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* IdeaBulb: Happens to Darkwing twice. Once when he realizes the "potato backwards", and afterward when he tells the hillbillies that Bushroot is a vampire.

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* IdeaBulb: Happens to Darkwing twice. Once when he realizes the "potato backwards", backwards" phrase, and afterward when he tells the hillbillies that Bushroot is a vampire.



* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Bushroot sees Posey strangling Darkwing, he mistakes it for affection and believed that Darkwing has stolen her away.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Bushroot sees Posey strangling Darkwing, he mistakes it for affection and believed that Darkwing has stolen her away.away.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** When Gosalyn hears something, she things it's Bigwebfoot and pushes Honker out to grab him, only to get him caught by Posey.
** Likewise, when Darkwing forces Launchpad to check the bushes to prove there's nothing, he inadvertently causes L.P to become Posey's latest victim.
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* ImperfectRitual: While growing Bushroot's bride, Spike accidentally breaks the bottle of posey blossom and substitutes it with potato starch, which results in Posey growing into a potato.

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* ImperfectRitual: While growing Bushroot's bride, Spike accidentally breaks the bottle of posey blossom and substitutes it with potato starch, which results in starch. As a result, Posey ends up growing into a large potato.

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* ImperfectRitual: Due to Spike substituting the broken bottle of Posey Blossom with Potato Starch, Posey ends up growing into a potato.

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* ImperfectRitual: Due to While growing Bushroot's bride, Spike substituting accidentally breaks the broken bottle of posey blossom and substitutes it with potato starch, which results in Posey Blossom with Potato Starch, Posey ends up growing into a potato.potato.
-->'''Bushroot:''' ''(Grabbing Spike by the mouth)'' How could you do this to me?!
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Dr. Bushroot is trying to grow a wife for himself, but Spike gets the ingredients wrong and they accidentally create a vampire potato.

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Dr. Bushroot is trying to grow a wife for himself, but Spike gets Darkwing tells three boy scouts the ingredients wrong and they story of how he encountered a vampire potato accidentally create a vampire potato.
created by Bushroot.
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* FireBreathingDiner: One of the truckers' tests on Darkwing to see if he's a vampire is to have him eat a special kind of hot pepper, believing vampires can't handle them. Darkwing tries to explain to them that ''nobody'' can handle those kind of hot peppers before they shove them done his throat, causing him to blast into the air. Sure enough, when one of the truckers tries a pepper, he goes flying too. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint The other two think he's a vampire too]].

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* FireBreathingDiner: One of the truckers' tests on Darkwing to see if he's a vampire is to have him eat a special kind of hot pepper, Flammin' Red Hot Chilli Peppers, believing vampires can't handle them. Darkwing tries to explain to them that ''nobody'' can handle those kind of hot peppers before they shove them done his throat, causing him to blast into the air. Sure enough, when one of the truckers tries a pepper, he goes flying too. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint The other two think he's a vampire too]].
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* NoOntologicalInertia: Posey's defeat ends up returning all her victims to normal.
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* IdeaBulb: Happens to Darkwing twice. Once when he realizes the "potato backwards", and afterward when he tells the hillbillies that Bushroot is a vampire.
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* ChekhovsGun: Bushroot's pollen, which ends up proving instrumental in stopping Posey.

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* ChekhovsGun: Bushroot's pollen, which Bushroot uses his pollen to keep Darkwing from capturing him. It ends up proving instrumental in stopping Posey.
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* ExactWords: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards -- you say ''[[AmbiguousSyntax potato backwards''!"

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* ExactWords: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards -- you say ''[[AmbiguousSyntax potato backwards''!"backwards]]''!"
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* ExactWords: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards -- you say ''potato backwards''!"

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* ExactWords: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards -- you say ''potato ''[[AmbiguousSyntax potato backwards''!"
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* FireBreathingDiner: One of the truckers' tests on Darkwing to see if he's a vampire is to have him eat a special kind of hot pepper, believing vampires can't handle them. Darkwing tries to explain to them that ''nobody'' can handle those kind of hot peppers before they shove them done his throat, causing him to blast into the air. Sure enough, when one of the truckers tries a pepper, he goes flying too. The other two think he's a vampire too.

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* FireBreathingDiner: One of the truckers' tests on Darkwing to see if he's a vampire is to have him eat a special kind of hot pepper, believing vampires can't handle them. Darkwing tries to explain to them that ''nobody'' can handle those kind of hot peppers before they shove them done his throat, causing him to blast into the air. Sure enough, when one of the truckers tries a pepper, he goes flying too. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint The other two think he's a vampire too.too]].
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* FireBreathingDiner: One of the truckers' tests on Darkwing to see if he's a vampire is to have him eat a special kind of hot pepper, believing vampires can't handle them. Darkwing tries to explain to them that ''nobody'' can handle those kind of hot peppers before they shove them done his throat, causing him to blast into the air. Sure enough, when one of the truckers tries a pepper, he goes flying too. The other two think he's a vampire too.



* KillItWithFire: What the truckers plan to do to vampires. "Get the diesel fuel."

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* KillItWithFire: What the truckers plan to do to vampires. "Get the diesel fuel.""
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Bushroot sees Posey strangling Darkwing, he mistakes it for affection and believed that Darkwing has stolen her away.
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* ChekhovsGun: Bushroot's pollen, which ends up proving instrumental in stopping Poisy.

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* ChekhovsGun: Bushroot's pollen, which ends up proving instrumental in stopping Poisy.Posey.



* ImperfectRitual: Due to Spike substituting the broken bottle of Poisy Blossom with Potato Starch, Poisy ends up growing into a potato.

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* ImperfectRitual: Due to Spike substituting the broken bottle of Poisy Posey Blossom with Potato Starch, Poisy Posey ends up growing into a potato.
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* FramingDevice: The episode is told by Darkwing as a ghost story to a trio of big scouts.

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* FramingDevice: The episode is told by Darkwing as a ghost story to a trio of big boy scouts.
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* ChekhovsGun: Bushroot's pollen, which ends up proving instrumental in stopping Poisy.


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* FramingDevice: The episode is told by Darkwing as a ghost story to a trio of big scouts.


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* ImperfectRitual: Due to Spike substituting the broken bottle of Poisy Blossom with Potato Starch, Poisy ends up growing into a potato.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "It was a vampire with fangs and tentacles, just like that vampire in 'The Attack of the Vampire with Fangs and Tentacles!'"

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Dr. Bushroot is trying to grow a wife for himself, but spike gets the ingredients wrong and they accidentally create a vampire potato.

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Dr. Bushroot is trying to grow a wife for himself, but spike Spike gets the ingredients wrong and they accidentally create a vampire potato.



* ArbitrarySkepticism:

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Darkwing doesn't believe Gosalyn's stories about a vampire potato, despite all the weird things he's seen.



* ExactWords: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards -- you say potato ''backwards''!"
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Bushroot's desire to have some company is what drives him to create his own wife himself.

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* ExactWords: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards -- you say potato ''backwards''!"
''potato backwards''!"
* FailedASpotCheck: Darkwing doesn't notice Launchpad get grabbed by Posey or hear him call for help. He also fails to notice his odd behavior afterwards.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Bushroot's desire to have some company is what drives him to create his own wife himself.wife. According to his rambling as he creates Posey, he's had really bad luck with girls and wants someone who won't reject him.
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* ExactWords: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards -- you say potato ''backwards''!"
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Bushroot's desire to have some company is what drives him to create his own wife himself.

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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Bushroot's desire to have some company is what drives him to create his own wife himself.himself.
* KillItWithFire: What the truckers plan to do to vampires. "Get the diesel fuel."
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Dr. Bushroot is trying to grow a wife for himself, but spike gets the ingredients wrong and they accidentally create a vampire potato.

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!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes:

* ArbitrarySkepticism:
-->'''Darkwing:''' There are no vampire potatoes. Scientists who turn themselves into plants, yes. But vampire potatoes, that's ridiculous." [[note]]Ironically, Reginald Bushroot, the "scientist who turned himself into a plant" Darkwing was talking about, was the villain responsible for creating the vampire potato.[[/note]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: A bunch of redneck truckers mistake Darkwing for a vampire for the way he looks.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Bushroot's desire to have some company is what drives him to create his own wife himself.

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