With Career Day having come again, Dib, his friends, and the Irkens have to deal with their various job assignments.
- Accidental Misnaming: The actress that Viera interns for repeatedly gets her name wrong, cycling through every other name that starts with a "V". And then Rebecca, which an annoyed Viera notes doesn't even fit that pattern.
- Arc Welding: In canon, the Ham Demon was just a random gag monster that Zim fought in Tak's initial appearance. Here, it's made clear that Tak had created the Ham Demon as a means of keeping Zim busy.
- Bad Boss: Mrs. Albertson, the Game Slave executive that Gaz shadows for Career Day, has her employees beaten by security guards at the drop of a hat if they even slightly break her rules.
- Berserk Button: For Claudia von Wunderbar, it's correcting her or falling short of her petty desires.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Steve notes that his and Viera's lives have gotten pretty weird if he can consider it pretty normal that she's being chased by a movie crew led by a banshee witch.
- Bystander Syndrome: Dib ultimately chooses to not step in when Tak is fighting the Ham Demon, figuring she can handle it by herself.
- Can't Take Criticism: Claudia von Wunderbar treats anyone correcting her as an insult.
- Conspiracy Theorist: Bill shows up again, and if anything seems less rational than he was last time.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Claudia von Wunderbar tries to kill Viera for correcting her on saying Viera's name (after already being mad over Viera failing to bring her coffee when the machine broke).
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Nyx, has no problem with enslaving "lesser races" if it's for a purpose, but doing it just to save labor costs enrages her.
- Subverted by Tenn. She's initially wary when she finds out that Slab Rankle is enslaving the rat people in the Mall's garage, but not out of morals; she's just worried about if being involved with this will drag her into legal trouble. Upon being told that it's not technically illegal, she has no problem with it.
- Eye Scream: Skoodge gets zapped in the eye by the malfunctioning Job Evaluator drone.
- Former Child Star: Claudia von Wunderbar is noted as having been a fairly successful child star who is now long past her prime.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Tak ends up having to fight the same Ham Demon she once unleashed to attack Zim.
- Hollywood Hacking: Tak uses her hypnotic implant to hack the Job Evaluator so that she gets a job at her own company.
- Hypocrite: Zim tells Nyx to quit whining about her Career Day assignment, while Skoodge points out that he was just doing the same thing.
- The Illuminati: Bill believes that they, along with the Freemasons and Templars, are part of a secret conspiracy to control the world.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- Played with. Bill does somewhat have a right to be suspicious of Dib after their last meeting. However, Dib points out that most of what happened was either a coincidence or his own fault.
- As abrasive as Mrs. Albertson is to her workers, she is right they are acting lazy, and she even points out that while her punishments are extreme, they were in her contracts so they knew what they were getting into.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Gaz spends most of her time interning at Game Slave Incorporated headquarters goading the boss into having employees beaten by security guards for "discipline". Later, one of them takes the opportunity to frame her for something that isn't her fault, leading to her being "disciplined".
- Tak uses her mind control implant to hack the Job Evaluator, in order to cheat the system and spend her Career Day assignment at her own front company. However, due to circumstances outside her control, this results in her having to fight the Ham Demon and apparently getting blamed for the damage it causes.
- Let's You and Him Fight: In a spur of the moment panicked decision, Steve tricks the coffee-obsessed employees of the office he's interning at that the movie crew chasing Viera is coming to steal their coffee, causing them to fight each other.
- Mundane Made Awesome: The corporation Steve interns at is dedicating its resources towards developing a high-tech paper clip that they think will make them billions.
- Mythology Gag: Bill's grand conspiracy theory includes secret societies of wizards whose magic is powered by Poop soda. This was the plot of Issues 29 and 30 of the comic series.
- Our Banshees Are Louder: Claudia von Wunderbar normally looks like a normal woman, but when angry she turns into a hag and starts floating.
- The Primadonna: Claudia von Wunderbar is shrill and demanding and quick to blame other people if anything even slightly goes wrong with her performances.
- Quit Your Whining: Zim tells Nyx to stop complaining about her Career Day assignment (even though he was just doing the same thing).
- Read the Fine Print: Mrs. Albertson, the Game Slave executive, points out that their contracts all spell out that she's completely allowed to have her employees beaten if they violate company rules.
- Serious Business: The company that Steve interns at takes its coffee very seriously. To the point of the idea of someone taking it from them being treated as a declaration of war.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Dib’s reaction when Bill offhandedly refers to Viera as his girlfriend.
- Shout-Out:
- At one point while discussing his grand conspiracy theory, Bill slightly paraphrases one of The Question's most famous lines, regarding how the plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are "called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."
- The exchange between Tenn and Slab Rankle about the enslavement of the rat people is paraphrased from an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius regarding the legality of one of Jimmy's experiments.
Tenn: Is that legal?
Slab: In some states. Depends on how you define 'legal'.- While freeing the rat people, Nyx shouts "Freedom!" while half her face is covered in blue paint.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Claudia von Wunderbar's name is a bit long, but still not nearly enough to match how incredible she seems to think she is.
- String Theory: Bill has an extensive one detailing the grand set of conspiracies he believes he's uncovered. But given it's all based on his Insane Troll Logic, Dib notes that it's a bizarre mess that makes no sense whatsoever.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Dib's reaction to having to listen to Bill's insane conspiracy theories.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The whole movie crew knows Claudia is a banshee and don't care, treating her wanting to feed on Viera as totally normal.
- Waking Non Sequitur: When Dib dozes off during Bill's explanation of his grand conspiracy theory and gets slapped back awake, he blurts out "Bigfoot's tonsillitis!"
