History Recap / BobsBurgersS8E17Boywatch

* BecomingTheMask: Tina lies about wanting to be a junior lifeguard so that can attempt to flirt with shirtless boys, causing the other kids to despise her as this is something they genuinely want. When she decides to quit, looking at photos of the past squads and how important their role is makes her want to take the program seriously.

* ChekhovsGun: One of the junior lifeguard girls trips in an hole on the beach and sprains her ankle, which lets Tina join in her stead. This becomes important towards the end when an entire Fun Run group is about to suffer the same fate because the coach mistakenly scheduled it on the same day as a sandcastle competition.

* HopelessWithTech: The Belcher's wi-fi network is called "[=KidsTrappedSendHelp=]", which the kids themselves named. Bob doesn't know how to change it and has to tell the college students asking for the password he doesn't know how to change it and that the kids aren't trapped. Also, the kids made sure the password is "dadsbald".
* TheInfiltration: Sergeant Bosco comes to the restaurant to investigate a hacker using the Belcher's wi-fi, passing himself off as just another customer. [[PaperThinDisguise He has trouble keeping his cover]], as he forgets to hide his badge and the shirt he wears says "Police" on the back, but the customers are too busy with their devices to notice.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Linda gave out the password hoping to meet creative people, but got annoyed to find people checking e-mails and online shopping. When she tries to unplug the router and Bob argues that the wi-fi has been good for business, Linda doesn't agree as she doesn't want to "live in a world where people don't smile and look at her when she says hilarious stuff".

* ThrowTheDogABone: StatusQuoIsGod, but for a brief while Linda giving out the wi-fi password gives Bob's Burgers a ''giant'' boost in business.

** Tina realize that being a lifeguard isn’t just about being with shirtless hot boys. It’s about helping and saving people life and being a lifeguard isn’t like the ones in movies and TV and her trying to copy what she saw in the TV and movies just made her group dislike her.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Parker was rude towards Tina, and kept saying that she should quit the lifeguard group. However, he was right at the beginning because Tina didn’t take the job seriously. It's not until Tina starts putting in effort that his rudeness gains less merit.

** The fourth Burger of the Day is partially obscured by Bob's head, but it appears to be a reference to ''[[Film/QuantumOfSolace''.

** The fourth Burger of the Day is the "[[Film/QuantumOfSolace Quantum of Sal-[[note]]the rest of the word is blocked by Bob's head[[/note]] Burger]]".

* AskAStupidQuestion: Linda asks for the identity of the hacker Bosco is pursuing, Bosco points out that if he ''knew'', he wouldn't need to be undercover.

* GuiltByAssociationGag: The coach regularly punishes all of the junior lifeguards for Tina's constant mistakes, which doesn't exactly endear her to the squad.

* SelectiveObliviousness: When she attempts to quit, Tina assumes that it'll play out like an inspirational scene from TV where everyone convinces her not to. Instead, ''everyone'' (from Gus to the junior lifeguards) tells her that she ''should'' quit, because she's been nothing but a nuisance. Tina, still trapped in her fantasy, construes Gus's encouragement to quit as the exact opposite, and credits him when she decides to stay (meanwhile, Gus tries to tell the thoroughly unamused coach that Tina has it backwards).

*** Tina tries to prove herself to Parker by doing a training exercise for actual adult life guards, using the CPR dummy "Can't Breathy Stevie" as a drowning victim. Although she does quite well and almost makes it to the finish, when the coach see's this instead of being impresses he's furious that she would endanger herself like this as well as destroying beach equipment and expels not just Tina but everyone else for enabling her.