After Peggy participates in a magic trick, Hank attempts to pry the secret of how the trick was done out of her.
Tropes:
- Advice Backfire: Peggy suggests to Bobby that he needs to be creative with his Sunday School report about Jesus. Of course, she wouldn't have thought he would have turned Jesus's miracles into a magic act and it bites her right back when Bobby lets slip that it was her idea in the first place.
- Berserk Button: Hank has a hatred for magicians, especially since David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear.
- Big "NO!": Both Hank and Peggy when Bobby asks for volunteers involving a large wooden cross.
- Birthday Episode: The first half centers around Nancy's birthday at Abracapasta, a restaurant featuring magic tricks.
- Brick Joke: With Hank having a disagreement with Peggy and Bobby about the clouds on the walls, with Hank insinuating Bobby can go outside to look at clouds, with Bobby counter-pointing not at night and Peggy elaborating further that the only thing they can see at night is Bill dancing with a mop from the window of his house. Then later on, with Hank and Peggy fighting, Bobby sees Bill doing just that.
- Disappearing Box: An elaborate version the Astounding Herrera does. Having a volunteer climb into the pinata and then lifting it up into the air, and Herrera trying to hit it with a torch blind-folded and then actually hitting it on the third time, which makes it blow up and shower the audience with candy and the volunteer appearing back in their seat.
- Innocently Insensitive: For Bobby's Sunday school project, he's The Amazing Jesus, a magic act which involves turning water into wine and a slice of bread into a full loaf. While he means well to show how good Jesus is, he doesn't seem to realize how blasphemous his act is or how uncomfortable (save for one little girl) it's made everyone.
- Jerkass Ball: Hank is pretty bad here, with his contempt for magic and him trying to leave the birthday. He spoils how the tricks are done, much to the irritation of Peggy. He attempts to ruin the pinata trick after Peggy is chosen to participate in it. After the trick is done, he attempts to declare Nancy's birthday party over, but he gets foiled by Herrera, who takes his car keys. Afterwards, Hank constantly demands Peggy reveal how the trick was done, with her refusing each time. This culminates when he tricks Peggy into going into a box, claiming he figured out the trick, when he just shuts her in there until she tells him how the trick was done. He only lets her out after Bobby lets them know they need to go to church. And of course there's his disapproval of having clouds painted on Bobby's walls as he removes them, thinking a boy's room should be blue only.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bobby's attempt to have Hank and Peggy make up is to repaint the clouds on the walls of his room and tell Peggy Hank did it. And when Peggy embraces a confused Hank, Bobby blatantly asks if she should share how the trick is done, which makes Peggy suspicious and when Hank finds the clouds back, the fighting gets worse, with Hank constantly denying he painted the clouds.
- One Twin Must Die: Dale offers his own take on how the magic trick was done: by having a twin Peggy go into the pinata and then dying when Herrera lights it up with the torch and blowing it up.
- Out-Gambitted: Hank attempts to find out himself how the magic trick was performed by going to the show with Bobby and Luanne and have Luanne be the participant. Herrera instead is the one who goes into the pinata and has Luanne light it up. Afterwards, Herrera appears next to Hank, taunting him.
- Rejected Apology: While at church, Hank attempts to apologize for shutting Peggy in the box in an attempt to pry out of her how the magic trick was done. But Peggy shuts him up, stating "Thou shalt not speak to me."
- Riddle for the Ages:
- What exactly is Bobby's magic trick involving a wooden cross?
- Subverted and played with at The Stinger, where Bobby explains the pinata trick which has Peggy going into the pinata and her crawling out of the tail and being dressed as one of assistants in a sombrero and poncho and dancing with them offstage before making it back to her seat. He then ends the explanation by saying "Please don't tell my dad".
- Running Gag: Peggy explaining to Hank the trick was done with magic with Bobby exclaiming his amazement, which leads to this exchange:Hank: Aren't you late for school?
Bobby: It's Sunday.
Hank: Well what about Sunday school?
Bobby: (Makes an Oh, Crap! exclamation)- Later on, with Hank and the guys pondering how the trick was done, with Bobby saying it was magic:
Hank: Bobby, don't you have some homework to do?
Bobby: No.
Hank: What about Sunday school homework?
Bobby: (Lets out a defeated sigh) - Secret-Keeper: Peggy absolutely refuses to budge about the pinata trick she took part of, much to Hank's chagrin.
- Shout-Out: To Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. During the credits, Bobby, while wearing a mask similar to the Masked Magician's, explains that soon after Peggy climbed into the giant piñata she was snuck out of an opening on the other side of it, and dressed as one of the dancers and escorted off stage while everyone else was distracted by the magician and the dancers. As the crowd is too busy looking at the burning/exploding piñata, Peggy quickly sneaks back to her seat. Once Bobby finishes his explanation, he takes off the mask and says to the audience "please don't tell my dad."
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: Hank and Peggy have a heated argument about their personalities and them trying to top each and after Hank one-ups her, she kicks him and the shin and Hank does it back to her. And after a moment of them looking at each other, they end up laughing about it and make-up.
- Smoke Out: Herrera does this after Hank orders everyone to go home and end the party. He takes Hank's truck keys and when Hank tries to kick his ass, Herrera throws a smoke bomb, disappearing and when it disippates, Hank finds himself surrounded by the dancers.
- Stage Magician: The Mexican magician the Astounding Herrera, who does typical tricks like turning a scarf into birds, sawing a woman in half, levitating a woman in the air before topping it off with his Pinata of Death trick.
- That Cloud Looks Like...: Played with. Both Bobby and Peggy do this in the beginning with the clouds painted in Bobby's room. Then in the end, they do the same, but with Hank with them guessing with propane and propane accessories.
