Airdate: March 18th of 2019
After Stan ruins their rain project, Steve and Roger run away to a Boarding School...only to realize it's an all-girls' school and everything that happens to them feels like something out of a cheesy 1980s spin-off sitcom. Meanwhile, a vulnerable, yet spunky orphan girl and an eccentric British relative move in to replace Steve and Roger.
This episodes contains examples of:
- Bus Crash: Steve getting kicked out of the school was written off in the end theme as him masturbating himself to death.
- Operation: Jealousy: One of the tropes that Roger brings up after realizing that he and Steve are in a spin-off is when a girl asks Steve to go to prom with her—Roger stops Steve before he can accept, claiming that she was only asking Steve to make her boyfriend over at PA's brother school jealous.
- Parental Substitute: Combined with Cool Teacher—after realizing that the writers are trying to keep them in the spin-off, one of the tropes that's brought up is when a male teacher comes out of one of the classrooms and describes himself as "the laid-back history teacher who's taken a special interest in the new kid." And after Steve and Roger run away (because at this point, they've decided to go back home), the teacher yells "I could've been a father-figure!"
- Replacement Scrappy: Invoked and parodied in-universe with the characters that move into the Smith household after Steve and Roger leave, neither of whom Stan (understandably) takes a liking to.
- The first to show is an obnoxious Punky Brewster parody.
- The second is an absurdly stereotypical British gentleman who claims to be a long-lost distant cousin.
- Sanity Ball: Roger holds onto this as soon as the clichés start becoming more apparent, like him questioning how the supposed "technicality" that got Steve into Pendlingtonton somehow has a clause which also has an addendum.Roger: The technicality has a clause?!
- The Stool Pigeon Teacher's Pet: Carla (later renamed "Beth") is this to Headmistress Mahoney—though it's unknown if she still retains this after Steve leaves the spin-off and Spitz becomes the new lead character.
- Running Gag: Headmistress Mahoney keeps talking about Steve's penis every chance she gets, which leads him to question if he's the first man she's ever actually spoken to in her life.Headmistress Mahoney: Oh, I could hear your little pecker swinging back and forth all the way down the hall. Clanging between your thighs like a church bell.
- Take Our Word for It: Parodied. The "technicality" which got Steve into Pendlingtonton is never elaborated on but is largely unquestioned. Yet somehow the technicality also has a clause, which also has an addendum. Roger is confused on both parts, especially because Headmistress Mahoney found the clause yet failed to notice the addendum until it gets pointed out to her.
- Values Dissonance: When Steve and Roger try to run away from all the cliched characters who want them to stay at Pendlingtonton, they bump into a Latin foreign exchange student who tells them "...in less than three years," her performance will be considered offensive.
- Very Special Episode: Combined with Special Guest and Musical Episode, this is another thing Roger brings up when Wayne Gretzky comes up to them and explains that he's there to teach a message about cyberbullying through "the power of song."
- Will They or Won't They?: This is another trope that Roger brings after realizing that he and Steve are in a spin-off—Spitz and the Babe claim to be the only lesbians at Pendlingtonton Academy, but they never seem to consider having a Relationship Upgrade.
- Who Writes This Crap?!: Subtly invoked by Roger as he repeatedly voices disgusted confusion at Pendlingtonton and the Contrived Coincidence that keeps piling up.
