Written & storyboarded by Dashawn Mahone & Najja Porter
When Kelsey demolishes a wall at Craig's house, her father takes away her sword. So, she enlists Craig and JP to help prove to her father that she's still worthy.
Tropes:
- Book Ends: The plot starts with Craig telling Kelsey to run from Nicole catching her in messing up the wall and it ends with Craig telling her dad the same thing.
- Exact Words: Kelsey's father Neil promised Nicole he'd show up at the crack of dawn to fix her wall, and to her surprise he meant it. Later he complains that she doesn't want him doing that anymore.
- False Reassurance: Neil sneaks into the Williams house without their permission to repair the wall early in the morning, explaining that "I made my own key—not breaking and entering".
- Forging Scene: Parodied; the episode's Distant Prologue frames a plastic pipe being cut to length at a hardware store like forging an epic weapon.
- Gilligan Cut: In the flashback to when Kelsey gets her sword, she promises to use it responsibly. Cut to her batting pillows with it.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Craig thinks having your name in the title automatically makes you the good guy.
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: J.P.'s reflection seemingly independently gives the correct answer to a hard math question, and explodes when Kelsey uses this to prove he's not the real J.P. Craig's eyes are bugged out in surprise that it managed to answer correctly, but they quickly move on.
- Meaningful Name: The hardware store employee who gave Kelsey her PVC "sword" is named Piper
- My Little Panzer: Kelsey's PVC "sword" is able to break a big hole in a wall by accident. Her dad takes it away until she shows she's responsible enough that this won't happen again.
- Not Hyperbole: Neil tells Nicole off-screen he'll be back to fix the the wall come dawn. A very tired Nicole finds out he was serious when he shows up at 5:00 AM.
- Perfectly Cromulent Word: Craig makes a "Certificate of Worthitude" for Kelsey. Her father Neil points out that "worthitude" is not a real word.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: Discussed; Kelsey is tasked with identifying the "bad guy" in a Slide the Ferret comic. From the limited amount she reads, Kelsey figures Slide is the bad guy, because he's breaking into a man's home and beating him up for building a robot. Craig's disagreement amounts to "he's the main character, so he must be the good guy", and he's aghast when Kelsey and J.P. tell him otherwise.
- Rule of Three: Kelsey believes that she has to complete three trials in order to be worthy of having her sword again.
- Shout-Out: Slide the Ferret is an obvious parody of Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Spot the Imposter: For her final trial, Kelsey has to spot the real J.P. between him and his reflection. She wins by asking a math question, which the reflection answers. Kelsey knows that the real J.P. only knows about dinosaurs and would not answer correctly.
- Summon to Hand: After Neil lets Kelsey get her sword back, she has an Imagine Spot where she summons it from the top of the fridge and it flies out the window, through a moving car, and into the Williams' home, where she catches it with her hand.
- Tempting Fate: After getting her sword impaled to the wall, Kelsey says that the damage could have been a lot worse. Then her weight drags the sword down, leaving a huge crack in the wall.
