Peppermint Butler lines up a suitor for Bubblegum, who he thinks is working too much.
Tropes
- Accidental Misnaming: A Gumball Guardian accidentally refers to Peppermint Butler as "Peanut Butler" at the beginning of the episode.
- Ambiguously Evil: This episode gives further hints to Peppermint Butler's evil nature. He's shown summoning a demon and is referred to by a Gumball Guardian as "Dark One", but the Guardian doesn't seem concerned about him at all and he's not shown doing anything evil with his demonic rituals.
- Animalistic Abomination: The Beast, a black furred horned animal.
- Body Horror: Braco accepts a demon's offer to turn him into a "love magnet", but is turned into a deformed three-legged monster.
- Continuity Nod: Peppermint Butler is doing his dark magic rituals in the amber prison on top of the castle previously occupied by the Lich.
- A Day in the Limelight: The episode plot centers around Princess Bubblegum and Braco.
- Demonic Possession: Peppermint Butler summons a demon into the body of Cinnamon Bun.
- Determinator: Braco is determined to win Bubblegum's affections, no matter if she wants him or not. Even if he has to go into a pit of fire to get a stone for her experiment.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Braco is a deconstruction of the trope, as he never listens to Bubblegum's wishes, breaks into her lab multiple times without invitation and ends up being completely satisfied by a parodically love-obsessed Sex Bot version of her.
- Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: PB creates one for Braco.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: A sleep-deprived Princess Bubblegum has lines under her eyes from tiredness.
- Even the Guys Want Him: The demon Peppermint Butler summons actually does turn Braco into a "love magnet," as Pep But immediately states that he wants to have Braco's babies and angrily slaps Bubblegum for letting him go with a Sex Bot instead of giving him back.
- In Love with Love: Braco states he was born to marry Bubblegum, but she can tell at a glance his feelings are mere infatuation.
- Lame Rhyme Dodge: Finn remarks that Braco is kind of wimpy-looking, and "too unheroic for Peebs". When he realizes Braco was standing within earshot, he hastily tries to backspace with "And then I smashed that peach!" Fortunately, Braco is too focused on his quest for Bubblegum's love to notice.
- Love Before First Sight: Braco has a case of this for PB, having inherited a place as her suitor.
- Mutilation Conga: Braco is first horrifically burned trying to retrieve a key, then gets his face crushed in by the stone's guardians, and then gets mutated by a demon.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Peppermint Butler displays his love for the dark and occult once again by summoning a demon into Cinnamon Bun as well as hanging out with the angel from Dungeon, a demonic bull and a demonic lion. He also admits to wanting to have Braco's babies after seeing him turn into a hideous monster.
- Painful Transformation: In order to gain the power of attracting Bubblegum, Braco is bathed in flame by a shadow demon, turning him ugly and malformed in exchange for becoming a "love magnet." Though it doesn't seem to work on Bubblegum, as she tells him that she loves platonically as she does all her subjects, she later laments letting him go with a robot doppelgänger she made for him. Peppermint Butler, who was immediately smitten with him, slaps her for not giving him back to him.
- Really 700 Years Old: An offhanded comment by a 400 year old suitor implies that Bubblegum is much older than she appears.
- Right on Queue: The line of suitors for Princess Bubblegum. Apparently people die waiting in the line often enough that there are rules for who inherits their place.
- Shout-Out:
- "Peacocking" is an actual "pick-up artist" concept.
- The first close-up image of the Beast looks a lot like the alot from Hyperbole and a Half.
- Variations on a Theme Song: The normal "Island Song" end credit music is replaced by "Braco Don't Go", a song that was originally intended to be included within the episode but considered inappropriate for the sequence.
- Voice of the Legion: Braco post Body Horror transformation.
- Workaholic: At the time of the episode, Princess Bubblegum has spent nine weeks working in her lab and it's implied she hasn't even come out to eat or sleep. When Peppermint Butler goes to see her, she's face-down under a box of pizza and visibly strung-out when she wakes up.
- Would Hit a Girl: Pep-But slaps Bubblegum in the face for not giving him the chance to hook up with the now-monstrous Braco.
