Recap / Kenan And Kel S 02 Ep 12 Bye Bye Kenan

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• The Alleged House: The Rockmores' new house is falling apart and they know it the moment they enter it.
• Bears Are Bad News: Double Subversion. A bear attacks Roger, Kenan, and Kel. This turns out to be the plan set up by the boys so that Roger can be forced to leave and quit and that the bear is actually their neighbor. Turns out that was a real bear.
• Big Damn Reunion: Kenan and Kel see each other again in Part 2 and give a big hug.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Roger is so terrified of the bear that attacked the cabin that he wet his ranger pants.
  Kenan and Kel: "Ranger Pants"?
• Cloudcuckoolander:
  • The head ranger seems excited to give Roger a job that amounts to doing nothing and owns 5,000 pencils for no given reason.
  • Cleeb is shown to be quite an oddball as he likes to play with sticks, disguises himself in a cartoonish-looking bear costume, and even forgets his name at one point.
• Dark Reprise: During the build-up to the Rockmores leaving and when Kel is left behind, a slower, more morose instrumental variant of the theme song begins to play.
• Downer Ending: The first parter.
• Hypocritical Humor: Chris tells Kenan to man up and face Kel that he's about to move out. When Kel comes in, Chris starts balling and runs away.
• Innocently Insensitive: The Rockmores' new neighbors brought soda as a gift. Unfortunately, they brought orange soda which upsets both Kenan and Kyra.
• Lethal Chef: Ms. Blatt gives everyone unsanitary chili called "mystery chili".
  Kyra: What is in mystery chili?
  Kenan: You know, I believe that's a mystery best left unsolved.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Kenan fights a big nasty bug in the toilet and won.
• Running Gag: The Rockmores falling from their unstable stairs. Kel actually finds it fun.
• Soul-Crushing Desk Job: Roger's job as a mountain ranger turns out to be this.
  Roger: All they want me to do is just sit there all day long in the middle of nowhere, doing nothing!
  Kenan: Well, what did you think a wilderness mountain ranger did?
  Roger: I don't know; fun, mountain-related things.
• Squick: Both Out and In-Universe, the Rockmores sans Kenan get drenched on what might be toilet water.