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When his parents gets stuck in a dimension called the Most Dangerous World Imaginable, suburban kid Penn Zero inherits the job of saving his world and other worlds. Penn and his friends Sashi and Boone travel to other dimensions that need help and fight the part-time villain Rippen and his minion Larry.
A preview Christmas episode premiered on December 5, 2014. The show officially premiered on February 13, 2015, with a origin episode set as the penultimate episode of the first season.
Achilles\' Heel: The team\'s immediate reaction to encountering aliens in "Defending the Earth" is to try and figure out what their Weaksauce Weakness is. It turns out they don\'t have one.
Action Dad: Brock Zero, before he got trapped in another dimension.
Action Girl: Sashi, the combat-oriented member of the team.
Action Mom: Vonnie Zero, before she got trapped in another dimension.
Affably Evil: Larry, who\'s friendly and polite even when he\'s not acting as Penn\'s principal.
Affectionate Nickname: Sashi sometimes calls Penn "PZ", while Boone and Penn call her "Sash".
Another Dimension: The general premise of the series is that Penn, Boone and Sashi are sent to various universes to fill in for that universe\'s heroes. Rippen and Larry likewise do double duty for the villains.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In "Baby-Pocalypse", the heroes fight a giant baby Rippen and Larry.
And Show It to You: In a self-inflicted variation Snowman shows his coal heart to Penn\'s team to prove how treacherous he is. This turns out to be a bad idea on his part, as he nearly dies before he can put it back in his chest.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Rippen drains Penn\'s superpowers in "I\'m Super!" he comments that he now has his flying, super strength, and great wink.
The Milkman\'s introduction has him in a black and white commercial from the 50s.
The Sugar Bowl world of "Baby-Pocolypse" is made up of pastel colors and fabric/quilted textures.
The "Cereal Criminals" world is designed to look like a cereal box illustration, with the cartoony brand mascots having thick pencil lines and flat colors while the scenery is textured and realistic.
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: While Rippen usually considers Larry a liability, "Number One, Number Two" has him gradually realize how loyal and important he is, culminating in them hugging at the end of the episode.
In "Baby-Pocalypse", Rippen\'s evil gloating is hit with this due to him being a literal baby.
Boone talks like this whenever he encounters something he considers adorable, such as the baby monster from "3 Big Problems" or the Flurgle from "Flurgle Burgle".
Backstory: There is an episode showing Penn, Sashi, and Boone\'s first mission, though according to the creators
Badass Princess: The princess who Penn zaps in as in "The Princess Most Fair" is a reputed hero, which is why the sorceress trapped her in a tower before kidnapping the Queen (who is confident that her daughter will come save her).
In "North Pole Down", when the snowman tries to impede the heroes\' progress, Penn subdues him by simply reshaping him into a snail.
Since they have no control over what or who the MUT zaps them in as, the heroes sometimes get stuck with forms that are difficult or unpleasant to use.
Batman Gambit: In "Cereal Criminals", Penn offers to give Rippen a good teacher evaluation in exchange for information on how to find the Milkman before 3pm. Rippen agrees to this and goes off on a ridiculously long speech about villainy that seems like it\'s going to lead into something important. However, once the clock strikes three he reveals that there was no point to the speech and that he was only stalling for time. The heroes reply that they had predicted the trick, and had set the clock forward an hour beforehand in preparation for it.
Battle Couple: Brock and Vonnie, both before and after they got trapped in another dimension. Even their voicemail message on the MUHU embodies this.
Vonnie: If you leave a message after the scream, we\'ll get right back to you.
Beard of Evil: Rippen has a goatee that tends to remain constant throughout his transformations.
Bear Hug: At the end of "Hail Larry", Larry (who is in the form of a gigantic demon) hugs Rippen so hard that he ends up nearly destroying his skeletal body. The heroes watch from a safe distance and contemplate the idea going in to save him.
Be Careful What You Wish For: In "The Fast and the Floor Rugs" Rippen decides to use his third wish from Genie Boone to make Penn expire. Boone works around this by turning Penn into a carton of expired milk.
Genie Boone: No, you said "MAKE HIM EXPIRE!"; Check the date, he\'s totally rancid.
Big "NO!": Penn\'s reaction to finding that he\'s turned into Santa Claus upon reaching the North Pole in "North Pole Down", which devolves into ho ho ho\'s.
Blood Knight: Sashi, who resorts to violence at the drop of a hat.
Brainwashed and Crazy: The zombie infectees in "Brainzburgerz" are programmed to force-feed infected food to anyone who isn\'t a zombie yet, usually by incapacitating them first.
Brick Joke: One gag in "Baby-Pocalypse" has Sashi throwing a spear at a presumably non-sentient rubber duck, puncturing it and causing it to sink. Several scenes later the team visits a local hospital to get Penn\'s arm re-attached to his body and Sashi ends up sitting next to the very same duck, who is now wrapped in bandages and glaring at her.
The Cameo: Bruce Valanch appears to have been captured by aliens in "Defending the Earth" for no real rhyme or reason.
Card-Carrying Villain: Rippen, who wants to become a full-time villain.
Catapult to Glory: Used during the Storming the Castle mission at the start of "North Pole Down". Sashi\'s the ammo.
Catastrophic Countdown: "Flurgle Burgle" has what appears to be this (much to the heroes\' shock), but turns out to be just the microwave counting down to when the popcorn is done.
Cavalier Competitor: Alex, the student Penn competes against in his school\'s presidential election, enjoys Penn\'s campaign speech and even votes for him later on, much to Penn\'s annoyance.
Alex: I voted for you buddy! I believe it\'s wrong to vote for yourself.
Cereal Induced Superpowers: Parodied in "Cereal Criminals", where Boone becomes stronger and faster after eating Kale Flakes.
Chekhov\'s Gag: Sashi and Penn highfive early on in "Chicken or Fish?", causing a minor shockwave because of the thick webbing between their fingers. They later use this trick to knock Rippen away when he captures them.
Chekhov\'s Gun: Near the start of "The Old Old West", Sheriff Scaley Briggs calms a dinosaur down by jingling a set of keys at it. He later uses this trick to sic a herd of velociraptors on Rippen.
Cheshire Cat Grin: After Principal Larry announces that the students get to fill out teacher evaluation forms the camera cuts to Penn walking into the theater with an eerily large grin on his face.
Penn: This, Phyllis, is a smile. And I have one because I\'m about to obliterate Rippen on his teacher evaluation.
Christmas Episode: "North Pole Down", the sneak preview episode of the series.
Combat Pragmatist: All three heroes. Penn tricks people during fights, Sashi uses below-the-belt attacks, and Boone once picked up and used two random students as a makeshift shield.
Continuity Cavalcade: The intergalactic gameshow in "Defenders of Earth" featured several alien species that were seen in previous episodes and worlds.
The Corrupter: Professor Evil Professor\'s gimmick is turning heroes evil through a combination of mind control and manipulation.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: In "Brainzburgerz" Rippen plays the role of the owner of the titular fast food chain, with his plan being to use the burgers to turn the world into zombies.
Crush Filter: Penn and then Boone immediately have matching Imagine Spots of "That Purple Girl".
The Cuckoolander Was Right: The island president in "3 Big Problems" desperately wants to believe that the neighboring monsters are friendly and tries to make excuses for their various misdeeds. The excuses are all nonsense, but she\'s completely right about the attacks being accidental.
A Day in the Limelight: "Number One, Number Two" focuses on Rippen.
Dartboard of Hate: In "Number One, Number Two", at Rippen\'s hideout one of his henchmen throws several knives at a poster of Penn, then another throws an axe at it.
Demoted to Dragon: Rippen in "I\'m Still Super!".
Department of Redundancy Department: Captain Super Captain and Professor Evil Professor.
Dodgeball Is Hell: A Middleburg class is seen playing dodgeball at the start of "3 Big Problems". The hero trio play the game like it\'s a deathmatch much to the chagrin of the other students, who can\'t even begin to keep up with them.
Domesticated Dinosaurs: In a cowboy world, they replace what would normally be considered native to such a setting.
Dynamic Entry: Penn and Sashi use the suspenders of Penn\'s clown outfit to fling Sashi towards Rippen\'s Doomsday Device at the end of "Chuckle City".
Epic Fail: At the end of the gang\'s song while they\'re imprisoned in "North Pole Down", they try to open their cage with a candy cane, only for it to break off in the lock.
Establishing Character Moment: Penn, Boone, and Sashi each get one in "North Pole Down". Penn restores a fairy tale dimension by using a shield as a surfboard, Sashi beats up a stuffed reindeer and rips out its eyes, and Boone makes up a story that ends with puppies getting mutated into monsters.
Every Car Is a Pinto: Parodied in "Chuckle City", Penn and Sashi\'s clown police cruiser falls off a cliff and upon hitting the ground sticks out a flag reading "Kaboom!".
Everybody Laughs Ending: The end of "Balls!". Subverted by Penn, Boone and Sashi stopping before the episode ends, looking at each other awkwardly.
Evil All Along: The snowman that guides the heroes to Rippen in "North Pole Down".
Eviler Than Thou: Professor Evil Professor to Rippen in "I\'m Still Super!".
Evil Only Has to Win Once: Rippen only needs to win one mission to become a full-time villain and rule over his conquest permanently.
Whenever he\'s not teaching art class, Rippen is a part-time villain (who aspires to be a full-time one).
Larry is both the the principal of Penn\'s school and Rippen\'s minion. He\'s not very evil in either capacity, though.
Exact Words: Literal Genie!Boone uses this a lot when he\'s captured by Rippen.
Expository Theme Tune: The opening credits transition from Penn giving an Opening Narration into this in spoken word.
In "North Pole Down" Sashi gives Penn a thumbs-up and a nod to indicate that she\'s ready for her part in their Catapult to Glory plan.
In "Chicken or Fish?" they do this seconds before they perform a shockwave high-five.
Family Business: Both Penn and Boone\'s parents are part-time heroes, and the boys are following their footsteps.
Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: In "Hail Larry", Phyllis is wearing a face mask that looks identical to her regular face, including her goggles. This is more justified than some in that she was using a blow torch near her face at the time.
Fastball Special: Rippen throws Larry at the heroes in "Temple of the Porcelain God".
Faux Affably Evil: The Milkman in "Cereal Criminals", who is almost always smiling and ends most of his sentences with "friend".
Fisher Kingdom: The heroes and villains shapeshift whenever they travel between dimensions. The change is either a costume switch or turning into a different body entirely.
Flying Brick: Penn\'s power set in "I\'m Super!". He has flight, Super Strength and Nigh-Invulnerability, with Heat Vision and a great wink to boot.
Full-Name Basis: Rippen usually refers to Penn by his full name, though there are occasions where he uses his first name or "my dear boy" instead.
Gender Bender: In the episode "The Princess Most Fair" the main cast get hit by this because of the forms assigned by the MUT (Penn is a princess, Boone is a fairy godmother, Sashi is a knight, Rippen is an evil sorceress and Larry is a female magic mirror).
Genie in a Bottle: Boone becomes one of these in "The Fast and the Floor Rugs". He
to grant wishes to whoever\'s holding the lamp, but he doesn\'t have to be benevolent about it.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: In a more literal example, a man is revealed after barrels are broken in the Cowboy dimension. He\'s facing the wall in a pose that suggests he might\'ve been peeing there.
Goggles Do Something Unusual: Sashi\'s glasses, also known by the gang as the Specs, show off holograms detailing the specifics of their missions. Larry\'s glasses have a similar role.
In "The Old Old West" the gang get zapped in as ordinary citizens and are expected to stop a bank robbery. Penn is surprised by this.
Penn: I\'m not the sheriff? Huh. Really thought I\'d be the sheriff.
Boone: Hey, at least you got chaps. All I got is a stethoscope and a bag of leeches.
"Brainzburgerz" features Penn getting zapped in as a fast food employee who\'s supposed to find and deliver a cure that will stop the ongoing Zombie Apocalypse. When Penn wonders why the MUT selected such an ordinary person for such an extraordinary task Boone theorizes that it\'s because the world runs on movie logic, and zombie movies usually feature everyman protagonists who rise up and save the day despite the odds being stacked against them.
Hey, You!: Rippen generally avoids using Sashi and Boone\'s names and instead refers to them by titles such as "the sidekick" and "the buffoon".
Holding Both Sides of the Conversation: While going undercover as Rippen\'s sidekick Penn is forced to banter with the "real" Penn; he accomplishes this by moving back and forth between locations and yelling insults at himself in two different voices.
Hook Hand: Crossbow, the villain Rippen acts as in "Number One, Number Two", is named after the crossbow he\'s replaced his left hand with. It\'s smaller and lighter than an ordinary one but also gives him deadlier accuracy.
Horse of a Different Color: "The Old Old West" takes place in a world that has dinosaurs instead of horses.
How We Got Here: "Temple of the Porcelain God" opens on Penn about to be eaten by a giant toilet, then rewinds back to the beginning of the mission.
Human Traffic Jam: "Chicken or Fish?" starts with the team running to the theater. Penn screeches to a halt once he reaches the front doors, resulting in Sashi bumping into him and then Boone crashing into them both.
Hurl It into the Sun: In "3 Big Problems" Phyllis mistakes Penn\'s dodgeball welts for a dangerous disease and attempts to do this to him in order to save everyone else.
The Infiltration: Penn disguises himself and goes undercover as Rippen\'s new minion in "Number One, Number Two".
In Medias Res: "Temple of the Porcelain God" takes place after the mission, with Phyllis reviewing the team\'s performance on the movie screen. Footage of the mission is played, then the storyline continues onward from the present situation.
Instant Expert: Subverted in "The Old Old West", where the heroes\' first attempt at dinosaur riding fails spectacularly.
Interdimensional Travel Device: The Multi-Universe Transprojector (or MUT) is the machine inside an abandoned theater that the heroes use to zap into different dimensions. The villains\' equivalent is in the Fishstick on a Stick restaurant next to the theater.
Ironic Echo: Invoked by Sashi to tease Penn about his "save anyone in need" policy as they watch Rippen get an overenthusiastic Bear Hug from Larry.
Sashi: Someone once told me that a hero saves
I Taste Delicious: When Rippen and Larry are turned into gingerbread men in "North Pole Down", Larry can\'t resist eating himself.
Rippen: Larry, stop that. People are staring.
Larry: I can\'t help it, I have so many flavors!
Jackass Genie: Genie!Boone acts like this towards Rippen in "The Fast and the Floor Rugs", even tricking him into changing the wording of his wishes in order to screw him over better.
Kaiju: In "3 Big Problems" the heroes zap in as a group of giant Non-Malicious Monsters who have to convince the terrified human locals of a nearby city that they don\'t mean any harm before the military attempts a Macross Missile Massacre.
Penn zaps in as one on an Excalibur in the Stone quest in "North Pole Down".
Sashi zaps in as a knight who\'s trying to help a princess escape from a tower in "The Princess Most Fair".
The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: "North Pole Down" has Rippen pull this trope on himself:
Rippen: Candy weapons loaded, check! Back entrance secured, check! Penn Zero and his team sneaking in to defeat me, check! Wait, what did I say!?
Le Parkour: Frequently utilized by Sashi and Penn. Sashi occasionally uses Combat Parkour as well.
Lethal Chef: Penn and Boone; what would simply be a Heartwarming Moment at the end of "Flurgle Burgle" also becomes a Funny Moment, as their cake for Sashi obviously tastes terrible but she pretends to like it.
Penn really likes the mermaid-esque form he gets in "Chicken or Fish?", and spends a good part of the mission briefing simply swimming around and performing tricks.
"Balls!" has the trio zapped in as three types of sports balls. Boone and Sashi are both unhappy about having to use a form with no limbs, while Penn is just amused by how bouyant his tennis ball form is.
Living a Double Life: Unlike Penn and Boone, Sashi doesn\'t have part-time heroes for parents. She tells them she works at Fishstick on a Stick.
Long Speech Tea Time: At one point during Rippen\'s speech about villainy in "Cereal Criminals", the camera cuts to Boone and Sashi sitting on the floor while Sashi fires her gun at nothing.
Mid-Battle Tea Break: Just as they\'re about to battle in "I\'m Super!" Rippen and Penn get sidetracked by the strange insignia on Penn\'s chest.
Rippen: What is that? An eight? Stack of two donuts?
Penn: You know, I don\'t know. Could be a snowman, I guess?
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Often, primarily when its funnier than having them act normally. Lampshaded by Sashi in "The Fast and the Floor Rugs", where after giving Penn a speech about letting people be themselves while in the body of a monkey, she suddenly starts picking flies out of his hair and then chases after one that gets away.
Sashi: Yes, I am. Because I\'m me, and today that\'s a monkey.
Minion with an F in Evil: Principal Larry. This becomes a plot point in "Number One, Number Two", where Rippen decides to replace Larry to increase his chances of winning against the heroes.
Rippen: It\'s nothing personal, you\'re just a really
Mood Whiplash: "I\'m Still Super!" starts off action-packed but lighthearted and stays that way until Penn is forced to decide whether or not he\'s willing to actually
Morphic Resonance: The characters all tend to retain certain traits, no matter how extreme their transformations are. For example, Larry and Sashi always keep their glasses, Rippen usually keeps his Beard of Evil, etc.
Musical Episode: "The Princess Most Fair", which takes place in a
-esque world that forces everyone to sing when speaking.
In "Chicken or Fish", thanks to Boone\'s fear of water preventing him from joining the battle.
In "Hail Larry", because Penn took pity on Larry, Larry as the Overlord nearly unleashes evil on the world.
Never Say "Die": Exploited by Genie!Boone in "The Fast and the Floor Rugs", when he uses Rippen\'s word choice (expire) to turn Penn into expired milk instead of killing him.
Never Trust a Trailer: The promo for "The Princess Most Fair" and "Hail Larry" convinced viewers that both episodes would be musicals, forming a "musical event". However, the latter did not have any singing.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Larry temporarily replaces Rippen as part-time villain during the "Hail Larry" mission and would have won if not for Rippen zapping in at the last minute and sabotaging the mission because he didn\'t want Larry to become a full-time villain instead of him.
Non-Action Guy: Boone has fewer combat skills than Sashi and Penn. The MUT usually compensates for this by giving him Squishy Wizard forms.
Non-Lethal Warfare: Played with. The heroes have apparently killed non-human entities in the past, but they always strive to find non-lethal ways to defeat Rippen. This ends up becoming a plot point in "I\'m Still Super!", where the Professor challenges Penn to kill Rippen in exchange for Boone and Sashi\'s lives.
Noodle Incident: Penn occasionally mentions a mission that involved vampires being set on fire. Rippen appears to have a related photo in his scrapbook.
Not Helping Your Case: In "3 Big Problems", Penn is a Not Zilla whose mission is to convince humans that monsters are not dangerous. Unfortunately, he breathes fire everytime he speaks, and every step he takes ends up causing more destruction.
"Defenders of Earth" has both the heroes and villains getting abducted by a third party mid-battle, which Penn initially assumes is just Rippen\'s plan taking a strange turn.
Penn is surprised to find that the bad guy in "Cereal Criminals" is not Rippen, who is instead the bad guy\'s former cellmate.
The villain in "I\'m Still Super!" is Professor Evil Professor, while Rippen is The Dragon. Professor even betrays Rippen, which leads Rippen to help the heroes.
Number Two for Brains: Larry is often the cause of Rippen\'s failures, which is lampshaded and discussed in the aptly named "Number One, Number Two".
Oh, Crap: Aquaphobic Boone\'s reaction to finding out he\'s about to enter an ocean world.
Once per Episode: The Wilhelm Scream is present in every episode. Sometimes it\'s even disguised as an entirely different sound.
Opera Gloves: Both Penn and Rippen wear these in "The Princess Most Fair". Penn\'s gloves are white and are part of his princess regalia while Rippen\'s are black and are used to accent his Vain Sorceress look.
Ordinary High-School Student: Outside of his hero duties, Penn, Boone and Sashi are your basic average high school classmates.
Our Zombies Are Different: They\'re alive and are infected from eating tainted burgers.
Out of the Frying Pan: "Brainzburgerz" has the heroes escape a zombie-infested mall, only to discover that there are even more zombies outside.
Part-Time Hero: It\'s in the title, and it\'s what Penn and friends do in many different dimensions, taking the place of local heroes to fight against evil. Rippen and Larry invert this, taking the place of the villains.
Pen-Pushing President: Penn zaps in as one in "Defending the Earth".
Penn: Invite the French president over for game night?
Sashi: You sign bills from the legistrative branch into law.
Perspective Flip: "Number One, Number Two" shows a typical mission from Rippen\'s side.
"Brainzburgerz" has one of the zombie-turning burgers ricocheting inside Rippen\'s helicopter, reaching the cockpit and landing in Larry\'s mouth.
In "Flurge Blurgle", a shot reflected off Penn\'s collar ricochets around and breaks both Sashi and Boone\'s handcuffs and shackles.
In "3 Big Problems", during a game of dodgeball, Sashi returns Boone\'s serve so that it ricochets and hits Boone from behind, leaving him confused as to who hit him.
Pin-Pulling Teeth: Sashi does this with a pantomimed grenade in "Chuckle City".
The resolution of the Love Triangle plot in "That Purple Girl".
Boone: It turned you into a raging jerkface, but that\'s okay. I forgive you... because I love you.
Boone utilizes a more poetic version in "3 Big Problems".
Boone: Tell my best friend I love him.
Platonic Life Partners: The main trio are portrayed this way, aside from the occasional Ship Tease. Their affection for each other is very obvious and it\'s rare to see them apart from each other; "North Pole Down" establishes that Boone and Sashi usually visit Penn\'s house before he even wakes up and that the rest of Penn\'s family treat them like they\'re part of the household.
Powered Armor: Rippen\'s mech in "I\'m Super!"
Power Parasite: Larry\'s "I\'m Super!" form is a parasitic entity that can drain the powers of the heroes and feed them to Rippen.
Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Sashi can see just fine without her glasses. They
allow her to find out what their missions are though.
Reactive Continuous Scream: Between Sashi, Penn, Boone, and the snowman\'s head they find in a gift box in "North Pole Down".
Red Baron: The giant demon Larry zaps in as during his stint as a part-time villain is only referred to as "The Overlord".
Requisite Royal Regalia: Penn\'s princess form in "The Princess Most Fair" comes with a Pimped-Out Dress, Opera Gloves, and a fancy tiara.
Boone: Brainzburgerz, they\'re good for you! Brainzburgerz, for you and you and you!
Penn: You can\'t just keep rhyming "you" with "you".
Rule of Funny: What the clown town in "Chuckle City" runs on.
Rule of Three: In "3 Big Problems", one of the missiles that Rippen launches at the heroes crushes three buildings, the third of which is named "Rule of 3".
Sashi getting poor transformations compared to Penn and Boone, although this is occasionally averted, and in "Cereal Criminals" it happens to Boone instead (he\'s turned into the mascot for a kale-based cereal).
At the climax of "North Pole Down", Rippen threatens to drop Penn\'s MUHU (the device he uses to communicate with his parents) unless he stops the sleigh carrying the toys, but ultimately Penn decides that saving Christmas is more important.
In "I\'m Still Super!" Rippen captures Boone and Sashi and tells Penn that he can save one and the other will be destroyed, then Professor Evil Professor offers Penn a third option: If he destroys Rippen, both of them will go free.
Sarcastic Clapping: Rippen tries to pull this off in "Flurgle Burgle" but Larry ruins it.
In "Hail Larry" the heroes decide let Larry have a Near Villain Victory so that his mutinous skeleton henchman won\'t kill him.
Penn rejects the Professor\'s offer to let him kill Rippen in exchange for Boone and Sashi\'s lives in "I\'m Still Super!". Rippen returns the favor by intentionally pressing the wrong button on the Death Trap\'s control panel.
Sequel Episode: "I\'m Still Super!" to "I\'m Super!"
Vonnie: I never thought a tennis ball could be so handsome!
Brock: He doesnt want to hear that from his mother. Sashi, tell Penn he looks good.
Shockwave Clap: In "Chicken or Fish?" both Penn and Sashi\'s merfolk forms have thick webbing between their fingers, allowing them to produce a shockwave by high-fiving.
, complete with them finding a severed head in a box. Granted, it\'s a still-living snowman head, but still.
"Baby-Pocalypse" parodies the Death Star assault from
with Boone as Luke Skywalker and Sashi as his flight controller.
Sashi: Boone, you switched off your targeting computer. What\'s wrong?
The universe "That Purple Girl" takes place in is pretty much right out of
. Additionally, tainted fast food is what caused the apocalypse in
Penn\'s outfit as Rippen\'s minion in "Number One, Number Two" bears a resemblance to Westley from
In "Number One, Number Two" Rippen selects a new minion by giving them a red arrow, a reference to the rose ceremony in
Rippen\'s Crossbow outfit is based on Robin Hood\'s.
In "Chuckle City" Rippen\'s outfit looks like that of The Joker.
Rippen\'s cell in "Cereal Criminals" is similar to Hannibal Lecter\'s. His role in the episode is also the same as Lecter\'s, an incarcerated criminal who provides information on the main villain.
In "I\'m Still Super!" Rippen destroys a bridge and quips, "Is this a bridge too far?"
"The Princess Most Fair" alludes to several
During his incarceration in "Cereal Criminals" Rippen\'s serial number is 24602, a reference to prisoner 24601 (AKA Jean Valjean) of
Skeletons in the Coat Closet: The alien villagers in "That Purple Girl" use small skulls and bones as hair ornaments and fastening pins.
Smarter Than You Look: Boone may act like a Cloudcuckoolander, but in "The Fast and the Floor Rugs" he was able to trick Rippen into using the word "expire" instead of "annihilate" when wishing for Penn to be destroyed (allowing Boone to turn Penn into a carton of milk that was past its expiration date instead of killing him). He was also the one that realized that Penn had to be in a Christmas-like environment to get his Santa powers to work in "North Pole Down".
Starfish Aliens: The Flurgle, which is described as a "space dog-pig".
Stock Scream: The Wilhelm Scream makes an appearance at least Once per Episode.
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: During Sashi\'s part of the Christmas song, the previous lyric of "I won\'t be trapped by cages, bars, or walls!" is rhymed with "I\'ll fight them, punch them, kick them in the... knees."
Teens Are Short: Averted. Rippen may tower over the heroes but most adults are around the same height as Penn.
Teleporter Accident: In "Flurgle Burgle" Penn gets merged with the Flurgle when they teleport down to the alien planet.
When the heroes are turned into stuffed animals in "Baby-Pocalypse", Penn comments that they can\'t get hurt, only for Boone to accidentally rip Penn\'s arm off when they high-five as a result of Boone\'s palms being covered in Velcro.
In "Brainzburgerz" the kids are hanging from a banner in the mall and Penn assumes they\'re safe because zombies can\'t untie knots. Cue zombie sailor.
The polite but malicious Milkman refers to everyone as "friend", the frequency of which increases if his opponent is being particularly troublesome.
Rippen occasionally calls Penn "my boy" or "dear boy", with mock sincerity. At one point Penn returns the favor by calling him "Old Rip".
The Magnificent: "Defending the Earth" features an alien general called "Ugthar the Ugly".
Theme Twin Naming: Captain Super Captain\'s twin brother is a villain named Professor Evil Professor.
Theory of Narrative Causality: A recurring plot element. Our heroes are literally projecting into alternate dimensions through a movie screen and these dimensions tend to run on movie logic. They\'re often Genre Savvy enough to discuss, invoke and exploit the tropes of each universe\'s logic.
Today X, Tomorrow the World!: Rippen\'s plan in "I\'m Super!"
Larry: The entire world? By tomorrow? I\'d give myself at least a week. It took that long just to remodel my kitchen! And I was working on that thing 24/7.
Training the Peaceful Villagers: This is Penn\'s mission in "Balls!", teaching a world of living balls to defend themselves from evil sports equipment.
Trapped in Another World: Penn\'s parents are trapped in an extremely dangerous dimension and can only communicate with their son via the MUHU, a small hologram-projecting device that Penn keeps with him at all times.
Unmoving Plaid: Most notably on Penn\'s hair.
Villain Episode: "Number One, Number Two" focuses mainly on Rippen deciding that Larry is holding him back and trying to find a replacement for him.
Villainous Friendship: Larry wants to be Rippen\'s best friend; according to co-creator Jared Bush, Rippen secretly likes having Larry around as well.
Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: Although it\'s more that Penn and his friends save multiple other worlds instead of their own.
Wall Run: "Temple of the Porcelain God" has Sashi pulling off a less gravity-defying variation by running
When Boone nearly gets the team killed in "The Fast and the Floor Rugs" (because he was too busy being entertained by his genie powers to help out properly) Penn loses his temper and chews him out for his irresponsible behavior.
At the start of "Flurgle Burgle" Sashi shoots the Flurgle in a fit of annoyance, knocking it into Penn\'s teleportation pod and causing a Merging Machine accident that nearly jeopardizes the entire mission. When she complains about this incident later on Boone is quick to remind her whose fault it was.
In "Temple of the Porcelain God" the heroes assume this trope is the reason that Phyllis is showing them clips of their last mission, so they spend the entirety of the episode pointing out the various minor mistakes they made in the hopes that Phyllis will allow them to leave. In the end Phyllis reveals that she just wanted to tell them that it was their best mission yet (and that she secretly left the theater and ate Boone\'s mom\'s meatloaf while they were watching the aforementioned clips).
Weapon Twirling: Invoked in "Number One, Number Two", where one of the contests requires the competitors to pull this off with two weapons instead of one.
Zombie Apocalypse: "Brainzburgerz" features a dimension that\'s in the midst of one of these. The zombies in question are people who have been infected by special burgers from a popular fast food chain, the owner of which is planning to perform a takeover once enough people are infected.
The 7D Creator/Walt Disney Television Animation Miles From Tomorrowland
The Penguins of Madagascar Western Animation Penny Crayon
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