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* AllJustADream: Near the very end Frylock wakes up in the doctor’s office good as new, the whole cancer arc being a dream, with the doc suddenly going on a bizarre monologue about them having to merge together to fight aliens before said aliens carry him off and shoot up the office. A very ''Aqua Teens'' ending. Subverted when he wakes up ''again'' with ''that'' having been a dream, the doc tells him the chemo put the cancer in remission and schedules another appointment in two months.
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* AllJustADream: Near the very end Frylock wakes up in the doctor’s office good as new, the whole cancer arc being a dream, with the doc suddenly going on a bizarre monologue about them having to merge together to fight aliens before said aliens carry him off and shoot up the office. A very ''Aqua Teens'' ending. Subverted when he wakes up ''again'' with ''that'' having been a dream, the doc tells him the chemo put the cancer in remission and schedules another appointment in two months.he still has a long road to recovery.
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* MoodWhiplash: Most of the humor comes from Frylock going through something serious in a realistic fashion, while everybody else still acts ridiculous. Shake chokes to death on a scorpion (which the others barely notice), comes back to life with no explanation, and tries to blow up the sun; Meatwad suggests that Frylock just tell the doctor that he doesn’t have cancer; Carl dresses in trash bags and gloves because he thinks cancer is contagious and asks Frylock how long before he dies, and Andrew WK plays a super loud and raucous song about partying to celebrate Frylock’s chemo treatment. Then, despite all of this absurdity, they have to confront the possibility of Frylock dying in a serious way.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: You might expect some absurd conclusion but no, the chemo cures Frylock’s cancer and the doctor schedules a follow-up in two months.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: You might expect some absurd conclusion but no, the chemo cures puts Frylock’s cancer into remission and the doctor schedules a follow-up in two months.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: Shake chokes to death on a scorpion and Meatwad even announces that he’s dead, but he’s back in the next scene.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: The absurdity of having a serious cancer episode in a show where the characters already die regularly is {{Lampshaded}} by killing Shake chokes to death on a scorpion halfway through and Meatwad even announces that he’s dead, but he’s then bringing him back in the very next scene.scene with zero explanation.
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A surprisingly sad and serious episode where Frylock discovers the mole on his face has turned malignant, and his friends Meatwad, Carl, and Master Shake try to support his struggles with skin cancer.
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A surprisingly sad and serious episode where Frylock discovers the mole on his face has turned malignant, and his friends Meatwad, Carl, and Master Shake try to support his struggles with skin cancer.
cancer. Andrew W.K. guest stars in this VerySpecialEpisode about tragedy, courage and ultimately, redemption.
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** Later Shake burns the house down, but again it’s back soon after.
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** Later Shake burns the house down, but again it’s back soon after.after.
* VerySpecialEpisode: A unusually serious and downplayed episode about cancer. The HBO description even calls it this by name.
* VerySpecialEpisode: A unusually serious and downplayed episode about cancer. The HBO description even calls it this by name.
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A surprisingly sad and serious episode where Frylock discovers the mole on his face has turned malignant, and his friends Meatwad, Carl, and Master Shake try to support his struggles with skin cancer.
* AllJustADream: Near the very end Frylock wakes up in the doctor’s office good as new, the whole cancer arc being a dream, with the doc suddenly going on a bizarre monologue about them having to merge together to fight aliens before said aliens carry him off and shoot up the office. A very ''Aqua Teens'' ending. Subverted when he wakes up ''again'' with ''that'' having been a dream, the doc tells him the chemo put the cancer in remission and schedules another appointment in two months.
* BodyHorror: Shake thinks the reason he’s bad at guitar is that he has stubby hands, so he lets himself be mauled by bees to make them swell up. When he wakes up he’s absolutely covered in grotesque stings, including on his eyeballs.
** Frylock looks absolutely nauseating after going on chemo.
* ChekhovsGun: The episode keeps teasing that the Time Machine will factor into the story somehow, but nobody ever uses it and Shake eventually sets it on fire.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Shake is the only one to point out that the solution to Frylock’s cancer may lie in their time machine. But instead of something like going to the future to get a cure, he decides to set it on fire to “smoke out” the cancer.
* HeroicSacrifice: Shake duct tapes himself to a rocket with the intent of destroying the sun to cure Frylock’s skin cancer. It doesn’t work but it’s the thought that counts.
* OhCrap: Shake and Meatwad anre initially their regular boorish selves until Frylock comes out of the doctor’s office clearly upset and they both clearly realize things are serious.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: You might expect some absurd conclusion but no, the chemo cures Frylock’s cancer and the doctor schedules a follow-up in two months.
* TookALevelInKindness: Carl and even Shake are genuinely torn up about Frylock’s cancer. Especially noticeable with Shake, this is probably the only episode where he’s both a prominent character and doesn’t do anything selfish or mean.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Not played for laughs, even. Frylock falls into a deep depression and his friends have to cope with his possible death, the only humor coming from Shake’s increasingly absurd attempts to cure him or cheer him up.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Shake chokes to death on a scorpion and Meatwad even announces that he’s dead, but he’s back in the next scene.
** Later Shake burns the house down, but again it’s back soon after.
* AllJustADream: Near the very end Frylock wakes up in the doctor’s office good as new, the whole cancer arc being a dream, with the doc suddenly going on a bizarre monologue about them having to merge together to fight aliens before said aliens carry him off and shoot up the office. A very ''Aqua Teens'' ending. Subverted when he wakes up ''again'' with ''that'' having been a dream, the doc tells him the chemo put the cancer in remission and schedules another appointment in two months.
* BodyHorror: Shake thinks the reason he’s bad at guitar is that he has stubby hands, so he lets himself be mauled by bees to make them swell up. When he wakes up he’s absolutely covered in grotesque stings, including on his eyeballs.
** Frylock looks absolutely nauseating after going on chemo.
* ChekhovsGun: The episode keeps teasing that the Time Machine will factor into the story somehow, but nobody ever uses it and Shake eventually sets it on fire.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Shake is the only one to point out that the solution to Frylock’s cancer may lie in their time machine. But instead of something like going to the future to get a cure, he decides to set it on fire to “smoke out” the cancer.
* HeroicSacrifice: Shake duct tapes himself to a rocket with the intent of destroying the sun to cure Frylock’s skin cancer. It doesn’t work but it’s the thought that counts.
* OhCrap: Shake and Meatwad anre initially their regular boorish selves until Frylock comes out of the doctor’s office clearly upset and they both clearly realize things are serious.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: You might expect some absurd conclusion but no, the chemo cures Frylock’s cancer and the doctor schedules a follow-up in two months.
* TookALevelInKindness: Carl and even Shake are genuinely torn up about Frylock’s cancer. Especially noticeable with Shake, this is probably the only episode where he’s both a prominent character and doesn’t do anything selfish or mean.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Not played for laughs, even. Frylock falls into a deep depression and his friends have to cope with his possible death, the only humor coming from Shake’s increasingly absurd attempts to cure him or cheer him up.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Shake chokes to death on a scorpion and Meatwad even announces that he’s dead, but he’s back in the next scene.
** Later Shake burns the house down, but again it’s back soon after.
