Money Management Mayhem: A Christmas Adventurenote
Summary: It's Christmas time, and when the twins argue about saving money versus spending it, Grandma introduces them to a board game that unleashes creatures and chaos into the Tuttle's home
This episode contains the following tropes:
- An Aesop: "Delaying desires I see helps the future me."
- All There in the Manual: The credits reveal that the name of the Fancy Nancy parody is Lacey Stacey.
- Bland-Name Product: Grandma Gabby gets the twins a board game from the 90s that's clearly intended to be a parody of Jumanji. It's even called Generic-Manji.
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Gabby has a button on her wheelchair labeled, "Retreat like the French."
- Christmas Episode: The story takes place at Christmas, and the twins are discussing getting band jackets and gifting one to Copernicus.
- Company Cross References: On one of Ethan's turns, he's told he needs to face "flying toothy cows." Angel Studios produces both this show and The Wingfeather Saga.
- Continuity Cavalcade:
- Several creatures from previous episodes get pulled in through the game. They include the killer flamingos from "Needs, Rights and Flamingo Fights," a werewolf from "Spooky, Stinky Subsidies," and the tiger student from "Education Jungle."
- Gabby takes the twins on a quick review tour of the historical figures they've met, such as Annie Turnbo Malone and Babe Ruth.
- Future Me Scares Me: The versions of their future selves that the twins first meet show them the end results of their poor choices. In one possible future, Ethan ends up marrying Karinne for her money and hiding from her with his roommate, whose hotdogs he steals because he can't afford his own groceries. And Emily becomes a miserly old woman who's too afraid to spend anything (yet still somehow ended up with Hester's water moleculizer from "Rising Tides & Dirty Deals").
- The Game Come to Life: The twins get sucked into a parody of Jumanji.
- Shout-Out: A random little girl in a frilly dress and rainbow stockings shows up at two random points to drop exposition before getting yanked off screen by various monsters. She's called Lacey Stacey.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Jumanji.
