Border Patrol: The electric jellyfish in the original game.Non Sequitur Episode: Love Hurts and Beauitful Girls.Beat Them At Their Own Game: Tak uses Tlaloc's own tricks to defeat him.He turns Tak into several different animals in quick succession during the first game's final boss fight. Baleful Polymorph: Tlalok's sheeping curse.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Jibolba describes the plight of the Pupanunu people in the first game, he calls the Moon Juju "good, and wise, and pretty." Then he mentions Tlaloc having imprisoned her, and states that Tlaloc isn't good or wise, "and he's certainly not pretty.".Ambiguously Human: Chief, Lok, Slog, Zariah and the Pupununu tribe.All Just a Dream: The entire second game.The Pupununu Tribe look like dugged-up versions of the Hoodlums and play a similar role to the Shy Guys.Neo Cortex and plays a similar role to both King Dedede and Chapion Bomber. The antagonist version of Lok looks like a drugged-up version of Dr.Cheif looks a drugged-up version of Great Mighty Poo and plays a similar role to Moneybags (minus the conning).Affectionate Parody: The tv show's characters.Absurdity Ascendant: The tv show is full of this.Tropes used in Tak and the Power of Juju include: Lok is also in the series, still admired as a hero when he's really just a boastful coward ( not that Tak is much better.) Some of the jokes cross the line of good taste occasionally. The utterly bizarre Jujus are also usually involved. Tak is often helped by Jeera, the Tomboy daughter of the tribe's chief. In most episodes (each of which contains two stories) Tak himself is to blame for the problem going on, by causing them or making them worse. The gags come fast one after another, with common sense and even reality taking a backseat. Everyone in the show is an idiot, though some are dumber than others. The cartoon drops most of the adventure elements from the game and instead focuses on the comedic ones. It eventually turns out that it was Tak himself who was the hero all along. So Tak gets sent in a series of quests to find the means to restore him to normal. But the tribe's greatest warrior, Lok, was also turned into a sheep by Tlaloc. When the tribe's patron Juju (god), The Moon Juju, is captured by the evil shaman Tlaloc, she is supposed to be rescued by a prophesied hero. In the game, Tak is a boy who is the apprentice of a jungle-dwelling tribe's Shaman. Tak And The Power Of Juju is a series of Platformers that was later adapted into an All CGI Cartoon TV series made in 2007 by the Nickelodeon network. No, this is not related to Jujubes candy, nor to the Tak from another Nicktoon.
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