History Awesome / Fillmore

** However, said moment is then at least partially justified as the teacher/guard shows them a picture of what Randal did with a miniature golf pencil. [[TakeOurWordForIt We only see the reactions]], but if he could do that with a mere pencil, then clearly he's very clever and all the security is needed. We then later see for ourselves what he's capable of doing when a tiny pencil is accidentally left around him ''again'', and the result is arguably a moment of awesome in and of itself.

* Fillmore's speech to Randall Julian when he is about to deface the Teacher's Lounge bathroom, he says that if Randall thinks his graffiti is so amazing, he should sign it with his own name instead of hiding behind a fake alias, this successfully convinces Julian to back off.

* Fillmore's BatmanGambit to find the culprit-after getting O'Farrel's camera film developed, Fillmore says he knows who the perpetrator is he looks right at Leo and Leo admits to the crime, later it's revealed that the picture in the camera was of O'Farrell's shoes, so Fillmore managed to bluff Leo into confessing based on pure instinct.

* Fillmore standing up to Folsom’s badgering and coldly informing her that he and Ingrid are protecting Checkmatey for Checkmatey's sake, not for her and not so the school will look good if he wins the chess match. It's one of the few times, if not the only time, Fillmore has ever snapped back at Folsom during any of her complaints and nagging about the Safety Patrol's supposed failures. It's telling all Folsom does is glare at Fillmore in response.

* In the final scene of the episode, Fillmore figuring out that Penny was the one who stole the cards by noting [[INeverSaidItWasPoison that he never told her what cards were stolen.]] Then, when she tries to convince him to let it slide, he responds with this;
-->'''Fillmore:''' You played my for a sucker Penny, I'm not going out like that. Not for ''you'', not anymore. Be at H.Q. first thing in the morning. Don't make me come get you. And one last thing baby; that chicken was ''dry''. Real dry.

* Tori calling out the author of the "Vampirita" novels for the lack of respect she has for her fans and her apathy towards the series itself. While this could've just been Tori being a StrawFan or LoonyFan attacking the author for not having the same zeal for the series as her fans do, it instead comes out as a fan having legitimate complaints for the lack of effort and care the author has put into the latest entry. It's further justified in that said author clearly doesn’t about the books or her fans and has only been writing them for the money and because of her contract (possibly having become disillusioned after writing the series for so many books). What started this off was the author calling Tori's best friend Terri "A nutso fan" for the lengths Terri went through to secretly sabotage their entries in the fan contest to get them featured as characters in the new book after learning how horribly the series JumpedTheShark (Vampirita suddenly dating her "Sworn genetic enemy" and giving him all the secrets of the resistance for no justifiable reason). The author even admitted she wrote the entire thing on a plane trip to Milan, which proves she's not even interested in making an effort to earn her paycheck at this point. As Tori puts it, a book is supposed to be a promise made to the readers, and she suggests the author try keeping it next time.

** After the culprit is apprehended, they tell Fillmore it didn't have to end this way. Fillmore tells them they're right. Sonny should've came along with Fillmore after he went straight. His life with the safety patrol is far better than his life as a thief and there's no chance of him ever going back to that.

* Tori calling out the author of the "Vampirita" novels for the lack of respect she has for her fans and her apathy towards the series itself. While this could've just been Tori being a StrawFan or LoonyFan attacking the author for not having the same zeal for the series as her fans do, it instead comes out as a fan having legitimate complaints for the lack of effort and care the author has put into the latest entry. It's further justified in that said author clearly does not give a shit about the books or her fans and has only been writing them for the money and because of her contract. What started this off was the author calling Tori's best friend Terri "A nutso fan" for the lengths Terri went through to secretly sabotage their entries in the fan contest to get them featured as characters in the new book after learning how horribly the series JumpedTheShark (Vampirita suddenly dating her "Sworn genetic enemy" and giving him all the secrets of the resistance for no justifiable reason). The author even admitted she wrote the entire thing on a plane trip to Milan, which proves she's not even interested in making an effort to earn her paycheck at this point. As Tori puts it, a book is supposed to be a promise made to the readers, and she suggests the author try keeping it next time.

* Fillmore standing up to Folsom’s badgering and coldly informing her that he and Ingrid are protecting Checkmatey for Checkmatey's sake, not for her and not so the school will look good if he wins the chess match. It's one of the few times, if not the only time, Fillmore has ever snapped back at Fulsom during any of her complaints and nagging about the Safety Patrol's supposed failures. It's telling all Fulsom does is glare at Fillmore in response.

* Quite possibly the best and most clever line in the series: An algebra teacher, whose introductory scene shows her explaining to her classmates that no matter what, for any given equation the value of x will always stay the same, strongly believes that when you give them the chance and simply trust them, students will do the right thing on their own. Fillmore contests this and tells her that times have changed since she was a student at X middle school and thus stays at school overnight to ensure that a group of students don't steal the test answers. However, by the end of the episode, Fillmore realizes that she turned out to be right, at least with those kids. When the teacher talks to him the next day, she says: "So Fillmore, you had a whole day of school to yourself. Did you manage to learn anything?" Fillmore's reply? "Yeah. The value of X remains constant."

* Fillmore standing up to Fulsom's badgering and coldly informing her that he and Ingrid are protecting Checkmatey for Checkmatey's sake, not for her and not so the school will look good if he wins the chess match. It's one of the few times, if not the only time, Fillmore has ever snapped back at Fulsom during any of her complaints and nagging about the Safety Patrol's supposed failures. It's telling all Fulsom does is glare at Fillmore in response.

* Wayne in backstory. He was the only person who saw anything worth saving in Fillmore, a known hardened delinquent and crook, and offered him the choice between an unspecified but probably long period of detention and helping the Safety Patrol bust a crook. [[ForegoneConclusion Fillmore chooses the latter and became the best Patroller the force has ever seen.]] Fillmore echoes this when [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre he tells Wayne he's too good]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo to look the other way]] [[CorruptHick no matter what the]] [[DirtyCop corrupt Sheriff of the Safety Patrol and his flunkies do.]] Wayne repays this gesture by breaking out of the detention [[DirtyCop he received for investigating the theft that drives most of the episode's plot]] [[UndyingLoyalty to help Fillmore when he gets into trouble going after the Sheriff by himself]] ([[NiceJobBreakingItHero despite it having been Fillmore's idea to investigate and therefore, indirectly his fault Wayne got demoted]]) and the pair end up jointly ''completely'' busting the Sheriff, getting him shipped off to military school with Wayne gaining leadership of the Safety Patrol with all the help he needs to clean up the school.

* Fillmore [[OutGambitted Out Gambits]] the culprit, his EvilFormerFriend Sonny Lombard, by taking advantage of one minor detail he overlooked: the phone call he made to representative Peabody was on the phone he gave to Fillmore and wasn't deleted, therefore the Safety Patrol was able to get a warrant to steal the ledger, making it entirely legitimate. He then reveals that [[EngineeredPublicConfession he's taped his entire confession]]. Cue Ingrid moving in on them with a ship, lighting Lombard with a spotlight.

* Fillmore is convinced that Tony Clementina, a certain crook who's a constant thorn in the Safety Patrol's side, is behind the theft of all the books in the school's library. Ingrid however becomes convinced that he's not behind it since the books were hidden in a tree house and the supposed thief [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes is so petrified of heights]] [[UpToEleven he once threw up having to watch a movie about a hot air balloon]]. When she tries to convince Fillmore to seek another answer, he refuses because of the guy's past crimes. Ingrid, fed up with this line of thinking, calls him out on his [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] by tossing the files she dug up about Fillmore's delinquent past onto his desk and leaving the room in disgust. This call-out not only gets Fillmore to change his mind about his accusation but prompts him to tell her the full story behind the soda can rocket that prompted her to dig into his past in the first place.

** However, said moment is then at least partially justified as the teacher/guard shows them a picture of what Randal did with a miniature golf pencil. [[TakeOurWordForIt We only see the reactions]], but if he could do that with a mere pencil, then clearly he's very clever and all the security is needed.

* Fillmore's BatmanGambit to find the culprit-after getting O'Farrel's camera film developed, Fillmore says he knows who the perpetrator is [[spoiler:he looks right at Leo and Leo admits to the crime, later it's revealed that the picture in the camera was of O'Farrell's shoes, so Fillmore managed to bluff Leo into confessing based on pure instinct.]]

* Fillmore [[OutGambitted Out Gambits]] the culprit, [[spoiler:his EvilFormerFriend Sonny Lombard]], by taking advantage of one minor detail he overlooked: [[spoiler:the phone call he made to representative Peabody was on the phone he gave to Fillmore and wasn't deleted, therefore the Safety Patrol was able to get a warrant to steal the ledger, making it entirely legitimate]]. He then reveals that [[EngineeredPublicConfession he's taped his entire confession]]. Cue Ingrid moving in on them with a ship, lighting [[spoiler:Lombard]] with a spotlight.
** After the culprit is apprehended, they tell Fillmore it didn't have to end this way. Fillmore tells them they're right. [[spoiler:Sonny should've came along with Fillmore after he went straight. His life with the safety patrol is far better than his life as a thief and there's no chance of him ever going back to that.]]

* In the final scene of the episode, [[spoiler: Fillmore figuring out that Penny was the one who stole the cards by noting [[INeverSaidItWasPoison that he never told her what cards were stolen.]]]] Then, when [[spoiler: she]] tries to convince him to let it slide, he responds with this;
-->'''Fillmore:''' You played my for a sucker [[spoiler:Penny]], I'm not going out like that. Not for ''you'', not anymore. Be at H.Q. first thing in the morning. Don't make me come get you. And one last thing [[spoiler:baby]]; that chicken was ''dry''. Real dry.

* Tori calling out the author of the "Vampirita" novels for the lack of respect she has for her fans and her apathy towards the series itself. While this could've just been Tori being a StrawFan or LoonyFan attacking the author for not having the same zeal for the series as her fans do, it instead comes out as a fan having legitimate complaints for the lack of effort and care the author has put into the latest entry. It's further justified in that said author clearly does not give a shit about the books or her fans and has only been writing them for the money and because of her contract. What started this off was the author calling Tori's best friend Terri "A nutso fan" for the lengths Terri went through [[spoiler: to secretly sabotage their entries in the fan contest to get them featured as characters in the new book after learning how horribly the series JumpedTheShark (Vampirita suddenly dating her "Sworn genetic enemy" and giving him all the secrets of the resistance for no justifiable reason). The author even admitted she wrote the entire thing on a plane trip to Milan, which proves she's not even interested in making an effort to earn her paycheck at this point.]] As Tori puts it, a book is supposed to be a promise made to the readers, and she suggests the author try keeping it next time.

-->'''Vallejo''': We may not be able to officially bust you, but if you cause any more trouble in this school, the entire Safety Patrol is going to turn your life into a nightmare from which you will never wake. Am I making myself clear?\\

-> '''Winston Cotter:''' You haven't won, Fillmore. I still have the printing press. I still have the plates. You and your partner can't stop me by yourselves.
-> '''Vallejo:''' [[BigDamnHeroes They're not by themselves. Not anymore.]]

-->'''Vallejo''': We may not be able to officially bust you, but if you cause any more trouble in this school, the entire Safety Patrol is going to turn your life into a nightmare from which you will never wake. Am I making myself clear?
-->'''Winston Cotter''': ...Yes, sir.