Howdy Doody's come to haunt you...
Hiya HenryTilly finds an old ventriloquist dummy to use for Big Coffee's Open Mic, but the dummy creeps Cricket out but he doesn't want to hurt Tilly's feelings.
"Hiya Henry" contains examples of:
- Break the Cutie: Tilly is completely reduced to tears when Cricket destroys Henry without even telling her he didn't like him in the first place, and even before that she was feeling mournful when Cricket buried him.
- Cannot Spit It Out: A lot of trouble could've been avoided if Cricket simply told someone he didn't like Henry.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: As Cricket realizes when telling the truth to Tilly, he could've told her or someone else he didn't like Henry so he wouldn't have spent the episode freaking out in the first place.
- Demonic Dummy: Hiya Henry, the dummy that Tilly finds, gets on Cricket's nerves throughout the episode.
- Didn't See That Coming: Having enough of Henry when Tilly has him sleep with him, Cricket violently buries Henry in the garden outside...the only downfall is he didn't know someone would dig him up, in this case Phoenix.
- Eye Awaken: Cricket does it when he awakens and sees Henry is gone the following morning (actually a dream sequence he's having).
- Foreshadowing: After Cricket buries Henry, Tilly is genuinely disappointed when she tells she cannot find him, which foreshadows her reaction when he destroys Henry mid-act.
- Glowing Eyes: Henry appears to have these when sleeping with a panicking Cricket.
- Hallucinations: Cricket imagines Henry talking to him demonically during Tilly's act, which Remy doesn't hear.
- Honesty Aesop: Tilly discovers Hiya Henry and decides to use him for her act; while most of the family is amused, Cricket is obviously terrified of him. But he cannot bring himself to tell Tilly and his family he doesn't like Henry, because he's worried he could hurt her feelings and ruin her fun. Eventually his fear gets the better of him and destroys Henry in the middle of Tilly's act, which in turn horrifies everyone and leaves Tilly hurt and sad as he predicted, and as she tells him, none of this would've happened if he just told her about it in the first place.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": Pretty much everyone in the audience when they see Cricket destroy Henry onstage, with Tilly having the biggest. Even Remy looks horrified at what his best friend is doing to his sister's act.
- Nightmare Sequence: Cricket has one where Hiya Henry has control over himself and the family, turning them into dummies.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Phoenix digging up Henry when Cricket buried him.
- Oh, Crap!: Tilly's reaction when she sees Cricket destroy Henry.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Cricket goes, "What...the...heck?!" when he sees Henry for the first time.
- Red Filter of Doom: Cricket's dummy-induced nightmare is tinted deep red. The background goes red again when his fear of Henry gets the better of him during Tilly's act.
- Reflective Eyes:
- Cricket when he first sees Henry.
- Henry in Cricket’s nightmare just before he turns into a dummy himself.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Cricket is constantly irked by Henry to the point he can't stand him anymore, but he doesn't tell Tilly about it because he doesn't want to hurt her feelings. When his insanity is pushed to the limit during Tilly's act, he destroys Henry in return, hurting Tilly's feelings anyway.
- Shout-Out: Hiya Henry is a parody of Howdy Doody.
- Spanner in the Works: Phoenix. She finds Henry buried in the backyard and digs him out.
- Sudden Eye Color: Cricket and the others suddenly gain eye colors when they turn into dummies in Cricket’s nightmare.
- Swapped Roles: This episode pretty much follows the same plot as "Barry Cuda" but with the roles reversed; in the former, Cricket gets something which irritates his family, while here, Tilly gets something the family loves, but irritates Cricket.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.
Fun fact: Everything is white. LAME!
People WatchingThe Green family plays the People Watching game where they make up stories based on the various citizens they find, but Bill has trouble making one of his own.
"People Watching" contains examples of:
- Animesque: Cricket's story is in the style of a manga comic.
- Art Shift: Each of the Greens' stories has a distinct art style. Nancy's is the regular animation style with a brighter color scheme, Bill's is various crayon drawings, Cricket's is based on a comic book, Gramma's is an old-fashioned woodcut, and Tilly's is in the style of 1930s cartoons.
- Black Comedy Burst: Tilly's story includes a puppy planet, but then briefly gets creepy when she ominously mentions a puppy dog with an unnerving, human face.
- Bottle Episode: The episode is set entirely at a single street, mainly the stairs to a building the Greens are sitting on.
- Fantasy Twist: Bill's stories are of the characters doing mundane, every day stuff, instead of the exciting, fantasy scenarios the others come up with.
- Framing Device: The episode is framed by the Greens telling stories about the citizens they see.
- I Have No Son!: Gramma threatens to disown Bill if he doesn't come up with a good story.
- Mouthflaps: Everyone in Cricket's story uses this technique when speaking, in keeping up with the story's anime style.
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: The Greens' reactions to Bill's boring story.
- Pie-Eyed: Everyone in Tilly's story has these.
- Retraux: Tilly's story is in the style of cartoons from the 1930s, with the Pie-Eyed characters and everything coming to life.
- Reveal Shot: In Nancy's story when Winifred drops her squeegee, she looks over her platform in fright due to her fear of heights, then the camera pulls back to reveal she barely left the ground.
- Scare 'Em Straight: Gramma's story ends with her protagonist, Bratty Teenage Daughter Grace, being Eaten Alive by a beast in the forest, and lamenting she hadn't listened to her mother, who to top it off died of disappointment. All in order to deliver a lesson about "listening to your mother".Bill: Mom, that was pretty heavy.Gramma Alice: Of course it was! that's what makes it good. You know what you call a story without a moral? A POEM!
- Voice Changeling: Everyone in the Greens' stories speak in the voices of whoever is the narrator and anyone who gives comments on such.
