Ack! Give My Backpack Back, Jack!
Oh no! The Captain's lost his backpack of powerful novelty items just as Rutger calls out for help. Seems nefarious squirrels have taken over his tree house! And if that weren't bad enough, they're fighting the Captain with his own novelty items from his own backpack - which they're holding hostage. Has ever there been a bleaker day?
Tropes in this episode:
- Booby Trap: Just when Milo returned to Rutger's treehouse after luring the squirrels out briefly, he starts to slip on a couple of marbles and then trips on a string, causing arrows to shoot at him, meaning that the squirrels boobytrapped the treehouse with Milo's novelty items.
- Chased Off into the Sunset: Milo gets chased by squirrels out to the sunset during the Narrator's So Once Again, the Day Is Saved moment.
- Covered in Gunge: Just when Milo tries to lure out the squirrels from Rutger's treehouse by feeding them peanuts, the squirrels shoot slime on him with his slime slobber that he originally has from his Power Pack containing his novelty items that the squirrels stole which makes him powerless, causing him to covered with it.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- To get the squirrels out of Rutger's treehouse and retrieve his Power Pack, Milo decided to borrow Rutger's lunchbox so he can feed the squirrels peanuts in order to lure them out. However, the squirrels starts to attack Milo with his slime slobber, the same exact one that Milo originally has from his Power Pack before the squirrels took it to start using them instead of him.
- Milo then hears barking sounds from a TV. It turns out it was just a commercial for dog food so Milo uses Lizbeth's tape recorder to record the barking from the commercial to lure the squirrels out, as they hate dogs. Although the plan worked briefly, just when he returned to Rutger's treehouse, it was filled with a booby trap, causing him to slip on marbles and trips on a string, causing arrows to shoot at him.
- Milo then starts negotiating with the squirrels to know what they want from him. After seeing a game show on TV that has a contestant winning a fabulous prize, he decides to trick the squirrels by showing them some fabulous prizes (done with paper and marker) such as new luggage and a new dinette set. The squirrels decided for the latter but Milo doesn't have it with him at the moment, so he decided to write an IOU to them. However, just after he finished writing it, the writing in the paper becomes invisible as a result of the squirrels giving him gave a pen with invisible ink, causing this entire plan to backfire.
- Dogs Hate Squirrels: More like the other way around. One of Milo's failed solutions to lure the squirrels out of Rutger's treehouse as well as retrieving his Power Pack back from the squirrels, was to record audio of a dog barking from a dog food commercial by using Lizbeth's tape recorder, as they hate dogs. Although it did work briefly, the squirrels boobytrapped the treehouse just when Milo reenters there.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Milo decides to think and act like a squirrel by pretending to be one. Although Lizbeth was thinking of a different plan entirely, the plan eventually worked as him pretending to be a squirrel led to the squirrels to start following him, leading them out of Rutger's treehouse. Moments later, Milo receives his Power Pack back from his front door from Rutger as the squirrels have disappeared and hasn't came back to his treehouse as the squirrels have found a new leader, which turns out to be Milo.
- Invisible Writing: When Milo decides to write an IOU to the squirrels as he doesn't have a new dinette set to give the squirrels as a fabulous prize, the pen the squirrels gave to him was one with invisible ink, causing all of the words in the IOU to become invisible just after he finished writing it.
- Rapid-Fire Nail Biting: Happens to Lizbeth when Milo crosses the trike lane while pretending to be a squirrel, which a couple of toddlers in tricycles eventually runs over the squirrels that were following Milo.
- Slippery Skid: Milo starts to slip on a couple of marbles just when he returned to Rutger's treehouse due to being boobytrapped by the squirrels with his novelty items that they stole from him.
Appointment Terror!
Milo and Lizbeth will finally get to see how their favorite monster movie ends when it comes to the Saturday matinee monster movie. Except, there's a kid in trouble! It seems that Tabitha has lost her electronic overscheduler. Faced with a moment of underachievement, she freaks. Can the Captain find the overscheduler, plus wrestle a hydrangea and make it back in time to see the movie? Here's hoping.
Tropes in this episode:
- B-Movie: Milo and Lizbeth watches "Attack of the Common Houseplants!" on TV in order to find out how the movie will end since bedtime is always ten minutes before the big finale. Turns out at the end that the Mercenary Gardner overwaters the evil hydrangea plant, similar to what Milo does to a real hydrangea plant moments earlier thinking that Tabitha's overscheduler was stolen by the plant, even though it was actually behind the plant and didn't actually steal it.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- Milo's plan to find Tabitha's electronic overscheduler is to retrace her steps. He decides to use his Eavesdropper 5000 to detect the ticking sound from the overscheduler which reminds her what exactly what she's supposed to be doing before its alarm goes off. He starts hearing a ticking sound from the clocktower, thinking that the overscheduler is left inside there. Turns out, it wasn't there and instead hears the ticking sounds of the clock, leading to it going off at noon causing him to vibrate from the loud sound of the clock ringing.
- Tabitha mentions that she last left her overscheduler inside of the greenhouse. However, Milo mishears her that the overscheduler is outside of the greenhouse as he thinks that somebody has stolen it. He then sees a lady holding an overscheduler out of the greenhouse, so he, Lizbeth and Tabitha starts to follow her. This lead to Milo using a whoopee cushion for her to sit in order retrieve it back. After doing so, she drops the overscheduler and uses a net to catch it and gives it back to Tabitha, just before her speech on fair banking practices. Although her speech turned out well, it was revealed that the overscheduler that she was holding wasn't actually hers, but rather the same lady from earlier, which lead to her to start freaking out as her real overscheduler is still lost.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Although Lizbeth has found Tabitha's electronic overscheduler behind the Hydrangea plant next to him, Milo thinks that the plant has stolen it so he decides to battle with the plant by overwatering with a hose to get it back, despite literally being behind the plant. Unfortunately, the overscheduler got wet from the water, causing it to get busted. However, Milo gives her a new calendar that mentions getting the overscheduler repaired, which is what she was late for all along.
- Expressive Hair: Tabitha's hair starts frizzing up whenever she starts freaking out when she realized that her overscheduler is still lost as the one that she was holding during her speech on banking was actually someone else's overscheduler and not hers. This was phased out after this episode as whenever she starts freaking out in her later appearances, her hair doesn't frizz up.
- Freak Out: Tabitha constantly freaks out throughout the episode as without her overscheduler, she won't know what exactly she needs to do.
- Whoopee Cushion: Milo does this to a lady while waiting at the bus stop in order for her to drop her overscheduler to give it to Tabitha.
