It's LaCienega's quinceañera, and she's being even more of a diva than she usually is. Unfortunately for her friends, her cousin LaBrea pays a visit, stirring up even worse drama.
- Abusive Mom: Melrose towards LaBrea. She put far too much pressure on her, and wouldn't let her attend LaCienega's quinceañera until she was skinnier than her (LaBrea wears four girdles during the episode to compensate). It's implied by Melrose that her and Sunset's mom was also abusive, and their rivalry started by her pitting them against each other.
- A Dog Named "Dog": The frog that LaBrea gives to LaCienega is named Sapo, which is Spanish for 'Toad'; as not everyone can tell the difference (frogs having lean, smooth skin while toads have warts), 'frog' and 'toad' are sometimes used for the same animal, and, in Spanish-talking countries, The Princess and the Frog is sometimes translated as 'The Princess and The Toad'.
- A Day in the Limelight: This episode focuses on the Boulevardezes, with the Prouds taking the backseat.
- Amusement Park of Doom: Snackland was already a dangerous place in its debut, but it returns here now having been permanently closed for good and even more dangerous than before with its abandoned rides falling apart. (It is implied that Freddy Frito got her way after all.)
- Bilingual Bonus: Sunset yells out "Mira, hypocrita! Dos caras, te voy a...!" to Melrose, which in Spanish translates to "Look, you hypocrite! Two faces, I'm going to...!"
- Big Sister Bully: Melrose keeps giving Sunset a hard time about her parties not being lavish enough.
- Birthday Episode: Lacienega turns 15 in this episode and she's having a quinceañera to celebrate it.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: LaBrea is revealed as this in the final twist of the episode. At first, it seemed like LaBrea was a genuinely nice, innocent person and that LaCienega bullied her. However, all this time, LaBrea did horrible things to LaCienega in retaliation.
- Chekhov's Gun: Penny was able to recognize LaCienega in the drone footage by her large feet, which was first explored in “Love Thy Neighbor” from back in the original series.
- Clashing Cousins: The one person LaCienega hates more than Penny is her cousin LaBrea, and they've been at each others' throats growing up.
- El Spanish "-o": Just like the Boulevardezes, Avanúñez is a corruption of the word "Avenue" with "-ez" added at the end to make it sound Spanish.
- Enfant Terrible: In the flashback, LaCienega stealing LaBrea’s stuffed animal isn’t anything unusual for a toddler her age, but LaBrea getting LaCienega mauled by a flock of birds is a whole other level of deviousness for a toddler.
- Everyone Has Standards: Penny's friends can usually be counted on to be self-serving and backstabbing in any given episode, but each of them are all horrified at the lengths LaBrea has gone to get rid of LaCienga. Michael even warns LaCienga not to trust her and Dijonay, for once, would've been justified on tattling about LaBrea's attempt at Kill and Replace.
- Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: The posse needs to ride scooters to get to Snackland, but Zoey says they can't ride them without helmets. Conveniently and inexplicably, a man nearby is selling helmets from a stand on the street. Lampshaded by the stand being labeled "Standards and Practices Helmets".
- Formerly Fat: Subverted. LaBrea is shown in flashbacks to be on the chubby side, but in the present day she is skinny...until it's revealed that she wore four girdles to hide her figure because her mother wouldn’t let her come until she was skinnier than her cousin. After reconciling with LaCieniga, the two are presented on stage together, with LaBrea showing her real figure.
- A Friend in Need: Penny, Zoey, Dijonay, Maya, Michael, and KG prove themselves to be trustworthy friends to LaCienega despite her jerkassery. At the very least it was because LaBrea’s “prank” was just an unprecedented amount of fuckery they couldn’t stand for. They went out of their way to track where she was and rescue her from the tower.
- Freudian Excuse: Melrose explains that she put too much pressure on LaBrea because she went through a divorce. Also, LaBrea's excuse for bullying LaCienega is that the latter was mean to her first.
- Freudian Excuse Denial: After receiving a Deathglare by Sunset, Melrose tells her that she can't be excused from her actions due to her divorce.
- Good Parents: At the end of the episode, Felix complains about how much money they've spent on the party but has a change of heart upon seeing how happy LaCienega is.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: As this episode shows, LaCienega and LaBrea each have equally good reasons to root for either well as reasons not to. LaCienega is mean and narcissistic to others, especially LaBrea, but even she’s not barbaric enough to attempt to injure or kill someone. LaBrea is ruthless and willing to get rid of her cousin, but it’s for very understandable reasons such as LaCienega being mean to her. In both cases, they’ve had to grow up within the dysfunctional environment borne from their moms’ sides of the family, which has impacted their behaviors.
- Hair Reboot: After cutting it to free herself from the Tower of Doom, LaCienega's hair (which had been styled into a curled updo) briefly looks choppy and disheveled but after shaking it, it goes back to the way it’s usually styled.
- It's All About Me: LaCienega as usual wants things done her way and becomes a diva about it, but her mom Sunset ends up exhibiting this more by trying to make the event all about her by overspending for expensive things without her daughter’s input every time Melrose criticizes her.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: An offscreen variation—sometime between the events of its debut episode and the events of this episode, Snackland got shut down and is now falling into disrepair.
- Kill and Replace: Jealous of both LaCienega getting a quince and her relationship with Melrose, LaBrea tried to get rid of LaCienega in a desperate bid to take her life. The rest of the kids lampshade just how crazy this is.
- Lethally Stupid: Dijonay tries to help by pulling the lever to Suga Mama’s Drop of Doom, but she only makes things worse by endangering LaCienega further and disables KG’s drone.
- My God, What Have I Done?: LaBrea tied LaCienega to a firecracker and sent her shooting off into the tower of doom at Snackland. When she realizes what she has done, she is honestly horrified and promises to make amends.
- Not Now, Kiddo / Adults Are Useless: Trudy angrily tells this to Penny when she and KG have found LaCienega's whereabouts.
- Parachute Petticoat: LaCienega ends up at the top of the defunct Drop of Doom in SnackLand, but is saved by her poofy dress fanning out and slowing her fall.
- Pimped-Out Dress: While it's traditional for an event like a quinceanera, LaCienega and LaBrea both wear big poofy dresses.
- Punny Name: Continuing the Location Theme Naming with the Boulevardez family, Melrose Avanúñez and LaBrea Avanúñez are named after other streets in Los Angeles - Melrose Avenue and La Brea Avenue.
- Remember the New Guy?: Sunset's sister, Melrose, and Melrose's daughter (Lacienega's cousin and Sunset's niece), Labrea, are treated as such. Hard to say if LaBrea knows Sticky though, since she didn’t comment on his absence.
- Series Continuity Error: In a flashback of La Brea that takes place a year before the episode, Micheal still has his current appearance instead of his old one. It's implied that this scene took place in between the events of the previous series and Louder and Prouder, as the new kid, Maya, hadn't met her before.
- Shout-Out: A freaked out Maya states that LaBrea is seriously channeling Single White Female, with Dijonary following up with saying she was acting all Single Brown Female.
- Smoldering Shoes: Subverted. When LaCienega fails to appear upon being announced, her smoking high heels gave the impression that she’s been vaporized when she’s merely been launched into the now-derelict Snackland.
