Anais and Jamie form an unlikely partnership when they're accused of a crime they didn't commit.
Tropes:
- Character Development: Jamie becomes nicer in this episode, and becomes Anais' friend.
- Clear My Name: Because Jamie and Anais were the last two students in the library before the computer virus hit, Principal Brown accuses them of being responsible and threatens them with expulsion unless the culprit confesses. The two have to join forces to find the real culprit.
- Computer Viruses Are Computer Illnesses: The infected computers in the library are sweating, wearing ice packs, and surrounded by used tissues. Surprisingly, this is consistent in every scene.
- Cross-Referenced Titles: To "The Friend", the episode that begins Anais's long quest to find a genuine friend.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Jamie.
- End-of-Series Awareness: Anais's show-length arc of looking for a friend has finally come to a close.
- Fourth Wall Psych: When told that Gumball and Darwin were watching cartoons on pirate sites, Anais derides them for doing so because those sites "freeze all the ti.....time". She stopped because she thought she had to sneeze.
- Girl's Night Out Episode: Jamie and Anais are the main characters (with the female Tree Librarian as the antagonist) while Gumball and Darwin only have a couple brief cameos.
- Literal-Minded:
- Jamie has no experience with computers, so she misinterprets terminology constantly. When Anais tells her to check her mailbox (meaning her e-mail), Jamie actually runs home to check her actual mailbox.
- Not even Principal Brown is immune. When Anais suggests that the computer virus might be a motherboard problem, Brown calls his mother to see if she's bored.
- Malaproper: Principal Brown regarding computer terms, Jamie regarding multiple syllable words and Anais when making threats all mix up their terms.
- Meaningful Name: As standard for the back half of the show, the title has a double meaning. While it refers to Anais and Jamie becoming friends at the end of the episode, the episode itself is also a Buddy Cop Show homage - with the two of them filling the Buddy Cop role.
- Red Herring:
- Bobert is seen in the surveillance video just as the computer virus hits. When Anais and Jamie interrogate him, he is glitching, so they assume he infected the computers; in reality, it was Bobert who got infected.
- The Librarian says that it was Gumball and Darwin who infected the computers by streaming cartoons on a pirate website, then threw the dictionary at Bobert in order to shut him up. Jamie, however, realizes that the librarian was the true culprit trying to frame them, because the writing on the notes she uses to communicate is the same as the threatening note on the dictionary.
- Take That!: People who pirate cartoons online and said online websites constantly freezing.
- Talking with Signs: Because of her strict rules about talking in the library, the librarian writes down what she wants to say. This actually incriminates her as the one who infected the computers, as her handwriting matches that of the threatening note seen earlier, and she gets tricked into writing her Motive Rant down which is used as a confession.
- Throw the Book at Them:
- Just as Bobert was about to say who downloaded the virus, he is hit by a large dictionary.
- In a variation, Anais and Jamie fight against the Librarian, not by throwing books at each other, but by opening them and using their contents as weapons. For example, opening Dante's ''Inferno'' to unleash flames, which are countered by water from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It backfires a couple of times: When Anais opens War and Peace, nothing happens because it was opened at "peace"; and when Jamie tries to blow away the Librarian with wind from Gone with the Wind, it instead has Rhett and Scarlett kissing.
- In the end, Anais knocks out the Librarian by throwing a philosophy study guide at her. It was a paperback.
