Funny / Hamster & Gretel

Hamster & Gretel is created by one of the co-creators of Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law, so you know it's gonna be hilarious.

General

• The scene transitions with Hamster and Gretel's faces, which change depending on the context of the episode.
• The fact that Hamster, Gretel and Kevin are absolutely terrible at keeping their secret identities to the point that the closest Gretel has to an alias is "Superhero Gretel", and yet everyone is fooled anyway, even their friends and family except Fred.
• The Aliens and their reckless use of their superpower bestowing ray, especially when they bestow "powers unimaginable"^note Though, even they admit that at least some of the powers they bestow are "imaginable" to something accidentally and never bother to fix it. To date the list of things they have bestowed powers to include:
  • A nine year old girl and her pet hamster
  • A pair of bickering teenage fraternal twins
  • A washed up soap opera actress
  • A bounce house
  • A fire hydrant (dubiously canon)
  • A scone
  • A sloppy joe
  • A paleontologist who was trapped in a tarpit, in a state of suspended animation.
  • A cat burglar in training and a spider that was on her shoulder.
• The theme song ends with "there’s also Kevin in the minivan."

Season 1

Empower Failure

• Before the theme song even plays we get a moment that also summarizes the entire series' premise: a teenage boy is passed over for superpowers in favor of his nine year old sister and a domesticated rodent.
  Gretel: Oh, I get it! The two of us [as in her and Hamster, not her and Kevin]. They weren't even talking to you.
• Hamster revealing that he can talk at the end of the episode, especially because of how casually he does it.
  Gretel: (sitting on a street pole, watching Kevin walk off with Hiromi) Aww, that's so sweet (turns to Hamster, who has no expression) You have no sense of romance.
  Hamster: (rolls his eyes) Whatever. (Gretel appears shocked) If anyone needs me, I'll be in my wheel (flies off)
  Gretel: Wait! You can talk?!

Oakey Dokey

• As Kevin and Gretel return to the picnic of their and Bailey's parents, Carolina asks why Kevin's clothes are wet. Dave intercepts and reckons that Kevin's a sweat beast, much like himself, and heartily tells him to "sweat proud". Cue Roman, who's right next to Dave, pinching his nose.

Recipe for Disaster

• The legal blurb following El Luchador's introduction; it's so long that it was still going after transitioning to another scene and back.
  • Said disclaimer is also metafictional, as evidenced by a shot change that shows Gretel looking bored at the scrolling text (the same shot shows the backside of the blurb).

Math Punch

• Already the episodes starts off well with Dave's first line:
  Dave: Kids, I did it, I did it! Tonight, I am finally going to make your mother cry!
• When Rodney Thunderpants tells his backstory, he explains the reason why he got lightning powers is because a lightning storm caused a cell phone tower to fall onto him, and then it got struck by lightning once... and then again three more times.
  Veronica: You got struck by lightning once, and then three more times? You mean you got struck by lightning four times in total?
  Rodney: I'd rather mine coal than do math.

Superhero Sibling Rivalry

• The episode starts with three moments of Kevin and Gretel arguing on consecutive days. The first two moments happen during battles against a villain, with the villain eventually interjecting, and Kevin and Gretel telling them to stay out of it. The third moment seemingly subverts this, with Kevin and Gretel arguing at a burger joint drive-through... until the shot zooms out to reveal that Kevin and Gretel had brought the villain with them, all tied up.

Close Shave

• Kevin has to do an oral book report on Sigmund Freud. As Kevin and Gretel leave for school, this exchange happens:
  Dave: I heard that Sigmund was a-Freud of the dark.
  Carolina: (stern) What did I tell you about puns before 9AM?
  Dave: That you love them?
  Carolina: (swooning) Exactamente.
• Not only is Van Dyke the only villain to figure out Gretel's Secret Identity, but the way he found out is as silly as the fact that no one else has figured it out: both of them are named Gretel, both of them have a pet hamster named Hamster and both of them are right handed.
  • It should be noted that both of them being right handed was Van Dyke's "Eureka!" Moment.

Cheer Cheer Bang Bang

• The reveal near the end that Fred was actually wearing a full-body cheerleader uniform with flesh-colored leggings and a wig underneath her usual attire. Naya lampshading everything that happened in this episode, including that part, with increasing disbelief really sells it.
  Naya: So the coach was hypnotising us to rob banks?
  Fred: Yep.
  Naya: And you were spying on us to find this out?
  Fred: That's right.
  Naya: And you apparently had pants that look like bare legs under your cheerleader outfit but over your regular clothes?
  Fred: Also correct.
  Naya: (Beat, quickly getting over it) I have no further questions.

La Ballad of La Cebolla

• La Cebolla's superpower is talking to onions. Sure, she's able to spin this into a roundabout, oddly specific type of Green Thumb superpower (which itself is pretty awesome), but the concept of talking to onions as a superpower sounds just as ridiculous as a hamster being given superpowers over a teenage boy (and given who exactly bestowed her with this specific superpower, that can't be a coincidence).

Comic Shop CopyCat

• As Kevin fibs to Hiromi about being no longer interested in Bullboy comics so he wouldn't be seen as a little kid, Gretel makes a face of disbelief to Kevin that one would think it's an inbetween frame of her sneezing, except she actually holds onto it without moving a single facial muscle. It looks incredulous, just like what she's hearing, and it's hilarious.

Neigh, It Ain't So!

• The Neighslayer as a concept is pretty hilarious: he's basically Thomas Sanders with a horse body as a party-going, deejaying frat boy. He's a literal party animal!
  • Neighslayer has kidnapped Hamster and plans to dump him in a vat of acid at his party... purely because Gretel told him not to steal apples. Apparently, he wasn't planning on being "super evil" that day, but got so offended at Gretel merely telling him off, that he decided to go the extra mile. He's that self-conceited and petty.
    • Too bad he forgot that, as Gretel herself points out during the rap battle, Hamster can fly and lowering the chain would've helped free him instead. Smart plan, Neighslayer.
• Gretel and Bailey find out where Neighslayer hosts his evil horse party (and thus where he keeps Hamster hostage), which is blatantly advertised on social media:
  Bailey: I can't believe they're advertising an illegal horse party.
  Gretel: Horses put too much on the internet.

Saturday Homecoming Fever

• This exchange...
  Gretel: (sighs) I can't wait to be a teenager.
  Hamster: Oh, that's not happening, we're a cartoon.
  Gretel: What?
  Hamster: Nothing!
• Naya is at it again, lampshading when FistPuncher and The Destructress tear off their disco outfits to reveal their supervillain costumes... and vice versa... and vice versa again.

Dr. Eelgood

• The episode opens on Gretel's class in front of a kraken attacking the city, and Bailey defeating it with a punch. It's soon revealed to be a VR game made by her dad. The big clue before this reveal? The teacher, Ms. Jamanpour, keeps walking into a lamppost like a video game character walking into a wall.
  Ms. Jamanpour: Ooh, this is fun! Oh, how do I turn around?
• This classic case of Tempting Fate:
  Dave: (whispering to Gretel) Wow, would hate to follow Roman.
  Ms. Jamanpour: And following Roman is Gretel's dad, Mr. Grant!
• The tenant at apartment 4B, Dr. Eelgood, is introduced as he monologues about the local aquarium firing him for embezzling the funds for research on sea lions, and him planning to use his giant mutant eel to take vengeance upon them. He then asks the question "Who's the insane one now?!"... then concludes he himself clearly is. Cue Evil Laugh.
• As Dave and Gretel arrive to fix Dr. Eelgood's fridge, he covers the tank with his eel with a tarp. Gretel immediately asks Eelgood what the tarp-covered thing is, with Eelgood replying that it's definitely not a galvanized tank with a monster eel CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR REVENGE!!
• After freezing the mutant eel, Hamster takes it and finds a place for it, flying through town as he gets called on his cellphone. Answering the call, the frozen eel accidentally slips out of his hands and breaks into pieces. He then returns to Gretel, as this exchange happens:
  Gretel: So, where did you take the eel?
  Hamster: ...Eel farm, upstate.
  Gretel: Oh, that's nice.

The Opposite of Smart

• Kevin takes Gretel to school with her art project, a house made of popsicle sticks. Gretel thanks him for helping her finish it, though Kevin corrects her that he basically did it all by himself while Gretel was signing autographs. Gretel defends herself by stating she had saved a bus full of kids and it'd be rude to just leave afterwards. Cut to a flashback, revealing that Gretel "saved" the bus at a daredevil course.

Birthday Besties

• On the way to Bailey's birthday party, Gretel asks why Kevin wrapped her tiny gift in a huge box, to which Kevin replies that their mom asked him to get rid of a bunch of boxes, and that he got creative with it. This later turns out to be a a perfect distraction to Bailey and the partygoers so Hamster, Gretel and Kevin can investigate, as Kevin's creative idea turns out to be nesting the boxes into each other.
• At Bailey's birthday party, Kevin tells Hamster and Gretel that, as he suggests they gather evidence on the party pooper, to just play it cool and not draw any attention on themselves... right as he was caught off-guard mid-sentence seeing his crush Hiromi at the party.
  Hamster: Yeah, your definition of cool and mine might be different.

I'm Bored

• Gretel quoting Shakespeare, or at least attempting to:
  Gretel: Life's but a walking shadow told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
  Kevin: Wow, you're really hanging out with Fred too much.
• Never say "I'm bored" when Carolina is in the house, need a reason why?
  Gretel: I'm so bored!
  (The words appear out of her mouth and floated towards the bedroom door, Hamster was worried)
  Kevin: (seeing the words) No! No, no, no, no! (to Gretel) What have you done?! (Kevin grabs Hamster and they jumped out the window just in time)
  (Carolina enters Kevin's room and turns on the lights)
  Carolina: You're bored? Let's fix that, shall we? (Hands the cleaning tools to Gretel) Come on, the bathroom's bored, too.
  Gretel: The whole bathroom?!
  Carolina: Every last tile. They're all bored. Now where's your brother? (a tumbleweed appears out of nowhere) Okay, it's just you. But first, clean up that tumbleweed. (Gretel groans in frustration)
  • This scene implies that this wasn't the first time that happened.
• The X-Terminator's goal to destroy the worlds most powerful rodent: Hamster.
  • The X-Terminator in general: his hatred specifically extends to rodents, and ONLY rodents. Anything else he seems pretty affable about. Here's a couple examples:
    • When trapping and sedating Hamster, he also did the same with Kevin by accident, who was with Hamster. Any regular villain would've kept Kevin hostage as well, but the X-Terminator dragged the unconscious Kevin back to the minivan, and left him an apology note that included a 20 dollar bill.
    • He also kidnapped and plotted to kill Stomps, the Rabbit Who Can Do Math (but doesn't show his work), because he thought he was the second most powerful rodent, and let him go after realizing that rabbits are lagomorphs.
• While investigating the warehouse, Hamster tells Kevin to "stay here, kid." Kevin takes full offense at being called a kid.
  Kevin: Kid?! I'm sixteen! By comparison, you're only a year and a half!
  • As the two are trapped in a cage and sedated by sleeping gas, X-Terminator appears to collect Hamster. Not expecting to see Kevin there, he asks who this random child is. Cue Kevin suddenly waking up to object at being called a kid, before losing conscience again.
• How did Gretel escape doing a long list of chores? Well, it's a tragic story:
  (While mowing the lawn, Gretel spells the word "HELP" while her mom was relaxing in the sun, later Dave comes outside yawning)
  Dave: Oh man, I am so bored.
  (This causes Carolina to wake up after hearing her husband saying he's bored)
  Carolina: (Dave looks at her in horror) You're bored? (to Gretel) Gretel, go play with your brother.
  Gretel: (running past her parents to find Kevin) FREEDOM!
  Carolina: (to Dave) The lawn needs mowing.

Cutie and the Beast

• Anything regarding Armor Suit Guy, aka Kevin wearing a suit of armor. Commissioned to a scrapyard welder as Kevin's take on himself as a superhero, the armor is Impossibly Tacky, and so heavy that it's impossible for Kevin to walk in it, essentially making the grappling hook installed on the abdomen required for mere movement. Very slow movement that scrapes on the pavement, at that.

The Nightmarionette

• At one point during her phone conversation with Kevin, Hiromi tells her guests to be quiet. Said guests are a troupe of anime mimes.
• The titular Nightmarionette is constantly mistaken to be a puppet, much to his chagrin, due to his name. Not just by Gretel, but also by Kevin and the police.
  • After Kevin makes Gretel laugh with Mr. Grumpypuss the sockpuppet, Nightmarionette gets confused and asks if Kevin is a puppet.
  • This gag cumulates in a slew of back-to-back Pinocchio references near the end of the episode, after the Nightmarionette crashes into a harp store in a historic district. This includes Hamster dressing up like Jiminy Cricket.
    Hamster: Yes, little Alfonso got his wish. But most importantly, Gretel learned that there's no problem that knocking a guy into a bunch of harps can't solve.
    Kevin: Wait, where did you get those clothes?
    Hamster: My costume change? That's what stretches your disbelief?
    Kevin: (after a Beat) Meh, fair enough.

Abuelita's World

• With Kevin and Gretel stuck doing chores thanks to Abuelita's stern rules, Kevin consoles Gretel that they at least have more fun than their parents at the North American Superintendent and Handyman Trade Convention. Dave and Carolina have the time of their lives doing all sorts of handyman-themed activities.
• Abuelita decides that Kevin and Gretel have earned a break, so she lets them watch her favorite novela with her. The novela she's watching is awfully familiar:
  Abuelita: This one is crazy. It's about an innocent brother and sister who are punished by a terrible old woman. (chuckles) She's my favorite.
• The villain for this episode is a giant baby who used to be a regular-sized adult and disgraced mayoral candidate named Bob Enfantiberg, who also just so happens to be the ex-boyfriend of the recurring reporter Veronica Hill. Given the kind of character she is, she obviously takes some potshots at the newly-titled Big Baby.
  • The reason how Bob Enfantiberg became Big Baby in the first place. For years, Bob had lost to younger, taller, cooler and non-balding mayoral candidates, and Veronica dumping him was the deciding factor for Bob to create a formula that makes him younger, taller, and have a head full of hair. Obviously, he became too young and too tall, though his hair remained the same.
  • After Big Baby has been dealt with, Veronica admits Bob had been more sensitive than she had remembered, before telling herself to not try this again. Looks like she'll be struggling on this subject for a while.
• Abuelita has discovered that Gretel has superpowers when the latter saves her from a falling news van Big Baby threw in the air earlier. Abuelita forgives Gretel and Kevin for keeping this a secret from her, and after Kevin states neither of their parents knows about this, Abuelita reveals a secret of her own that neither of their parents know about either... namely, that she was a go-go dancer before Carolina was born.
  Kevin: ...Things we didn't need to know.
  Gretel: Agreed.

U.F. UH-OH!

• During their vacation in Las Vegas, Dave and Carolina plan to relax the entire afternoon in the hotel's adult swimming pool... but throughout the episode, the two realize that the waterslide at the kiddie pool looks way more fun. Problem is, they cannot enter the kiddie pool without children, and they already separated ways with Kevin and Gretel, so they spend the second half of the episode trying to sneak in the kiddie pool in creative ways.
• Kevin is convinced that Wacko Wally will take him and Gretel to Area 51 so they can talk with the aliens. However, as they pass by Area 51, it's revealed that Wacko meant to take them to Area 50-1, which houses the Wally family's gift shop.
• After Wacko Wally drops off Gretel and a disappointed Kevin back at the wax museum, he notices a U.F.O. that should look familiar to the two siblings. His response?
  Wacko: (irritably at the U.F.O.) Aw, great timing! Thanks for making me look bad!
• As Gretel is abducted by the U.F.O., Kevin and Hamster are clueless what to do, with the only thing they have being a message the U.F.O. has written, J3Hound+Sit, which Kevin has taken a photo of. With Fred, they figure that it must be some secret code, with J3 being a map coordination that matches with a dog obedience school. They go there and tell the dogs to sit, but nothing happens. As Kevin is approached by a woman working there, he shows her the J3Hound+Sit message. She responds "Who the heck is FistPuncher?", revealing that the "secret code" is actually FistPuncher's name, written poorly and upside down.
• A powerless and trapped Gretel actually weaponizing the Annoying Younger Sibling trope against her captors, FistPuncher and the Destructress. Hilarious and awesome.
• As Kevin tries to control the U.F.O., Gretel shouts "DAM!" This is naturally mistaken for an Atomic F-Bomb.

Grounded

• Due to events of the last episode, Hamster, Gretel and Kevin are on high alert on U.F.O's, so when another possible U.F.O. sighting has been reported, Gretel is eager to check it out. As they're doing the dishes, Kevin notes that there have been false alarms before, with Hamster noting an oversized pie tin carried by the wind. Cut to a familiar farmer and his wife, with the farmer grounding said oversized pie tin with pegs.
  Farmer: I'm not letting you get away again, you flat piece of trash!
  • Of course, by the end of the episode, the pie tin drifts into the wind again.
    Farmer: (off-screen) THE DARN WIND TOOK THE PIE TIN AGAIN!
• Despite Carolina's warning that she must do the dishes today, Gretel takes a break as she and Hamster go investigate the aforementioned sighting. As they find the object, Gretel is confident that it is a U.F.O., as it even features those letters... but it's a blimp that reads "United Financial Offices: Taxes Done Slowly" instead.
  • Gretel figures that maybe they're overreacting and that the aliens that gave them superpowers aren't doing crazy, impulsive things, so they fly home. Then it's revealed that their U.F.O. just so happens to be flying behind the blimp — and guess what they're planning to do?
    Male alien: Let's do something crazy and impulsive!
• Gretel is grounded for the weekend, but some monster also just so happens to be attacking the Old Appaloosa Campground since last night. Gretel figures that maybe she could fight the monster from her window, but how is she going to get to the campground without leaving her room? Simple: let Hamster carry the entire apartment complex to the campground.
• Mrs. Maybank also just so happens to be leaving for her optometrist appointment, right as the apartment is being carried by Hamster. Mrs. Maybank is in shock... because she forgot her wallet, as she runs back in the apartment, seemingly not noticing the fact that the house is flying. This happens two more times.
  • The apartment complex is returned to its original place as Mrs. Maybank is finally ready to leave for her appointment... then she realizes her appointment is actually tomorrow.

Sleepover with the Enemy

• Poor Roman had been overworking himself to get a new game, The Ocean But With Monsters, finished. So much that he mistakenly gave Bailey a bag of miscellaneous stuff (a couple of thumbtacks, a postage stamp, and a note on how to change oil) instead of her lunch bag, and that Bailey caught him sleep-standing.
• Kevin badly wants to get the limited edition of The Ocean But With Monsters — so much that he set up camp in front of the video game store inside the mall. Fred thinks it's weird, and as Kevin wants to object, a boy and girl cosplaying as a sailor and monster show up and get in the role of Star-Crossed Lovers.

Friday Night Fright

• Kevin is surprised that Fred doesn't want to come to this night's Grant-Gomez family game night, considering she loved it the last time. Cut to a flashback of last time, showing a Game Night Fight between the entire family (even Churro), with the exception of a very disinterested Fred and Hamster.
• As Kevin taunts Gretel that she never won a family game night, she proceeds to punch Kevin right through four walls. This turns out to be a fantasy playing in Gretel's head.
  Kevin: Are you fantasizing about punching me through four walls again?
  Gretel: Maybe.
• Fred and Hiromi want to investigate the school gymnasium to see what "evil scheme" Principal Funderberk is hiding there, so Hiromi decides to use a bobby pin to pick the lock. When asked when she learned to pick locks, Hiromi says she got it from Juvie... as in Juvie Davis. Her dad is a locksmith.
• When Gretel lands on the "Truth or Dare" space, she's asked to tell the last time she lied to her mom. Gretel then tells Carolina she never lied to her... only to then say that was the last lie she told to her. The screen transition shows a picture of Gretel giving us a smug look.

The Earworm

• What was assumed to be a large cobra, turns out to be The Earworm's costume that is really on the nose: he's dressed in a green onesie with only one, overly long pantleg resembling a worm's tail, and a pink, overly large collar resembling an ear. Even his jingle points out that it's on the nose.
  • The suit is also very impractical to move in. When Hamster and Gretel finally snap out of his control, The Earworm makes a run for it... by shimmying very slowly. He's easily stopped by standing on his tail pantleg.
    Gretel: Yeah, I don't think punching is necessary here.
• Kevin is surprised Gretel will do chores for The Earworm without question, when he can never get her to listen to him. When trying to get Gretel to snap out of the Earworm's hypnosis as he commands them to drop him and Fred, Kevin tells her to do the same thing with the Earworm as when Kevin tells her something to do, to the pint that he tell her to pretend the Earworm is Kevin.
  Fred: That's just sad.
• There's also Dave and Carolina's side story where they argue about the lyrics to their favorite song. With some of the lyrics Carolina says is Eyes Hook a dove and warts on a person's eyes. There's even one lyrics in a song that makes Dave declare that if the Song writer said that in the song, that person would be in jail.
  • The argument ends when Kevin points out they could look up the song lyrics on the internet. As it turns out that all the Lyrics Carolina's been listing off are actually the right lyrics.

A Mammoth Problem

• Taunted by Nordle, Gretel decides to find something that is the exact opposite of a baking soda volcano as a science project: in this case, an iceberg chunk. As Nordle's project accidentally melts the iceberg to reveal a woolly mammoth, Gretel states her actual project is the mammoth. As the mammoth rampages around the science fair and gets a part of Nordle's project that shoots lasers wrapped around its tusks, Gretel then claims her actual actual project is this laser mammoth. Cue a commercial for the laser mammoth.
  Commercial: Laser mammoth! Now no longer extinct.
• Before Nordle activates his science projects, he states "Let's make some fusion", then warns that no one else can say it since he trademarked that phrase. Gretel then mockingly repeats "Let's make some fusion", with Nordle warning her she'll hear from his lawyer. At the end of the episode, a lawyer indeed comes Gretel's way to state she's being sued for trademark infringement, before Nordle tells him they worked it out.
• The farmer and his wife from Phineas and Ferb return, with the wife once again arguing to the farmer, this time for making a mammoth theme park without any mammoths... right as Gretel brings the mammoth to them.

The Bantam of the Elementary School Light Opera

• If there's one thing Gretel has in common with Anne Boonchuy, it's disastrous experiences with acting.
  Gretel: (flashes back to when she performed in a play about healthy eating dressed in a ham costume, sounding rather stilted) I am a ham! Hams are an important source of...whoa...(stumbles, then trips into a girl in a broccoli costume, which causes her to fall on a giant prop spatula, which launches two other kids into the "eat healthy" sign causing it to collapse and one kid lands on the stage lights, crashing them down. Soon enough, a curtain is set aflame.) Uh, protein.
  Governor: (seemingly not even noticing the disaster that just unfolded) That performance was flat and unconvincing. Cut the school's art budget, now!
  • Naturally, the disastrous play left Gretel traumatized. So when Miranda quits her lead role as the Viking Queen, Bailey suggests Gretel to take over, and Hiromi agreeing upon the suggestion, Gretel is hesitant. As she thinks back of her last time as actress, she... stares in the distance, floating ham Gretels clouding her mind.
    • Writer Alex Estrada shared an alternate pitch for this particular scene which has to be heard. Instead of floating ham Gretels, this pitch places Gretel as a literal Shell-Shocked Veteran, as it appears to pay full homage to Platoon, complete with Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings playing in the background, multiple fired gunshots, and even an excerpt from a speech of Lyndon B. Johnson.
• Kevin's basic solution for props not looking like what they need to be? Just wrap it in duct tape!
  • The cannon prop goes missing minutes before the Vikings of Venzance play begins. Hiromi's solution? Wrap Kevin in duct tape and have him play the cannon.
• The costumes for the Vikings of Venzance play have arrived... but they're astronaut costumes instead of viking costumes. Hiromi asks Kevin what happened. Cue a commercial for Frank's Discounted Discount Costumes, in which Frank addresses this.
  Frank: Need costumes for a play? Come to Frank's Discounted Discount Costumes! I've got what you need, or maybe I don't! But I promise you'll get something in a box!
  Jingle: Frank's Discounted Discount Costumes! You'll get something in a box!
  • Not much later, Bailey notes that the costumes smell like onions. There's a commercial of Frank's Discounted Discount Costumes that addresses this, as well.
    Frank: I'm not saying that your costume's gonna smell like onions, but it's probably gonna smell like onions!
    Jingle: Frank's Discounted Discount Costumes! They may smell like onions!
• Due to the predicament listed above, Hiromi decides that the play should take place in space now, leading to the following exchange.
  Kevin: Oh, cool! I can duct tape the backdrop to look like the moon.
  Fred: And I can spend four hours redoing the sound cues to make them more science fiction-y.
  Hiromi: Awesome! Let's get to work! (walks away)
  Fred: ...I'm not changing the sound cues.
• Christine DePoulet had decided to disappear and start a new life as the Bantam of the Opera, to the point that she now lives under the school theater and apparently has eloped with a cardboard cutout of a man, which she had named Jerry.
  Hamster: Hey, Kevin. This is Jerry.
  Kevin: Uh... hi, Jerry.
  Hamster: He can't hear you, he's cardboard.

Hamnesia

• While looking for Hamster, Gretel and Kevin come across the elderly chess players Clyde and Andrew. Clyde recognizes the Hamster and suggests checking the Riff Van Winkle's jazz club, stating he plays there every week, much to Kevin and Gretel's surprise. Andrew then think he "must have that disease that hamsters make play piano", to which Clyde chides no such disease exists.
• The siblings' next stop after the jazz club is Gallery Aubergine, as Hamster has paintings by him hanging there. There, Kevin sees a more abstract, postmodern-style portrait of himself crying. He's driven to tears about it.
  Kevin: He knows... my pain...
• "I'm just a dork and mustard sandwich; like the school counselor said."
• After Hamster's amnesia is cured, and The Imposter has been dealt with, Gretel is so relieved to see Hamster being okay and tell him to never do that again:
  Hamster: You mean get amnesia and get abducted by a grown man disguised as a kid? Okay, I'll avoid that. Neither of you is gonna unzip your skin, are you?
  Kevin and Gretel: No, we're good.

Romancing the Scone

• When cutting to Gretel's class, Ms. Jamanpour just finished explaining why a book is called a "book" instead, of all things, a "lawnmower". She then proceeds to pair the students for their book reports at random, because Life Isn't Fair.
• Kevin has to take Hamster to the vet, to which Hamster is very afraid of for some inexplicable reason:
  • Kevin points out that Hamster doesn't look very scared. Hamster claims that humans are unperceptive, and shows his calm face and terrified face back-to-back. It's constantly the same, emotionless face.
  • Kevin tries word association with Hamster to get him out of his fear for the vet. But with every word Kevin says, Hamster replies with "mosquito". When Kevin asks why that's the case, Hamster says Kevin's got a mosquito on his face. Hamster was actually just messing with him again.
  • The vet finally is ready to check up on Hamster. She picks up Hamster and examines him for only a second, before revealing he's fine, then leaves. Then she comes back that this will cost them $200.
• Using her super-hearing, Gretel overhears that Professor Exclamation wants Nordle to eat the evil-induced scone so they can be evil together. Wanting to stop this, Gretel needs to distract Tobor, and asks him if they have oat milk instead of regular milk for her cereal. Since Professor Exclamation told Tobor to give her whatever she wants, Tobor says he'll go to the minimart to get some, but also asks if there's anything else he needs to get, as he rants that he does not want this thing to happen when he comes back with the milk, and it's like "Tobor, we're out of laundry detergent."
  • The fact that this killer robot that only minutes ago was attacking Gretel and Nordle to retrieve evil energy from Nordle's backpack doubles as a regular servant that can go grocery shopping like a normal human being.
• In the end, Nordle rejects the evil scone and destroys it. Professor Exclamation makes the ominous declaration that he renounces Nordle and forbids his name to ever be uttered in his home... before asking to pick him up at 5 after soccer while patting his head.
  • He also ominously warns Gretel to not tell anyone about what happened here... or she won't be able to stay for dinner and taste his wonderful soufflé.

For Whom the Belle Trolls

• As much as it hurts to see the entire city turn against Hamster and Gretel due to a few videos from Belle, it is kinda funny that said videos contain the most amateurish, cheaply edited, and obviously fake footage ever, and yet they just believe in it.
• A running gag of Bailey attempting to explode after seeing Belle's videos, but the third time that happened, she tried to do it after Superhero Gretel hugs her.
• While thinking of a way to hack into Belle's account to expose the videos, Bailey decides to call in the calvary and we get this exchange:
  Bailey: I'm president of the Hamster and Gretel fan club, and none of those guys believe any of this malarkey!
  Fred: Malarkey?
  Bailey: Get over it.

An Arthouse Divided

• Arthouse remembers how his hatred for the Larry the Magic Boy movie franchise started, like it was three months ago. Cue Flashback, with a caption stating "TWO MONTHS AGO (HIS MEMORY IS REALLY BAD)".
  • Arthouse in general is pretty affable and harmless compared to most villains in the show (especially compared to villain from the last episode): yeah, he traps an entire room of moviegoers and forces them to sit through his four-hour pretentious movie, but that's also pretty much the only thing he wants from this.
    Arthouse: And with Larry the Magic Boy movie and you out of the way, there's nothing to stop me!
    Gretel: From what, destroying Hollywood? World domination?
    Arthouse: No, I just want people to watch my movie.

The Litigator vs. The Luchador

• Noting Melissa's unusual behavior when she suddenly leaves, Carolina suggests to follow her like spies. Dave adds "like handsome, dangerous spies", which Carolina immediately accepts without question.
  Carolina: Kids, your dad and I are going to follow your aunt like handsome, dangerous spies.
  • Dave is fully committed to the "handsome, dangerous spies" bit. When Carolina spies at Melissa in the Fancy Pants clothing store, he calls for her attention when finding a fedora
    Dave: (wearing fedora) Honey, look! Handsome and dangerous!
    Female background singers: Daaaaaaave!
  • Upon leaving the store, the two encounter a platypus statue. As Dave attempts to put the fedora on the platypus, Carolina chides him.
    Carolina: Stop bucking for a crossover.

Strawberry Fest Forever

• As Gretel and Carolina are at the Strawberry Festival, and Kevin and Dave leave to fix some things at Mrs. Maybank's apartment, Hamster reveals his day is pretty packed, too. He gets the to-do list on his phone. All it says is "wheel" and "nap".
  Hamster: ...Eh.
• After Carolina and Gretel leave the Balloon Carnage of Death stand, an old lady passes by, as she grabs the flamethrower and burns all the balloons while laughing with glee. The poor carny operating the stand (who previously almost got hit by axes when Carolina threw them all at once) laments that he should've stayed in high school as he nearly gets burned as well.
  • Balloony makes a cameo at the Balloon Carnage of Death stand as well. As he pops during the fiery carnage, a distraught Dr. Doofenshmirtz expectedly appears behind the old lady.
• Initially, Dave and Kevin are ready to fix whatever was broken at Mrs. Maybank's apartment, but Mrs. Maybank offers them to drink tea with her first and talk about themselves. Eventually, Dave and Kevin are so invested in Mrs. Maybank's past that it's all they're talking about when they're back home.
• At the end of the episode, it appears that Jeff Strawberry had followed Gretel and Carolina home. As Dave asks who he is, a song plays parodying a '90s sitcom, explaining that he's going to live in their garage and effectively becoming part of the family. And that he's a genie now.
  Dave: (after a Beat) ...Yeah, we're not gonna do that.

The Bottle Episode

• Tchotchke Jones is under the impression that the mask he made to conceal his identity looks pretty good, while nearly everyone else is under the agreement that it looks terrible. So as Hamster, Gretel and Kevin constantly berate the mask as they're looking for the thief that wore it, Tchotchke tries so, so hard to not snap at them
• Upon being shrunk inside the bottle with The Muddy Bess, Hamster and Gretel's superpowers were tiny-fied in the process. When trying to contact Fred with his phone, he learns his phone signal is tiny-fied too.
  Kevin: And of course, I can't call her. Teeny-weeny phone means teeny-weeny signal.
  Hamster: Please stop saying teeny-weeny.
• Trying to get Fred's attention, Hamster, Gretel and Kevin use The Muddy Bess to create steam so they can write a message in the fogged-up bottle. But not only does Fred not get the message, but the trio managed to create a literal storm in a bottle in the process.
  Hamster:All right, let's not get dramatic.
  (Thunder and lightning emerge behind him.)
  Hamster: (to the thunderstorm behind him) WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!
• Gretel then gets the idea to make the storm even stronger, so that the cork on the bottle can pop off and they can get out. Kevin incredulously asks if her plan is seriously to create a hurricane in the bottle while they're still trapped in there, and when Gretel confirms... he concurs, as they got nothing to lose.
  • Hamster isn't quite convinced yet, as he suggests that they should accept their fate and start their new lives as a barbershop quartet. When Kevin notes there's only three of them, Hamster begrudgingly complies to Gretel's plan.
• Cutting back to Hamster, Gretel and Kevin, who are in a heavy hurricane as Kevin desperately tries to take control of the boat, bursting out this line:
  Kevin: Tell Hiromi I love her! On second thought, I know it's a little early, so just tell her that I'm interested in dating her!
• In the end, Fred reveals she noticed Hamster, Gretel and Kevin stuck in the bottle like five minutes ago, but decide to not tell anything for the sake of milking suspense.

Micromanager

• Kevin gets a job at Short Burger. He notes to his parents that it's a "super selective process". Cut to a flashback of the job interview:
  Interviewer: Are you human?
  Kevin: Yeah.
  Interviewer: Well, you're hired.
  • This is followed by the same interviewer apologizing the the candidates behind Kevin... two dogs in a trench coat. Their expressions and the captions translating their barking reveal they're notably pissed.
    Brown dog (captions): "Humans get all the jobs! We'll be peeing in your hallway now."
• Kevin meets his colleague at Short Burger, Anthony, as the two make it clear to each other they compete for Employee of the Month.
  Kevin: Uh, no offense, but I'm gonna wipe the floor with you.
  Anthony: Don't take this personally, but I'mma wipe the sink with you, and then shave your head, paint you blue, and leave you in the polar bear enclosure at the zoo.
  (Beat)
  Kevin: Dude.

When Life Gives You Lemons

• Bailey is pissed about all the changes Nordle made to their lemonade stand and their lemonade recipe, and when Gretel is willing to concede with Nordle as the changes make them more money than previously, Bailey leaves, stating she's going to start up her own lemonade stand. Nordle tells Gretel that Bailey has to cease and desist since the girls signed a non-compete clause. This comes back at the end of the episode, when the same lawyer from "A Mammoth Problem" delivers a cease and desist letter to Bailey, before Nordle has to stop him again.
• The giant lemon that Nordle provided is rolling through town, so Fred gets a news notification of it. Fred groans, hoping it's a typo. After seeing the giant lemon, she declares it was a typo - her notification said "melon".

Self-HEELP!

• At the positivity seminar, Charlie explains that it has always been his, and mankind's, dream to fly. So, he has experimented with goose DNA for years, resulting in him having grown goose wings on his butt. Too bad that he doesn't appreciate being the butt of the joke, though.
• Kevin, Gretel and Hamster watch Dave and Carolina tend their garden. Since they don't hear anything while inside the house, Kevin suggests to add their own dialogue. When they do so, a couple of geese that Charlie riled up attack the parents, but that doesn't stop the kids.
  Kevin: (as Dave) I'm an adult; I like dirt!
  Hamster: (as goose) I'm a goose; I want your dirt!
  Gretel: (as Carolina) ¡Ay caramba! Leave the dirt alone!
  Hamster: (as goose) Dirt is free, woman! Free!

My Invisible Friend

• Apparently, Mr. Hardy, the CEO and founder of the company that produces Invisible Ink, always keeps a hexavalent lamp in his desk because the company accountant, Melvin, tends to spill the ink over himself and his desk by accident.
• The reveal of the Rat Burglar being the mother of Bailey's rival Xavier. Just the idea that this woman, a skilled and crafty criminal, was committing various thefts across the city purely to help her young son cheat at elementary school competitions.
• In their second fight, Rat Burglar dumps herself in invisible ink as well to make it difficult for the also invisible Gretel to fight her. Gretel manages to hit her every time anyways, because she simply followed Rat Burglar's voice.
• Bailey’s reaction to finally discovering that her best friend is her favourite superhero? Faint in shock.
  • We also have Gretel's nervous smile while saying "I can explain?". After Bailey faints, Gretel says that they'll talk later.

The Bitter Sitter

• After Bailey sees Gretel transform into her superhero self and promptly fainted in the previous episode, Gretel attempts to damage-control the situation as soon as Bailey regains consciousness. She's not doing a good job.
  Gretel: Bailey, are you okay? You just had the craziest dream where I was a superhero!
  Bailey: How do you know what I dreamt?
  Gretel: Um...
  Bailey: Gretel, you're still in your super suit.
  Gretel: (quickly transforms into her casual outfit) No, I'm not.
• Kevin gets dragged to attend an interactive murder mystery theater with his and Gretel's, and Bailey's, parents. Except the "murder mystery theater" is very clearly a pretense by the host to get a bunch of strangers to come to his house, do all his chores and fix all his appliances for him, and pay him twenty bucks a pop for it. And not only Kevin the only one who notices, but when he points it out to everyone Carolina still suggests they go back next week.
• While scene transitions with constantly varying imagery is par of the course, the the one after Kevin refuses to "investigate" the litter box stands out, as the image being used isn't just a cat in a litter box... it's photorealistic!

Let's Sea What You've Got

• When Gary, the lifeguard at the lagoon, tries to report to his boss about the infestations of moss, sea slugs and sea urchins, his boss can't seemingly remember him at all, despite having hired him two days ago. Gary becomes increasingly more frustrated and panicked as the boss guesses other lifeguards' appearances but his, instead of doing something about the infestations.

Churro's Day Out

• The episode begins with Dave giving an overly dramatic apology... to Churro. For leaving for a couple of hours.
• As soon as the family leaves to get their family portrait done, Hamster immediately puts on some music by activating hidden speakers and a disco ball, and having a one-person dance party.
  Hamster: When the family is away, the hamster... will sashay.
• Raúl the photographer has a long list of rules and guidelines... 471, to be exact. And he's a perfectionist, so some of these guidelines can range from pretty normal to overly strict to borderline insane.

Crimson Haste Makes Waste

• Turns out the producers of Mustanchup aren't satisfied by the commercial contest entries, so they decide to make Mustanchup an engine coolant like they initially intended.

The Break-Stuff Club

• The names one of the members of the Break-Stuff Club is Chad No Last Name.
• Kevin attempts to be a bad boy in order to get Saturday detention. Nearly all of his attempts during the song actually become beneficial and are being praised.
• The Break-Stuff Club aren't a rowdy trio of delinquents after all, but a group of art enthusiasts. Why are they called the Break-Stuff Club, then? Because they plan stuff during breaks.
• The Break-Stuff Club have a lot of respect for Hiromi. Joe in particular was taught by her how to read. Cue flashback of Hiromi and Joe as young kids:
  Hiromi: Oh, here's the problem, Joe. You gotta open the book first.
  Joe: I've been doing it all wrong!
  (Hiromi gives an incredulous look at Joe as he begins reading the book)
• The real culprit behind the defacing of Hiromi's mural is Bob Cashwell, the person that invested in the mural in the first place. His reasoning behind it is that he would gain millions in insurance. Keep in mind that he sponsored the mural because of its extremely low cost.
  Gretel: You insured a high school mural? We've heard a lot of bad guy plots, but that is by far the dumbest!
  Cashwell: Makes sense; we're not a good bank.

Over the Hill

• Kevin and Hamster need haircuts, so they go to a human-and-pet barbershop named Coifs by Cassoulet. The pets in question are all dogs, and thus Hamster is identified by the barber, Jacques Cassoulet, as a bichon frise.

The Ice Queen Cometh

• Hamster, Gretel and Kevin find the source of Inga's freezing ice: a mysterious compound she has excavated, which she calls Eïysze. It's pronounced the exact same as "ice", confusing Hamster and Gretel; cue Psmith Psyndrome argument.
• After this whole adventure, Kevin and Gretel have enough of ice cream and now crave a bowl of hot soup. Cut to the other side of the street, as a trendy soup parlor has just opened, and its proprietor (with a heavy East-European accent) only lets in people she considers the hottest. Here We Go Again...
  Hamster: ...this town, man.

La Sombrerona

• When Hamster and Gretel remove all five of La Sombrerona's hats it reveals a radio antenna coming out of her head which causes her to remark that she looks crazy now. The fact that having five hats ontop of each other was normal to her gives this response from Hamster:
  Hamster: Yeah 'cause those five hats were totally fire.
• Kevin for the most of the episode tries to beat a five-year-old at a carnival game. To the point Kevin states that this is rigged. Earning this response from the lady:
  Carnival Employee: It's a carnival, everything is rigged.

Two Girls, A Guy and the Council of Düm

• The Counil of Düm has had an anonymous vote on what to eat: three votes for pizza, and one for burgers. The Earworm suggests another recount, clearly not satisfied with the results.
  • What's even funnier: that was the third recount, for a vote with only four participants. Even Professor Exclamation thinks it's ridiculous to recount a fourth time.

Nano a Nano

The Unnatural History of Dr. MedusaSaurus Ph.D.

• Gretel needs a magnet to disable the dinosaur skeletons attacking them. There's an electromagnet on display, but the battery is a mock-up, and they need a real one. Hamster quickly flies off and retrieves a car battery, claiming that "I know a guy." Cut to Kevin stranded in the middle of the freeway holding up traffic, complaining that the minivan's battery is gone.
  • At the end of the episode, Gretel asks where Kevin is. Cut back to him still stranded on the highway, ordering a pizza.

No Sprain, No Gain

• During this episode Kevin is bedridden due to a sprained ankle from tripping on an ottoman while playing VR. Kevin remarks that the ottoman has had it out for him for years. Which leads to Kevin noticing it outside. Hamster reveals he put it out there to mess with Kevin.
  Hamster(As the Ottoman): Kevin, I've come back to finish the job!
  Kevin: Hamster! I know it's you!
• We then get into the villain of the episode. Her name is Itsy Bitsy, a spider themed jewel thief who shoots webs from her armpits. The name is just a nursery rhyme, and while she's continuing to web up Hamster, Gretel and Fred, she offhandedly mentions that Itsy Bitsy wasn't her first choice. Apparently there's other villain/heroes themed after spiders.
  • It's even more funnier when you realized Phineas and Ferb crossed over with Marvel.

Finding Professor Ex

• Kevin worries that he and Fred are too dependent on electronics. Hamster thinks that's silly, then gets a call on his cell phone, converses with the caller and asks for pics. He then says that it was a wrong number.
  • The Idiosyncratic Wipes afterwards show the pictures in question — a selfie of Candace and Stacy.
• Without electronic devices to distract them, Fred writes a novel, Kevin measures the Earth's circumference using a pendulum and a packet of mustard, and Hamster achieves enlightenment after three hours of meditation... which takes the form of him imagining a giant hamburger with a pizza on top. He finds it anticlimactic.
  • The trio are about to achieve cold fusion when Carolina arrives to watch her favorite telenovela, Passion de Espárragos. As soon as the TV is on, they all zone out watching it.
• Turns out Professor Exclamation bought his exclamation hat at a store that specializes in punctuation-themed hats. After getting information from the clerk, Gretel and Torbo each get one.

Bayou Barb

The Great Pillow War

Shush Hour

I Was a Teenage Mad Scientist

• When Professor Exclamation discovers that the unbendium he's after is buried under his alma mater and that it happens to be the night of the school reunion, he complains that only an idiot (or two) could have conceived of such a Contrived Coincidence. Cue writers credit.

Too Many Crooks

President Fred

Flake It Til You Make It

Game Changer

Exclamation Strikes Back

• When Gretel excitedly lists all the things they've saved the city from in past episodes, Hamster adds the time when they fought an evil sentiment fungus. Cue cutaway to Hamster and Gretel hanging upside down while a talking wall of mold pushes his screenplay on them.
  Hamster: That guy would not shut up.
• We end up learning just how much of a complex Professor Exclamation has about his lack of elbows when he repeatedly emphasizes the fact that his giant robot suit has elbows.
• What do The Destructress and FistPuncher get out of helping Professor Exclamation? Secaucus New Jersey.
  FistPuncher: The Jewel of the Metal Land? Score!

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