History Recap / CraigOfTheCreekS1E04TheFinalBook

* BoyMeetsGirl: Maney and J.P. meet each other, and the former falls in love with him.

* LoveAtFirstSight: When Mandy spots J.P., she immediately falls in love with him. They would later get together in "Jpony" later in the season.

* CrushBlush: Maney gets this when she sees JP

* {{Foreshadowing}}: J.P. comments that he thinks Kelsey and Stacks are the only two kids who reads the same book series and Stacks tugs her hair nervously when Kelsey tells her the final book she needs to read is missing. Then we learn at the end it was Stacks who hid the last book from Kelsey.

* OccidentalOtaku: The Ninja Kids, who reject all Western pop culture and only read manga. They become distraught when one of them is caught with a Western comic book in her backpack.

* AllGirlsLikePonies: Exaggerated with a group of girls Craig encounters in the field, who actually pretend that they are horses.

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* RealityEnsues: While trying to flee from Kelsey, the Ninja Kid with the red turtleshell attempts to do a WallRun up a tree... and promptly falls down.

** The book report in the backpack is for a book about [[Literature/TheBoxcarChildren kids who live on a train]]

* RedHerring: Stacks tells Kelsey that a kid with a red turtleshell backpack may had taken the book, but she turned out to be a distraction. Stacks turned out to be the real culprit, hiding the last book because she was afraid that once Kelsey read it, she would stop coming to see her.

* GilliganCut: Bernard tells Craig that the culprit in the Case Solving Boys books are always the first person they meet. Craig protests that it's not true, but then we cut to him finishing the book and realizing that it was the first person they met.

* EurekaMoment: When Bernard sees Craig reading the ''The Smarty Boys'', he points out that the culprits in the series are always the first person they meet. This makes Craig figure out that Stacks was the one who took the last book after remembering some of the comments from the suspects that matches the description of Stacks, who was the first person they met.

*** Also, the red turtleshell that one of the kids of the ninja garden is wearing (the one that is said to be a replica of the shell of a {{Kaiju}} named Bekkomon) is similar to a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros spike top]] shell.
*** The book report in the backpack is for a book about [[Literature/BoxCarKids kids who live on a train]]

*** The book report in the backpack is for a book about [[Literature/TheBoxCarKids kids who live on a train]]

*** The book report in the backpack is for a book about [[WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain kids who live on a train]]

** The red turtleshell backpack resembles a red Koopa from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''
*** Also, the red turtleshell that one of the kids of the ninja garden is wearing (the one that is said to be a replica of the shell of a {{Kaiju}} named Bekkomon) is similar to a [[SuperMarioBros spike top]] shell.

** Bekkomon seems to be a combination of Franchise/{{Gamera}} (implied to be a turtle kaiju) and Franchise/{{Godzilla}} (having the title "King of the Kaiju").
* StrictlyFormula: In-universe, according to Bernard, ''The Smarty Boys'' books ''always'' end with the first person the characters meet being the culprit.

*** Also, the red turtleshell that one of the kids of the ninja garden is wearing (the one that is said to be a replica of the shell of a kaiju named bekkomon) is similar to a [[SuperMarioBros spike top]] shell.

** The manga that the ninja kids are showing to Craig and his friends during a flashback is called [[Manga/OnePiece Two Piece]].

* EurekaMoment: When Bernard sees Craig reading the ''The Smarty Boys'', he points out that the culprits in the series are always the first person they meet. This makes Craig figure out that Stacks was the one who took the last book after remembering some of the comments from the suspects that matches the description of Stacks.

** The red turtleshell backpack resembles a red Koopa from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''

** The red turtleshell backpack resembles a red Koopa from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''.

** ''The Case Solving Boys'' book series that Craig gets into is based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys''.

* OccidentalOkatu: The Ninja Kids, who reject all Western pop culture and only read manga. They become distraught when one of them is caught with a Western comic book in her backpack.

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