Joe decides to become a teenage entrepreneur by starting a grocery delivery business. However, his management style causes friction with Sam and David. While watching Joe's new obsession with making money, Wishbone imagines himself as King Midas from The Metamorphoses by Ovid.
One tie-in book was released — Wishbone Adventures #1: Curse of Gold, a straight adaptation of the episode.
Tropes:
- 555: The number for Joe's company is 555-2317.
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Joe gains this when running his grocery-delivery business and using Sam and David as his employees because he believes in The Chains of Commanding rather than working as a team. Eventually they leave when Sam gets injured racing with David and Joe yells at her for the waste of groceries that she spills on the pavement. His mother lampshades it when Joe tries to look up "friendship" in business handbooks.
- Adaptation Species Change: Silenus is changed from being a satyr to being a human, presumably for budget reasons.
- Adaptation Title Change: While the episode is titled "The Entrepawneur", the novelization (from the Wishbone Adventures book series) is instead titled "Curse of Gold".
- Bait-and-Switch: Joe gives Sam and David envelopes and tells them to open them. Turns out they're certificates of appreciation rather than money.
- Brick Joke: Wishbone hides a pack of hot dogs while Joe is struggling to pack groceries by himself. After the kids leave to go get pizza once Joe goes out of business, Wishbone gets out the hot dogs, saying he'll take care of the leftovers.
- Kick the Morality Pet: Wishbone as King Midas does this to his wife and daughter when he accidentally turns them into gold. He immediately goes into My God, What Have I Done? mode.
- Lost in Imitation: The King Midas adaptation includes the scene in which he accidentally turns his daughter into a golden statue, which does not occur in the version written by Ovid. Instead, this plot element apparently originated from an 1851 version written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and since then, it's been a common story beat in modern retellings. At least the Wishbone version doesn't call her Marigold, the anachronistic name that she's usually given.
- Midas Touch: This episode is adapting the Trope Namer with Wishbone as King Midas.
- My God, What Have I Done?: King Midas after he accidentally turns one of his servants gold.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Everyone in King Midas's court leaves after he turns a servant gold, realizing that they'll also be turned gold if he touches them.
- Sam and David quit after Joe berates them for spilling groceries and shows no sympathy for her getting injured.
- Standard Snippet: The William Tell Overture signals the first appearance of the Joe's Delivery carts.
- This Is Gonna Suck: After granting King Midas's wish for the golden touch, the look on Bacchus's face shows he's done this enough to know it's not going to end well.
- Toilet-Drinking Dog Gag:Wishbone: Yeah, Joe, you're young. Enjoy life. Read a book. Chew on a bone. Dig up the yard. Drink out of the toilet. [turns to address the audience] That was a joke.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sam and David call out Joe for only caring about money when she gets injured working for Joe. Granted, it was partly Sam's fault for racing with a bike-cart full of groceries, but Joe had No Sympathy for her falling down and scraping her elbow.
