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3	Nicole finally gets employee of the month, and Richard wants appreciation too for being a good house husband, but when Nicole dismisses Richard's methods on keeping the kids clean and fed as insane, Richard goes on strike and the house goes to pot.
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5	!!Tropes:
6	* AlmostKiss: Nicole walks in on Carrie (wearing Nicole's wedding dress) and Darwin about to kiss, causing Carrie to teleport away.
7	* BlackComedyCannibalism: When Nicole threatens to call the cops on her kids (who she doesn't recognize at the moment), they spit out a piece of Donut Cop's body in front of her.
8	-->'''Anais''': Send more cops!
9	-->'''Gumball, Darwin and Anais:''' Cops, yum-yum!
10	* CallBack:
11	** Nicole becomes employee of the month, which she previously had complained about not being in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E33TheWorst the previous episode]].
12	** Nicole's Employee of the Month photo has her posing in a fashion similar to how Gumball did for his yearbook photo in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E25ThePhoto "The Photo"]].
13	** Carrie is seen wearing Nicole's wedding dress which Gumball wore in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E6TheDress "The Dress"]].
14	** One of the previous Employees of the Month is Clare Cooper's dad who got employed in the Rainbow Factory in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E4TheOthers "The Others"]].
15	** The joke about Richard using dog-training to raise the kids has been referenced in his solution to the Kenneth crisis in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E33TheMicrowave "The Microwave"]].
16	** Nicole starts her rap song by kicking open a door, just like Gumball did in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E27TheAwkwardness "The Awkwardness"]].
17	* ADayInHerApron: Gender-inverted, as Richard tries to get Nicole to appreciate his work as a HouseHusband. While his bizarre methods (like feeding the kids off a tablecloth that he wraps them up in for baths) initially just make Nicole respect him even less, he manages to rein in the kids when they stop listening to even her.
18	* EyeScream: One of Nicole's fireworks digs itself into the moon's eye, while several onlookers have their eyes filled with the sparks raining down from the rest.
19	* FalseReassurance: Nicole celebrates that her raise lets them pay off their debts by February. Not the ''next'' February, just '''a''' February.
20	* {{Hypocrite}}: Nicole doesn't respect Richard at all, even though she's told her children they need to respect him.
21	* LampshadeHanging: Gumball questions why anybody would [[WorstNewsJudgementEver frame a newspaper article about Richard being a loser]].
22	* LaserGuidedKarma: Nicole's actions in "The Hero" pretty much bites her in this episode.
23	* OneNeighborNeighborhood: Lampshaded when Richard says the kids have taken "the neighbor", and has to explain that he didn't mean Mr. Robinson, but their other neighbor whose name he can't remember (Gary).
24	* PissTakeRap: Richard's rap consists entirely of "Today, I found a fry under the sofa, and then...", before giving up. Gumball calls it "the rap equivalent of British dental work".
25	* ReachingBetweenTheLines: After the kids tear up the house and rewire everything, Nicole answers the house phone only to hear the sound of a raw chicken in the garbage disposal, which then comes out liquefied through the phone and hits her in the face.
26	* SharedFamilyQuirks: Turns out Nicole, like Gumball, may spontaneously bust into rap. Nicole's inability to be photogenic also seems to have been passed down to her son.
27	* ShoutOut:
28	** During Nicole's celebratory fireworks display, one of them [[Film/ATripToTheMoon gets lodged in the moon's eye]].
29	** The kids in their unsupervised state look and act like Film/{{Gremlins\|1984}}.
30	** Nicole calls Richard "[[Film/NannyMcPhee Nanny McFail]]".
31	** Anais telling Nicole to "Send more cops" after she spits out Donut [[GenericCopBadges Cop's badge]] and part of his body is a direct reference to the zombie calling "Send more paramedics" in ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead''.
32	** Richard reins in his unsupervised kids the same way Owen does with his raptors in ''Film/JurassicWorld''. He also quotes the "clever girl" line from ''Film/JurassicPark''.
33	* SmashCut: Anais advises Richard to just tell Nicole he feels underappreciated, insisting her mother is a "reasonable wo-" [[DescriptionCut and we cut to Nicole outside]], where her self-celebratory fireworks show nails the male version of the moon in the eye and starts raining sparks on her neighbors.
34	* StrikeEpisode: Richard goes on strike as a HouseHusband, and the kids trash the house without his supervision.
35	* TakeThat:
36	** Gumball compares Richard's terrible attempt at rapping to [[BritishTeeth British dental work]].
37	** When talking about how horrible Richard is at parenting, Nicole mentions that only [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite cuckoos]] and {{stage mom}}s are worse.
38	* TemptingFate:
39	** When Nicole is covered in chicken mush from the phone, she's relieved that none of it got in her mouth, only for a bit of chicken to spurt out into it.
40	** After Nicole mentions that nothing else ''inside'' the house can be ruined by the kids, the garden shed gets thrown over the house onto the front yard.
41	* ThrowTheDogABone: After the previous episode showed Nicole faces a very hostile, sexist workplace, she finally makes Employee of the Month and gets a raise.
42	* TookALevelInBadass: After constantly being shown to be an idiotic screw up, here Richard is shown to be a fully capable father, able to take care of his children when Nicole cannot.
43	* WaxingLyrical: Richard's speech ends with "[[Music/TheEagles Welcome to the Hotel California]]."
44	* WritersCannotDoMath: During Nicole's rap, she says her raise was three-cents-on-the-dollar (i.e. 3%), but then later says it's only $10 per ''month''. That would mean her annual income was $4,000, which is ridiculously low even for [[PerpetualPoverty the Wattersons' sorry financial state]]--it's well below minimum wage for a full-time position (~$14,000) and the poverty line for someone living alone ($12,060), much less the sole income source for a family of five ($28,870).

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