Coconapple
Zorch helps Seismo get a coconapple hanging from a tree.
Coconapple provides examples of...
- Coconapple Meets Cranium: Coconapples have the coconut part on the bottom, so a falling one ends up knocking out Seismo.
- Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: Coconapples. The top half is a Granny Smith apple, the bottom half a brown coconut seed. They grow on trees with brownish leaves and grey pipe-like trunks.
- Fireball Eyeballs: Flain gets some when he's squeezed tight in the lava hot tub with the Seismo/Zorch mix.
- Too Fast to Stop: Seismo when he fuses with Zorch.
Cookironi
Nine first wave Mixels fight over a single cookironi.
Cookironi provides examples of...
- Apple of Discord: In "Cookironi", all the Series 1 Mixels are fighting over the last titular snack, right up until Zorch crushes it by accident. Then they see a Nixel with a box of Cookironis...
- Big Ball of Violence: Happens where the Series 1 Maxes start fighting over the titular snack. Bonus points that their elements were bursting out of said ball.
- Impossibly Delicious Food: Cookironies. They're so addicting that the last one turns into an all-out Max brawl between three of the tribes.
- Megaton Punch: Vulk does this to Shuff.
- Oh, Crap!: The lone Nixel, when the Mixels all begin to chase him for his box of the titular snack.
Hot Lava Shower
Vulk maxes with his Infernite tribemates to fix a clogged lava shower pipe.
Hot Lava Shower provides examples of...
- Distant Reaction Shot: When the lava pipe clog is just about to touch Krader and Teslo, it cuts to outside their habitats, and we hear them getting burnt and screaming in pain.
- Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower: The setup managed to be inverted in the episode. Thanks to the Infernites clearing the pipes of the titular lava shower (which really is a stream of lava treated like water), the clog goes through the pipe system of Mixel Land, superheating both Krader's toilet and Teslo's drinking fountain, making them the ones to scream out from the heat instead.
- Modesty Towel: Vulk wears one in this episode to cover up... nothing? Mixels don't wear clothes in the first place.
- Rump Roast: Befalls Krader thanks to the Infernites Max blowing heat through the water system as soon as he was about to sit on the toilet.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Infernites Max fixing the pipe system by blowing fire through it, burning Krader and Teslo who were also using the water system at the time.
- Traveling-Pipe Bulge: The lava clog, once unclogged, travels throughout the pipe system as a red hot bump in the pipes. When it makes its stops on Krader's toilet and Teslo's water fountain, it causes the items to have the same red color.
Electrock
Krader discovers the Electroid Kingdom during a digging contest.
Electrock provides examples of...
- Shout-Out: When the Cragsters have their digging contest in "Electrorock", they make the sound Pac-Man does when he eats pellets.
Nixels
Flain and Seismo mix to stop some trash-talking Nixels at a lava slide.
Nixels provides examples of...
- Just Shoot Him: Seismo first just opts to kick away the stray Nixel in the beginning. Then, at the end, just steps on the remaining Nixel.
- Oh, Crap!: Flain and Seismo when the nixel Seismo just kicked calls an entire army to his aid.
- Squashed Flat: Happens to the Nixel that bothers Seismo and Flain at the end, after Seismo stomps on it before going to the lava slide alongside Flain. Said Nixel was stuck onto Seismo's foot and kept saying "Nix" a couple of times every step Seismo took.
- Tempting Fate: The Nixel that bothers Flain and Seismo, especially after the entire army was beaten, at the end.
Pothole
Zaptor and Vulk come across a pothole while walking down a sidewalk.
Pothole provides examples of...
- Hypocritical Humor: Zaptor says that potholes are "an unsightly blemish to our beautiful and precious, to-be-protected landscape". Then he and Vulk mix, and destroy said landscape. But at least they fixed the pothole.
- Orphaned Punchline: Starts up the episode...Zaptor: So then, he says "Don't take any wooden Nixels!"
- Orphaned Setup: ...and ends the episode.Zaptor: So, two Mixels and a Nixel walk in a juice bar...
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Zaptor/Vulk mix to completely annihilate the scenery, in an effort to fix a single pothole.
Murp
Flain and Krader try to mix to get across a river to a party, but make a murp every time they try.
Murp provides examples of...
- Merging Mistake: Flain and Krader fuse into a Murp, getting stuck.
- Sudden Downer Ending: Flain and Krader crash Teslo's party when they cross the river.Teslo: Zzzuper lamezzz.
Mailman
Shuff and his Cragster brothers must come up with a plan to get the ceramic Teddy Butterfly that Shuff ordered from the lightning-fast Postman Zorch.
Mailman provides examples of...
- Cry Laughing: Shuff in the end of "Mailman".
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: The Cragsters manage to stop Zorch and get the ceramic statue that Shuff ordered, only for Shuff to accidentally destroy it when he does a touchdown dance with it.
- Shout-Out: When Zorch bounces on the Cragsters, he imitates the popular game of Whac-A-Mole.
Another Nixel
Major Nixel sends his Nixels to get cubits from the Mixels but they continually fail.
Another Nixel provides examples of...
- Surprisingly Happy Ending: One Nixel gets a Cubit... and then Seismo and Zaptor show up for revenge and retrieve it!
Changing a Light Bulb
Teslo teaches the Electroids how to change a light bulb just as disaster strikes...the light bulb breaks.
Changing a Light Bulb provides examples of...
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: Happens to the Electroids. Notable in that when Teslo closes his single eye for a moment, the pupil instead "closes", rather than his eyelids.
- Lightbulb Joke: The set-up for the short.
- Running Gag: This episode introduces the "hamlogna sandwiches".
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Electroids Max blowing out the main lightbulb to the city by feeding too much electricity through the plug outlet.
- Tempting Fate: Volectro gets into this when he asks Teslo in "Changing a Lightbulb"...Volectro: When will we EVER need to know that?*Lightbulb in the room bursts*Teslo: Right now!
Rockball
The Infernites join the Cragsters in their game of Rockball and they accidentally create a new game.
Rockball provides examples of...
- My God, You Are Serious!: The Cragsters' reaction to Flain wanting to join them in playing Rockball.
- Shout-Out: Volectro references Tom's single phrase of spoken dialogue.note
- Tempting Fate: Volectro gets into this when he's sunbathing as the sudden heatwave starts heading his way...Volectro: I'll never get a tan!*Gets violently scorched by heatwave*Don't you believe it!
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