Written & storyboarded by Deena Beck & Angel Lorenzana
Craig and his friends are invited to an exclusive tea party with delicious desserts, if they can last to the end of the party.
Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Jane and George both laugh after getting splattered by Yo-Go during the food fight.
- Appeal to Obscurity: Jason justifies his snooping that got the Stump flooded by citing the stink bombing by the Ninja Kids that never happened because of his "routine safety inspections".
- Bland-Name Product: Yo-Go is one for Go-Gurt.
- The Cake Is a Lie: The tiramisu cake turns out to be cardboard.
- Call-Back: J.P. wears his Sunday clothes to the tea party, and once again undresses at the end when the Food Fight begins.
- Enemy Mine: Craig and Jason agree to stick together to not let the Tea Timers pit them against each other. It all goes out the window when Eliza lets it slip that Jason is the one who let the stump get flooded.
- Et Tu, Brute?: J.P. towards Boris, whom he started getting along with, when Jason confesses the Junior Forest Scouts were responsible for letting the stump get flooded. He even says "Et tu, Boris?"
- Food Fight: The guests all resort to this after Craig reveals that the promised tiramisu wasn't real and the Tea Timers only invited them so they can make them fight.
- Gilligan Cut: When Eliza threatens Kelsey that if she and Tony will both be escorted out of the party by George if they fight, Kelsey dares that she would like to see George try that. Cut to Kelsey tied up and dragged out by George while yelling "Avenge me!"
- Idiot Ball: Grabbed by Jason and Boris regarding them opening the stump on a rainy day, and then not telling Craig. It's implied that Craig would have understood that Jason ruining the maps was an accident, if Jason and Boris had just told him and his friends. But Jason never did, and Eliza forces him to invoke scout's honor. Eventually Craig realized this, but only after Jason had a near-scare of losing his sash of badges.
- Let's You and Him Fight: The only reason the Tea Timers invited the others was to pit them against each other and watch them fight for their personal amusement.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Double-subverted. Eliza tells Craig that he should destroy Jason's sash of badges to get payback for the maps. Craig instead attacks the cake, revealing it as cardboard. Jason then thanks Craig for forgiving him, only for Kelsey to nail him with food and ruin the badges anyway by accident.
- Loophole Abuse: There’s no rule about having a sword without a permit, but Tony feels there should be one, and considers confiscating Kelsey's until a permit system can be implemented.
- Noodle Incident: According to Jason, the Junior Forest Scouts once stopped a plan by the Ninja Kids to throw stinkbombs when they found their stash and got rid of it.
- Not Helping Your Case: When Jason is forced to admit why it’s his fault the stump was open on a rainy day, he says it's part of routine inspection and sarcastically says "You're welcome!" on revealing such an inspection stopped a stink bomb attack. Yes, he just implied that Craig and his friends might have been holding illegal contraband and violated their privacy.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Even though George is sitting at the table when Jason makes his presence known, he's suddenly at the entrance that's on the opposite side to introduce the Scouts when the camera cuts to them.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Craig gives one to the Tea Timers (patricularly Eliza) when he reveals that the tiramisu was fake.Craig: The cake is a fake, just like you! You invite kids here to fight each other for your own sick amusement! You never had any cake!
- Sadistic Choice: Eliza invokes this in Craig by suggesting that he should cut off Jason's sash of badges as payback for ruining his maps, which will result in him getting kicked out of the party without having cake. Craig resorts to attacking the cake instead, which reveals that it's fake.
- There Will Be Cake: The Tea Timers invite the other Creek Kids with the promise of a giant tiramisu cake.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The episode's setup is nearly identical to the French movie The Dinner Game and its American remake Dinner for Schmucks, in which snooty upperclassmen hold annual dinner parties where they each invite an "idiot" to ridicule, and choose an "idiot champion" at the end.
