Trivia[]
- The Cursed Idol is among the items that Lifty and Shifty steal at the beginning of the episode.
- This is the first episode in which a character has (momentarily) defeated and humiliated Splendid.
- This episode marks the first instance of Splendid intentionally killing other characters.
- This is the first and only episode where Splendid's death isn't caused by a main character.
- Technically, Splendid is responsible for his own death by trying to hold in his vomit.
- This is the second and last episode where Splendid dies, the first being Class Act, and his first on screen demise.
- This episode also marks Splendid's slowest, most painful and torturous death to date.
- Splendid vomits up some of his organs (including his heart and kidney) as well.
- This is one of the few episodes where Pop is missing his pipe for the entirety of the episode.
- This is Splendid’s most famous starring role.
- This is the first instance of Shifty and Lifty kidnapping or taking hostage a major character to rob them or to get some benefit from them. The second instance is in Swelter Skelter, where they kidnap Cro-Marmot.
- The YouTube thumbnail for Part 2 spoils Splendid during death.
- This is the only one of Lifty and Shifty's TV starring roles where they both die in the same manner.
- This is the only episode where Splendid stars and dies.
- Some old assets appear in this episode.
- This is one of the times where a character gets a nose injury.
- Lifty and Shifty's voices are lower pitched up until they run from the eye beams.
Cultural References[]
- The title of this episode is a play on the phrase "Them's the breaks", which is an American/Australian slang for "That's just how it is", or "That's the way the cookie crumbles".
- The moral means that a situation where a person is under pressure gives them a chance to demonstrate their potential.
- Splendid's weakness, kryptonut, is an obvious spoof of or reference to Superman's weakness kryptonite.
- The way Splendid's skin falls off could be a reference to the film "Poltergeist".
Superlatives[]
- Cuddles, Toothy, and Sniffles' deaths are similar to the former's death in Home Is Where the Hurt Is and one of Tree's deaths in Happy Death Day 2U.
- Handy and Cub's deaths are similar to Toothy's deaths in Stealing the Spotlight, Easy Comb, Easy Go and Mime to Five.
- Splendid vomiting his organs is similar to Cuddles' injury before death in Easy Comb, Easy Go and Toothy's injury before death in Peas in a Pod.
- The Mole's death is similar to his own death in Spare Tire.
Continuity[]
- Lifty and Shifty steal money from Petunia and Giggles' lemonade stand, which first appears in Eyes Cold Lemonade.
Production Notes[]
- When this episode aired along with Snow Place to Go and Dunce Upon a Time on YouTube, the alternate title for the conglomeration of the segments was "Deep Six". Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, and Lumpy appear in all three episodes. Additionally, Cuddles and Toothy die in all three episodes while Giggles and Lumpy (debatably) die twice.
- In a Q+A video, Warren Graff and Kenn Navarro both say that they do not like this episode. Warren said on the defunct forum " I don’t know, it just doesn’t work for me."
- The storyboard version of this episode has several differences from the finished episode.
- There is a cut scene, taking place before Splendid dons his hazmat suit, in which Lifty and Shifty rob a bank. Splendid goes to a construction site to grab an iron bar, leading to Handy, who was preparing to have lunch on top of the bar, falling to the ground. Splendid threatens to attack the twins with the bar, but Shifty takes out the Kryptonut, sapping Splendid's strength and leaving him unable to carry the bar. He loses his balance and accidentally drops it on top of the battered Handy, crushing him to death.
- Instead of first getting warded off by the Kryptonut when attempting to stop Lifty and Shifty from robbing Giggles' and Petunia's lemonade stand, Splendid flies into space immediately upon hearing their calls for help.
- The pair of glasses Splendid pulls out to magnify his laser vision is comically large, with one lens being over double the size of his head.
- Splendid's glasses-magnified laser vision is enough to kill Lifty and Shifty. After the wads of money the twins were counting catch on fire, Shifty does as well and burns to death. After Giggles and Petunia catch on fire, Lifty attempts to escape, but trips and drops the box containing the Kryptonut, which is followed by him getting the lower half of his body burned away.
- When Lumpy burns his tongue from the lemonade he blows it to cool it down.
- According to the cast commentary on the TV Series DVD Vol. 2, the original version of the episode came out too short, so the chase sequence was added to fill out the rest of the runtime.
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