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* GrandfatherParadox: Averted. AFKAK goes back in time to see his 5-year-old self. When his 5-year-old self sees the kind of person he'll end up being in the future, he immediately commits suicide by gunshot. This in no way affects present-day AFKAK as he still remains alive and well. AFKAK also goes back in time to himself earlier on in his time travel journey and shoots his past self dead. This doesn't change the fact that he's still alive today.

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* GrandfatherParadox: Averted. AFKAK goes back in time to see his 5-year-old self. When his 5-year-old self sees the kind of person he'll end up being in the future, he immediately commits suicide by gunshot. This in no way affects present-day AFKAK as he still remains alive and well. AFKAK also goes back in time to himself earlier on in his time travel journey and [[KillingYourAlternateSelf shoots his past self dead.dead]]. This doesn't change the fact that he's still alive today.


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* KillingYourAlternateSelf: Kevin kills the version of himself who was going to swap his dad's gun with a water gun.
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* LostInCharacter: Randall gets lost in character, during sexual foreplay with Karen.

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* LostInCharacter: Randall gets lost in character, character during sexual foreplay with Karen.

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** The Crawfords are extremely wealthy and live in a luxurious mansion.
** Randall is a happy father with perfectly intact balls, who never gets mad about anything.
** Karen could afford to get plastic surgery to make herself look like [[Creator/CarmenElectra Carmen Electra]].
** The Crawford family also has four additional siblings, who were born after the altered day in question, all of whom are extremely successful doctors, scientists, and inventors.



** Hopson became the president and has a 100% approval rating.



** Dobby is named Dobert and looks normal, though he's still only capable of saying his name.
** Frank Flipperfist is named Frank Fingerfist and has [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fully-functioning fingers]], which he uses to play piano and finger women.
** Hopson became the president and has a 100% approval rating.
** Donald Trump fell into the river habitat at the zoo and was raped to death by hippos.
** The Crawfords are extremely wealthy and live in a luxurious mansion.
** Randall is a happy father with perfectly intact balls, who never gets mad about anything.
** Karen could afford to get plastic surgery to make herself look like [[Creator/CarmenElectra Carmen Electra]].
** The Crawford family also has four additional siblings, who were born after the altered day in question, all of whom are extremely successful (a doctor, a scientist, a film director, and an astronaut).



** Frank Flipperfist has [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fully-functioning fingers]], which he uses to play piano and finger women.



** Gina is married to Kevin and acts looks and acts like him.



** Bullet runs offscreen and Fitz yells in his direction to stop doing drugs and alcohol, stop raping that woman, and stop urinating on the child's birthday cake. It turns out that he's not talking to Bullet, he's talking to [[Creator/AndyDick Andy Dick]], who's doing all that messed up shit next to Bullet.

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** Bullet runs offscreen and Fitz yells in his direction to stop doing drugs and alcohol, stop raping that woman, and stop urinating on the child's birthday cake. It turns out that he's not talking to Bullet, he's talking to [[Creator/AndyDick Andy Dick]], Creator/AndyDick, who's doing all that messed up shit next to Bullet.


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* ExpendableClone: One of Kevin's siblings created clones for the sole purpose of moving condiments. Randall kills the only one we see while shouting "I am God!".
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* ShoutOut: AFKAK briefly tries to distract Baby Kevin from shooting him by saying it's [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Duck Season]].

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** Randall is a happy father with perfectly in-tact balls, who never gets mad about anything.

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** Randall is a happy father with perfectly in-tact intact balls, who never gets mad about anything.



* WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: In the good future, Paradise has a bunch of flying cars.

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* WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: In the good future, Paradise has a bunch of flying cars.cars.
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-->'''AFKAK''': At least it [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers ended on a fun one]].

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-->'''AFKAK''': At least it [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers ended on a fun one]].one.
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** [[WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}} Brickleberry]] was never canceled and in this universe, is a famous, groundbreaking series that won a bunch of Emmys and NAACP awards.

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** [[WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}} Brickleberry]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' was never canceled and in this universe, is a famous, groundbreaking series that won a bunch of Emmys and NAACP awards.



** Although he was mainly time travels around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop [[Creator/BillCosby Bill Cosby]]... from making that godawful ''[[Film/FatAlbert Fat Albert]]'' movie.

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** Although he was mainly time travels traveling around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop [[Creator/BillCosby Bill Cosby]]... from making that godawful ''[[Film/FatAlbert Fat Albert]]'' movie.



'''Dusty''': Seriously, Kevin? It's a colander, a gerbil, and a goddamned Super Nintendo. We don't gotta get all [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick & Morty]] up in here.

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'''Dusty''': Seriously, Kevin? It's a colander, a gerbil, and a goddamned Super Nintendo. We don't gotta get all [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick & Morty]] ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' up in here.\\



* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: In the alternate timeline, Kevin has four younger siblings, (Marie, Logan, Steven, and Neil), who are all high-achieving national heroes, who helped attain world peace. Meanwhile, Kevin works as a janitor at Goopy Goobers, cleaning shit off the floor.

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* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: In the alternate timeline, Kevin has four younger siblings, siblings (Marie, Logan, Steven, and Neil), who are all high-achieving national heroes, who helped attain world peace. Meanwhile, Kevin works as a janitor at Goopy Goobers, cleaning shit off the floor.
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** Although he was mainly time travels around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop [[Creator/BillCosby Bill Cosby]] ... from making that godawful [[Film/FatAlbert Fat Albert]] movie.

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** Although he was mainly time travels around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop [[Creator/BillCosby Bill Cosby]] ... Cosby]]... from making that godawful [[Film/FatAlbert ''[[Film/FatAlbert Fat Albert]] Albert]]'' movie.



-->''[AFKAK grabs Randall by the shirt collar and slaps him silly]''
-->'''AFKAK''': My name is KEVIN! Say it! SAY MY NAME!
-->'''Randall''': AH! KEVIN! Your name is Kevin!

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-->''[AFKAK grabs Randall by the shirt collar and slaps him silly]''
-->'''AFKAK''':
silly]''\\
'''AFKAK''':
My name is KEVIN! Say it! SAY MY NAME!
-->'''Randall''':
NAME!\\
'''Randall''':
AH! KEVIN! Your name is Kevin!



-->'''Fitz''': Hey, guys. My doctor just told me that I have no mental issues ... which is weird because I've never had any mental issues before.

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-->'''Fitz''': Hey, guys. My doctor just told me that I have no mental issues ...issues... which is weird because I've never had any mental issues before.



-->'''Ricky''': El gordo loco me secuestró y me obliga a decir mis eslóganes! [[note]]"The insane fat man kidnapped me and forces me to say my catchphrases!"[[/note]]
-->'''AFKAK''': ... Gracias.

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-->'''Ricky''': El gordo loco me secuestró y me obliga a decir mis eslóganes! [[note]]"The insane fat man kidnapped me and forces me to say my catchphrases!"[[/note]]
-->'''AFKAK''': ...
catchphrases!"[[/note]]\\
'''AFKAK''': ...
Gracias.



-->'''AFKAK''': So, how does this work? Does it [[{{Technobabble}} take into account the manifold possibilities laid out in quantum mechanics]]?
-->'''Dusty''': Seriously, Kevin? It's a colander, a gerbil, and a goddamned Super Nintendo. We don't gotta get all [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick & Morty]] up in here.
-->'''AFKAK''': But in terms of general relativity-
-->'''Dusty''': Kevin! You're confusing our fans. The audience is ''high''. The writers are ''high''. So, let's just start the motherfucking tit-sucking ''STORY''!

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-->'''AFKAK''': --->'''AFKAK''': So, how does this work? Does it [[{{Technobabble}} take into account the manifold possibilities laid out in quantum mechanics]]?
-->'''Dusty''':
mechanics]]?\\
'''Dusty''':
Seriously, Kevin? It's a colander, a gerbil, and a goddamned Super Nintendo. We don't gotta get all [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick & Morty]] up in here.
-->'''AFKAK''': '''AFKAK''': But in terms of general relativity-
-->'''Dusty''':
relativity--\\
'''Dusty''':
Kevin! You're confusing our fans. The audience is ''high''. The writers are ''high''. So, let's just start the motherfucking tit-sucking ''STORY''!

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* BaitAndSwitch: Although he was mainly time travels around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop [[Creator/BillCosby Bill Cosby]] ... from making that godawful [[Film/FatAlbert Fat Albert]] movie.

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* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
**
Although he was mainly time travels around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop [[Creator/BillCosby Bill Cosby]] ... from making that godawful [[Film/FatAlbert Fat Albert]] movie.



* GrandfatherParadox: Averted. AFKAK goes back in time to see his 5-year-old self. When his 5-year-old self sees the kind of person he'll end up being in the future, he immediately commits suicide by gunshot. This in no way affects present-day AFKAK as he still remains alive and well.
** AFKAK also goes back in time to himself earlier on in his time travel journey and shoots his past self dead. This doesn't change the fact that he's still alive today.

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* GrandfatherParadox: Averted. AFKAK goes back in time to see his 5-year-old self. When his 5-year-old self sees the kind of person he'll end up being in the future, he immediately commits suicide by gunshot. This in no way affects present-day AFKAK as he still remains alive and well.
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well. AFKAK also goes back in time to himself earlier on in his time travel journey and shoots his past self dead. This doesn't change the fact that he's still alive today.



* MagicAIsMagicA: AFKAK questions how a fully-functioning time machine can be constructed from a colander, a Super Nintendo, a [[HamsterWheelPower gerbil running on his wheel]] and Dusty tells him to quit asking questions and just go with it.

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* MagicAIsMagicA: MagicAIsMagicA:
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AFKAK questions how a fully-functioning time machine can be constructed from a colander, a Super Nintendo, a [[HamsterWheelPower gerbil running on his wheel]] and Dusty tells him to quit asking questions and just go with it.


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* MurderBySuicide: This episode reveals that Kevin intentionally tried to make AFKAK kill himself by destroying his life beyond repair. He reprogrammed his sex dolls to make them kick AFKAK out of his apartment, ruined AFKAK's chances with a porn star, and tricked him into thinking that Gina was being mind-controlled by Charles Lovely so she would think he's insane and definitively reject him. Kevin's plan only fell through because AFKAK chickened out of his suicide, at which point Kevin gives up and plans to shoot AFKAK himself.
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* GrewASpine: AFKAK hits a turning point in his [[CharacterDevelopment character development]] in this episode when he finally learns how to stop being such a beta pussy and turn into an alpha chad. AFKAK stands up to his abusive father and reclaims the name "Kevin", reclaims his apartment by scaring all of the sex dolls out of it with violence, and also asserts dominance over his little brother, earning his respect.

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* GrewASpine: AFKAK hits a turning point in his [[CharacterDevelopment character development]] in this episode when he finally learns how to stop being such stand up for himself for a beta pussy change, after realising how much of an ExtremeDoormat he'd been (including letting himself get evicted by his sex dolls and turn into an alpha chad.letting his father take away his name). AFKAK stands up to his abusive father and reclaims the name "Kevin", reclaims his apartment by scaring all of the sex dolls out of it with violence, and also asserts dominance over his little brother, earning his respect.

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* ColonizedSolarSystem: Neil Crawford colonized Mars.
* CureForCancer: Marie Crawford invented this.
* FantasticRacism: Apparently, saying "[[TakeMeToYourLeader Take Me To Your Leader]]" to an alien is considered a racist stereotype nowadays.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kevin listening to The Crawford Kids happily singing the positive motivational song, "Just Give Yourself a Shot" alluded to how later in the episode, he solved his problems by killing his past self via gunshot.

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* {{Flashback}}: This episode has two flashback montages to previous episodes: The first shows how Baby Kevin has secretly been sabotaging AFKAK at various plot points throughout the season and the second shows past moments in the series, where Kevin/AFKAK has exhibited being a complete loser.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kevin listening to The Crawford Kids happily singing the positive motivational song, "Just "[[ThatCameOutWrong Just Give Yourself a Shot" Shot]]" alluded to how later in the episode, he solved his problems by killing his past self via gunshot.



-->''[AFKAK grabs Randall by the shirt collar and slaps him silly]''
-->'''AFKAK''': My name is KEVIN! Say it! SAY MY NAME!
-->'''Randall''': AH! KEVIN! Your name is Kevin!



* {{Infodump}}: A bit of this happens to help explain to Kevin all the differences in the alternate timeline.

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* {{Infodump}}: A bit of this happens to help explain to Kevin all the differences in the alternate timeline.timeline, even if the dialogue sounds completely unnatural.
-->'''Fitz''': Hey, guys. My doctor just told me that I have no mental issues ... which is weird because I've never had any mental issues before.


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* LostInCharacter: Randall gets lost in character, during sexual foreplay with Karen.
-->'''Randall''': I'm not Randall. I'm Felipe, the Australian AC guy! And you hired me to do a job, 'member?
-->'''Karen''': Oh, well in that case, maybe there's ''another'' job I can give you.
-->'''Randall''': What, are you crazy!? [[DeconstructedTrope I can't risk my job for sex with a client]]! I got a kid with [[FictionalDisability Patton Oswalt]] disease!
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** [[WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}} Brickleberry]] was never canceled and in this universe, is a famous, groundbreaking series that won a bunch of Emmys and NAACP awards.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Dusty demands Ricky Ricardo laugh his signature laugh from the show. Ricky Ricardo laughs this loud, annoying laugh all throughout the credits of the episode.
* AteHisGun: 5-year-old Kevin commits suicide this way, upon seeing the disheartening loser he's destined to grow up to become.


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* GrewASpine: AFKAK hits a turning point in his [[CharacterDevelopment character development]] in this episode when he finally learns how to stop being such a beta pussy and turn into an alpha chad. AFKAK stands up to his abusive father and reclaims the name "Kevin", reclaims his apartment by scaring all of the sex dolls out of it with violence, and also asserts dominance over his little brother, earning his respect.


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* {{Infodump}}: A bit of this happens to help explain to Kevin all the differences in the alternate timeline.


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* LanguageBarrier: AFKAK doesn't understand a word of Ricky Ricardo's Spanish, when the latter pleads for help.
-->'''Ricky''': El gordo loco me secuestró y me obliga a decir mis eslóganes! [[note]]"The insane fat man kidnapped me and forces me to say my catchphrases!"[[/note]]
-->'''AFKAK''': ... Gracias.


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** Another joke like this occurs, when Kevin tries to talk to Bullet in the alternate timeline, only for Fitz to look at him confused and let him know that dogs can't talk ... despite the fact that it was recently established that he was married to a talking dolphin.


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* NotQuiteDead: Turns out Norf wasn't [[KilledOffForReal killed]] in the last episode, after all. [[DisneyDeath He survived getting]] [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] because his metabolism is slower than that of an elderly turtle.

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** The Crawfords are extremely wealthy and live in a luxurious mansion.



** The Crawford family has four additional siblings, who were born after the altered day in question, all of whom are extremely successful doctors, scientists, and inventors.

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** The Crawford family also has four additional siblings, who were born after the altered day in question, all of whom are extremely successful doctors, scientists, and inventors.



** Fitz is perfectly healthy and has no mental issues.

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** Fitz is perfectly healthy in perfect mental health and is still married to the Dolphin Queen.
** Bullet is sober and also acts like a regular dog, unburdened by human thoughts.
** Hopson became the president
and has no mental issues.a 100% approval rating.
** Robby and Delbert are two very classy gentlemen, who became openly gay millionaires.
** Hobo Cop, while still homeless, works as a medical doctor and now goes by "Hobo Doc".
** Frank Flipperfist has [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fully-functioning fingers]], which he uses to play piano and finger women.


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** Bullet runs offscreen and Fitz yells in his direction to stop doing drugs and alcohol, stop raping that woman, and stop urinating on the child's birthday cake. It turns out that he's not talking to Bullet, he's talking to [[Creator/AndyDick Andy Dick]], who's doing all that messed up shit next to Bullet.


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* FictionalDisability: A running gag in this episode is for people to bring up "Patton Oswalt Disease", which is whatever illness that causes [[Creator/PattonOswalt Patton Oswalt]] to look the way he does.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kevin listening to The Crawford Kids happily singing the positive motivational song, "Just Give Yourself a Shot" alluded to how later in the episode, he solved his problems by killing his past self via gunshot.


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* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: In the alternate timeline, Kevin has four younger siblings, (Marie, Logan, Steven, and Neil), who are all high-achieving national heroes, who helped attain world peace. Meanwhile, Kevin works as a janitor at Goopy Goobers, cleaning shit off the floor.

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* AlternateTimeline: This mainly takes place in an alternate timeline, where Kevin never shot Randall in the balls.

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* AlternateTimeline: This mainly takes place in an alternate timeline, where Kevin never shot Randall in the balls. Because of this, several things are so much better;
** Paradise is more technologically advanced, now having bigger buildings and flying cars.
** Randall is a happy father with perfectly in-tact balls, who never gets mad about anything.
** Karen could afford to get plastic surgery to make herself look like [[Creator/CarmenElectra Carmen Electra]].
** The Crawford family has four additional siblings, who were born after the altered day in question, all of whom are extremely successful doctors, scientists, and inventors.
** Dusty is a super buff athlete, who's not fat or out-of-shape at all.
** Fitz is perfectly healthy and has no mental issues.
* BaitAndSwitch: Although he was mainly time travels around for selfish reasons, Dusty also announces how he plans on using his time machine for the good of humanity by going back in time to stop [[Creator/BillCosby Bill Cosby]] ... from making that godawful [[Film/FatAlbert Fat Albert]] movie.
* BoundAndGagged: Dusty has [[Creator/DesiArnaz Ricky Ricardo]] tied to a chair and imprisoned in his apartment.



* GroinAttack: As AFKAK hangs from the bridge, he gets several of these from passing by boats pelting his balls silly, finishing off with a [[BoxingKangaroo boxing kangaroo]] on a jetpack.
-->'''AFKAK''': At least it [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers ended on a fun one]].
* HamsterWheelPower: The time machine is powered by a gerbil running on his wheel.



* MagicAIsMagicA: AFKAK questions how a fully-functioning time machine can be constructed from a colander, a gerbil, and a Super Nintendo and Dusty tells him to quit asking questions and just go with it.
-->'''Dusty''': AFKAK, listen to me! The writers are high. The audience is high. There's no need to get all Rick & Morty with this shit. Let's just get on with the goddamned motherfucking story!

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* MagicAIsMagicA: AFKAK questions how a fully-functioning time machine can be constructed from a colander, a gerbil, and a Super Nintendo Nintendo, a [[HamsterWheelPower gerbil running on his wheel]] and Dusty tells him to quit asking questions and just go with it.
-->'''AFKAK''': So, how does this work? Does it [[{{Technobabble}} take into account the manifold possibilities laid out in quantum mechanics]]?
-->'''Dusty''': AFKAK, listen to me! Seriously, Kevin? It's a colander, a gerbil, and a goddamned Super Nintendo. We don't gotta get all [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick & Morty]] up in here.
-->'''AFKAK''': But in terms of general relativity-
-->'''Dusty''': Kevin! You're confusing our fans. The audience is ''high''.
The writers are high. The audience is high. There's no need to get all Rick & Morty with this shit. Let's ''high''. So, let's just get on with start the goddamned motherfucking story!tit-sucking ''STORY''!
* MidSuicideRegret: AFKAK jumps off a bridge to kill himself but then chickens out and grabs onto the bridge, saving himself.



* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: AFKAK goes back in time to stop his younger self from shooting his dad in the balls.

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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: AFKAK goes back in time to stop his younger self from shooting his dad in the balls.balls, by replacing the gun his past self used with a water gun. This causes little Kevin to just harmlessly squirt water at his dad's balls and instead of sterilizing the latter, make him cum profusely.
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* AlternateTimeline: This mainly takes place in an alternate timeline, where Kevin never shot Randall in the balls.
* GrandfatherParadox: Averted. AFKAK goes back in time to see his 5-year-old self. When his 5-year-old self sees the kind of person he'll end up being in the future, he immediately commits suicide by gunshot. This in no way affects present-day AFKAK as he still remains alive and well.
** AFKAK also goes back in time to himself earlier on in his time travel journey and shoots his past self dead. This doesn't change the fact that he's still alive today.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: AFKAK sees how everyone's lives are so much better in the [[AlternateTimeline alternate timeline]], where he never shot his dad in the balls.
* MagicAIsMagicA: AFKAK questions how a fully-functioning time machine can be constructed from a colander, a gerbil, and a Super Nintendo and Dusty tells him to quit asking questions and just go with it.
-->'''Dusty''': AFKAK, listen to me! The writers are high. The audience is high. There's no need to get all Rick & Morty with this shit. Let's just get on with the goddamned motherfucking story!
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Apparently, in this show, there's no such thing as a [[GrandfatherParadox grandfather paradox]], since killing your past self has no effect on your present self.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: AFKAK goes back in time to stop his younger self from shooting his dad in the balls.
* TemporalParadox: Strangely enough, this is completely averted. AFKAK even kills his past self ''twice'' and it doesn't affect him in the slightest.
* TimeTravelEpisode: This episode's main plot is mostly about AFKAK traveling through time.
* WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: In the good future, Paradise has a bunch of flying cars.

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