As Zøg attempts to escape a harrowing situation, Derek discovers a book that implies his family is cursed. Bean hatches a plan to escape from Trøgtown.
Tropes:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Trixy is this to Elfo. However, the problem comes more from her attitude than her appearance, which seems to meet the criteria of beauty of the Trøgs and Elves.
- Bad Liar: Disguised as her mother, Bean makes a very unconvincing impression of her. She’s just lucky that the underground people are not very smart.
- Bound and Gagged: Well, no gagging here. But when they put themselves on Bean's side, the Trøgs temporarily neutralize Dagmar by tying her up.
- Brick Joke: On the scale of 2 episodes. In the previous one, Zøg was smoking a cigar into the open coffin, and took it with him inside when Pendergast locked him inside. In this episode, he smokes the other half while already being buried (see Didn't Think This Through below).
- Buried Alive: Zøg for the majority of the episode.
- Call-Back: The "body double" the Arch-Druidess and Odval get for Zøg while he's buried alive is a singing walrus.
- Chekhov's Gun: The Sacred Goo, first seen back in "Love's Slimy Embrace", turns out to be this in the next season.
- The Chosen Many: The Trøgs consider Bean, Luci and Elfo as their prophetized "saviors" by the end of the episode.
- Continuity Nod:
- Luci motivates Bean to become badass by reminding her that they escaped from hell together.
- Among the skeletons dug up by the Trøgs, Prince Guysbert (the only corpse with some skin and meat) can be seen.
- Contrived Coincidence: The episode ends on Bean, Elfo, Luci and Zøg, returning to the surface, via a hole in the cemetery. They leave at the exact moment when the Arch-druidess was watching the cemetery with Odvald’s binoculars (or more probably "trinoculars"). Subverted in the next episode, because Zøg decides to return to the castle by announcing himself publicly through the main gate, which means that the Arch-Druidess and Odvald only learned of their return a few minutes earlier, too little time for them to develop a plan.
- Conveniently Interrupted Document: Apparently, there is a curse resting upon the Royal Family of Dreamland, but the pages that contain the details are ripped from the book Derek was reading.
- Crown of Power: Dagmar's crown is revealed to be one. The moment she tricks Bean into giving it back to her, she uses its power to teleport away.
- Darker and Edgier: Disenchantment already had horrific or sad moments in the first two seasons. And jokes are still present in this episode, especially Black Comedy. But between the insanity that gradually takes hold of Zøg while he feels his death approaching, Bean, Luci and Elfo being trapped in an underground maze while being chazed by its inhabitants, Dreamland becoming an oppressive theocracy while Derek is manipulated by Odval and the Arch-druidess, and Dagmar and Bean arguing over openly expressing how much they hate each other as mother and daughter, "You’re the Bean" is one of the grimest episodes in the whole show. Fortunately, it has a happy ending, with Dagmar having lost her hold on the Trøgs, Leavo freed from their dungeon, and Zøg, Bean, Elfo and Luci managing to leave the subsurface alive.
- Didn't Think This Through: Zøg does not seem to have thought that smoking a cigar, while he is already buried and without way to renew the air in his coffin, was a bad idea. Ironically and hilariously, it was a "thinking cigar" supposed to help him think.
- Foreshadowing:
- Leavo’s presence in the Trøgs dungeon, and his "secret mission" to find something in the underground under the castle. He seeks King Candyass' throne, proof that the Elves were the first inhabitants of Dreamland before being expelled by humans.
- In a burst of black humour, Zøg who cries out that he does not want to die and see his family members again in the afterlife, because he had "almost killed them all". Apart from Bean and Derek being alive, the "almost" comes from the fact that, contrary to what had been implied until then, Zøg isn't the responsable for the assassination of his brother Yøg.
- False Prophet: In this case, it is even implied that Dagmar pretended to be a "savior" in order to manipulate the Trøgs, making her a false messiah.
- Forgotten Birthday: Mertz forgets to attend his mother's birthday, and judging by her reaction, it's hardly the first time.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: The more Zøg stays in his coffin, the more he loses his sanity, as he starts to make noises.
- Grave Robbing: The Trøgs rob graves through tunnels underneath them. This is what ends up saving Zøg as they also rob his grave.
- Interspecies Romance: Trixy thinks she has got one with Elfo since their hook-up in the previous night/episode. Subverted, because Elfo clearly sees her more as an embarrassment than anything else and makes little to no effort to hide it.
- Jail Bake: Subverted; Trixy brings Elfo a cake that she claims contains something that will help him escape. However, she meant mentally escape, as the thing in the cake is a nude drawing of her.
- The Maze: The underground is a massive labyrinth, and if the inhabitants haven't any problem to ubicate themselves because they live and work here, Bean, Luci and Elfo can't find the exit while being chased by them.
- Parental Substitute: Parodied:
Dagmar: Bean, running from your mother is so last year.
Bean: (running away) Elfo was more a mother to me than you!
Elfo: Oh, this ruins so many fantasies. But opens up so many new one.
- Rump Roast: Lucy lits his tail on fire when the group is locked up in the dungeon. A non-slapstick exemple, as Luci voluntarly does this to see better in their cell, and because as demon he feels no pain into the fire.
- Running Gag: Derek about to officially establish a socialist utopia in Dreamland before being interrupted at the last moment by Odvald.
- Sanity Slippage: Isolated, unable to find a way out of his coffin or to call for help, knowing that his friend Pendergast is dead and that he will probably be next, and feeling that the air is getting scarce, Zog loses his reason throughout the episode. Ironically, his in-extremis rescue by the Trøgs, who unearth his coffin from below, is the last blow to his mental health, as he confuses them with demons and thinks he has arrived in hell. The deterioration of his mental state will then remain a major intrigue of the whole third season.
- Series Continuity Error: A minor example. In season 1, as a demon, Luci was presented as immortal and insensitive to fire, but under certain conditions the lava risked killing him. In season 2, after having betrayed and left Hell to save Elfo’s soul, the last episode revealed to us that he had lost his immortality, and that the pyre on which he and his friends were tied was going to kill him. But in "You’re the Bean", Luci voluntarily sets fire to the end of his tail to see better in the darkness of their cell, and he feels no pain. However, later in the episode, Dagmar plans to throw him into the lava to get rid of him, implying that this point has remained consistent.
- Spot the Imposter: Between Bean (disguised as her mother) and Dagmar.
- Theme Naming: We see all of Zog's ancestors have an alphebetical name, though we only see up to "T", who's name is ripped out halfway through.
- Title Drop: Dropped two times in fact. When Bean is impersonating Dagmar (see Spoot the Imposter up there), they both try to convince that they are Dagmar and the other one is Bean. Leading each of them to say at one point : "You're the Bean".
- Wham Line: When Bean starts impersonating Dagmar, Elfo saves her time by massaging the latter, thinking that she confused him with her usual masseur. And then:
Dagmar: Thank you, Elfo.
- You Are Fat: Dagmar, after imprisoning the very slender Bean, calls her "fat ass", to which Bean replies "flat ass".
