When Fanboy forgets Chum Chum's birthday, he scrambles desperately to get a present without hurting his feelings.
Tropes:
- An Aesop:
- Don't wait until the last minute to get a birthday present.
- The best birthday present is spending the whole day with your friend.
- Anvil on Head: The last thing that Fanboy drops on his alarm clock upon ignoring it's advice to not forget Chum Chum's birthday.
- The Cameo: Marsha can be seen in the crowd after Kyle completes his dramatic speech.
- Disney Acid Sequence: Kyle's dramatic monologue is this.
- Eye Recall: Kyle's dramatic speech uses a parody of this.
- Forgotten Birthday: Downplayed, since Fanboy is the only one who forgot it was Chum Chum's birthday today.
- Hypocritical Humor: Agent Johnson steals Fanboy's briefcase gift to confiscate it for evidence, yet his own gift to Chum Chum is a briefcase.
- It Was with You All Along: Chum Chum reveals to Fanboy he did give him a present all along — he spent the whole day with him, and that's the best gift of all.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Yo is caring about Chum Chum when he gets him rocket boots for a present, yet she shows no craziness toward him.
- Ocular Gushers: Fanboy releases these upon having no birthday present to give.
- Recycled Soundtrack: The music played when Chum Chum recounts what Fanboy did is the same in "Fan vs. Wild" when they were freezing on the roof and almost die from it.
- Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: In the flashback of Fanboy's alarm clock trying to remind him of Chum Chum's birthday, he repeatedly destroys it in many ways.
- Plot Hole: A lot of the photos shown during the slideshow montage are quite different than what happened in the episode itself. For instance, when Chum Chum woke Fanboy up, Fanboy looks nervous in the photo, but earlier in the episode he was smiling as this is before he forgot his birthday. The last picture is the two opening presents together, but Fanboy wasn't there to open presents with him in the first place.
- The Voiceless: Dollarnator. A storyboard points out he was going to have a speaking role, but it was cut for time.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Kyle is strangely not seen in the group shot after Chum Chum's flashback.
