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  • All for Nothing: Apparently, the Milkmite Bars that smoits are distributed through taste horrible. Tina breaks down in tears at the thought of having eaten so many of them for nothing.
    Tina: I ate cases after cases of Milkmite Bars! Those bars taste like tile grout! TILE GROUT!
  • Career-Ending Injury: Toby and Tina's coach, Natasha, was a competitive ballroom dancer until she injured her leg. Turns out it was psychological and she was completely fine, but by the time she made up with her partner, she realized she trained her students too well and needed to sabotage them.
  • Central Theme: Trust. Tina's trust in her dance partner is broken when he is suspected of stealing the smoits, and in the end, when he's ultimately proven innocent, decides the smoits have caused too many problems and throws them all away, restoring the relationship between the two.
  • Competition Coupon Madness: Tina and Toby are really into smoit-collecting. Smoits are tokens found on dairy bars and packets of chips used to buy basically anything a kid could want once enough of them are saved up.
  • Contrived Coincidence: While undercover at the casino, Fillmore and Ingrid get their covers blown when Ken Himmelman, the person they're pretending to know to get in, suddenly returns from his vacation in Hawaii... and he recognizes Fillmore from the time he busted him for pen-pal fraud.
  • Embarrassing First Name: Larry's first name is secretly Lancelot.
  • Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Toby states after Fillmore fingered him for the theft, even his dog is looking at him funny.
  • Foreign Culture Fetish: Larry's mother is revealed to be an Anglophile.
  • The Gambling Addict: Toby is reported to be one, being seen at the underground casino on more than just a few occasions, which is what makes him the initial prime suspect.
  • It Tastes Like Feet: According to Tina, the Milkmite Bars taste like tile grout, suggesting an incredibly chalky and gravel-like texture.
  • Jive Turkey: Toby's use of slang is at least sixty years out of date.
  • The Old Country: Natasha makes mention of this word for word. She doesn't specify an exact country, though her accent implies it's somewhere in Eastern Europe.
  • Plot Allergy: Toby is lactose intolerant, which the culprit exploits to frame him.
  • Undercover as Lovers: Played with. Fillmore and Ingrid are undercover at the underground smoit casino, they’re both dressed formally and giving the impression that Ingrid is Fillmore's plus-one.
  • The Unreveal: Whatever it was that Toby and Tina wanted to buy with their smoits is never revealed.
  • Weaponized Allergy: Toby's lunch of boiled eggs were replaced with fake eggs made of cheese, triggering his lactose intolerance and forcing him to leave his locker unguarded.

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