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Recap / TPF: Louder and Prouder S1 E5 "Snackland"

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Oscar finally unveils his amusement park: Snackland! Too bad it's also extremely hazardous and rife with legal problems. Bobby, on the other hand, reforms LPDZ, but Penny's new Tone Lōc-like singing voice affects her standing in the group until a special someone helps her out.


  • Aborted Arc: Suga Mama foreshadows Oscar going to jail and Freddy Frito hauling him into court for ripping off her idea, but this is never resolved by the end of the episode.
  • Accordion Man: Oscar becomes this after being stomped on by DeathWish.
  • Aesop Amnesia: Oscar once again never learns to stop forcing his kids to do hobbies that they don’t want to do.
  • Angry Animalistic Growl: DeathWish roars like a bull both times she encounters Oscar.
  • Bowdlerize: Lizzo's "Good as Hell" gets played over a montage, but all the explicit language is conspicuously muted instead of dubbed.
  • Before My Time: Penny questions who Tone Loc is whenever someone compares her singing voice to his.
  • Big Beautiful Woman: Lizzo is drawn to be just as heavyset as she is in real-life, dressing well and even donning a swimsuit for one scene.
  • Brawn Hilda: DeathWish, Lizzo's bodyguard.
  • Dreadful Musician: Penny now has a deep singing voice that has people’s glasses either break and runaway. People do like it at the end.
  • Fire and Brimstone Hell: After being used as a test dummy, the cart drops Oscar, piercing a deep hole in the Earth, and next thing Oscar knows, he’s in a pit of lava surrounded by demonic shadows.
  • Flapping Cheeks: Happens to the father and son on the Sugar Mama drop ride thanks to BeBe and CeCe unknowingly fiddling with the controls.
  • If I Had a Nickel...:
    Lizzo: Child, if I had a penny for every time someone threw somethin' at me onstage, well I guess it’s why I’m rich.
  • Intelligible Unintelligible: In this episode BeBe and CeCe have dialogue in baby talk that Oscar at least can still understand fine.
  • Jerkass Ball:
    • Bobby, of all people, becomes subject to this, being bossy and underpaying Michael, and kicking Penny out of LPDZ. Michael and Zoey are also subject to this, voting with Bobby and LaCienaga to kick Penny out of LPDZ.
    • Oscar drops the ball in all directions: canceling LPDZ's gig, kicking his mother out of the park (and dismissing her as "an overzealous fan"), plagiarizing the idea for his park, forcing Lizzo to perform for just $50 instead of the promised $500, public endangerment, right down to being an unsupportive and bossy father to Penny.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Oscar is right when he tells Sugar Mama to be supportive of him at least once.
  • Karma Houdini: Played straight and subverted. This episode was one of the few episodes in which Oscar did deserve punishment for his actions, but he didn't get it. The subversion was that he got a beat down from Lizzo’s bodyguard DeathWish. Since this had to do with his fears of Penny’s singing voice driving his crowd away, it hardly feels like the grand comeuppance we were all waiting for.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Penny mentions LPDZ hasn't been a thing for years, a subtle reference to how long it's been since the original series.
  • No OSHA Compliance: The rides at Snackland are very unsafe and prone to causing injury to the occupant.
  • Only Sane Man: The twins for once take on this role. When Oscar tries to get them to turn up the speed in a ride, they claim it’s not safe.
  • Putting the Band Back Together: Bobby persuades Penny to revive LPDZ. Penny was initially reluctant to do so, but agreed. Things only went downhill from there due to Penny’s new singing voice.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Lizzo gives Penny some heartfelt advice when the latter is feeling down about getting kicked out of LPDZ.
  • Running Gag: Penny questioning who Tone Lōc is.
  • Shout-Out: The outfits that LPDZ are wearing during their performance is similar to the ones that the eponymous protagonists from The Cheetah Girls wear during their last performance.
  • Singing Voice Dissonance: Lampshaded; puberty changes Penny's singing voice to sounding like Tone Lōc. According to Trudy It Runs in the Family, as her voice changed to sounding like Barry White.
  • Special Guest: Lizzo As Herself. Also featuring Tone Lōc as Penny's new singing voice.
  • Talking to Themself: Penny has a conversation with the mirror version of herself. It even prompts Trudy to ask Penny who she was talking to.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: Oscar’s Snackland ends up being reopened due to popular demand and gets some moderate success despite its serious flaws.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Despite how unsafe Snackland is and the bad publicity it got on the news, people still want to go to the park, knowing full well they could possibly get injured. Even after Oscar tells the crowd that he has to close the park down until everything is fixed, they all still want to go inside and they hand him all their money, which changes Oscar's mind on the safety of the park.
  • Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Oscar completely vanishes after receiving his comeuppance, nowhere to be seen during Penny's grand performance while the rest of the family cheers her on. The episode ends with Lizzo and her bodyguard heading off to consult him about his bounced cheque, but his whereabouts are left ambiguous.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Lizzo calls Oscar out on how he treated Suga Mama.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Due to the light back in episode one, Penny’s singing voice now sounds like that of Tone Lōc.

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