Line #4 Recap/BobsBurgersS5E7TinaTailorSoldierSpy


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Anyone of them could be the mole."'']]
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4	->'''Ginny:''' I'm here because Troop 119 has a mole!
5	->'''Tina:''' I thought Katie just had a beauty mark.
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8	Thundergirling gets intense as Tina hunts for a mole from a rival troop. Meanwhile, Linda gets her hair dyed blonde.
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10	!!Tina Troper Soldier Spy:
11	* AppleOfDiscord: Louise spreads discord among the group in an attempt to smoke out the mole, even if it means destroying the troop in the process.
12	* BeneathSuspicion: Ginny knows that Tina can't be the mole because she quit before the mole struck. Louise is also exonerated the instant she joins the Thundergirls because she joined long after the mole struck.
13	* BlindWithoutEm: When Louise takes Jodi's glasses hostage, she can't see that Louise is holding them above the toilet despite only standing a few feet away.
14	* BrutalHonesty: When Linda insists that being a blonde is making her dumb, Bob points out she's always been kind of dumb.
15	* CallBack:
16	** Louise talks about the Thundergirls like it's a cult, reflecting her belief on the organization from "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E1ARiverRunsThroughBob A River Runs Through Bob]]". Additionally, Tina quit the Thundergirls in that same episode, and she's still an ex-member at the start of this episode.
17	** When planning her mission, Tina uses her horse figures to represent members of her troop. Gene uses Tina's [[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E17TheEquestranauts Chariot doll]] to represent himself.
18	* ChekhovsGun: Troop 257's secret handshake winds up being what exposes the mole.
19	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Tina feeds the mole by telling each member of her troop a different lead. Troop 257 arrives at the restaurant, causing her to identify Rena as the mole. But Rena points out that it's her family's restaurant, so she could just as easily be the mole, prompting Ginny to suspect Tina as well[[note]]Although Ginny had already cleared Tina of suspicion because she left the Thundergirls and didn't rejoin until after the mole incident, meaning there's no reason Ginny should have believed Rena for even a second because there's no way it could have been Tina[[/note]].
20	* DumbBlonde: Linda believes she's becoming one of these after her dye job, emphasized by her messing up several orders. Bob points out that she's no smarter or dumber than before, but her focusing almost entirely on her hairstyle is causing her to get distracted.
21	* FeedTheMole: How Tina identifies the mole. She gives each member of Troop 119 a cookie lead for a different location on Ocean Avenue. When Troop 257 arrives at Bob's Burgers, she knows that Rena is the mole.
22	* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Tina's efforts to find TheMole don't go well in the end when she can't make Rena admit it. Louise's exploiting a SecretHandshake is what ends up making Rena reveal herself.
23	* ImproperlyParanoid: When Tina fails to smoke out TheMole, Ginny randomly accused other girls on the ride to the restaurant before Rena was revealed to be the culprit (she blamed her too, but without proof).
24	-->'''Ginny''': I-I knew it was ''someone!''
25	* InformedAttribute:
26	** Tina mentions that Linda's now-blonde hair matches her teeth. On the rare occasion Linda's teeth do appear, they're clearly white.
27	** Katie apparently has a beauty mark, but at no point do we actually see where it is even though it's obvious enough in-universe for Tina to know about it.
28	* MetaphoricallyTrue: Linda believes becoming a blonde has made her dumber and it's kind of correct, since whilst Bob says it hasn't made her dumber, it might as well have because she's been way too distracted by her new hair colour to get any work done.
29	* TheMole: The plot of the episode revolves around one in Thundergirl Troop 119. Louise herself later becomes one within Troop 257.
30	* NoodleIncident: Troop 119 had a former member who didn't have a pinky and later moved away.
31	* NotSoAboveItAll: When Gene completes his garbage attire, Bob compliments it and asks him to pick something out for Bob himself next time. Bob can be seen wearing his own garbage attire in the credits.
32	* TheReveal: Rena is the mole.
33	* SecretHandshake: Troop 257 has one, which is how Louise finally smokes out the mole.
34	* SeriousBusiness: Troop 257 treats cookie-selling like a criminal racket. Even their adult chaperone is a little scared of them. Bob and Gene both lampshade that they're a bit crazy about it.
35	* SexySecretary: After dying her hair blonde, Linda acts like this to Bob while he's cooking, speaking in a seductive voice, calling herself his assistant, and proclaiming her desire to strip.
36	* SnapBack: Louise claims she'll wear Tina's friendship bracelet forever, but she's never seen with it in any future episode.
37	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Rena reflexively reacting to 257's secret handshake is what gives her away.
38	* StatusQuoIsGod:
39	** Louise quits both troops of the Thundergirls at the end with no intention of coming back unless there's a murder or drug sting. Additionally, after having quit prior to the episode, Tina rejoins at the very end.
40	** Linda's blonde hair doesn't last past the episode.
41	* TokenGoodTeammate: 257's adult chaperone, who isn't in on their vicious cookie-selling war.
42	* TokenEvilTeammate: Louise only joins the Thundergirls for the purpose of sowing chaos during the mole hunt.
43	* TormentedTeacher: Troop 257's adult chaperone is run ragged by her girls basically bossing ''her'' around.
44	* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''.

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