Summary: When a field trip goes wrong, the twins question if needs are actually rights. They learn about natural rights from John Locke and fight for their lives on an island of ferocious flamingos.
This episode contains the following tropes:
- An Aesop: "The only rights you're entitled to don't force others to work for you."
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Gabby gets distracted from worrying about the twins being on Flamingo Island when she sees a Hot Gothic store.
- Goth: Gabby enjoys shopping at a store called Hot Gothic.
- Historical Domain Character: The first historical figure the twins visit this season is John Locke.
- Hurricane of Puns: The cold open has a ridiculous number of lepodopterid (butterfly and moth) puns.
- Misplaced Wildlife: For some reason, one of Copernicus' woodland friends is a python.
- Naturally Huskless Coconuts: Coconuts are shown growing brown and fuzzy on the trees of Flamingo Island instead of in their large green husks.
- Promoted to Opening Titles: Copernicus and Karinne are billed as main characters in the opening theme this season.
- Raiders of the Lost Parody: Lyle describes his quest to find food as a very Indiana Jones-esque adventure.
- Raised by Wolves: Copernicus claims to have been raised in the woods by squirrels. It's made him very knowledgeable about wildlife, and he's even able to communicate with them.
- Shoe Slap: Gabby smacks Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the hand with her slipper when he tries to take her wheelchair for himself.
- Shout-Out: This episode has tons of pop culture references.
- The episode opens with two factions of butterflies snapping their fingers before initiating a fight.
- Lyle's description of his trek to find food comes straight out of Indiana Jones.
- John Locke allows Derek to play a literal game of Operation on one of his patients.
- At one point, Grandma Gabby spits out her dentures and clacks them together to imitate horse hooves on pavement.
- Grandma Gabby and Derek go on a shopping spree at Hot Gothic. While there, Gabby directly name drops Tim Burton.
- While stranded on Flamingo Island, the twins and Keith manage to catch Nemo, Dory, Marlin and Wilson.
- Keith calls one of the killer flamingos a "clever girl."
- Emily tells Copernicus that they never thanked the woodland animals for their help. He responds with, "And you'll never have to," before being carried off by a "cape" of butterflies.
- Third-Person Person: Keith generally refers to himself in the third person.
- Wild Child: The twins meet Keith, a kid who's been stranded on Flamingo Island for years.
