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* TheWorstSeatInTheHouse: Played With; Jimmy purposely makes the only seats available for Cindy and Libby at the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] be the ones in the closet, as revenge for how they made fun of him earlier. Cindy is outraged and initially begins to walk away, but Libby still asked for the seat anyway with CIndy excitedly coming back as well. Apparently the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] is so good that even the worst seat is still a good experience.
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* TheWorstSeatInTheHouse: Played With; Jimmy purposely makes the only seats available for Cindy and Libby at the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] be the ones in the closet, as revenge for how they made fun of him earlier. Cindy is outraged and initially begins to walk away, but Libby still asked for the seat anyway with CIndy Cindy excitedly coming back as well. Apparently the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] is so good that even the worst seat is still a good experience.
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* FromBadToWorse: [=McSpanky's=] starts destroying every other fast-food restaurant due to Hugh complaining how he preferred Taco Shack. After it succeeds in this, instead of landing like Jimmy expected it to, it started to head to the supermarket instead. Jimmy realizes it isn't satisfied just being the only fast-food restaurant in town, it wants to destroy every other place that sells food so people will have no choice but to eat there.
* IronicEcho: Cindy and Libby mock Jimmy when he gets put in a burger costume, with Cindy calling him "leader of the one-man dork parade". After [=McSpanky's=] gets upgraded, he sticks them both in the utility closet to eat, with Cindy complaining they know him. Jimmy smugly reminds her of her earlier comment that he's the "leader of the one-man dork parade".
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bit about Jimmy and co. accidentally destroying the gold used to power the Hover Helmets and having to raise money to replace them, the reason they took jobs at [=McSpankeys=] in the first place? It's never brought up again after they get the jobs and the conflict shifts to Jimmy, fed up with being constantly demoted, upgrading the restaurant to be automated and having to save the town from it when it goes haywire.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bit about Jimmy and co. accidentally destroying the gold used to power the Hover Helmets and having to raise money to replace them, the reason they took jobs at [=McSpankeys=] in the first place? It's never brought up again after they get the jobs and the conflict shifts to Jimmy, fed up with being constantly demoted, upgrading the restaurant to be automated and having to save the town from it when it goes haywire.haywire.
* TheWorstSeatInTheHouse: Played With; Jimmy purposely makes the only seats available for Cindy and Libby at the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] be the ones in the closet, as revenge for how they made fun of him earlier. Cindy is outraged and initially begins to walk away, but Libby still asked for the seat anyway with CIndy excitedly coming back as well. Apparently the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] is so good that even the worst seat is still a good experience.
* TheWorstSeatInTheHouse: Played With; Jimmy purposely makes the only seats available for Cindy and Libby at the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] be the ones in the closet, as revenge for how they made fun of him earlier. Cindy is outraged and initially begins to walk away, but Libby still asked for the seat anyway with CIndy excitedly coming back as well. Apparently the upgraded [=McSpanky's=] is so good that even the worst seat is still a good experience.
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* JobStealingRobot: Practically speaking Jimmy's upgraded [=McSpanky's=] amounts to this, but the actual plot tries to downplay it, as everyone who gets replaced (Sheen, Carl, Skeet) still keeps ''a'' job afterwards. Hell, even though he spent the previous day complaining about Jimmy's performance, Skeet seems to have absolutely no problem being reassigned to standing in a corner and watching the customer satisfaction meter.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The conflict for the first half of the episode is Jimmy and friends getting jobs at [=McSpanky's=] to replace the gold belonging to their parents that they accidentally destroyed with Jimmy's new invention. Halfway in, this plot point is dropped as the conflict turns to Jimmy trying to impress Skeet by upgrading the restaurant into a high-tech self-automated dining facility, only for the place to go haywire and attempt to destroy every competing restaurant in town.
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* LogoJoke: Paul is missing from the DNA Productions VanityPlate.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Carl experiences this as the Hover Hats start to malfunction.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: When Jimmy works the cash register, instead of ringing up the customers' orders on the register, he memorizes the prices and does the taxes and change in his head. Skeet chastises Jimmy for this, telling him to push the buttons with pictures of food on them, which Jimmy brushes off. While Skeet may be a ditzy manager, in reality, what Jimmy was doing was illegal under-the-table transactions for a business that needs all of its transactions monitored by the register for the sake of both inventory and taxes. Jimmy's method is also unable to provides a sales receipt to the customers. Later, when Jimmy's asked to mop up the restaurant's floor, Skeet tells him that he missed a spot of spilled salt, Jimmy insists on correcting him by calling it by its chemical name; "[[InsistentTerminology sodium chloride]]". While Skeet may have demoted Jimmy because he though he didn't even know what salt was and thought he was too stupid for mop duty, Jimmy using scientific names in a simple fast-food job to begin with is textbook InsufferableGenius behavior, and it should have come as no surprise that talking back to Skeet for trivial reasons got him in trouble.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: When Jimmy works the cash register, instead of ringing up the customers' orders on the register, he memorizes the prices and does the taxes and change in his head. Skeet chastises Jimmy for this, telling him to push the buttons with pictures of food on them, which Jimmy brushes off. While Skeet may be a ditzy manager, in reality, what Jimmy was doing was both illegal under-the-table transactions for a business that needs all of its transactions monitored by the register for the sake of both inventory and taxes. Jimmy's method is taxes, but also unable to provides impractical since it leaves the customer without a sales receipt to the customers.receipt. Later, when Jimmy's asked to mop up the restaurant's floor, Skeet tells him that he missed a spot of spilled salt, Jimmy insists on correcting him by calling it by its chemical name; "[[InsistentTerminology sodium chloride]]". While Skeet may have demoted demoting Jimmy because he though thought he didn't even know what salt was and thought thinking he was too stupid for mop duty, Jimmy duty is a bit harsh, using scientific names and five-dollar-words in a simple fast-food job to begin with is textbook InsufferableGenius behavior, and it should have come as no surprise that talking back to Skeet bosses for trivial reasons got him in trouble.rarely ends well.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hugh and Judy had a hand in [=McSpanky's=] coming to life and destroying every restaurant in Retroville. Hugh had been planning to have lunch at Taco Shack for at least a day, but Judy insisted on having lunch at [=McSpanky's=] to support Jimmy's new job rather than go there later. When Hugh makes it clear that he'd rather have lunch at Taco Shack, [=McSpanky's=] AI goes berserk and starts destroying not just Taco Shack, but other fast-food restaurants as well.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hugh and Judy had a hand in [=McSpanky's=] coming to life and destroying every restaurant in Retroville. Hugh had been planning to have lunch at Taco Shack for at least a day, but Judy insisted on having lunch at [=McSpanky's=] to support Jimmy's new job rather than go there later. When Hugh makes it clear that he'd rather have lunch at Taco Shack, [=McSpanky's=] AI goes berserk and starts destroying not just Taco Shack, but other fast-food restaurants as well.well.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bit about Jimmy and co. accidentally destroying the gold used to power the Hover Helmets and having to raise money to replace them, the reason they took jobs at [=McSpankeys=] in the first place? It's never brought up again after they get the jobs and the conflict shifts to Jimmy, fed up with being constantly demoted, upgrading the restaurant to be automated and having to save the town from it when it goes haywire.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bit about Jimmy and co. accidentally destroying the gold used to power the Hover Helmets and having to raise money to replace them, the reason they took jobs at [=McSpankeys=] in the first place? It's never brought up again after they get the jobs and the conflict shifts to Jimmy, fed up with being constantly demoted, upgrading the restaurant to be automated and having to save the town from it when it goes haywire.
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* OnlyOneFindsItFun: When Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen look for places to apply for a job, each of them finds a job that only one of them likes; Jimmy's is a nuclear physicist, Sheen's is a yoga instructor, and carl's is a belly dancer.
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* OnlyOneFindsItFun: When Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen look for places to apply for a job, each of them finds a job that only one of them likes; Jimmy's is a nuclear physicist, Sheen's is a yoga instructor, and carl's Carl's is a belly dancer.
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The sixteenth episode of the second season of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''.
To raise money to fund the gold for Jimmy's Hover Hats, Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen get jobs at [=McSpanky's=] Burger factory, the #1 fast-food restaurant in Retroville. While Carl and Sheen adapt quickly to their respecitve positions as fry cook and drive-thru attendant, Jimmy gets demoted to more demeaning tasks like cleaning the floors and wearing a burger costume. When he becomes sick of the humiliating work, he turns [=McSpanky's=] into an automatic and hygenic restaurant. Everything goes smoothly at the new and improved [=McSpanky's=] until Hugh's preference for Taco Shack causes [=McSpanky's=] to come to life and attack every place in Retroville that sells food.
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!! This episode provides examples of:
* AbortedArc: This episode's ending implies that the alien bandits Zix, Travoltron, and Tee will attempt to hunt down and capture Skeet, whom they believe to be the technologically-upgraded [=McSpanky's=] captain, due his Employee of the Month plaque. However, when they're next chronologically seen in "The Incredible Shrinking Town," they not only don't care for Skeet in the slightest, but he isn't even shown.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Hugh's preference of Taco Shack is what causes [=McSpanky's=] to come to life and destroy every fast-food restaurant in Retroville.
* BadJobWorseUniform: When Jimmy gets demoted by Skeet for calling Salt "Sodium Chloride", he has to wear a burger costume while standing outside advertising [=McSpanky's=]. This results in Cindy and Libby teasing him with a HurricaneOfPuns.
-->'''Cindy''': Congratulations, Spewtron. When were you elected leader of the one-man dork parade?
-->''(Cindy and Libby laugh)''
-->'''Jimmy''': Ladies, aren't we all a bit too old for sophmoric name calling?
-->'''Libby:''' He's right, Cindy. Call him by his real name; Patty!
-->''(Cindy and Libby continue laughing)''
-->'''Jimmy:''' I'll have you know that jobs like this are hard to come by!
-->'''Cindy:''' Really? I thought they were only medium rare!
-->''(Cindy and Libby continue laughing)''
-->'''Jimmy:''' That's it! I don't have to take this!
-->'''Cindy:''' Calm down! Don't pop your sesame seeds! ''(continues laughing)''
-->'''Libby:''' Bye, Jimmy! I relish this moment!
* BaitAndSwitch:
** When Sam and Ms. Fowl are seated at a table together, Sam tells Ms. Fowl "Winifred, there's something very important that I want to ask you.", implying that he's asking for her hand in matrimony. He then asks "Are you gonna finish those fries?"
** When Sheen comes in with a wheelbarrow of money, Jimmy asks him if they're their profits for today. Sheen tells him that it was just in the tip jar, and they had to rent a truck for the profits.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: [=McSpanky's=] is in a burger-shaped building, which also includes the giant head of the mascot sticking out of its side, with his mouth serving as the drive-thru window.
* BizarreTasteInFood:
** Skeet's breakfast of choice is a [=McSpanky=] burger with hot sauce, medium fries, and a small soda.
** Bolbi is revealed to eat a burger, fries, and milkshake kabob, as it's what was served in his home country of Backhairistan.
** Principal Willoughby is revealed to enjoy a pineapple burger with low-cal thousand-island dresssing.
* BurgerFool: Jimmy, Carl and Sheen get jobs at [=McSpanky's=] to fund the gold for Jimmy's Hover Hats. While Carl and Sheen [[SubvertedTrope actually enjoy their jobs]] (and even prove to be pretty competent workers), Jimmy gets the short end of the stick when manager Skeet makes him advertise the place wearing a ridiculous burger costume.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Carl says that he knew a fast-food restaurant that lets the customer have it their way was just a crazy dream, Jimmy exclaims, "Hey, wait a minute! Carl, that's it!" Sheen then exclaims "You mean this ''is'' all a crazy dream? All right, bring on the dancing tubas!"
* ContinuityNod: When Carl's life begins to flash before his eyes, he brings up [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius the time he ate toothpaste and his burps were minty fresh]].
* DumbassHasAPoint: When Jimmy works the cash register, instead of ringing up the customers' orders on the register, he memorizes the prices and does the taxes and change in his head. Skeet chastises Jimmy for this, telling him to push the buttons with pictures of food on them, which Jimmy brushes off. While Skeet may be a ditzy manager, in reality, what Jimmy was doing was illegal under-the-table transactions for a business that needs all of its transactions monitored by the register for the sake of both inventory and taxes. Jimmy's method is also unable to provides a sales receipt to the customers. Later, when Jimmy's asked to mop up the restaurant's floor, Skeet tells him that he missed a spot of spilled salt, Jimmy insists on correcting him by calling it by its chemical name; "[[InsistentTerminology sodium chloride]]". While Skeet may have demoted Jimmy because he though he didn't even know what salt was and thought he was too stupid for mop duty, Jimmy using scientific names in a simple fast-food job to begin with is textbook InsufferableGenius behavior, and it should have come as no surprise that talking back to Skeet for trivial reasons got him in trouble.
* EmployeeOfTheMonth: Skeet, the manager of [=McSpanky's=] is the Employee of the Month even though he seems to be the only person working there before Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen came along. He apparently cherishes his award so much that he initially refused to leave the building after it goes haywire, that is, until he's almost crushed by a falling pillar.
* HashHouseLingo:
** Sheen is at the drive-thru window and calls out the order through this. Carl replies, "Doing the tango or whacking the goose?" Sheen looks back at the car and asks, "'You want a dollar salad?" then refers to "yes" as "He's packing light!"
** This becomes a RunningGag, to the point where the following exchange occurs:
--->'''Sheen:''' Hey, Carl. Gimme a fat taxi driver with a Polish accent.
--->'''Carl:''' You want a hamburger with peanut butter on it?
--->'''Sheen:''' No, but if Jimmy's leaving, we'll need a ride home.
** Later, when Jimmy tricks the computerized restaurant into flying into the sun by ordering four deluxe burgers cooked at 20,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Sheen cries out "A Myth/KingArthur with a hip replacement, on a bed of coals?!".
* HurlItIntoTheSun: When [=McSpanky's=] decides to destroy the supermarket, not being satisfied after having destroyed every fast-food restaurant in Retroville, Jimmy defeats the computerized restaurant by tricking it into flying into the sun by ordering four deluxe burgers cooked at 20,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
* JerkassHasAPoint: After Jimmy redesigns [=McSpanky's=] and tells Cindy and Libby that they'll have to wait an hour for the next available table (unless they want to sit in the utility closet), Cindy tells Jimmy that just because he works at Retroville's most popular fast-food restaurant doesn't mean he's not still a stuck-up jerk.
* LookBehindYou: After Jimmy redesigns [=McSpanky's=], Carl becomes the doorman and refuses to let Hugh into the restaurant. Hugh manages to distract Carl by saying "Hey, look, a famous movie star!" while he and the other customers sneak into the restaurant.
* NoodleIncident:
** This episode reveals that Judy keeps several gold bars buried under the lawn in case Hugh gives all the Neutron family's money to telemarketers... again. Jimmy uses it to power his Hover Hat.
** When Hugh tells Judy about the Mucho Carne Fiesta he's planning to have at Taco Shack, Judy reminds him of what happened last year. Hugh assures her that with today's anesthesia, he doesn't even know his stomach's being pumped.
* OnlyOneFindsItFun: When Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen look for places to apply for a job, each of them finds a job that only one of them likes; Jimmy's is a nuclear physicist, Sheen's is a yoga instructor, and carl's is a belly dancer.
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: When Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen apply for jobs at [=McSpanky's=], Skeet asks them how old they are. While Carl admits that he's only eleven, Jimmy lies that he's seventeen and Sheen lies that he's twenty-seven. Skeet accepts this without questioning it.
* RhymesOnADime:
** [=McSpanky's=] slogan is "''Big [=McThankies=] from [=McSpanky's=]!''" When Jimmy finds the slogan cliched, he tries to come up with a better one; "''Don't let our food be denied you, Put our polyunsaturated fats and triglycerides inside you!''" Skeet is not amused and demotes Jimmy to janitorial work for this.
** When Jimmy gets demoted to wearing a burger costume and advertising [=McSpanky's=], he is forced to chant "If you want cheap food with taste, put [=McSpanky's=] in your face!"
** Taco Shack's theme song, as sung by Hugh, is as follows:
--->''Taco Shack, Taco Shack,''
--->''You'll eat cheese until you yack,''
--->''Frijoles there are always black,''
--->''And give a big Pinata whack!''
--->''Taco, Taco, Taco Shack!''
* ScaryStingingSwarm: Sheen attacks a beehive, which causes a swarm of bees to chase him, and Carl until Jimmy sprays Bee-Be-Gone poison to kill the bees.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hugh and Judy had a hand in [=McSpanky's=] coming to life and destroying every restaurant in Retroville. Hugh had been planning to have lunch at Taco Shack for at least a day, but Judy insisted on having lunch at [=McSpanky's=] to support Jimmy's new job rather than go there later. When Hugh makes it clear that he'd rather have lunch at Taco Shack, [=McSpanky's=] AI goes berserk and starts destroying not just Taco Shack, but other fast-food restaurants as well.
To raise money to fund the gold for Jimmy's Hover Hats, Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen get jobs at [=McSpanky's=] Burger factory, the #1 fast-food restaurant in Retroville. While Carl and Sheen adapt quickly to their respecitve positions as fry cook and drive-thru attendant, Jimmy gets demoted to more demeaning tasks like cleaning the floors and wearing a burger costume. When he becomes sick of the humiliating work, he turns [=McSpanky's=] into an automatic and hygenic restaurant. Everything goes smoothly at the new and improved [=McSpanky's=] until Hugh's preference for Taco Shack causes [=McSpanky's=] to come to life and attack every place in Retroville that sells food.
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!! This episode provides examples of:
* AbortedArc: This episode's ending implies that the alien bandits Zix, Travoltron, and Tee will attempt to hunt down and capture Skeet, whom they believe to be the technologically-upgraded [=McSpanky's=] captain, due his Employee of the Month plaque. However, when they're next chronologically seen in "The Incredible Shrinking Town," they not only don't care for Skeet in the slightest, but he isn't even shown.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Hugh's preference of Taco Shack is what causes [=McSpanky's=] to come to life and destroy every fast-food restaurant in Retroville.
* BadJobWorseUniform: When Jimmy gets demoted by Skeet for calling Salt "Sodium Chloride", he has to wear a burger costume while standing outside advertising [=McSpanky's=]. This results in Cindy and Libby teasing him with a HurricaneOfPuns.
-->'''Cindy''': Congratulations, Spewtron. When were you elected leader of the one-man dork parade?
-->''(Cindy and Libby laugh)''
-->'''Jimmy''': Ladies, aren't we all a bit too old for sophmoric name calling?
-->'''Libby:''' He's right, Cindy. Call him by his real name; Patty!
-->''(Cindy and Libby continue laughing)''
-->'''Jimmy:''' I'll have you know that jobs like this are hard to come by!
-->'''Cindy:''' Really? I thought they were only medium rare!
-->''(Cindy and Libby continue laughing)''
-->'''Jimmy:''' That's it! I don't have to take this!
-->'''Cindy:''' Calm down! Don't pop your sesame seeds! ''(continues laughing)''
-->'''Libby:''' Bye, Jimmy! I relish this moment!
* BaitAndSwitch:
** When Sam and Ms. Fowl are seated at a table together, Sam tells Ms. Fowl "Winifred, there's something very important that I want to ask you.", implying that he's asking for her hand in matrimony. He then asks "Are you gonna finish those fries?"
** When Sheen comes in with a wheelbarrow of money, Jimmy asks him if they're their profits for today. Sheen tells him that it was just in the tip jar, and they had to rent a truck for the profits.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: [=McSpanky's=] is in a burger-shaped building, which also includes the giant head of the mascot sticking out of its side, with his mouth serving as the drive-thru window.
* BizarreTasteInFood:
** Skeet's breakfast of choice is a [=McSpanky=] burger with hot sauce, medium fries, and a small soda.
** Bolbi is revealed to eat a burger, fries, and milkshake kabob, as it's what was served in his home country of Backhairistan.
** Principal Willoughby is revealed to enjoy a pineapple burger with low-cal thousand-island dresssing.
* BurgerFool: Jimmy, Carl and Sheen get jobs at [=McSpanky's=] to fund the gold for Jimmy's Hover Hats. While Carl and Sheen [[SubvertedTrope actually enjoy their jobs]] (and even prove to be pretty competent workers), Jimmy gets the short end of the stick when manager Skeet makes him advertise the place wearing a ridiculous burger costume.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Carl says that he knew a fast-food restaurant that lets the customer have it their way was just a crazy dream, Jimmy exclaims, "Hey, wait a minute! Carl, that's it!" Sheen then exclaims "You mean this ''is'' all a crazy dream? All right, bring on the dancing tubas!"
* ContinuityNod: When Carl's life begins to flash before his eyes, he brings up [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius the time he ate toothpaste and his burps were minty fresh]].
* DumbassHasAPoint: When Jimmy works the cash register, instead of ringing up the customers' orders on the register, he memorizes the prices and does the taxes and change in his head. Skeet chastises Jimmy for this, telling him to push the buttons with pictures of food on them, which Jimmy brushes off. While Skeet may be a ditzy manager, in reality, what Jimmy was doing was illegal under-the-table transactions for a business that needs all of its transactions monitored by the register for the sake of both inventory and taxes. Jimmy's method is also unable to provides a sales receipt to the customers. Later, when Jimmy's asked to mop up the restaurant's floor, Skeet tells him that he missed a spot of spilled salt, Jimmy insists on correcting him by calling it by its chemical name; "[[InsistentTerminology sodium chloride]]". While Skeet may have demoted Jimmy because he though he didn't even know what salt was and thought he was too stupid for mop duty, Jimmy using scientific names in a simple fast-food job to begin with is textbook InsufferableGenius behavior, and it should have come as no surprise that talking back to Skeet for trivial reasons got him in trouble.
* EmployeeOfTheMonth: Skeet, the manager of [=McSpanky's=] is the Employee of the Month even though he seems to be the only person working there before Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen came along. He apparently cherishes his award so much that he initially refused to leave the building after it goes haywire, that is, until he's almost crushed by a falling pillar.
* HashHouseLingo:
** Sheen is at the drive-thru window and calls out the order through this. Carl replies, "Doing the tango or whacking the goose?" Sheen looks back at the car and asks, "'You want a dollar salad?" then refers to "yes" as "He's packing light!"
** This becomes a RunningGag, to the point where the following exchange occurs:
--->'''Sheen:''' Hey, Carl. Gimme a fat taxi driver with a Polish accent.
--->'''Carl:''' You want a hamburger with peanut butter on it?
--->'''Sheen:''' No, but if Jimmy's leaving, we'll need a ride home.
** Later, when Jimmy tricks the computerized restaurant into flying into the sun by ordering four deluxe burgers cooked at 20,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Sheen cries out "A Myth/KingArthur with a hip replacement, on a bed of coals?!".
* HurlItIntoTheSun: When [=McSpanky's=] decides to destroy the supermarket, not being satisfied after having destroyed every fast-food restaurant in Retroville, Jimmy defeats the computerized restaurant by tricking it into flying into the sun by ordering four deluxe burgers cooked at 20,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
* JerkassHasAPoint: After Jimmy redesigns [=McSpanky's=] and tells Cindy and Libby that they'll have to wait an hour for the next available table (unless they want to sit in the utility closet), Cindy tells Jimmy that just because he works at Retroville's most popular fast-food restaurant doesn't mean he's not still a stuck-up jerk.
* LookBehindYou: After Jimmy redesigns [=McSpanky's=], Carl becomes the doorman and refuses to let Hugh into the restaurant. Hugh manages to distract Carl by saying "Hey, look, a famous movie star!" while he and the other customers sneak into the restaurant.
* NoodleIncident:
** This episode reveals that Judy keeps several gold bars buried under the lawn in case Hugh gives all the Neutron family's money to telemarketers... again. Jimmy uses it to power his Hover Hat.
** When Hugh tells Judy about the Mucho Carne Fiesta he's planning to have at Taco Shack, Judy reminds him of what happened last year. Hugh assures her that with today's anesthesia, he doesn't even know his stomach's being pumped.
* OnlyOneFindsItFun: When Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen look for places to apply for a job, each of them finds a job that only one of them likes; Jimmy's is a nuclear physicist, Sheen's is a yoga instructor, and carl's is a belly dancer.
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: When Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen apply for jobs at [=McSpanky's=], Skeet asks them how old they are. While Carl admits that he's only eleven, Jimmy lies that he's seventeen and Sheen lies that he's twenty-seven. Skeet accepts this without questioning it.
* RhymesOnADime:
** [=McSpanky's=] slogan is "''Big [=McThankies=] from [=McSpanky's=]!''" When Jimmy finds the slogan cliched, he tries to come up with a better one; "''Don't let our food be denied you, Put our polyunsaturated fats and triglycerides inside you!''" Skeet is not amused and demotes Jimmy to janitorial work for this.
** When Jimmy gets demoted to wearing a burger costume and advertising [=McSpanky's=], he is forced to chant "If you want cheap food with taste, put [=McSpanky's=] in your face!"
** Taco Shack's theme song, as sung by Hugh, is as follows:
--->''Taco Shack, Taco Shack,''
--->''You'll eat cheese until you yack,''
--->''Frijoles there are always black,''
--->''And give a big Pinata whack!''
--->''Taco, Taco, Taco Shack!''
* ScaryStingingSwarm: Sheen attacks a beehive, which causes a swarm of bees to chase him, and Carl until Jimmy sprays Bee-Be-Gone poison to kill the bees.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hugh and Judy had a hand in [=McSpanky's=] coming to life and destroying every restaurant in Retroville. Hugh had been planning to have lunch at Taco Shack for at least a day, but Judy insisted on having lunch at [=McSpanky's=] to support Jimmy's new job rather than go there later. When Hugh makes it clear that he'd rather have lunch at Taco Shack, [=McSpanky's=] AI goes berserk and starts destroying not just Taco Shack, but other fast-food restaurants as well.
