It's Culture Day at Camp Campbell, and the kids find themselves drawn to Neil's Jewish ancestry. Neil gets carried away with the story of Hanukkah. Meanwhile, David tries to get everything ready for the big Culture Day feast!
Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch: When the camp starts fawning Neil and his Hanukkah display, Dolph seems to not like this, which makes the other campers become uneasy. But then Dolph says that he loves it, which makes everyone else sigh with relief.
- Classified Information: Ered claims her family culture is this, probably because both of her dads are FBI agents.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: Used deliberately and Played for Laughs. The Flower Scouts don't really do anything (in this episode, anyway) to deserve being robbed of their food supplies and terrorized by the platypus. Regardless, the episode frames Gwen and the Quartermaster as the heroes for pulling off their scheme, since it leads to a happy ending for Camp Campbell. The shadiness of the whole thing gets duly lampshaded at the end when David resolves not to question how the camp ended up with a massive Culture Day feast.David: I can't believe a single can of Sham managed to make all this amazing food! It really is a Culture Day miracle! (Beat) Yep! A real miracle! With no shady occurrence to get to the bottom of!
- Randomly Reversed Letters: The big sign for Culture Day has the r reversed.
- Shout-Out: When Neil started exaggerating the story of Hannukah, he borrowed references to many other pop culture works. Specific works are Game of Thrones, the Infinity Gauntlet and the Decepticons.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: When talking about how “Judas Macabee” did all the wonderful deeds for Hanukkah such as shooting molten gold out of his fingertips, Dolph says aloud that this must be why gold coins are used in that holiday. Neil goes with that to add with his lies.
- Way Past the Expiration Date: The sham that Gwen used to disrupt the Flower Scouts enjoying their time at the spa is shown to have expired in 1980.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Played with. The other campers aren't impressed when adults on Hanukkah hand out gold coins, but approve of them just being gold-wrapped chocolate.
