Louise and Jessica team up with a fifth-grade girl to find a sea monster spotted off the coast of Seymour's Bay; Bob takes an online course headed by a master chef.
Three Girls and a Little Tropey:
- The Bus Came Back: Louise's friend Jessica makes her first appearance since Season 4's "Slumber Party".
- Call-Back:
- April Busby, as apparent proof of Wharfy's existence, cites an incident where part of the wharf collapsed. As it turns out, Louise had a very good reason to be skeptical, because she was there as said incident happened and it definitely wasn't because of a sea monster.
- Tina's drawer of Jimmy Jr.'s socks, as mentioned in "Teen-A Witch", is finally seen here.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Meghan is a little out there. Aside from Wharfy, she believes Kathy Bates was once undercover at Wagstaff as a lunch lady, thinks #2 pencils are made out of literal #2 (As in poo) and is just generally off.
- Cryptid Episode: Louise, Jessica and Meghan go hunting for "Wharfy", a mysterious sea creature that has been sighted around the wharf.
- Disney Acid Sequence: Bob gets a vision in which everything in the food chain — from the grass to the cow to the truck that delivers it to all the ingredients in his burgers — has his face.
- I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: When Louise is doing online research on cage traps.Louise: Okay, "Traps for large sea creatures" is not something I ever thought I would type.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Is Wharfy really a sea monster, or just a big fish? Although the episode leans towards the latter, and the series's realistic nature makes the latter even more likely, it still leaves it open to interpretation.
- Naked People Are Funny: Gene walks down to breakfast naked, and plans to go to school that way because it's Pajama Day and this is what he slept in last night. Linda and Bob naturally won't let him, but he compromises by eating his breakfast naked.
- Non-Mammalian Mammaries: Meghan thinks Wharfy is a she because the picture appears to show it as having boobs.
- One-Steve Limit: Meghan is also called Fifth-Grade Meghan to distinguish her from an apparent Seventh-Grade Meghan (who has never been seen in the series).
- Schmuck Bait: Literally, as Louise traps Tina and Gene with the trap designed for Wharfy by using prosciutto (for Gene) and one of Jimmy Jr.'s socks (for Tina) as bait.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode title is one to Three Men and a Little Lady.
- The Store Next Door is "North by Knockwurst Sausage Store".
- The Exterminator Van is "The Usual Bugspects".
- About Meghan thinking that Kathy Bates was masquerading as a lunch lady for a movie role, Louise sarcastically suggests that the movie is Fried Green Tomatoes 2: the Tomatoes Are Back.
- For '80s Day in Spirit Week, Gene dresses like Ouiser from Steel Magnolias.
- The second Burger of the Day (and the first visible one) is the "Goat Tell It On The Mountain Burger".
- The final Burger of the Day is the "Glazed and Infused Burger".
- Sleeps in the Nude: Gene attempts to go to school naked because it's Pajama Day at school and he slept naked the previous night. Needless to say, Bob and Linda quickly veto that idea.
- Stock Ness Monster: Wharfy.
- Word Salad Philosophy: Bob listens to an online class by a famous chef, which largely consists of pretentious rambling about the "everythingness of food". Bob spends the entire subplot trying to figure out what the chef even means by this.
- You Monster!: Gene is upset about the girls throwing fried dough for Wharfy.Gene: You're throwing fried dough in the ocean? You're the monsters!
