The Beavers have gotten their hands on a bunch of cereal boxes with the intention of just getting the toys inside. Well, that's Dag's mission anyway. Norb actually eats the cereal first before getting his toys. Dag soon finds out the toys he's finding (Toebot, bumbee magnet, a cheap tiny telescope) are terrible, but Norb's toys (a giant telescope, an actual robot) are way cooler! Is it just bad luck on Dag's part? Norb reveals he's actually clipping the boxtops and mailing them away to the cereal company to get his toys. He informs Dag that if he collects 1,000 boxtops he can win a street sweeper. Dag wants it, but Norb tells him he has to eat all the cereal first.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- Artistic License – Economics:
- Dag believes the tiny telescope he received could be sold in a store for 125 dollars. A tiny telescope that's probably plastic, and fell apart anyway seconds after Dag made the statement.
- The street sweeper truck is being offered for collecting 1,000 cereal box tops. While this is obviously an exaggeration of cereal companies that demand buying ludicrous amounts of their product before they give you the prize being offered, this instance would actually be a very good deal for the consumer; not even accounting for inflation since 1997, the upper cost of a box of cereal is around $6. Buy 1,000 of those, and you get a full-sized, working vehicle for a tiny fraction of what it would normally be. No wonder the offer expired just before Dag could cash it in; the Big Cereal Company probably realized just how terrible of an idea it was for them.
- Call-Forward: One of the thing Daggett finds in his cereal boxes is ToeBot, a robot that fits on your toe. He appears 2 Seasons later on two separate episodes: first when Daggett dumps a whole foot fleet of ToeBots down the toilet in Too Loose Latrine and then as the villain in Muscular Beaver 4, good as new.
- Free Prize at the Bottom: Daggett exclusively hunts for these, while Norbert patiently clips proofs of purchase to send to the cereal company in exchange for greater prizes.
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Fridge Logic: While nobody expects Dag to be as competent at anything as Norb can, but one wonders why it takes so long for Dag to finish eating all the breakfast cereal, when it took Norb mere seconds. - Laser-Guided Karma: Literally for Dag when he challenges Norb's robot.
- Plot Coupons: For awesome toys!
- Plot Device: Norb receives a letter from the cereal company informing them the street sweeper offers have expired. Why a cereal company would mail such a letter to anyone is never explained, but it does advance the plot, and inspire Dag to raid the cereal company.
- Shout-Out: To Jaws. When Dag is "swimming" through his cereal searching for toys, his fin-shaped ears poke through the top, and the "Jaws" theme plays.
- Stock Scream: The "Whoooooo-oooo-ooo!" scream that Dag lets out when he gets flung through the air by the street sweeper machinery, was previously used in "Long in the Teeth". The scream gets used a number of other times throughout the series.
- Toon Physics: Somehow, Dag climbs into one of his own cereal boxes, and comes out of one of Norb's cereal boxes! Norb's just as puzzled as the audience.
