Recap / HTF Mole In The City

• Balloonacy: After The Mole jumps out a window, the glass shards kill a balloon vendor, causing him to release the bunch of balloons he was about to give a kid. The balloons float up to The Mole, who grabs them to avoid falling to his death. When The Mole gives the balloons to the kid after landing, the kids starts floating into the air instead.
• Brick Joke: After The Mole jumps out a window and uses a bunch of balloons to land safely, he hands them to a nearby pig child, who floats into the air. Later, when the episode cuts to a wide shot when The Rat's hamster ball flies into the air, the pig child can be seen still rising with his balloons.
• Cane Fu: When The Mole notices The Rat coming to steal his suitcase, he takes out his cane and does some neat twirls with it, clearly ready for this trope. Unfortunately, since he's blind, he's facing the wrong direction, and The Rat just grabs the suitcase and leaves.
• Delayed Causality: The balloon vendor unlucky enough to get hit by the glass shards from The Mole's exit through the window. First his hat breaks into pieces, then the vendor himself falls apart in front of the kid he's giving balloons to.
• Determinator: The Rat is determined to get The Mole's suitcase, so much so that he pulls himself towards it even when his midsection is stuck in a giant mouse trap, pulling out his spine and his organs as he's dragging himself forward.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: The Mole has one hidden inside his cane that he uses to grab on to The Rat's hamster ball when the latter tries to flee with the suitcase they're both after.
• Mouse Trap: After The Mole grapples onto The Rat's hamster ball to get back the briefcase they're both after, the two end up flying into a mouse trap factory. The Rat ends up with one clamped around his nose and a much larger one clamped around his midsection.
• Pinball Projectile: Not done with an actual projectile, but still the same basic idea. When The Mole tries to fire his grappling hook at the escaping Rat, it hits a streetlight instead and bounces all over the place before finally attaching itself to The Rat's hamster ball.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Rat, The Mole's enemy spy, has bright red eyes.
• Reflective Eyes: When The Rat confronts The Mole, he's reflected in The Mole's sunglasses when The Mole "sees" him.
• Replaced with Replica: While The Rat is passed out in the mouse trap factory, The Mole replaces the suitcase with the camera with photos of important files (or so they think) they're both after with one containing a number of his mole bombs, blowing The Rat up when he opens the suitcase.
• Shoe Phone: The Mole has a grappling hook in his cane.
• Sphere Factor: The Rat, appropriately enough for his species, uses a giant hamster ball for transportation.
• Super Window Jump: The Mole escapes this way after triggering an alarm. Being blind, he runs into the wall next to the window on his first attempt.
• Twitchy Eye: The Rat gets one right before he dies when he realises that he pulled his body in two, the halves connected only by his spinal cord, just so he could reach a suitcase filled with bombs ready to blow up.
• Uncertain Doom: The episode ends with The Mole putting one of his mole bombs on his cheek, which starts blinking. Cue credits.
• Unflinching Walk: The Mole does this while the suitcase full of bombs he left blows up the mouse trap factory, and The Rat with it.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: The Rat has this reaction when he sees the explosive present The Mole left in the suitcase the two were fighting over while he was passed out.
• You Dirty Rat!: The Mole's rival agent is a rat, and his red eyes, evil laughing, and The Mole's usual depiction as a Nice Guy indicate that The Rat is probably the antagonist in this story.

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