Oscar smuggles Ernie Wilson, a young Inuit athlete he discovered, into the apartment, hoping to hide him from the league drafters until he has a chance to make a worthwhile deal. While Ernie and Felix are alone in the apartment, a visitor, Efram Goodchild from the Eastern Conservatory of Music, arrives to offer Ernie a full scholarship.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- An Aesop: A person should be allowed to succeed based on his talents, not his ethnicity.
- Brick Joke:
- While cancelling the deal he made with Slim Daniels, Oscar yells that he doesn't care if they hired a polar bear for a halftime stunt. At the end, after trying again to get Ernie into a contract, Slim walks off, telling his entourage that they need to hire a polar bear again, just in case.
- Two people comment on how cold the apartment is (Felix turned down the thermostat to make Ernie comfortable). At the end, Ernie asks them to turn up the heat, because he's freezing.
- Cathartic Chores: Felix apparently cleans when he's upset. According to Oscar, during his breakup with Gloria, he changed the shelf paper so often it flummoxed the insects.
- Crossing the Burnt Bridge: After Felix convinces Oscar that Ernie wants to be a cello player and that he has talent, Oscar tells Slim Daniels, the sports coordinator he contacted, that the deal is off, insulting him in the process. Then Felix finds out Ernie has no musical talent and was scouted for his ancestry. Luckily, Slim Daniels wants Ernie regardless and guesses that he doesn't actually play the cello.
- Does Not Like Spam: Ernie hates eating fish of any variety, given how much he ate when he was a baby.
- Never Heard That One Before: Ernie has heard a lot of jokes about his coming from a cold area. However, he's very patient with Felix, who can't stop making remarks of the sort (despite constant apologies).
- Suddenly Bilingual: Oscar turns out to speak Inuit, apparently something he learned from Ernie.
