- All for Nothing: Discussed. 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 of Milkmite Bars for those smoits! 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".
- Frame-Up: Toby was framed by Natasha and Larry so he and Tina would break up, allowing Natasha and Larry to win.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: Larry's mother is revealed to be an Anglophile.
- Foreign Queasine: All of the British meals proposed by Larry's mother to Fillmore and Ingrid disgust the two of them.
- 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- Jive Turkey: Toby's use of slang is at least sixty years out of date.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.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: As Paulie makes off with the smoits, he repeats the advice he gave Fillmore about not trusting anyone, only to be stopped by Tina.Tina: That is the lamest advice I have ever heard. And you know what? [reaches for the case] These smoits have caused enough trouble around here. [she and Paulie struggle for the case, causing all of the smoits to fall into the water below]
- Undercover as Lovers: Played with. When 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 Un-Reveal: Whatever it was that Toby and Tina wanted to buy with their smoits is never revealed.
- Varying Competency Alibi: Toby argues his innocence for the smoit theft by bringing up how, if he did steal them, he'd have been smart enough to not make it look like he was the only one who could've done it.
- 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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