Ancient Astronauts: Norma considers exploring on her podcast whether the whole "aliens built the Pyramids" theory is real or just a product of racism on behalf of conspiracy theorists.
Anything but That!: Barney tells Logs that he's fine with discussing it with him if he wants to see other people, but not Josh.
Bad Future: At one point, Pugsley travels too far into the future and sees Phoenix Parks having turned into an apocalyptic wasteland. Also, the numerous bad endings he generates trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
Disaster Dominoes: Happens in nearly every iteration that Pugsley goes through.
On the first iteration, Barney arguing with Logs leads to them fighting over the phone, which Barney accidentally hurls into a seagull which then collides into Norma and Badyah's seat, and then crashes into the ride's operation lever, causing it to get stuck and keep Josh from fixing it when it gets rickety.
On the second iteration: When Pugsley stops the phone from being thrown, the seagull instead fights Courtney over their popcorn and causes Courtney to fall out of the ride.
Third iteration: Pugsley instead throws Courtney's popcorn at Josh's phone, knocking it out of his hand, preventing him from texting Logs. However, the seagull then proceeds to steal Josh's phone, resulting in a chase where the bird briefly lands on the lever, causing the ride to spin backwards at excessive speed and break off its axle.
Another has the squad (barring Courtney) all ride in the same seat. Though the seagull lands on the seat as well, going past capacity and breaking the seat off the Ferris wheel.
Pugsley goes through, according to his count, about five or six hundred times, each with their own problems that each somehow were born from his attempts to help.
Ironically, in the final iteration, Pugsley not attempting to intervene shows that everything would turn out fine had he simply allowed it to all play out, creating a subversion.
Double Subverted when we see the seagull hitting Dead End, causing Gord to get hit in the head and fall out of the attic and knock over some heavy objects, causing the ceiling to crack around the chandelier. Later episodes would establish why this is.
Everyone Can See It: Courtney is well aware that Norma wants to tell Badyah how she feels about her.
Feathered Fiend: The seagull fights Courtney over the popcorn in the second iteration and steals Josh's phone in the third iteration. It pretty much is responsible for many of the problems in about between half to a third of the iterations that we see, regardless of whether it is causing them intentionally or not. In the final iteration, it collides into Dead End, setting up events in the next few episodes.
Heroic BSoD: The repeated failures to save his friends from a bad ending cause Pugsley to slip into despair that he can't fix anything. It takes Norma telling him to let things play out to restore his spirit after he does indeed do so.
Incompatible Orientation: Though Badyah makes clear that she is flattered, she lets Norma down, telling her that she is straight.
Jerkass Ball: Texting while going on what should be a romantic moment with your boyfriend is a bit of a dickish move on Logs' behalf, especially when Barney is trying to enjoy it with him and Logs is ignoring him.
Mistaken for Cheating: Barney assumes that Logs is cheating on him with Josh when he sneaks a peak at Logs' phone while they are riding the Ferris wheel together.
No OSHA Compliance: Let's just say that a Ferris wheel should not be able to spin so fast that it's axle unscrews itself, causing the ride to spin off at high speed, or that the ride's operational lever get stuck, or that the first floor ceiling of Dead End crack that easily.
Poor Communication Kills: Logs doesn't tell Barney what's bothering him with regards to what he's looking at on his phone. When Barney, irritated with Logs not trying to enjoy their time together, takes a peek a Logs' phone, sees that Logs is texting Josh and assumes that Logs is cheating on him with Josh. On the final iteration of the loop, he reveals that he was irritated with Josh over getting an acting job over him.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Turns out that the box Courtney is fiddling with contains a demon swarm that proceeds to unleash an apocalypse once released, creating a vortex in the sky that proceeds to suck everyone into it in one of the iterations Pugsley goes through.
Security Cling: Done by Barney and Logs when the ride becomes rickety.
Ship Sinking: Badyah reveals that she's straight to Norma and that she doesn't feel the same way Norma feels about her.
Suggestive Collision: The seagull bumping into their seat causes Badyah to fall onto Norma facing each other.
Take That!: One of Norma's ideas for a podcast episode: "Did aliens build the Pyramids, or are conspiracy theorists just racist?"
The Last Straw: In one of the iterations of the loop, Badyah, Logs, Norma, Barney, and Pugsley are all riding in the same seat in the Ferris wheel. When the seagull then perches on the seat, it ends up breaking off the wheel and crashes to the ground.
The Reveal: The ending reveals that Pugsley's dream somehow relates to the chandelier in the first floor of Dead End, which has now become unstable due to the ceiling around it cracking.
Time Travel: Pugsley learns to do this to try to prevent the future from playing out horribly as seen from his dream.
Norma finally confesses her feelings towards her crush Badyah, only to be disappointed to learn that she's straight (as far as she knows) and only sees her as a friend.
Norma finally confesses her feelings towards her crush Badyah, only to be disappointed to learn that she's straight (as far as she knows) and only sees her as a friend.
