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Today's
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A safety-obsessed senator builds a bunch of giant robots that get out of control.
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- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Safety Robots quickly deduce that everything is a threat to children.
- Bait-and-Switch: Joey seemingly gets a cut on his face but the "blood" later turns out to be ketchup.
- Batman Gambit: Joey put ketchup on his cheek to make it look like he was cut, as a result of Master Safety Bot's actions. The resulting Logic Bomb causes Master Safety Bot to overload and the ultimate destruction of the the Safety Bots.
- Big Brother Instinct: Wally goes berserk when it looks his little brother got injured. Thankfully, it was ketchup.
- Brainy Baby: Joey knew exactly what he was doing when he used ketchup to fake a cut.
- Call-Back: The mountain Numbuhs 2 and 4 use to dispose of the Safety-Bot after them appears to be the same one from all the way back in "Operation: I.S.C.R.E.A.M.".
- Corrupt Politician: The majority of the Senators are this, given how they take joy in stamping out children's rights.
- "Eureka!" Moment:
- The other Senators gave Safely a substantial budget for research just to get rid of him. He questions what he's supposed to do with all this cash before realization hits him.
- When Numbuh 4 apologizes to Joey for earlier yelling at him about his dancing, Numbuh 2 suggests the kid dance some more so that Master Safety Bot will be distracted.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: The other Senators are fine with the Safety Bots terrorizing kids because it amuses them. This attitude gets them and all adults deemed a threat to child safety by the Safety Bots.
- Ironic Name: Senator Safely is The Klutz, so (for all his lecturing about safety) he's often tripping over his own feet or banging his head against something.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Considering the way the members of the senate treated Senator Safely, them creating ridiculous laws to ensure kids be miserable, not caring for the safety of children, and enjoy seeing kids run in terror of the Safety Bots, which they funded to ensure Safely does not return to the Senate. When the Safety Bots attack them because they see adults as a danger to children, it is well deserved on their part.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: One proposed law calls for banning cartoons that make fun of adults.
- Logic Bomb: When it appears that Joey was cut, Master Safety Bot struggles to process how he was built to protect children but apparently injured a baby. The struggle to comprehend this contradiction causes him to spark and overload. Upon realizing that they are a threat to children, Master Safety Bot and the other Safety Bots self-destruct. In the last scene, it's revealed that Joey did this deliberately.
- Loony Laws: One law passed by the other Senators was to make math classes 70% more boring. The Senate Leader outright says the purpose of their actions is just to make children miserable and not in adults' way.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After losing control of his creations, Senator Safely surveys the results of his project and is ashamed of himself.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Master Safely Bot when announcing that adults are the only remaining danger to children.
- Sealed Good in a Can: By the time Numbuhs 2 and 4 make it back to the treehouse, it's already been sealed up with bubble wrap, along with Numbuhs 1, 3, and 5.
- Shout-Out:
- To the X-Men. Senator Safely is a combined parody of Senator Kelly and Bolivar Trask, the Safety Bots are parodies of the Sentinel Robots and Master Safety Bot is a parody of Master Mold, the leader the Sentinels.
- During the high-speed chase between a Safety Bot, Numbuh 2 drives into a tunnel as the pursuing Safety Bot crashes into it and its' disembodied head skids across the road past them before exploding when it leaves the tunnel as Numbuh 2 drives through the wreckage, similar to what happened with Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
- The unnamed leader of the Senate appears to be a double-layered reference — he somewhat resembles in looks and voice Foghorn Leghorn, who in turn was based off of Senator Claghorn
, from The Fred Allen Show.
- Turned On Their Masters: As Senator Safely moans, "-every time you build robots they end up taking over the world."
- Villain Has a Point: While the Safety Bots' way of protecting kids, including getting rid of adults, is extreme, Master Safety Bot is correct about how if adults don't care about the safety of children then it makes them a danger to kids, especially if they are only interested in children running "like monkeys with their butts on fire."
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Senator Safely. All he wanted was to help and make sure they're safe, especially considering he is the only member of the Senate who does care about the safety of kids. All the other members of the Senate are a bunch of Jerkasses who make Loony Laws just to make kids miserable.
- We Need a Distraction: Joey does his dance again for Master Safety Bot, giving Numbuh 4 the opportunity to break free of his restraints.
- Wham Line: "The last remaining threat to child safety is adults."
- What the Hell, Hero?: After Numbuh 4 vents his frustration over Joey getting in the way of his game to the point of making the baby run away crying, Numbuh 2 chastises this lack of sensitivity.
- The Worf Effect: The Six-Gum Gang are all easily taken down by the Safety Bots.
- Written-In Absence: Numbuh 2 suggests the rest of Sector V is currently trapped in bubble-wrapped treehouse, leaving him and Numbuh 4 to take the lead.
