Big City Greens S 1 E 5 / Recap

Recap / Big City Greens S 1 E 5

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Can Hot Rod Alice pass her driving test?

Gramma's License

After discovering Gramma's license has long been expired, Cricket and Tilly help her practice for her test so she can get it renewed.

"Gramma's License" contains examples of:

Animal Mecha: Crunchasaurus Rex, a mashup of vehicles in the shape of a dinosaur.
Big "NO!": By the singing hot dog vendor when Gramma's car destroys the stand. Later by Benny and the announcer when Crunchasaurus is destroyed.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Gramma manages to get over her fear and renew her licence, though under restrictions.
Face Your Fears: Gramma learns she needs to take her drivers test even if it risks making her feel old and useless if she fails.
Gasoline Lasts Forever: After years or even decades of disuse, Gramma's car pulls right out of the garage (and into a squad car) without refueling.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!:
Cricket: We just wanted to help you get your confidence back so you can pass that dang test!
Reduced to Dust: Gramma's license expired long before Keys was even born, and it is so old and worn it literally turns to dust and withers away.
Visual Pun: This gem.
Cricket: Wow. Gramma's really mad. She's even grindin' her teeth!
[Cuts to Gramma literally grinding her dentures on a grinding wheel]

Bears Are Bad News...except this one.

Bear Trapped

Cricket becomes attached to a bear going loose in Big City.

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Played with, with the lesser offense occurring in the middle:
Cricket: Bears are a menace; they'll terrorize the innocent, rifle through our garbage, and if left unchecked, will eventually destroy this good city!
Bears Are Bad News: Cricket is terrified of bears, until he actually meets one.
Beary Friendly: The bear Cricket encounters. Tilly names her Daisy, and he becomes attached to her.
Big "NO!": The burrito vendor screams "Noooo!!!" in fury when Daisy destroys his stand.
Bittersweet Ending: Cricket is forced to let the bear go into the sewer, but he still keeps in touch with it.
Character Development: As of this episode, Cricket no longer despises bears.
Continuity Nod: Cricket's disdain for bears is explored here in this episode.
Good All Along: Cricket discovers the bear is not as bad as he thought and is more tame than usual, and bonds with her.
Good-Times Montage: Between Cricket and the bear as he does requests for her and bonds with her.
Irony: Cricket hates bears; ironically, he has never encountered one in his life. The moment he actually meets one, his opinion soon changes.
My God, What Have I Done?: Because of all the time he spent with Daisy, Cricket realizes she shouldn't be taken away by Animal Control and she's their friend, and deserves to be free.
One Dose Fits All: Animal control's Tranquillizer Darts non-fatally put down both a man and a pigeon.