"I am the swamp witch of Big City! I hearby curse anyone who reads this page!"
Urban LegendWhen Bill discovers Gramma has been making the Big City residents think she's an evil witch, he throws a barbecue to prove them wrong.
"Urban Legend" contains examples of:
- Animation Bump: Gramma's Jump Scare at the beginning and Cricket's expressions when he drinks "devil's brew" are a lot more exaggerated and detailed than the previous season.
- Bottle Episode: The episode only takes place at the Greens' house, mainly the living room and front yard, save for a few shots of the sidewalk and a brief scene in a hardware store.
- Break the Haughty: Cricket, who chose to side with Gramma because he thought it would be fun to scare people, gets hit with this the most after the townsfolk form an angry mob and realizes it isn't fun anymore when their pranks turned them against the family.
- Burn the Witch!: What the mob tries to do with Gramma.
- Character Development: Cricket's moral from "Cheap Snake" to think before he decides comes into handy here, as he is able to pause and think before deciding whose side he's on.
- Continuity Nod: Gabriella's friends are among those who come to the barbecue.
- Description Cut:Gramma: Trust me, they'll think twice before they come back here again!
(Cut to the visitors at the hardware store)
Red man: We've thought about it. And we'd like to buy these pitchforks and torches, please. - Faint in Shock: One of the little girls faints at the sight of what appears to be Cricket turning into a chicken.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: While Nancy and Tilly support Bill's idea of a barbecue, Cricket is suddenly torn; he does like making new friends, but he believes it's fun to scare people and play tricks on them, so he sides with Gramma. However...
- Everyone Has Standards: After the people form an angry mob, Cricket says that it's no longer fun when the victims of his pranks try to physically harm him and his family.
- Forced Transformation: Cricket pretends to transform into a chicken after drinking "devil's brew" (actually dirty water from a rain barrel), crawling behind a drum and pushing out a chicken dressed in his rags. When Alice "transforms" him back to normal, Cricket lures the chicken away with feed and comes back out. It completely fools the neighbors, but not Tilly.Cricket: I was beast in both body and mind, and it was misery.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: A variant for Cricket trying to decide who to side with, with Bill as the angel and Gramma as the devil.
- Gone Horribly Right: Gramma's swamp witch ruse scares the visitors so much they form an angry mob and vow to murder her, and she realizes her mistake and must set things right.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- It is Gramma's right to keep strangers off her property, even if how she goes about it is drastic and unnecessarily menacing.
- Cricket, of all characters, did provide a strong explanation when he realizes it's not fun to scare people anymore when the townsfolk form an angry mob and tells her it's a lot less fun than he thought.
- "Kiss the Cook" Apron: Bill puts on his "fun apron" for the barbecue, which reads "Look Who's Cookin'" under a hand pointing up.
- Noodle Incident: It was mentioned by Bill that Tilly tried to fry a dozen eggs before.
- One-Episode Fear: The townsfolk's fear of Gramma was only acknowledged this episode.
- Only One Finds It Fun: Cricket was the only one who liked Gramma's swamp witch persona and chose to side with her because he thought it would be funny to scare people.
- Series Continuity Error:
- No mention of Gramma as a swamp witch was made before this episode.
- Cricket claims scaring people is funny, but in "Blood Moon", he wasn't happy when Bill scared them by secretly letting the animals out on purpose for the sake of not wanting them to trick-or-treat without him.
- Smoke Out: Gramma uses sacks of flour for this. The first time, you can still hear her and Cricket struggle with the front door, yet all the passersby believe she disappeared into thin air.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "You don't. Drink. Barrel water."
- Torches and Pitchforks: The neighbors form a mob to get the "swamp witch". But first they stop to buy torches and pitchforks at the hardware store.
- Wicked Witch: What Gramma pretends to be to scare off the townsfolk. Bill is genuinely surprised to see they actually believe it. It really makes you question how gullible the people of Big City are. How can there be a swamp witch in the middle of a city?
- What the Hell, Hero?: Bill toward Gramma for pretending to be a swamp witch and scaring the townsfolk.
Which side are you on?
Wishing WellCricket makes a fake wishing well so people can pay him, but when Tilly makes a wish, he's faced with a dilemma.
"Wishing Well" contains examples of:
- Aesop Amnesia: Despite learning not to scam in this episode, Cricket still scams and swindles over the course of the series.
- All or Nothing: When Cricket gives Tilly the jar of money found, she dumps all of it into Cricket's well to increase her chance of making her wish come true.
- Argument of Contradictions:Devil: He should just keep the money!
Angel: (gasps) No, he should not!
Devil: Yes he should!
Angel: No, he shouldn't!
Devil: Yes!
Angel: No!
Devil: Yes!
Angel: No! - Battle in the Center of the Mind: Cricket's Angel & Devil fight each other in his head, they are bumping into his brain and causing him fits.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Cricket screams, "BE...QUIET!" as he has enough of his consciences arguing.
- Break the Cutie: Cricket revealing his well was just a scam to get money was enough to reduce Tilly to a complete depression.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: We meet Cricket's personal devil and angel. The devil appears first, and Cricket is wary of him at first, because he looks like, well, a devil. The angel appears two hours later because the devil had him tied up, and starts annoying him until he does the right thing. In addition to this, the consciences appear to interact with the physical world (such as when Angel empties out a jar of gumballs and when Devil drinks out of a cup), as opposed to the traditional way when they solely appear in the mind of the person alone.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Cricket when he realizes his angel conscience was right and he must do what needs to be done.
- Punctuated Pounding: "And I'll punch...your...butt!" (as Angel Cricket punches real Cricket's butt)
- Shout-Out: When Cricket's consciences are fighting in his head, he briefly lapses into Sonnet 29.
- Suck E. Cheese's: Snuggly Pete's Pizza, the kid's restaurant Cricket goes to to spend the money he earned.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Cricket's angel gives him one when he realizes he scammed Tilly out of her money and won't leave him alone unless he learns his lesson.
