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When Teddy finds himself doubting his abilities as a handyman, the Belcher kids try to build up his confidence.

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  • After the End: Louise's story takes place after a giant flood, with Bob's Burgers converted into a makeshift barge.
  • Artistic License – Geology: Tina's story features an avalanche at the top of a mountain, which she and Linda think is accurate. Bob gives up trying to correct them.
  • Art Shift: Teddy’s telling of how Reggie’s gazebo burned down is done in Stick Figure Animation.
  • Call-Back: At the start of the episode, Teddy has just botched a job on Reggie’s gazebo, which Teddy, Gene, and Louise went to look at in "Uncle Teddy".
  • Character Shilling: In Tina’s story, Zeke, Jimmy Jr., and the Boyz 4 Now all say they find Tina interesting (though the Boyz don't remember her full name; Tina says it's her attempt to be realistic).
    • Each story is also this for Teddy by design, having him whip up incredible creations that are exactly what the Belchers need. Of course, that is the point.
  • Color-Coded Characters: The Belchers' Burgerbot suits each have white as a primary color, but their secondary colors differ (Bob has black/gray, Linda has red, Tina has blue, Gene has yellow, and Louise has pink).
  • Continuity Nod: In Louise's story, when Logan fires shrimp bullets at the Belchers, Gene cries out that some of them are allergic.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Teddy in each story is prepared for each situation the Belchers come across.
  • Easily Forgiven: Subverted; Teddy calls Reggie expecting to try and make amends after burning down his gazebo, but Reggie is not in the mood to talk to Teddy.
  • Entertainingly Wrong: Giving Teddy a pep talk, Linda brings up how Benjamin Franklin was electrocuted, yet perceived that as proof he wasn't perfect and whatever he was famous for made him the mascot of an oats box. Likely to show how dim she is—in actuality, Ben Franklin was electrocuted because he discovered electricity, so he was shocked on purpose. Also, assuming she means Quaker Oats, it's William Penn on the box, not Ben Franklin (with Bob's confusion indicating he knows she's wrong). Though, in Linda's defense, that's a common mistake.
  • Eyepatch After Timeskip: Logan is wearing a makeshift eyepatch in Louise's story.
  • Fartillery: It’s Gene’s story, so of course Pizzilla’s superpower is deadly farts. And of course they defeat it with the old “pull my finger” routine.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: In Louise's story, the Jolly Roger flag on the Belchers' barge has Kuchi Kopi's head instead of a skull.
  • Ho Yay: In-universe; throughout Tina's story, Bob compliments Teddy's looks and gets him to sit in his lap on the couch, where he playfully wraps his arms around his stomach to the delight of Teddy. Bob notices this and reacts with confusion.
  • Imaginary Friend: Gene claims his imaginary friend Ken wants to solarize his party deck.
  • Innocent Innuendo: Gene calling what Teddy does "handy jobs".
  • It's All My Fault: Teddy laments having burned down Reggie's gazebo via a faulty handyman job.
  • Lame Comeback: After Jimmy Pesto comes over to insult him, Bob snaps at him to "go back to your restaurant, where you... work!"
  • Lethal Chef: Jimmy Pesto's pizza sauce is so bad that it becomes radioactive and mutates an ordinary lizard into Pizzilla.
  • Like a Son to Me: The Pesto twins consider Pizzilla this, to the point that even after it mutates and starts destroying the city they beg the military not to hurt it.
  • Noah's Story Arc: Louise's story doesn't actually feature this trope, but Linda thinks it does.
  • Notzilla: In Gene’s story, the Pesto twins’ pet lizard is exposed to radioactive pizza sauce, mutating him into the ferocious monster Pizzilla.
  • Ocean Punk: Louise's story, the entire world is covered in water After the End.
  • Parental Neglect: Gene's story features Jimmy Pesto barely paying attention to his twins. If anything, Gene's being generous compared to how Jimmy actually is.
  • Ship Tease: While Tina's story features Jimmy Jr. hyping up Tina (as expected), it also features Zeke doing the same.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Skewed Priorities: The kids' main motivation to raise Teddy's confidence is so that Bob doesn't call a more expensive contractor and cancel the trip to the trampoline park.
  • Toku: Gene's story is a parody of it, with Teddy turning the restaurant into a Humongous Mecha to fight a lizard transformed into a Kaiju by Jimmy Pesto's radioactive pizza sauce.
  • Vignette Episode: The episode features each Belcher kid telling a story where Teddy’s handyman skills save the day.
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