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Recap / Tuttle Twins S 1 E 4 Of Business And Benjamins

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Summary: With the help of Ben Franklin, the Twins learn what it means to be an entrepreneur and start their own corndog stand.

This episode contains the following tropes:

  • An Aesop: "The entrepreneur makes problems fewer."
  • Bait-and-Switch Comment: Ethan asks Grandma Gabby if she's a millionaire. Gabby laughs it off at first.
Gabby: Oh, no...I'm something that rhymes with it.
Emily: Grandma, what if our customers see her?
Gabby: For that you'd need customers.
  • Historical Domain Character: The twins visit two this episode: Benjamin Franklin and Annie Turnbo Malone. The latter is the first African-American woman to become a multimillionaire. Gabby also brings Queen Elizabeth I forward in time to make a point.
  • Montages: The episode has several as the twins brainstorm ideas and then build their corndog stand and upgrades.
  • Sore Loser: Ethan has a moment of this when Karinne opens a rival corndog stand. He gets over it.
  • Take That!: Mrs. Tuttle assures the twins that entrepreneurship is encouraged everywhere except in a totalitarian regime like North Korea—and California.

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