Heartwarming / Fillmore!

"I woulda been here earlier, but I was busy trying to clear a friend's name."

• A general one for Vallejo: his officers are clearly his responsibility and it's clear that he'll do everything in his power to see to their well-fare.
• Another general one, for the patrol as a whole: it's clear that the team has a family dynamic and while there's teasing thrown around, especially in O'Farrell's direction, it's clearly meant to be sibling banter and when actual cruelty gets thrown in the mix (see Horace very deliberately and openly belittling O'Farrell for his own amusement), there's a very clear "Leave them alone" vibe, even if nothing is said.
• A pre-series one: Wayne was the first person to look at Fillmore and see someone with potential and a need for a hand extended in welcome. Wayne extended that hand by offering to let Fillmore help the patrol with a case in exchange for avoiding detention, which proved the catalyst for not only Fillmore's Heel–Face Turn but also a treasured friendship.
• It’s subtle, but at the start of “To Mar a Stall,” Fillmore and Ingrid are checked by Randall Julian’s security guard for drawing implements. When he questions Ingrid on whether she has lipstick or eyeliner on her person, Fillmore promptly cuts in and calls him out on the double standard. This being the pilot episode, Fillmore establishes a Big Brother Instinct towards Ingrid.
• The end of "Red Robins Don't Fly":
  Malika: You could have been a part of the greatest organization in the school!
  Ingrid: (putting on her sash) I already am.
• Principal Folsom of all people, pays for the metal working teacher's dog to have its hip replacement. Though of course she denies it.
  • After Filmore realizes what Folsom has done, he stops by and leaves an apple for her as a token of thanks. She takes it.
• It's nice to see O'Farrell getting some credit for once in Masterstroke of Malevolence. Namely, when Fillmore, Ingrid, and O'Farrell's class goes on a field trip, O'Farrell is depressed because his replacement on the safety patrol for the day is a simple tripod. Later on while they're trying to solve the case, Fillmore realizes that O'Farrell might've gotten a picture of the culprit when he dropped his camera. The museum tells them that they don't have any film development supplies, but O'Farrell reveals he can develop it using a few household ingredients they do have and does so with time to spare.
  Fillmore: A tripod couldn't represent like you just did, O'Farrell. Remember that.
• Ingrid's introduction to the show, where she says if just one person had been nice to her by two pm, she wouldn't have confessed to doing something she didn't do. Fillmore would've been there sooner, but he was busy trying to clear a friend's name.
  • The scene at the end with Wayne and his new partner Emily who look to have the dynamic Fillmore and Ingrid develop. Too bad about Emily being driven out of the school by "South of Friendship, North of Honor".
• Upon hearing that there is a plot to steal the results of a test paper, the resident X Middle School Maths teacher leaves the test result answers in her drawer, unlocked, and announces it to the class, because she's so convinced of her students' good judgement. She was almost wrong, but the kids who planned the theft had a change of heart at the last minute.
• In "Foes Don't Forgive", the reason that Linus's Lovely Assistant Rita is so obsessed with glitter is because she is in love with Linus and he told her that glitter makes her face "shine brighter than a thousand starry nights".
  • After Rita confesses to having helped sabotage his act in exchange for top-of-the-line glitter, tearfully insisting that if she had known the full scope of the plan, she'd have refused, Linus assures her that her eyes always sparkle, with or without glitter while embracing her.
• In "South of Friendship, North of Honor", Wayne has been broken by whatever caused Emily to transfer out and is rebroken when the Safety Patrol leader at his new school kicks him off the squad for snooping at Fillmore's suggestion. What breaks him out of his Heroic Blue Screen of Death? Fillmore in trouble.
• In "Field Trip of the Just":
  • A suspect named Eric hangs around with a pair of juvenile delinquents named Sanjay and Dimitri. Eric is a straight-A student who loves animals but hides it out of fear that he'll lose his only friends. When the truth is revealed by the end, not only are Sanjay and Dimitri okay with Eric being a straight-A student, but they request tutoring from him personally so they can be better students too.
  • Although Eric acts put off by Alexandria flirting with him in the opening scene, he seems to like her back after all, given how he tries to take the blame for her actions to save her from being punished and seems sympathetic after her confession.
• In "The Nineteenth Hole is A Shallow Grave", Fillmore calls up the mini golf club for two reasons. A) Making amends by returning the clubs and trophies he won off of them during his delinquent days and B) To play a friendly game of golf.
• In "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes" Valejo hiring Frank Bishop at the end to make up for not standing up for him before.
  • There's also the fact that when Frank realized just what kind of danger the culprit had in store for Valejo (namely locking him in an ice castle until the ceremony was over), he immediately throws away his resentment to rescue his former partner despite having worked out that his sister was behind it.
• In "Links in a Chain of Honor", the strained but clearly close relationship between Oscar and Tracy has some cute moments, with Tracy even noting that the student magazine recently named them best siblings.
• In “The Unseen Reflection” when Terri confesses that she sabotaged her and Tori’s contest submission to stay out the yet to be published and badly written Vampirita book. Not only does she go unpunished, but Tori shows that she values her friendship with Terri more than the Vampirita books and forgives her.
  • Furthermore, even though their fan clubs are often at each other’s throats Citizen Fang club president T.Q. sympathizes with Terri’s motivations for sabotaging the Vampirita statue, and true to his word, he keeps his promise not to admit what he knows-at least until Fillmore and Ingrid figure out everything.
  • Later after everything is brought to light, a blossoming friendship between Tori and T.Q. is implied as he suggests that the Vampirita fan club join the Citizen Fang fan club for a nearby convention.
• In "A Dark Score Evened", it's briefly mentioned that fashion-obsessed Alpha Bitch and Mean Boss Fiona and her Beleaguered Assistant Becca avoid using fur or other animal products in the clothing they wear and design.
  • During the climax, Fillmore reinforces what he demonstrated in the opening scene, that all students at X are his responsibility and he won't let them get hurt if he can help it; this includes talking the Bully Hunter crew down from their revenge scheme before they can destroy their futures.
  • When Fillmore goes out of his way to return Rochelle's stolen bandana to her after the case is solved, she sincerely thanks him for this, even sharing why she's so attached to the accessory, and also for solving the case.
• "Nappers Never Sleep", with it's Central Theme of friendship, has several of these, between the friendship between the victim and the Girl Next Door as well as the subplot about Fillmore and Ingrid realizing they had been partners for a long time but didn't really know much about each other, culminating in a great exchange at the end after Fillmore invites Ingrid to Sunday dinner at his house:
  Ingrid: You told your folks you were bringing your partner
  Fillmore: No, I told them I was bringing my friend. The way this whole Duappy thing went down... Well, I can see that best friends aren't that easy to find."