Don't let the parade pass you by, even if it's the busiest day of your job.
Parade DayWhen Parade Day comes to Big City, Cricket is determined not to miss it during his 15-minute break.
"Parade Day" contains examples of:
- Art Shift: Cricket’s plans are shown as top-down abstract views complete with doodles of his, Tilly’s and Gloria’s heads.
- Bittersweet Ending: Cricket successfully reroutes the parade to Big Coffee and Gloria gets to see it for the first time. However, Cricket himself fails to watch the parade due to choosing to cater to the angry customers; he's not sad however, as he doesn't need to see the parade anymore because he already lived it.
- Black Comedy: Tilly disposes of Miss Splish offscreen by unexplained means.
- Captain Ersatz: One of the floats is Crabby Tabby, based on Garfield, and another resembles the Genie from Aladdin.
- Hope Spot: Cricket has Tilly distract Keys while he adjusts the barricades to reroute the parade to Big Coffee...then a truck carrying barricades crashes and spills all the barricades out.
- Loophole Abuse: One look at the poster of all employees getting a mandatory 15-minute break inspires Cricket to leave the Big Coffee and see the parade. He even says "loophole!" to top it off.
- Never My Fault: Cricket claims the “unforeseen circumstances” for his first plan weren’t his fault, when really it was, as a barricade truck was coming at the same time he adjusted the second barricade, and it crashes because of such.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Cricket uses a Loophole Abuse to watch the parade; once he leaves, Gloria has to attain to a mob of hungry customers. By the time Cricket returns, the cafe is a total mess.Cricket: This all happened in 15 minutes?!
- Race Against the Clock: Cricket has 15 minutes to enjoy the parade and get back to work or he'll get fired.
- Twinkle in the Sky: The last we see of the Splish genie balloon after Cricket is dropped off at the cafe by it.
- Twisted Echo Cut: Occurs when a barricade truck crashes right when Cricket and Tilly adjust the second barricade:Cricket: This is not good.
[cut to Big Coffee]
Gloria: This is not good!! - We Need a Distraction: Tilly distracts Keys by having him take photos of her while Cricket adjusts the barricade behind him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Miss Splish is usurped by Tilly offscreen she's never seen again.
They say "do it yourself," but when you're in danger, well...
DIY GuysBill takes the kids to the hardware store to get a new vacuum battery and uses such to teach Remy about self-reliance.
"DIY Guys" contains examples of:
- Batman Parody: Tilly Top self is one of them.
- Break the Haughty: A mild example with Bill. Bill prides himself on being self-reliant and not asking for help, but when he goes to a hardware store, it's too big and confusing for him to find what he's looking for, and he steadfastly refuses to ask the employees for help finding it. Eventually he is forced to ask for help when a shelf full of toilets threatens to fall on him.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Remy and Bill.
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with the vacuum once again breaking down and Bill asking Remy to call the repairman.
- Ignoring by Singing: Bill forces Remy to do this to a worker to ignore her advice on where to find a vacuum belt.
- Mistaken for Servant: Cricket is mistaken for one of the store workers because his overalls are similar to their uniforms. He's put in charge of the forklift, and Hilarity Ensues.
- Never Say "Die": Averted with Bill's lesson near the end: "Always DIY, unless you're about to DI-Die."
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Cricket's reaction to Bill's "self-reliance speech", though in a dismayed manner rather than shocked.
- Playing Possum: Tilly does this when Bill is making his "self-reliance speech" to Cricket's chagrin.
- Sudden Eye Color: When Bill sees the toilets about to fall on him, his eyes briefly turn green.
- Title Drop: Several times over the course of the episode.
