Teletoon air date: 11/17/2002
MTV air date: 2/10/2003
Written by: Erica Rivinoja
After a student riot following a cross country meet destroys a large part of the school, Abe volunteers to organize a film festival for the students to pour their creativity and youthful energy into. Joan sees this as a perfect opportunity to declare her love for Abe, and recruits Genghis Khan to play him in her film, Gandhi ropes a reluctant George Washington Carver and his sentient peanut sidekick into starring in his Buddy Cop movie, and Cleo stars and directs an extravagant film centered on herself. Meanwhile, Scudworth gets into hot water with the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures due to the destruction caused by the riot, and finds himself forced to host a dinner for the group at his home. Wanting to impress, he and Mr Butlertron teams up to give the whole whole house a makeover.
"Did you see this page? They flipped the tropes!":
- Aesop Amnesia: The film festival ends up causing ANOTHER riot that destroys the school a second time.
- Animal Athlete Loophole: Abe's contribution to the festival, It Takes A Hero is basically this trope in one ridiculous package, revolving around a giraffe playing football and consists mostly of dated sports movie cliches like the opposing team being called The Bad Guys, and it all coming down to one shot.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Parodied.Cleo: "Does a sunset have a soundtrack featuring Smash Mouth?"
- Bad "Bad Acting": Black And Tan has plenty. Not only does George Washington Carver keep putting the AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle, but Gandhi keeps glancing at the camera. To say nothing of the blonde guy Abe casts in his movie.
- Ban on Politics: Averted by Scudworth, who starts out his dinner making inflammatory comments about religion and politics in the same sentence.
- Chewing the Scenery: "Look out for that water tower!"
- Comically Missing the Point: Scudworth is baffled at the Board being upset at the havoc caused by the clones, thinking that the students were rioting at a college level.Scudworth: Unacceptable?! Did you see the pool? They FLIPPED the bitch!
- Dinner with the Boss: the Board or Shadowy Figures invite themselves to dinner at Scudworth’s house. Awkwardness ensues.
- Distracted by the Sexy: During the track meet, Abe trips while running because he saw Cleo pouring an energy drink on herself.
- Evil Stole My Faith: When Thomas Edison accidentally destroys all the films when his coal powered projector backfires, Cleo exclaims this, while Joan, glad that her declaration of love was also lost exclaims that there IS a God. When Edison reveals that Joan's film not only survived but somehow expanded in the fire and will now be shown in widescreen, she agrees with Cleo.
- Le Film Artistique: Joan's film, which she sees as an embarrassing declaration of her love for Abe, but doesn't earn much more than a flat "Huh" from everyone else. Everyone, that is, except of course the clone of Sigmund Freud.
- Mind Screw: Joan's film is just a whole bunch of symbolism that nobody who watched it gets except for Sigmund Freud's clone.
- Prima Donna Director: Cleo on the set of her biopic film.
- Rule of Three: During the riot, two glass windows are shattered with bricks, followed by JFK using a sheet of glass to break a brick wall.
- Single Tear: Abe sheds one after seeing his creation shown to the school, he then proceeds to lampshade it.
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Scudworth's dinner with the Board Of Shadowy Figures. He even tries breaking the ice by talking about religion and politics.
- Wunza Plot: Gandhi and Carver's movie Black And Tan, which revolves around "a Harvard educated African American criminologist" and "a typical street smart Indian super cop". Carver's anthropomorphic peanut companion plays the villain Senor Peani.
