Slink or Swim: When Bobby finds out Carl can't swim, he offers to show him the ways of the waves.
The Big Chill: After begging Abuelo for some air conditioning, the cousins decide to earn some cash at the neighborhood fair.
"Slink or Swim" contains examples of:
- Body Double: When Bobby asks why Carl can’t swim even though he took swimming lessons, he admits he hired a look-alike to take his place.
- Continuity Nod: This episode makes a reference to Bobby's lifeguard work in The Loud House episode "Linc or Swim."
- A Day in the Limelight: For Carl and his insecurities regarding his fear of swimming.
- Don't Eat and Swim: Invoked by Carl, who eats a bag of chips as an excuse for not swimming. When he says he's still starving, Rosa leaves the water to grill some hot dogs for him.
- Every Man Has His Price: Carl reveals to Bobby that last summer, he bribed a look-alike to pretend to be him at his swimming lessons. He tries the same thing when Bobby teaches him how to swim.
- Fan Disservice: Carlota's reaction to seeing Hector in his swim trunks is to cry out, "I can't un-see that!"
- Gross-Up Close-Up: When Bobby tells Carl that he still doesn't know how to tie his shoes, we get a close-up on Bobby's swollen foot in an over-tight shoe that, he admits, was only tied once when he was nine years old.
- Manchild: Despite being seventeen years old, Bobby gets Sidetracked by the Analogy when Carl shows him the bunny-ears method of tying shoes and starts crying Ocular Gushers when it goes loose.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: The ending of the episode reveals that Bobby actually does know how to tie his shoes as he only said he didn't know to make Carl feel better. Keep in mind that this is the same guy who mistook Lalo's poop for a chocolate bar.
- Ocular Gushers: Bobby does this when his bunny-knot goes loose. Carl is disgusted by this.
- Pool Episode
- Putting the Pee in Pool: Carl tries to get out of swimming in the community pool by putting a chocolate bar in it, causing everyone to think someone pooped in it. When Bobby finds out the truth, he decides to teach Carl how to swim, and in a later scene, when the rest of the Casagrande family tries to get Carl to join them in the pool, Bobby puts another chocolate bar in the pool and acts as if he pooped to scare everyone out. At the end of the episode, Bobby sees what looks like another chocolate bar in the pool, but as it turns out, Lalo really did poop in the pool.
- Sidetracked by the Analogy: Bobby when Carl tries to teach him the bunny-ears method of tying shoes. He ties his shoes until his laces form a literal bunny.
- Stop Drowning and Stand Up: When Bobby teaches Carl how to swim, Carl looks like he's drowning at one point, but Bobby points out that he's in the shallow end of the pool and can easily stand up.
- Temporary Bulk Change: Carl becomes very round after eating lots of his grandmother's food.
- Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip: Bobby ties his shoelaces together and trips into the pool. Fortunately, he's saved by the lifeguard.
"The Big Chill" contains examples of:
- Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: This exchange occurs when Hector refuses to buy his family an air conditioner:Hector: If you want an air conditioner so badly, why don't you raise money for it yourself?
CJ: Maybe we will!
(CJ looks up air conditioner prices on his phone.)
CJ: Maybe we won't. - Beyond the Impossible: According to the weather lady, the temperature was expected to reach 160 degrees on Friday, but the highest ever recorded temperature in the world in real life was 134 degrees in Death Valley, California, in 1913.
- "Eureka!" Moment: When Hector reminds sus nietos of the Sun Fun Fair tomorrow, they get the idea of selling raspadosnote to raise money for an air conditioner.
- Towards the end of the episode, Ronnie Anne gets the idea to turn Hector's old raspado machine into an air conditioner, so Hector won't have to pay for one.
- Heat Wave: Contrary to the episode's title, a major heat wave has hit Great Lakes City—when Hector refuses to buy an air conditioner (arguing that it's too expensive), sus nietos come up with the idea to raise the money themselves by setting up a stand in a street fair that's held outside the mercado. They almost succeed after setting up a "sitting booth," but they're forced to pay Vito's medical bills when Bobby tries to pass himself off as a chair. In the end, Ronnie Anne gets the idea to turn Hector's raspado machine into an air conditionernote .
- Literal-Minded: When Hector tells sus nietos that an air conditioner "costs an arm and a leg," Carl's so desperate to get cool he offers Carlitos' arm and leg...and Carlitos (who also wants to stay cool) gladly complies!
- Stock Scream: The Wilhelm Scream is heard when the raspado machine is on the fritz.
