When Jake first meets Huntsgirl, he's still having trouble going full dragon, which results in the rather awkward page image.
Jake: Come on now, what's a nice girl like you doing out here hunting unicorns? Huntsgirl: What's a nice guy like you doing outside in his undies?
Jake shows that while he may have mastered going full dragon, his heroic banter needs some serious work.
The Huntsman: (to a trapped Lao Shi) I'll ask you one last time, old man. Where is the American Dragon? Jake: Right under your nose, dude! I'm like a booger that way! Ha! (realizes what he said) Wait... that didn't come out right.
After Jake and Lao Shi chase off Huntsman and Huntsgirl, Fu notices that something wrong;
Fu Dog: Uh, kid? You got a little problem...downstairs? (Pan down to show that Jake's lower half has once again become bare legs in boxers) Jake: Aw, man!
"Dragon Breath"
The ending of this episode has this little gem...
Jake: I'm just glad everyone's souls ended up back in the right bodies... (cut to Spud and Trixie at the aftermath of the dance, revealing that they accidentally swapped bodies after the Nix's soul sucking spree!) Spud!Trixie: Sweet Mamma Flapjacks! Please tell me I'm lookin' at a mirror! Trixie!Spud: Dude... I could have sworn I was a dude...
This from "Eye of the Beholder"
Fu Dog: Hey Carol, you wanna shake those things my way?note He's talking about her wings.
Jake's near spot-on impressions of Lao-Shi and Fu Dog after he first takes the shapeshifting potion.
Jake shapeshifting into both The Huntsman and Rotwood.
Jake: (as Huntsman) Now, brothas and sistas! Bust a move and bring on the Huntsclan!
Rose, Huntsgirl, totally fangirling over Jaren MacArthur, (an obvious parody of both Jesse McCartney and Aaron Carter).
A scene from "The Heist," where Jake tries to retreive stolen leprechaun gold from a dark wizard, which requires Trixie and Spud to pose as 1970's lounge singers.
Trixie: What's up, New York! Y'all out there like love songs as much as we do?
Spud: (Interrupting her with a heavy metal scream) You better hold your mothers, 'cause you're going down, Mudbucket! Mudbucket! Buckets of Muuuuuuuud, Yeah!
"The Talented Mr. Long":
Professor Rotwood forces Brad to enter the talent show in exchange for a passing grade so he can stay on the football team. Rotwood thinks Brad has an edge in the competition due to taking piano lessons for the last 12 years. One disastrous audition later…
Rotwood: Magic creatures! There's magic creatures on stage! Principal Derceto: Well, Professor Rotwood, it is a magic show... Rotwood: No, not magic magical creatures, real ones! Living, breathing- [the Djinn sets Rotwood's hair on fire, and he puts it off] Rotwood:Fire-breathing, for that matter! Derceto:Don't be absurd, it's all being done with sleights of hands and pyrothecnics!
The way Doctor Diente shut the Tooth Fairy up in "The Legend of the Dragon Tooth" has to be seen to be believed.
This exchange when Jake's mom reminds him of his promise to babysit Haley.
Susan: She looks up to you. Jake: She's two feet tall. She looks up to everybody!
Jake and Rose, back when they didn't know each others' secret identities, rehearsing Antony and Cleopatra first in Jake's grandfather's shop and later in the Huntsman's house. With Rose preceding the first attempt by saying that Antony and Cleopatra (who they'll have to play) are forced to choose between love and their causes. And missing the magical scarab she and the Huntsman were hunting for.
Also, Rose's accidental double entendres about the kiss scene. Especially the first one.
"It's not just a kiss, Jake. It's what represents, the totally intense connection between them. It doesn't just happen! It happens because they're ready to completely surrender to each other! So, are you ready?"
And the Huntsman cockblocking Jake. Completely by accident.
They finally go at Trixie's home. With Trixie's annoying grandmother getting in the way... And the magical scarab showing up, thus assassinating this last attempt at rehearsing by forcing them to exchange excuses to go out and beat each other up.
And right before the scarab showed up, a moment that, while funny, becomes much funnier later: Rose saying they were having trouble because, differently from Antony and Cleopatra, they hadn't been through anything together.
The punchline of the episode? Jake and Rose successfully return in time for the play, but Rose was injured and can't act, meaning that Jake has to kiss Spud. Who, in the meantime, had acted as both Antony and Cleopatra (with Trixie briefly taking over as Cleo).
Also, Trixie as Cleopatra. Without knowing a line. She was quickly pulled out by the same teacher who had forced her on the stage, but the public adored her.
All of "Fu Takes a Walk". Highlights include the flashback of how the last time he took a walk alone ended (held at gunpoint by the police while having a boa constrictor on his shoulders) and needing an English/Dog dictionary to speak to normal dog (by the way, he failed).
Another highlight is just how Lao Shi knows Fu’s in danger.
Lao Shi: Fu Dog is in trouble! Jake: You can tell that by just meditating? Lao Shi: No, by looking at my watch. It’s been almost an hour since the last time he was in trouble, so he’s about due.
Fu Dog (Present): So I'm embellishing a little, sue me. Truth is, Gramps had me in two moves. Lao Shi (Past): Boo. Fu Dog (Past): YIPE! Fu Dog(Present): OK one move.
The entire flashback sequence, including such gems as young Lao Shi being so cocky to make his grandson appear humble, young Lao Shi and Chang exchanging cheesy lines (especially Chang's deadpan deliveries) and Fu appreciating the snack only to learn it waskitty litter.
For most of "Body Guard Duty" Trixie and Spud are trying to deal with Kara's prophecy they would tie the knot. Near the end they realized it was the knot ofSpud's shoe.
Spud's attempt at defying Sara's prophecy he'd spill chocolate milk to prove their prophecies weren't always accurate: he left the mess hall and went out of the school, away from their chocolate milk... Then tripped and caused a truck to capsize and spill all the chocolate milk it was carrying. Even Sara was caught by surprise from how it happened...
On the bus for the eponymous ski trip, Rose is forced to sit near Brad, who tries to prove himself sensitive by crying a single tear on command before boasting he can do it.
Rose's WTF face when Trixie (who is rooming with her) cheerfully announces they'll do girl-talk.
Even funnier is how Jake got Trixie to do said girl talk.
Trixie: Yo, Jake. Girl talk is not my scene, okay? Trixie does not do the giggly-headed, nail-painting, hair-braiding, boy-liking, light popcorn-nibbling flim-flam! Jake: I'll give you ten bucks. Trixie: Make it twenty, and I'll tape-record homegirl snoring! Jake: Deal!
Then, at the end of the episode, Jake is understandably heartbroken at learning the truth, and apologizes to his friends for not listening to them. Trixie reassures him that Rose wasn't as perfect as she seemed anyway, and reveals that she did in fact tape record Rose snoring… and it is loud.
Trixie: She snores like gravel in a blender! Plus, you should see homegirl's feet. She's put some serious ninja wear-and-tear on them joints! Oh, and don't even get me started on sharing a bath!
Once he found out that Huntsgirl is on the ski trip, Jake decided to bait her... And had Spud wearing the leprechaun costume he brought on the ski trip (Jake loves being prepared). Following attempts are even more ridiculous.
Rose accidentally dropping hints of her Secret Identity (one of which was reflexively throwing into Rotwood a guy who bumped her) and Jake's denial (including accusing Trixie of being Huntsgirl when she said to his face that Rose was).
At one point, the egg ends up falling into a ball pit—talk about finding a needle in a haystack. After eventually recovering the egg, Jake is attacked by Huntsgirl and blasted into the sky by her staff. Then the attendant comes over to Huntsgirl, telling her she's to old to come into the ball pit, and Huntsgirl shuts the guy up by grabbing him by the collar then tossing him aside.
Carnival Barker: Excuse me, maam, but the ball pit is for only kids age six and under. Huntsgirl: CAN IT, PIPSQUEAK! (tosses the guy straight into a cotton candy stand)
Later on, the egg falls into a candy factory and becomes coated in peanut butter, forcing Jake and Fu Dog to lick the PB off millions of similar eggs until they find the one that came from the gryphon. By the time they finish, the two are so bloated that Jake can barely fly.
The ending - Jake's expression after mama gryphon eats her hatchling is just priceless, and Fu Dog's explanation of gryphon Bizarre Alien Biology just makes it even worse.
Team Dragon’s reaction when they go to a K.E.W.L. wrestling match and see Hobie for the first time.
Jake: What? That's Ma and Pa Giant's "baby boy"?! Fu Dog: Man, I'd hate to be the one changing that diaper!
The Costume-Test Montage for Jake's "Dragonfire" persona. One of the costumes is a blatant KISS reference. We then cut to see Spud and Lao Shi headbanging.
Spud's "Eastern motivational technique" during Jake's initiation match; pulling out a megaphone and screaming, "DO. BETTER! MUCH, MUCH BETTER!!"
It comes back later during the championship match against Hobie.
Jake: Silver, get in the water! You gotta use your fins to get us to the other side! Silver: Uh, yeah, about that? I can't really swim. I'm afraid of the water. Jake: You're afraid of the what?! Reggie: You're a mermaid, for the love of Piccadilly Circus! Bertha: Mermaid no swim? Silver: I know, I know! Look, it's kind of embarrassing!
From "Jake Takes the Cake", after Jake and Lao-Shi leave the scene of the mess they caused trying to get the Gremlin.
Jake: At least the Gremlin problem is history. Lao Shi: Good. Where is it? Jake: Oh, it's gone. Lao Shi: Huh? You mean it got away? Jake: I mean it got de-feat-ed. Lao Shi: You let it escape?! Jake: I let it know who's boss! Lao Shi: IT'S STILL ON THE LOOSE?! Jake: Still running, Gramps!
In "Keeping Shop", Trixie and Spud promise to help Fu Dog watch over Lao Shi’s shop while he and Jake are out of town for the weekend at a Dragon Retreat, which leads to this exchange.
Lao Shi: Are you sure you two are ready for this responsibility? Spud: Hey, we may not be able to spew flames… Trixie: Or fly… Spud:(Holds up a pink, lacy, heart-shaped pillowcase) Or make lacy pillowcases with one swipe of our claws… Jake:(Stammers as Fu Dog gives him a confused look) That was for Rose, I swear! (Goes over and takes the pillowcase back from Spud) Careful, you'll rip it!
After Jake and Lao Shi leave, Trixie is very eager to get to work. Only there isn't any.
Trixie: Bring on the customers! (Fade to Trixie looking very bored) There are no customers, are there? Fu Dog:(Throwing cards into a hat) Nope. Trixie: Have you sold anything to anyone...ever? Fu Dog: Well, there was this one guy a few years ago. Buuut, it turns out he fell off a float from the St. Patty's Day parade and needed medical attention.
Season 2
Rotwood's first appearance in "Bring It On" has him accidentally knock over one of the museum pieces and awkwardly try to pretend it didn't happen.
Rotwood: You saw nothing, you heard nothing. Move along!
The cheerleader team can't pass near a wall without insulting it. Literally.
Have you ever seen a Gorgon's hair with split ends?
Jake's response to his grampa about an incident at the museum
Lao-Shi: There has been an incident at the museum. Jake: I swear, I didn't know that toilet was art!
Later on, he says her knees (which he had never seen until that point) remind him of "smiley faces."
Trixie and the cheerleaders are playing Truth or Dare, and she's asked who she would kiss among their schoolmates... And, upon seeing him out of the window, she blurts "Spud?". Cue horrified screams.
The Stinger reveals that Rotwood ended up in prison as a result of knocking over the museum piece at the beginning of the episode. As such, he's forced to call his mom for bail money (again).
Spud and the inkblot images during the end credits to "A Befuddled Mind"
Rotwood dreams about being introduced as "devilishly handsome and physically fit" while receiving an award for his thesis and having the scientists who mocked his theories happily kiss his feet.
Before going to his grandfather to confess to cheating on Rotwood's test, Jake gives his friends toilet paper to plug their ears for the inevitable lecture.
While chasing the Chimera through the dream doors, Jake decides to take a peek of Brad's dreams and wishes... and takes a picture when he sees him dancing in a tutu.
The return of Seventies!Lao Shi.
Spud's dreams. They are of him as Adam West's Batman (1966)... Only crazier and potato-themed!
Spudman almost defeating the Chimera by throwing potatoes at it. And without Rotwood waking everyone up right at that moment, they would have won.
The Spud-faced fishes and giant octopus.
Jake when depressed during "Half-Baked."
"Thanks, and enjoy the cupcakes. *grabs couple and pulls them toward him* But don't just enjoy the cupcakes, enjoy each other! 'Cause mortal enemies or not, you never know when you're going to be ripped apart by the hands of fate never to see each other again!" (suddenly chipper)) "Come back soon, you hear?"
Also, how he dealt with her disappearance:
first he barged in the house he knew she used to live in, convinced the Huntsman was keeping her there prisoner... And had to ask to the speechless family now living there if the "evil Huntsclan" had left a forward address;
then he tried his hand at pathetic hipster poems;
finally, he retired to a monastery with Spud to give up girls, but was booted out when the monks noticed the dozens of pictures of Rose in his cell. And Spud protested because he had already shaved his hair in a tonsure.
Spud: "Avast, ye, scurvy dragon! That lass be the dark knight's quarry! Yarrr!" Fu: "Permission to bite him savagely, my pretty pretty?" Vicky: "Hmmm... maybe later."
And Trixie's casual takedown of Spud as he charges her...
Trixie: "Hey, black knight, your boot's unbuckled." Spud: "Huh? Which one?" *trips and goes flying over her*
Vicky frustratedly lampshading the Irony that she's a siren that suffers from Swimmer's Ear.
Last time he time-traveled before the series, Fu Dog went to Atlantis and sank the island by pulling the plug. Honest!
The young Huntsman in "Hero of the Hourglass" is a walking one, at least until he finally gets a matured voice.
Jake: Dude, what's with the voice? You sound like an accordion stuck in a wood chipper!
Near the end, Fu is swearing he won't ever time travel again... Cue a time-traveling Fu showing up and asking if it was a bad time.
From "The Academy", Spud working to break through the Huntsclan teleportation signal... And Fu's face when he does in five seconds what the Dragons have failed at for hundreds of years. First time he gets it wrong and accidentally summons the Octo-Puss (number 8 of the Top 13 Threats to the Magical Community), but after sending it back they get #88 and #89. They're captured so easily that Jake and his grandfather are embarrassed...
Jake and Spud infiltrate the academy. Cue lesson "Dragon Slaying 101" in which Spud adds to the teachers' explanation on how you identify dragons that you can do it also from their funny haircuts (admittedly, the ones he met do have strange haircuts...).
Same lesson: Jake getting drafted to play the dragon in a demonstration. Given by Rose (who has no idea of who he is, thus the first thing she does is throwing him around to show why you should never lower your guard).
At the Huntsclan Academy, Spud is a Chick Magnet. Spud!
Spud: "Go ladies! Fight for the trophy that is me!"
Spud and Jake were forced to fight a Krakenfor failing the chemistry test. Not for blowing up the lab (at least that's the impression the teacher gives). Oh, and the one (literally) kicking them in the arena is the Huntsman in person! At least Spud became a hero when he appeared to have tied up the monster...
They needed a distraction to get in the computer room from the dance. Rose, after saying it's a school like any other, whispers something in the ear of a random student, and, some gossip later:
One of Spud's dates: "You said what about me?!" *Spud's dates try and kill each other again, and accidentally knocks out the Huntsman when he tries to break up the fight*
From "Family Business", Jake realizing he was in a dream, and thus letting himself getting photographed while in his boxers, and then realizing that, after all, it wasn't.
In his youth, Lao Shi was a pin-up model. Cue squicked faces from Jake and Fu.
Jake: "At least tonight can't get any worse." *Someone knocks at the door. Jake opens, and finds it's the Grim Reaper, with a Dramatic Thunder* Jake: "Ok, just did." Fu *happy and saluting the Reaper*: "Marty?" Grim Reaper: "Fu, you old dog you!" Jake: "Hello, a little freaked out here!" Fu: "Jake, I want you to meet my old buddy, Marty! The Grim Reaper! Eh eh! Probably the best practical joker this side of Hades!" Marty the Grim Reaper: "Pull my finger!" *Marty proceeds to prank Jake and Fu.*
Fu appearing at principal Derceto's window at the start of "Something Fishy This Way Comes". Especially when he did dressed as a ballerina.
Fu Dog explaining how dating used to be harder, cue flashback of Fu dressed as a knight, complete with horse and lance, courting a dog in a damsel dress, only to realise that he was to fight another dog in a joust. His head keeps going back and forth between the two dogs, clearly questioning if it's worth it.
Jake putting Lao Shi's profile on a magical dating website. Doesn't seem funny... Then you see the less scary 'girl' to show up was the one with two heads who got in a catfight, and understand why Jake was laughing himself silly at the result.
And then, the payback: Lao Shi started dating principal Derceto, and they used him as a messenger of gifts and poems.
Jake's main suspect for the Kelpie's cover was revealed as one of the mermaid detectives hunting it down. So, what was the Kelpie masquerading as? The poodle that was dating Fu.
Spud confronting the Kelpie in a mermaid (sorry, merman) costume.
Spud: "Feel my mighty tail!" *Spud weakly slaps the Kelpie's leg with the costume's tail, with the Kelpie and Trixie silently wondering how much stupider Spud could get*
Rose *frustrated with the Huntsman's close watch on her*: "I'd spend time together right now, but it's just too risky! If I need to see you, maybe I should just use my dream charm to talk to you in your dreams like before." Jake: "What's the worse that can happen when we're together? It's not like the Huntsclan will just come charging out of the-" *Huntsboys #88 and #89 comes charging and screaming out of the blue while chased by the Aztec Guardian Serpent, stop to tease Rose for her date, notices the Aztec Guardian Serpent is still there, and resume running*
Rose getting into Fu's dreams to pass a message to Jake (who didn't want to be seen during his molting) and then waking him up.
The Reveal of how ##88 and #89 were taken as apprentices by the Huntsman: he confused their scores at a video game for their results in hunting magical creatures.
Huntsman gives #88 and #89 an enthusiastic, borderline friendly, “Welcome aboard” after he’s read their “hunting resumes”, his subsequent jolly, confident and eager: ”Let’s go hunting!” just sells it.
In "The Doppelganger Gang", Jake's first attempts at the Doppelganger technique: the first time, instructed to let his energy flow out, he makes a flaming burp; the second time he produces a doppelganger of his human form that starts making martial arts moves in his boxers. At the sight of the latter, the group of troll Jake was supposed to defeat to save a unicorn and the unicorn started laughing themselves silly...
At the end, Jake has managed to (barely) solve the enormous schedule conflict that prompted him to create a number of Doppelganger and nearly get absorbed and killed by Yang Jake, the one who came out evil. But how can he assist Trixie in her contest when he's supposed to look after Haley? When she asks him, he replies he called in a favor... Cue Gilligan Cut to Fu Dog in a drag playing ladies with Haley.
And Fu is enjoying himself too! Then again, this isn't the first time we've seen him in drag...
An elderly Trixiesavagely beating Jake with a pillow in "Young at Heart".
In "Fool's Gold" Jake is making a pretty penny running errands for a leprechaun, who, when he's doing a delivery, warns him to show up in human form, as dragons make the buyer "uneasy".
Jake: Uneasy? Who's the buyer, the Huntsman? [The Huntsman calmly walks out of a bush to get the package and announces he is.]
Later in the same episode, the Huntsman and a few dozens apprentice-level members' Mass "Oh, Crap!" when they see Jake and Lao Shi paying a clan of Hobgoblin, a few trolls and a giant to fight them and outbid the Huntsman by adding two golden motorcycles to the leprechaun gold.
Fu Dog: Hey there, kids. If you haven't guessed by now, this is the American Dragon Hokey Holiday Special. Like all holiday specials, it's about family, togetherness—blah, blah, blah and all that other sappy garbage. Alright, let's get on with the main titles before I hurl egg nog all over the snow right here.
#88 and #89 trying to decide whether they should get The Huntsman an easy bake oven or a stuffed potato as a Christmas present.
The Running Gag in “Year of the Jake” of Jonathan erroneously believing that he’s of Chinese descent, much to the annoyance of Susan and Haley.
Jonathan: (On performing the Dragon Dance for the Chinese New Year parade) This is gonna make my Chinese ancestors so proud! Susan: Honey, there’s really no way to put this gently… YOU’RE NOT.CHINESE! Jonathan: Oh, whoopsie-daisy, I beg to differ with you, Honey-hoo. As you may recall, one of my most endearing qualities is that I am one-sixteenth Navajo! And we all know that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived here via the Bering Strait from where? Asia! And what’s in Asia? CHIIIIIIIIINAAAAAAAAAAA!
In "Shaggy Frog" 88 and 89 attempts to intimidate and rough up a fairy to improve their rep, which ends with a very short curb-stomp battle.
Afterwards, they decide to try and capture a pet frog instead.
From "Feeding Frenzy", there's how Jake reacts when he learns that he's (presumably) going to be spared having to sit at the Dreaded Kids' Table because one of his uncles is going to miss the family reunion because he's in the hospital after getting his appendix removed.
Jake: Go appendix! Go appendix! Holla back, now! Appendicitis!
Brad telling his classmates that he'll never get caught for pranking Rotwood with an exploding cake "as long as you potty squatters keep your traps shut." It then cuts to the main trio talking about how Brad got suspended because someone was mad enough at being called a potty squatter to rat him out.
When Haley offers to help Jake deliberately get suspended, he replies that he has it covered. The scene cuts to the Dragon Council talking about how nice it was of Jake to send them a cake. The cake is the same kind of exploding cake that Brad pranked Rotwood with.
Jake tells his grandfather that he'll spend his suspension in deep reflection. The scene cuts to Jake doing a mocking impression of Rotwood at a party.
“Hong Kong Longs”:
This exchange between Jonathan and Fu Dog in "Hong Kong Longs".
Jonathan: Okay, one more question: Are unicorns real? Fu Dog: Sure. Jonathan: Fairies? Fu Dog: You bet. Jonathan: Gnomes, elves, mermaids? Fu Dog: Yes, yes and yes. Jonathan: Santa Claus? Fu Dog: Just keep your eyes on the road and your foot on the pedal will ya?
The following question posed by Jonathan in "Hong Kong Longs".
was art!
