History Recap / OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Played with; Olive and Otto are forced to remove their shoes as they provide weight to balance the scale. It's left ambiguous whether they put their shoes back on or not when the flooding issue is resolved.

* ComicalOverreacting: When Ms. O calls for Olympia and Ozric and none of them respond, she believes that they're playing a game of hide and seek. How she ''plays'' the game is something that is taken UpToEleven -- she begins tearing her entire office apart, including the ''carpet.'' She even goes so far as to '''''tear out electrical wires and disassemble the workplace's plumbing''''' just to find them.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Ms. O dives into the sea of balls to retrieve two juice boxes, the way that Olive and Otto grow increasingly worried for her is reminiscent of someone believed to have drowned.
** Odd Todd performing the heinous act of unbalancing the scales and causing Headquarters to flood could potentially be seen as a murder attempt on his former co-workers, by way of drowning. Luckily, no one ''does'' drown, and things are restored back to normal by the end of the episode (not that he's made aware of it until his next appearance).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The episode's title is a ShoutOut to the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' franchise, which is M-rated for its bloodshed and violence. Funny enough, there has been at least one other instance where PBS turned down a title idea for the show due to being too inappropriate -- and yet somehow, this title got past their censors.

--> '''Sven:''' It's ''"snowball"!'' ''(cries out in pain as he gets pelted by snowballs)'' Ahh. That one was on purpose, wasn't it?

--> '''Olive:''' ''(with a confused look) Six?''

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Played with; Olive and Otto are forced to remove their shoes as they provide weight to balance the scale. It's made ambiguous whether they put their shoes back on or not when the flooding issue is resolved.

* IKnewThereWasSomethingAboutYou: When Olive reveals to Evil Teddy that Olympia and Ozric are two of Ms. O's assistants and not agents, the villainess remarks that she knew it and that the purple sweatbands on their heads were a dead giveaway.

[[caption-width-right:350:An assistant of the boss yearning for adventure finding their boss's secret tube entrance. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong?]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Ms. O refers to Olympia and Ozric as "Assistant", and not by their actual names.

* RiddleForTheAges: The episode has sparked discussion on where a Director's assistant falls into the Odd Squad hierarchy (all we know is that they are lower than Management, but it's unknown whether they're higher than Events and Support, or Investigation), and whether being an assistant to a Director serves as a type of internship for those willing to get into the Odd Squad Academy, or if there is a placement test to get in the Academy where those who fail are selected to do assistant work as pre-training. It's not expanded on in the episode, leaving viewers with questions.

* YouGetMeCoffee: Ms. O has Olympia and Ozric fetch her a juice box and a file folder, respectively.

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* CompanionCube: Played with; Odd Todd apparently made friends with three differently-colored plastic balls found in the Ball Pit Control Room, whom he says get him. Whether this is meant as more of a witty threat or if the balls are ''actually'' sentient, though, is up for interpretation.

* TheCameo: Surprisingly, [[BigBad Odd Todd]] cameos in this episode as the cause behind the flooding of Headquarters. He doesn't make any onscreen appearances in the episode other than in a video message.

* AllForNothing: The trope is defied for Olive and Otto, but played straight for Ms. O, who is implied to believe this of the partner pair for their efforts in attempting to stop the flooding.

* {{Determinator}}: Inverted for Ms. O, who immediately begins getting set to bail when Headquarters begins to flood (and has done it before), but played straight for Olive and Otto, who try and resolve the situation before Headquarters becomes completely flooded. Their perseverance turns out to be the key to saving their Headquarters. The trope is also played straight for O'Donahue, who attempted to convince Ms. O to try and turn their Headquarters back to normal, but his words fell flat.

* TheGreatFlood: The premise of the episode. The trope is parodied, as the substance isn't water, but rather, it's plastic balls. Nonetheless, the balls are treated with the same threat level as water.

* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is a reference to ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano.''

* ScalesOfJustice: The pan balances in the Odd Squad Ball Pit Control Room look like these -- fitting, considering that it's revealed the organization has a court system, and follows a few police procedurals.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ms. O pulls one of these when Headquarters begins to flood with plastic balls. It's revealed that she's done the exact same thing ''four times'' for ''four headquarters.''
* SeriesContinuityError: Odd Todd reveals that he broke into Headquarters in order to alter the scales in the Ball Pit Control Room and make Headquarters flood. However, [[Recap/OddSquadS1E18DanceLikeNobodysWatchingRecipeForDisaster there are booby traps in place specifically designed to prevent villain break-ins,]] and he never should have gotten past the Trophy Room -- however, it's possible that he either found out the code to shut off the booby traps, or somehow figured out the patterns to avoid getting hit by said traps.