Valentine’s Day
It’s Valentine’s Day, and the tools haven’t thought of anything to give Manny- but that will have to wait, as Dwayne Bouffant calls Manny, with a request for help assembling a complicated gift for his wife.
Tropes in “Valentine’s Day” include
- Bizarre Taste in Food: As part of their Valentine’s Day gift for him, the tools make Manny a peanut butter-and-salsa sandwich.
- Continuity Nod:
- Among the pictures on Dwanye Bouffant’s wall are him receiving an award from Mr. Noodlander (with the trophy also being seen on his mantel), and reporting with Jasmine Chung.
- While delivering Dwayne’s Gift of Song for his wife, Stretch gets out his rubber-band guitar.
- Covered in Gunge: Mr. Lopart ends up splattered with chocolate from a giant chocolate heart he was going to give to his mother.
- Covered in Kisses: This happens to Dwayne, courtesy of Mrs. Bouffant really enjoying her Meaningful Gift.
- Crappy Homemade Gift: This is zig-zagged with the tools’ gift to Manny- that peanut butter-and-salsa sandwich sure is… interesting, but the song that comes with it is great.
- Everything Is an Instrument: Stretch once again plays a “guitar” made out of a cardboard box, with a pencil for a bridge and rubber bands for strings.
- Foreshadowing: A painting of a sailboat can be seen above Dwayne Bouffant’s fireplace; as it turns out, he first met Mrs. Bouffant on a dinner on a sailboat.
- Furry Confusion: The tool calendar Kelly gives to Manny has images of inanimate tools on its cover.
- Gift of Song:
- The romantic dinner Dwayne Bouffant gives his wife includes a song (half in Spanish; the English lyrics mention “Two little sailboats on the ocean”) performed by Manny and the tools.
- At the end of the episode, the tools sing a song for Manny about their (platonic) love for him.
- Gratuitous French: “In French” is one of the 33 ways the “I-Love-You-33” can say “I love you”.
- Heart Symbol:
- Mr. Lopart is bringing his mother a gigantic piece of chocolate shaped like a heart for Valentine’s Day.
- The I-Love-You-33 has a gigantic heart symbol on its chest, and can produce a stream of (scientifically-improbable) heart-shaped bubbles. At the end of the episode, Manny is shown to have modified Fixit to produce the same bubbles.
- Hover Bot: The I-Love-You-33 is one.
- Hurt Foot Hop: Mr. Lopart does one after he drops a (very large and heavy) chocolate heart on his foot.
- Love at First Sight: Apparently, this happened when Dwayne Bouffant met his then-future wife.Dwayne: I knew she was the one for me the moment I saw her.
- Meaningful Gift: After the (expensive but impersonal) I-Love-You-33 breaks irreparably, Manny and the tools persuade Dwayne to give his wife one, in the form of a rough recreation of the sailboat dinner they first met on.
- Meaningful Name: The I-Love-You-33 robot is so called because it can (apparently; we only actually get to see 3 or 4) say “I Love You” in 33 different ways.
- Multilingual Song: Half of the lyrics of the “Two Little Sailboats” song are in Spanish.
- Mundane Utility: Apparently, some company in the universe of Handy Manny has the technology required to create a fully-functional Hover Bot… and uses it to make cheesy Valentine’s Day gifts.
- Tears of Joy: Mrs. Bouffant produces these when Dwayne recreates the sailboat dinner that was their first meeting.
- Tempting Fate: Dwayne insists that the missing piece in the I-Love-You-33 won’t cause any problems because “it’s just a little piece”; when he tries to operate the robot without the piece, it works for a few minutes but then goes absolutely haywire and falls apart.
- Valentine's Day Episode: Natch. The plot involves Manny helping Dwayne Bouffant assemble a complicated Valentine’s Day gift for his wife, and then coming up with a new gift to give when the first gift is irreparably broken.
Mr. Lopart Moves In
When flooding from a broken pipe wrecks Mr. Lopart’s candy store, he decides to temporarily move his business to another place… and picks Manny’s repair shop. Manny and the tools are sympathetic at first, but his obnoxious antics soon drive them up the wall.
”Mr. Lopart Movies In” provides examples of
- Animal Jingoism: Fixit the Robot Dog does not like Fluffy, and chases her around Manny’s shop.
- Character Action Title: Describing Mr. Lopart temporarily moving into Manny’s shop after his own is damaged by flooding.
- Continuity Nod: Mr. Lopart once again doesn’t know his way around Kelly’s store.
- Duct Tape for Everything: Mr. Lopart tries to fix a leaky pipe (and by “leaky”, we mean “gushing”) with duct tape. Naturally this doesn’t go so well.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: One happens after Manny’s furnace finally breaks down, and the conversation turns to what Manny and the tools will do without heat.Manny: Maybe we should find somewhere else to work for a while, just until we get the new furnace.
Felipe: Donde? Where?
Squeeze: How about Mr. Lopart’s candy store?
Everyone: Nah.
//Everyone laughs// - It's Always Spring: Actually averted, as autumn leaves during the episode’s opening and Manny mentions that the weather is getting colder.
- Literal-Minded:Manny: Well, I think our furnace is on its last legs.
Pat: Our furnace grew legs? Well, that’s probably the problem. - Man-Made House Flood: Mr. Lopart’s store ends up being flooded due to a broken water pipe, triggering the main plot of the episode.
- Snap Back:
- This is bizarrely Zig-Zagged; while fixing up Mr. Lopart’s candy store, Manny and the tools replace his old yellow tiles with new blue ones. The next few episodes of the show depict Mr. Lopart’s store with yellow tiles, making it seem like this has occurred… but eventually the continuity seems to “catch up”, and from then on Mr. Lopart’s shop is depicted with blue tiles.
- Manny’s furnace provides a more straight example, as it breaks in this episode but is back to working normally in the next. Presumably, he just fixed or replaced it offscreen.
