Night of the Weremole
Original air date: 11/12/1999
Production code: CCD-111a
After Muriel is bitten by and transformed into a Weremole, it's up to Courage to cure her.
Mother's Day
Original air date: 12/17/1999
Production code: CCD-111b
Eustace is reluctant to go visit Ma Bagge for Mother's Day, and when Muriel refuses, he takes Courage along as company instead.
"Night of the Weremole" features examples of the following tropes:
- Hollywood Heart Attack: Courage clutches his chest and collapses during the Wild Take when he finds a crazed Muriel eating from his dog dish. An ambulance takes him across Nowhere, and we next see him in Dr. Vindaloo's office attached to an ECG.Dr. Vindaloo: You almost bought it, boy! What is up with that?
- Courage then grabs Dr. Vindaloo and runs off back to his house. He snaps the leads to the ECG, creating a flatline on the monitor.
- Wormsign: The Weremole leaves these in its wake when it's hunting, first when it eats the rabbit Muriel was trying to feed, and later when it tries to eat Courage, who's disguised as a rabbit so he can get one of the Weremole's hairs and cure Muriel's transformation.
"Mother's Day" features examples of the following tropes:
- Artistic License – Animal Care: Ma Bagge gives the box of chocolates from Eustace to Courage and he eats nearly the entire box. Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, but the only ill symptom Courage gets is a stomach ache.
- Breather Episode: Unlike most episodes of the show, where Courage goes up against a terrifying supernatural monster of some kind, this episode is unique in that it simply consists of Eustace dragging Courage along to visit his mother, who's actually nice to Courage with no ulterior motives, during Mother's Day; nothing strange or supernatural happens during it.
- Commonality Connection: Ironically, Eustace and his mother bond over the one thing they don't like about themselves: They're both bald.
- Doting Grandparent: Ma is something of this sort in this episode, loving Courage a lot.
- Out of Focus: Muriel is the one who falls into this trope, only appearing at the beginning and end.
- Pet the Dog: When his mother is desperate about her hair loss, Eustace tries to comfort her and tells her that she looks good to him no matter what.
- Visual Pun: Ma Bagge chastises her son by saying that he could never hope to fill his father's shoes. Cut to a still of a gargantuan pair of shoes, implied to be the elder Mr. Bagge's.
