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* AnAesop:
** All good things have to be earned.
** What you think seems good may make everyone else miserable.
** Taking shortcuts all the time always leads to trouble.



* AnAesop: When it comes to giving gifts, it's no contest; it's from the heart that counts.

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* XRayOfPain: When Tilly gets BrainFreeze, a cross section of her head shows her brain freezing up and snapping in half.



* XRayOfPain: When Tilly gets BrainFreeze in "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS2E11 Desserted]]", a cross section of her head shows her brain freezing up and snapping in half.

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* ArtisticLicense: Since when did a bank in Big City have no money? Lots of banks usually have money safely stored. Bill even lampshades this.
-->'''Bill:''' [[LampshadeHanging What do you mean you don't have money?! You're a bank!]]



* BrainFreeze: Tilly suffers from it while trying to eat the sundae. An [[XRayOfPain X-ray view]] shows her brain not just freezing but ''snapping in half''.

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* BrainFreeze: Tilly suffers from it while trying to eat the sundae. An [[XRayOfPain X-ray view]] shows her brain not just freezing but ''snapping in half''. This moment serves as the page image for the trope.

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* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Crispy's is one of these.
* LoopholeAbuse: To try to get out of completing the challenge, Cricket looks over the Crispy's rulebook and finds that if the sundae is contaminated they have to take it back. Unfortunately, he forgot to ReadTheFinePrint that says the sundae will be replaced and the challenge restarted from the beginning.



* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Crispy's is one of these.
* LoopholeAbuse: To try to get out of completing the challenge, Cricket looks over the Crispy's rulebook and finds that if the sundae is contaminated they have to take it back. Unfortunately, he forgot to ReadTheFinePrint that says the sundae will be replaced and the challenge restarted from the beginning.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Cricket when he realizes his plan was stupid and just got his family into trouble. The family themselves also go through this shortly afterward; as mad as they are at his plan, they did not expect Cricket to try the challenge by himself and beg him to stop before he hurts himself.
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-->'''Gramma''': Boy, have you last your mind?!

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-->'''Gramma''': Boy, have you last lost your mind?!
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* CrappyHomemadeGift: Tilly and Cricket give their father Bill homemade Father's Day gifts. Tilly creates bizarre sculptures of found objects, and Cricket gives Bill "Cricket Coupons", pieces of paper offering chores and good deeds. They begin to realize that their father is pretending to like their gifts because he loves his kids, and trick him into admitting it with a deliberately poorly-made sweater and a box full of spiders, which he fears. After this, Tilly tries to destroy her old gifts out of shame, [[spoiler:but Bill stops her, telling her that he loves her gifts because they're unique and made by her.]]

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* CrappyHomemadeGift: Tilly and Cricket give their father Bill homemade Father's Day gifts. Tilly creates bizarre sculptures of found objects, and Cricket gives Bill "Cricket Coupons", pieces of paper offering chores and good deeds. They begin to realize that their father is pretending to like their gifts because he loves his kids, and trick him into admitting it with a deliberately poorly-made sweater and a box full of spiders, which he fears. After this, Tilly tries to destroy her old gifts out of shame, [[spoiler:but but Bill stops her, telling her that he loves her gifts because they're unique and made by her.]]
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How is that a "good deed"? The plan was terrible


* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Cricket totally hits it for the episode because a) he orders a humongous amount of food, b) he makes his family take on a MegaMealChallenge for the meal to be free but they are too full to eat any further, and c) he swapped all of Bill's money with fake cash as a failsafe so they'll be forced to go along with it.
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* BrainFreeze: Tilly suffers from it while trying to eat the sundae. An [[FunnyXRay X-ray view]] shows her brain not just freezing but ''snapping in half''.

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* BrainFreeze: Tilly suffers from it while trying to eat the sundae. An [[FunnyXRay [[XRayOfPain X-ray view]] shows her brain not just freezing but ''snapping in half''.
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Cross-wicking newly launched trope.

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* XRayOfPain: When Tilly gets BrainFreeze in "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS2E11 Desserted]]", a cross section of her head shows her brain freezing up and snapping in half.
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* OffModel: Throughout the episode, Cricket is noticeably taller and fatter, and almost the same height as Tilly.
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** Cricket at the end when he discovers that Bill is going to redeem his coupons (which includes chores he doesn't want to do because he thought Bill wouldn't redeem them).
* SiblingRivalry: Understated but the plot is kicked off by Tilly refusing to accept that Bill likes her and Cricket's gifts equally and assuming that he's lying to spare Cricket's feelings. It's a massive blow to her self-esteem when she learns that [[OriginalPositionFallacy Bill wouldn't only lie to Cricket]].

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** Cricket Cricket's response at the end when he discovers that Bill is going to redeem his coupons (which includes chores he doesn't want to do because he thought Bill wouldn't redeem them).
them) is a stone faced [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "uh oh"]].
* SiblingRivalry: Understated but the plot is kicked off by Tilly condescendingly refusing to accept that Bill likes her and Cricket's gifts equally and assuming that he's lying to spare Cricket's feelings. It's a massive blow to her self-esteem when she learns that [[OriginalPositionFallacy Bill wouldn't only lie to Cricket]]. Bill has to correct her from thinking that loving their gifts equally doesn't mean that making them is pointless, it's the thought that counts.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Cricket's gifts to Bill, Cricket Coupons, are a low-effort gift that promises things Cricket doesn't actually want to do because he never expects Bill to ever redeem them. This naturally bites him in the butt because just because Bill never ''has'' redeemed them doesn't mean he never ''will''.
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* FakedFoodContaminant: In an attempt to get out of the Crispy's Sundae Challenge, Cricket discovers a loophole and puts a fly in the giant sundae. Unfortunately for him, he forgot to ReadTheFinePrint for said rule and that just means they have to give him a new sundae and restart the challenge.
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TRS cleanup


* AbsenteeActor: For the third time, Wholesome Foods is seen, but Chip Whistler is not.
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* DineAndDash: This is essentially what Cricket planned as he knew he had no way of affording the food he ordered. None of his family is happy when they find out about this.
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* AWildRapperAppears: During the waiters' performance about the Crispy's Sundae Challenge, Gina starts doing a rap as the sundae is brought out.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Cricket totally hits it for the episode because a) he orders a humongous amount of food, b) he makes his family take on a MegaMealChallenge for the meal to be free but they are too full to eat any further, and c) he swapped all of Bill's money with fake cash as a failsafe so they'll be forced to go along with it.
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* CallBack: When Tilly tells Cricket she's been meaning to "toot her own horn", Cricket looks like he's trying to hold in laughter; it was established in "Impopstar" that the word "toot" makes Cricket laugh.
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** Taking shortcuts all the time always leads to trouble.
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* OutGambitted: As a failsafe in case Bill finds out about Cricket's plan to have all their meals free, Cricket swapped all of Bill's money with fake cash so there's no way out.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Not only did Cricket not tell anyone about the Crispy's Sundae Challenge, he made them order too much food beforehand so they're now too stuffed to eat one bite. As if that wasn't bad enough, he knew that his family wouldn't go through with his plan to eat for free if they knew about it, so he replaced Bill's money with fake cash, rendering him unable to pay for the food bill.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Not only did Cricket not tell anyone about the Crispy's Sundae Challenge, he made them order too much food beforehand so they're now too stuffed to eat one bite. As if that wasn't bad enough, he knew that his family wouldn't go through along with his plan to eat for free if they knew about it, so he replaced Bill's money with fake cash, rendering him unable to pay for the food bill.
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* CrazyPrepared: Cricket knew ahead of time his family wouldn't go through with his "big meal, MegaMealChallenge" plan, so he switched all of Bill's money with fake cash so there's no way out.

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* CrazyPrepared: Cricket knew ahead of time his family wouldn't go through with his "big meal, MegaMealChallenge" [[MegaMealChallenge mega dessert challenge]]" plan, so he switched all of Bill's money with fake cash so there's no way out.
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* CrazyPrepared: Cricket knew ahead of time his family wouldn't go through with his "big meal, MegaMealChallenge" plan, so he switched all of Bill's money with fake cash so there's no way out.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Only a BigEater can eat ''that'' much.]]




'''The Gifted'''

Tilly is worried Bill lies about Cricket's ugly Father's Day gifts and tries to prove him wrong.


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[[caption-width-right:350:It's ugly...but he loves it.]]
'''The Gifted'''

Tilly is worried Bill lies about Cricket's ugly Father's Day gifts and tries to prove him wrong.
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-->'''Bill''': This is all because you tried to take a shortcut but there's just no such thing as a free meal!

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-->'''Bill''': This is all because you tried to take a shortcut but there's just no such thing as a free meal!meal! Speaking of which, I'm gonna go talk to the manager and figure out how we're gonna pay for dinner.
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* CrappyHomemadeGift: Tilly and Cricket give their father Bill homemade Father's Day gifts. Tilly creates bizarre sculptures of found objects, and Cricket gives Bill "Cricket Coupons", pieces of paper offering chores and good deeds. They begin to realize that their father is pretending to like their gifts because he loves his kids, and trick him into admitting it with a deliberately poorly-made sweater and a box full of spiders, which he fears. After this, Tilly tries to destroy her old gifts out of shame, [[spoiler:but Bill stops her, telling her that he loves her gifts because they're unique and made by her.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: ''None'' of the Greens shy from pointing out how Cricket really didn't think his plan through, especially when they find out ''he replaced Bill's money with fake cash so Bill wouldn't be able to pay''.

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* WhatTheHellHero: ''None'' of the Greens shy from pointing out how Cricket really didn't think his plan through, especially when they find out ''he replaced Bill's money with fake cash so Bill he wouldn't be able to pay''.

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* {{Fainting}}: Tilly nearly faints when overhearing Bill saying he hated her gift.
* HeroicBSOD: Tilly lapses into one upon learning Bill secretly hated her Father's Day gifts over the years.



* OhCrap: Cricket at the end when he discovers that Bill is going to redeem his coupons (which includes chores he doesn't want to do because he thought Bill wouldn't redeem them).

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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** Tilly when Bill reveals his true thoughts about her gifts.
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Cricket at the end when he discovers that Bill is going to redeem his coupons (which includes chores he doesn't want to do because he thought Bill wouldn't redeem them).

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* ToTheTuneOf: Cricket brags about being right with a ditty that sounds a lot like "PlaygroundSong/NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer".

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* ToTheTuneOf: Cricket brags about being right with a ditty that sounds a lot like "PlaygroundSong/NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer"."PlaygroundSong/NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer".
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