History Recap / CourageTheCowardlyDogS1E7KingRamsesCurseTheClutchingFoot

* AnAesop: Money isn't more important than your family's safety and well-being. If someone you know to have dangerous weapons is demanding you give them a valuable object, do it.

* AnAesop: If you have a medical condition, go to a doctor to see what can be done about it. Ignoring it and thinking that it will go away can only make it worse. Though to be fair, it's implied they would've checked up with Vindaloo, who's all but a good doctor.

-->'''''"Return the slab..."'''''[[note]]''[[BrickJoke "What's your offer?"]]''[[/note]]

* AnAesop: If you have a medical condition, go to a doctor to see what can be done about it. Ignoring it and thinking that it will go away can only make it worse.

-->'''''"Return the slab..."'''''[[note]]''"[[BrickJoke What's your offer?]]"''[[/note]]

[[AC:King Ramses's Curse]]

!!These episodes provide examples of the following Tropes:

* AnAesop:
** During the first part, ''money isn't more important than your family's safety and well-being''. If someone you know to have dangerous weapons is demanding you give them a valuable object, ''do it''.
** For the second part. If you have a medical condition, go to a doctor to see what can be done about it. Ignoring it and thinking it will go away, can only make it worse.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: When Muriel and Courage attempted numerous remedies to cure Eustace's foot fungus, much to his pain. They include rubbing a cactus on the foot, sticking it in a pail of lobsters, and using some unidentifiable horrid concoction that only causes severe burns.
* AndIMustScream: The ending of "King Ramses' Curse" has Eustace, due to his refusal to return the slab, be turned ''into'' a part of the slab. He's still screaming even after the slab's been returned to the pyramid where it belongs, and where it is said it will remain for all time. Thankfully, NegativeContinuity means he's somehow been freed in the next episode.
* AreYouSureYouCanDriveThisThing: On such a rare occasion, Courage has to drive the foot to the bank using Eustace's truck.
-->'''Courage''': I knew I should have learned how to [[DrivingStick drive a stick]]!
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The first curse is a flood. The third curse is locusts. The second curse is an annoying song played at full blast.
-->''KING RAAAAAMMMMSEEEEESSSSS!!! The man in gauze! The man in gauze!''
* AssholeVictim: King Ramses' artifact is stolen from a museum by two criminals. They don't get very far, as Ramses appears and goes straight to the locusts without warning.
* BananaPeel: The fungus plans to rob a train that Courage stopped, but it slips on the peel from the banana Courage was eating and ends up derailing and [[StuffBlowingUp blowing up the train]].

-->'''Muriel''': Eustace, what are ya waiting for? 'Till we're six feet under?!
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Eustace had listened to Muriel about going to the doctor for his fungus, the Mobster foot wouldn’t have taken over his body. Also in "King Ramses' Curse", had Eustace simply returned the slab after finding out it was stolen, the titular villain never would have turned his plagues onto the farmhouse and subjected the three to all that torment.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: This "garbage" line.
-->'''Eustace''': Garbage! From King Garbage! Of the Garbage Dynasty! Stupid dog, always bringing garbage into the house.
* DiscoSucks: Ramses' second plague is a {{disco}} song about him that's so annoying that it inflicts agonizing pain on everyone who listens to it. The fact that this is the ''second'' plague also indicates that, in-universe, an obnoxious disco song is considered worse than a flood.

* EatenAlive: What the plague of locusts from the third curse is implied to do to the thieves who initially stole the slab in the first place.
* EverythingSensor: The Computer has Courage put a sample of the Clutching Foot in its CD-ROM drive to analyze it.

* FlatEarthAtheist: Despite all of the supernatural experiences that he has presumably already been subjected to (based on previous episodes), and how obviously otherworldly King Ramses appears even in terms of the discordant animation style, Eustace believes it is just the professor pulling a ScoobyDooHoax to make him give up the slab that he refused to return earlier.
* GiantFootOfStomping: The foot who actually has enough [[TheBrute self-heavy lifting]] to stomp Muriel, taking her hostage for the remainder of the episode.
* GrossUpCloseUp: Eustace's infected foot has a couple of unflattering close-ups before the fungus fully takes over. Also, we probably didn't need to see a zoom in of his toothless gums as he's screaming during the "cactus treatment".
* HappyPlace: With the house being eaten by killer locusts and presumably having only minutes left to live, Muriel vents her stress by [[CopeByCreating cooking a sumptuous feast]]. She faints with relief when Ramses calls off the plague just in time.
* HereWeGoAgain: "The Clutching Foot" ends with Courage now having the fungus... in his tongue.
* {{Homage}}: King Ramses' flat design was based on ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper''.
* InconvenientItch: Eustace's itchy foot began to worsen as it starts to become infectious. Yikes.
* {{Irony}}: King Ramses delivers a series of plagues to Courage, Eustace, and Muriel in response to Eustace's refusal to return his Slab. Ramses is often depicted as the Pharaoh from the ''Literature/BookOfExodus'' who prompts God to strike Egypt with plagues for refusing to free the Hebrew slaves despite Moses constantly warning him to do so. While the Pharaoh of ''Exodus'' is never named and was not likely to be Ramses, popular culture nonetheless makes him the one whose pride and arrogance make him a victim of plagues, while ''here'', it is ''Ramses'' who gets to deliver plagues to punish Eustance for being a brat.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Subverted. Eustace surrenders Ramses' slab when he realizes that he's about to die if he doesn't, but then immediately tries to lay claim on it again when he thinks the threat has passed. Ramses gives him an [[AndIMustScream even worse fate]] than being EatenAlive for his continued arrogance.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Eustace got his comeuppance for his callous greed as he gets imprisoned in the slab in place of Ramses, as punishment.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: It takes about twenty-five seconds for Courage to swim from the attic to the basement on a single breath. Since he's a small dog with tiny legs, it's impressive that he can hold his breath that long, let alone swim that distance during that time. And that’s assuming this was shown in RealTime and nothing was skipped over or trimmed out, meaning this all could have taken longer than what was shown.
* TemptingFate: Once all three curses have been neutralized, Eustace smugly boasts that King Ramses is "outta ammo, mister." Turns out that King Ramses can summon the locusts ''back.''
* WoundLicking: More like '''Fungus Licking'''. After analyzing a sample of the fungus taken from Muriel's foot, the Computer deduces that ''dog spit'' will get rid of the fungus. Much to Courage's disgust, he reluctantly licks the fungus everywhere which actually cures Eustace's foot as it begins to shrink back to its regular form.
-->'''Computer:''' Work up a good drool, baby.

-->'''''"Return the slab..."'''''[[note]]''[[BrickJoke What's your offer?]]''[[/note]]

* BullyingADragon: Despite all the curses King Ramses throws at them, Eustace stubbornly refuses to give up the slab without a reward. Even when they make it through all three curses, Eustace still refuses to give in and ends up imprisoned in the slab himself. Muriel even calls him out for this.

* DiscoSucks: Ramses' second plague is a {{disco}} song about him that's so annoyingly repetitive that it inflicts agonizing pain on everyone who listens to it. The fact that this is the ''second'' plague also indicates that, in-universe, an obnoxious disco song is considered worse than a flood.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: When Muriel and Courage attempted numerous remedies to cure Eustace's itchy fungus foot, much to his pain. They include rubbing a cactus on the foot, sticking it in a pail of lobsters, and using some unidentifiable horrid concoction that only causes severe burns.

* BananaPeel: The mobster foot plans to rob a train that Courage stopped, but the foot slips on the peel from the banana Courage was eating and ends up derailing and [[StuffBlowingUp blowing up the train]].

* EverythingSensor: The Computer has Courage put a fungus sample in its CD-ROM drive to analyze it.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Eustace's infected foot has a couple of unflattering close-ups before he's fully possessed. Also, we probably didn't need to see a zoom in of his toothless gums as he's screaming during the "cactus treatment".

* WoundLicking: More like '''Fungus Licking'''. After analyzing a sample of the fungus taken from Muriel's foot, the Computer deduces that ''dog spit'' will get rid of the fungus. Much to Courage's disgust, he reluctantly licks the fungus foot everywhere which actually cures Eustace's foot as it begins to shrink back to its regular form.

* WoundLicking: More like '''Fungus Licking'''. Much to Courage's disgust, he reluctantly licks the fungus foot everywhere which actually cures Eustace's foot as it begins to shrink back to its regular form.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: It takes about twenty-five seconds for Courage to swim from the attic to the basement on a single breath. Since he's a small dog with tiny legs, it's impressive that he can hold his breath that long, let alone swim that distance during that time.

When Courage discovered an slab of Egyptian stone, the slab turns out to be an ancient relic worth a million dollars. Due to its value, Eustace's refuses to return the slab without payment, which consequently ravages the entire family with a triad of plagues as a result.

Eustace wakes up with a fungus foot. Refusing to visit the doctor, the foot consumes Eustace and takes Muriel hostage. While Courage is forced to carry out their footwork, he races to find a cure.

* AnAesop: For the second part. If you have a medical condition, go to a doctor to see what can be done about it. Ignoring it and thinking it will go away, can only make it worse.

* AbortedArc: When Mr. Frith visits the Bagges to retrieve the slab, Courage nervously reminds Eustace and Muriel that the last they'd seen him, Mr. Frith was [[UncertainDoom last seen]] as [[BalefulPolymorph a vending machine]] in "Klub Katz", making his current presence [[UnexplainedRecovery impossible]]. While this might've foreshadowed Mr. Frith's being [[AmbiguouslyEvil more than what he seemed]], nothing comes of it. The primary supernatural threat coms from Ramses and Frith shows no sign of being other than what he seems.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Eustace had listened to Muriel about going to the doctor for his fungus, the Mobster foot wouldn’t have taken over his body. Also in "King Ramses' Curse", had Eustace simply returned the slab after finding out it was stolen, the titular villain may have never would have turned his plagues onto the farmhouse and subjected the three to all that torment.