History Recap / BobsBurgerS5E16TheRunwayClub

After a fight over charm bracelets, Tina, Gene, Louise, Tammy, Jocelyn, Jimmy Jr., and Zeke have to serve detention at school. Mr. Frond makes a deal: participate in a fashion show and the winners will leave early. Meanwhile, Bob tries to convince Linda not to buy magazines from a girl.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Ms. Schnur hates all of the kids' outfits for various reasons: Tammy and Jocelyn's being too flirtatious for the Chinese food deliveryman, Jimmy Jr. and Zeke's being too offensive for suggesting that she is a couch, and the Belchers' because Tina knocked over all the photos of her nephew.
* BatmanGambit: Bob gloats about the magazine subscriptions he's buying because he knows Jimmy Pesto will stop at nothing to outperform him. It works when Jimmy decides to double Bob's offering.
* BigNo: Used for comedic value when Tammy takes the stapler out of Tina's hands.
* TheBreakfastPlot:
** A parody of the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending, the tune itself plays on the start of the episode.
** At the start of the episode, Zeke mirrors Judd Nelson's character on the way he is going to the school, even with his shades.
** The ending has the kids making the [[SignatureScene iconic]] dances of the film on the counter.
** Although a far more subtle reference, the janitor of the movie was quite the NiceGuy, similarly, in the episode, the janitor Mr. Branca is the one that let the kids free.
** Similar to the movie, the episode ends with everyone getting out of the school together.
* BrutalHonesty: Linda outright tells Sally that she's probably involved in a scam.
* CharacterDevelopment: Tina's finally started to recognize what a bitch Tammy can be and snarks back at her, after repeatedly misunderstanding Tammy's animosity in the past.
* DisasterDominoes: How all the kids wound up in detention on the same day. Tina and Tammy were fighting over their jelly charm bracelets, Jocelyn and Tina's siblings tried to break up the fight, Zeke thought they were playing "Red Rover" and tackled the girls, Jocelyn panicked and pulled the fire alarm, and Jimmy Jr. got caught up in the moment and tried to use a fire extinguisher as a smoke machine.
* TheDreaded: Mr. Frond seems to be afraid of angering Principal Spoors. After leaving him messages about his Scared Fabulous program, Frond gets a call from Spoors, who hates the idea and likely ordered for detention to go as usual. He also told Frond to never call him on the weekend ever again, likely threatening to fire him.
* GilliganCut: After Tina reassures Mr. Frond that they all learned something about teamwork from the "Scared Fabulous" program, it cuts to the other kids having to wrestle Tammy into submission so they can use her bracelet for Gene's outfit in the final contest.
* HiddenDepths:
** Mr. Frond is revealed to love fashion competitions. To a lesser degree, it seems that Jimmy Jr. and Zeke also have some interest in fashion, but clearly lack any real knowledge about it.
** Mr. Branca the janitor was apparently the president of his old country who was ousted in a coup and forced to flee to America.
* IllKillYou: Tammy threatens to kill Tina over the friendship bracelet before lunging at her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Tammy believes that Tina got the bracelet just to copy her, while Tina actually had no idea Tammy also had the bracelet. Later, when presented with the opportunity to help the entire group in exchange for her bracelet, everybody actually has to wrestle the bracelet off of her.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tina in the end has a comic version of this to the realization of how stupid the bracelets are, and that's even more stupid to have started a fight over it.
* OnlySaneMan: Principal Spoors calls Mr. Frond on the phone to tell him he hates his "Scared Fabulous" program idea and wants detention to go as it should.
* PetTheDog: Bob is able to rope Jimmy into buying magazines from Sally, making up for his skepticism about their authenticity.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Tammy and Tina's fight was preceded with this.
-->'''Tammy:''' Take. It. Off!
-->'''Tina:''' I. Would. Rather. Die!
* RedemptionRejection: Tammy had the opportunity to stop being a selfish asshole when she was asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids were working on, just after Tina took hers off and realized how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy had to be ''restrained'' to get the bracelet off her wrist.
* TakeThatScrappy: This episode confirms that the main students hate Tammy as they're all shown pinning her down to take her friend bracelet away from her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Tammy and Tina need to team up in the end, but they keep bickering.
* TemptingFate: As soon as Louise compliments Tina walking, she slips and throws a bunch of photos in the ground.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams and are crucial for them to win at the end.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was grossly improvised: Out of the three judges(the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, respectively, office material, old mats and gym clother and trash. He made the competition go anyway.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Tina's finally started to recognize what a bitch Tammy can be and snarks back at her, after repeatedly misunderstanding Tammy's animosity in the past.

* TheBreakfastPlot: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was grossly improvised: Out of the three judges(the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, respectively, office material, old mats and gym clother and trash. He made the competition go anyway.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''
** A parody of the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending, the tune itself plays on the start of the episode.
** At the start of the episode, Zeke mirrors Judd Nelson's character on the way he is going to the school, even with his shades.
** The ending has the kids making the [[SignatureScene iconic]] dances of the film on the counter.
** Although a far more subtle reference, the janitor of the movie was quite the NiceGuy, similarly, in the episode, the janitor Mr. Branca is the one that let the kids free.
** Similar to the movie, the episode ends with everyone getting out of the school together.

After a fight over a friendship bracelet, Tina, Gene, Louise, Tammy, Jocelyn, Jimmy Jr., and Zeke have to serve detention at school. Mr. Frond makes a deal: participate in a fashion show and the winners will leave early. Meanwhile, Bob tries to convince Linda not to buy magazines from a girl.

* GilliganCut: After Tina reassures Mr. Frond that they all learned something about teamwork from the "Scared Fabulous" program, it cuts to the other kids having to wrestle Tammy into submission so they can use their bracelet for Gene's outfit in the final contest.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Tammy believes that Tina got the bracelet just to copy her, while Tina actually had no idea Tammy also had the bracelet. Later, when presented with the opportunity to help the entire group in exchange for her bracelet, everybody actually has to wrestle the bracelet out of her.

* HiddenDepths: Mr. Frond is revealed to love fashion competitions. To a lesser degree, it seems that Jimmy Jr. and Zeke also have some interest in fashion, but clearly lack any real knowledge about it.
* IdiotBall: Linda, to a degree, is far more gullible and exaggerated in this episode, having absolutely no tact while talking to Sally and being convinced back and forth all the time.

* PetTheDog: Bob is able to rope Jimmy into buying magazines from the girl, making up for his skepticism about their authenticity.

** A parody song of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending, the tune itself plays on the start of the episode.

** Although a far more subtle reference, the janitor of the movie was quite the NiceGuy, similarly, in the episode, the janitor is the one that let the kids free.

* RedemptionRejection: Tammy had the opportunity to stop being a selfish asshole when she was asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids were working on, just after Tina took her's off and realized how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy had to be ''restrained'' to get the bracelet off her wrist.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Tammy had the opportunity to stop being a selfish asshole when she was asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids were working on, just after Tina took her's off and realized how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy had to be ''restrained'' to get the bracelet off her wrist.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Tammy had the opportunity to stop being a selfish asshole when she was asked to use her bracelet to complete the outfit the kids were working on, just after Tina took her's off and realized how dumb it was to argue about them. Tammy had to be ''restrained'' to get the bracelet off her wrist.

-->'''Tammy:''' Take. It. Off. Now!

* ShoutOut: Several to ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''
** A parody song of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" plays during the ending, the tune itself plays on the start of the episode.
** At the start of the episode, Zeke mirrors Judd Nelson's character on the way he is going to the school, even with his shades.
** The ending has the kids making the [[SignatureScene iconic]] dances of the film on the counter.
** Although a far more subtle reference, the janitor of the movie was quite the NiceGuy, similarly, in the episode, the janitor is the one that let the kids free.
** Similar to the movie, the episode ends with everyone getting out of the school together.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Mr. Frond's competition was grossly improvised: Out of the three judges(the only three teachers in the school at the time), only one seems to understand about fashion, the other one doesn't care and the other is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. The materials were whatever they could find in school, respectively, office material, old mats and gym clother and trash. He made the competition go anyway.

* BigNo: Used for comedic value when tammy takes the stapler out of Tina's hands.
* HiddenDepths: Mr. Frond is revealed to love fashion competitions. To a lesser degree, it seems that jimmy Jr. and Zeke also have some interest in fashion, but clearly lack any real knowledge about it.

* PetTheDog: Bob is about to rope Jimmy into buying magazines from the girl, making up for his skepticism about their authenticity.

** Similar to the movie, the episode ends with everyone getting out of the school together.

* UnderstimatingBadassery: Mr. Frond doesn't consider letting the Belcher kids work in a trio while the other groups are duos an advantage. They are though, clearly far more clever than the other two teams and are crucial for them to win at the end.

* ShoutOut: The episode is based on ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', including "Don't You (Forget About Me)."