On a quest to attend King Grouper’s Christmas party and deliver a promised tree, Lady Oona and Lord Goby must journey through a kingdom known as Winteros and face the ravages of winter and a mysterious Freezy Dragon, who seems intent on keeping them from the festivities.
Tropes Are Coming!
- Braving the Blizzard: Lord Goby and Lady Oona must travel through a blizzard to make it to King Grouper’s Christmas party.
- The Cameo: David Cross as the Freezy Dragon.
- Christmas Episode: After the Guppies learn about winter and Christmas, they make believe that they’re attending a Christmas party in the mythical kingdom of Winteros.
- Christmas Songs: “It’s Christmas Time Again!”
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: The tune used for King Grouper’s doorbell is the same as the show's theme song.
- Human Snowman: A bunch of snow gets dumped on Gil at the beginning of the episode and turns him into this.
- Jaw Drop: The Guppies all do this when they find out that the Freezy Dragon just wanted to ask them for directions to the exact same party they’re on their way to.
- Loud Gulp: Goby’s reaction to being warned about the Freezy Dragon that flies around Winteros.
- Our Dragons Are Different: The Freezy Dragon is a talking dragon that looks like it’s made of snow and has holly and jingle bells wrapped around his horns.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: A reference to the Game of Thrones tagline “Winter is coming!”.
- Shout-Out: The Guppies’ recess time Imagine Spot is very loosely based on Game of Thrones, involving royalty, dragons, and a kingdom called “Winteros”.
- Snowy Sleigh Bells: The Freezy Dragon has bells wrapped around his horns that jingle to signal his arrival.
- Sweet and Sour Grapes: The Guppies lose the Christmas tree they were going to bring to King Grouper’s party, but they end up getting an even bigger and better one with the help of the Freezy Dragon.
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That: When Oona and Goby are reading the magic letter King Grouper sent them, it’s like they’re having an actual conversation with him.King Grouper: There’ll be plenty of yummy food…Goby: And hot chocolate with marshmallows?King Grouper: ...and hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows!Goby: And a big tall Christmas tree!King Grouper: But I don’t have a big, tall Christmas tree…
- Unimpressive Progress Reveal: Oona and Goby are struggling to push a giant Christmas tree on a sled to King Grouper’s party. They stop and Oona asks “Are we there yet?”. The camera pans out to reveal they haven’t even left the Christmas tree lot.
