Teletoon air date: 12/8/2002
MTV air date: 3/3/2003
Written by: Tom Martin
Abe is growing more and more frustrated with how long Cleo is making him wait for their first kiss, wanting it to be absolutely perfect. If that weren't enough, she's now being called away to the sunny beaches of Canada to be on Ashley Angel from O-Town's Spring Break Dance Academy TV show, which slowly creates a rift between the two of them. Meanwhile, Gandhi discovers his uncanny knack (or at least what he thinks is an uncanny knack) for rapping and, with the help of JFK's home recording studio, achieves his "weeklong dream" of international rap stardom by recording the hit single "G Spot Rocks The G Spot." And while all that's going on, Scudworth has to deal with Skunky-Poo constantly interrupting his work with Slapstick hijinks.
"Trooooooooopeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Don't get on that plane!"
- Affectionate Parody: The Scudworth and Skunky-Poo bits are one huge tribute to Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Tom and Jerry and other off-the-wall slapstick cartoons from The Golden Age of Animation (though its violence is on par with Itchy and Scratchy).
- Amusing Injuries: Parodied; Scudworth is ultimately fine from the over the top slapstick injuries Skunky-Poo inflicts on him when the scene changes, but is clearly horribly maimed when they happen.
- Anywhere but Their Lips: Abe and Cleo's abstinence agreement when she's away: nothing below the eyebrows. Too bad all celebrities are hairless.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Gandhi is asked one by a reporter. JFK tried to do the same to her but his is less successful.Reporter: G-Spot, you claim rhyming chose you. Yet you have only one song, which has only one rhyme, which is actually just the same word repeated. Are you at least trying to write another song?
Gandhi:*sniffles as he hangs his head in shame*
JFK: I could ask you the same question! Are you trying to write a hit song?
Reporter: I'm a reporter. - Art Shift: In keeping with the Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner spoof, the backgrounds in the third Skunky-Poo bit are designed in the style of famed Looney Tunes background painter Maurice Nobel.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Scudworth's first scene in the episode has him building a neurological chip which will allow him to see and hear everything the clones taste and smell.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Joan uses Abe's catchphrase "dinger" after she witnesses Abe and Cleo getting back together at the Atlanta City airport, with Abe thanking her for being able to kiss his girlfriend.
- Bow Chicka Wow Wow: The Narrator beatboxes this in the On the Next segment over footage of Joan and Cleo cat fighting.
- Confusing Multiple Negatives:Joan: I can't stand to not see you not make the biggest mistake of one of our lives!Abe: What?
- Damned by Faint Praise: Parodied. Gandhi (and later JFK) believe that rapping chose him the same way it did Bubba Sparxxx.
- Exact Words: Gandhi's week-long dream is to become an international rap sensation. His hit song ends up debuting in Canada, eventually becoming popular in the US, so he had a hit song in all of two nations.
- Full-Name Basis: Ashley Angel from O-Town.
- Here We Go Again!: Just when it looks as though Scudworth is rid of Skunky-Poo and ready to enjoy his vacation, a new such character, this time a crab named Crabby Cakes, start terrorizing him.
- Hypocritical Humor: Cleo wants her first kiss with Abe to be spontaneous... but also exceedingly perfect and accompanied by fireworks. This despite her first kiss with JFK being drunkenly screwing him in the back of his van.
- Offscreen Teleportation: After Abe sees Cleo board the plane from Atlanta City to Canada City, with it taking off with her inside, she suddenly appears right in front of him. When Abe asks how this is possible, Cleo just says that love works in mysterious ways.
- One-Hit Wonder: In-Universe. Gandhi becomes an international rap sensation with "G-Spot Rocks The G-Spot," but it's a safe bet that "You're A G Ol' Flag" doesn't repeat the success.
- Overused Running Gag: "NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMEEEEEEEEE!! Don't get on that plane!!"
- Precision F-Strike: Skunky-Poo's catchphrase perfectly contrasts his Looney Tunes antics:Skunky: Try to catch me, bitch!
- Race for Your Love: Parodied over and over until it lies in tatters, even to the point that Skunky-Poo is running for Scudworth at the airport just to call him a bitch.
- Really Gets Around: Cleo has slept with JFK, her dentist, her tennis instructor, and a random guy at cheerleading camp, all presumably without a second though (her first kiss with JFK is described more as wild, passionate sex), while Abe is forced to wait for nothing but a kiss all because she wants it to be perfect.
- Rhyming with Itself: Literally all of Gandhi's "raps" are this, up to and including his hit song."G-Spot rocks the G-Spot!"
- Sampling: JFK and Gandhi sample JFK's recording of "You're A Grand Ol' Flag" for his follow-up single, which just consists of Gandhi making random interjections over the original recording.JFK: What if we took a sample of a song that already exists, and you rap over that sample? I call it... song taking!
- Say My Name
- "CLEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
- "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
- "BUUUUUUDYYYYYYY HOOOOOOLLYYYYYYYYYY!!"
- "SCUUUUUUUUUUUUUDWOOOOOOOOOORTH!!!!!"
- "Don't get on that plane!!"
- "Bitch!"
- Single Tear: Abe sheds one when he was seemingly not able to stop Cleo from taking the plane from Atlanta City to Canada City.
- Stylistic Suck
- G-Spot's "songs." One is just two lines rhyming with each other while the other is randomly shouting over one of JFK's songs.
- Ashley Angel's eyebrows are animated with a lot more "chatter" (animation speak for visible wiggle between frames) in some shots, proving that yes, he is completely hairless and his eyebrows are added in post.
- Take That!:
- When JFK suggests Gandhi sample a pre-existing song for his next hit, Gandhi dismisses it as "breaking the rapper's code of originality." JFK just looks at him knowingly.
- When Ghandi mentions that Ashley Angel is a teen singer from a boy band, JFK rattles off the name of several, including N Sync, Backstreet Boys 98 Degrees and Menudo, making fun of the homogeny of boy band acts. The fact that JFK's mind goes to Menudo, who's popularity had significantly wained by 2002, before the then-contemporary O-Town also implies just how unimportant O-Town really was to the general public. As mentioned above, this was all part of
Writer Revolt. - By way of Stealth Insult and Damned by Faint Praise (see above), Ghandi (and later JFK) claims that rapping chose him the same way it chose Bubba Sparxxx.
- Too Dumb to Live: Scudworth can’t see the plainly obvious dynamite that Skunky-Poo gives him for every sequence that goes by with them.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Skunky-Poo's catchphrase, "Try and catch me, bitch!"
- "bitch!"
