Bat Mitzvah Crashers
Original Air Date: 05/17/2008
In this episode, after Bessie gets taken to her first bat mitzvah by Penny, she and Penny decide to start a bat mitzvah crashing spree, but their constant partying soon gets in the way of their lives as Honeybees.
Super Secret Weakness
Original Air Date: 05/17/2008
In this episode, Bessie tries to find her weakness as the "Mighty B" eats many things and then pukes it all up when fed the zucchini. Therefore she now believes she is allergic to them and tries to have them banned in San Fransisco.
Tropes in Bat Mitzvah Crashers
- Aristocrats Are Evil: As shown by the scope of her bat mitzvah, Chelsea is decidedly wealthy. She's also an even bigger Alpha Bitch than her younger cousin Portia.
- Establishing Character Moment: In Chelsea's very first scene, we hear her threatening her own mother and see her treating Portia, the series' resident Alpha Bitch, like a slave.
- Eviler than Thou: In this case, more "Bitchier Than Thou", but the idea is the same. Portia herself is normally very obnoxious, but her cousin Chelsea Gibbons is even worse. In her very first scene, we hear her threatening to fire her own mom if she can't make her happy at her bat mitzvah. Later, she outright disowns Portia as her cousin, leaving her in tears.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Portia is portrayed as this in comparison to Chelsea.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Portia gets a moment of this at the end, when she sincerely thanks Bessie and Penny for helping her get some payback on her toxic cousin Chelsea. She even joins them to go to another bat mitzvah at the end.
- The Dog Bites Back: After spending the whole episode being bullied by her older cousin, Portia, thanks to Bessie and Penny, gets some payback by burying Chelsea beneath a giant snowball.
- Shown Their Work: Penny gives a basic description of a bat mitzvah: "It's a big party for when a girl becomes an older girl, but it's not on her birthday." In Judaism, a bat mitzvah is a coming-of-age party given for a young woman who has become a legal adult under Jewish law.
Tropes in Super Secret Weakness
- An Aesop: Before jumping to conclusions and making serious decisions.
- All for Nothing: Everything Bessie did with zucchini was her failing to realize she just overate.
- Bookends: The episode begins and ends with Bessie in bed.
- Didn't Think This Through: Of course, Bessie believes she is allergic to zucchini and goes on a quest to have it outlawed.
- Dream Intro: The episode begins with Bessie dreaming about her as the Mighty B and fighting bears stealing all the honey.
- Extreme Omnivore: Bessie eats everything, even humongous and non-edible items and machines. She pukes it all up when she is fed the zucchini. These include accordions, taxi cab drivers, tires, and baboons!
- Faux Horrific: Portia, Gwen, and Penny corner and torment Bessie with foods that have zucchini in them, and they portray it this way to her.
- Freak Out
- Bessie, when cornered by Gwen, Portia, and Penny, not only screams but also begs for her life while hyperventilating on the floor.
- When Portia convinces her clique to get back at Bessie for being famous, she smears lipstick on her face and shrieks manically.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Bessie has one when she learns about the complete misunderstanding when cornered by Portia, Gwen, and Penny.
- Get Out!: What the town hall does to her after she tries proposing the anti-zucchini law. She is escorted out after this is said to her.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Portia becomes fed up with Bessie becoming famous and not her and sets out to torture her.
- It's All About Me: Portia says this when she declares her jealousy of Bessie.
- Plot Allergy: Parodied. While not necessarily true, Bessie treats her puking from being fed zucchini as such.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Bessie went through the hassle and didn't realize she threw up cause she overate, not cause of zucchini, and never realized it. Nor did she understand what she was allergic to..... Pillow feathers!
- The End... Or Is It?: Bessie goes to bed celebrating she isn't allergic to zucchini and goes to sleep. But her pillow feathers fly all over the place and one lands on her nose and appears to burn her skin, and she then sneezes from it.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Exaggerated. Bessie's vomiting ability is cranked up to eleven, and the mess she creates resembles that of a garbage dump with everything she eats.
