Transdimensional energy drinks are a HELL of a drug.
Sprig wants Anne and Hop Pop to get along, so he tricks them into going on a stakeout.
Full Recap
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Tropes:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!. Sprig starts to explain that he can’t stakeout the corn field due to his short attention span, but then he gets distracted by a butterfly and forgets what he was saying.
- Crazy Enough to Work: Sprig's plan to get Hop Pop and Anne to get along, which basically only works due to dumb luck.
- Faking and Entering: Sprig stages a robbery of Hop Pop's corn field to get Anne and Hop Pop together in a stakeout. It works at first, but when they keep fighting, he tries to steal corn again to keep the stakeout going. Unfortunately, Anne and Hop Pop, high from each other's drinks, attack him thinking he's a real thief, which ends up getting them together anyway.
- Fire-Forged Friendship: While hallucinating from each other's drinks, Anne and Hop Pop bond over trying to slay "the corn thief" (Sprig mistaken for a monster).
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Not only does Sprig's scheme to help Anne and Hop Pop get along somewhat fail, but when he, not realizing they're both tripping on biochemically incompatible energy drinks, tries to steal more corn to give them a common enemy, they mistake him for a monster and try to kill him.
- Here We Go Again!: Polly drinks from Anne's energy drink and she has a hallucination of her own. Cue gentle credit music.
- Humanlike Animal Aging: Regarding his age, Hop Pop mentions he's a "crisp 68".
- I Resemble That Remark!: A self-inflicted example. Sprig is clearly just using his short attention span as an excuse to get Anne and Hop Pop doing guard duty alone, but his being distracted in the middle of saying so ends up proving his point anyway.
- Kamehame Hadouken: During their hallucination, Hop Pop and Anne try to take down the "corn thief" with these. When it doesn't work, they grab actual weapons.
- Mood Whiplash: Just as Polly is "ready to roll" during her hallucination, the episode immediately smash cuts to Anne and Sprig relaxing as if nothing happened.
- Mushroom Samba:
- Anne and Hop Pop drink each other's drinks, and due to their respective biological makeups, they have a hallucinogenic reaction.
- After Anne, Hop Pop, and Sprig all pass out, Polly drinks the last of Anne's energy drink. Even better, her casual reaction to the hallucination implies she's done it before.
- No Biochemical Barriers: Averted with Anne drinking Hop Pop's tea and Hop Pop drinking Anne's energy drink which causes them to have a Mushroom Samba moment.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Anne and Hop Pop realize that they both pine for better times, her with "back home", he (stereotypically) with "the good old days".
- Noodle Incident (yet again...): Hop Pop once knew someone named Stinky MacGuire who embodied the same brand of Undying Loyalty Anne did for him. According to him, it's only meaningful if one personally knew Stinky.
- Only Sane Man: Polly spends the whole episode telling Sprig that his plan won't work. At the end, when it does, she apologizes, but Sprig decides to listen to her next time.
- Popcultural Osmosis Failure: When Sprig tells them they were robbed, Hop Pop lets out an over the top Big "WHAT?!". Anne laughs at it, calling it the perfect sitcom catchphrase. Hop Pop doesn't know what that means and just thinks she's talking nonsense again.Hop Pop: Must be painful to make so little sense all the time.
- Rock Monster: Polly hallucinates one at the end of the episode that acts like her servant.
- Shared Mass Hallucination: After drinking each other's coffee substitutes, Anne and Hop Pop end up tripping, HARD. In this case it's not a cover-up for anything supernatural - the two just hallucinate exactly the same things due to Rule of Funny.
- Zany Scheme: Again, Sprig's plan to get Hop Pop and Anne to get along; deconstructed, as it came dangerously close to going horribly wrong.
