Recap / Big City Greens S 2 E 10

Note: This is Very Loosely Based on a True Story.

Garage Tales

While browsing through the garage, Cricket and Tilly find a chest of Gramma's old belongings and she shares stories of her past, and the stranger she meets might have a connection with them.

"Garage Tales" contains examples of:

• Bottle Episode: Most of the present day scenes take place inside the garage, with one scene in Gramma's room in the end.
• Chupacabra: Alice's second story was about her hunting down the Chupacabra in Mexico.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Cricket reveals he believes the Earth is flat.
• Framing Device: The story is framed by Gramma telling her adventures to Cricket and Tilly.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": Cricket giggles as Gramma talks about Booby Traps.
• Never Say "Die": It is all but stated that Ernest died some time before the series began.
• Once More, with Clarity: Bill retells Gramma's stories as they really happened; Alice raiding a pyramid was actually her stealing Ernest's truck while he tries to fix her car, her hunting the Chupacabra was Ernest helping her keep out of the rain, and her saving Ernest from an exploding blimp was him proposing.
• The Reveal:
  • The guy tagging along with Alice in her stories turns out to be her future husband Ernest.
  • We learn more about Bill’s dad and what happened to him.
• Shout-Out: Alice's "adventures" can pretty much be found in a DuckTales cartoon.
  • In Alice's first story, Ernest is dressed like Indiana Jones.
• Took the Wife's Name: When Ernest proposes to Alice in the garage, she accepts under the condition he takes her last name, revealing Alice held the Green family name.

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A dog's duty to protect her kingdom.

Animal Farm

While the Greens are away, Phoenix competes against the mean rooster Cogburn to see who's the best leader of the farm, while Bill encounters a man who has the same name and appearance as him.

"Animal Farm" contains examples of:

• Always Someone Better: Bill is upset that there is another farmer named Bill Green who is younger, handsomer and more successful than he is. He goes to confront him, but the second Bill then tells him that he admires him because he has a family that loves him and a job that fulfills him.
• Animal Talk: When the point of view switches from the Greens to the animals, they speak perfect English while the humans only go Blah, Blah, Blah.
• Call-Back: Cogburn is obsessed with pie, as shown in "Harvest Dinner".
• Circling Monologue: Phoenix and Cogburn have one just before their Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Continuity Nod: This isn't the first time the farm animals broke into the house.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Cogburn manages to defeat Phoenix easily and claim the title as ruler of the animals.
• A Day in the Limelight: The main plot focuses on Phoenix and the other animals.
• Given Name Reveal: Remember the mean rooster from "Harvest Dinner"? He returns here, and his name is revealed to be Cogburn.
• Identical Stranger: The other Bill Green. Downplayed, as while he wears the same clothes and is also a farmer, his body type is trim rather than overweight and is more realistic.
• It's All About Me: Cogburn manipulates the other farm animals into rebelling against Phoenix to get inside the house for the sake of forcing them to bake as many pies as he wants.
• One-Steve Limit: The b-plot has Bill meet another man with the exact same name as him, first and last.
• Really Was Born Yesterday: When one of the chicks remarks that it doesn't remember the last time the Greens left for the market, Phoenix reminds it that it only hatched the previous day.
• Shout-Out:
  • The title is the same as George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm.
  • Rooster Cogburn shares his name with the protagonist of the book and film True Grit.
• Vocal Dissonance: Marjorie the female sheep has a rather deep male voice for her gender.
• Whole-Plot Reference: To the book it shares names with.

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