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* GenderSeparatedEnsembleEpisode: This episode revolves around Gwen and Esther having a [[GirlsNightOutEpisode "staycation" at Gwen's house]], with the boys Keith and Scrags out doing Gwen's errands for her to give the two of them a chance to bond. Notable because Creator/JoeyRichter had previously expressed regret that ''Theatre/TheSolveItSquadReturns'' blatantly fails the UsefulNotes/BechdelTest despite only having four major characters; this episode seems written to explicitly address the lack of Gwen/Esther interaction in the original show. (Although it then goes on to kind of parody the idea of doing so, with Esther and Gwen only bonding because Esther [[SlippingAMickey drugs Gwen's drink with molly]] and openly saying they're only quoting the "supportive best friend" character in movies.)

'''Scrags/Keith/Gwen/Esther''': Oh yeah, loud and clear./For sure, for sure, for sure./I was trying to pretend like I didn’t hear it./[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers There is a systematic problem with law enforcement in this country]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: In-universe, Creator/TheCW is apparently doing a gritty, realistic reboot of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' as a live-action series and Nicholas has talked them into letting Gwen star in it. As a bonus, it's pretty clear that Gwen is a WTHCastingAgency choice to play Miss Frizzle, having little in common with her other than her natural hair color.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: There's a bit of a FailedFutureForecast in this episode, where Keith angrily defends the ''WebVideo/{{Ratatouille}}'' Tiktok musical by arguing that it raised $2 million for the Actors Fund -- even though the reason for the fundraiser in RealLife was the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which clearly isn't going on in the 2021 of the series.

** Keith and Vince namedrop several Broadway shows and personalities when discussing theatre, including Vince giving a ShoutOut to friend of Creator/TeamStarkid and the Creator/TinCanBrothers Andrew Barth Feldman as "the definitive [[Theatre/DearEvanHansen Evan Hansen]]", and Keith giving an angry defense of the Tiktok WebVideo/{{Ratatouille}} musical as "real theatre" in the face of Vince's dismissal of Internet musicals as "[[SelfDeprecation amateur hour]]".

* WriterOnBoard: Done intentionally, with the recent reveal that Keith was a frustrated DramaClub kid leading him to express several opinions about theatre shared by Gabe Greenspan and the Creator/TinCanBrothers, culminating in him having a huge argument with Vince about the validity of the ''WebVideo/{{Ratatouille}}'' musical as "real theatre".

* MixAndMatch: In-universe, Gwen's old TV show was a bizarre mash-up of a PoliceProcedural and a MedicalDrama, ''Dr. Officer Cop, MD''. ''Back in Biz'' takes the joke about TheCoroner being a thankless job on a typical PoliceProcedural and takes it up to eleven, imagining Gwen being on a show where she does ''both'' the job of a doctor ''and'' a cop ''at the same time'', depicting her holding a patient/suspect at gunpoint and interrogating them about their crimes while simultaneously prepping them for a lifesaving surgery.

* {{Calvinball}}: Tucker's new game, just called "The Game", is a MixAndMatch hybrid of a ridiculously escalating series of unlikely other games (starting with combining beer pong and Frisbee golf, then adding an opportunity to challenge your opponent to a Krav Maga match, then going on from there).

The livestreamed readings consist of four supposed episodes of the animated series, presented in two different reading sessions. Each episode features the original cast of ''The Solve-It Squad Returns!'', with Gabe Greenspan as Keith, Creator/JoeyRichter as Scrags, Ashley Clements as Gwen and Creator/LaurenLopez as Esther, along with one SpecialGuest star per episode plus Creator/BrianRosenthal as "[[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles Everyone Else]]".

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Creator/BrianRosenthal is once more coming back to play "Everyone Else", although this time he's not playing ''all'' the characters outside the Solve-It Squad -- each episode has a SpecialGuest who plays at least two different roles.

* ChekhovsGun: The tranquilizer dart gun that [[spoiler: Ken]] drops when he's arrested, and the hand gesture his accomplice uses to freeze Doinky in his tracks and make him start [[ADateWithRosiePalms licking himself]].

* ExcitedShowTitle: The official scripts reveal that, yes, every one of the episode titles is officially supposed to have the exclamation point.

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* GunpointBanter: The TitleSequence gives us a brief glimpse of Gwen's show, ''Officer Dr. Cop, MD'', which parodies the RecklessGunUsage of a badly-written cop show UpToEleven, showing her with her pistol out to interrogate at gunpoint a patient in the hospital hooked up to an IV and respirator.

* MixAndMatch: In-universe, Gwen's old TV show was a bizarre mash-up of a PoliceProcedural and a MedicalDrama, ''Dr. Officer Cop, MD''. ''Back in Biz'' takes the joke about TheCoroner being a thankless job on a typical PoliceProcedural and takes it UpToEleven, imagining Gwen being on a show where she does ''both'' the job of a doctor ''and'' a cop ''at the same time'', depicting her holding a patient/suspect at gunpoint and interrogating them about their crimes while simultaneously prepping them for a lifesaving surgery.

* SinisterSurveillance: Tucker Bossman's evil plan. Pretty much the same EvilPlan as any other [[NewMediaAreEvil new media tech company]], just taken UpToEleven in his case.

* SociopathicHero: Taken UpToEleven with Esther, who remains the hero of this episode despite flicking a cigarette at an annoying teacher to set her hair on fire, callously watches as Mr. Farmer flings himself off the roof in the throes of a MushroomSamba, frames an innocent ''twelve-year-old'' as Mr. Farmer's drug contact in order to get the heat off themselves, and eventually reveals that they're ''responsible for countless deaths'' as a former enthusiastic enforcer for TheMafiya who left only for selfish reasons (stealing thousands of dollars in the process).

* {{Corpsing}}: Robert Manion revealed he had to mute himself to avoid letting anyone hear him do this in reaction to the "rage room" scene, leading to him being muted as Paris in the next scene. The whole rest of the cast, in turn, was struggling with this during his tearful breakdown as Nicholas at the Lonely Man storage facility.

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Esther's internal headspace is entirely populated with identical clones of themselves doing different jobs (in homage to ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', among other things). Hilariously, the Esther soldiers have combat uniforms that are just copies of Esther's schlubby outfit, with standard-issue flannel shirts, beanie hats and [[{{Meganekko}} coke-bottle glasses]].

** The vagueness of the timeline can also be chalked up to this show taking place in an AlternateHistory based on a deliberate DeweyDefeatsTruman -- ''Back in Biz'' takes place in a version of the "present day" that doesn't acknowledge the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic that was the whole reason for it being created in this format in RealLife (as is the case with many Zoom-based productions). Gwen's husband Nicholas apparently got out of a traffic ticket by offering the police chief admission to the red-carpet premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'' last year in 2020 -- a red-carpet premiere that, of course, never happened in RealLife.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: There's a bit of a DeweyDefeatsTruman paradox in this episode, where Keith angrily defends the ''WebVideo/{{Ratatouille}}'' Tiktok musical by arguing that it raised $2 million for the Actors Fund -- even though the reason for the fundraiser in RealLife was the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which clearly isn't going on in the 2021 of the series.

* SocietyMarchesOn: In-universe. The Rothman and Ringting Traveling Circus no longer uses animal performers at all, making them a RedHerring for the Solve-It Squad's case. Instead they use humans as oddly convincing {{Pantomime Animal}}s, an ability apparently unique to French Canadians. (A ShoutOut to Creator/CirqueDuSoleil.)