Western Animation / Captain Flamingo

In Flamingovision Where Available.

"Powerful, Proud, Pink, it's Captain Flamingo! Tired of being a kid in a world built for grownups, Milo Powell decided to become a superhero. He's a shining beak of justice for kids everywhere. With his special novelty items...and trusty sidekick, Lizbeth. Look out for the colorful and clueless Captain Flamingo!"

— Opening Narration

Captain Flamingo is a Canadian-Filipino cartoon from Breakthrough Entertainment made by created by Suzanne Bolch and John May and animated by Atomic Cartoons (who previously also animated Atomic Betty for Breakthrough). The series ran on YTV starting February 7, 2006 until April 17, 2008 (although it technically ended in December 19, 2010) for 3 seasons of 52 episodes. It also aired on Jetix in the United States.

The show is about a young boy named Milo Powell from the fictional Halverston and Area neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. Deciding to take a stand for little kids everywhere, Milo decides to becomes a superhero. After staring at a lawn flamingo in his backyard, he gives himself the identity of Captain Flamingo, which he transforms into any time a kid yells "Uh-oh! Flamingo!" While he has no actual superpowers, Captain Flamingo uses a whole bunch of novelty joke store items, and has help from his best friend, Lizbeth Amanda Zaragoza, who acts as his sidekick and "Bird Brain". Together, they save kids from unusual situations in completely unusual ways.

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Some tropes! In trouble!:

• All Cloth Unravels: At the end of "Portrait of a Superhero", just when Milo is about to take a family portrait in a nice outfit, Avi founds a blue string in the floor and starts to unravel. It was revealed that the string that he was unraveling was actually Milo's outfit, revealing his goofy flamingo underwear during the photo shoot.
• All for Nothing:
  • In "The Best Episode Ever!", Milo suggests his baby brother Thor to watch a video together, and he chose to watch The Singing Turnip again. However, the VCR wasn't working right due to Thor shoving over his raspberry toaster tart into the machine. As a result, Milo must get the VCR fixed before his parents find out about it. When the tart eventually pops out of the machine and fixes it near the end of the episode, his parents surprised him with a new DVD player and an ultra-sound version The Singing Turnip, which makes Milo's plan on fixing the VCR pretty much pointless now.
  • In "Cliffhanger", Milo arrives back to the comic book store to try wait in front of the line to find out what happens to Quantum Vigilante after his battle with the Daylight Savings Mime. However, the mime was already first in line in the store. Milo thought that he will lose the battle with the mime. It was then revealed by Quantum Vigilante himself that the mime was actually just a guy named Francis wanting to make a few bucks as a result of a crowd being here, meaning that he didn't actually lose the battle with the mime.
• All Just a Dream:
  • "Volunteers for Fears" had Milo dreaming he was fighting the Warrior Monkey while he was sleepwalking.
  • "Journey to the Centre of the TV" had Milo dreaming about he and Lizbeth helping his favorite superhero Quantum Vigilante to fight his nemesis during a Quantum Vigilante marathon.
• All Just a Prank: In "When Fools Rush In", on April Fools Day, Rutger shows Milo some pictures he shot with his camera, showing documented proof that a giant lizard is destroying Halverston and Area (specifically the Little Tokyo area), which scared the rest of the kids. Eventually, it was resolved when Milo used a three-headed-dragon caller for that titular dragon to fight with the lizard at its match out of the city. What they didn't know is that the entire thing was just an April Fools prank between Milo and his dad all along.
• Almost Kiss: Milo almost (reluctantly) kisses Kirsten in "Bug Out!", but Lizbeth drags him away in time.
• Anything but That!: Shortly after Rutger was caught by Meghan, his babysitter in "The Even Greater Escape", he was then forced to sit down and watch TV so she can keep an eye on him, in which there's nothing on TV except for soap-operas, which Rutger fears worse.
  Lizbeth: There's nothing on but...
  Rutger: SOAPS?! NOOOOO!
• April Fools' Plot: "When Fools Rush In".
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Milo and Lizbeth have these moments on occasion. She may be annoyed at his cluelessness and he may not catch on to her feelings, but it's clear they're close friends and care about each other. Milo's probably too proud to admit his feelings for Lizbeth, though.
• Babysitter from Hell: Meghan, a lazy teenager who just can't seem to get off the phone. She takes almost no notice of Milo and his friends' antics, and if she does notice, it's not really that big a deal. How does she react:
  Meghan: You can (insert activity here) when I'm done on the phone!
• Badly Battered Babysitter: Played straight with Milo in regards to his baby brother Thor. Averted with Meghan, the actual babysitter, mainly because she's good at what she does.
• Bathroom Control: In "Water You Worried About?", Milo tells a story about a boy named Little Donny Strong who had to use the bathroom during a road trip. He asked his parents to pull over, but they ignored his pleas. Eventually, though, they pulled over so he could do his business outside (though he ended up exploding after he bumped into a cactus).
• Beach Episode: "Beach Blanket Flamingo" is about Milo and Lizbeth going to the beach and must save Owen from being attacked by seagulls while participating in the sandcastle-building contest with Wendell.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: "A Boy and His Yeti" has Milo, Lizbeth and the rest of Lemming Scouts have to look for the Yellow Gulch Yeti after it allegedly wrecks their campsite.
• Bones Do Not Belong There: X-rays of Milo in his Captain Flamingo outfit show him to somehow have a large bone inside the beak of his helmet.
• Borrowed Catchphrase:
  • Lizbeth's catchphrase "A kid! In trouble!" was sometimes borrowed by Milo in some episodes.
  • A Running Gag of this also occurs in "The Musical" where Lizbeth's catchphrase was borrowed by other characters specifically Kirsten, Milo and even the Narrator, which displeases her. Once she finally says her catchphrase without another character saying it, Kirsten interrupts Lizbeth as her play is going to get ruined before even it starts because of the Warrior Monkey crashing it.
• Bowling for Ratings: In "Ten Pin Peril", Ruth is trapped in bowling machinery at the bowling alley after she mistakenly wears bowling shoes that are not the size of her feet. Milo and Lizbeth must save her while trying to expose Wendell as a cheater at bowling.
• Bubblegum Popping: In "Gum Control", this happens to Kirsten after blowing a huge bubble, leaving her face stuck with popped gum.
• Bungled Hypnotism: In "Nothing But the Tooth", Milo tries to help Max conquer his fear of the tooth fairy, eventually resorting to using hypnotism. However, he screws up by talking to Lizbeth about making out the tooth fairy as an evil entity who steals teeth from children, which Max overhears in his trance and becomes that very description. Milo and Lizbeth then have to hunt him down and stop him from stealing other kids' teeth.
• Camp: The show takes this up to eleven due its weird and wacky shout-outs to classic superhero and anime shows. All of the jokes were extremely both corny and goofy at the same time.
• Cash Lure: Used in "Whack-a-Max" where Milo uses a dollar tied to a string to distract the big kids from playing the Whack-a-Mole game in which Max is stuck in. It backfires when they eventually retrieve the dollar to continue playing the game.
• Chasing a Butterfly: In "Gum Control", Kirsten follows a butterfly shortly after popping a huge bubblegum bubble, causing a lot of stuff such as cats, bushes, and even humans to get stuck on her while chasing it.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Lizbeth is this, especially if Ruth is involved. No one comes between her and her square shaped boy.
• Companion Cube: Lizbeth's stuffed elephant, Chester. The Captain had to save it in "Elephant and Hassle" for her.
• Conveniently Interrupted Document: In "The End", Sanjay was reading a Cruddy Buddies book when suddenly the last page of the book was missing, causing the mystery to be unsolved. It was later revealed in the end that the missing last page was actually a prize on every box of new and improved Grainy-Os. The mystery from the book was about what is the Cruddy Buddies favorite cereal and it was revealed to be a box of new and improved Grainy-Os.
• Conversation Cut:
  • In "Pasta Your Bedtime", after Meghan suggested to celebrate at the Fun-nasium after she practiced her driving test, Owen tells her that he wants to go home and go to bed early instead as he had enough fun today. Meghan says she's fine with that but tells Owen that they were giving away free all-you-can-eat hotdogs there, where the scene was then cut to Milo giving the hot dogs to his parents mid-sentence.
    Meghan: We should celebrate. I know! How about the Fun-nasium? Don't tell your mother. She's such a control freak.
    Owen: Actually, can I go home and go to bed? I've had enough fun for today.
    Meghan: Sure. But first, I hear they're giving away all-you-can-eat free...
    [scene cuts to Milo giving away the hot dogs to his parents]
    Milo: Hot dogs! Come and get em!
  • In "Warrior Monkey, M.D.", after Milo reads a letter from his nemesis the Warrior Monkey written in monkey to seek revenge, he would do what any superhero would do in this situation such as striking a defiant pose, never admitting defeat and complain about his nervous tummy. However, his mother heard that he has a nervous tummy but Milo said it was only a figure of speech and wasn't really an emergency. The scene then cuts mid-sentence to the hospital waiting room due to her having an appointment there.
    Milo's Mom: Milo has a nervous tummy? I bet it's something that's going around.
    Milo: Uh, no Mom. It's just a queasy feeling. It's not like it's an...
    [scene cuts to a hospital waiting room]
    Lizbeth: Emergency?
• Department of Redundancy Department: In "Thor All Over", Milo's solution to cure Rutger from his hiccups is a big surprise. Milo thought that was easy as all he has to do is to tell Rutger about the surprise. This concerns Lizbeth as it could spoil the surprise.
  Lizbeth: Captain, if you're gonna surprise somebody, you can't tell them they're gonna be surprised because that ruins the surprise! So if there's no surprise to the surprise, how could the surprise be surprising?
• Disaster Dominoes: Mixed with being The Klutz, Avi always constantly causes a HUGE string of accidents.
  • In "Blizzard of Ooze", Avi was meant to just get one cookie from a cookie jar. He tried using a chair to stand up to get it, but he accidentally misses causing the jar to fall, knocking over the sugar, the flour, the salt, the oatmeal and the baking soda, trips over the chair and accidentally turns on the fan, causing a "blizzard" substance to happen. He even mentions that his mom doesn't let him stand on chairs.
  • In "Alien Avalanche", Avi finds a cord in his garage, but he is concerned that if he pulls it, a chain of events will happen. Eventually, he decided to pull it which indeed caused a chain of events to happen. It activates a fan blowing away the bowling ball which knocks over the bowling pins, which one of them hits a mountain of logs causing it to collapse which then hits the canoe which knocks over a bucket of paint and lands on Avi's head. He tries running away but then hits the table causing him to slip and landed on a trash can which causes a fish bowl to fall and land on his head, getting his head stuck. This later causes Max to be frightened, due to thinking that Avi was being mistaken as an alien.
    Avi: Look at that. A cord just dangling there. Pretty tempting! But I shouldn't, should I? After all, who knows what chain of events that might set off?
  • In "Milo and the Gang Face More Problems", Avi was eating breakfast and was meant to pour some milk on his cereal. He accidentally misses, causing his spoon to hit a cup of grape juice which spills over his sister's Bubsy Bear plush. He then tries to put in the laundry to clean but he throws it so hard, it hits the washing machine which causes a lot detergent to spill in the machine which then caused a lot of suds to overflow the machine. He then took out the plush from the machine and throws it into the other washer, which does it thing but when it's finished, the plush became totally messed up and melted.
    • He then takes over to pump the air back to his Bubsy Bear plush from Milo faster due to him taking too long with it. This lead to the plush deflating and lands at the laundry room, where Milo's mom is seen ironing clothes and starts ironing the plush. Dishrag then sees a bird and tries to catch it, only for her to land also to the laundry room on Milo's mom's head. Due to her not turning the iron off, the smoke for the iron causes the smoke alarm to go off which led to the firefighter's arriving to the house by spraying water to get rid of the smoke from the iron, which the water from the hose then starts to spread to the tent generator, causing it to malfunction after it got wet, leading the tent to become completely dark.
    • Later in the episode, he uses his mom's riding vacuum cleaner to clean up the glow-in-the-dark eyeballs scattered around the tent faster. Unfortunately, it was heading to the main tent pole. Milo imagines that if he crashes that pole, the tent will collapse, knocking down a power line which then causes a major power outage in Halverston and Area (and the Greater Toronto Area and Canada in general), which then a storm approaches, the sudden appearance of dragons, and finally, the rest of Earth eventually explodes. When he did eventually hit the pole, none of these events actually happened and averted disaster this time.
• Doomed Autographed Item: "High and Flighty" has Rutger getting a baseball pitcher machine for his birthday, but doesn't have a baseball to put it in. He then decides to use his dad's one of a kind autographed baseball, which he winds up accidentally hitting onto the top of a very tall building. Milo and Lizbeth are then tasked with climbing said building to retrieve the ball before Rutger's dad finds out what happened to it.
• Doomed Supermarket Display: Happens in "Snot Funny" when Milo tries to scare Mth out with a scary mask but when he accidentally scared himself, he bumps into a can display which then knocks over.
• Drama Bomb Finale: "Saint Nick O'Time" is when Milo faces a BSoD (similar to what kids had faced in past episodes) when he could not able to send a letter to Santa in time.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Owen, Kirsten and Avi all make cameos at the end of the first episode "The Flamingo Has Landed" before being all properly introduced a couple episodes later ("I Scream, You Scram!", "Gum Control" and "Blizzard of Ooze" respectively).
  • Thrasher first appeared in a crowd shot in "When Good Birds Go Bad" before being fully introduced in the very next segment, "Face the Music".
• Egg Sitting: In "Milo and Wendell's Eggcellent Adventure", Milo has to protect his egg "Eggbert" for a Lemming Scout troop project to look after an egg as if it were a real baby and needs to beat Wendell in order to get his egg-sitting badge.
• Embarrassing Old Photo: "Past Imperfect" has Milo's family showing off their old baby pictures of Milo from their old album, much to his embarrassment.
• Every Episode Ending: The end of every episode has the Captain doing something different during the Narrator's So Once Again, the Day Is Saved moment. Sometimes it's posing with or without the logo, or interacting with the other characters in comical ways.
• Expository Theme Tune: The earlier airings of the first season originally had an expository theme tune before being replaced with an Opening Narration in later airings of that season and the other two seasons.
  He's Captain Flamingo!
  With his power in trandouble
  Helping little kids IN TROUBLE! (He's Captain Flamingo!)
  With his flamingo-colored glasses
  Soon he'll come and save their little (Ask for him by name!)
• Faint in Shock: In "Face the Music", Rutger loses his glasses which is very expensive. The last time he lost it, his parents and his doctor fainted over the Shockingly Expensive Bill for the glasses.
• Foul Medicine: In "Snot Funny", in order for Milo to go outside to help a kid in trouble due to him getting a bad cold, his mom feeds him some cough syrup which can relive the cold for only 2 hours, which causes him to cringe from the bad taste.
• G-Rated Drug: Owen's addiction to sugar in "Flowers and Candy".
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: In "Under There Underwear", one of Milo's failed solutions to retrieve Owen's orthopedic underwear back after a locker mix-up is by using DNA analyzer to compare his DNA with the skid marks of his underpants by using a DNA sample from Owen's cheek to tell which pair of underwear is his. Lizbeth wants to know what are the skid marks in Owen's underwear are which Milo replies that its a guy thing. Owen tries to explain what it is to her by whispering the information quietly, which disgusts her and is glad that she is a girl.
  Lizbeth: What are skid marks?
  Milo: Uh, well, it's sort of a guy thing.
  Owen: They're like...
  [Owen whispers the rest to Lizbeth's ear inaudibly]
  Lizbeth: Eeeww! So glad that I'm a girl!
• Gilligan Cut:
  • In "Deep DueDue", Milo only has two minutes to return his library book on time before 3:00 before the librarian punishes him. After seeing a runner holding his book thinking it was a race baton, Lizbeth replies to Milo that he can still make it on time. Cut to the librarian saying the exact opposite.
    Lizbeth: You can still return your book on time.
    (cut to the librarian)
    Librarian: Ha, ha, ha! He'll never make it in time!
  • In "Fun and Games", Milo is getting prepared just in case if he's gonna run into Ruth. However, there is a piece of spinach stuck to his teeth. He tries to get it out, but Kirsten calls him to help. Milo hopes that her problem won't have Ruth involved. Cut to Kirsten saying that Ruth is involved with her problem, since she is hanging out with her other friends instead of her.
    Milo: Oh, it'll be fine. As long as it's not Ruth Ann.
    (cut to Kirsten)
    Kirsten: Captain, it's Ruth Ann!
    Milo: NO!
    Lizbeth: What do you mean, "No"? You love it when it's Ruth Ann.
    Milo: No, I don't.
    Kirsten: Captain, I'm the one who needs rescuing. Ruth Ann is just my big fat problem!
    Lizbeth: Welcome to my world.
• The Glomp: Milo does this to Lizbeth in "Bunny Run" when he's big enough to go on a rollercoaster ride. Cue hearts in Lizbeth's eyes.
• Grand Finale: The Christmas episodes (which are formed into a two-part special) are technically the true finales. The Captain was helped out by Lizbeth and along the rest of the kids (that he helped throughout his past missions) after the mall was closed and Santa had left.
• Gratuitous Disco Sequence: In "A Boy and His Yeti", the only way to stop Wendell from finding the Yellow Gulch Yeti is for Milo to get the last Lemming Scouts badge that he doesn't have, and it is revealed to be disco dancing. Even if Lizbeth is originally concerned that the yeti hates disco, the yeti eventually comes in the cave and starts dancing.
• Gross-Out Show: This show has its moments. Examples include Milo's pet cat, Dishrag, suffering from bad gas in "Missed Manners" and Rutger trying to escape a swimming pool after a kid's Potty Failure in "Talking to Ralph on the Big Porcelain Phone".
• Hiccup Hijinks: "Thor All Over" involves Milo trying to cure Rutger from a bad case of hiccups.
• Human Mail: Attempted in "The Even Greater Escape". Milo mails Rutger as a package from his origami kit to get him away from his babysitter who keeps tabs on him in order to play in the hockey championship game. It backfires since the package sends him to a hockey game in Sweden.
• Improvised Jet Pack: A non-human variation in "New Bird on the Block" involves Milo duct taping two big bottles of fizzy root beer to his model rocket to make it fly after it's thrusters fail, with rather messy results.
• Large Ham: Milo tends to act over the top a lot.
• Lemonade Stand Plot: "The Last Stand" has Milo and Lizbeth helping Kirsten to get more customers to buy her flamingo-pink lemonade, which has been less than successful thanks to Wendell opening up a lemonade stand of his own on the same street and stealing all her customers.
• Look Behind You: In "Hairdos and Don'ts", Milo distracts the crossing guard by claiming that he has a giant tarantula under his arm that is about to sink his fangs into his armpit, which frightens him and stops the traffic to let him and Lizbeth cross.
• Loud of War: Happens in "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Liver" where Tabitha's brother plays his drums very loudly, distracting her badly from studying. Milo did have a couple of failed solutions to have him stop playing such as taking his drumsticks away with a lasso (which although it originally succeeds, Milo accidentally trips over a toolbox, causing Tabitha's brother to continue playing with tools which makes the sound worse) or trying to play even louder music with more noise over his music so he won't be able to keep his beat (it fails as he founds a new beat from the more louder music). Finally, Milo's last solution is to trick Tabitha's brother that if he continues playing the drums and not changing his habits, his "liver" will go bad (which is actually Milo's leftover liver he was meant to eat for dinner), which causes him to stop playing.
• Lustful Melt: Happens to Lizbeth in "Blindsided!" when she hears Otto's "Suave Voice".
• Meat-O-Vision: In "A Burr in the Hand", due to the spare outfits that Milo gave Lizbeth and Max are shaped like T-bone steaks as their real clothes were covered with sticky burrs, it got the attention to several dogs as they mistaken them as real meat, causing them to start biting their outfits.
• Mind-Control Music: In "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Liver", after Tabitha's brother finds a new beat while Milo, Lizbeth and Tabitha out noise him with louder music, it strangely makes the music hypnotic causing them to not stop playing. Eventually they stopped playing after Milo mentions to Lizbeth to work their way up to major venues on tour, which Tabitha then replies that she can't go and has to finish studying.
  Milo: So. What do you say? We start out in small rooms?
  Lizbeth: Yeah. Then work our way up to major venues.
  Tabitha: Cool. [Beat] WAIT! I can't go on tour! I have to finish my biology project!
• Missed the Bus: "Cliffhanger" has Otto calling the Captain to help due to his bus leaving early as a result of the start of daylight savings since he has to arrive to the zoo with Tabitha on time because if he's late, she will be freaking out.
• Mr. Imagination: Milo's "Flamingo-colored glasses" have this ability.
• My Hair Came Out Green: In "Hairdos and Don'ts", Ruth wants to dye her blonde hair just like Naomi, her favorite star from the TV singing contest Screech and Win, but her big sister didn't do it right which led to her hair becoming green.
• My Little Phony: Much to Milo's dismay, has promised Lizbeth to go see a movie called Return to Unicorn Island in "Alley Oops!".
• Musical Episode: The last few minutes of "The Musical" has Milo singing a song to the tune of Toreador March in order to distract the Warrior Monkey from ruining Kirsten's play dedicated to Captain Flamingo's contributions to Halverston and Area. Some of the rest of cast later join in near the end of the song, which even includes the Narrator as well!
• The Nick Namer: "Name Dropper" is about Nick Names, a kid who makes up nicknames that stick for life. He keeps calling Tabitha bad insulting nicknames which makes her furious (these include "Crabitha", "Slobitha", "Backstabitha" and "Snot Kebobitha"). It was later revealed that Winona (Lizbeth's sister) mentions that one of her trophies she got when she was little was marked second place to Nick who's nicknamed "Little Toot" because when he used to play the recorder, he toot out both ends. After Lizbeth tells Nick about that nickname, he decided to not do it again. The last nickname he gave to Tabitha before stopping was a more nicer nickname, "Miss Perfect", which bums out Nick's gang and leaves.
• Nose Nuggets: In "Name Dropper", when Milo accidentally shows Nick the wrong tape about Tabitha, it shows footage of her baby brother Tucker putting boogers in Tabitha's fork on her plate which led to her eating it. This lead to Nick calling her "Snot Kebobitha".
• Not in Front of the Parrot!: In "Ready to Swear", after Tucker says a long bleeped-out swear to a parrot, it causes the parrot to repeat that exact swear, which it then takes Tucker. While hanging on the parrot, he continues to learn a bunch of new swears from the parrot, causing some of the town to hear his filthy mouth.
• Only One Name: With the exception of Milo Powell, Lizbeth Zaragoza, Owen-Only, Max Roderick, Kirsten McBradden and Ruth Ann, the kids they have to save are only known by their first names.
• Overly Long Gag: "High and Flighty" has Milo using a paddleball to try to push the rooftop level button on a tall building elevator to get Rutger's autographed baseball back. Unfortunately, that plan failed as the paddleball hits all of the elevator buttons EXCEPT for the rooftop button so as a result, there was an overly long gag involving him and Lizbeth going up "gazillion" different floors in the building, which Hilarity Ensues during the meantime such as them meditating, playing a game of go fish or them running around over the annoying elevator music.
• Phrase Catcher: "Uh-oh! Flamingo!"
• Race Against the Clock: In "Deep DueDue", Milo founds a overdue library book while cleaning up his room. If he doesn't return the library book by 3:00 PM on time, the librarian will punish him like what happened to all of the other kids who didn't return their library books on time.
• Read the Freaking Manual: In "Appetite for Instructions", since Milo's Transmorpho Champ 6000 has a total of 12 manuals of instructions for the toy, he decides to not read any of it as he felt that the manuals is only for people who can't figure out themselves. As a result of not reading any of the manuals for the toy, it led to him not knowing how to use it properly and causes him to press random buttons on his remote control to make it transform into different things, which lead to it transforming into Killer Robot Gorgon, which then starts to chase him, Lizbeth and Otto.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Double subverted with Milo. He does wear a pink and blue outfit, but he's not exactly tough. He does manage to save the day, nonetheless.
• Rescue Romance: Accidental, but it's the reason why Lizbeth's in love with Milo. When they were babies, she flew off of a swing and Milo coincidentally broke her fall when he fell in the sand while making a sand castle. This was also the first time they met, and she never forgets it to this day.
• Reset Button: In "I Scream, You Scram!", Owen gets rollerblades that have a turbo feature which he accidentally triggers. After several failed attempts to slow down and stop Owen from using his out of control blades, Milo and Lizbeth grabs on to him, going downhill really fast which make them go back in time just before the summer season begins, and once he saw Owen's overprotective mom buying the skates for her son, he jumps out of the wormhole and tells her not to buy the blades, which she decided not to.
• Rock–Paper–Scissors: In "Outrageous Fortune Cookie", to stop Rutger's dad from playing a lot of karate video games, Milo challenges him on a game of Rock–Paper–Scissors. If he loses, he will go outside and play football with his son instead. Eventually, he does indeed lose as he chooses rock and Milo chooses paper since paper covers rock. It especially helps that Milo knew about this as it was the cryptic message from his fortune cookie that he got from his take-out lunch.
  Lizbeth: How do you know Rutger's dad was gonna choose rock and not scissors?
  Milo: I didn't. But the cookie did.
  Narrator: Once again, proving the awesome power of PAPER!
• Safety Worst: Owen's mom goes to ridiculous lengths to protect Owen. He frequently wears a ridiculous amount of safety gear, his house and especially his room has a security system, he goes to the beach with too much sunscreen more often than not and he even had to wear orthopedic underpants (Which the Captain and Lizbeth had to search through dirty laundry at the pool when it got lost). He can't get a break anywhere.
• Scooby-Dooby Doors: Used in "Exhibit Yikes!" where Milo, Lizbeth and Max were chased by a security guard at a museum through a series of hallway doors.
• Shout-Out: The show pays homage to pop culture ranging from superheroes to anime.
• So Once Again, the Day Is Saved: "Captain Flamingo! Looking out for kids in a BIG way!"
• Snail Mail: In the opening of "Blindsided!", Milo orders a pair of night-vision goggles from the back of a comic book, but didn't receive it for a long while due to being delivered by an actual snail. He eventually receives it, only to find out that he ordered an extra extra small pair instead of extra small, causing some difficulty to put the goggles on.
• Sneaking Snacks: In "Exhibit Yikes!", Milo sneaks to the pantry for a box of ice cream sandwiches. Although he was tempting to not eat it as he has to eat supper first, he decided to eat it anyways without getting caught, which he then regrets as he could get in trouble. He then finds a brochure in the fridge for a military school for problemed children which he fears that he might go there if he gets in big trouble. At the end of the episode, Milo's mom reads a letter from the museum thanking Milo for stopping the thief from stealing the jewel so as a result, she rewards him with some ice cream sandwiches. Unfortunately, Milo ate some of the box earlier in the episode since she noticed that there are some missing, which causes him to get in trouble.
• Spaghetti Kiss: Parodied at the end of "Pasta Your Bedtime" during the Narrator's So Once Again, the Day Is Saved moment, where Milo and Lizbeth almost pull off the kiss before a fast golf cart driven by Meghan pass by, causing Lizbeth to suck up the rest of the strand of spaghetti in her mouth.
• Switched at Birth: In "Past Imperfect", after a monkey steals the baby distractor from Milo back in 1980, it causes him to switch at birth with the Warrior Monkey once they returned back to the future.
  Lizbeth: I can't believe it. The Warrior Monkey stole your life!
  Milo: They say that when you go back in time, one tiny change can alter history. We must have changed something by accident. Look at him! He's living in my room with my Quantum Vigilante stuff!
• Sudden Downer Ending: In "Past Imperfect", since Milo didn't get the distractor back from the Warrior Monkey after switching to their correct cribs back in the past to get his life back, just when it seems like that everything will be back to normal even without it, the episode ends with the Warrior Monkey still having the distractor while riding a bus and all of the passengers are all monkeys now, causing a massive change in the timeline as a result of this.
• Suddenly Shouting: In "Hairdos and Don'ts", because of the guard telling Milo and Lizbeth that they can't cross unless there's a third person (not even for a kid in trouble), Ruth suddenly shouts her call for the Captain to help for the third time loudly.
  Ruth: UH-OH! DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT AGAIN!!!
• Sugar Causes Hyperactivity: In "Flowers and Candy", after eating a piece of candy while watching TV at Max's house, Owen ends up becoming super hyperactive and consumes more and more sugar throughout the episode.
• Swapped Roles: "Switch Hitch" has Milo and Wendell trade places for a whole day to prove that their own lives are much more difficult. This led to Milo to live in Wendell's room while Wendell becomes the Captain. However, they decided to switch their lives back the way it was at the end of the episode after Milo admits that he can't handle it as it could result on Wendell to become to new Captain to help kids in trouble rather than him.
• Swear Word Plot: Parodied in "Ready to Swear", where Tabitha's baby brother Tucker keeps saying swear words and wants Milo and Lizbeth to get him to stop, although the "swears" aren't real swear words, being childish names like "booger bum" and gibberish words like "kludrumper", but are seen as appalling even by adults. There is also one long word Tucker says but it is completely bleeped out, so it's unknown what the word is, but apparently it's so bad that all the other characters are horrified when they hear it.
• The Me Mobile: His big wheel is bird shaped.
• The Tooth Hurts: In "Nothing But the Tooth", just when the tooth fairy ventures lawyer is about to eat Milo's Frankenstein's Eye jawbreaker, he decided to bite it with his teeth, causing them to break, even if he wasn't supposed to bite it in the first place. He then thanks Milo for the jawbreaker since now he can finally meet the tooth fairy as that was his dream for his entire life, so he decided to put his broken teeth into his suitcase so he can put it under his pillow. This also happened to Milo at the end where after he received his free jawbreaker after breaking the record on eating the jawbreaker for 24 hours, he decided to bite it as well, which causes his teeth to also break.
  Narrator: I think our hero has taught us something about believing today, and I believe... that's got to hurt.
• Trapped in TV Land: The premise of "Journey to the Centre of the TV" is about Milo and Lizbeth entering through the TV to help Quantum Vigilante fight his nemesis during a Quantum Vigilante marathon. It was later revealed that the entire episode was All Just a Dream as Milo was sleeping during said marathon.
• Under the Mistletoe: At the end of "Saint Nick O' Time", Milo and Lizbeth hug, but then he sees the mistletoe and runs away. Lizbeth runs after him giggling.
• Ventriloquism: In "Play on Words", after Rutger forgets to memorize his lines for the play that he is starring in, Milo reads off the lines from a book containing them while throwing his voice to Rutger when he moves his lips.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: Happens to Max off-screen in "Whack-a-Max" after getting very dizzy from a Whack-a-Mole game that he was stuck in.
• Wedgie: In "Beyond the Thundermonkey Dome", the Warrior Monkey spends the entire episode giving all the kids in the neighborhood wedgies.
• Water Hose Rodeo: In "Water You Worried About?", Rutger has to water the yard for his dad but when he used a watering can to wash it, it could take a long time so he decided to use his dad's water hose to finish faster. However, after he pulls the trigger to turn it on, it suddenly went out of control and cannot let go of it or else he will fall.
• Way Past the Expiration Date: In "Cliffhanger", Milo tries trading places for the people in line at the comic book store to be first in line with Quantum Vigilante-themed stuff, which backfires. One of the things he tried to trade is Quantum Vigilante beef jerky, which disgusts the crowd due to being already expired a long time ago.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The town Milo and his friends live in is almost always identified as Halverston and Area, but beyond that, it's hard to pin down specifically where it is — it could be pretty much anywhere in North America. (Although "Gum Control" showed a Canadian flag hanging in the gym.) Averted when you realized that one of the two names that made up the town's name rhymes with Palmerston (a real neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario).

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Captain Flamingo! Looking out for kids in a BIG way!

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