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Recap / Tuca And Bertie S 1 E 04 The Sex Bugs

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Bertie doesn't want to give a presentation at work, so she accompanies Tuca to the store to buy a treatment for the latter's "sex bugs".


This episode provides examples of:

  • Art Shift: Tuca's flashback of how she got her sex bugs is illustrated through a deliberately terrible puppet show (you can even see the puppeteer's head!).
  • Conspicuous Trenchcoat: During the trial, one of the jurors is a Sex Bug wearing this as a disguise. Once the case is dismissed, said Sex Bug quickly sheds it to join the celebration.
  • Courtroom Episode: The episode turns into one inside the grocery store when Tuca demands a trial for the Sex Bugs.
  • Description Cut: In one scene, Bertie laments that everything at work is falling apart without her. Cut to work, her boss happily informs the board room that they're just going to watch a movie in her absence, much to everyone's delight.
  • Disgusting Public Toilet: Tuca's reasoning for relieving herself in a (toilet-shaped) bush.
    Tuca: What? It's cleaner than most public restrooms, don't judge!
  • Disney Acid Sequence: Bertie's song "I'm Losing My Shit".
  • Expy: Judge Sparrow is clearly one of Judge Judy.
  • Flat "What": Bertie's reaction to the sight of the Sex Bugs throwing a party on Tuca's groin.
  • Foreshadowing: In the beginning of the episode, Tuca is constantly scratching at her privates. She then eventually reveals that she has the Sex Bugs.
  • Grocery Store Episode: A majority of this episode takes place at a grocery store.
  • I Never Said It Was Poison: Spoofed when Tuca is instantly suspicious when Bertie mentions details about the Sex Bugs that are clearly visible on the billboard right behind the former.
  • I Resemble That Remark!: When Speckle asks if Bertie's having a pre-panic attack and is about to spin out over something small, Bertie immediately spins around just as she says she doesn't do that.
  • Ironic Echo Cut: When Bertie wins the case, she wishes that "Speckle could've seen this". We then cut over to Speckle getting an award at work, who then says that he wishes "Bertie could've seen this".
  • Lyrical Dissonance: "I'm Losing My Shit," a sweeping, Broadway-style musical number about how much it sucks to have an anxiety attack in public.
  • Mediation Backfire: Two squabbling birds smash their grocery carts together when arguing over smoothies. When a worker interrupts them to claim that smoothies aren't food, the birds promptly start smashing him with their carts. (The man is later seen in casts and a wheelchair.)
  • Nature Tinkling: Tuca relieves herself on a bush, which is how she catches the sex bugs.
  • Non-Mammal Mammaries: Both the male and female sex bugs have nipples.
  • Painting the Medium: Tuca literally rips a part of the scene to reveal "a case of The Berties".
  • The Perry Mason Method: Bertie interrogates the grocery store janitor by barraging him with confusing questions about Sex Bug medication until he randomly blurts out that he's cheating on his wife.
    Bertie: If he can't be faithful to his wife, then how can we expect Tuca to be faithful to these instructions?
    Juror 1: Oh! She connected two unrelated things!
    Juror 2: It must be true!
  • Playing Sick: Bertie is too nervous to give a big presentation at work, so she fakes being sick so she can take the day off.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Lampshaded when Tuca says that you can tell that Athena is the smart one from the latter's glasses. This seems to be an Informed Ability, since Athena acts just as wild and sex-crazed as the other Sex Bugs despite wearing glasses.
  • Toilet Paper Substitute: Tuca catches the Sex Bugs through cleaning herself off with the very same bush that she peed in.
    Bertie: Tuca!
    Tuca: What? I had to wipe with somethin', don't judge!
  • Written Sound Effect: Tuca caws so loudly at Bruce that the sound effect knocks him right out of the frame.

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