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** Tina remarks that nothing is more embarrassing than having her parents show up at school... maybe a ''minute'' after she read her erotic friend-fiction out loud to the entire cafeteria.

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** Tina remarks that nothing is more embarrassing than having her parents show up at school... maybe a ''minute'' after she read her erotic friend-fiction out loud to the entire cafeteria.cafeteria and they laughed at her.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: By pausing, you can see which media Tina writes fanfiction of, it includes: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Series/{{Bones}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Garfield}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and many, many more.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: By pausing, you can see which media Tina writes fanfiction of, it includes: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'', ''Series/{{Bones}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Garfield}}'', ''Franchise/{{Garfield}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and many, many more.
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* CosmeticCatastrophe: Tammy and Tina's "makeover".

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* CosmeticCatastrophe: Tammy and Tina's "makeover". The Pesto twins mistake them for clowns.



* FreezeFrameBonus: By pausing, you can see which shows Tina writes fanfiction of, it includes: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Series/{{Bones}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Garfield}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and many, many more.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: By pausing, you can see which shows media Tina writes fanfiction of, it includes: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Series/{{Bones}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Garfield}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and many, many more.



** Tina has already written erotic fanfiction of all shows she knows. It's possible to see which ones by pausing the video when the books are being shown.

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** Tina has already written erotic fanfiction of all shows media she knows. It's possible to see which ones by pausing the video episode when the books are being shown.
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* OffModel: When sitting down and getting ready for ''Cake'', Linda's legs are shown to be more realistically drawn than the usual spindly look.
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* UngratefulBastard: Tina has the gall to say that her parents being at school is the most embarrassing thing that can happen, even though they went there to try and prevent her from humiliating herself.

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*TheAlcoholic: Linda drank quite a bit during the ''Cake'' intermission (under the excuse that if they didn't want her pounding drinks they'd give her more than ten minutes to drink them), then comes home wanting ''more'' alcohol. She gets defensive when this is pointed out.



* HypocriticalHumor: Tina remarks that nothing is more embarrassing than having her parents show up at school... maybe a ''minute'' after she read her erotic friend-fiction out loud to the entire cafeteria.

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* HypocriticalHumor: HypocriticalHumor:
**When Tina's hangouts with Tammy force Gene and Louise to her chores, Gene complains that he's tired of being hurt by Tina... even though he and Louise blackmailed
Tina into doing ''their'' chores and continue to do so in the next few scenes.
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remarks that nothing is more embarrassing than having her parents show up at school... maybe a ''minute'' after she read her erotic friend-fiction out loud to the entire cafeteria.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda doesn't realize until Bob points it out to her that Tina reading her Erotic friend-fiction to school to avoid Tammy's blackmail is a horrible idea.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda doesn't realize until Bob points it out to her that Tina reading her Erotic erotic friend-fiction to school to avoid Tammy's blackmail is a horrible idea.



* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Linda only realizes how bad an idea Tina reading her erotic friendfiction in front of the student body is when she finishes explaining it to Bob.

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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Linda only realizes how bad an idea Tina reading her erotic friendfiction friend-fiction in front of the student body is when she finishes explaining it to Bob.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tammy blackmails Tina into acting out by threatening to give Jimmy, Jr. Tina's erotic fan/friend-fiction that Tina wrote about him. When Tina fails to show up for a double date and ruins Tammy's chances with Zeke (since Tina got grounded for trying to sneak out of the house with Linda's margarita mix, using the family's emergency phone to text Tammy [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and calling Linda]] a [[BorrowedCatchphrase boob punch]]), Tammy decides she'll just read it to the entire school.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tammy blackmails Tina into acting out by threatening to give Jimmy, Jr. Tina's erotic fan/friend-fiction friend-fiction that Tina wrote about him. When Tina fails to show up for a double date and ruins Tammy's chances with Zeke (since Tina got grounded for trying to sneak out of the house with Linda's margarita mix, using the family's emergency phone to text Tammy [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and calling Linda]] a [[BorrowedCatchphrase boob punch]]), Tammy decides she'll just read it to the entire school.
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* AllForNothing: The effort Louise and Gene put into stealing back Tina's friend fiction from Tammy is for naught when Tina reads her own friend fiction to the school in Tammy's place.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Tina, who loves erotic fan/friend-fiction and Tammy who has a crush on Zeke.

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* AllForNothing: The effort Louise and Gene put into stealing back Tina's friend fiction friend-fiction from Tammy is for naught when Tina reads her own friend fiction friend-fiction to the school in Tammy's place.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Tina, who loves erotic fan/friend-fiction friend-fiction and Tammy who has a crush on Zeke.



* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda doesn't realize until Bob points it out to her that Tina reading her Erotic Friend-fiction to school to avoid Tammy's blackmail is a horrible idea.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda doesn't realize until Bob points it out to her that Tina reading her Erotic Friend-fiction friend-fiction to school to avoid Tammy's blackmail is a horrible idea.

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*CringeComedy: Tina reading her erotic friend-fiction out loud in front of the entire school.



*HypocriticalHumor: Tina remarks that nothing is more embarrassing than having her parents show up at school... maybe a ''minute'' after she read her erotic friend-fiction out loud to the entire cafeteria.



*PlayingSick: Tina tries to do this after Tammy decides to read her friend-fiction to the school... with a meat thermometer.
-->'''Linda:''' It says you're done if you're a pork loin.\\
'''Louise:''' Meat thermometer? What, are you new here?



*RecursiveCanon: One of Tina's notebooks contains fanfiction of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where characters from ''Bob's Burgers'' have cameoed quite a few times. Technically speaking, this means that ''Bob's Burgers'' exists as a show within the ''Bob's Burgers'' universe.



** Tina has already written erotic fanfiction of all shows she knows, it's possible to see which ones by pausing the video when the books are being shown.

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** Tina has already written erotic fanfiction of all shows she knows, it's knows. It's possible to see which ones by pausing the video when the books are being shown.



* YouAreGrounded: Bob grounds Tina for trying to sneak out and meet Tammy.

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* YouAreGrounded: Bob grounds Tina for trying to sneak out and meet Tammy.Tammy.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Gene and Louise are happy to blackmail Tina when they think she's just acting out. When they eventually learn that Tammy is behind the whole mess, they want to help her get revenge.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Gene and Louise are happy to blackmail Tina when they think she's just acting out. When they eventually learn that Tammy is behind the whole mess, mess and is herself blackmailing Tina, they want to help her get revenge.
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* GroinAttack: Zeke asks the ta

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* GroinAttack: Discussed; Zeke asks the tatattoo artist/piercer working at the mall if he does piercings for scrotums.

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*AllForNothing: The effort Louise and Gene put into stealing back Tina's friend fiction from Tammy is for naught when Tina reads her own friend fiction to the school in Tammy's place.



* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda doesn't realize until Bob points it out to her that Tina reading her Erotic Friend-fiction to school to avoid Tammy's blackmail isn't a good idea.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda doesn't realize until Bob points it out to her that Tina reading her Erotic Friend-fiction to school to avoid Tammy's blackmail isn't is a good horrible idea.



*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tammy's crush on Zeke, which is a prominent part of this episode, is never shown again--in fact, later episodes show Tammy to be somewhat repulsed by Zeke.



*GroinAttack: Zeke asks the ta



* MistakenForThief: When Tina shatters the bottle of margarita mix on the ground, Bob and Linda are shown exiting their room armed to the teeth in defensive gear, suggesting they took the noise Tina was making to mean a robber had broken in.

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* MistakenForThief: When Tina shatters the bottle of margarita mix on the ground, Bob and Linda are shown exiting their room armed to the teeth in defensive gear, with weapons (specifically a baseball bat and hairdryer), suggesting they took the noise Tina was making to mean a robber had broken in.



* OffModel: When sitting down and getting ready for "Cake", Linda's legs are shown to be more realistically drawn than the usual spindly look.

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*NotSoAboveItAll: Bob tells Linda not to have a crap attack, after which he, Louise, and Gene point at each other and laugh like there's an inside joke between them. He then repeats it again when he and Linda are about to go to ''Cake''.
* OffModel: When sitting down and getting ready for "Cake", ''Cake'', Linda's legs are shown to be more realistically drawn than the usual spindly look.



*ShipperOnDeck: ''Buttloose'' implies that Tina ships Mr. Frond and Ms. Jacobson, leading to an awkward interaction between the two when they meet up while Tina reads that part out loud.



*TechnologicallyBlindElders: Linda doesn't understand Tammy saying "Your 3 is grass" ("Your ass is grass"), and Bob has to translate it.
-->'''Linda:''' It's not funny.\\
'''Bob:''' I didn't say it was funny. I just said I figured it out.



*ToxicFriendInfluence: Pretty much all of Tina's negative actions throughout the episode can be attributed to Tammy.



* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Tina starts behaving wilder because of Tammy's influence, but ends as a subversion as Tammy keeps Tina on the wild side by blackmailing her.

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* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Tina starts behaving wilder because of Tammy's influence, but ends as a subversion as Tammy keeps Tina on the wild side by blackmailing her.her.
*YouAreGrounded: Bob grounds Tina for trying to sneak out and meet Tammy.
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-->'''Gene:''' I'm pretty!\\

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-->'''Gene:''' I'm pretty!\\pretty!

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* BaitAndSwitch: As Linda laments the fact that Tina appears to be growing up, Louise tells Linda to focus on her good daughter... at which she presents Gene.

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* BaitAndSwitch: As Linda laments the fact that Tina appears to be growing up, Louise tells Linda to focus on her good daughter... at which she presents Gene.Gene.
-->'''Gene:''' I'm pretty!\\
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tammy pretends to be Tina's friend, but corrupts her into cutting class and causing trouble. When Tina wants to stop, Tammy {{blackmail}}s her into continuing.


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* UnusualEuphemism: Upon noticing Tina's temporary dinosaur tattoo, Gene refers to her butt as a "tar pit".

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** Tammy uses Tina's erotic friendfiction to force Tina to cut class and accompany her in her adventures.

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** Tammy uses Tina's erotic friendfiction friend-fiction to force Tina to cut class and accompany her in her adventures.



* DisproportionateRetribution: Tammy blackmails Tina into acting out by threatening to give Jimmy, Jr. Tina's erotic fan/friend-fiction that Tina wrote about him. When Tina fails to show up for a double date and ruins Tammy's chances with Zeke, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking (since Tina got grounded for trying to sneak out of the house with Linda's margarita mix, using the family's emergency phone to text Tammy,]] [[BorrowedCatchphrase and calling Linda a boob punch)]] Tammy decides she'll just read it to the entire school.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tammy has brown hair and different colored lips in this episode. It's established in later episodes that she dyed her hair blond. Her nose is also bigger than in later episodes, but then it wouldn't be out of character for Tammy to get a nose job.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tammy blackmails Tina into acting out by threatening to give Jimmy, Jr. Tina's erotic fan/friend-fiction that Tina wrote about him. When Tina fails to show up for a double date and ruins Tammy's chances with Zeke, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Zeke (since Tina got grounded for trying to sneak out of the house with Linda's margarita mix, using the family's emergency phone to text Tammy,]] Tammy [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and calling Linda]] a [[BorrowedCatchphrase and calling Linda a boob punch)]] punch]]), Tammy decides she'll just read it to the entire school.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Tammy has brown hair and different colored lips in this episode. It's established in later episodes that she dyed her hair blond. Her nose is also bigger than in later episodes, but then it wouldn't be out of character for Tammy to get a nose job.



* HiddenDepths: Tina reveals in this episode her love for erotic fanfiction, which becomes a RunningGag on the show.

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* HiddenDepths: HiddenDepths:
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Tina reveals in this episode her love for erotic fanfiction, fanfiction in this episode, which becomes a RunningGag on the show.



* KickTheDog: Tina gets on the receiving end of this twice, her siblings blackmail her into doing their chores and Tammy blackmails her into keep doing crazy things with her.

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* KickTheDog: Tina gets on the receiving end of this twice, twice: her siblings blackmail her into doing their chores and Tammy blackmails her into keep repeatedly doing crazy things with her.


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* RealPersonFic: Tina's erotic "friend-fiction" differs from her fanfiction by focusing on the people in her life instead.


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* TookALevelInJerkass: Through [[ToxicFriendInfluence Tammy's influence]], the normally-docile Tina starts acting up by causing trouble in school and sassing her family.
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*MistakenForThief: When Tina shatters the bottle of margarita mix on the ground, Bob and Linda are shown exiting their room armed to the teeth in defensive gear, suggesting they took the noise Tina was making to mean a robber had broken in.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Linda is furious and sends Tina to her room when she tells her not to have a "Crap-Attack"... prompting the rest of the family to ponder what a crap-attack even is, laughing at how ridiculous the term is, and start ribbing Linda about it. Bob keeps using it on her in amusement for the rest of the episode, and Louise in particular reacts with

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Linda is furious and sends Tina to her room when she tells her not to have a "Crap-Attack"... prompting the rest of the family to ponder what a crap-attack even is, laughing at how ridiculous the term is, and start ribbing Linda about it. Bob keeps using it on her in amusement for the rest of the episode, and Louise in particular reacts with as if she's hearing it for the first time every time Bob says it.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Linda is furious and sends Tina to her room when she tells her not to have a "Crap-Attack"... prompting the rest of the family to ponder what a crap-attack even is, laughing at how ridiculous the term is, and start ribbing Linda about it. Bob keeps using it on her in amusement for the rest of the episode.
** Similarly, Louise reacts with amusement every time Bob uses "crap-attack" on Linda.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Linda is furious and sends Tina to her room when she tells her not to have a "Crap-Attack"... prompting the rest of the family to ponder what a crap-attack even is, laughing at how ridiculous the term is, and start ribbing Linda about it. Bob keeps using it on her in amusement for the rest of the episode.
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episode, and Louise in particular reacts with amusement every time Bob uses "crap-attack" on Linda.


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*BrickJoke: When Tina shows Tammy around Wagstaff, she points out that the menu misspells "brownie" as "browie". When Louise swaps out Tammy's backpack for Andy's, Gene remarks that he's going back to the cafeteria to get another "browie".


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**Mr. Frond is a fan of ''Cake'' like Bob is, and at the end of the episode the two bond over doing the routine together.


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*PetTheDog: Although he initially joins on the chorus of laughter, Jimmy Jr. later admits to Tina that he thought her friend-fiction was cool. Regardless of if it was genuine or if he was just saying it to be nice, the fact remains that he didn't have to say it at all.
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**Similarly, Louise reacts with amusement every time Bob uses "crap-attack" on Linda.


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*BaitAndSwitch: As Linda laments the fact that Tina appears to be growing up, Louise tells Linda to focus on her good daughter... at which she presents Gene.


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*ChekhovsGag: Tammy farts in Tina's room after laughing at her friend-fiction. When Tina reads her friend-fiction out loud to the school, Tammy laughs and farts ''again''--and Louise and Gene use it to get the attention of the students away from Tina and onto Tammy.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Linda is furious and sends Tina to her room when she tells her not to have a "Crap-Attack"... prompting the rest of the family to ponder what a crap-attack even is, laughing at how ridiculous the term is, and start ribbing Linda about it. Bob keeps using it on her in amusement for the rest of the episode.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tammy has brown hair and different colored lips in this episode. It's established in later episodes that she dyed her hair blond.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tammy has brown hair and different colored lips in this episode. It's established in later episodes that she dyed her hair blond. Her nose is also bigger than in later episodes, but then it wouldn't be out of character for Tammy to get a nose job.
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* TheFreelanceShameSquad: All the students in the cafeteria laugh at Tina's bizarre "erotic friend-fiction". Fortunately for Tina, they're distracted by Tammy's flatulence, and start making fun of her instead.

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* TheFreelanceShameSquad: All the students in the cafeteria laugh at Tina's bizarre "erotic friend-fiction". Fortunately for Tina, they're quickly distracted by Tammy's flatulence, and Gene and Louise use the situation to get everybody to start making fun of her instead.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Gene and Louise are happy to blackmail Tina when they think she's just acting out. When they eventually learn that Tammy is behind the whole mess, they want to help her get revenge.
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Tina befriends a new girl in school, Tammy, who convinces her to become more rebellious.

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* AllWomenAreLustful: Tina, who loves erotic fan/friend-fiction and Tammy who has a crush on Zeke.
* {{Blackmail}}:
** Tammy uses Tina's erotic friendfiction to force Tina to cut class and accompany her in her adventures.
** Louise and Gene use this to make Tina do their chores after they find out that Tina took their mother's Margarita Mix.
* BlandNameProduct: ''Cake'' is an obvious take-off on ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomp_(theatrical_show) Stomp]]''.
* CosmeticCatastrophe: Tammy and Tina's "makeover".
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda doesn't realize until Bob points it out to her that Tina reading her Erotic Friend-fiction to school to avoid Tammy's blackmail isn't a good idea.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Tammy blackmails Tina into acting out by threatening to give Jimmy, Jr. Tina's erotic fan/friend-fiction that Tina wrote about him. When Tina fails to show up for a double date and ruins Tammy's chances with Zeke, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking (since Tina got grounded for trying to sneak out of the house with Linda's margarita mix, using the family's emergency phone to text Tammy,]] [[BorrowedCatchphrase and calling Linda a boob punch)]] Tammy decides she'll just read it to the entire school.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tammy has brown hair and different colored lips in this episode. It's established in later episodes that she dyed her hair blond.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Linda only realizes how bad an idea Tina reading her erotic friendfiction in front of the student body is when she finishes explaining it to Bob.
* FakeHigh: Tina and Tammy drink Linda's margarita mix. They think they're getting drunk, but the mix is non-alcoholic; Louise points out that Linda uses it to fill the hummingbird feeder.
* TheFreelanceShameSquad: All the students in the cafeteria laugh at Tina's bizarre "erotic friend-fiction". Fortunately for Tina, they're distracted by Tammy's flatulence, and start making fun of her instead.
* FreezeFrameBonus: By pausing, you can see which shows Tina writes fanfiction of, it includes: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Series/{{Bones}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Garfield}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and many, many more.
* {{Gasshole}}: Tammy gets her comeuppance when she farts loudly in front of the entire school.
* HiddenDepths: Tina reveals in this episode her love for erotic fanfiction, which becomes a RunningGag on the show.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: When Gene and Louise find out that Tammy is blackmailing Tina, they decide to get even, even though they themselves were blackmailing her as well.
-->'''Gene:''' No one blackmails our sister but us!\\
'''Louise:''' Yeah! Messing with Tina is a privilege, not a right!
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: Bob is at first skeptical about going to a patty cake stage show, but after watching it, he becomes obsessed with it.
* KickTheDog: Tina gets on the receiving end of this twice, her siblings blackmail her into doing their chores and Tammy blackmails her into keep doing crazy things with her.
* {{Narm}}: In-universe, Tina's erotic fan fiction comes off to Tammy as hilarious rather than sexy.
* OffModel: When sitting down and getting ready for "Cake", Linda's legs are shown to be more realistically drawn than the usual spindly look.
* ShipTease: There's some between Tina and Jimmy Jr., as well as between Tammy and Zeke.
* ShoutOut:
** Tina has already written erotic fanfiction of all shows she knows, it's possible to see which ones by pausing the video when the books are being shown.
** The fanfiction in which Tina is running around the cafeteria touching people's butts resembles the Apple Mac 1984 Super Bowl ad, and is named [[Film/{{Footloose}} Buttloose]].
** A movie theater is showing ''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory Neverending Gory]]''.
* TastesLikePurple: Gene says of Tammy's fart that "my ears can smell it!"
* UncannyValleyMakeUp: When Tammy gives Tina a "makeover", she puts so much make-up on Tina that the Pesto twins mistake the girls for "bathroom clowns".
* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Tina starts behaving wilder because of Tammy's influence, but ends as a subversion as Tammy keeps Tina on the wild side by blackmailing her.

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