After a fight over charm bracelets, Tina, Gene, Louise, Tammy, Jocelyn, Jimmy Jr., and Zeke have to serve detention at school. Mr. Frond makes a deal: participate in a fashion show and the winners will leave early. Meanwhile, Bob tries to convince Linda not to buy magazines from a girl.
The Trope-way Club:
- Ambiguous Syntax:Tammy: I can't believe you won't go to detention for me.Tammy's Dad: I already told you, if I could I would, but I can't fit into your clothes, Tammy. You know I want to.Tammy: You want to go to detention for me or you want to wear my clothes?Tammy's Dad: Just go.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Ms. Schnur hates all of the kids' outfits for various reasons: Tammy and Jocelyn's being too flirtatious for the Chinese food deliveryman, Jimmy Jr. and Zeke's being too offensive for suggesting that she is a couch, and the Belchers' because Tina knocked over all the photos of her nephew and broke the glass for at least one of them.
- Asshole Victim: Neither Bob nor the audience feel bad when Jimmy Pesto is scammed into buying forty magazine subscriptions.Linda: Today was a good day.Bob: Yeah, I mean, we got screwed, but Jimmy got screwed more.Linda: Yeah...
- Bathroom Stall Graffiti: While using the urinal, Mr. Frond spotted a crude stick figure of himself with the caption "Sweater vest? More like sweater mess!", which is what inspired him to do Scared Fabulous.
- Batman Gambit: Bob gloats about the magazine subscriptions he's buying because he knows Jimmy Pesto will stop at nothing to outperform him. It works when Jimmy decides to double Bob's offering.
- Big "NO!": Used for comedic effect when Tammy takes the stapler out of Tina's hands, only for there to be a second one right in front of her.
- The Breakfast Plot:
- A parody of the Simple Minds song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending. The tune itself plays during the start of the episode.
- At the start of the episode, Zeke mirrors Bender on the way he is going to the school, even with his shades.
- The ending has the kids making the iconic dances of the film on the counter.
- Although a far more subtle reference, the janitor of the movie was quite the Nice Guy, similarly, in the episode, the janitor Mr. Branca is the one that let the kids free.
- Similar to the movie, the episode ends with everyone getting out of the school together.
- Brutal Honesty: Linda outright tells Sally that she's probably involved in a scam.
- Can't Take Criticism: After leaving him numerous messages about his Scared Fabulous program, Frond finally gets a call from Principal Spoors, who says he hates it. Frond asks if he means that ironically.
- Character Development: Tina's finally started to recognize what a bitch Tammy can be and snarks back at her, after repeatedly misunderstanding Tammy's animosity in the past.
- Continuity Nod: Mr. Branca previously mentioned his status as the ex-president of a foreign country in "The Millie-churian Candidate".
- Deadpan Snarker: Tina gets a pretty good zinger on Tammy, all with her usual monotone delivery:Tina: I'm a little disappointed, too. Before I saw it on you, I thought this bracelet was classy.
- Didn't Think This Through: Frond continues with Scared Fabulous even after Principal Spoors makes it clear he wants it shut down, and goes so far as to agree to the kids' ultimatum for letting them free if they beat him, which they do. It's not until Frond sees Principal Spoors pulling up to the school that he realizes Spoors expects to see seven kids in detention and won't be happy to find zero instead.
- Disaster Dominoes: How all the kids wound up in detention on the same day. Tina and Tammy were fighting over their jelly charm bracelets; Jocelyn, Gene, and Louise tried to break up the fight; Zeke thought they were playing "Red Rover" and tackled the girls; Jocelyn panicked and pulled the fire alarm; and Jimmy Jr. got caught up in the moment and tried to use a fire extinguisher as a smoke machine.
- The Dreaded: Mr. Frond seems to be afraid of angering Principal Spoors. After leaving him messages about his Scared Fabulous program, Frond gets a call from Spoors, who hates the idea and likely ordered for detention to go as usual. He also told Frond to never call him on the weekend ever again, likely threatening to fire him. When Spoors returns to the school at the end of the episode after the kids have been let off early from detention due to winning their bet against Frond, he panics and intentionally trips the fire alarm just like Jocelyn did at the beginning of the episode.
- Fashion-Victim Villain: In-universe; the students find Mr. Frond's sweater vest completely ridiculous.
- Fire Alarm Distraction: The students in Saturday detention manage to convince Mr. Frond to let them leave early, so when Principal Spoors shows up to check in on them, Mr. Frond panics and pulls the fire alarm as a distraction while he runs out of the building.
- Gilligan Cut: After Tina reassures Mr. Frond that they all learned something about teamwork from the "Scared Fabulous" program and she's shown giving up her bracelet willingly, it cuts to the other kids having to wrestle Tammy into submission so they can use her bracelet for Gene's outfit in the final contest.
- Hidden Depths:
- Mr. Frond is revealed to love fashion competitions. To a lesser degree, it seems that Jimmy Jr. and Zeke also have some interest in fashion, although they seem to lack any real knowledge about it.
- Mr. Branca the janitor was apparently the president of his old country who was ousted in a coup and forced to flee to America.
- I'll Kill You!: Tammy threatens to kill Tina over the friendship bracelet before lunging at her.Tammy: Take. It. Off!Tina: I. Would. Rather. Die.Tammy: THEN YOU WILL DIE! (attacks Tina)
- Irony: Tammy can't fart when she wants to, but when it's totally inconvenient for her she's a gas machine. She lampshades it.
- Insane Troll Logic: Frond believes the best way to overcome hostilities over fashion is to have the kids compete with each other in a fashion competition. Guess he's pretty irony-blind and the only reason the kids participate is to leave detention early.
- It's All About Me: Tammy believes that Tina got the bracelet just to copy her, while Tina actually had no idea Tammy also had the bracelet. Later, when presented with the opportunity to help the entire group in exchange for her bracelet, everybody actually has to wrestle the bracelet off of her.
- The Lopsided Arm of the Law: The worst Gene and Louise did was try to break up the fight between Tina and Tammy, and Tina didn't even fight back (if anything, it was less of a fight and more of Tammy attacking her), yet because Frond only walks in after everything's escalated he places all of the kids (Belcher kids included) in detention, not relenting even after Louise explains everything.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Tina in the end has a comic version of this to the realization of how stupid the bracelets are, and that's even more stupid to have started a fight over it.
- Obliviously Evil: Since she's a child, Sally doesn't seem to be aware that she's basically being used to run a scam.
- Only Sane Man: Principal Spoors calls Mr. Frond on the phone to tell him he hates his "Scared Fabulous" program idea and wants detention to go as it should.
- Pet the Dog:
- During the confrontation that gets them in trouble, Louise restrains Tammy to keep her from attacking Tina. Tina thanks Louise with a high-five.
- Bob is able to rope Jimmy into buying magazines from Sally, making up for his skepticism about their authenticity.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Tammy and Tina's fight is preceded with this.Tammy: Take. It. Off!
Tina: I. Would. Rather. Die! - Pushover Parents: Tammy's father, to the point that he seriously considers going to detention in place of his daughter and only doesn't because he wouldn't be able to pass as her.
- Redemption Rejection: Tammy has the opportunity to stop being a selfish jerkass when she's asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids are working on, just after Tina takes hers off and realizes how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy has to be restrained to get the bracelet off her wrist.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Mr. Frond believes Scared Fabulous will go national.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Jocelyn's mother debuts, and she looks just like her daughter.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: The kids let Frond believe in his assumption that both Tina and Tammy willingly gave up their bracelets to complete Gene's lettuce costume, because the alternative is explaining that they had to forcefully remove Tammy's bracelet.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Tammy and Tina need to team up in the end, but they keep bickering.
- Tempting Fate: As soon as Louise compliments Tina walking, she slips and knocks a bunch of photos on the floor.
- Underestimating Badassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams (only losing the first round due to something completely unrelated to their outfit) and are crucial for the students to escape at the end. Even Tina warns Mr. Frond at the beginning that he's underestimating them.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Mr. Frond's competition is grossly improvised: Out of the three judges (the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand anything about fashion, one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a Cloud Cuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school: respectively, office material, old mats and gym clothes, and trash. Frond makes the competition happen anyway.
- Would Rather Suffer: Tina refuses to let Tammy cow her into taking off her bracelet, saying she'd rather die. Tammy is all too eager to oblige her, screaming at her to die and grappling with Tina to try and force it off.
