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* ProductPlacement: The Wilderness Ritual instructional video mentions that after the child completes their ritual, they are taken out for a [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Happy Meal]]. Near the end of the episode, after Baby rescues Earl, Robbie, and Roy, he shouts "Want Happy Meal now!"[[note]]In 1992, [=McDonald's=] released plastic hinged moveable toys with finger-pumps of the Sinclair family in their Happy Meals.[[/note]]
* QuicksandSucks: Or in this case "Tarpits sucks".
* QuicksandSucks: Or in this case "Tarpits sucks".
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* QuicksandSucks: Or in this case "Tarpits sucks".
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* FictionalVideoGame: While at Woody's house, Baby plays a video game called ''Tarpit Idiots'', where he has to save three idiots who closely resemble Earl, Robbie, and Roy from sinking into in a tarpit. This ultimately reminds him that he should be saving Earl, Robbie, and Roy for real instead of playing a video game resembling it.
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* ShoutOut: The video game that Baby and Woody play at Woody's house is ''VideoGame/{{Claymates}}'', specifically the game's FinalBoss.
* ShoutOut: The video game that Baby and Woody play at Woody's house is ''VideoGame/{{Claymates}}'', specifically the game's FinalBoss.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Neither Roy nor the old man grasp the obvious similarities between their stories and what that means. After they both leave, Robbie muses they'll figure it out eventually, to which a clueless Earl asks what there is to figure out.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: By the time Baby returns with help, the others are almost completely submerged in tar. The old man takes a moment to discuss how Baby made the FriendOrIdolDecision and has grown as a person, to which Roy (with only his mouth still visible at this point) suggesting this talk wait until after they're saved.
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: Baby is torn between getting help for Earl, Robbie, and Roy and going back to Woody's to get candy. He ultimately decides to lead the old man back to the tarpit.
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* SeriesContinuityError: It's established that Roy wandered off on his wilderness day and hadn't seen his father since (unaware that his father is still looking for him in the woods and that Les is his father). In "The Howling", Roy tells Earl that the pencil set he gave to Robbie on his 13th birthday is the same one his father had given him, presumably at the same age.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Roy doesn't realize that the old man they met at the end of the episode could be his DisappearedDad and vice versa, despite the fact that Robbie points out the similarities between their stories.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Roy doesn't realize that the old man they met at the end of the episode could be his DisappearedDad and vice versa, despite in spite of the fact that elderly Tyrannosaurus having Roy's father's name, Roy sharing his name with the man's missing son, and Robbie points out the similarities between their stories.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Roy doesn't realize that the old man they met at the end of the episode could be his DisappearedDad and vice versa, despite the fact that Robbie points out the similarities between their stories.
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* YouSoundFamiliar: Baby Sinclair briefly befriends a little critter named Woody, who's performed by Steve Whitmire using the same voice he used for [[Series/FraggleRock Wembley Fraggle]].
* YouSoundFamiliar: Baby Sinclair briefly befriends a little critter named Woody, who's performed by Steve Whitmire using the same voice he used for [[Series/FraggleRock Wembley Fraggle]].
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* ItsAllAboutMe: This episode focuses on Baby's self-centered behavior and he finally averts this by saving his family.
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* DisappearedDad: Roy lost his father when he was just an infant, either the latter abandoned him or got lost or even killed via tarpits. Turns out he's alive and has been trying to find his boy ever since then.
* ItsAllAboutMe: This episode focuses on Baby's self-centered behavior and he finally averts this by saving hisfamily.family.
* QuicksandSucks: Or in this case ''Tarpits sucks".
* ItsAllAboutMe: This episode focuses on Baby's self-centered behavior and he finally averts this by saving his
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* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: Robbie gets fed up with television that he threw it away. Immediately after however, that television was about to show the steps in how to get out of their predicament. Earl and Roy sports DeathGlare at Robbie who could only sheepishly apologizes for his actions.
* ItsAllAboutMe: This episode focuses on Baby's self-centered behavior and he finally averts this by saving his family.
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: Robbie gets fed up with television that he threw it away. Immediately after however, that television was about to show the steps in how to get out of their predicament. Earl and Roy sports DeathGlare at Robbie who could only sheepishly apologizes for his actions.
* ItsAllAboutMe: This episode focuses on Baby's self-centered behavior and he finally averts this by saving his family.
