"I forgot how horrible our town is."
"I was going to high-five a seagull!"
—Louise
When the Belcher kids participate in a beach clean-up for Wagstaff Volunteer Day, Louise gets drawn into a battle of wits with Mr. Fischoeder; Teddy surprises Bob and Linda with a new look.
Tropes, Please:
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Getting a moustache goes to Teddy's head. He spends the entire subplot grooming it and talking about it. He even buys an expensive moustache grooming kit.
- Bittersweet Ending: Louise didn't get Fischoeder to close Wonder Wharf for her and the other kids like she planned, but she did convince him to pay his employees to clean the beach (although Mickey doesn't seem to be very good at it); and as Tina points out, in her selfish way, she did do some good. Also, the kids did get the free foot long taco dogs that Louise originally asked for.
- Blackmail Backfire: Louise's last resort against Fischoeder is to shoot a picture of a hermit crab wearing a Wonder Wharf dipping sauce cup and threaten to post it on social media, making him look bad. Fischoeder even compliments her on "some fine blackmailing", but he counters with paying his employees to pick up the garbage, which both preserves his reputation and completely negates their previous deal.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Inverted. Teddy believes he's committed a heinous betrayal of Bob's trust by disliking a Burger of the Day two weeks ago, down to remembering which Burger of the Day it was. Bob, meanwhile, is pretty sure he wasn't even listening when Teddy initially told him, and still has no idea what he's talking about.
- Didn't Think This Through: Louise thinks that she can blackmail Mr. Fischoeder into giving the volunteers a free day at Wonder Wharf. She didn't anticipate that he'd just allocate labor of his own to clean the beach, which would not only preserve his reputation but also render their bet moot (because the students aren't the ones cleaning the beach).
- Food and Animal Attraction: Gene is followed around by a seagull; he speculates it's because he's always dropping food at Wonder Wharf and all the gulls have taken notice.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality:
- Wonder Wharf is contributing a lot of trash to the beach, which Mr. Fischoeder is ignoring until someone offers to clean it up for free. Louise and the rest of the kids aren't wrong in wanting some compensation for a day's work that wasn't strictly volunteering, since they presumably couldn't opt out of "Volunteer" Day.
- On the other hand, people keep volunteering to clean up the beach for Mr. Fischoeder, so there isn't much reason for him to pay people instead. While he was perfectly willing to give the kids some compensation for their work, and still does even after he no longer needs to, Louise's demand to close off the Wharf to everyone but them for a whole day was completely disproportionate and, as Mr. Fischoeder said, would hurt his business. We also don't know if he would've given them a free day while keeping the rest of the park open, rather than cheat, so it could have been a case of Louise overplaying her hand.
- Got Volunteered: Mr. Frond outright calls his new idea the "Wagstaff Mandatory Volunteer Day". He got it watching prison inmates collecting trash on the road and thought "Why not the same thing, but with school children?"
- Imagine Spot: Louise's overly rosy vision of a beach cleanup day being a beach party.
- Innocently Insensitive: Teddy aggravates Bob by obsessively trying to bond with him over his new mustache.
- Law of Disproportionate Response: The reason Teddy hadn't been at Bob's in two weeks and grew a mustache just like Bob? He didn't like a previous Burger of the Day and thought he insulted Bob by saying so. Bob doesn't even remember it happening.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Teddy apparently hasn't been in the restaurant for two weeks, referencing how there was a two-week gap between this episode's air date and the last episode's air date. Or, alternatively, it's referencing how Teddy wasn't in the last episode.
- Nobody Here but Us Birds: The signal for Mickey to spread garbage all over the beach is Felix shrieking like a peacock, because it's the only animal sound he can make.
- Only One Finds It Fun: Tina is the only one enthused about cleaning up the beach. Louise was at first, thinking they weren't going to clean that much, but then she saw how dirty the beach was. Tammy and Jocelyn, meanwhile, are more interested in taking selfies to prove how "environmental" they are than actually picking up trash.
- Series Continuity Error: Teddy's mustache is brown, even though "The Deepening" and "Sliding Bobs" established that Teddy's natural hair color is blond. That said, blond-haired people have had their hair turn darker with age.
- Shout-Out:
- The Store Next Door is "Sips of the Father: Sippy Cups for Men". Just like the previous episode, this could be a reference to any one of a multitude of media named Sins of the Father, namely four songs, four movies, and many books.
- The Exterminator Van is "Spider Off Dead".
- The Burger of the Day is the "Your Cress is on My List Burger".
- Louise stipulates that if the volunteers clean the beach, Mr. Fischoeder has to give them a free day at Wonder Wharf with no lines and free snacks, calling it "the full Willy Wonka". When Tina points out that they won't get ownership of Wonder Wharf at the end of the day, Louise changes it to a "three-quarters Wonka".
- While not seen, Teddy mentions a previous Burger of the Day known as the "It Takes Gouda Make a Thing Go Rye Burger", a reference to "It Takes Two", a song by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Not seen but alluded to through the Store Next Door, "Sips of the Father".
- Status Quo Is God: Teddy eventually comes to believe his mustache is a curse because it's caused further friction between him and Bob and decides to shave it. He attempts to do this at the restaurant in front of another customer, but Bob and Linda talk him into waiting until he goes home.
- This Is My Chair: During the two weeks Teddy was gone, Mort took Teddy's usual seat in the restaurant. He takes advantage of Teddy being turned around to change seats before Teddy notices.
- Trash of the Titans: Louise thought cleaning up garbage at the beach would be a literal day at the beach, until she sees how dirty the beach is. She realizes all of it comes from Wonder Wharf, and Mr. Fischoeder won't do anything about it because volunteers keep cleaning the beach for him.
- You're Just Jealous: Bob just doesn't want to talk about mustaches all the time, but Teddy thinks he's getting envious about Teddy's new mustache.
