Funny / Peacemaker (2022)

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"Throw your dog the invisible bone!"

If you thought The Suicide Squad had off-the-wall humor, just wait till you get a taste of this series.

Trailers

• Peacemaker complaining that he feels the other agents think he and Vigilante are too stupid, which leads to:
  Vigilante: Hey, everyone! Which one's me and which one's Eagly?
  Peacemaker: Okay, you're half right, but you score 50% on a test at school, whaddya get? A D—
  Agents: An F.
  Peacemaker: School wasn't my bag. It's for dorks.
• Peacemaker tells his dad that he sees himself as a "grower, not a shower", in terms of how he can improve upon peoples' first impression of him. Auggie quickly reminds his son he just compared himself to a chode.

General

• The opening. Behold. What really sells it is that everybody is dancing with a straight face. Not only that, but while the dancing is indeed good, its execution is incredibly stiff and over-rehearsed.
  • The one exception, of course, is Vigilante, who despite having his face completely covered dances like he's having the time of his life.
  • Right at the end, Eagly lands but looks like he misses his mark, glances down... and awkwardly shuffles forward to the line.
• Each episode has long sequences of banter between characters that is hilarious, absurd, and crude as hell. The best part about it is how it all feels natural, like how people converse in real life.
  • The Suicide Squad was praised for these qualities already, but this series amps it up to eleven.
• Each episode has a hilarious post-credit scene featuring an outtake worth sticking around until the end.
• Alan Tudyk does the dance in the OP sequence. His wife choreographed the opening, after all.
• Robert Patrick mentions in a tweet that he sucks when people on Twitter talked about how good his dance routine was in the OP sequence.

Episode 1 - "A Whole New Whirled"

• When the team is at Peacemaker's trailer and explaining the situation, Economos is rooting around in his fridge, much to Peacemaker's annoyance.
  Peacemaker: The fuck is he doing?
  Economos: I have low blood sugar, okay? So I'm dizzy.
  • Made even better a bit later. When Murn introduces him, Economos is eating olives that Peacemaker immediately points out have been sitting in his fridge for four years.
    Peacemaker: Hey, dude? You're eating four-year-old olives out of my fucking fridge.
    Economos: [immediately gags when he realizes it]
• Peacemaker meets his handlers for dinner in full uniform. In a crowded restaurant. Economos even has to tell him to take off his helmet.
  • Earlier, after getting discharged from the hospital, how does Peacemaker escape going back to prison? By walking out the front door in full costume. And it’s still got bloodstains from Corto Maltese.
• Peacemaker gets chastised by Leota for calling a waitress "sweet cheeks", despite Chris not realizing it's slang for butts. They compare it to being called "sugar tits", to which Chris argues that the waitress's breasts are too big to be "sugar tits", then says Harcourt's (and Economos') breasts are what he would call "sugar tits".
• Earlier in the episode, Peacemaker gets into an argument with Jamil, one of the hospital janitors, about his hero credentials. This eventually leads to Peacemaker claiming that Aquaman fucks fish.
  Peacemaker: He bangs chicks? Good for him. He fucks dudes? Got no problem with that. He starts fuckin' fish? That's taking it a step too far.
  Jamil: [shocked] Aquaman fucks fish?
  Peacemaker: [bluntly] Yeah.
  Jamil: [shakes his head] I don't believe it.
  Peacemaker: [scoffs] A guy on Twitter works for the aquarium, said for 50 bucks, he brings him in the back so he can have his way with a sturgeon.
  Jamil: I refuse to believe that.
  Peacemaker: And I refuse to believe that @PepetheFrog89 is lying to me for no reason.
  • When Chris finally convinces Jamil he’s Peacemaker, the latter calls him out for being a racist superhero, saying he kills too many people of color.
  • Chris argues saying that he’s killed a lot of other white people too, while Jamil says he needs to have a more even ratio by watching white people more when he’s out being a vigilante. His reaction to this?
    Peacemaker: Fine. That's... That's a good point. I will trust white people less in the future, and kill a higher percentage of 'em. Are you satisfied?
  • Apparently, this is what he’s known for, as his father’s neighbor calls him a racist superhero too.
  • This exchange between the two:
    Jamil: Why do you think I'm mopping floors, bro? I went to MIT.
    Chris: [mutters; Beat] You went to MIT?
    Jamil: Oh, yeah.
    Chris: The fuck you doing here?
    Jamil: That's my fucking point, man! Why aren't you listening to me?
  • The real kicker is that Chris is just blatantly yelling in a hospital about how he kills people and is supposed to be in prison, yet no one seems to mind (although this might just be because the staff had been previously instructed by Murn to contact him when Peacemaker left).
• The stinger has Auggie showing Peacemaker a helmet that is designed to give the wearer scabies—not his enemies, just the wearer. When Peacemaker, clearly baffled, asks why he'd want to do that, Auggie just replies that he should do it to challenge himself, and that "Every man should have scabies once in his life".

Episode 2 - "Best Friends, For Never"

• The reason why Chris goes back to the apartment to the woman that almost killed him? Her collection of 80s vinyl records and CDs.
  • He also steals her cute cookie cutters and a random toy.
• Peacemaker escapes the apartment by jumping out the window to a lower floor. Repeatedly. Smashing painfully into the balcony or ground the entire way down as Harcourt and Adebayo cringe watching.
• Harcourt tells Peacemaker that Eagly better not crap in the back of her car, to which he says that you can't house-train an eagle without taking away its soul.
• According to John Economos, Bat-Mite exists in the DCEU. Peacemaker is very confused to hear this.
• Peacemaker lampshades that everyone on the team has really weird last names.
• Also counts as Tearjerker, but when Chris is alone in his trailer, he plays one of the stolen records and openly cries about how he killed Rick Flag and how he keeps pushing people away. He even comedically punches himself out of frustration.
  • Vigilante walks in on him, and then Peacemaker wildly assumes he has his dick out and refuses to look at him.
  • This leads to an long, awkward talk about Louis C.K. and the accusations of sexual harassment he has become infamous for over the past few years, with Peacemaker insisting that Vigilante is gonna do what he did.
• Vigilante... attempts to cheer up Peacemaker.
  Vigilante: When I find out someone murdered an innocent person, or sold somebody heroin, or did some graffiti, and I kill that person with my bare hands, their eyeballs... POPPING out of their SKULLS. You think THAT gives me pleasure?
  Peacemaker: [solemn sigh] No...
  Vigilante: Well, it does. [laughs]
  Peacemaker: [casts a concerned look at him]
  Vigilante: It gives you pleasure, too, Peacemaker! And that's because we're born killers. What separates us from other killers is we only kill bad people. Usually. Unless there's a mistake.
  Peacemaker: [look of concern and dawning horror]
  Vigilante: Now, do I sound like a fucking maniac?
  Peacemaker: [same look of concern and dawning horror]
• Adrian helps Chris clean his trailer and finds a fleshlight, leading to an adorably ignorant response from the former.
  Vigilante: Awww, it’s a little smiley face!
• To lighten up Peacemaker's spirits, Vigilante invites him to shoot/destroy old and dilapidated appliances he's been saving up in the woods (practically a forest rage room). The kicker is that they do this to the tune of (admittedly the Santa Cruz cover) "Drag Me Down"... originally by One Direction.

Episode 3 - "Better Goff Dead"

• At the start of the episode, the team notices Vigilante peeking at them from behind a trash can, and Harcourt tells him to scram.
  Vigilante: Are you a psychiatrist?
  Harcourt: What?
  Vigilante: Then don't tell me what's normal. Maybe my secret identity is a psychiatrist and I know what's normal.
  Harcourt: If you're a psychiatrist, we're all screwed. Get the fuck out of here.
  Vigilante: ...I was about to go, but then you had to go and say that. Now if I acquiesce, I'll look and feel small.
• Vigilante then tells Peacemaker that if any one of them decides to be friends with him, it should be Leota, as he's been hearing rumors that the latter is a racist superhero. He then reasons that he doesn't have that problem, as he mostly kills white people.
• The fact they just let Vigilante, who they know is a wanted criminal on multiple counts of murder, casually run away is hilarious. Murn lampshades this by saying "We have bigger fish to fry".
• During the briefing, Leota accidentally flips to a clit pic her wife sent her, since Leota had her move away on Harcourt’s recommendation, so they're practicing new forms of intimacy. The rest of the team cracks up laughing as Leota defends herself in embarrassment.
• John and Leota arguing about how The Berenstain Bears is spelled, "-stain" or "-stein".
  • Murn tells them to stop... only to say that it's "-stein".
  • Leota shows John that it is "-stain", much to his disappointment, with Murn in the background annoyed and/or possibly disappointed.
  • Harcourt later sides with Leota when the family sits down for dinner, much to John’s annoyance.
• Vigilante trying to pull off a "Screw This, I'm Outta Here" on Judomaster after he kicks both his and Peacemaker's asses... and Judomaster knocks him out before he can get anywhere.
• Goff decides to torture Vigilante to break Peacemaker, reasoning that since humans are "creatures of empathy," Peacemaker will spill everything he knows. Unfortunately, Goff fails to anticipate that Peacemaker falls a little short in the "empathy" department.
  "Fuck it! Cut off all his toes! I don't care!"
• As Goff is torturing Vigilante, the rest of the team try to break through the cocoon-door-thingy, to no avail. Eventually, Murn takes out a small credit card-sized explosive and hands it to Leota to stick to the door. After she removes the film, she licks the adhesive side and gags from the taste, thinking it works the same way as a stamp. Murn just gives her a Thousand-Yard Stare before telling her it's already sticky.
  • After they mount the charge and take cover behind some furniture, Murn tries to trigger it with his phone...to no avail. Repeatedly. Like five times. He even sticks his hand out from behind the sofa hoping to give the explosive a better signal...and nada. He eventually gives up and just walks up to the door to remove the charge, only for it then to blow up, sending him flying across the room and KO-ing him.

Episode 4 - "The Choad Less Travelled"

• Peacemaker offhandedly mentions that he once partnered with Matter-Eater Lad, a very obscure DC superhero whose power is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. He blames it for his current difficulties gauging what is and isn't normal for people.
  Peacemaker: Ever since I had a team-up with Matter-Eater Lad, my sense of what's normal is a little fucked up...
  Murn: You have to keep Vigilante close. If he talks, he could ruin everything.
  Peacemaker: [not paying attention] I once saw him eat an entire Wendy's restaurant...
  Murn: ... Vigilante ate a restaurant?
  Peacemaker: No, Matter-Eater Lad. That's his power, he can eat anything. Maybe they took too long with his fries or something...? The guy's a fuckin' lunatic.
• Vigilante attempts to invoke the duck test to convince Peacemaker that his father is a racist scumbag. The keyword is attempts.
  Vigilante: If it walks like a duck, it's either a duck, or a duck wearing some type of... human costume. I don't know! He's unable to hide his distinctive walk.
  Peacemaker: How the fuck would that even happen?
  Vigilante: How would what even happen?
  Peacemaker: A duck in a human costume? The sizes are completely incompatible!
• Leota notices Adrian hanging around outside the jail and immediately figures out that he's Vigilante. He tries to deny it, poorly.
  Leota: I take it you're Vigilante.
  Adrian: No.
  Leota: You sound like him.
  Adrian: [in a goofy voice] No, I don't.
  Leota: That's a fake voice.
  Adrian: [still in the goofy voice] Nope.
  Leota: It changed from what it was two seconds ago!
  Adrian: I was about to cough! But yeah, this... this is more my real voice. [he starts to limp away]
  Leota: Why are you limping?
  Adrian: Snowboarding accident! Totally unrelated in any way to Vigilante! I don't even know who Vigilante is! Who is he? Might even be a she, I have no way of knowing. Except that Vigilante's voice sounds like mine, according to you. Which makes me surmise, yeah, maybe it's a he.
  Leota: You ain't killing it right now.
• Judomaster is shot by Leota right before he can reveal something important about the Butterflies. Peacemaker's reaction? "I was going to win that fight!!!"
  • Also this exchange during said fight:
    Judomaster: You... have a weird bubbly shaped body.
    Peacemaker: Personal insults? Real mature shrimp!
• Peacemaker seems to be convinced that martial artists possess the ability to replace their hearts with their kidneys. Because apparently a kidney can pump blood like the heart can.
  • His back and forth with Leota on the matter is downright hilarious too:
    Peacemaker: These martial artists? They are hardcore. Their heart stops beating, they just concentrate and move a kidney up into its place. Then the kidney circulates the blood through the system.
    Leota: No, that's not something that happens.
    Peacemaker: Only the greats, just a few times.
    Leota: No, that's never happened, ever.
    Peacemaker: Yeah it has. One or two times, it has.
    Leota: No one has ever replaced their own heart with a kidney!
• When Peacemaker's in his trailer with the Butterfly that had taken over the real Goff (he's named the Butterfly Goff too), he blows marijuana smoke into the jar so it can get high with him.
• Vigilante infiltrating the prison to take care of Auggie is both equal parts hilarious, and equal parts awesome, as he showcases that not only is he not even remotely as dumb as everyone seems to think he is, he knows how to verbally annihilate someone when the need arises.
  (As Auggie and his Neo-Nazis are sharing a laugh, Adrian shows up out of nowhere and just sits himself down at their table)
  Adrian: Hey... what's up, fellas? Look, you totes seem like the coolest guys in this place. So, I was thinking, you know, like, we should get to know each other.
  Steve: (Beat) What?
  Adrian: Let's pick a topic, and then everyone goes around in a circle and says their feelings on that topic. Let's start with, uh... I don't know. Let's each say something that we're grateful for that Black people have contributed to American culture.
  Steve: Is this dude joking right now?
  Adrian: No? Hey, look, I'll go first. I'm grateful that Black people gave us rock and roll music. Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, 38 Special... All those guys owe everything to Black American folk and blues musicians. I mean, they wouldn't exist without 'em, and then white redneck music would just sound like... well, what it sounded like before Black people, which was the wet, sloppy sounds of fսcking your sister. Okay, so that's my turn. Which one of you dumb, sister-fucking, tiki-torch-carrying, Sloth-from-the-Goonies-looking pieces of shit wants to go next?
  (Auggie slams his playing cards on the table and gives him a Death Glare that could kill)
  Steve: Who the fuck are you!?
  Adrian: You're first? Cool! Okay, wait. No, let me guess. Your favorite contribution to Black American culture was all the Black guys who fսckеd your mom in the ass while you watched from the closet, jerking off?
  (Steve attacks him, at which point Adrian proceeds to beat the ever-living fuck out of all of Auggie's goons)

Episode 5 - "Monkey Dory"

• Song and Auggie's insult-throwing after he gets her and Fitzgibbon to meet with him.
  Song: What do you want, Smith? Heard you were harassing the guards, asking for me all night.
  Auggie: I didn't kill that girl.
  Fitz: Yeah, so you said.
  Song: So they all always say.
  Auggie: Yeah, but "they" can't prove it, now, can they, Lucy Liu?
  Song: "Lucy Liu"? Because we're both Asian? How incredibly fucking clever. What should I call you? Jimmy Fallon?
  Fitzgibbon: See, the problem is... we impounded the car that was there that night.
  Auggie: That ain't my car.
  Song: Registration says otherwise, Guy Fieri.
  Fitzgibbon: And we have two eyewitnesses who said that you kidnapped them.
  Auggie: Well, they're fucking lying.
  Song: And your fingerprints, Blake Shelton, are all over the murder victim's apartment. [to Fitzgibbon] I'm running out of white guys.
• When complaining about who else they could have framed for murder besides his father, Peacemaker mentions about forty celebrities ranging from Ariana Grande to Brad Pitt to the long-deceased Amy Winehouse...then adds fictional characters like Optimus Prime, Shipwreck, Cobra Commander and others while everyone is just staring at him in disbelief. The Stinger adds even more to the list. The BTS reference is darkly hilarious given how John Cena is a humongous fan of theirs.
  Economos: All right, most of those, you're right, could probably go to prison, but I would never put Ariana Grande in there! She looks too innocent.
  Peacemaker: Possibly true. Possibly.
  • The outtakes version adds even more.
    Peacemaker: ...Freddie Stroma, James Gunn, what the fuck, dude?!
    Economos: Those last two aren't even things!
• During Murn's presentation about how the Butterflies control people after entering their orifices, an animation of one entering a person's butt is noticed, which prompts this discussion.
  Peacemaker: They go through the butt?
  Murn: I think that's just some, uh...creativity on the part of whomever did the animation.
  Economos: [sighs] The butt is an orifice, okay?
  Vigilante: That means they'd have to crawl through poop. Just 'cause they're aliens doesn't make them gross. Bigotry!
  Peacemaker: Superman's an alien. He's got a poop fetish.
  Vigilante: WHAT?!
  Leota: Get the fuck outta here.
  Peacemaker: Oh yeah! He uber-liebes the old scheisse, as I understand it!
  Harcourt: [gasps] Where do you get this nonsense?!
  Peacemaker: Google.
  • Murn’s comments about the artist’s “creativity” is especially funny when you remember he was just revealed to be a Butterfly last episode.
• Vigilante sounds like a disappointed child when Harcourt balks at him wanting to bring a chainsaw on the bottling plant raid.
  Vigilante: Oh, come on, please? [Harcourt glares at him] Ah, fuck! I'm never, ever gonna kill someone with a fucking chainsaw. It's so not fair. Total fucking bullshit.
  • At the end of the raid, Economos ends up using the chainsaw to kill Charlie the Gorilla. Obviously, Vigilante is a little annoyed by this.
    Vigilante: I mean, it would've been a lot cooler if Economos came in and he was like, "Hey!" And then he tossed me the chainsaw across the room, and I'm like, "Solid toss, bro," and then I killed the gorilla.
    Peacemaker: What are you talking about, man?
    Vigilante: I had just said how much I wanted to kill someone with a chainsaw, like, 15 minutes earlier, and then Economos just coincidentally comes in and kills someone with one? I mean, it kinda seems like he was trying to fuck with me a little.

Episode 6 - "Murn After Reading"

• Murn explains the main Butterfly is a female.
  Leota: Why "she?"
  Murn: Because she has a vagina.
  Leota: Aliens got vaginas? What was her real name?
  Murn: Unlike humans, we don't name our genitalia...
• The revelation that Harcourt and Economos both Knew It All Along about Murn being a Butterfly...but Economos literally put his fingers in his ears whenever it was mentioned to block it out.
• As a favor for Jamil, Peacemaker speaks to his daughter's class.
  • Peacemaker regales the kids with the tale of his epic victory over... Kite Man. Hell yeah.
    • When a kid pokes a hole in Peacemaker's story^note namely that, since Kite Man (using a kite) was stealing the 30 pound Blackheart Ruby, he would've crashed to the ground anyway because of gravity, we cut to Peacemaker standing and grimacing in silence for six seconds, giving the impression he's desperately trying to not cuss out the kid.
  • His names for the kids when he calls on them, ranging from "gender-swapped Alfred E. Neuman" to "Rubik's Cube World Champion 2025."
  • The kids make fun of him for his lame choice of pet names.
    Peacemaker: Yeah, Canadian Tuxedo.
    "Canadian Tuxedo": Do you have a pet?
    Peacemaker: I do have a pet. That's a great question. I have a pet named Eagly, he's an eagle. [Another kid raises his hand] Yeah, Rubik's Cube World Champion 2025?
    "Rubik's Cube World Champion 2025": Why is your pet's name so unoriginal?
    Peacemaker: Why are you my least favorite kid in this class?
    "Rubik's Cube World Champion 2025": Because I can see right through you, and I think you're a loser.
• Locke, after killing a couple of cops to help Peacemaker and Vigilante escape, claims the Hamburglar did it. A Goff-possessed Sophie believes him without question.
• The Goff Butterfly making a peace sign in the jar.
• Vigilante is bizarrely fixated on whether or not the Butterfly has a favorite color. He thinks it's teal.
• Caspar Locke murdering helpless cops is a genuinely chilling moment. Him spinning a blatantly fake story about the Hamburglar murdering them to the other cops is hilarious.
  Fitzgibbon: Oh, my god. What happened?
  Locke: I, uh, got here just as the... just as the shooter was running away.
  Fitzgibbon: Peacemaker?
  Locke: Oh, no, no. No, it was a Caucasian man, about five-and-a-half feet tall. Red hair, striped shirt with a red tie. Had a black mask and, uh... I think it was a... fedora. He just ran off saying, "Robble robble!"
  [Goff / "Song" turns around and begins walking back towards the trailer]
  Fitzgibbon: Song! Hey!
  Locke: [smirking] "Robble robble!"
• As Peacemaker and Vigilante are escaping from the cops in the getaway car Locke supplied them, Vigilante throws Peacemaker's phone out the car window so the cops can't track it (even biting him to take it)... only for Peacemaker to tell him that his phone was secured and couldn't be tracked.
• After Murn reveals the existence of the cow, Peacemaker understandably becomes outraged and calls him out on all the secrets that are being kept from him. Then we get this gem:
  Peacemaker: There's something weird going on and you think me and Vigilante are too stupid to notice.
  Vigilante: [sitting next to Eagly] Hey everyone, look!!! Which one's me and which one's Eagly?
  Peacemaker: Okay, you're half right.
• A moment that's as creepy as it is funny—after Goff has everyone in the police station infected by Butterflies and rallies them into a collective Unflinching Walk down the hall with the bodies they've just possessed, they all try some triumphant evil smiles. The key word is "tries"—every single Butterfly can only manage hilariously stiff unsmiles as they march down the hallway.

Episode 7 - "Stop Dragon My Heart Around"

• When Peacemaker tells Economos that he and Vigilante are leaving the safehouse to hunt down the cow, the latter says "We are? Cool." before they grab weapons.
• Since Peacemaker's helmet allows Auggie to track him, he gets rid of it...by tying it to a raccoon's tail (likely referencing the other superhero franchise Gunn's involved with). This also causes Peacemaker's face to get horribly clawed up, with Economos noting that that's to be expected when someone just walks up and grabs a wild raccoon.
• The fact that Vigilante drops his trousers completely when he urinates, because he apparently can't pee if his pants are touching his butt.
• Eagly hugs Peacemaker again. This time, he gets the photo.
• The team find themselves needing to talk Vigilante out of shooting the vet staff, and get sidetracked by arguing over whether it's necessary to call someone a "male nurse".
  Harcourt: What's going on?
  Economos: Dr. Hurwitz kindly stitched up Eagly, and Vigilante's being a total freak.
  Vigilante: Dude, they saw us. Peacemaker and I are wanted. What other choice do we have besides killing this veterinarian, this nurse, and this male nurse?
  Leota: You can just say "two nurses", man.
  Vigilante: If I just say "nurse", I think people will imagine it as a woman.
  Leota: He's standing right there! We don't have to imagine anything!
  Vigilante: It must be weird waking up every day and being a male nurse.
  Economos: You're a fucking busboy.
  Vigilante: Oh, great! Now we definitely have to kill them, because you're giving away stuff about my secret identity.
  Economos: [to Harcourt] Do we really have to kill these people?
  Harcourt: [sighs] No. We'll tie them up, and by the time the morning staff comes in, we'll be long gone.
  Vigilante: They've seen our faces.
  Harcourt: If we can't stop the Butterflies today, it won't matter.
  Vigilante: Okay. But we can't use duct tape. That'll hurt their skin when they try to pull it off.
  • Obviously, Economos is a bit weirded by Vigilante's standards.
    Economos: So, you're compassionate about tape, but not brutally murdering people?
    Vigilante: Yes.
  • In the middle of the Misfit Mobilization Moment, the vet staff declares that they are going too. One of them even has a shotgun.
• The stinger shows Butterfly!Locke randomly going into a lecture about cleaning one’s self in the middle of the press conference about Peacemaker, much to the confusion of the press pool. Eventually Goff!Song has to cut him off.
  "Locke": Cleanliness is next to godliness. And God knows I'm close to Him. [...] Blood. That's what you want to see. If you're not seeing any blood, you're not scrubbing hard enough. [...] Clean your toes. Start at the bottom. Work your way up. Linger in the middle. Keep going a little higher. [begins swaying from side to side while holding his hands over his head] Swing the hips. When you're drying, especially, it's important to swing the hips.
  • Even more hilarious, the cop on the far right is visibly trying (and nearly failing) not to laugh.
• Judomaster is discovered outside a convenience store by two guys who then start mocking his height and costume. When the two guys leave the store, Judomaster beats them both up before stealing their car (and mocks one of his victims by mimicking his spasming as he collapses from a throat injury). To make it even funnier, the two guys are such unbelievable douchebags that the convenience store cashier gives Judomaster a big smile and a thumbs up right before he steals the car.

Episode 8 - "It's Cow or Never"

• Peacemaker making fart noises to interrupt Leota's attempts to apologize.
  • Vigilante thought Leota was in on the gag! Then he specifies that Peacemaker is his best friend, Eagly is his second best friend, and Leota is his fifth best friend!
• The scabies helmet returns, this time in a variation that gives everyone in a certain radius except the wearer scabies. Admittedly, that seems slightly more practical.
  • Peacemaker has an anti-gravity helmet...which just makes him float directly upwards; he states that when wearing it, he needs to use a small hand fan to change direction. When Adebayo lays out a plan to use it to destroy the barn, her talking about activating the helmet switches it on, promptly causing the helmet to fly into the sky and vanish before anyone can grab it.
  • The "human torpedo" helmet gets used twice: once by Adebayo trying to hit Goff (she misses and crashes into a wall, leaving both Peacemaker and Goff staring in confusion) and then when Peacemaker uses the voice trigger to launch the dazed Adebayo at the cow, hurling her limp body through its stomach and back out again in hilariously gory fashion.
  • Peacemaker's failed attempt at getting Eagly to plant the sonic boom helmet on top of the barn, with Eagly instead dropping it into the woods far away from the intended target. Vigilante then offhandedly comments that one of Peacemaker's weaknesses is him overestimating Eagly's capabilities.
• While definitely thick, Peacemaker is smart enough to recognize the hallucination of his dead father for what he is and to use a poisoned dart on him instead of a gun that would draw unwanted attention to him. It still looks weird to Harcourt, though.
• While impersonating a butterfly, Economos gets caught by Butterfly!Fitzgibbon, before he could enter the barn where the cow is being held. When Butterfly!Fitzgibbon questions why Economos is going into the barn. Economos replies with "because of this bag," much to Peacemaker and Harcourt's dismay. Somehow, this works.
• Peacemaker's superhero anecdotes continue... via Green Arrow supposedly being an avid brony. Economos even seems to back this one up by saying he thinks it's actually true. Even better, this is the first actual allusion to GA in the franchise.
  Economos: No, I actually heard that's true about Green Arrow. But that's the first thing he's said that's real.
  Vigilante: And Aquaman fucking fish.
  Economos: Well, yeah, obviously.
  • It's even better if you're familiar with the most recent live-action version. Just try and picture Stephen Amell, as Peacemaker puts it, "going to a Brony convention dressed as the back-half of Twilight Sparkle with a four-inch-wide butthole". Just picture it.
  • In a meta example, someone actually asked Amell what he thought about it. His response?
    Haven’t seen it. Too busy showing Cena what professional wrestling should actually look like on TV.
• During the raid on the farm, one of the Butterflies tries to sneak up behind Harcourt, not wanting to be killed. Harcourt sees the alien and jumps on it, stabbing it with her combat knife.
• Economos tells Adebayo that she shouldn't join the final battle because she might get injured—only for her to go in Guns Akimbo and take down a number of Butterflies, while Economos injures his leg tripping over a fence. Although, it can make one wince when they see how badly he injured his leg.
  • The sight of Leota herself screaming and shooting random Butterflies while running across a field in a wide shot is both awesome and hilarious.
• Aquaman and Flash’s surprise cameos are also given a bit of a comedic twist by finally reaching the logical conclusion of the "Aquaman fucks fish" Running Gag. One might even speculate from Flash’s comment that he possibly started the rumor to mess with his colleague.
  Peacemaker: You’re late, you fucking dickheads! [glances at Aquaman] Go fuck another fish, asshole!
  Aquaman: [to Flash, dejectedly] I am so fuckin’ sick of that rumor.
  Flash: [knowingly] It’s… not a rumor.
  Aquaman: Fuck you, Barry.
  • Due to this superhero series being aimed at adults, this is probably the only time Arthur is able to actually swear, and it seems like Jason Momoa knows damn well, as Aquaman casually drops two F-bombs.
• Judomaster makes one last appearance, crying over all the slain Butterflies... while still scarfing down Cheetos.
• Arriving at the hospital, Peacemaker tells Vigilante he needs to be admitted. The latter says he’s fine and just needs a good nap...which he promptly gets, collapsing over sideways due to the blood loss from his wound.
  • Vigilante is happy seeing his and Peacemaker’s names cleared while in the hospital, which leads to him discharging himself by casually jumping out the room’s window.
• Before the episode ends, Peacemaker and Vigilante blow stuff up in the woods one more time by having the former toss a tank gun shell taped with a frag grenade inside an abandoned sedan.

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