After getting grounded for sneaking into a teens club, Penny wishes that her parents would disappear. But Al Roker has other plans - he makes the entire adult population disappear. Penny and the kids at first enjoy their newfound freedom, but quickly grow to miss their parents and conspire a way to bring them back.
Tropes:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Bobby, by being a kid at heart and asking where Suga Mama is, saves his niece and nephew from being taken away by Al Roker.
- As Himself: Al Roker
- Balloon Belly: During the montage of the kids having fun without the adults around, Penny and Dijonay are seen drinking soda with multiple empty cups by them. Their bellies have swelled out from under their shirts (more so than usual in Dijonay's case) and stretched out their skirts.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Penny angrily wishes her parents gone and Al Roker gets her to wish all parents and grown-ups gone. She and the other tweens, and younger, enjoy their freedom until they realize how much they miss them. Not only that, Penny even sees her parents and Suga Mama suffering even worse under Roker than Penny did under her punishment.
- Big Damn Heroes: Bobby does this unintentionally by just showing up and asking where Suga Mama is. It's then revealed that since Al didn't get rid of all the adults, his contract with Penny is null and void. This not only brings all the adults back, but saved BeBe and CeCe from the same fate.
- Chekhov's Gun: After dropping off Penny and her friends at Juicy's, Oscar goes to drop off their pictures at the framers. Later, a mailboy delivered the package meant for the Proud Family and it was the pictures with Oscar and Trudy along with Suga Mama and Puff now framed. This became where Penny, her twins, and all the other kids end up crying over missing their parents after a week without them.
- Chess with Death: Penny challenges Al to a double-dutch competition to get the adults back.
- Children Do the Housework: Penny's punishment. She is forced to become a servant in her own house after Oscar and Trudy bust her in the mall nightclub.
- Cinderella Plot: A unique variation. Oscar, Trudy and Suga Mama bar Penny from watching a movie with them as part of her punishment. For this, she wishes the adults were gone. Cue Al Roker who serves as her fairy godfather (of a sort).
- Copycat Mockery: Penny does this with Oscar when she mentions that he won't let her enter the glee club. Her head even morphs into that of Oscar as she does so.
- Everybody Cries: The tweens (even the bullies) do this when they realize how much they miss their parents.
- Foreshadowing: All throughout the episode, Bobbi hasn't been seen at all, not even when Roker showed just where he put the other adults. Turns out he was the one who slipped through the cracks.
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with Papi signing a deal with Al Roker to get rid of Sugar Mama, much to Bobby's dismay.
- I'm Melting!: Roker spontaneously melts a la the Wicked Witch of the West, even going as far as quoting her last words.
- Irony: The one who defeats Roker is an adult who is a child at heart.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Roker is correct in that Penny's parents were correct in grounding her as she lied about where she was going when she and her friends snuck into the teens club.
- Loophole Abuse: When Bobby reveals that he's still around, Sticky notes how according to the contract, if Roker fails to get rid of all the adults, said contract is null and void. When Roker wonders how Bobby evaded him, the latter explains that he's a child at heart.
- Made a Slave: As it turns out, the adults didn't just disappear, but rather they were forced into making Roker's one-size fits all "Roker-wear". Compared to the kids who were having fun for a week, their lives are the polar opposite.
- Penny, to a lesser extent, was forced into servitude by Trudy and Oscar after they caught her in the nightclub. A bit of irony considering how the roles switched but only with Trudy and Oscar being under Roker's servitude, which is even worse.
- Manchild: The one who undoes Penny's contract with Al is Uncle Bobby, who admits to being a kid at heart and wants Suga Mama back.
- Never My Fault: Penny gets angry at her parents for grounding her and making her do chores, ignoring the fact that she's the one who lied to them. Al Roker does call her out for this when Penny tries to blame him for her getting grounded.
- No Sympathy: Not only Oscar and Trudy show this to Penny after making her a house servant for the week as punishment for going to the nightclub and lying to them, but even Suga Mama as well agrees with them as she punished Oscar for lying many times. This ends up leading to Penny angrily wishing no more adults which includes the three.
- Oh, Crap!: Penny and her friends get this when Oscar shows up and confronts her for sneaking out to the night club. Her friends get a second one when they try to flee and find Trudy blocking the door, making so they get punished, too.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Once Trudy finds out that Penny and her friends lied to them and snuck to the nightclub, she comes off angrier than Oscar to the point that she throws him to the backseat so she can drive to get them. She even blocks the door to prevent her friends from trying to escape their punishment. Even Oscar is surprised when he realizes Trudy's own Berserk Button has been pressed.Oscar: Ooh, they in trouble!
- Pay Evil unto Evil: When Penny's parents discover she snuck into a teen nightclub and locate her, they start yelling at her for what she did. Humiliated at being scolded in public, Penny whines how they're embarrassing her. In response, Oscar makes it a point when he gets everyone's attention and publicly announces how Penny disobeyed her parents. While it's cruel to humiliate a teenager (as they're more sensitive to embarrassment), Penny did disobey them and go some place she really wasn't supposed to be. It goes up to eleven when they have Penny do all the house chores for a week.
- Self-Deprecation: Al Roker basically voices an evil version of himself!
- Spanner in the Works: Bobby arriving in the nick of time, completely unaware of what had happened, and asking where Suga Mama is.
- Sunken Face: After arguing that he grew roots because she wouldn't feed him, Suga Mama returns the favor by giving Oscar an offscreen knuckle sandwich. He tries to eat popcorn but to no avail because of it.
- Team Mom: Ironically, Penny takes on more seniority after the adults are gone. Especially forcing her friends to help clean the house after a wild party.
- The Un-Reveal: It’s not revealed how Dijonay, LaCieniga, and Zoey’s parents punished them for sneaking out to the nightclub.
- You Are Grounded!: Penny gets grounded for lying to her parents about going to a teen club. It was what put the plot in motion.
