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* MissingTheGoodStuff: Bob fails to record the kids' performances because of his old camcorder. First he misses Louise's because he needed to rewind the tape. Then the battery dies out when Gene comes on stage and he has to find an outlet. Finally, he is set to record Tina when the camcorder malfunctions.
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* MissingTheGoodStuff: Bob fails to record the kids' performances because of his old camcorder. First he misses Louise's because he needed to rewind the tape. Then the battery dies out when Gene comes on stage and he has to find an outlet. Finally, he is set to record Tina when the camcorder malfunctions.throws up a generic error message and stops working entirely.
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* TwoDecadesBehind: Bob is still using a '90s era camcorder, while the kids point out that there are more convenient devices available for recording video and further proceed to mock its bulkiness in comparision to something like a smartphone by having all 3 of them pretend to struggle to lift it off the table at the same time. The camcorder proves to be completely unreliable when Bob tries to record the kids' performances: he misses Louise's song because he forgot to rewind the tape, he misses Gene's music performance because the camcorder runs out of battery and finally, he misses Tina's song when the camcorder throws up a generic error message and stops working entirely.
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* TwoDecadesBehind: Bob is still using a '90s era camcorder, while the kids point out that there are more convenient devices available for recording video and further proceed to mock its bulkiness in comparision to something like a smartphone by having all 3 of them pretend to struggle to lift it off the table at the same time. The camcorder proves to be completely unreliable when Bob tries to record the kids' performances: he misses Louise's song because he forgot to rewind the tape, he misses Gene's music performance because the camcorder runs out of battery and finally, he misses Tina's song when the camcorder throws up a generic error message and stops working entirely.performances.
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* TwoDecadesBehind: Bob is still using a '90s era camcorder, while the kids point out that there are more convenient devices available for recording video. The camcorder proves to be completely unreliable when Bob tries to record the kids' performances.
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* TwoDecadesBehind: Bob is still using a '90s era camcorder, while the kids point out that there are more convenient devices available for recording video. video and further proceed to mock its bulkiness in comparision to something like a smartphone by having all 3 of them pretend to struggle to lift it off the table at the same time. The camcorder proves to be completely unreliable when Bob tries to record the kids' performances.performances: he misses Louise's song because he forgot to rewind the tape, he misses Gene's music performance because the camcorder runs out of battery and finally, he misses Tina's song when the camcorder throws up a generic error message and stops working entirely.
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* ShoutOut: Gene asks if Bob's old camcorder is the [[Film/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]]. Tina [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} asks what it transforms into]].
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* ShoutOut: Gene asks if Bob's old camcorder is the [[Film/BackToTheFuture [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]]. Tina [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} asks what it transforms into]].
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* BlatantLies: The kids' version of the play is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a gym teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
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* BlatantLies: The kids' version retelling of the play their performances is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a gym teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
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* SchoolPlay: The school assembly is every bit as lame as one would expect. The kids' retelling becomes absurdly elaborate and gets a ''massive'' boost in quality, which is {{Lampshaded}} often.
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* SchoolPlay: The school assembly is every bit as lame as one would expect. The kids' retelling becomes absurdly elaborate and gets a ''massive'' boost in quality, which is {{Lampshaded}} often.often, such as when Tina points out that it's probably a ''good'' thing Bob's camcorder crapped out.
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* StylisticSuck: As Tina lampshades in the page quote above, it's probably a ''good'' thing that Bob's camcorder crapped out, because the plays were ''awful''.
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* SwappedRoles: Normally Bob questions the outlandish elements of the kids' stories while Linda gets into them. Here, however, Bob hypes up the kids' stories since he wants to avoid aggravating Linda for his failure to record the Mother's Day plays, while Linda is the one questioning the more outlandish elements since they were supposedly performed in real life.
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* SwappedRoles: Normally Bob questions the outlandish elements of the kids' stories while Linda gets into them. Here, however, Bob hypes up the kids' stories since he wants to avoid aggravating Linda for his failure to record the Mother's Day plays, while Linda is the one questioning the more outlandish elements since they were supposedly performed in real life.life on Wagstaff's frankly-lacking budget.
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*SwappedRoles: Normally Bob questions the outlandish elements of the kids' stories while Linda gets into them. Here, however, Bob hypes up the kids' stories since he wants to avoid aggravating Linda for his failure to record the Mother's Day plays, while Linda is the one questioning the more outlandish elements since they were supposedly performed in real life.
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*TheHeroDies: Louise's character dies at the end of her story.
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* BlatantLies: The kids' version of the play is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a Gym Teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
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* BlatantLies: The kids' version of the play is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a Gym Teacher gym teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
*MommasBoy: Despite not being biologically related, Zeke seems to have a close relationship with his stepmother Cheryl.
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* SchoolPlay: The school assembly is every bit as lame as one would expect. The kids' retelling becomes absurdly elaborate, which is {{Lampshaded}} often.
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* SchoolPlay: The school assembly is every bit as lame as one would expect. The kids' retelling becomes absurdly elaborate, elaborate and gets a ''massive'' boost in quality, which is {{Lampshaded}} often.
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* IllnessBlanket: Linda sits on the couch covered in a blanket.
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* RailingKill: In Louise's version of the story, Millie falls over the railing of the saloon after getting "shot". Linda questions if that was even safe to act out.
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* RailingKill: In Louise's version of the story, Millie falls over the railing of the saloon after getting "shot". Linda questions if that was even safe to act out.out, but Louise insists she's fine and had been practicing for the stunt for the last 6 weeks.
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* ImpendingDoomPOV: Invoked when Linda complains that Bob always breathes into the microphone whenever he uses the camcorder, and Gene adds "It's like there's always a monster just off screen."
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* MixAndMatchCritters: Gene's play has a bananafalo, half banana, half buffalo.
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The old family camcorder breaks down, forcing the Belcher kids to describe an exaggerated version of their Mothers Day pageant to a sick Linda. Louise regales Linda with the wild west story of "The Town With No Moms", Gene tells the mythology-influenced story of the creation of the first mother, and Tina whips up a crazy crossover between ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
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The old family camcorder breaks down, forcing the Belcher kids to describe an exaggerated version of their Mothers Mother's Day pageant to a sick Linda. Louise regales Linda with the wild west story of "The Town With No Moms", Gene tells the mythology-influenced story of the creation of the first mother, and Tina whips up a crazy crossover between ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
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* BlatantLies: The kids version of the play is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a Gym Teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
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*BittersweetEnding: Louise's story. She saves the town's mothers and helps Rudy defeat Meanie [=McQueen=], but dies tragically in the process.
* BlatantLies: Thekids kids' version of the play is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a Gym Teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
* BlatantLies: The
*CastIncest: In-universe; Gene's former love interest Courtney plays his mother in the play. And while they're not love interests, Louise and Rudy have had noticeable ShipTease in the series, and they ''also'' play a mother-son duo.
*HuddleShot: Bob and the kids do a brief one when they decide to exaggerate the kids' performances.
*ISurrenderSuckers: In Louise's story, Meanie [=McQueen=] feigns surrender to launch a final rubber band at Louise. Rudy manages to chase her off, but she mortally wounds Louise in the process.
*ISurrenderSuckers: In Louise's story, Meanie [=McQueen=] feigns surrender to launch a final rubber band at Louise. Rudy manages to chase her off, but she mortally wounds Louise in the process.
*NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Meanie [=McQueen=] isn't an angel, that's for sure.
*NotSoAboveItAll: Bob usually points out the absurdities in the kids' stories, but here he completely hypes the plays up because he's terrified of angering Linda after failing to record them.
*NotSoAboveItAll: Bob usually points out the absurdities in the kids' stories, but here he completely hypes the plays up because he's terrified of angering Linda after failing to record them.
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* RailingKill: In Louise's version of the story, Millie falls over the railing of the saloon after getting "shot".
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* RailingKill: In Louise's version of the story, Millie falls over the railing of the saloon after getting "shot". Linda questions if that was even safe to act out.
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* ShoutOut: Gene asks if Bob's old camcorder is the [[Film/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]].
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* ShoutOut: Gene asks if Bob's old camcorder is the [[Film/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]]. Tina [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} asks what it transforms into]].
*StylisticSuck: As Tina lampshades in the page quote above, it's probably a ''good'' thing that Bob's camcorder crapped out, because the plays were ''awful''.
*StylisticSuck: As Tina lampshades in the page quote above, it's probably a ''good'' thing that Bob's camcorder crapped out, because the plays were ''awful''.
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* PopCulturePunEpisoeTitle: It's a reference to ''Film/SexLiesAndVideotape''.
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* PopCulturePunEpisoeTitle: PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: It's a reference to ''Film/SexLiesAndVideotape''.
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* PopCulturePunEpisoeTitle: It's a reference to ''Film/SexLiesAndVideotape''.
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* WholePlotReference: Tina's story starts out as ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', but halfway through it turns into a FreakyFridayFlip.
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* WholePlotReference: Tina's story starts out as ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', but halfway through it turns into a FreakyFridayFlip.FreakyFridayFlip.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Mother, I'll go first."'']]
->''"Plus, maybe it's okay that mom will never see it. Because it's awful."''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Mother, I'll go first."'']]
->''"Plus, maybe it's okay that mom will never see it. Because it's awful."''
-->'''--Tina''', about their presentation
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The old family camcorder breaks down, forcing the Belcher kids to describe an exaggerated version of their Mothers Day pageant to a sick Linda. Louise regales Linda with the wild west story of "The Town With No Moms", Gene tells the mythology-influenced story of the creation of the first mother, and Tina whips up a crazy crossover between ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
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* BlatantLies: The kids version of the play is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a Gym Teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: During Louise's play.
-->'''Louise:''' I told you, I was out on business!\\
'''Rudy:''' You were in jail!\\
'''Louise:''' In jail on business!
* FreakyFridayFlip: Tina's telling of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' takes a sudden turn when Sigourney (what Tina calls Ripley) switches minds with the Xenomorph queen because of [[NegativeSpaceWedgie "scientific anomalies"]].
* GenreShift: Tina's story starts of with the plot of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', then suddenly turns into a body switching comedy.
* MissingTheGoodStuff: Bob fails to record the kids' performances because of his old camcorder. First he misses Louise's because he needed to rewind the tape. Then the battery dies out when Gene comes on stage and he has to find an outlet. Finally, he is set to record Tina when the camcorder malfunctions.
* RailingKill: In Louise's version of the story, Millie falls over the railing of the saloon after getting "shot".
* SadlyMythtaken: Gene claims his play was based on mythology, but it's clear he's just making stuff up. When asked which mythology it's based on, Gene says it's a mix of Greek, Roman, Franchise/{{Pokemon}} and Tex-Mex.
* SchoolPlay: The school assembly is every bit as lame as one would expect. The kids' retelling becomes absurdly elaborate, which is {{Lampshaded}} often.
* ShoutOut: Gene asks if Bob's old camcorder is the [[Film/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Gene tells how he was playing in sync with the other players.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Bob is still using a '90s era camcorder, while the kids point out that there are more convenient devices available for recording video. The camcorder proves to be completely unreliable when Bob tries to record the kids' performances.
* WholePlotReference: Tina's story starts out as ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', but halfway through it turns into a FreakyFridayFlip.
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* BlatantLies: The kids version of the play is ''blatantly'' blown up in quality and production. Linda isn't totally fooled, but she appreciates the effort anyway. At one point, she questions how they paid for everything, and the kids claim they fired a Gym Teacher and had a bake sale to pay for it.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: During Louise's play.
-->'''Louise:''' I told you, I was out on business!\\
'''Rudy:''' You were in jail!\\
'''Louise:''' In jail on business!
* FreakyFridayFlip: Tina's telling of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' takes a sudden turn when Sigourney (what Tina calls Ripley) switches minds with the Xenomorph queen because of [[NegativeSpaceWedgie "scientific anomalies"]].
* GenreShift: Tina's story starts of with the plot of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', then suddenly turns into a body switching comedy.
* MissingTheGoodStuff: Bob fails to record the kids' performances because of his old camcorder. First he misses Louise's because he needed to rewind the tape. Then the battery dies out when Gene comes on stage and he has to find an outlet. Finally, he is set to record Tina when the camcorder malfunctions.
* RailingKill: In Louise's version of the story, Millie falls over the railing of the saloon after getting "shot".
* SadlyMythtaken: Gene claims his play was based on mythology, but it's clear he's just making stuff up. When asked which mythology it's based on, Gene says it's a mix of Greek, Roman, Franchise/{{Pokemon}} and Tex-Mex.
* SchoolPlay: The school assembly is every bit as lame as one would expect. The kids' retelling becomes absurdly elaborate, which is {{Lampshaded}} often.
* ShoutOut: Gene asks if Bob's old camcorder is the [[Film/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Gene tells how he was playing in sync with the other players.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Bob is still using a '90s era camcorder, while the kids point out that there are more convenient devices available for recording video. The camcorder proves to be completely unreliable when Bob tries to record the kids' performances.
* WholePlotReference: Tina's story starts out as ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', but halfway through it turns into a FreakyFridayFlip.
