History WesternAnimation / PennZeroPartTimeHero

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** "Temple of the Porcelain God" opens InMediasRes and revolves around the heroes being stuck in the theater while Phyllis evaluates their performance during the last mission.
** In "Larry Manor" the mission is cancelled due to a power-outage, so Rippen and the heroes kill time by [[GoKartingWithBowser visiting Larry's estate]].
** "The Ripple Effect" is about Penn discovering that [[spoiler: Phyllis knows where his parents are.]]

When his parents get [[Main/TrappedInAnotherWorld stuck in an alternate dimension]] called The Most Dangerous World Imaginable, suburban teenager Penn Zero learns a few things. First, that his parents don't sell life insurance, but are actually "[[ParttimeHero part-time heroes]]" who travel to other worlds to save the day when that world's heroes aren't able to accomplish the task, thus keeping the multiverse in balance. Second, he has inherited their job while they're gone and will now be going on missions with his friends [[HyperCompetentSidekick Sashi Kobayashi]] and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Boone Wiseman]]. And third, he'll be facing off against "part-time villain" Rippen and his minion Larry every step of the way, who just so happen to be his art teacher and school principal, respectively.

* {{Narrator}}: Boone gets to be one in the [[FilmNoir noir]]-themed "Plantywood: City of Flora".

* DameWithACase: In "Plantywood: City of Flora" upon arriving in a film noir inspired world populated by PlantPeople Penn (who is inhabiting [[HardboiledDetective a detective]]) is immediately met by a mysterious attractive rose woman who has a case for him, which he insists on following despite Sashi suggesting they simply go investigate the area [[BigBad Rippen]] was last spotted as stopping him is their real priority, with Penn repeatedly insisting that the seemingly [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot minor investigation in these stories always links to the bigger crime]]. [[spoiler: Only for it [[WrongGenreSavvy to turn out this one actually actually doesn't]], and whilst he does eventually stumble on Rippen by chance, it would have all been resolved a lot faster if he just did what Sashi suggested.]]

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** In "It's a Colorful Life," Rippen decides to ditch the Drabs and continue on his own after atealing all the color stones. [[spoiler:This allows Penn to convince both the Drabs and Hues that they're NotSoDifferent, causing them to work together to foil Rippen.]]

** [[NotSoDifferent Penn and Rippen both do this]] in the last episode. Rippen tells the heroes return to Middleburg and he'll spare their lives. Penn responds its three against two with the odds in his favor. Rippen zaps in several villains from the other universes. Rippen asks if they have any last words. Captain Super Captain zaps in and triumphantly asked if someone called for him. Rippen scoffs at the idea of one superhero only for other allies to zap in as well.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In "The Pirates, The Parrot, The Puzzles and the Talking Boats" Penn starts throwing a tantrum after being stuck in a clam, mumbling something that sounds suspiciously like "Goddammit!"
** In a more literal example, a man is revealed after barrels are broken in the Cowboy dimension. He's facing the wall in a pose that suggests he might've been peeing there.

A preview {{Christmas episode}} premiered on December 5, 2014, with the show officially premiering on February 13, 2015. On July 16th, 2016, it was announced that the second season [[http://samakaphyllis.tumblr.com/post/147505323690/hey-pzeeps-im-making-this-announcement-to-let will also be the last.]] The second season premiered on July 10th, 2017, and concluded on July 28th with the one-hour GrandFinale "At the End of the Worlds".

When his parents get [[Main/TrappedInAnotherWorld stuck in an alternate dimension]] called The Most Dangerous World Imaginable, suburban teenager Penn Zero learns a few things. First, that his parents aren't life insurance salespersons, but actually "[[ParttimeHero part-time heroes]]" who travel to other worlds to save the day when that world's heroes aren't able to accomplish the task, thus keeping the multiverse in balance. Second, he has inherited their job while they're gone and will now be going on missions with his friends [[HyperCompetentSidekick Sashi Kobayashi]] and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Boone Wiseman]]. And third, he'll be facing off against "part-time villain" Rippen and his minion Larry every step of the way, who just happen to be his art teacher and principal, respectively.

The inspiration for the show is a combination of the two creators' childhoods. Levine's father worked in a New York City movie theater, while Bush thought his father was a generic government worker...only to be told one day in his teens that he was actually a field agent for the CIA, as was his grandfather. The concept was developed during a lunch break and later pitched to Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation.

''Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero'' is an animated series on Creator/DisneyXD created by Sam Levine (''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'') and Jared Bush (''v/{{Zootopia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'').

''Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero'' is an animated series on Creator/DisneyXD created by Sam Levine (''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') and Jared Bush (''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', ''Disney/{{Moana}}'').

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In "At the End of the Worlds", [[spoiler:Phyllis and Phil meld into, as Boone puts it, a "Space gorilla" and disappear into another dimension.]]

* LethalChef: Penn and Boone; what would simply be a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} at the end of "Flurgle Burgle" also becomes a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, as their cake for Sashi obviously tastes terrible but she pretends to like it.

** Sashi has a crush on Blaze, a [[PettingZooPeople humanoid dragon]].

Most of the show's staff went on to ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.

* FreakyFridayFlip: In "Switching Faces", Rippen and Larry switch minds accidentally after a mission. Notably, this averts VoicesAreMental and uses VoicesAreNotMental

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In a more literal example, a man is revealed after barrels are broken in the Cowboy dimension. He's facing the wall in a pose that suggests he might've been peeing there.

'''Brock:''' He doesn’t want to hear that from his mother. Sashi, tell Penn he looks good.\\