Bad Dad
Fearing the negative influence that he could have on her children, Nancy rushes to get her father, Nick, a new job and out of her house.
"Bad Dad" contains examples of:
- Evolving Credits: Starting this episode, Nick can be seen next to Nancy in the opening.
- Eye Scream: Nick now has an eye patch to cover his missing right eye.
- Immediate Sequel: To the previous episode, "Green Trial", where Nick had made a surprising return.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Dwayne’s idea of “blowing off steam” is tasting different kinds of mayonnaise and ranking them on a scale from 1-2.
- Noodle Incident: In the time between dropping her father off and coming back for him, Nick got banned from the Smalton Train station. He also traded his ticket for a ferret and then lost it.
- Not What It Looks Like: After finding the kids, she saw Dweezil raising his ax thinking he was about to harm them and proceeds to attack him. Thankfully, Dweezil was only showing the kids how to handle an ax.
- Shout-Out: Among the many jobs Frank has to do is periodically entering a specific sequence of numbers into a terminal to reset a counter of some sort.
- Take Our Word for It: When Nick lifts his eye patch to reveal the missing eye underneath, all we get to see is a P.O.V. Cam from where the missing eye should be while the kids boggle at it, and by the time he is fully seen again, the patch is back on.
- Warts and All: Despite her fears of them being badly influenced by Nick, Cricket and Tilly assure their mother that they are more than aware of all of Nick's numerous flaws, but still enjoyed the fact that they were getting to know their grandfather because they enjoyed all of his insane stories and behavior, and that even though they know they have a pretty bad grandfather, they’ll be okay with that because they still have a very good mother like Nancy.
Junk Junkie
Bill's desire to give his children's future some more security takes a dark turn when he becomes a hoarder. Meanwhile, Gramma learns about decluttering her home from a reality TV series host.
"Junk Junkie" contains examples of:
- Artistic License – Physics: How is the roof strong enough to hold on to all the weight of all the stuff Bill collected for a little while?
- Big "WHAT?!": Gramma screams "WHAT?!" multiple times rapid-fire, when she sees the entire house cluttered up with junk.
- Bottle Episode: Most of the episode takes place in the Green house and its surroundings, with one scene in the office of the café and a few quick trips downtown.
- Comical Overreaction: Bill panics when he sees the Green's expense report and notices that profits are going down. The graph shows an almost imperceptible dip at the end of a rising line, yet that's enough for Bill to worry that he won't be able to provide for his family, which drives the plot of this episode.
- Dumpster Dive: Bill becomes so obsessed with providing with his family that he resorts to retrieving items straight from the garbage.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: After seeing that Bill stuffed the house with WAY too much stuff, Alice proceeds to say his full name "Billiam Robert Green" and calls him out for hoarding too much.
- Hypocritical Humor: Alice scoffs at Bill's over the top reaction to the expense report and wonders where he got his overdramatic demeanor from. Then she gets a text from Gloria and, assuming it's some sort of emergency, jumps over the fence like she was in an action movie.
- Insane Troll Logic: As time goes on Bill's rationale for keeping certain objects becomes more ridiculous; starting with keeping broken mannequins so his kids always have someone to talk to and ending with keeping a sign for Al's Fish, in case one of them becomes a fish monger and changes their name to Al.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Serenity Spruce seems to be able to know EXACTLY what her viewers were saying about her TV series and her minimalist decluttering habits and lifestyle and offers them encouraging words and advice while paraphrasing her viewers' exact words. She even seems to be able to give Gramma a knowing congratulatory wink once she has been able to successfully declutter her own room.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Serenity Spruce is a parody of Marie Kondo, who became famous for teaching people how to declutter their homes.
- Potty Emergency: Bill's hoarding leaves the house so cluttered that the kids can't even reach the bathroom. Tilly says she needs to use it, but then says she can hold it after he says he has a spare toilet somewhere.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Russell appears at the near beginning and tells Bill he is donating a couple of items to the donation center. This gives Bill an idea, he asked Russell to give him the boxes so the farmer can provide some stuff for his kids and began collecting used items. This was going well until Bill stuffed the entire house leading to a lot of trouble.
- Spit Take: Bill sprays his morning coffee all over the expense report when he sees a slight dip in profits.
- Trash of the Titans: Bill goes from accepting a few donations to becoming a full-on hoarder, filling the Green home with useless garbage. He finally realizes the error of his ways when the kids are trapped inside the house with no way out, and the ceiling is about to collapse on them from the weight of all the clutter upstairs.
