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Water You Worried About?

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Saddled with a very full, ahem, bladder from a root-beer-soaked celebration, the Captain must save Rutger from his dad's Super-Snake-Sprayer watering system. Is there anything worse than the sound of running water when you gotta go? Nope.


Tropes in this episode:

  • Bathroom Control: Milo tells a story about a boy named Little Donny Strong who had to use the bathroom during a road trip. He asked his parents to pull over, but they ignored his pleas. Eventually, though, they pulled over so he could do his business outside (though he ended up exploding after he bumped into a cactus).
  • Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: After Milo and Lizbeth gets stuck inside of a floating bubble, Milo decides to not to think about going to the bathroom due to having a Potty Emergency from drinking too much root beer. As soon as he starts his attempts to not think about it, however, the bubbles floats around Halverston and Area, upon which he sees several sprinklers, some kids playing in a pool, a water fountain, a waterfall and a woman buying a toilet at a toilet sale, which the pressure from his potty emergency causes him to not take it anymore and pops the bubble with his beak to land safely.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • To turn off the hose for Rutger to get down, Milo tries to turn the hose pipe slowly to the left so it can turn off. However, the hose didn't turn off as he didn't turn the pipe around in the right way and got stuck when he tries to do it correctly.
    • Milo then uses a bag of air bubbles so when he adds water to it, it will make bubbly landing for Rutger so he can let go of the hose. What he didn't realize is that these bubbles are lighter than air so once he added the water to the bubbles, it causes him and Lizbeth to get stuck inside of a floating bubble.
    • Lizbeth then finds some bottles of root beer that if you look under the cap, they can win a new garden hose taming device which is just what they needed for to stop the hose and save Rutger as it can subdue out of control hoses. So they decided to bring the root beer to Rutger's, so Milo can look under the cap to see if they win. Unfortunately, none of the caps they brought has a winner cap as all of the caps from the root beer only mentions that they lose. Eventually, another kid wins the prize but he decided to dispose the device as he didn't want it, causing this plan to backfire.
  • "Eureka!" Moment: To relieve the pressure of the hose, Milo uses his "Bird Brain" to make a leak. However, he mishears Lizbeth as she was suggesting him to make a hole in the hose to cause a leak but due to his potty emergency, he was thinking of making a leak by going to the bathroom. Eventually, this plan worked cause after he flushes the toilet, it causes the pressure from the hose to relieve which Rutger slowly lands safely.
  • Floating in a Bubble: As a result of adding water to the air bubbles, Milo and Lizbeth gets stuck inside of a floating bubble.
  • Force Feeding: After Milo gets full from drinking too much root beer, he decides to dispose the root beer he was drinking. However, his mother told him that once he opens a can, he has to drink the entire thing, which he reluctantly drinks the rest of it. This happened again on one of Milo's solutions to stop Rutger from using an out of control hose, as one of his plans was meant to just look under the caps of the root beer that he and Lizbeth brought to win a garden hose taming device, so he decided to not drink it. However due to his mother's rule, he was forced to drink all of the bottles in order to look under the caps to win the device (which fails).
  • Instantly Defeathered Bird: After Rutger sprays a bird with the hose out of control, it instantly loses all of its feathers once its hit.
  • Potty Emergency: Milo has to take one in the episode after drinking too much root beer.
  • Water Hose Rodeo: Rutger has to water the yard for his dad but when he used a watering can to wash it, it could take a long time so he decided to use his dad's water hose to finish faster. However, after he pulls the trigger to turn it on, it suddenly went out of control and cannot let go of it or else he will fall.

Portrait of a Superhero

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It's family portrait day and all Milo has to do is stay clean until the picture. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, except Avi starts an avalanche on underpants washing day and must be rescued. Will Milo's dress-up outfit take a messy beating? Or will it be Milo's loyal sidekick, Lizbeth, who takes the hit?


Tropes in this episode:

  • All Cloth Unravels: At the end of the episode, just when Milo is about to take a family portrait in a nice outfit, Avi founds a blue string in the floor and starts to unravel. It was revealed that the string that he was unraveling was actually Milo's outfit, revealing his goofy flamingo underwear during the photo shoot.
  • Assembly Line Fast-Forward: After one of the dogs hits Avi, causing his stack of underwear that he was holding to get scattered around the neighborhood, one of them lands at a grape soda factory worker, which then covers his face. The underwear then gets snagged on one of the levers, causing the assembly line of grape sodas to speed up rapidly, which the factory workers could not keep up with the rapid pace in order to deliver the sodas.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • After all of Avi's underwear got scattered around the street as a result of his dryer exploding, Milo tries using a dog caller so he can call some dogs to pick up the underwear for him. Although this plan seemed to work, when Avi wants to try out the dog caller, he blows it in the wrong direction, which scares the dogs and takes Avi's underwear. As a result of the dogs running around Halverston and Area, it causes a big mess to happen in the neighborhood.
    • To avoid getting sprayed by grape soda after some big kids opened some after finding a crate full of them, Milo uses his Sucky-Tron 3000 as it can vacuum entire bottles of grape soda. The plan eventually worked but Avi wants to know what will happen if he flicks the vacuum switch in reverse so he does that, causing all of the grape juice to drain out in the sewers. This is a bad thing since Avi mentions that his mom doesn't supposed to let him put things in the sewer crate as it can cause a flood, which eventually does happen but with grape soda instead of water.
  • Disaster Dominoes: Avi was meant to just play with his blocks but his tower fell off which scared his dog, causing a big mess in his house. He mentions that his mom doesn't let him to play with his blocks around the dog because it will cause the dryer to explode, which contains all of Avi's underwear inside.
  • "Eureka!" Moment: Milo uses his "Bird Brain" to think of a way to make a diversion. Although he mishears Lizbeth as she want meant to say to divert the water somewhere else that isn't the town, but Milo is suggesting to put on a song and dance act to divert the entire town to see it. Eventually, this plan worked the show indeed diverted the entire town away from the flood.
  • Running Gag: As a result of Milo needing to get his nice outfit perfectly clean until the family portrait, whenever big messes happen throughout the episode, it keeps hitting Lizbeth instead of him every time.

 
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Little Donny Strong

Milo tells a story about a boy named Donny who had to use the bathroom during a road trip. He asked his parents to pull over, but they ignored his pleas. Eventually, though, they pulled over so he could do his business outside (though he ended up exploding after he bumped into a cactus).

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