Line #6 Recap/BigCityGreensS2E7


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Not the perfect temperature for HORSE.]]
3	'''Heat Beaters'''
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5	During an intense heatwave, Cricket is forced to challenge Remy to a game of HORSE to maintain his winning streak while the rest of the Greens suffer a rather cold air conditioner.
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7	!! "Heat Beaters" contains examples of:
8	* BigDamnHeroes: When Keys comes upon Cricket and Remy having almost died from a heatstroke, he quickly puts them in his car and takes them home. He likewise saves the rest of the Green from the impromptu freezer they got themselves in.
9	* BigOMG: Cricket when he sees the heatwave.
10	-->'''Cricket:''' Oh. My. Gravy.
11	* CuttingBackToReality: When Keys sees Cricket and Remy nearly dying from a heatstroke, what appears to be Ricky and Wizard turns into what they really are in reality, a trash can and a "no parking" sign.
12	* EyeScream: When Cricket opens the door which lets the heat wave blasts he and Remy, eggs break on his eyes and leave their yolks covering them.
13	* GoneHorriblyRight: The new air conditioner made things cool all right, but they set it up so high it froze over and they can't turn it off.
14	* {{Hallucinations}}: The heatwave causes Cricket and Remy to hallucinate Ricky and Wizard.
15	* HappyPlace: Tilly is able to stave off the heat by thinking cold thoughts "until my mind is nothing but a frozen wasteland." It backfires when the air conditioner malfunctions and she can't stop thinking cold thoughts, leaving her delirious.
16	* HeatWave: The Greens try to stave off the intense heat; Cricket by playing HORSE with Remy, the others by turning up the new AC. Cricket and Remy almost succumb to heat stroke, while the house freezes up due to the AC being set too high.
17	* ILetYouWin: Cricket ultimately decides his and Remy's friendship is much more important than competing, and forfeits the HORSE match so Remy can win by default.
18	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When Remy first appears, sitcom music is heard; that turns out to be from the TV as Cricket didn't hear him over it.
19	* NearDeathExperience: Cricket and Remy nearly die from suffering a heatstroke from the heatwave, while the rest of the Greens catch hypothermia and nearly ''freeze'' to death themselves.
20	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Wizard Williams and Ricky Stork is a reference to the famous rivalry between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
21	* PoorCommunicationKills: Cricket and Remy hallucinate Ricky and Wizard trying to get them to get out of the heat, but Cricket misinterprets this as them delivering the aesop for the episode.
22	* ShoutOut:
23	** The close-up of Tilly shivering is reminiscent of Jack Nichleson in the finale of ''Film/TheShining''.
24	** Tilly wears virtually the same parka as [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Kenny McCormick.]]
25	* SmartBall: This is one of the few times Officer Keys does his job competently. He sees Cricket and Remy about to die of heat exhaustion and rushes them back home.
26	* SnowMeansCold: The AC makes the Greens' house so cold there are snow drifts and icicles on the walls. It later turns into SnowMeansDeath when they start to freeze constantly.
27	* WingdingEyes: Tilly's eyes turn into ice cubes as she thinks of things that are cold.
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30	[[caption-width-right:350:Do you [[{{Pun}} Bill-ieve]] in aliens?]]
31	'''Bill-iever'''
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33	Cricket tricks Bill into believing aliens have landed on earth to avoid getting caught for an accident.
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35	!! "Bill-iever" contains examples of:
36	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Now let's see if my big Billy fish is bitin."
37	* BigNo: By Cricket at the end of his ImagineSpot, then by Bill when he sees the destroyed garden.
38	* BigOMG: "Oh. My. Gosh. WE'RE NOT ALONE!"
39	* BittersweetEnding: For both parties. Bill reveals he knew Cricket destroyed the garden all along and he learns his lesson, but Cricket is undeniably disappointed and defeated at this, and it's implied he'll get grounded for it indeed. Meanwhile Bill had to utterly humiliate himself in order to get Cricket to learn his lesson, hurriedly getting everyone inside before anyone else sees him in his underwear.
40	* BottleEpisode: The entire episode is set at the Green house, with a short scene in an allyway.
41	* BrickJoke: When the scooter finishes destroying the garage, it crashes into a shelf and the door slams shut, leaving a cornstalk sticking out. Later on, Phoenix notices this, which allows Bill to see the scooter and find out it was Cricket who's responsible.
42	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Bill points out near the end, none of the madness with the aliens would've happened in the first place if Cricket had just told them the truth.
43	* CropCircles: Cricket claims the tracks left in the garden are a crop circle left by aliens.
44	* DissonantSerenity: When Bill discovers the scooter dirty from Cricket driving it through the garden, rather than get mad, he instead talks in a calm monotone voice, which freaks out Cricket.
45	* HiddenDepths: Vasquez pulled off his government agent disguise because he's taking acting classes at the community theater.
46	* IThinkYouBrokeHim: Watching Bill go crazy makes Cricket think he "broke dad's brain."
47	* KnewItAllAlong: The moment Cricket admits it was he that ran over the garden and aliens don't exist, Bill suddenly reveals he knew Cricket did it all along and just acted freaked out to teach him a lesson.
48	* LoudGulp: Cricket in response to Bill promising to find out how he ruined the crops.
49	* MaintainTheLie: To cover up the fact that he accidentally ran over the garden with Gramma's old scooter, Cricket says it was done by aliens. While Tilly and Gramma are easily convinced, Bill doesn't buy it an insists it was Cricket who did it. So Cricket goes to ridiculous extremes to make Bill believe in aliens.
50	* TheMenInBlack: Cricket has Vasquez disguise himself as one to make Bill believe aliens ruined his crops. He even uses a neutralizer device like the one in [[Film/MenInBlack the movies]].
51	* ObfuscatingInsanity: Bill appears to freak out after seeing the alien, wearing a tin foil hat in his underwear and climbing on the roof so the aliens can pick him up. After Cricket confesses that there were no aliens and he was the one who destroyed the garden, Bill reveals that he was faking it and knew it was Cricket all along.
52	* OhCrap: Cricket goes through three of these. The first is when he destroys the garden and Gramma's scooter, the second is when Bill finds the scooter and the third is when Bill seems to have gone insane.
53	* PsychoticSmirk: Bill gives one to Cricket when he reveals he knew he was disguised as an alien the whole time.
54	* ReflectiveEyes: While Cricket is convincing a delusional Bill that everything will be all right, his features reflect into Bill's veiny red eyes.
55	* ShoutOut:
56	** "The truth isn't down here. [[Series/TheXFiles The truth is up there]]."
57	** Vasquez as a [[Film/MenInBlack Man in Black]] with a neuralizer. There is even a parody of the theme music playing in the background.
58	** The morning after the fake alien encounter, Bill is [[Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind sculpting with mashed potatoes]].
59	* TaughtByExperience: The moment Cricket rushes to the scene and asks what happened to the crops, Bill immediately accuses him of being responsible. When Cricket acts offended over always being blamed for such incidents, Bill points out that because he's always responsible.
60	* TearsOfRemorse: Cricket sheds them as he admits his treachery to Bill.
61	* TinFoilHat: Bill starts wearing one after his encounter with an "alien" (actually Cricket in disguise), as do Tilly and Gramma.
62	* TranquilFury: When Bill finds out Cricket wrecked Alice's scooter and destroyed the crops with it, he is furious but doesn't yell at Cricket. Instead, he calmly tells him he's going to get it tomorrow. Cricket is understandably terrified.
63	* TwinkleInTheSky: Cricket's ImagineSpot ends with Bill tossing the scooter away and leaving one of these as it vanishes.
64	* WhamLine: "I flip-flappin' knew it."

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