Many fans wondered, where is Henry and Suzie's mother in
this episode? Well, even though the show never directly
says it, the planning packet for the show states she's a
graphic artist, so she's obviously at work.
Terriermon remarks that Henry always says he has "no
tact." This is a reference to "Digimon,
Digimon Everywhere," where Henry said he'd have
to teach Terriermon tact. Both these episodes were
written by Seth Walther, y'see.
When Rika's grandmother takes the phone back from her,
she says, "Hi Rumiko, it's me." This is the
first instance in which Rika's mother is referred to as
Rumiko, as she will consistently be called from now on.
For the entirety of this episode, Impmon is coloured in
his extra-dark colour scheme. However, he's in the dark
sewers for all of this episode, so it actually DOES
appear to be in use as shadow this time.
In the brief flashback to the scene in the previous episode where Leomon leaves,
Jeri says "Goodbye Leomon." She didn't say that
in the episode itself.
Kenta's glasses are somewhat more angular when everyone's
looking at the calendar.
Henry lists off all the Devas in the order that they
fought them, except for Indramon and Kumbhiramon, who are
swapped around.
While the Tamers are looking at the calendar, the
lighting indicates that it's mid-day, or early afternoon.
After Kenta says: "How are you guys gonna beat 'em
all?" Kazu says: "Yeah! Too bad we all don't
have Digimon that can fight!" As he says this, a
long shot of the park fades in, and the lighting
indicates that it's late afternoon or evening now, with
the sun low in the sky, indicating that time has passed -
but Kazu just keeps right on talking, saying "Okay,
I'm making myself depressed! It's getting late, I'm outta
here!" as if he was still speaking the same sentence
as before, which is how the script has obviously been
written.
When Makuramon screams, Calumon claims: "That hurts
worse than Kenta's singing!" This is, as everyone
will remember, a reference to Kenta's singing talent - or
lack thereof - as displayed in "Back
to Nature, Back to Battle." Once again, both
these episodes were written by Seth Walther.
This is the only episode in which the Chief Cabinet
Secretary is referred to by name, and he doesn't even
manage it fully - Yamaki only manages to say "Get me
the Chief Cabinet S..." before Tally cuts him off.
Note that the Secretary is communicating from the back of
a car, just as "the chief" from the confusing
scene in "Juggernaut"
did.
As the kids are chasing Makuramon, there's a flashback to
the previous episode, in which
Calumon chants:
"Yay Leomon! Yay Leomon! Yay!"
But in the episode itself, he sang:
"Leomon's a hero! Leomon's a hero! The Devas
don't got nothin', 'cause rat-face is a zero!"
When Makuramon turns his head around backwards and smirks
evilly at the kids, he's missing his nostrils.
We actually get a really good, close look at when
Guilmons' eyes Go Crazy in this episode - rather than
happen between a blink, as is the common way, or just
fade in, like in "Back to
Nature, Back to Battle," we get to properly see
the pupil narrow into a slit here.
When Henry theorises about the earthquakes being related
to the Devas, Terriermon is missing his eyebrows. They're
still gone when Guilmon rushes past.
As Impmon wallows in his misery, he recites a playground
song - "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think
I'll eat some..." - but for some reason, he's not
actually *singing* it. If you don't know, the next word
is "worms."
As the Tamers get ready to fight, and Renamon says
"Rika!" she's suddenly developed a fang that's
poking out over her bottom lip.