After Arlo sheds his skin, his friends mistake it for a ghost, and the embarrassed alligator boy struggles to hide the truth.
Tropes:
- An Aesop: Don't be ashamed about your body development or your appearance because a lot of people have that same problem.
- Artistic License – Biology: The way Arlo sheds is completely irreverent to how real alligators shed. In reality, they shed their skin piece by piece, rather than all the way down like Arlo.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Alia is outmatched completely by the king seagull.
- Eye Color Change: When Arlo starts shedding, his eyes turn pale blue with faded pupils.
- Fish Eyes: When Arlo is getting ready to shed, his eyes drift apart from each other.
- Innocently Insensitive: Alia to Arlo, upon mistaking his skin for a ghost. This causes Arlo to realize how disgusting it is, and tries to hide it from everyone to avoid embarrassment.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: When Arlo is shedding.
- Modesty Towel: The episode begins with Arlo coming out of the shower wearing this.
- The Stinger: Edmée receives Arlo's skin and puts it with the others she saved, only to feel a mysterious disturbance.
- Stock Audio Clip: Arlo's "Rickety biscuit!" when he sees the seagull king with his skin fly toward Furlecia and Tony is the same used from the movie after he scares off Sandra June and Bradley.
- Sudden Soundtrack Stop: When Arlo sees his peeling skin in the mirror, the background music immediately stops.
