"Ok, pencils down"
"Alright, ok, one of them can go. I don't care which one, they're all equally terrible."
—Linda
To get out of a grounding from a miffed Linda, the kids hold a writing contest to escape with Gayle to a night out.
Gene produces The Ballad of Gayle and Jo-Gene. A tale of country singers and snakes.
Tina gives us Lady Chatter-teeth's Love. A Victorian romantic epic...kind of.
And Louise produces Gayle Of Thrones. An adventure through the dangerous lands of Catsteros.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Bob certainly thinks the prank the kids pulled on Linda was pretty funny. In the end, Linda has to admit so too.
- Adaptational Heroism: To earn her interest, each of the kids write Gayle in a more flattering way. Depicting her as humble, caring, responsible and all-around wonderful, a far cry from the selfish, emotionally unstable, lazy and borderline insane mess of a woman she actually is.
- Adaptational Villainy: Linda's the bad guy in all three stories because the kids are mad at her.
- In Gene's story she's "Lindette," Jo-Gene's ex-partner who dumped him and tried to sabotage his performance with Gayle. She ends up losing to them and is forced to marry a drunken barfly (Bob).
- In Tina's story she's Lord Bob's horribly obnoxious American fiancee whom he's marrying for money. Tina mentions at the end they're also cousins and had a kid with a tail.
- In Louise's story she's the evil hag "Lindaria" (which is likely fashioned after a mix of Cersei Lannister and Lysa Arryn), and eventually gets thrown into her pit of ravenous porcelain babies after mistreating her servant Bobdor too many times.
- Gene also becomes this in Louise's story as he is envisioned as a magician from Lindaria's kingdom who kickstarts the plot by kidnapping Gayle's cat dragons.
- All Part of the Show: Lindette tries to sabotage Jo-Gene and Gayle's performance by putting a snake in one of their guitars. The two musicians get around this by having the snake be involved in their song which boosts their chances of winning.
- All Women Are Lustful: As expected of Tina, the attendees of the ball partake in an elaborate dance that involves their butts. The dance is called The Hiney Liney.
- The Bore: Queen Gayle and Knight Louise venture through a wasteland infested with white talkers (all of whom look like Teddy) whose constant ramblings can place any unfortunate soul into a deep slumber.
- Call-Back: Queen Lindaria has a pit made of animated and vicious porcelain babies.
- Gender Bender: In Tina's story, Gene is a woman named Eugenia.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Knight Louise sacrifices herself to protect her queen from the noxious spell of the white talkers.
- The Reveal: Near the end of the episode, we find out what the kids did to get grounded. They pulled a small prank on Linda at the supermarket that ended with her tumbling into a display of maxipads and farting in front of several people.
- Running Gag: Gayle demands Scott Bakula. And the kids find ways to insert him into their stories. Although in Louise's case she just shoehorns him into the end with no explanation why.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: None of the kids end up leaving with Gayle, as her date is able to un-cancel at the last minute and she goes with him instead.
- Shrinking Violet: In Tina's story, Gayle is unable to get married because she's "far too shy".
- Vignette Episode: The episode is shared between three tales of the kids trying to impress their Aunt Gayle.
- Wedlock Block: Tina writes a story in which four sisters (played by herself, Louise, Gayle, and a gender-flipped Gene) cannot get married until the oldest, Gayle, does so. Unfortunately, Gayle is too shy and neurotic to get a man, to the chagrin of Tina, who wishes to marry Jimmy Jr.'s fantasy counterpart.
- Whole-Plot Reference:
- Tina's story is titled after Lady Chatterley's Lover, and rifts on the works of Jane Austen.
- Louise's story is a parody of Game of Thrones.
