The Easter special about painting eggs, in which Angel Gabby grows increasingly frustrated between Jonah making a mess and Francis painting his eggs in various un-Christian patterns.
First Jonah tries to use raw eggs instead of boiled — and immediately breaks them. Then he gets paint everywhere. Towards the end, Gabby has to sternly tell Jonah to not eat the egg he just painted while the painted shell is still on it.
When Francis shows Gabby the first egg he painted, she takes it from him, tells him to try again, and throws away the egg when he's not looking. The second time, she throws away the egg right in front of him, and snaps that he should make another one. The third time, Gabby just growls at him and Francis throws out the egg himself.
The itch.io online game could count as this, especially towards the end. Even though the game gives off an atmosphere of building up to something horrid, with Gabby even threatening to hit Francis on the head with a mallet, it ultimately ends with her just lightly tapping him with it with no injury, with a cartoonish bonking sound to boot.
The game also has Zag barely commentating on Jonah's progress on the lilypad game, only giving him encouragement after clicking on him, and sounding disinterested as he's doing it. The entire time, he's just reading a newspaper.
Francis continuing to act out the script for the show even while Gabby breaks character to talk to Jonah can elicit laughs at points, particularly later on, when Gabby becomes prone to shooting him weary looks or has to talk over him, to her visible annoyance.
While instructing Jonah to hide a gun in a book shelf, Gabby is visibly on-edge and in full "mother hen" mode about having him climb up it and ends up calling at him to be careful as he gets down.
In the same sequence, Gabby tells Jonah not to hide the gun in his room because it would be incriminating. She then has to sheepishly clarify that she means it would get him in trouble, as the young Jonah doesn't know that word.
"We can learn that word later."
It borders on Black Comedy, but the contrast between VHS Gabby's kind and gentle lesson about forgiveness and VCR Gabby's extremely blunt comments about liars going to Hell and how Jonah doesn't have to forgive anyone.
After being very evasive about answering lore questions and dragging things out throughout all the viewer mail episodes, when Francis is asked what he does for a living, he very bluntly and directly states that he's an actuary (with the cheery music stopping), then moves onto the next letter.
Compared to Gabby's gentle and heartfelt tone, Zag hates having to act out a kid's show and spends the entire time he does so just nodding along to Francis' dialogue, delivering his own lines in the most half-hearted way possible, and rolling his eyes or looking at other things, all in a way that just screams "I would rather be doing anything else with my time".
When Zag stops trying to keep the show on the rails and starts investigating properly, Francis is reluctant to answer his questions, because he's used to everything having some moral lesson in this setting. Zag deadpans, "Teamwork. Diligence. Proverbs 27:17* "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." Work with that." Immediately, Francis cheerfully agrees to help.
Throughout the series, Francis handles the fan letter segments, always saying that Gabby's too busy to appear herself but appreciates the letters. At the end of the Season 2 mixtape, though, Gabby notices the pile of letters by Francis' chair. When she asks about it, Francis can only give a startled look at the camera.
