Love Birds
After Walt's failed attempt at romance, Charles, Cliff and Geo try to find their pal a love connection.
"Love Birds"
- Artistic License – Ornithology: Lisa is shown losing a game of chess to an intelligent owl. Real owls are unintelligent due to their tiny brains and operate mostly on instinct.
- A Day in the Limelight: This is the second episode to focus on the pets.
- The Faceless: All the human characters (minus the characters in "The Dream Boat"). This is the first time this has happened since it occurred with Mr. and Mrs. Loud until the start of Season 2.
- Green Around the Gills: Charles, Geo, Cliff, and Walt all have one after seeing an owl turn its head all the way around in an Imagine Spot.
- Heroic BSoD: Walt, after finding out that he was in love with a lawn flamingo.
- Hibernation/Migration Situation: After Walt and the duck get together, unfortunately, the duck has to migrate for the winter. She decides to stay, but misses her family too much. Walt then decides to fly south with her, but he ends up missing his own family too much. They decide to spend the winter apart until she returns in spring.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When the duck has to fly south for the winter, the pets come up with the idea to make is so she can stay with Walt, but when Walt notices that she misses her family, he lets her fly south to be with them while also going with her. But while he's happy with her, the duck notices that Walt misses his own family, so the duck allows him to fly back home to be with them. However, they still maintain a long-distance relationship.
- Interspecies Romance: Walt (a canary) enters a relationship with a duck.
- Long-Distance Relationship: Walt and the duck agree to do this until she returns in Spring.
- No Name Given: The duck isn't given a name.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Cliff, Charles, and Geo look around the neighborhood for a new bird girlfriend for Walt. They consider an owl (too creepy), a mourning dove (too depressing), and a hawk (tries to eat them) before finding the duck.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The duck wears a pink flower on her head, so it's more readily apparent that she's a girl.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After the Green Around the Gills moment mentioned above, Geo vomits in his hamster ball and uses a squeegee to wipe it away.
Rocket Men
Lincoln and Clyde beg their parents to let them go to space cadets camp, but it's not as fun as they expected.
"Rocket Men"
- As Herself: Tarreyn is voiced by storywriter Tarreyn Van Sloane.
- Bathroom Search Excuse: When Lincoln and Clyde are trying to escape from a space-themed camp that they hate because the food tastes bad and the rides make them nauseous, a worker catches them and they claim they were on their way back from the bathroom.
- Green Around the Gills: Both Lincoln and Clyde after getting off the spinning ride.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Tarreyn when she apologizes to the boys about them not having a good time.
- Irony: After they finally start to enjoy themselves, Lincoln and Clyde's parents come to pick them up since they called their parents earlier, telling them how miserable they were.
- Shout-Out:
- The title is one to the Elton John song "Rocket Man".
- "Starship Groupers" is a reference to Starship Troopers.
- Squee: Both Lincoln and Clyde when they can go to camp and when they get there.
- Wanting Is Better Than Having: Lincoln and Clyde beg their parents to let them go to Space Cadet Camp, but they end up having a terrible time. It gets inverted later in the episode; after they repeatedly try and escape from camp, when the time comes for them to actually leave, they don't want to go.
