Release date: November 20, 2020
Opening line: (Wakko) "May cause migraine-y!"
Gold Meddlers: The Warners compete in the Olympic Games against an egotistical athlete.
Pinko and the Brain: Disguised as a politician, Brain attempts to blackmail all the others to ensure he is the only one remaining, allowing him to rule.
Math-terpiece Theater: Apples: Dot dramatically teaches a math lesson involving apples and a girl named Nancy.
Tropes found in "Gold Meddlers":
- The Ahnold: Nils Niedhart is this, being totally buff and speaking in a German accent.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Nils finally gets all the gold medals in the end... and they're so heavy the ground beneath collapses and drops him all the way down to Hell.
- Bicep Kiss: Nils Niedhart kisses both his biceps, his pecs and his calves after saying he's in a serious relationship with them.
- Briefs Boasting: All Nils Niedhart wears is pinkish-purple briefs.
- Furry Reminder: During the discus event, Wakko instinctively fetches Nils' discus like a dog.
- Groin Attack: Nils suffers this during the discus event.
- Hold Up Your Score: Parodied a few times, like when the judges give Yakko's fiery high-dive straight 100s, or when a panel of demons give Nils three 6s for his belly-flop into Hell.
- Jerk Jock: Nils Niedhart is Lichtenstein's athlete for a pastiche of the Olympics and is amazingly talented at every imaginable sport. But he's also an insufferable blowhard who makes the mistake of pissing off the Warners, turning what should have been a glorious streak of gold medals into one long Humiliation Conga.
- Malicious Misnaming: The Warners keep calling Nils Niedhart things like "Bill Beefheart", "Grilled Cheese-Art", "Gil Braveheart", and "Peels Playdart".
- Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty: Nils introduces his biceps as Ronald and Matilda, his pecs as Mooby and Highbeam, and his calves as Ambush and Bazooka.
- Self-Deprecation: During the high-dive event, Dot points out that a moonwalk reference is a little dated, to which Wakko retorts "It is, but this is a reboot of a 90s show."
- Take That!: Nils Niedhart mentioning that urban decay will set in the stadium after the Games are over is a jab at how many Olympic venues are left neglected after the event ends.
- Tasty Gold: Wakko thinks the gold medals are foil-wrapped chocolate.
- Title Drop: Wakko says they should be "Gold Meddlers" instead of "Gold Medalists". He and Dot are well aware he intentionally did this trope. "Title of the sketch?" "Title of the sketch."
- Touché: Dot says this when Wakko defends the use of dated references by pointing out "this is a reboot of a 90s show".
- Transformation Sequence: Happens when Dot's donkey transforms into a Winged Unicorn.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: After winning all the gold medals, the Warners find out they're actually gold and not chocolate. Despite their value, they treat the medals as this and hand them over to Nils.
Tropes found in "Pinko and the Brain":
- Blackmail: Brain's initial plan to rule the Senate is to force senators into retirement with incriminating evidence until he is the only one left. It runs smoothly until Brie gets involved.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Brain's plan fails because Pinky is forced to confess they are both mice in the middle of Brain's mouse hunt.
- Crazy-Prepared: Brain had equipped his mecha with the power of flight in case his plan failed.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: This obviously parodies the Red Scare of the fifties with Brain (as Senator Garp) acting as an expy of Joseph McCarthy.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Pinky notes that Brain accusing other people of being mice can easily backfire on them. Sure enough, it does, thanks to Pinky's inability to lie.
- Fantastic Racism: People seem to be prejudiced against mice, something the Brain takes advantage of, accusing other politicians of being mice despite being a mouse himself.
- Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee: Brain tries to get rid of the nosy secretary Brie by putting her on trial. It backfires when Pinky accidentally calls Brain by his real name and Brie puts him on the spot.
- Kick the Dog: Brain is willing to scapegoat innocent people as a means of furthering his plans, and Pinky starts to show concerns about the plan when it leads to some children in mouse-ear hats getting arrested.
- Manchild: Senator Garp. He complains at the beginning that the congressional recess won’t let him play on the big kids swings and is later shown on a fire truck with a bunch of children.
- Meaningful Name: Brie is named after a type of cheese because she's from Wisconsin, known for its massive dairy industrynote .
- Not So Great Escape: Brain flies off in his "man-suit" to escape an angry mob... and the cartoon ends with him crashing into the Washington Monument.
- Precision H Strike: Brain says that he was planning to "put Brie through hell".
- The Scapegoat: When Brain makes a vow to get rid of all the mice, to hide the fact that he and Pinky are mice themselves, it leads to the arrest of a man with big ears and kids wearing Mickey Mouse-like hats.
- She Knows Too Much: Brie begins having suspicions about Brain, who is disguised as Garp and starts investigating. This leads Brain to put her on trial.
- Shout-Out: In the Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? bit Pinky asks "What does a steam-powered giraffe even eat?"
- Smarter Than You Look: Brie seems to be a Naïve Newcomer and innocent intern. Brain makes the mistake of tossing coffee she made and demanding odd ingredients in it such as ham and mayonnaise; Brie knows Senator Garp's tastes and realizes that something is up. Soon, she remains the only member of Congress that Brain isn't able to blackmail.
- Torches and Pitchforks: The Congressmen are quick to form an angry mob when Brain's identity is exposed.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Several times Brie is seen sampling from a mayo jar. Also, when Brain tries to get her accused of being a mouse because she's from Wisconsin, she turns it around to say that loving cheese is a very American action.
- Worthy Opponent: Brain eventually considers Brie this. As they're fleeing, he tells Pinky it wasn't his fault for cracking under pressure. He acknowledges that Brie outdid him.
Tropes found in "Math-terpiece Theater: Apples":
- Art Shift: The art style presented in the problem Dot reads is a bit more simplistic, and it has a dramatic old film effect.
- Mood Whiplash: First by interpreting a math problem as a dramatic story about a single mother on the run from the law trying to feed her children. This suddenly breaks from the mood being sets when the time comes for the actual answer to be given, at which point the previously defiant mother perks up and breaks the fourth wall to give it to the audience.
- And then happens again at the very end of the short played for laughs. After an overly-dramatic recap of the next episode...we go straight into the credits.[A high-speed train rushes by and a Conductor rapidly throws coal in the heater and suspenseful music plays]
Conductor: Train A, traveling forty miles per hour, left the station at 2:45… <gasps> Heaven help us!!!
[Cue happy credits music]
- And then happens again at the very end of the short played for laughs. After an overly-dramatic recap of the next episode...we go straight into the credits.
- Mundane Made Awesome: The segment turns simple math word problems into an epic tale. The teaser even references the classic "a train is going X miles an hour..." problem.
- Shout-Out: To Masterpiece Theater.
