When Tina's new shirt is ridiculed by Tammy and Jocelyn in a Wagstaff News segment called "Wow or Weird," she turns to her erotic friend-fiction and writes about a futuristic world in which she is a robot. Meanwhile, Bob grapples with his self-worth after finding a series of demeaning messages in the restaurant's bathroom.
(Eighth) Grade Troper:
- Adults Are Useless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it. Instead, he prefers to go on about the touchscreen they got for it through the school's funding. This influences Tina’s decision to destroy the touchscreen to put an end to “Wow or Weird” by the end of the episode.
- Ageless Birthday Episode: Even though her upcoming birthday doesn't actually happen in this episode or the next (but was implied to be quite soon), Tina is still 13 years old in future appearances.
- Bathroom Stall Graffiti: Bob's storyline has him discover that someone wrote "Bob's is crap" in the bathroom and get upset about it. When Teddy discovers the "Bob's Burgers is Poop" scrawl, he too gets very upset.
- The Bully: Tammy and Jocelyn basically use "Wow or Weird" to hype up themselves and presumed friends while being complete assholes to everyone else. Jimmy Jr. and Zeke even call them out on it after one of their segments singles out the former.
- Call-Back: One of the "Wow or Weird" segments focuses on Jimmy Jr.'s admittedly-strange running style.
- The Cameo:
- Kendra Stokes appears near the start of Tina's story.
- Dr. Yap appears on a holographic advertisement, as both a Call-Back to Tina's crush on him and a parody of Blade Runner's famous shot of the massive geisha advertisement screen.
- Cliffhanger: The erotic friend-fiction ends with Tina separated from her allies (who are being surrounded and/or restrained by authorities), Bob's plotline ends with him questioning his self-worth and the bathroom graffiti remaining unsolved, Tina's plotline ends with her vowing to permanently end "Wow or Weird" by any means necessary, and Gene and Louise still haven't gotten their boba.
- Composite Character:
- Buttard is overall an Expy of Rick Deckard, but he has the implanted memories of the company owner's niece like Rachael.
- Tina also serves as a composite of the replicant characters. She is trying to beat the system and live a normal life like Roy Batty, is subject to a test that identifies bots like Leon, becomes romantically involved with the officer assigned to catch her like Rachael, and is shown sleeping in an alley like Pris.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Louise likes robots that look like the Terminator and are the Terminator.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Teddy vows that when he finds the bathroom vandal, he'll lock them in his truck and do something to them. We don't hear the rest of the threat before Linda cuts him off.
- Entertainment Above Their Age: For once, Bob indulges in it as he stayed up late with the kids to watch the end of Grease and the start of Blade Runner, the latter of which Linda acknowledges as not quite age-appropriate.
- Failed Attempt at Drama: At the start of her first, Grease-themed friend fiction, Tina (as "Candy") opens the doors to Wagstaff, blows a bubble with her gum and then spits it out on the ground. She immediately steps in the gum and gets it on her shoe.
- Fun T-Shirt: Tina's shirt, which she proudly bought with her own money, has a picture of a horse and the caption "Clip Clop and You Don't Stop". Tammy and Jocelyn rag on it during their "Wow or Weird" segment, getting Tina depressed and setting up the main plot.
- Innocent Innuendo: Gene's verse of the ending song is him lamenting that he never got to "taste those balls".
- Medium Awareness: In Tina's story, Bob comments that the walls are reinforced with concrete and the windows are bulletproof because they live in a horrible dystopian nightmare.
- Morphic Resonance: Robot!Tina has her glasses and a yellow chip on her head where Tina’s yellow hairclip usually is. Robot!Tammy and Robot!Jocelyn have purple and green clips on their heads where they typically wear their scrunchies.
- Noodle Incident: When Bob yells upon seeing the bathroom graffiti, Linda thinks he fell in the urinal again.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is a reference to both Some Like It Hot and Blade Runner.
- Shout-Out:
- Bob and the kids stayed up late to watch the end of Grease and the start of Blade Runner.
- The first Burger of the Day is the "Leek-y Tikki Tavi Burger".
- The second Burger of the Day is the "Sage of Innocence Burger".
- The third Burger of the Day, featured in Bob's dystopian restaurant, is the "Mad Flax Curry Road Burger".
- The first thing Tina-bot does in the city is walk up to a mannequin (that she thinks is a bystander) and inform them that she specifically needs their coat, their shoes, and their bike.
- When Louise comments that Tina is still "in a huff," Gene calls Tina "H.R. Huffnstuf."
- Gene rants that "WALL•E is more human than all of you!"
- Skewed Priorities: Louise and Gene are worried about Tina... because she's too depressed to take them to get boba drinks like she promised and is due to receive a free extra-large drink on her next visit. Linda is no better, being more concerned with finding out what to get Tina for her birthday. And Mr. Grant not only chose to use the school's money to buy the "Wow or Weird" touchscreen instead of textbooks, but talked his colleagues into going along with it.
- Stage Whisper: Tina's birthday is coming soon, and Bob and Linda try to whisper among themselves what they should get her... right in front of Tina, who lampshades that they are not being very quiet.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Tina's story moves to Bob's Burgers, she specifically mentions how it's not crap at all, referencing the graffiti in the bathroom. Later, when they talk about the secret escape tunnel, Story Gene says that he never used it to pee.
- Tempting Fate: Zaff claims his contact in the company is very trustworthy and promised not to tell anybody he, Tina, and Buttard were bots on the run. Cut to a Coincidental Broadcast about the three of them on the TV above their table.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Jocelyn is usually a better person than Tammy and if anything her nastiness is usually because of Tammy's bad influence, but in this episode she actively tears people down alongside Tammy and shows little to no remorse for such.
- Whole-Plot Reference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to Blade Runner, inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before she began the story. Several of the characters are stand-ins for the film's characters and even share similar names: Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Rick Deckard (and has his last name changed to Butt-ard), and Zeke is a stand-in for Gaff (with his name changed to Zaff). The story even reveals that Jimmy Jr. is a robot, referencing the extremely popular fan theory that Deckard is a replicant.
