Brain Freeze: Happens to Howard when he tries a Flippee. His face turns blue and he faints in Harold’s arms.
Crazy-Prepared: Howard actually knows an ice sculpture repair guy, and carries his business cards. He hands one to a waiter after accidentally breaking the ice sculpture at Gus' Games and Grub.
Empty Nest: Howard and Harold are clearly suffering from this now that Clyde's in middle school and is spending more time with his friends and less time at home. The whole episode is about their increased attempts to convince Clyde and friends to spend time at the McBride house instead.
Epic Fail: While at Gus' Games and Grub, Harold thinks he mastered a flight simulation game, until a teen points out he has to put a coin in the slot to actually play the game, meaning Harold was just watching the demo screen.
Forgotten Birthday: Discussed; when they see all the stuff Howard and Harold bought for them, Rusty fears that they forgot Clyde’s birthday again. Harold however ensures him this is not the case.
Hyperventilation Bag: Howard during his panic attack when he theorizes he and Harold will never see Clyde again once he’s grown up.
Opening the Flood Gates: Inadvertently happens to the McBride house when Howard and Harold flood their whole yard to make the kids a water park, but Harold can’t turn the hose off and the water pressure becomes too much for the glass door to hold.
Priceless Ming Vase: A big vase at the McBride gets wrecked when Howard and Harold allow the kids to rollerskate in the living room. The next scene shows the two men gluing the vase back together.
Toilet Humor: A dog urinates on the bushes that Harold and Howard are hiding in to spy on Clyde.
Totally Radical: Howard and Harold try to impress Clyde’s friends into spending time at their house, but fail miserably and realize they have fallen out of touch with what kids like these days. Hence why they secretly visit Gus' Games and Grub to do research.
What Were You Thinking?: Howard and Harold ask themselves this question when Clyde stops them just in time from wrecking their house with a wrecking ball, and they realize they went too far in their attempts to try and keep Clyde at home.
Wingding Eyes: Flip get the classic dollar sign eyes when he realizes he can scam Howard and Harold into buying a bunch of junk when they ask him what kind of things Clyde likes.
"High Crimes"
Balloonacy: After being found out as the culprit, Vic tries to escape using his helium balloons. The balloons are somehow able to lift Vic, Clyde, Lincoln and Gayle into the air.
Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: Sunset Canyon is turning into one at the start of this episode, as the place is falling apart. Among other things, the outdoor activities are missing crucial equipment, and the pudding machine and AC are broken. Mertle and Gayle even consider moving out because of this, prompting their grandsons to investigate the matter.
After the reception desk lady falls asleep on her desk due to a chamomile candy (see Slipping a Mickey below), Clyde wonders if her nose is okay since she landed flat on her face. A later scene shows her awake, and with a band aid on her nose.
At the end of the episode, Lincoln and Clyde get at taste of their own medicine when they accidentally eat a chamomile candy and fall asleep.
Doomed Supermarket Display: Played with; Flip makes a pyramid of Flippee’s for the party organized by Scoots, but no sooner is he done or Pop-Pop and Bernie running past the table cause the whole thing to collapse.
Helium Speech: Happens to Lincoln and Clyde when they investigate the water heater in the basement of Sunset Canyon, and accidentally break a helium tank that was stored there with the rocket walker Lisa gave them. This tips them off to who the culprit is.
Kids Driving Cars: When Lisa tells Lincoln over the phone that she will come to bring him and Clyde their spy gear, Lincoln wonders how she will do that since she can’t drive. Subverted when it turns out she made a robot to drive Vanzilla for her.
Red Herring: When Lincoln and Clyde spot a man seemingly tampering with the swimming pool drainage controls, they think they found their culprit and capture him, only to learn it wasn’t a man but Gayle in disguise, also trying to find out what is happening to Sunset Canyon.
Slipping a Mickey: Lincoln takes out the lady at the reception desk of Sunset Canyon by offering her a piece of chamomile candy that instantly puts her to sleep.
Spiders Are Scary: Flip definitely thinks so; he wrecks his entire shop trying to hunt down a single spider that got in there.
Time to Move: The inhabitants of Sunset Canyon threaten to do this because the place becomes too much of a dump to live.
Villainous Harlequin: Vic, the clown that Scoots hired for her part. He's constantly grumpy, one scene shows him selling balloons to children, but not even trying to make Balloon Animals out of them, and ultimately, he turns out to be the one destroying Sunset Canyon so he could steal the helium from the walls.
What Does This Button Do?: When he sees the new spy gear Lisa made them, Clyde tries a pair of glasses with a build in laser without waiting for Lisa’s instructions, and accidentally fires it, cutting Lisa’s hair. He nervously puts the glasses away and decides to let Lisa explain everything first.
