Slay Bells
"Nothing like a sleigh ride to start the holidays off with a bang!"
On the eve of Eekmas, Camp Lakebottom awaits the arrival of Rumple Krumple Klaus.Tropes:
- Ash Face: This happens to Sawyer when he lights the fireworks on the sled McGee and Gretchen are riding on. He then disintegrates into a pile of ash with only his eyes still intact.
- Chekhov's Gun: The fireworks McGee gets excited about at the beginning of the episode are what he and Gretchen use to chase after Rumple Krumple’s sleigh.
- Christmas Episode: It’s Eekmas Eve and everyone at camp is excited for a visit from Rumple Krumple Klaus, until Buttsquat gets the whole camp put on the naughty list.
- Christmas Light Chaos: McGee gets tangled in the Eekmas lights when he’s trying to help Sawyer decorate the cabins with them.
- Christmas Miracle: When McGee and Squirt are able to save Rumple Krumple and lift him back into the sleigh, Squirt calls it a “Eekmas miracle”...and then the sleigh’s engine cuts out.Squirt: ...maybe without the miracle part.
- Disaster Dominoes: While fighting with Buttsquat over his Rumple Krumple doll, Squirt falls into the Eekmas tree which tips over, taking down all the decorations around camp and breaking the naughty meter.
- Don't Try This at Home: Before lighting the fireworks attached to McGee and Gretchen’s sled, Sawyer advises the audience on the proper safety measures for handling fireworks.
- Hairball Humor: Armand uses his own hairballs as ornaments.Gretchen: Festive and disgusting - the perfect Lakebottom holiday blend!
- Human Snowman: The episode opens to a snowman talking about Eekmas, who is revealed to be Sawyer covered in snow.
- Let Me at Him!: Squirt has to hold both Gretchen and McGee back to keep them from pummeling Buttsquat after he pulls pranks on them in order to keep the naughty meter on nice.
- Musicalis Interruptus: Sawyer is about to launch into an Eekmas carol when Rosebud comes out of the cabin and causes a bunch of snow to fall off the roof onto him.
- Never My Fault: Buttsquat’s reaction when his screwing around causes Rumple Krumple’s sleigh to shut down.Buttsquat: Not my fault! I was looking for the radio, I pushed some buttons, it’s a weird sleigh, I don’t know.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Despite Squirt spending the whole episode trying to keep everyone at camp acting nice so Rumple Krumple will give them presents, it’s actually his fight with Buttsquat that pushes the meter over to the naughty zone.
- Nose Nuggets: Squirt sneezes and “snotsicles” form on his nose.
- Pun-Based Title: A play on “sleigh bells”.
- Running Gag: Sawyer getting covered in snow.
- Santa Claus: Rumple Krumple Klaus, the Eekmas version of Santa mixed with The Krampus due to being a Horned Humanoid who kidnaps naughty children.
- Save the Villain: Even after Rumple Krumple kidnaps him, Squirt still risks his life to save him when he falls out of the sleigh.
- Shout-Out: Sawyer opens the episode like Sam the Snowman does in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - complete with a banjo.
- Worst. Whatever. Ever!: When Buttsquat licks a snotsicle, he calls it the “Worst! Candy cane! Ever!”
- You Mean X Mas: The monsters celebrate “Eekmas”, which is their version of Christmas.
Smells Like the Holidays
"Holidays at Camp Lakebottom are a total blast!"
When McGee blames his toot on Squirt, he is visited by three ghosts looking to save Camp Lakebottom from catastrophe before it's too late.Tropes:
- Bad Future: Sawyer shows McGee a future in which Squirt forcing himself to hold in his gas causes a “fart-pocalypse” and leaves Camp Lakebottom as nothing but a giant crater.
- Bubble Boy: Squirt puts himself in a “Toot Containment Unit” bubble so that his gas can’t ruin anything else.
- Christmas Episode: The camp is getting ready to celebrate Eekmas, when McGee blames his “buttsplosion” on Squirt and nearly ruins the holiday, and Camp Lakebottom altogether, for everyone.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Squirt listens to a self-meditation tape in order to try not to fart, but it doesn’t help much as it has him focus on “a blocked railway tunnel” and “a closed dam”.
- Cutting Back to Reality: When it’s revealed that his visit from the Gassy Ghosts was All Just a Dream, McGee wakes up in his bed crying into his pillow like he was doing to Sawyer’s legs.
- Everything Makes a Mushroom: Squirt finally letting out the gas he was holding in causes a big green mushroom cloud that can be seen from space.
- Eye of Newt: The ingredients for McGee's baked beans include lizard lips, moose slime, and a pinch of all-purpose porpoise pus.
- Fartillery: McGee farts into a Whoopee Cushion which Squirt sits on and creates a stink blast so big it clears out the whole cabin and the group ends up with scrapes, bruises, and bloodshot eyes.Gretchen: That is disgusting on so many levels!
- Felony Misdemeanor: Ghost Gretchen calls “toot blaming” one of the worst crimes one can commit.
- Follow Your Nose: In his sleep, McGee floats out of bed and follows the stench of the Gassy Ghost of [fart noise] Past.
- Inelegant Blubbering: When McGee is clutching onto Sawyer and crying, he gets Fish Eyes and snot starts dripping out of one nostril.
- Sound-Effect Bleep: The characters toot instead of saying the word “fart”.
- Toilet Humor: The whole episode is based around farting.
- Yet Another Christmas Carol: Gretchen appears to McGee as “The Ghost of His Mc Guilt” and tells him he’ll be visited by “three gassy ghosts” because he made Squirt think he was responsible for the toot that ruined their holiday gathering. Rosebud is the Ghost of [fart noise] Past, Armand is the Ghost of [fart noise] Present, and Sawyer is the Ghost of [fart noise] Yet to [fart noise].
- You Know What They Say: McGee's response to Squirt asking him who farted:McGee: Well, you know what they say "He who smellt it, dealt it"!Squirt: Really? It must be true if they say it!
