History WesternAnimation / LloydInSpace

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* AnAesop: In most episodes. Examples include:
** "Double Date": Everyone has their bad qualities, but we have to accept their bad qualities and good qualities to gain their respect.
** "The Hero of Urbit-Knarr": Parents are strict, but they still love you no matter what and want you to be safe.
** "Kurtlas the Symbiotic Boy": Don't let revenge consume you.
** "Daydream Transceiver": Puberty is a time of change we have to learn to accept.
** "Lloyd Changes His Mind": The grass is always greener on the other side.
** "Girl From the Center of the Universe": Girls are people, too, but true friends should treat you right.
** "Incident At Luna Vista": Teamwork always pays off.
** "That’s Debatable": True friends help each other, despite their differences.
** "Behind The Bolt": Don’t judge someone for how they look on the outside. It’s on the inside that counts.
** "Heads Up, Blobberts": Accept yourself for who you are inside.
** "Stink-O-Rama": Every job, no matter how silly, always has a purpose.
** The FantasticRacism episode drops a very heavy handed lesson about the nature of prejudice. Kurt and Douglas's families get caught up in a legendary feud between their species and it affects their children's friendship. Kurt and Douglas quickly realise that holding onto past prejudices is a silly notion and scold their parents for it.
--->'''Douglas:''' "My ancestors might have been from Cerebellian, but ''I'' am from Intrepidville. And I choose to be friends with Blobulans, Earthlings, Verdigrians or what have you."
** Another anti-prejudice moral is found when everyone suspects that Norah's date is after her. It turns out he was only trying to pass for a Verdigrian to ''avoid'' the kind of prejudice they all came up with.
** A good lesson about accepting others for who they are would be in “Double Date”. Lloyd decides to try to change Cindy’s mean head into becoming nice. When that fails and he dumps her because of it, Eddie tells Lloyd that if you really like someone, you have to accept their good and bad traits. This works as a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the WhatDoesHeSeeInHer trope and lesson about relationships.

** The episode "Boomer's Secret Life" (where the kids find out that Boomer is secretly the prince of his home planet, but ran away from home for a chance at a normal life) is a comedic retelling of the episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E90TheFugitive "The Fugitive"]] of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.

** Kurt is basically an alien expy of [[WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}} Patrick Star]] down to the voice actor

** Kurt is basically an alien expy of [[WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SqaurePants}} Patrick Star]] down to the voice actor

** Brittany acts like (and is voiced by the same girl as) [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} Ashley A.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In Douglas' profile on the old Lloyd in Space website, it is mentioned he is from the planet 'Brainion', though he is from the planet 'Cerebellia' in the show proper.

*** Speaking of which, this isn't the first time a character does something bad and Lloyd not only gets dragged into it but also takes all of the blame. The show has a tendency to not care what he does or how wrong his actions are in comparison to others, but if he has done even ''one'' thing wrong or worthy of some kind of karma, it usually comes in full force, sometimes even letting the other people off, who may even be logically ''more'' in the wrong than Lloyd was, scot-free. Granted, he's gotten away with ''some'' things in the series, but the show seems to love to torment him whenever possible.

*** Funnily enough, Lloyd gets his ''own'' {{Karma Houdini}} moment in the aforementioned 'Babysitter Lloyd' episode. Nora manages to convince Lloyd to babysit Francine for the weekend, promising to pay him the fifty crontars he needs for a new Sci-fi bike that he wants to buy, one that he has apparently been saving up for ''years'' for. And even though Francine is more logically in the wrong by not only crashing Station's hard drive but also blackmailing her brother, Lloyd has still done ''some'' things wrong by blackmailing her back and saying that he wished Francine wasn't there at all. Lloyd and Francine reconcile and Nora returns home to see that everything went smoothly (in her eyes). With the logic of Lloyd's [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin unluckiness]] in mind, one would think that some weird, ''coincidental'' events would reveal themselves, foiling the plot and having Lloyd not be paid, or even worse, something so bad happens that ''all'' of Lloyd's money he saved up has to be used to fix whatever happened, but nothing happens. Lloyd isn't paid on-screen, but he isn't not paid either. And while this leads to a strange Schrodinger's scenario of whether he was paid or not (considering Nora could have found out later) since the bike never shows up, he deserves ''this'' victory at least following all of the misfortune he suffers in the show.

** Speaking of which, this isn't the first time a character does something bad and Lloyd not only gets dragged into it but also takes all of the blame. The show has a tendency to not care what he does or how wrong his actions are in comparison to others, but if he has done even ''one'' thing wrong or worthy of some kind of karma, it usually comes in full force, sometimes even letting the other people off, who may even be logically ''more'' in the wrong than Lloyd was, scot-free. Granted, he's gotten away with ''some'' things in the series, but the show seems to love to torment him whenever possible.
** Funnily enough, Lloyd gets his ''own'' {{Karma Houdini}} moment in the aforementioned 'Babysitter Lloyd' episode. Nora manages to convince Lloyd to babysit Francine for the weekend, promising to pay him the fifty crontars he needs for a new Sci-fi bike that he wants to buy, one that he has apparently been saving up for ''years'' for. And even though Francine is more logically in the wrong by not only crashing Station's hard drive but also blackmailing her brother, Lloyd has still done ''some'' things wrong by blackmailing her back and saying that he wished Francine wasn't there at all. Lloyd and Francine reconcile and Nora returns home to see that everything went smoothly (in her eyes). With the logic of Lloyd's [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin unluckiness]] in mind, one would think that some weird, ''coincidental'' events would reveal themselves, foiling the plot and having Lloyd not be paid, or even worse, something so bad happens that ''all'' of Lloyd's money he saved up has to be used to fix whatever happened, but nothing happens. Lloyd isn't paid on-screen, but he isn't not paid either. And while this leads to a strange Schrodinger's scenario of whether he was paid or not (considering Nora could have found out later) since the bike never shows up, he deserves ''this'' victory at least following all of the misfortune he suffers in the show.

** Despite the above example, even Eddie gets this to an extent. He goaded Lloyd into making Francine fight ''adults'' in an episode just to make some crontars and unlike the previously mentioned wormhole episode where everything ''does'' come to bite him in the ass, doesn't get any repercussions. Lloyd, on the other hand, ends up having to clean ''every window on the space station.'' While Lloyd arguably should not get off scot-free either, Eddie should also have some kind of punishment since he was the one to originally suggest the idea.

** Despite the above example, even Eddie gets this to an extent. He goaded Lloyd into making Francine fight ''adult s'' in an episode just to make some crontars and unlike the previously mentioned wormhole episode where everything ''does'' come to bite him in the ass, doesn't get any repercussions. Lloyd, on the other hand, ends up having to clean ''every window on the space station.'' While Lloyd arguably should not get off scot-free either, Eddie should also have some kind of punishment since he was the one to originally suggest the idea.

** A ''lot'' of characters get this depending on the plot. The show has a tendency to not care what Lloyd did or how wrong his actions are in comparison to others, but if he has done even ''one'' thing wrong or worthy of some kind of karma, it ''will'' come in full force, sometimes even letting the other people off, who may even be logically ''more'' in the wrong than Lloyd was, scot-free.

** Funnily enough, Lloyd gets his ''own'' {{Karma Houdini}} moment in the aforementioned 'Babysitter Lloyd' episode. Nora manages to convince Lloyd to babysit Francine for the weekend, promising to pay him the fifty crontars he needs for a new Sci-fi bike that he wants to buy, one that he has apparently been saving up for ''years'' for. Normally, even though Francine is more logically in the wrong by not only crashing Station's hard drive but also blackmailing her brother, Lloyd has still done ''some'' things wrong by blackmailing her back and saying that he wished Francine wasn't there at all. Lloyd and Francine reconcile and Nora returns home to see that everything went smoothly (in her eyes). With the logic of Lloyd's [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin unluckiness]] in mind, one would think that some weird, ''coincidental'' events would reveal themselves, foiling the plot and having Lloyd not be paid, or even worse, something so bad happens that ''all'' of Lloyd's money he saved up has to be used to fix whatever happened, but nothing happens. Lloyd isn't paid on-screen, but he isn't not paid either. And while this leads to a strange Schrodinger's scenario of whether he was paid or not (considering Nora could have found out later) since the bike never shows up, he deserves ''this'' victory at least following all of the misfortune he suffers in the show.

* KarmaHoudini: Francine. While 'local troublemaker' Eddie, manages to get struck by karma once or twice, the wormhole episode being a prime example, Francine has ''never'' been given any kind of punishment for her actions, not even from the show's events itself. The only thing that could logically come close to being karma were the episodes'Francine's Powertrip', 'Babysitter Lloyd' and in 'Lloyd Changes His Mind'. But even then, that kind of 'karma' is ''nothing'' when it comes to what Lloyd is put through, on a near daily or episodic basis as well.

** Funnily enough, Lloyd gets his ''own'' {{Karma Houdini}} moment in the aforementioned 'Babysitter Lloyd' episode. Nora manages to convince Lloyd to babysit Francine for the weekend, promising to pay him the fifty crontars he needs for a new Sci-fi bike that he wants to buy, one that he has apparently been saving up for ''years'' for. Normally, even though Francine is more logically in the wrong by not only crashing Station's hard drive but also blackmailing her brother, Lloyd has still done ''some'' things wrong by blackmailing her back and saying that he wished Francine wasn't there at all. Lloyd and Francine reconcile and Nora returns home to see that everything went smoothly (in her eyes). With the logic of Lloyd's [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin unluckiness]] in mind, one would think that some weird, ''coincidental'' events would reveal themselves, foiling the plot and having Lloyd not be paid, or even worse, something so bad happens that ''all'' of Lloyd's money he saved up has to be used to fix whatever happened, but nothing happens. Lloyd isn't paid on-screen, but he isn't not paid either. And while this leads to a strange Schrodinger's scenario of whether Lloyd was paid or not (considering Nora could have found out later) since the bike never shows up, Lloyd deserves ''this'' victory at least following all of the misfortune he suffers in the show.

** Funnily enough, Lloyd gets his ''own'' {{Karma Houdini}} moment in the aforementioned 'Babysitter Lloyd' episode. Nora manages to convince Lloyd to babysit Francine for the weekend, promising to pay him the fifty crontars he needs for a new Sci-fi bike that he wants to buy, one that he has apparently been saving up for ''years'' for. Normally, even though Francine is more logically in the wrong by not only crashing Station's hard drive but also blackmailing her brother, Lloyd has still done ''some'' things wrong by blackmailing her back and saying that he wished Francine wasn't there at all. Lloyd and Francine reconcile and Nora returns home to see that everything went smoothly (in her eyes). With the logic of Lloyd's [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin unluckiness]] in mind, one would think that some weird, ''coincidental'' events would reveal themselves, foiling the plot and having Lloyd not be paid, or even worse, something so bad happens that ''all'' of Lloyd's money he saved up has to be used to fix whatever happened, but nothing happens. Nora jokes about going away the next weekend and Lloyd and Francine begging her to not, but ''that's it.'' Lloyd isn't paid on-screen, but he isn't not paid either, but the bike in question never shows up. This leads to a strange Schrödinger's scenario where Lloyd could have either been paid and got the bike in question, or was found out and didn't get paid. But considering all of the misfortune Lloyd suffers throughout the series, (along with everything Francine manages to get away with) Lloyd deserves ''this'' victory at least.