Buddy Picture: Most of the film focuses on Oh and Tip's journey to Paris, and then Australia, to find Tip's mom.Tip's influence gradually helps Oh figure that Captain Smek doesn't need to be listened to. Broken Pedestal: Oh idolizes Captain Smek, even though the guy's an egomaniac and a complete moron and looks down on Oh for not being successfully socialized and believing in things like friendship and individuality.After almost being crushed by the Gorg ship during the climax, Oh says the fear almost caused him to go Number Three. Tip is appropriately concerned by that last one. Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Oh's descriptions of the components he rejects for salvaging from the Gorg ship range from "broken" and "useless" to "likely to cause thermonuclear fusion".Which is why the Dance Party Ending includes species we've never seen arriving on Earth. Oh invited the entire galaxy to his party.Even at the end, she's still pretending to be dead. One of the Brain Boov suggests Playing Possum to ward off the Gorg.The events of the climax almost make Oh go Number Three. In addition to going "Number One" and "Number Two" like humans, the Boov also go "Number Three".Tip hit a Boov with a booby trap that covered him in glitter, and he still has it on during the Dance Party Ending.During a "pee break," Oh takes a bite out of a urinal cake, thinking it's a "blue mint." When the rest stop is blown up, a urinal crashes to the ground a short distance away, followed by a urinal cake with a bite taken out of it.Oh's main character arc is learning to take risks, and eventually convincing the others that it can be beneficial too. Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Boov see cowardice as a desirable trait.True to its name, it uses slushies as fuel. Bizarre Beverage Use: When Oh upgrades Tip's mother's car, it is renamed Slushious.Bizarre Alien Biology: The Boov have six legs each, change colors when experiencing different emotions, discharge gas from appendages that grow out of their head (which also seem to be their noses), have flexible skulls, can eat almost anything, and apparently have a third form of waste disposal.It should also be noted that it really is benevolent compared to most invasions in such stories. Benevolent Alien Invasion: The Boov are told by Smek that this is what they're doing, and to be fair they don't cause any harm on purpose.
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Argument of Contradictions: Oh and Captain Smek have one of these over whether or not Oh would make another mistake.Several one-shot Boovs have names like Tony.Kyle has a rather normal name, unlike most of the other Boov.Amplifier Artifact: The Gorg super chip, which supercharges any device it's plugged into.Oh is so disliked among his people, his name was the way people reacted to his presence.After moving from Barbados to America, Tip was treated different from other kids and had trouble fitting in.They were only looking for a place to call home, but in doing so they deprived other species of their homes. Aliens Are Bastards: Played with in regards to the Boov.Alien Invasion: The Boov take complete control of Earth (including rebuilding several monuments such as the Statue of Liberty to resemble Captain Smek) and relocate all the humans to Australia.Aerith and Bob: Only three Boov are referred to by name: Oh, Captain Smek, and Kyle.The film adaptation completely throws this out in favor of a happy ending, and Tip lives. Adaptational Alternate Ending: The book The True Meaning of Smekday has a century-long Time Skip at the end where Tip suddenly dies of old age during the unveiling of the time capsule.Actor Allusion: Jim Parsons once again plays an obnoxious character who doesn't understand human behaviour and annoys everyone around him.We later learn his shusher's rock is an incubator. Accidental Truth: To get the other Boov to move out of his way, Captain Smek says that he's carrying a baby.Captain Smek took a rock from the Gorg, which turns out to contain the next generation of his race.
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Inverted near the beginning - while seemingly every other human was captured by the Boov and relocated to Australia, Tip is unintentionally left behind in New York.