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Recap / Dinotrux S 02 E 08 Gluphosaurs

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When Skrap-It gets stuck to a branch by territorial Gluphosaurs over some tasty green ore, D-Structs decides to use this to his advantage to trick the Gluphosaurs into getting rid of the Dinotrux for him.


  • Big Damn Heroes: The Trux are left stranded on a stack of rocks over a chasm, stick together and unable to build their way out. Just in time, the Gluphosaurs and Revit show up, and quickly construct a log bridge to get the Trux to safety.
  • Chekhov's Gun: A minor case. The Gluphosaurs' spit is noted early on to be nigh unbreakable once set. This comes in handy when Ton-Ton needs a part reattached that can't be secured by screws alone — once the Gluphosaurs have settled their conflict with the Trux, one of them uses its spit to fix Ton-Ton's loose part firmly in place.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: During the Gluphosaurs' first attack, one of them is shown having difficulty with his glue gun mechanism, choking and failing to discharge it whenever he tries to do so. It's that same Gluphosaur that Revit later finds and fixes up, securing the favor of the rest of the group, who go on to offer some much-needed assistance to the Trux at a crucial moment.
  • Fartillery: As the stuck together Dinotrux are about to teeter to their doom, Garby, who had been politely trying to hold it in for quite a while, realizes he can help and farts with enough force to launch the group to safety.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After Revit fixes the Gluphosaur with a defective epoxy gun, the rest of the hitherto antagonistic Gluphosaurs become willing to hear him out, and learn that the whole mess was a misunderstanding started by D-structs and Skrap-it. Not only do they go on to help save the Trux and make amends with them, but at the end of the episode, they break into the villains' lair to retrieve the ore they stole, blasting them with glue in retaliation.
  • Sticky Situation: Gluophosaurs spit an extremely strong epoxy that hardens quickly. It doesn't take them long for all of the Dinotrux to be stuck together in one mass.
  • Shout-Out: The Gluphasaurs spit glue and have brightly-colored neck frills, an obvious reference to how the Dilophosaurus was (in)famously depicted in Jurassic Park (1993).
  • Tempting Fate: As the Dinotrux get all stuck together by the Gluphosaurs;
    Ty: Everybody calm down, it could be worse.
    (D-Structs arrives)
    Ty: It's worse.
    • At the very end, Skrap-It happily notes that he and D-Structs have the crater and the Gluphosaurs' green ore all to themselves (and that he's finally freed himself from the stick he was glued to), saying that things are looking up now. Cue the Gluphosaurs, angry over having been robbed, busting into their lair and spraying them.

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