio Switch: Unlike every other short which is the standard 16:9 widescreen, "Cancer Terminates", befitting what it's parodying, has a letterbox format to emulate the appearance of a theatrical film.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: "Roachzilla" has Pisces imagining an attack from a giant roach, while "Robopocalypse" has Gemini fending off a real one.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In "Slow and Steady", Pisces and Cancer get distracted during the race by a store having a sale, while Virgo and Sagittarius stop to pet a cat.
• Bad to the Last Drop: "The Perfect Bean" begins with Virgo going to a café where she's served a cup of coffee that smells good and has attractive foam art, but, judging from her reaction, tastes terrible. The next place she goes to is no better.
• Bad Vibrations: In "Roachzilla", Pisces notices water rippling in the fountain in the park, alerting her to the giant roach in the city.
• Banana Peel:
  • "Pinheads" has Gary distracting Taurus while he's bowling so that Gerry can put a banana peel in his path to mess him up.
  • "In the Zone" has Sagittarius eating a banana while playing a video game, then throwing the peel on the ground behind her, unknowingly making Aries trip when he came in to try to rob her and got chased around by her dog.
  • In "Slow and Steady", Aquarius tries to use this to cheat in a race, only to end up slipping on it himself.
• Bandage Mummy:
  • Scorpio and later Aries in "Tender Loving Care" as a result of Cancer's nursing.
  • "Good Grief" has Gerry ending up in a cast after hitting a rock on his bike, making Gary run errands for him while he's bedridden.
  • Virgo during the fortune of "Distracting Virgo" after being crushed under her weapon rack.
  • Aquarius during the fortune of "You Won't Like Scorpio When He's Mad" after being a victim of Scorpio's latest Hulk Out.
  • Sagittarius at the end of "Saggi the Unstoppable" from a multitude of Amusing Injuries.
• Bee Afraid: In "Damsel in Bee-stress", Pisces finds a single bee in a bouquet and imagines it as a giant, hostile one.
• Bewitched Amphibians:
  • In "Hocus Pocus", Aquarius inadvertently turns Pisces into a toad after drinking one of her potions and belching a gas cloud in her face, but it wears off quickly.
  • Happens to Aquarius himself at the end of "Fairy GodAquarius", courtesy of an angry Pisces, Cancer, and Virgo. It wears off during the fortune message, only for him to immediately get turned into a toadstool by another spell.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: A yeti shows up in a few shorts, most notably "High on Love" and "A Monstrous Preparation".
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Libra and Scorpio both have more prominent brows than the rest of the cast.
• Big Red Devil: In "One Cool Exorcist", a possessed Capricorn turns into this as he's chasing Cancer around the room. In this form, the horns on his hat turn into more demonic-looking ones.
• Black Comedy:
  • Probably the earliest and most pitch-black example is the Sagittarius short "Funfair" from the 2016 series: she uses her archery skills to shoot at targets to knock penguins into a kiddie pool while her pet monkey laughs at them. The penguins retaliate by asking her to hit a target again blindfolded, while also tying up her monkey, putting it above one of the targets, and replacing the pool with a pot of boiling oil. Saggi/Sally pulls her arrow back and it cuts to the fortune before she can release...
  • At the end of "Aries-ponsible Friend", Aries has fallen unconscious from his allergy to Virgo's cat. She pokes him with a stick like someone would with a dead body.
  • In "Abducted!", after Aquarius decides to give himself a tour of the aliens' ship, a laser that he messed with discharges and turns one of the aliens into a pile of goo.
  • In "Fairy GodAquarius", Aquarius grants Pisces (The Little Mermaid) her wish of having legs... which has the secondary effect of removing her ability to breathe underwater. She tries to swim to the surface but just sinks to the bottom (she shows up alive at the end, both wet and very pissed off).
• Bland-Name Product: A fictional version of YouTube called "StarTube" shows up in a few episodes.
• Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: In "Scorpio Feels the Burn", at a Chinese restaurant, Cancer gets three bottles of hot sauce for her and Scorpio to go with their food. Even though the "mild" sauce alone makes Capricorn on a nearby table start breathing fire, Scorpio insists on using the hottest one to avoid appearing weak, with predictable results.
• Blind Without 'Em: In "Perfect Sight", Virgo's eyesight worsens and she has to get glasses. When she returns them to the store later, she promptly walks into the doorframe on her way out.
• Bound and Gagged: In "Blast to the Past", every time Virgo replaces one of her past selves, she leaves them tied up and gagged in her closet. At the end, Scorpio finds the seven of them still there, and the fortune message shows them chasing after Virgo Prime, clearly vengeful.
• Brick Joke: In "Snowy Blunder", Aquarius brings his miniature snow cloud to Pisces while she's taking a bath, freezing her and the bathwater. At the end, she falls from the sky, still frozen, and lands on him.
• Butt-Monkey: Every character suffers their share of abuse, but Capricorn easily has it the worst, with Aries and Virgo not too far behind. For Capricorn, it's usually the result of his overt sense of commitment putting him in bad situations or the universe simply being against him for that episode, for Aries, it's usually retribution for his competitive nature, and for Virgo, it's usually a product of her perfectionism or being around Sagittarius.
• Camera Abuse: At the end of "Aries-ponsible Friend", Aries sneezes, covering the screen in mucus.
• Cast of Personifications: The characters are all the western zodiac symbols, Aries, Taurus, Gemini... you get the idea.
• Cat Girl: In "Fairy GodAquarius", Aquarius goes into the story of Beauty and the Beast and turns Virgo into this rather than turning Leo back to his original form. She's not happy about it.
• Cats Are Mean: In "Com-meow-nication", one of the cats that Aquarius uses his translator to communicate with asks for a phone, which it uses to call animal control on a nearby dog and then gives an Evil Laugh.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: In "Slow and Steady", Aquarius attempts to maintain his lead in a race by eating a banana and throwing the peel behind him so the other racers slip on it. When he throws the peel into the air, it hits a bird who then drops it on the ground in front of Aquarius, causing him to trip on it himself, get trampled and flattened by the others, and be given a red card by Scorpio. Later, Gemini try to get a cab to the finish line, but the cab driver is Scorpio, who gives them both red cards and throws them out.
• Christmas Episode: The shorts in the chapter "The Jolliest Time of the Year" are mainly Christmas-themed.
• City with No Name: The city that the cast live in isn't officially named, most likely a consequence of the lack of dialogue.
• Clip Show: "Naughty or Nice" is mainly clips of Capricorn's good deeds and Gemini's mischief from other episodes.
• Cloneopoly: In "Checkmate Aquarius", Aquarius plays a game of Astropoly with his chess-playing robot.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: In "The Heart of a Winner", during their fencing match, Capricorn causes Leo's pants to fall off.
• Continuity Nod:
  • A newspaper headline showing Leo after being beaten up by Cancer in "Leo to the Rescue" appears in several episodes.
  • The blueprints for Aquarius' robot girlfriend in "Mechanical Love" show up again in "Multiplicity".
  • Occasionally, characters will have photos of themselves from previous episodes hanging in their homes, e.g. in "Pet Sitting with Capricorn", Capricorn's house has photos of him with the teddy bear he won in "Capricorn Takes on the Bull" and with his puppet in "Capricorn the Puppeteer", while Virgo's house in ""Missing Puzzle" Puzzle" has photos of her from "Shhhh!".
• Cool Car: In "The Taurus Mobile", Taurus goes to buy a new car and Aquarius suggests a fancy convertible that can also turn into a helicopter and boat. Naturally, it costs exactly a billion dollars, which the miserly Taurus is unwilling to pay for, so he strips most of the features from the car until it's down to $1,000. This includes the wheels, so he carries it away Fred Flintstone-style.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In "A Flaming New Year", Capricorn goes through hell just to get a fire to light some fireworks for New Year's Eve, first running out of matches, trying fruitlessly to start a fire in other ways, and then getting his pants set ablaze trying to get a fire from a torch that Aries was carrying. He succeeds, only for Pisces to reveal that she had a lighter all that time.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!":
  • In "Spa-Aah!", Cancer goes to a massage and spa for relief from a backache. After Taurus' unconventional methods fix her, she throws her back out again during the fortune message.
  • The fortune message of "Life of the Party" has Gemini dancing until the sound of both their hips cracking can be heard.
• Cranial Eruption: In "Capricorn the Puppeteer", Capricorn's hand puppet gets one when it imitates Scorpio trying and failing to break bricks with his head.
• Creepy Doll: In "The Doll", Pisces orders one that turns out to be haunted and murderous. Capricorn thwarts its attempts to kill her and destroys it by uppercutting it into the fireplace, only for Pisces to reveal that it was just the latest in her collection of similar-looking and similarly malicious dolls.
• Cucumber Facial: In "The Boys Who Cried Candy", Gerry requests one from Cancer.
• Cupid's Arrow: In "Love-Struck" and "Wingmen", Gemini both play the role of Cupids and have the arrows to go with it. The former short has them attempting to use them to make Cancer and Sagittarius fall in love with them, but it doesn't work, leading to them getting beaten up.
• Cute Kitten: Cats on the show are depicted as being extremely cute, and this is the whole focus of the chapter "Cat-astrophe".
• Dead All Along:
  • Done comically at the end of "Mummy vs. Zombie": on Halloween, Capricorn and Cancer are both dressed as mummies, but Cancer's costume covers up her face. When Cancer decides to reward Capricorn with a kiss for saving her from zombies, she undoes her bandages, revealing that she was a real mummy all along and has the Nightmare Face to match. This leaves Capricorn less than enthusiastic to get a kiss from her.
  • "Paranormal Piscesity" ends with the reveal that Taurus was a ghost after Pisces was scared of her hotel room.
• Deadline News: In "Robopocalypse", after Taurus reports on a meteor crashing, the giant roach contained within it breaks into the news studio.
• Defensive Feint Trap: In "Color Me Mad", at a martial arts dojo, Cancer goes up against her first opponent, Capricorn, and feigns weakness when he punches her arm so she can clobber him and claim her yellow belt.
• Demonic Possession: In "One Cool Exorcist", Cancer hires Libra to exorcise a possessed Capricorn. As Libra takes his sweet time with the procedure, Cancer beats the ghost out of Capricorn herself, returning him to normal.
• Destructive Saviour: Deconstructed in "The Reckless Hero": Aries focuses a bit too much on trying to apprehend Capricorn that he doesn't notice how much damage he's doing to the city. He succeeds, but Taurus arrests both of them. Aries protests and the city is shown in ruin.
• Dinner Deformation: In "Joke's on You", one of the Gemini twins is eaten by a snake, and he's clearly visible with his legs poking out from inside the snake's stomach. The fortune message has both of the Gemini twins eaten, both still visible as lumps within the snake.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Happens to Capricorn in "The Heart of a Winner" when he knocks Pisces' faceguard off. After winning their first two rounds, he becomes guilt-ridden seeing her shed a Single Tear and throws the match for her.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: In "A Quiet Celebration", as Cancer is pushed to her limit by her grandmother's constant requests, she gets angry while grabbbing the front doorknob. When she calms down after seeing that her grandmother just wanted to share a cup of tea with her, she takes her hand off the knob, revealing it to now be warped.
• The Dog Bites Back: In "The Line", after Scorpio divides the island that he and Libra are marooned on, he ends up extremely lucky with all of his endeavors while Libra has no such fortune. When a boat comes by to rescue them, Libra refuses to let Scorpio onboard because the boat docked on Libra's side and Scorpio would be crossing the line to get over.
• Dope Slap: In "Wingmen", Gary does this to Gerry in frustration after they expend all of their arrows.
• Double-Meaning Title: "Taurus Makes a Yummy Treat" refers to Taurus having a picnic by himself and almost getting eaten by cannibals.
• Dreadful Musician: In "Charming Libra", Libra's recorder playing is decidedly terrible and has the effect of making a glass next to Capricorn shatter, making Leo's phone explode, and causing a stagelight to shatter and fall. And that's before he uses it to summon snakes.
• Drives Like Crazy: Libra is suggested to be this in "1800-Scorpio" when he keeps crashing his car and calling Scorpio for a tow. Eventually, Scorpio gets sick of towing him and gives him a tricycle, only for Libra to tip it over on its side and call him again, which enrages Scorpio so much that he drives his tow truck into a tree.
• Eaten Alive: In "Pet Peeves", after Virgo's attempts to discipline Sagittarius' pet alligator prove fruitless, it simply picks her up and eats her before going home to its owner. However, Virgo is then able to manipulate it from within its stomach to force it to do chores and later spit her out.
• Electric Jellyfish: In "Like Me, Please!", after Cancer takes a selfie among a school of jellyfish, one of them latches onto her face and zaps her, creating audible electricity noises.
• Electrified Bathtub: In "The Doll", Pisces' doll tries to do the traditional toaster-in-bathtub on her, but Capricorn wrestles it away and falls into a nearby puddle, resulting in X-Ray Sparks.
• Energy Weapon: In "Cancer Terminates", Terminator!Leo attacks Cancer and Aries with a laser shotgun.
• Enormous Engagement Ring: In "Little Savings Big Love", after a less than ideal lunch and shopping spree, Taurus reveals that he saved up enough money to buy Pisces a massive diamond ring. The fortune message shows her having difficulty keeping her hand raised due to its sheer weight.
• Ensemble Cast: There's no one designated main character, and all thirteen of them get equal amounts of focus.
• Epic Fail:
  • In "Tricks & Flicks", after being allowed to substitute in a soccer match, Aries scores a winning kick... in his own team's goal. All Sagittarius (their goalie) can do is glare at him, while Scorpio (their coach) falls face-first to the ground.
  • In "Leo to the Rescue", Leo prepares to dramatically save Cancer from drowning, even calling a news crew to film it, only to trip on a conch and fall face-first right in front of the water. He ends up getting beaten up by Cancer, immortalized in the news, losing his job, and becoming a janitor.
  • Another Leo example in "Striking the Winning Pose", where he almost wins the relay race until he catches his foot on a hurdle, causing him to fall on his face and finish in last place.
  • Sagittarius's attempt at making a simple lemon cake in "Saggi's Baking Misadventures". She puts the ingredients in the bowl, then everything goes to hell when the mixer she uses gets jammed and catches fire.
  • In "Scorpio's Aqua Drama", Scorpio's attempt to set up a new aquarium just causes him further stress.
• Establishing Character Moment: The very first thing we see Aquarius doing in his debut (the first episode) is producing a love potion he intends to use on Sagittarius, establishing he's a scientist.
• "Eureka!" Moment: In "Checkmate Aquarius", when his new robot proves better than him at every game they play, Aquarius sees that he built the robot with pincers for hands and challenges it to a game of rock-paper-scissors. He's able to win every time by throwing rock because the robot, by design, can only throw scissors, eventually overloading it.
• Every Episode Ending: Each episode ends with a short on-screen fortune message that relates to one of the characters who stars in that particular story, though certain compilations will remove them.
• Everyone Went to School Together: "Bullies Beware" and "Libra's Laughs Last" show that the main cast all attended the same daycare.
• Excalibur in the Stone: The original story is parodied in a short actually titled "The Sword in the Stone": after Leo repeatedly tries and fails to pull the sword, Capricorn pulls it out and uses it as a cooking utensil.
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Several episodes end with this happening to a lead or supporting character during the fortune message.
• Eye Am Watching You: In "Naughty or Nice", Santa!Taurus gives this to Gemini when they fail to get away with their latest antic, then again during the fortune message when they start fighting while sweeping up.
• Eye Beams: Part of Pisces' superpowers in "Super Drama". She uses them to attempt to kill a roach, inadvertently destroying the jailhouse that she threw Aries into.
• Eye Poke: In "Love-Struck", Gerry does this to Gary.
• Face Palm:
  • Capricorn at the end of "Santa Gets a Little Stuck" when Santa!Taurus is pondering how to get down a house's chimney with two smokestacks.
  • Aquarius at the end of "Robopocalypse" when Gemini's arguing prevents them from landing the finishing blow on the monster they were fighting.
• Face Plant: Virgo does this in the fortune message of "Little Miss Perfect Score".
• Faceplanting into Food: At the end of "Sleepy Sweetie", Cancer, who was sitting on a plane and previously unable to sleep while placed between Scorpio and Taurus, passes out in her complimentary birthday cake.
• Fairy Tale Episode: The shorts in the chapter "A Very Fairy AstroLOLogy" spoof several fables including Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, The Gingerbread Man, The Honest Woodcutter, Little Red Riding Hood, Aladdin, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and King Arthur.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: In "Shrinking Taurus", Taurus hides an engagement ring intended for Cancer in a slice of cake, only for Aries to eat the whole thing, so Taurus pilots a miniaturized submarine into Aries' body to get it back.
• Fingore:
  • In "Tender Loving Care", Aries goes to the hospital for a cut on his finger. Cancer treats it, but while snipping the excess bandage accidentally cuts another of his fingers, and this continues until she's bandaged both of his whole hands. The short ends with Taurus going in for a cut on his own finger.
  • "In the Trauma Room" centers around Pisces having a melodramatic breakdown over cutting her finger.
• Fire-Breathing Diner: Scorpio and Capricorn in "Scorpio Feels the Burn".
• Fishing for Sole: In "The Line", when Scorpio and Libra go fishing, the former catches a fish while the latter gets a boot.
• Foil:
  • Many of Virgo and Sagittarius' shorts will have them serving as this to each other, the former being the straight-faced everywoman to the latter's excitable thrillseeker.
  • Scorpio is often this to Gemini, as his short temper makes him a prime target for their goofball antics. He's also sometimes this to Capricorn, who is the friendly childlike character to Scorpio's tough guy, and to Libra, whose calm nature is the opposite of Scorpio's short fuse.
• Food Fight: Gemini have gotten into this twice, first in the fortune message of "When Gemi-Bye, Gemi-Cry" , then during "One Buffet Two Pranksters".
• The Foreign Subtitle: The series is officially known as AstroLOLogy ~Funny Zodiac Fortunes~ in Japanese.
• Fountain of Youth: In "From Gaga to Goo-ga", as an old Leo laments his lost good looks, he sees that Aquarius hasn't aged a day, which turns out to be from using a machine that restores his youth when needed. Leo uses it himself and ends up a baby from overuse.
• Gasshole:
  • In "The Sweet Smell of Revenge", after Gemini laugh at him for farting during yoga class, Scorpio gets his revenge by inviting them into the sauna with him, locking the three of them in, and putting on a respirator before unleashing a massive fart that the brothers can't escape from. During the fortune message, he releases a smaller fart that makes them pass out.
  • In "Feeding Time", Libra becomes this from eating garlic-flavored chips and inadvertently destroys Count Taurus with his breath. The fortune message then shows him unknowingly farting in Taurus' face when the latter tries to sneak up on him again.
• Girlish Pigtails: Cancer has a pair that are appropriately shaped like crab claws. A flashback at the beginning of "Little Miss Perfect Score" shows that Virgo also had a pair of her own as a child.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: Pisces' singing in "A Breaking Song". At first people are annoyed by it breaking all of the glass on a cruise ship, but it comes in handy for shattering an iceberg that they were about to hit.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel:
  • In the short "To Do or Not to Do", while at the store, Libra has both halves of Gemini serving as his angel and devil when he seems to be contemplating taking money from the register while Sagittarius is sleeping at the counter. His devil wins out, but it turns out Libra really just wanted to take a nearby marker and draw on Sagittarius' face in her sleep.
  • "Naughty or Nice" does a variant: Taurus, working as a Mall Santa, asks Capricorn and Gemini if they've been nice or naughty by conjuring angel and devil versions of them and having them pick one.
• Greaser Delinquents: Scorpio and Gemini play the role of this in "Hard Hits" when they mug Aries, Taurus, and Capricorn for their candy.
• Green Around the Gills: In "Dinner is Just...Unjust!", Libra's face turns slightly green after taking a bite of Pisces' cooking, then Pisces' cat has the same reaction when Libra gives the plate to it.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: In "From Gaga to Goo-ga" and "Life of the Party", Leo has gone bald as an old man.
• Halloween Episode: The chapters "Happy Ahh-LOL-ween" and "Paranormal AstroLOLogy".
• Here We Go Again!: In "R.I.Phone", after Pisces' phone is destroyed and a whole funeral is held for it, Cancer gives her a new one. The fortune message shows Pisces dropping that one, causing her to return to her malaise.
• Honest Axe: The original story is parodied in "Honesty is the Best Policy": Gerry loses an axe down a well, and a water sprite Sagittarius comes out with the axe he lost and one made of gold. Gerry wants the golden axe, but Gary scolds him and asks for the one he dropped, getting the golden one as well. Later, when Gary throws Gerry down the well, Saggi asks him to choose between the Gerry he threw (who is rightfully pissed) and an angelic doppelganger. He picks the latter, and she punishes both him and the original Gerry by fusing them together.
• Hope Spot:
  • In "Candy Crushed", Cancer avoids stepping in three puddles only for a passing cab to hit her with a Roadside Wave, ruining her princess costume further.
  • In "A Breaking Song", after Pisces' singing has split the iceberg that the cruise ship was about to crash into, the camera pans to reveal that it also shattered the ship's hull. It immediately cuts to the fortune message, where everyone is sailing home in a lifeboat.
• Horrifying the Horror: In "The Hygienist", when Count Leo sneaks up on Virgo, she notices that one of his fangs is dirty and throws him into a dentistry chair to give him a cleaning, utterly terrifying him.
• Hospital Hottie: Cancer works as a nurse in several shorts, and she's joined by Virgo and Sagittarius in "A Procedure for Attention".
• I Ate WHAT?!:
  • In "Sweating Over an Ingredient", Aquarius eats a pizza and tastes an ingredient that he can't put his finger on. Turns out it's Taurus' sweat that came off him due to the heat from the pizza coming out of the oven, the revelation of which makes Aquarius lose his lunch.
  • The above gets one-upped by a case of I Drank WHAT?! in "The Perfect Bean": Sagittarius serves Virgo some coffee and Virgo loves it, then asks how it's made. In the brewing room, three raccoons go into three bathroom stalls, producing a brown liquid that is then poured into a cup... yeah, Virgo's reaction says everything.
• Idea Bulb:
  • In the episode "Telly Vision", Aquarius has a dream where a bunch of little Aquariuses put together a giant light bulb. When he wakes up from the dream, Aquarius figures out how to get his TV working again - just plug it back in, since he had forgotten to do so.
  • In "Bright Ideas", Aquarius uses one to replace a burnt-out bulb in a lamp. His habit of making these later ends up being his undoing when the light gives away his and Pisces' hiding place in a dumpster and Taurus mugs them.
• Identical Grandson: In "Life of the Party", Cancer is a nurse at a retirement home, but she hasn't aged along with the rest of the cast, suggesting that this Cancer is just the original's descendant.
• I'm a Humanitarian: In "Taurus Makes a Yummy Treat", Taurus is nearly eaten by cannibalistic tribesmen.
• Impact Silhouette:
  • In the short "Sharing is Caring", Cancer begins going out with Libra and, after seeing that he and his family all just used her new toothbrush, flees in repulsion and makes this in the front door.
  • The short "A Procedure for Attention" had Leo pretend to be sick to get treatment from Cancer, Virgo, and Sagittarius, only to bolt and make a Leo-shaped hole in a wall when they prepare to operate on him. Deconstructed in that he's promptly shown laid up in bed with both of his legs and one of his arms broken from the impact.
• Indulgent Fantasy Segue: In "The Pisces Coaster", Pisces has several of these when she imagines the ways her and Capricorn riding a rollercoaster can go horribly wrong, all ending in a shot of a grave where her hair is visibly sticking out of the dirt. The first has the car flying off the track and into a hot dog cart, exploding on impact. The second is one of the wheels coming off and the car crashing into the side of a tunnel, exploding again. The third is her safety bar breaking and her falling out of the car while it's upside down.
• Instant Wristwatch: In "Scorpio Lets It Out", Scorpio gets one while waiting in line for entrance to the amusement park.
• Instrumental Theme Tune: Befitting the lack of dialogue, the opening theme to the pilot shorts and the one to the later shorts are both mainly whistling, though the Japanese dub has its own additional opening and ending themes.
• Involuntary Dance: In "Breaking Some Moves", after pushing his body to its limits by dancing for hours on end to practice for a dance competition, Aries shows off to the judges and starts dancing uncontrollably. The judges are delighted because his dancing in this state is more varied than what he does normally.
• It Always Rains at Funerals: It rains during the funeral for Pisces' phone in "R.I.Phone".
• Juggling Dangerously: In "Spotlight Me", Leo tries juggling chainsaws in an effort to draw attention to him and away from his cat during their magic act.
• Know Your Vines: In "Curious Aquarius", Aquarius is about to eat an unidentified berry off a bush before Capricorn stops him, then he throws it away into the center of a rafflesia that immediately withers and dies.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Usually happens to Gemini as retribution for their antics; e.g., lying about being nice to Santa!Taurus while also setting his chair to collapse, only to open the gift boxes he gave them and finding them empty, then having to clean up during the fortune message.
• The Last Straw:
  • In "From Flubber to Fit", Taurus gets in shape over several months only to immediately regain all of the weight he lost after Cancer feeds him a cupcake. The bench they're sitting on then breaks on his end and Cancer is sent flying.
  • "Uh-oh Spaghetti-No!" revolves around Cancer trying to have a Spaghetti Kiss with Leo, forcing him to eat plate after plate of spaghetti every time something goes wrong. She finally gives him one single noodle and he throws up on her offscreen.
• Levitating Lotus Position: Since Libra floats in the air, when he's seen meditating in "Mad-itation", he's in a floating lotus position.
• Look, a Distraction!:
  • In "Adventures with Saggi", when Sagittarius and Virgo go skydiving, the former does this to push the latter out of the plane when she gets cold feet about jumping.
  • In "Color Me Mad", when Aquarius proves resilient to Cancer's techniques, she distracts him by pointing to something and then knocks him out with a punch to the face.
• Love Potion: In "Scent-o-logy", Aquarius makes one with the intention of spraying Sagittarius, but he ends up spraying Taurus, Capricorn, and Leo instead.
• Lost Voice Plot: In "The Dire Christmas Choir", Pisces, the head of a Christmas choir, pushes the other members to perform at their best and wakes up the next day to find that she's lost her own voice. On the day of the show, Aries, Taurus and Gemini sing at a lower pitch to accommodate Pisces' current disability.
• Made of Indestructium: In "Countdown to Christmas", against Virgo's warning to wait until Christmas Day, Aries opens a present that turns out to be a safe on a digital time lock. His attempts to open it prematurely with a wood axe, chainsaw, and jackhammer all have no effect, and by the time he's done, the safe's timer has run out, revealing that it was empty all along.
• Meat-O-Vision: In "Kitty Kan't Wait", Libra's cat becomes hungry waiting for him to buy pet food and sees him as a fish, then tries to eat him. The fortune message shows that it succeeded.
• Mercy Kill: After being turned into a zombie in "Zombie Attack", Libra begs Aries for one, but Aries is unable to bring himself to do the deed.
• Me's a Crowd: In "Multiplicity", Capricorn uses the cloning machine that he and Aquarius built to produce clones of himself to clean up their workshop.
• Message in a Bottle: In "The Line", Scorpio finds a bottle and plans to use it to send an SOS so he and Libra can be rescued. Libra, however, throws the bottle into the sea before Scorpio can put the cork in, causing the bottle to sink.
• Medium Blending: Some episodes insert live-action footage, such as the movie Virgo and Scorpio go see in "Tooth Picky" and the various scenes symbolizing time passing in "Condimental Love".
• Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody: A brief one during the fortune of "Mummy vs. Zombie".
• Midair Bobbing: Libra floats in midair and can be seen bobbing up and down slightly.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: In "Abducted!", while exploring the alien ship, Aquarius tinkers with a console and unknowingly fires a missile that blows up a nearby planet.
• Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: None of the shorts use dialogue to convey their stories, relying solely on the visuals. The Japanese version does add dialogue to the characters and end messages, though, while the Bulgarian version adds narration to the beginning and end of each episode.
• Mirror Routine: The montage of Scorpio at the amusement park in "Scorpio Lets It Out" includes Aries, as a mime, copying his movements at one point.
• Missing Your Own Party: Capricorn in "Capricorn the Party Starter" as a result of him falling asleep from overexerting himself setting everything up.
• Mistaken for Cheating: In "Taurus' Thoughtful Tokens", Taurus gets Sagittarius to help him win the tickets needed to get a teddy bear for Pisces. Unfortunately, Pisces sees the two of them dancing together and decks Taurus before running off in tears.
• Motion-Capture Mecha: In "Robopocalypse", Gemini pilot one to battle a giant roach.
• Motivation on a Stick: In "From Flubber to Fit", Taurus gets himself to run on a treadmill by hanging a drawing of a cupcake from a metal pole on his back and dangling it in front of himself.
• Mourning an Object: In "R.I.Phone", Pisces breaks her phone while taking a bath, takes it to Aquarius to fix, and is distraught to learn that he can't repair it. Pisces then gives it a funeral, with Libra as the priest.
• Mundane Utility:
  • In "Blast to the Past", Virgo somehow owns a Time Machine that she's previously used to travel through time and take photos of herself in the past. When she sees her and Scorpio's wedding photo and notices that she has an obvious zit in it, she travels back to replace her past self, then keeps doing so every time another imperfection pops up.
  • "The Lazy Portal" centers on Libra using a portal gun for mundane tasks like getting a soda from his fridge and getting food from a drive-thru without leaving his chair.
  • In "The Sword in the Stone", a spoof of the tale of King Arthur, Capricorn uses the titular sword as a knife to cut carrots with.
• Musicalis Interruptus: Pisces' song in "The Unstoppable Diva" comes to a halt when Aquarius and Cancer accidentally slam the door to the karaoke place into her.

N — Z

• Nails on a Blackboard: In "Color Me Mad", when Leo initially No-Sells Cancer's attacks, she pulls out a portable blackboard and runs her nails across it, stunning him long enough for Cancer to slam him onto the ground.
• Naked People Are Funny: In "Fullmoon", when a full moon comes out, Leo tries to avoid letting Cancer see him turn into a werewolf. When he runs into the restroom, Cancer follows him in... and sees him naked because he turned back to normal when the clouds obscured the moon again and he didn't have Magic Pants.
• Negative Continuity: Very little of the show is consistent between shorts. A character can be living in an apartment in one short and a house in another, and whoever they're dating also varies, with the most frequent pairings being Leo + Cancer, Taurus + Pisces, and Scorpio + Virgo. They'll even be married to another character in one short and then either single or dating again later. Sometimes, they'll be monsters for one short, usually during the Halloween Episodes, and then back to normal by their next appearance.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: The characters' employment varies between shorts, the most consistent being Cancer as a nurse, Virgo as a dental hygienist, Scorpio as a handyman, and Capricorn as a mover. This is lampshaded in Aries' official bio, which says that his impulsive nature means he's constantly looking for a new job.
• New Year Has Come: The episodes "A Flaming New Year", "Party Perfect", and "Capricorn the Party Starter" explicitly take place on New Year's Eve.
• Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: In "Curls & Hurls", Virgo only decides to ride a rollercoaster with Aries when he makes chicken noises around her.
• Not Quite Back to Normal: "A Tail of Recovery" ends with Aquarius having cured Capricorn's cold, but in the process having caused him to grow a reptilian tail that he fails to notice. The fortune message shows Capricorn having mutated further into a giant lizard.
• Now You Tell Me: The visual equivalent shows up in "The Line": when Scorpio sees Libra using his phone to listen to music, he tries to use it to call for help, only for the battery to run dry and Scorpio crushes the phone to pieces. Then Libra shows Scorpio that he had a portable charger all that time.
• Offscreen Reality Warp: At the end of "Condimental Love", after Libra's hot dog dilemma is solved, he's shocked to see that Sagittarius spent so long waiting for him that she became an old woman with a walker and IV drip offscreen.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • In "A New Planet", Sagittarius and Virgo are in space exploring an unfamiliar world and find an adorable alien that Sagittarius insists on keeping. When Virgo searches their database for the alien's species, she has this reaction to seeing a warning saying not to get it wet and that Saggi is giving it a bath, causing it to grow giant and burst through their ship.
  • At the end of "A Capricorn Delivery", Gemini have this reaction to seeing the balloons carrying their house in the air all pop at once (we don't see them fall to the ground, however).
• The Olympics: The shorts in "AthLOLtics" all involve professional sports: pole vault ("High Jinks"), gymnastics ("Pisces Lands the Moves"), soccer ("Tricks & Flicks"), marathon ("Winning Appetite" and "Slow and Steady"), synchronized swimming ("Double Trouble"), boxing ("Raging Cancer"), relay racing ("Striking the Winning Pose"), curling ("Sweeping for the Championship"), table tennis ("Smashing Scorpio"), archery ("Archery Queen"), and fencing ("The Heart of a Winner").
• One-Man Band: One of the 2016 prototype shorts features Aquarius having invented a one-man band machine so he can perform for money. When Taurus sees him playing a song, he sees that Aquarius pushes a button rigged to expand the machine with more instruments and some speakers to make the music louder.
• Oven Logic: In "Aries Whips Up a Disaster", Aries attends a baking class, but lacks the patience to make his dish properly. When the time comes to bake the class's bowls, Taurus sets them all to bake for 20 minutes, but Aries sets his bowl to the highest temperature for 30 seconds, causing it to catch fire and explode.
• Over-the-Top Roller Coaster: Several are featured in the chapter "At the Ahhh-musement Park". In particular, "Space Quest" begins with Aquarius, Taurus and Virgo riding a rollercoaster that ends up being very disappointing, so Aquarius has it rebuilt into a much better one that ends in them being launched to the moon.
• Pac Man Fever: The virtual reality game in "Valiant Scorpio" plays 8-bit music all the way through.
• Pathetically Weak: At the beginning of "Fit for Boxing (Day)", Pisces is depicted as being so weak that she can't even do a push-up, lift a barbell, or do a pull-up, which motivates her to get in shape before the end of the month.
• Percussive Maintenance: In "Bright Ideas", Aries does this to restart Pisces' car.
• Picnic Episode: "Taurus Makes a Yummy Treat" is about Taurus having a picnic, but having to defend his food from some animals that want to eat it as much as he does.
• Pie in the Face:
  • At the end of "Cooking with Taurus", after Taurus has baked two pies, he nonchalantly shoves both of Gemini's faces into them.
  • The ending of "Photobomber" has Leo being thrown a surprise party, Cancer giving him a cake, and him preparing to take a selfie with it, only for everyone to photobomb him, sending the cake into his face.
  • The ending of "Love is Sweet" has Cancer slam a cake in Taurus' face.
  • In "Tom-Voo Doo-lery", Gemini use a Voodoo Doll to make Aries slam a cake in Cancer's face.
• Playing Sick:
  • Leo in "A Procedure for Attention" sees Capricorn at the hospital getting attention from Cancer, Virgo, and Sagittarius and pretends to be sick to get the same treatment. However, they prepare to operate on him, causing him to run away in fear and end up actually injured.
  • Gemini in "The Boys Who Cried Candy" draw dots on themselves with a marker and pretend to be sick to be taken care of by Cancer. She later finds out that they were faking and is not happy.
• Potty Emergency:
  • In "Winning Appetite", Taurus inadvertently wins a race when he's struck by this.
  • Libra faces one in "The Lazy Portal". He's able to get to a public restroom in time with his portal gun low on charge, but ends up getting stuck when he opens another portal to a store to get some batteries and it closes on his butt.
• Prank Punishment: In "Spooks for Sweets", after Gemini scare them out of their candy, Capricorn, Pisces, Virgo, and Sagittarius join forces to disguise as three Grim Reapers and get the brothers back.
• Pride: Leo's defining trait, often overlapping with Attention Whore. For some examples, in "Come Dine with Me", he "dated" his reflection in a mirror, in "Photo Booth", when he had a moment of remorse for accidentally striking Cancer and making her run out of the booth in tears, he became distracted seeing the photos he took of himself, in "Leo Throws a Party", his gifts to his party guests were also photos of himself, and when he was turned into a vampire in "Mirror Horror", he enjoyed the use of his new powers until he saw that he didn't appear in mirrors or photos anymore and freaked out.
• Properly Paranoid: In "Monster Hunt", while Scorpio and Aries are hunting down a criminal giant roach, Scorpio aims his blaster at Libra's brother. Aries stops him and calls him out on it, only for Scorpio's paranoia to be well-founded when Libra's brother turns out to be the roach in disguise.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes:
  • In "Persuading Leo", Cancer repeatedly does this to Leo to get him to do effeminate things with her. Aquarius tries the same thing to get Leo to sign something, but Leo has been run ragged by Cancer doing it and instinctively slaps him.
  • Done by Sagittarius and the alien she found in "A New Planet" when Virgo is unsure about letting the latter stay with them.
• Rage Quit: At the end of "Countdown to Christmas", Virgo's gift to Aries is a Rubik's cube. After fumbling with it for a few seconds, he throws it to the ground in frustration.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Regularly happens with Cancer when she's angry, but is done with other characters on occasion.
• Reduced to Dust: In "Ca-Pow", after being struck by Cancer's Kamehame Hadoken, Aries takes a few steps and turns to a pile of green dust and eyes.
• Right on Queue: "Rolling on Patience" sees Aries waiting in a long line for a rollercoaster.
• The Rival: Aries and Leo are often shown having a sort of rivalry, as Aries' Competition Freak nature stands in contrast to Leo's massive ego, though they have worked together as part of a three-legged race in "The Two Legged Chase".
• Road Apples: Gags about animals pooping show up on occasion.
• Robinsonade:
  • "The Line" centers around Libra and Scorpio being stranded on a tiny island.
  • "Party Captain Libra" has a bearded Aries stranded on another island. He tries futilely to tell Libra that he needs rescuing, leading to Libra thinking that he wants to party and leaving him behind. To make matters worse, the island is surrounded by sharks.
• Robosexual: In "Mechanical Love", Aquarius builds himself a fembot girlfriend who later becomes jealous seeing him treat his appliances as affectionately as her and goes full yandere.
• Rule of Three: In "The Virgotronic", Virgo criticizes the effectiveness of Aquarius' high-tech dishwasher when she uses a magnifying glass to examine the dish he cleaned and sees that there's still food on it. Aquarius gets another dishwasher and Virgo finds bacteria when the plate is viewed under a microscope, then he tries cleaning it with a laser and Virgo still finds microbes when the plate is viewed under an ultraviolet light wand.
• Rump Roast: Happens to Capricorn in "A Flaming New Year" from his attempt to get a flame from the torch Aries was carrying.
• Running Gag:
  • Pisces freaking out at the sight of roaches.
  • A Renaissance-style painting of Cancer first appears in "Photobomber" and then shows up in several other episodes. It was eventually made available on an official phone case.
  • The newspaper with the photo of Cancer beating up Leo in "Leo to the Rescue" appears in some other episodes ("Spooks for Sweets", "Curls & Hurls", and many others).
• Scary Stinging Swarm: "Face Beyond Recognition" has Leo picking some flowers for Virgo only to get beat up by bees, who make his face swell so much that he ends up locked out of his new facial recognition-enabled phone.
• Scream Discretion Shot: At the end of "Creepy Crawly", after Taurus finds and returns Virgo's pet spider that he was petsitting, it cuts to the outside of Taurus's house and him screaming as he finds that it left eggs in his shower cap.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • In "A Breaking Song", as the cruise ship is about to hit an iceberg, Aries can be seen putting on scuba equipment and jumping off the deck to safety, though he's back on the ship after Pisces destroys the iceberg with her singing.
  • At the end of "Hocus Pocus", Pisces decides she doesn't want to put up with Aquarius' antics anymore and throws him out the window. Her house then grows bird legs Baba Yaga-style, kicks Aquarius offscreen, and runs off.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: In "Scorpio and the Princess", Scorpio is a king who revels in the fact that no man has ever defeated him in combat until his Magic Mirror shows him getting beaten up by Cancer. He finds her and challenges her to a fight, which she initially refuses until Scorpio shoos away her animal friends, causing her to become enraged and maul him.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story:
  • Capricorn in "High on Love" climbs a mountain to get Pisces a rare flower that they saw an online article about, but it turns out she was actually excited from seeing an ad for a Valentine's Day sale in the lower right corner of said article. Left in shock, Capricorn eats the flower.
  • "In The Nick of Time" sees Aries fighting his way through traffic to get to the airport on time. He gets there, only to remember that he left his wallet and luggage in his car when he got out of it and decided to take his scooter.
  • In "Santa Gets a Little Stuck", against Capricorn's advice, Santa!Taurus insists on squeezing himself down a house's chimney and keeps getting stuck in different ways, eventually getting down and destroying the chimney and fireplace in the process. He then finds Capricorn waiting for him after the latter simply used the front door to get in.
• Shifted to CGI: The original prototype shorts were animated in Flash, while later prototypes and the final product are all animated in CGI.
• Shockingly Expensive Bill: In "You Won't Like Scorpio When He's Mad", Aquarius is able to prevent Scorpio from having another freak out by injecting him with something to calm him down in time. Then he hands Scorpio the $1,000 bill for their therapy session...
• Shout-Out:
  • The virtual reality game in "Valiant Scorpio" looks a lot like Minecraft with its blocky art style. There's also Scorpio getting thrown into a green pipe, then he jumps up into a floating block and grows in size after obtaining a spear of broccoli from it.
  • In the fortune message of "Color Me Mad", Cancer copies Chun-Li's win pose from Street Fighter II.
  • In the fortune message of "Mirror Horror", Leo freaks out when he starts sparkling, a reference to Twilight.
  • The short "Cancer Terminates" features Leo playing a spoof of the T-800 sent back to kill Aries.
  • Capricorn's short in "Gadgets & Gizmos" is titled "Lug Me No More", after the Jim Jones song "Love Me No More".
  • In "The Drama Queen", Pisces and Taurus sit down to watch a movie that opens with a cat in a parody of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo.
  • "Capricorn's Gotta Catch 'Em All" has Capricorn playing a spoof of Pokémon GO.
  • Aquarius' de-aging machine in "From Gaga to Goo-ga" resembles the TARDIS.
  • "Monster Hunt" is a spoof of Men in Black, complete with Scorpio neuralyzing Aries at the end.
  • In "A Capricorn Delivery", Gemini lift their house into the air using balloons.
  • Several of the characters' superhero and supervillain personas in "Caped Crusaders" are caricatures of licensed characters; Aquarius is Inspector Gadget, Taurus is Batman, Leo is Superman, Aries is The Flash, albeit with flight on top of Super-Speed, Virgo is Wonder Woman, Libra is Captain America, Cancer is Sailor Moon with a Super Saiyan-esque Golden Super Mode, Gemini's Fusion Dance is done with two rings like the Wonder Twins' transformations, and Scorpio is The Incredible Hulk in one short and Lex Luthor in another.
  • In "The Makeover", Sagittarius' character is a spoof of Samara Morgan.
• Slept Through the Apocalypse: "In the Zone" has Sagittarius so distracted by playing a video game that she doesn't notice an Alien Invasion happening outside her apartment.
• Smelly Feet Gag: In "The Boys Who Cried Candy", when Gemini pretend to be sick to get attention from Cancer, she reluctantly gives one of them a foot massage after seeing his feet emit visible fumes.
• Soul-Crushing Desk Job: "Special Responsibilities" shows Sagittarius working one of these, where her job consists entirely of stamping papers. To make matters worse, Scorpio is her boss.
• Spaghetti Kiss:
  • In "Mechanical Love", Cancer and Leo are seen doing one at the beginning, then Aquarius and his robot girlfriend do the same later.
  • Cancer spends the short "Uh-oh Spaghetti-No!" trying to do this with Leo and failing each time. After stuffing him with several plates, she tries with one last noodle that causes him to give.
• Speaking Simlish: The characters can speak and occasionally sing, it just comes out as indistinct babbling. The closest things to English ever spoken are in "Cat About You" when Leo lets out a coherent "Meow" and in "Stealing Back the Show" when an unseen announcer says what sounds like Leo and Cancer's names, albeit slurred.
• Splitting Pants: In "An Exercise in Pranking", Capricorn attempts to lift a barbell that he's unaware has been glued to the ground, causing his pants to tear in the back.
• Squashed Flat:
  • Aries at the end of "The Generous Donor", not from being flattened by a heavy object, but from donating so much of his blood that he looks like a deflated balloon.
  • Aquarius in "Slow and Steady" after his opponents in a race collectively trample him.
  • Gemini at the end of "Tom-Voo Doo-lery" from an angry Aquarius slamming two voodoo dolls of them together.
• Staircase Tumble: Happens to Cancer in "Candy Crushed" when she makes it to the top of a very long staircase only to break a heel, rolling into some garbage cans when she reaches the bottom.
• Stewed Alive: In "Taurus Makes a Yummy Treat", a tribe offers Taurus a bath in a large cauldron, only for Taurus to then notice one of the tribe members putting some food in the cauldron, making him realize they're cannibals wanting to eat him.
• Sticky Situation: "An Exercise in Pranking" has Gemini using a tube of glue to prank the customers at a gym. Leo doesn't take kindly to their antics and glues them to a punching bag as he and everyone they pranked prepare to get some revenge.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Whenever a character's family members are shown, they greatly resemble each other. In "Fast Love", we meet Aries' family and see that they look like him down to having similar hoods, and in "Taurus and the Tricycle", we meet another member, presumably his younger brother, who looks like him as a kid. Likewise, Libra's parents, younger brother, and grandfather look almost exactly like him, Taurus' father in a flashback looks like him with a mustache, and Cancer's grandmother looks like her.
• Stuffed into a Trashcan:
  • Inverted in "Hard Hits", where Leo's flashback of him being a scrawny weakling shows him being bullied by Gemini, who slam a trash can onto him.
  • In "Rolling on Patience", when Aries cuts in front of Leo in the line for a ride, Leo grabs him and throws him into a nearby trash can. He accidentally does it again when Aries tries to skip the line by lifting himself with balloons and Leo throws a toothpick into them.
• Superhero Episode: The chapter "Caped Crusaders".
• Sweetheart Sipping: In "Photo Booth", Leo and Cancer are briefly seen sipping from the same cup on their date.
• Take a Third Option: In "Saggi Saves (A) Christmas (Tree)", when Scorpio insists on getting a real tree for Christmas, Sagittarius refuses to let him cut a particular one down because of the animals living in it. Later, she works out a compromise: she takes Scorpio's chainsaw, cuts a hole in his floor, picks up his entire house with a crane, and puts it over the tree.
• Taken for Granite: Done by a gorgon Aquarius to several characters in "A Hero Shines". Naturally, it ends up being his own undoing when Virgo shines a petrified Libra's shield until it becomes shiny enough to reflect his gaze back at him.
• Teeth Flying: In "Dental-phobia", Scorpio wins a boxing match against Leo, knocking one of the latter's teeth out. He later finds that he has a cavity and, after being too afraid to see a dentist (Virgo) to have it properly treated, he challenges Leo to a rematch in the hopes that he'll knock the offending tooth out. It works... but then the rest of Scorpio's teeth fall out and the short ends with him getting dentures.
• Teleporter Accident: In "Star Science", while testing out his teleporter pods, Aquarius sees too late that the pod he's in has a spider in it, which results in him emerging from the other pod with Spider-Man-style wall-crawling powers. He tries the same thing with a fly in the hopes that he'll grow wings, but all that happens is that he gains an affinity for eating garbage, much to Virgo's disgust.
• Temporary Bulk Change: In "Enter the Dohyō", Capricorn bulks up to beat Taurus at sumo wrestling, only to get stuck in a doorway, letting Taurus win by default.
• That's No Moon: In "A Monstrous Preparation", when Aries and Scorpio reach the top of the mountain, they place a flag on what looks like a mound of snow but is actually a yeti that was resting there.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Cancer is obsessed with romantic media and often finds herself engulfed in her own fantasies about dating a guy, only to be disappointed when the expected soap opera or romance cliché doesn't play out like she intended when she tries to get that to happen in real life.
• This Is Gonna Suck: In "Curious Aquarius", after Aquarius finds a crate full of dynamite, he accidentally throws the lid onto the nearby detonator and flashes this sort of look before it all goes off.
• This Is My Side: In "The Line", Libra and Scorpio do this when they're stranded on a tiny island.
• Time Master: "Click to Speed" revolves around Aries discovering that the fast forward function on his TV remote works on everything. He uses it to speed up his turkey in the microwave, a bird hatching from its egg, Cancer going through a long presentation, a traffic light turning green during heavy traffic (which causes the cars to crash), and even the seasons changing. The fun stops when the bird he hatched earlier presses the pause button, leaving him frozen.
• Toilet Humour: Used on occasion, e.g. the ending of "Good Grief" when Gary throws the tablet he was using to communicate with a bedridden Gerry into a public toilet just as Leo is about to sit down on it, followed by Gerry's panicked screams. When we next see Gerry during the fortune message, he's gone catatonic.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • Aries' obsession with making competitions out of everything once led him to try beating people at donating blood.
  • In "Scorpio the Fire Inspector", Scorpio has to chew Gemini out when they insist on trying to light fireworks near combustible objects (some oil drums, a gas truck, and a gas station). Eventually, he takes them out into the desert, only for them to accidentally blow up an oil rig.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "Hard Hits", after they get mugged, Aries, Taurus, and Capricorn go to Leo's gym to get the physiques needed to stand up for themselves. After their initial failure, Leo tells them the story of how he used to be a scrawny weakling and was similarly bullied, which drove him to bulk up and become what he is now, inspiring them to not give up. The short ends with the three having bulked up and taking their revenge on Scorpio and Gemini.
• To Serve Man: In "Outerspace Imagination", the last of Pisces' fantasies about Aquarius being an alien in disguise is of him eating Cancer.
• Training from Hell: Leo's training under Aries to become a master of masks in "Leo's Many Faces" involves sticking his hands in boiling water, stepping on hot coals, attempting to maintain his composure while being tickled with a feather, and balancing stacks of bowls while stretched between two stools and with incense burning under him.
• Translator Microbes: In "Com-meow-nication", Aquarius invents a handheld device that lets him learn what cats are saying. The cat has to simply meow into the device, and it creates a picture to represent what the cat wants.
• Turn the Other Cheek: In "Libra's Laughs Last", Libra's response to Leo and Scorpio destroying his building block sculptures throughout their lives is to simply shrug it off and rebuild. The short ends with them as old men, where Libra has built a giant mallet out of blocks that he then tips over and crushes them with.
• A Twinkle in the Sky: Happens to Aquarius in "High Jinks" when the extendable pole that he created for a pole vault extends a little too well, sending him into the sky.
• Unaffected by Spice: Unlike Scorpio and Capricorn, Cancer experiences no issues with the hot sauce in "Scorpio Feels the Burn".
• Under the Mistletoe: In "Beneath the Mistletoe", Cancer tries to do this with Leo, but he keeps entering her house through places other than where she hung the mistletoe up. Hanging it from a hook on his head leads to him kissing Libra instead (offscreen).
• Ungrateful Bastard: In "Special Responsibilities", Sagittarius' attempts to switch into her superhero alter ego keep getting impeded by Scorpio, her boss. When she rescues him when his car falls off a broken bridge, her mask gets blown off by the wind and he gets angry at her again for not doing her job. Rightfully, she drops him into the river and flies off, relieved, only for him to angrily chase after her during the fortune message.
• Unwanted Assistance:
  • In "Saggi & the Beast", Sagittarius "liberates" a gorilla actor playing the role of King Kong and leaves him stranded on a small island, much to his chagrin.
  • Aquarius goes on a spree of this in "Fairy GodAquarius": Visit Aries and Sagittarius in the story of Sleeping Beauty, he wakes up the latter with an alarm clock and she decks Aries in the face after seeing him. Virgo and Leo in Beauty and the Beast, he turns Virgo into a Cat Girl rather than making Leo human. The titular beanstalk from Jack and the Beanstalk, he shrinks it and Taurus falls off mid-climb, landing on his face.
• Valentine's Day Episode: The chapters "Rom-Antics" and "Love is in the Air".
• Vomit Discretion Shot:
  • Several from Aries in "Curls & Hurls" as a result of him going on a rollercoaster on a full stomach.
  • Cancer in "Aching for a Thrill" after Aries spins the teacup ride they were sitting in around too much, and in "Fairy GodAquarius" from riding in the suped-up carriage that Aquarius used to give her a lift to the ball.
  • Leo in "Uh-oh Spaghetti-No!" from Cancer stuffing him with spaghetti.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: "Scaredy Leo" ends with a photo of Leo about to get hit in the face with Aries' puke after taking him on a rollercoaster one too many times to get a perfect shot.
• Voodoo Doll: Some show up in "Hocus Pocus" and "Tom-Voo Doo-lery".
• Wasteful Wishing: In "Virgo and the Genie", Virgo finds a tarnished lamp and tries to rub it clean, releasing a genie; Libra. While Aries wants to wish to become a king, Virgo simply wishes that the lamp was clean, which Libra grants and leaves to go on vacation.
• Weight Woe:
  • In "Love is Sweet", Cancer has an extended fantasy sequence of her getting married to Taurus and ending up considerably chubbier from overindulging in sweets. Having none of it, she shoves the strawberry cake that Taurus gave her in his face and pushes him back out of her house, confusing him. The fortune message shows Taurus chasing Cancer to offer her a chocolate cake, which she also refuses.
  • Pisces experiences this in "Curbing Cravings" after a commercial convinces her to eat healthier.
• Werewolves Are Dogs: The werewolf that Sagittarius hunts in "Transylvania Mania".
• Western Zodiac: The characters are personifications of the western zodiac symbols.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: In "Less Than Super Heroes", after Leo, Aries, and Virgo show off their superpowers, Gemini display their ability to fuse into... a goofy-looking, four-eyed being who is about the size of a mouse and falls on his back frequently. While it's initially disregarded as ridiculous, it ends up being what defeats Scorpio, who subdues the other heroes with ease, when he laughs so hard that they're able to easily arrest him.
• Who Is Driving?: In "The Party Bus", Sagittarius gets a party bus and invites most of the cast to dance aboard it. Everything goes smoothly until she decides to join them, causing the bus to careen off a cliff since she was the one driving.
• William Telling: Done by Sagittarius to Leo in "Joke's on You". Due to Gemini's pranking, she ends up discharging and pinning Leo to the tree in the process of hitting all of the apples.
• Wire Dilemma: Pisces faces one in "Bomberwoman Pisces". The "timer speeds up when a wire is cut" version happens when she has the defusal drone cut the yellow wire, then when she cuts the blue wire herself. However, the bomb turns out to be a sparkler display.
• World of Technicolor Hair: The only characters with hair of a natural color are Leo, whose mane is brown, Aries, who develops brown hair when he takes on a werewolf-like form in "A Hairy Scary Tale", and both Geminis, who are depicted having brown hair in "Life of the Party". Everyone else has hair that's red (Scorpio), blue (Aquarius), pink (Pisces and Cancer), green (Sagittarius), purple (Virgo), or has no visible hair at all (Taurus, Libra, and Capricorn).
• Would Hit a Girl: Scorpio in "Circus Queen" was prepared to deck Sagittarius for repeatedly messing up his circus performance.
• X-Ray Sparks:
  • In "The Fairest Christmas of All", when Libra cuts Gemini's electric keyboard in half, Gary presses a key on his half and gets zapped, resulting in this.
  • In "Saggi's Baking Misadventures", Sagittarius accidentally splashes water on the outlet that a mixer is plugged into and hastily attempts to unplug it immediately after, getting shocked as a result and this happening.
  • Happens to Scorpio in "Scorpio's Aqua Drama" when he plugs the filter for his new aquarium into a power strip, followed by the filter exploding in his face, leaving it blackened.
  • Happens to Capricorn in "The Doll" when he falls into a puddle while holding a toaster.
• Yank the Dog's Chain:
  • In "The Two Legged Chase", while in a three-legged race with Leo, Aries is about to drag them both across the finish line only for Leo to stop to take some victory selfies, resulting in the other teams passing them.
  • In "Slow and Steady", Capricorn is about to cross the finish line and ignores his watch telling him that his heart is overworked. It quickly gives out and he collapses about an inch away from the finish line, staying there until late at night when Libra finally crosses.
• You Must Be This Tall to Ride: In "Fooling Gemini", Scorpio won't let the Gemini twins on a rollercoaster because they're just slightly under the minimum height requirement. They attempt to use several disguises to appear taller, finally getting on by disguising as a buxom woman, then they quickly learn why the height requirement was there when they find that they're too short to use the safety bar and end up getting thrown off.
• Your Television Hates You: The "overlaps with Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere" variant appears in "Food for The Cure", where Taurus is stuck in a hospital bed and can't eat any food. He tries to see what's on television to get his mind off it, but all the programs he finds have food in them.
• Zombie Apocalypse: "Zombie Attack" takes place during one.

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