Great! A festive Christmas trap with my family.
When the Belchers get an unexpected invitation to cater the Glencrest Yacht Club's holiday boat parade, Bob wonders if there's a catch; Louise has her eye on the present-loaded Santa Schooner.Tropey or Nice:
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Turns out Jimmy Pesto really does respect Bob as a cook, and got him on the Yacht Club parade because he wanted the club members to like his burgers. True, it was because he wanted to join and thought he could impress the members enough to let him in, but the fact remains he wanted to impress him with Bob's food rather than his own.
- Being Good Sucks: When Bob decides to throw Jimmy a bone and hype him up to the yacht club, he clearly enjoys none of it.
- Louise is clearly unhappy with giving the toys back and even makes sarcastic quips when Teddy send the kids to get his "beard."
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Bob thinks it’s strange he was invited to cater the Yacht Club boat parade.Linda: It’s not strange.
Louise: Pretty strange.
Gene: Strangely pretty. - Brick Joke: Teddy mentions that among the gifts are some RC cars that go a little faster than normal; one time someone got hit on the foot by one and lost a toenail. At the very end of the episode, Louise is playing with one of the RC cars and it hits Teddy on the foot.
- Call-Back: Linda is still obsessed with the Mayor, as last seen on "I Bob Your Pardon".
- Christmas Episode: Though it deals less with holiday traditions (apart from Santa Claus and gift-giving) than a typical Christmas outing.
- Christmas Miracle: What Gene calls the kids getting done with prepping the sliders so quickly.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Jimmy takes Trev to go look at a boat with a dirty name, Trev says “Classic. I love names.”
- Conscience Makes You Go Back: Louise manages to get presents from the Santa Schooner, but then she sees all the kids waiting in line, feels guilty and brings them back. Teddy saves her a present she wanted as acknowledgement.
- Crowd Chant: As it turns out, this was Jimmy's ultimate plan—to have Trev fire up the crowd to chant Jimmy's name, getting him a yacht club membership.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Linda casually implies that the Glencrest Yacht Club used to have some... less-than-admirable membership restrictions.Linda: And there's a Santa, and they do Hanukkah, too, which is nice, 'cause let's just say the yacht club didn't always do Hanukkah.
- Department of Redundancy Department:Gus: I’m having craft beers and chicken satay and craft beers.
- Double Entendre: When the doorman tells the Belchers that going inside is for members only, Gene thinks he means a different kind of member.Gene: Members as in wieners?
- Female Gaze: Bob ends up wearing yacht club clothes after falling in the water. Linda admires how he looks in them, taking the time to look at his butt in particular.
- Gagging on Your Words: Jimmy can’t bring himself to say out loud that he thinks Bob’s food is good enough to be served on the Yacht Club boat parade. Feeling guilty about ruining his chances to be accepted as a yacht club member, Bob then turns it around by praising him to the owner about how Jimmy is his "mentor" and a "great guy", clearly struggling just as much to praise him in return and telling Linda that he feels dirty and that he should jump off the pier again to feel cleaner.
- Good All Along: Turns out Jimmy legitimately wasn't setting up Bob for humiliation; he really, honestly thought the Yacht Club members would enjoy his burgers. While he and Trev did have a plan to do something during the parade, it only consisted of Trev trying to start a wave by chanting Jimmy's name so that he'd be accepted as a yacht club member.
- High-Five Left Hanging: When Trev happily announces that Jimmy Pesto is at the top of the wait list for the yacht club, he offers Jimmy a high-five and a low-five, both of which are left hanging.
- Honorary Uncle: The kids refer to Teddy as one while trying to butter him up so they can get presents early.
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When Bob and Jimmy are wrestling around, the president of the club says, “Stop it! This is a yacht club, not a golf course!”
- Improperly Paranoid: Zigzagged. Jimmy actually didn't have an ulterior motive for inviting Bob to cater, but considering Jimmy's track record Bob has a very good reason to be worried about one.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Louise reassures Tina and Gene that Teddy’s not going to see them, right before Teddy appears behind them.
- Mall Santa: Teddy is playing Santa at the boat parade, handing out presents donated by Yacht Club members. Louise thinks she can get Teddy to give her and her siblings good presents without getting in line, but he’s too nice to do that.
- Not What I Signed on For: Tina wants presents as much as the other kids, but objects to Louise’s devious ideas for how to get them.
- Pants-Pulling Prank: Early on, Bob sees Jimmy Pesto pants Trev. When Bob learns that Jimmy was the one who recommended him to the Yacht Club, he thinks he’s being set up to have his pants pulled down in front of everyone.
- Running Gag: When Louise and Gene are trying to butter up to Teddy so he'll give them some of the presents before he runs out, Louise tells him that she considers him an uncle and a father figure and proceeds to call him Uncle Father Santa Teddy, which is what the kids refer him as for the rest of the episode and what he signs the note addressed to them taped to the extra present he saved for them.
- Sanity Slippage: Bob becomes increasingly paranoid about Jimmy Pesto recommending him to the Yacht Club, to the point that he believes Jimmy is going to pants him in public and attaches bungee cords to his pants to prevent him from doing so. In the end, Bob attacks Jimmy thinking he’s about to prank him, and the two end up falling off the pier.
- Shout-Out:
- The Store Next Door is "Wreath of Khan Themed Wreaths".
- At the yacht club, Bob is serving "I’m Brie-ing of a White Crisp-mas Sliders" (with Brie and crispy onions).
- Secret Test of Character: Teddy of all people pulls one of these, if in his own Teddy kind of way. When he spots the kids coming to get presents before the event he says he'll give to them "if they think that's the right thing to do". Once they decide against it and bring the presents back, he then asks them to go inside the boat and find his "spare beard"... in there, they find his bag with a note on it saying that he knew they'd do the right thing, and one toy car he couldn't give away (it's not quite up to code). The kids are overjoyed and play with it the rest of the episode.
- Supreme Chef: The mayor loved Bob's burger, even after it fell on the ground.
- Suspicion Aesop: When Bob finds out that Jimmy was the one who recommended him for the Yacht Club Parade, he spends the rest of the episode paranoid that he’s going to pull a prank on him. It’s later revealed that Jimmy had no such thing planned and recommended him because he genuinely thinks Bob’s food is good, albeit for the selfish reason of hoping it’ll help him become a member.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial:Teddy: I have to go now, and not because I have nervous diarrhea. Hey is there a toilet in this yacht? And not because I have nervous diarrhea!
