Zøg's acting strange, and Bean investigates to learn why. Meanwhile, a despondent Derek finds some surprising mentors in the Enchanted Forest.
Tropes:
- Acting Unnatural: Bean and Odval do this when they keep running into one another.
- Artistic License: Pendergast's armor really should have protected him from a bullet. Full plate was actually invented after the gun, and the word "bulletproof" even comes from armorers shooting their plate to prove how protective it is.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment:
- Once he arrives in front of his castle, Zøg makes a rant that makes the drawbridge keeping raise and lower until he comments about a hidden enemy... mental illness and its stigma.
- When Bean asks how the Arch-Druidess got hold of the gun, she says more than one person has access to Bean's room... at which point Turbish apologizes.
- Black Comedy: The guy who was killed with a fire arrow during the Land Vikings' attack returns to Lampshade how people keep returning from death in Dreamland, including himself. He's promptly shot by a random fire arrow.
- Brick Joke: When Derek enters the forest, he's attacked by a pony-sized unicorn who tries to eat him alive. After Derek grows a spine, he whistles and makes the unicorn take him back to Dreamland.
- The Bus Came Back: Oona returns to Dreamland for Derek's wedding.
- Call-Back: Not the first time Elfo's been rolled into the sea and gotten covered in crabs.
- The Cameo: Among the attendees of Derek and Sagatha's wedding are Merkimer's parents, the Racist Antelope, and Sagatha's bird customer from the first episode.
- Enigmatic Minion: Ms. Moonpence, Odval's assistant, helps Bean search his office. Her reasons for doing so are never given.
- Flipping the Bird: The last thing the Arch-Druidess does before escaping is giving the middle finger to Dreamland.
- Foreshadowing:
- Bean interacts with the magic orb in her search of the person who attempted to kill her father, when she gets angry with it, black lightning appear between her hand and the surface. Bean is surprised and we do not know what she thinks, but Odval sees the scene from afar and takes it as additional proof that Bean would be a witch. Ironically, Odval is close to the truth. Two episodes later, Bean reproduces the same flashes as she is cornered at Steamland, showing that even if she doesn’t know how to use it, she can manipulate magic in particularly stressful situations. And the orb’s inability to give her any clear clue about the person who attempted to murder her father (although it did give a cryptic clue) can legitimately be seen as a major source of stress.
- On the back of the Arch-Druidess's roadmap to Steamland is an advertisement for a freak show.
- Grew a Spine: Thanks to Sagatha the fairy, Derek finally stands up for himself as he manages to get back his possessions from everyone who abused his naivete and Extreme Doormat attitude.
- Internal Reveal:
- Bean and her friends finds out what happened to Pendergast, after discovering his headless body in his wardrobe.
- During his wedding, Derek finds out the Arch-Druidess is one of the traitors.
- Nothing Up My Sleeve: The Arch-Druidess hides the gun in her sleeve during the wedding ceremony. Derek spots it and warns everybody.
- Of Corpse He's Alive: Odval and the Arch-Druidess place Pendergast's corpse among the audience in the church to hide the fact that they killed him. The truth quickly comes out when Zøg tries to hug Pendergast, causing his head to fall off.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Bean gets suspicious the moment Odval suddenly starts acting nice to her.
- Parental Substitute: Played for Laughs, when Derek identifies Odval as "New Daddy" to Zog, his actual dad, but says he prefers the generally neglectful Zog.Odval: I'm not going to lie - that hurts.
- Pocket Protector: The Arch-Druidess shoots Turbish, only for him to survive since he had a giant skillet under his armor.
- Sanity Slippage: His time inside the coffin and underground really made Zøg’s mind go bonkers. He doesn’t even remember the conspiracy against him.
- Shell Game: Derek loses all his money in the Enchanted Forest to a raccoon playing Three-Card Monte. After the fairies help him "man up" he comes back and catches the raccoon's chipmunk accomplices swapping the cards.
- Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Arch-Druidess says that if anyone has any objections to Derek and Sagatha getting married, then they can "clam it", because obviously neither party cares what anyone else thinks.
- Villainous Rescue: Odval knocks off the Arch-Druidess' trajectory with the gun, saving Bean. While his motivations for betraying his former co-conspirator aren't fully clear, it's implied to be to be to throw off suspicion from himself, thus saving his own skin.
- Weirdness Censor: Bean wonders how the people of Dreamland so easily accept that she, Luci, Elfo and Zøg are alive and well despite all of them being declared dead before. A random civilian points out how in Dreamland people have frequently been killed, petrified or otherwise disposed of, only to return no worse for the wear.
- Wish Upon a Shooting Star: After Derek wishes Zøg and Bean’s return a shooting star passes by. It’s actually a falling seagull somehow on fire.
- Witch Hunt: Since the last time Odval saw Bean was her being on a stake, her return and some coincidences make him truly consider the idea of her being a real witch as he spends the rest of the episode finding some proof. The Arch-Druidess mocks him for it, and claims witchcraft accusations are only used to dispose of unwanted people.
