Birds of a Feather: Literally between Bertie and Dakota. While Dakota is more outgoing and idealistic than Bertie, it turns out that they have very similar interests and coping mechanisms, which quickly leads to them becoming friends.
Broken Pedestal: Dakota, who spends much of the episode looking up to Bertie like a big sister, disowns her when she learns that Bertie knew about Pastry Pete's hazing ritual and never warned her about it.
Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Tuca goes to a nightclub to get away from her worries about her fight with Bertie, only for the song to have lyrics saying things like "Party with your best friend", which cues various pairs of best friends to dance with each other.
Good-Times Montage: When Bertie and Dakota go off on adventures together.
I'm Standing Right Here: When Bertie laments to Speckle that she doesn't like anybody they invite to game nights, the camera zooms out to reveal a pair of very unamused female birds sitting right across from them.
Naïve Newcomer: Dakota is a tongue-in-cheek version of this, starting out as a perky Wide-Eyed Idealist from the country who comes to the big city looking to start a glamorous career in culinary arts. However, she's shown to be more than capable of defending herself when Pastry Pete tries to make a move on her.
Not So Above It All: While initially appearing to be disgusted by them, The Stinger reveals that Tuca's jaguar actually enjoys watching pimple-popping videos.
Overly Long Gag: Dakota shakes Bertie's hand for a pretty long time.
Precision F-Strike: Dakota doesn't swear at all, fitting with her idealistic country girl character—until she drops the F-bomb when calling out Pastry Pete for trying to haze her, showing that she's tougher than she looks and also making Bertie realize just how much of a scumbag Pastry Pete really is.
Rapid-Fire "No!": Tuca lets out these as she runs out the nightclub.
Signs of Disrepair: After getting called out by Dakota, Bertie walks home past a deli, where a neon sign advertises "Fresh hams everyday". The letters flicker out to spell "SHAME" as she passes.
Stealth Pun: Bertie only realizes that Pastry Pete might not be as noble as he lets on when she sees him putting Dakota, a yellow canary, through the same hazing ritual he put her through, only then realizing that it's far more predatory than she had first assumed and saving her further trauma. Dakota is her "canary in a coal mine".
Visual Pun: Dakota's immediate text quite literally scares the pants off of Speckle.
