Earthworm Jim (animation): Difference between revisions

** Later, Jim tries the Eye of Truth again, this time on Psycrow. Psycrow is unaffected and throws an anvil on top of him.

** Also in "Book of Doom", when Peter makes a [[Unusual Euphemism|highly]] inappropriate comment about the tape player and Jim is about to snatch it out of his hands.

* [[Description Porn]]: "Professor Monkey-For-a-Head's patented Reducing Cream, in lotion or ointment form".

* [[Determinator]]: Jim in general counts for this, but especially when he's trying to win the Princess' affections.

** Comes complete with [[Evolutionary Levels]]; Bob goes from a goldfish to a giant lungfish to a T-rex to a human to a human with a giant skull-piercing brain, super-intelligence & psychic powers and finally ends up a goldfish again.

* [[Expository Theme Song]]: "Earthworm Jim! Through soil he did crawl / Earthworm Jim! A super suit did fall ..."

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Psy-Crow and ([[Lean And Mean|in terms of large her butt is]]) Queen Slug-For-a-Butt.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Princess What's-Her-Name.

* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]: Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head capture Jim at one point by threatening the narrator.

{{quote|'''Jim:''' ''NO ONE'' touches my Fuzzy Wuzzy!}}

** Not to mention this line from ''Upholstered Peril'':

* [[Giant Foot of Stomping]]: One of Psy-Crow's feet becomes one of these at the end of ''The Book of Doom'''s intro (due to Jim and Peter being bug-sized).

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Bob has this happen to him on numerous occasions, especially in the mid-intervals. Two of the more notable examples are when he finally manages to make his fishy minions intelligent enough to understand him by mutating them to have giant brains (they become intelligent enough to realise he is a dangerous megalomaniac who must be destroyed and blast him with psychic powers) and when he tries giving them an actual demonstration of what he means by destroying things (a bigger fish leaps out and starts beating him up).

** The episode "Exile of Lucy" has Queen Slug-For-A-Butt dethroned by her henchmen for having no compassion for others. She is exiled to earth where she makes friends with Jim's [[Nosy Neighbor]] and returns, having learned her lesson about friendship, only to kick her henchman off the throne herself.

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: The Orb of Quite Remarkable Power.

* [[Gross-Out Show]]: Surprisingly averted (for the most part) despite the original ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'' being a Gross-Out Game.

* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Subverted. Professor Monkey-For-A-Head can replicate the super suit at will. It's just that he can't power the damn thing without another [[Forged by the Gods|Battery Of The Gods]] and when he went to them to try and get a new one, they turned him into a bread maker.

* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: [[Dan Castellaneta]]'s interpretation of Jim lacks the thick southern drawl of his games counterpart, replacing it with a cliched [[Large Ham|hammy]] superhero dialect.

* [[Odd Job Gods]]: When Jim goes to get a replacement for the Battery of the Gods, he meets the God of Puns, the Goddess of Disco, and the God of Nasal Discharge.

* [[Once Per Episode]]: Peter Puppy eats haggis, the one food that he doesn't like, and states verbatim that it is "[[Foreign Queasine|the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach]]." The origin being that he loved haggis until finding out what it really is.

'''Snott:''' (unintelligible noises)

'''Peter:''' Yes, Snott; [[Captain Obvious|my delicate psyche '''has''' come horribly un'''glued!''']]}}

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: [[Averted]], in that Jim keeps insisting that Princess Whats-Her-Name is so '''[[Everyone Can See It|obviously]]''' his girlfriend... except nobody, not even '''''[[Oblivious to Love|the Princess]]''''' knows what he's talking about.

* [[Shout-Out]]: To, of all things, [[Dune]] and [[Pulp Fiction]].

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene|Walking Partially Shirtless and Barefoot Scene]]: Peter Puppy.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Apparently condiment theft is a truly atrocious crime in the Earthworm Jim universe.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: ''Everything'' for the Planet of Easily Frightened People.

{{quote|"Ahhhh, something green! Ahhhh, something not green!"}}