Recap / Fillmore Next Stop Armageddon

• The Bad Guy Wins: Oscar succeeds in his goal of preventing his family from moving away, as the sudden boom of business gets his father to renew the lease on the store for another year. However, it resulted in his reputation being ruined and his model train career being put to an end.
• Chick Magnet: Oscar has his fair share of fan girls.
• Counterfeit Cash: Fillmore and Ingrid start the episode busting a counterfeit quarter scam of "Waferitas".
• Faux Horrific: The model trains crashing causes people to react as though they're seeing an actual train crash, complete with O'Farrell leaving to throw up after he sees it.
• Five Stages of Grief: Played With. Ingrid gives Fillmore a book detailing seven stages of grief.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Ralph is this for the members of the model train club for his sloppy attention to detail. He's terrified that they'll think even worse of him if they find out he also likes racing RC cars.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Oscar caused the biggest model train derailment in the school's history to drive up business for his parents' store and make sure that they wouldn't move to the Pacific Northwest. When the truth comes out, he's kicked out of the model train club and put warnings about him on all the model train newsgroups. Though he succeeded in preventing his family from moving as his father renewed the lease on the store, it put a definitive end to Oscar's model train career.
• Low Clearance: Oscar gets caught because he was too busy smugly waving at Fillmore to notice that the train engine he was on was approaching a tunnel.
• Moving Angst: Oscar's motive. His family wanted to move since their model train shop wasn't doing well, and he set up the derailment hoping it would drive up business.
• Rail Enthusiast: The model train club is full of rail enthusiasts. Like many characters in the series, their model train hobby is treated as Serious Business.
• Running Gag: Everybody getting Fillmore a new fish after Thelonious died.
• Shout-Out: Fillmore's pet fish Thelonious and his Replacement Goldfish Miles share the same first names as Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Bonus goes out to Danny's naming Fillmore's replacement goldfish Chow-Yun as it shares a name similar to Chow Yun-fat.
• Surprise Party: Fillmore and Ingrid accidentally ruin Principal Folsom’s surprise birthday party.
• Traintop Battle: Parodied. Oscar attempts to escape Fillmore and Ingrid by jumping on a small train ride going through the mall, and Fillmore follows him on it to catch him.
• Wig, Dress, Accent: Fillmore wears a Hawaiian shirt, false dreads, and sports a Jamaican accent during an undercover job.