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Fillmore and Ingrid infiltrate a metal shop gang that's stealing scooters from all over the school.


  • Cool Bike: After Fillmore smashes Vallejo's bike, the metal shop gang repairs it and gives it a complete makeover.
  • Cool Teacher: The Metal Shop kids' teacher, Hemlock. The whole reason they're even doing the crimes is because they want to use the money for his dog's hip replacement surgery.
  • Evil-Detecting Dog: Ebeneezer does not like Derrick Mina. Guess who turns out to be Stingray.
    • Inverted with Principal Folsom, where the metal shop kids even stated he rested on her lap.
  • The Faceless: Tincan is always shown wearing a protective face shield.
  • Fun with Acronyms: Derrick's anti scooter theft force is called "BAGAST": short for Boys and Girls Against Scooter Thefts.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: The reason Fillmore and Ingrid are undercover is because they're trying to flush out a criminal mastermind known as Stingray who already has done a number of crimes at school by getting others to do it for them. The scooter thefts are just their latest exploit.
  • Hero Stole My Bike: Fillmore takes Vallejo's bike to stop Derrick Mina, and of course, smashes it during the chase. Vallejo's shock afterwards is... restrained, to say the least, but he does give Fillmore desk duty later.
    Vallejo: Uh, Fillmore, please tell me that's not my bike.
  • In Medias Res: When the episode starts, the gang's operation is already underway and an undercover Fillmore foils an attempt by the Safety Patrol to apprehend them in order to gain Wheels's trust and infiltrate them.
  • Lost in the Maize: Fillmore loses some BAGAST members in the Maize Maze, some of whom are mildly traumatized by the experience.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Wheels looks like a young Nicolas Cage.
  • Noodle Incident: According to one BAGAST member, a student got lost in the Maize Maze for hours and by the time he was found, he had eaten his own shoelaces.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • While stealing a scooter from a science student, Fillmore at least leaves him his yo-yo.
    • Ingrid made Ebenezer's wheelchair look cooler. Something the Metal Shop kids were very appreciative of.
    • Folsom secretly paid for Ebeneezer's hip surgery.
    • The Metal Shop kids later fix up Vallejo's bike.
  • Playing Both Sides: Derrick Mina contracted the metal shop gang to steal the scooters, and also created an elite team to stop them, after denouncing the Safety Patrol as being ineffective. This allowed him to capture the gang, reneging on their agreed payment, and gain the support needed to run for Student President, while still keeping the profits from selling the scooters for himself. Fillmore namedrops the trope when confronting him, saying he "played both sides of the pancake."
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the BAGAST patrol chase Fillmore into a corn maze, one of them freaks out, recalling how someone once got lost in that maze for eleven hours before being rescued, and turns around rather than pursue them. Amusingly, the next scene reveals that he got lost anyway, and needed rescuing along with the kids who went further into the maze.
  • Someday This Will Come in Handy: During an early bike theft, Junior mentions that most kids use their birthday as their lock combination. During the final heist, Fillmore decides to borrow Vallejo's bike and tries to input his birthday for the lock combo. It works.
  • Team Pet: Ebeneezer, an aged basset hound is this for the metal shop kids.
  • Third-Person Person: Derrick Mina always refers to himself as "I, Derrick Mina."
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Derrick Mina loves Cheese Whiffs, having previously staged a hunger strike to overturn the school's ban on them. Fillmore and Ingrid find Cheese Whiff dust in the storage room, causing them to realize that Derrick Mina is actually "Stingray".
  • Vigilante Militia: After the safety patrol fails to stop a ring of scooter thieves, Derrick Minna starts a patrol of skaters and wheelchair hockey players to pursue the thieves. They are decently competent, but mostly just chase the undercover heroes. It also turns out they are Unwitting Pawns, as Derrick is the mastermind behind the thefts and is using them to catch his accomplices so he doesn't have to pay them and can look like a hero for his campaign to be elected class President.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: Derrick Mina is presented as a charming and popular student running for student council, when he's actually the criminal mastermind Stingray.
  • We Need a Distraction: After realizing that one of the scooters on their list is supposed to be vintage from 1926, the gang deduce that it must be in a time capsule. They are able to dig it up, despite a bocce game in progress, because X is winning.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Derrick Mina was planning on sending the stolen scooters to Russia, where kids don't have such luxuries.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Principal Folsom calls Fillmore out for the crimes he's doing as part of the gang.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: The episode is essentially Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with scooters instead of cars.

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