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Uncredible Journey

Original air date: 2/10/2023

Tinkle, Ouchie, and Pinkeye all gather for a playdate. But when GrandPat accidentally breaks the downstairs toilet, and when the repairman goes to fix it, he takes the pets away by mistake. It's up to them to find their way home.

Uncredible Journey contains examples of:

  • Character Narrator: Tour guide Rube Goldfish narrates the episode, telling the story of the Star family pets Tinkle, Ouchie, and Pinkeye getting taken away and journeying back home. When they're tired and can't find a way home, Rube breaks into the story (despite acknowledging that he shouldn't) to point them in the right direction.
  • Enemy Mine: Ouchie and Pinkeye are rivals, often seen fighting and chasing each other. However, they have a mutual friend in Tinkle, and will put aside their feud to all play together.
  • Heroic Fire Rescue: While finding their way home, the pets are grabbed by a passerby who points to a baby in a burning building. They go in, extinguish the fire using Tinkle's toilet water, and save the baby, to a crowd of applause.
  • Narrating the Obvious: The episode has Rube as a Character Narrator. However, most of what he says is describing the exact things that just happened on screen.
    Rube: Uh-oh, Mr. Plumber thought Tinkle was the broken toilet. He replaced him with a regular toilet and took Tinkle away.
  • No Animals Allowed: No animals are allowed in the grocery store, so the pets get kicked out for trying to enter. They form a Totem Pole Trench disguise with Tinkle as the head to get in, steal items, and get out.
  • Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: GrandPat breaks the downstairs toilet, so the family calls a plumber. When he arrives, he hears noise from upstairs (sentient toilet Tinkle, Ouchie, and Pinkeye playing together) and captures the three of them, then replaces Tinkle with a regular toilet. The Star family see that Tinkle isn't eating or playing, and mistakenly believe he's dead, holding a funeral in the front yard. After finding their way home, the three pets reveal themselves, and Tinkle is welcomed back into the family.
  • Stock Animal Diet: When the pets look into the store windows, Pinkeye is seen drooling over carrots.


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Host-a-Palooza

Original air date: 2/17/2023

Patrick gets injured on his show, leaving him in no condition to perform. In his stead, Squidina must improvise a line-up of guest hosts, each worse than the last. But how long will the Patrick-loving audience tolerate these replacements?

Host-a-Palooza contains examples of:

  • Advanced Tech 2000: Cecil's high-tech fishing rod is called the Cecil 6000 Modern Fishing Rod.
  • Brick Joke: When Squidina first tells Patrick about the guest hosts, he says that he hopes one of them is ice cream. At the very end of the episode, Patrick does call on a guest: a living ice cream cone.
  • Compliment Fishing: Parodied as part of a Literal Metaphor. GrandPat and Cecil throw their fishing lines around randomly, and finally hook each other, leading them to compliment each other. They tell her that they were "fishing for compliments": Squidina groans.
  • Hidden Depths: Cecil is shown to be a talented fisherman and inventor. While his custom fishing rod does have some questionably useful attachments, the fact that he built it and they appear to work is still pretty impressive.
  • Lame Pun Reaction: When Cecil and GrandPat are having a fishing contest, both of their catches are set-ups for puns. Squidina isn't amused.
    Squidina: Dad jokes and grand-dad jokes? (slaps forehead) Ugggh!
  • Let's See YOU Do Better!: Annoyed by the audience repeatedly asking for Patrick, Squidina decides to act like him herself. The audience finds out, and isn't satisfied. At her breaking point, Squidina tells the audience to go and try doing a better Patrick impression. The viewers do; they run on stage and start jumping around, leading the entire set to collapse.
  • Letting the Air out of the Band: A magic act scene is scored with some showy, triumphant music. But when Pinkeye surfaces from the hat and yawns, the music slows down and decreases in pitch.
  • Older Is Better: GrandPat shows up to complain about Cecil's overly modern fishing rod. His "rod" is just a bone with a rusty hook, but he brags that he didn't even need bait to use it, and mocks Cecil for using something so complicated.
  • Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: Shmandor waves a wand over a hat surrounded by magic items. Pinkeye comes out and makes an anticlimactic entrance, clearly waking up from a nap.
  • Terrible Interviewees Montage: Essentially the entire episode. Every new host Squidina puts on either has terrible material, has their acts go completely off the rails, or is otherwise unfit to entertain the audience.

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