"I am the PTA!"
"Linda thought this would be more dramatic."
—Bob
Linda becomes desperate to impress the Wagstaff School's PTA president, Joanne, but discovers Joanne is not what she seems. Meanwhile, Bob offends a hardware store owner and tries to get back in his good graces.
PTA It Ain't Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: Mr. Kim's son Danny sometimes calls Teddy "Todd".
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Joanne seems like a nice, friendly type, but she's been skimming money from the PTA's coffers by using the business credit card for personal expenses like cafeteria visits, guilt-tripping the companies providing the merchandise for the charity auction into donating more items than they initially agreed to and then stealing the extras, and is buying science kits from her husband's company at a huge markup.
- Brick Joke:
- During her proposal for the fundraiser theme, Linda suggests that they dress up someone as a shark. At the end, Colleen shows up dressed up as a shark to expose Joanne's embezzling.
- The kids draw a wanted poster of a bird wearing a top hat while farting to move while using roller skates. The credits scene shows a top hat-wearing bird on roller skates propelling itself with farts.
- Call-Back: Once again, Bob's venting provides Linda the cure for insomnia.
- Can't Take Criticism: Linda gets upset when Colleen shoots down her beach idea. Joanne uses this to butter Linda up for her own benefit.
- Daydream Surprise: Linda meets Joanne at the restaurant, where Joanne demands Linda sign a contract in blood, then pulls off her face to reveal that of a Big Red Devil, then pulls that face off to reveal Linda's own face while flames surround the two. Then Linda wakes up in bed with a start.
- Enemy Mine: Linda is forced to team up with her Sitcom Archnemesis Colleen Caviello to expose Joanne's schemes.
- Facial Composite Failure: Bob has the kids make wanted posters for Mr. Kim's parrot, but they draw it with a top hat, roller skates and a fart cloud. When Bob asks for something more realistic, Tina decides that means the farts won't propel the bird far enough on roller skates and draws a bigger fart cloud.
- Flipping the Bird: Linda announces that she has a "spirit finger" for Colleen. We don't see her do it, but Joanne's reaction makes it pretty obvious.
- Hands Go Down: As Joanne is being kicked off the PTA, she mockingly demands to know who's going to stay and help clean up the sand off the floor. Everyone's hands immediately go down.
- Hidden Depths: Colleen was mainly known for cooking stuff and annoying Linda, but she's also really good with managing money and figured out everything Joanne was skimming from the budget over the years.
- I Am the Noun: During her rant, Joanne brags "I am the PTA!"
- Imagine Spot: Linda is about to have one where she's having breakfast with Joanne and says so out loud, but just after the first "ripple" of the usual Flashback Effects transition into a new scene, Tina interrupts her, says she can imagine it too, closes her eyes and goes "ahh yeah, that's pretty good".
- Innocently Insensitive: Bob keeps accidentally reminding Mr. Kim of his missing bird. First he sees the empty cage and jokingly asks if he lost his bird. When he sends flowers, he asks for the "cheapest expensive flowers" they had, which turn out to be bird-of-paradise flowers. Finally, he and Teddy come to Mr. Kim with replacement birds, only for Mr. Kim to have recovered his bird, which gets spooked by Bob and Teddy's loud arguing.
- It's All About Me: Teddy cares less about Bob accidentally offending Mr. Kim because of Mr. Kim's feelings, and more because Teddy's association with Bob is starting to hurt his own relationship with Mr. Kim, such as causing him to terminate Teddy's business discount.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Colleen may be bossy and unlikable, but she's right to point out how Linda's plan for a beach-themed charity event is going to be expensive and time-consuming (she calculates the cost at nine thousand dollars).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: "Gold" may be pushing it, but in contrast to Joanne being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, the bossy and unlikable Colleen is at least honest and willing to work with Linda in exposing Joanne's PTA embezzling.
- Manipulative Bitch: Joanne uses Linda to further her thievery by supporting Linda's bad ideas and then spinning sob stories about sometimes using the PTA credit card to get a muffin for herself.
- Mondegreen Gag: Up until now, Linda thought fundraising was funraising. She hastily claims otherwise when Bob realizes it.
- Motive Rant: When Joanne is exposed, she rants about how she was taking stuff and skimming money because being PTA president is a thankless and time-consuming job with no pay.
- Rule of Drama: Linda's reason for having Colleen in a shark costume while exposing Joanne.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Joanne hypes Linda up as new PTA treasurer, Colleen storms out of the room in anger.
- Shout-Out:
- The Exterminator Van is "Into the Spider Hearse".
- The first Burger of the Day is the "One Flew Okra the Cuckoo's Nest Burger".
- Gene's overly-long title for himself in the first scene (seen in Try to Fit That on a Business Card) is a clear reference to Game of Thrones.
- The janitors playing at the fundraiser form a band called the Bleach Boys.
- Linda and Joanne visit a candle shop called "John's Wick".
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Linda needed Colleen's help to expose Joanne by crunching the numbers for everything Joanne's stolen and skimmed, but as they're exposing Joanne the two keep insulting one another.
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card The first line of the episode sees Gene refer to himself as "Gene-eesi, Toilet King of the House Belcher, first of his name, Pincher of Loafs".
- Villain Has a Point: Joanne is absolutely wrong to take free stuff and skim off the top of the PTA coffers, though in her Motive Rant she gives compelling examples of how being PTA president is a thankless and time-consuming job with no pay and lots of hard work with very little appreciation from the other PTA members, such as the fact that she sends tons of e-mails about various issues they need to take care of that nobody ever reads. In particular, when she asks who would like to clean up all the sand from Linda's beach theme idea, every hand that voted her out shoots back down.Joanne: That's what I thought!
- "You!" Exclamation: Mr. Kim confronts Bob and Teddy with an angry "You!" when they barge into the hardware store and scare his parrot again that he just managed to get back.
