Recap / The Casagrandes S 3 E 2 Squawk In The Name Of Love Date With Destiny

Squawk in the Name of Love: Sergio enlists Adelaide's help to become a gentleman in order to win Priscilla back.

Date With Destiny: Rosa hears an Ernesto Estrella prediction that her daughter, Maria, might get back together with her ex-esposo (Bobby and Ronnie Anne's dad), Arturo.

The Tropes for "Squawk in the Name of Love" involves:

• Crying Critters: Sergio starts off the episode by crying his eyes out over Priscilla.
  • Later, Priscilla cries Ocular Gushers when Sergio's meeting with her parents goes wrong.
• A Day in the Limelight: For Sergio in this case.
• Discriminate and Switch: When Adelaide is playing with Carl's action figures of El Falcon and The Cobra (both male characters from Carl's favourite Show Within a Show), she makes kissy noises and says they're going to get married. Carl angrily tells her they can't get married ... they're mortal enemies!
• Earpiece Conversation: Adelaide helps Sergio via an earpiece. Guess how it goes.
• Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Sergio eating pistachio ice cream in an attempt to get over his break-up with Priscilla.
• Hyperventilation Bag: Sergio does this when he's about to meet Priscilla's parents.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sergio's attempts to win Priscilla's heart backfire. Most notably, his idea of romantic flowers is a Venus fly trap, which proceeds to turn of Sergio himself!
  • Later, when Adelaide helps Sergio win her back, Priscilla wants Sergio to meet her parents, making him very nervous indeed!
• Person as Verb: Almost everyone present in the episode uses Sergio as a synonym for screwing up. Even Sergio himself gets in on the action at the end.
• Pun-Based Title: The title of this episode is a pun of the 1965 Supremes song "Stop! In the Name of Love."
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Sergio does this with Adelaide more than once.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Adelaide tries to teach Sergio to be a gentleman through a princess book, but Sergio's attempts to win Priscilla back fail because Priscilla doesn't appreciate hip-hop, she doesn't like the same kind of garbage Sergio eats, and Sergio gets her the wrong kind of flower.

The Tropes for "Date With Destiny" Consists of these:

• Absurd Phobia: T-Bone has a fear of pineapples.
• An Aesop: Don't believe everything you hear. More importantly, don't take what you hear too literally.
• Bird-Poop Gag: According to Carl, Ernesto Estrella predicted that he would get pooped on by a bird in his own room. It comes true when Sergio poops on Carl's jacket.
• Bittersweet Ending: While Maria and Arturo don't get back together (at least not romantically), it's clear that they still love and care about each other as friends and they both obviously still love and care about not just their kids, but the rest of their family as well. In a way, Ernesto's prophecy did come true.
• Bridal Carry: T-Bone carries Maria out of the water like this.
• Call-Back: Ernesto Estrella makes another appearance in the series and Rosa, once again, makes a big deal about how she feels that his astrological predictions are very accurate.
• Continuity Nod: When Maria told Arturo that she was on a date with someone, or at least she thought she was (that of which was thanks to Ronnie Anne and Bobby's Relationship Sabotage), Arturo replied that he had been there.
• Heroic Bystander: T-Bone rescues Maria when she careens down the pier past him.
• Kids Play Match Breaker: Bobby and Ronnie Anne sabotage Maria’s date with T-Bone to make way for "the right ex", by triggering his Absurd Phobia of pineapples.
• Kids Play Matchmaker: Ronnie Anne and Bobby try to set their parents up on a date when Ernesto Estrella predicts "a lifetime of happiness" for Maria’s sign if she is "back with her ex" by that night.
• Mr. Fanservice: Maria imagines the man who saved her from drowning as such in a Walking Shirtless Scene.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Ronnie Anne and Bobby figure out that Ernesto's prophecy isn't coming true the way they think it is, Bobby impetuously lunges forth to force his parents back together with spaghetti, only for the two to slip in some tomato sauce.
• Ocular Gushers: Bobby cries like this when he thinks his and Ronnie Anne's parents are getting back together.
• Oh, Crap!: Ronnie Anne and Bobby's reaction when they finds out that their mom, who is covered in plaster, is careening down the peer on a skateboard!
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. The T-Bone in this episode is a different character than the recurring biker character from The Loud House.
• Relationship Sabotage: When Ronnie Anne and Bobby are convinced that Maria's in love with T-Bone, they try to break them up.
• Western Zodiac: Due to Rosa claims of Maria (her daughter) being a water-sign, this would mean that Maria's either a Cancer^note Who're born anywhere between June 21st and July 22nd (during the summer), a Scorpio ^note Who're born anywhere between October 23rd to November 21st (during the fall) or a Pisces^note Who're born anywhere between February 19th to March 20th (during the late winter/early spring). Of these three signs, Cancer seems the most fitting for Maria, especially with how family-oriented she is^note In the Western Zodiac, Cancers are considered the most family-oriented.
• You Need a Breath Mint: Invoked by Bobby, who switches T-Bone's breath mints with garlic-flavored pills.