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Season 1:

     Age of Hinobi 
  • Miko sending the family's Great Dane in her place when they leave for the day.
  • Five’s grandparents shoving a coffee truck out of the way with their taco truck. All the more while La Cucaracha is playing from the sirens.
  • During the tournament, Miko is singing her own theme song, including the lyrics “rainbows of pain.”
  • Mitch runs into a young fan at the Hinobi Smash tournament.
    Kid: (awestruck) You're Mitch Williams!
    Mitch: And you're not. (kicks the kid off the edge of the platform).
  • One of the players gets eliminated from the game by jumping off a platform and not even getting close to the other one. Appropriately, his in-game nickname is "Noober".
  • Miko accidentally activating lasers when she’s questioning the security system of Mitch’s van.
  • When Miko is cornered by the Chomp Kitty, she requests that her browser history be deleted before she dies.

     Tutorial Mode 
  • Five and Miko’s exaggerated recap of the first episode.
    • The reveal that they are telling this to an elderly customer who only wanted rechargeable batteries.
      Phil: They're still learning where things are, what they cost, and why we don't tell customers about our super secret task force of monster hunters!
      Customer: I am so confused.
      Phil: Oh good! Please accept this coupon and a memory wipe of everything my staff just told you. (resets her)
  • "I'm so focused, glasses need ME!"
  • Miko’s skyward NO when she learns that she and Five need to complete a tutorial to qualify as glitch techs.
  • Miko's unmitigated horror when the tutorial program smugly calls her and Five "Noobs."
  • Miko facepalming with a gauntlet.
  • Phil shoving BITT out of the way when Barbara starts her safety checks.
  • Five and Miko drooling over the game files.
  • After Smashing Garbile with a mop, Miko is both freaked and disgusted when tiny slime monster pop out.
    Miko: EW, dude it had babies!
  • Phil neglected to install a highly important software update in favor of using BITT to pirate the newest season of a cheesy buddy cop show.
  • Phil’s glaring red face when he learns about Five and Miko’s fiasco.

     Going, Going, Gauntlet! 
  • Miko’s imagine spots where she’s the heroine in a sci-fi intergalactic setting.
  • Five and Miko’s lampshaded epic entrance… only to come across a puny goblin glitch.

     Smashozaurs 

     Castle Crawl 
  • The inside of a suburban house with a environmental glitch reminiscent of a European gothic game, Castlestein, has its own dramatic theme music.
  • Upon entering the house with the Castlestein interior (courtesy of the glitch), Miko promptly poses with various gargoyle statues and takes selfies at lightning speed.
  • Count Nogrog’s Evil Is Hammy vibe as he does his own spin on the famous "What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets!" line.
  • Miko remarking that Bergy wasn’t frozen in a very cool pose.
  • Five’s excessive looting.
  • "CASTLESTEEEEIIIIIIINNN!!!!
  • Miko casually waiting around while Five gets his butt kicked completing the next level.
  • Miko’s exclaiming “I KNEW IT!” after Five admits he never completed Castlestein.
  • Miko mouthing the Count’s lines.
  • Five and Miko have “True Loves Kiss” in their arsenal. True Loves Kiss turns out to be a cannon.
  • Five and Miko posing with Bergy in his uncool pose and taking pictures.

     Alpha Leader 
  • Mitch gets infected with a dangerous nanoflu and goes into a quarantine bubble.
    • Phil in a deadpan uncaring voice saying that Mitch was probably gonna die.
      Mitch: I'm DYING?!?
      BITT: (cheerily) Technically, all humans are.
  • Miko mimicking Mitch.

     Collection Quest 

     Adventures in Pet Training 
  • Miko woefully dreading the prospect of reading all nine pages of Ally’s user manual.

     Karate Trainer 
  • The Running Gag of Five improving his stealth techniques by hiding in boxes.
    • At one point, he tries to sneak close to Niko in a box; she notices him without even having to turn and look.
  • When Lexi and her rival Nancy greet each other, Nancy, an Irish-American looking young red headed girl, speaks to Lexi in Japanese and even her English has a Japanese accent.

Season 2:

     Ralphie Bear Is Back 
  • Five's sheer excitement at the titular Ralphie Bear's return completely blinding him to Miko's obvious discomfort as he goes on and on about Ralphie Bear and the "Birthday Ruiner" (Miko herself).
  • Miko's surprise when Five enters his name as "Hector."
    Five: You thought my parents named me Hi-5?
  • The episode's Five Nights at Freddy's parody is completed when Five hacks the surveillance feed and starts switching between the cameras, culminating in a FNAF-style Jump Scare of Cakey von Smasher.
  • The episode ends, of all things, with Phil doing a startled jump kick on the new Ralphie Boar animatronic.

     BUDS 
  • Bergy still following Mitch's orders, even forgetting to join the rest of the Glitches in leaving the house.
  • Miko getting KOed when "Phil" changes his mind about throwing a party tonight, complete with the logo as she Double Take's on the floor.
  • Phil being there at the party, complete with a Hawaiian shirt trying to party with his employees.
  • Miko claiming no one can easily be changed as "Bergy" pops back into the party with a completely different attitude.
  • Miko finding out about the BUDS Copycat glitch, all excited until she's trapped by tentacles and dragged to it's leader.
    Miko: I hate being right.

     The New Recruit 
  • A random girl spots Ridley spying on Miko and Five's adventures as Glitch Techs as she leaves the bush. Ridley's response? Book it and run.

     Find the Glitch 

     Settling the Score 
  • Nix claims to know the high score holders of every game at Joystick Jr. and proudly says "That's why they call me the Scorekeeper." Miko points out that no one calls him that, so he asks them to start. He immediately fails to live up to the hype he's trying to start when he doesn't know anything about whoever kicked Miko off the high score table, prompting her to declare "And you want to be called the Scorekeeper!"
  • When Miko and Mike start playing, an exasperated Five can briefly be seen lying on the floor holding a sign that says "Save Me".
  • As he scales the Kaiju Miko is controlling, Five is hit by a flock of birds. Afterwards, he spits out an egg one of them left behind, that then hatches in his hand. The hatchling can be seen in his hair later in the episode.

     BITT Prime 
  • While looking through old image files in BITT's memory, Miko and Five find one of a young glitch tech with red hair. They scroll through more such images and watch them timelapse into Phil; Miko's reaction is one of pure horror:
    Miko: I have seen the ravages of time...

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