Bloo gets it in his mind that Mac is getting married and decides it is time to grow up in an effort to win him back.
Tropes:
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Monsieur Oui is a suicidal imaginary friend that’s shaped like a teardrop.
- Bait-and-Switch: When Bloo tries to stop the wedding, he comes to Mac's apartment, saying "Desperate times calls for desperate mesarures." as he picks up a rock, implying that he's going to throw it at the window. It is then revealed that the rock is really a rock-shaped container that has a key inside, which he uses to get into Mac's apartment with.
- Broken Glass Penalty: To get Mac to keep doing odd fix-it jobs with him around Foster’s, Bloo breaks a window by hitting a baseball into it.
- Bubble Pipe: Bloo is seen smoking one when he’s trying to be more mature.
- Crossword Puzzle: As Bloo is rushing through Foster’s to go stop Mac’s wedding, Fluffer Nutter is doing a crossword and asks him “What’s a 5-letter word for -” before he interrupts her by telling her to “Scram!”. Conveniently, this happens to be the answer she was looking for.
- Fictional Counterpart: When Mac asks Bloo where he got his giant smoke bomb, Bloo replies that he bought it from “Smostco.”Bloo: Right down the aisle from the caskets.
- Growing Up Sucks: Bloo quickly realizes this when he tries to act more mature for Mac.
- If I Can't Have You…: Instead of wallowing in his tears (or joining Monsieur Oui in throwing himself off the roof in a fit of despair), Bloo decides that if he can’t have Mac then no one can and plans to crash his wedding.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: When Mac tells him that he has to go do something that he wouldn’t understand, Bloo complains and says he’s smart enough to understand lots of things. Upon seeing Mac telling Frankie that he just doesn’t want Bloo to know what he’s doing, Bloo says “I don’t understand.”
- Literal-Minded: To Mac’s dismay, one of the “fun” activities Bloo has planned for them is writing checks. He does so by covering a piece of paper with check marks.
- Literal Metaphor: When Bloo gets home after his “9 to 5,” he hands Mac a pack of bacon - literally “bringing home the bacon.”
- Metaphorgotten:Monsieur Oui: For when you laugh, ze world she laughs with you. But when you cry, you cry with…Monsieur Oui.Bloo: I don’t think that’s how the saying goes…
- My Card: After becoming a man, Bloo hands Mac his card that says “Bob Q. Kazoo - Man”.
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: When Bloo sees Mac talking with Frankie and Madame Foster, he thinks they’re talking about Mac getting married. However, they were actually talking about Mac being in his cousin’s wedding.
- Overly Long Gag: Bloo sobbing about Mac as Monsieur Oui leads him up to the roof.
- Poor Communication Kills: If Bloo hadn’t eavesdropped on Mac, Frankie, & Madame Foster’s conversation, he wouldn’t have mistakenly thought Mac was getting ready for his own wedding. However, if Mac had just told Bloo that he was going to be the ring bearer at his cousin’s wedding, all of the confusion could’ve been avoided.
- Pun-Based Title: A play on the phrase, “the bride to be.”
- Punny Name: Monsieur Oui sounds like “misery”, as was revealed in The Stinger:Monsieur Oui loves company!
- Shout-Out: Mac and Bloo running away from angry wedding guests and escaping on a bus is a reference to the movie, The Graduate.
- Skyward Scream: Bloo does this and then Faints in Shock afterwards.Bloo: MAC IS GETTING MARRIED?!
- Standard '50s Father: Bloo studies a neighbor across the street in order to learn how to be more responsible and the neighbor fits this trope perfectly - right down to the blatant sexism.
- Suicide as Comedy: Bloo has a pair of conversations with Monsieur Oui, a suicidal imaginary friend who seems like he's going to jump off the roof. Both times, Bloo accidentally pushes him off (though he survives both falls).
- Visual Pun: When Bloo says he’s got to get to the bills that are piling up, he looks over to three imaginary friends: a dollar bill, a one-eyed bird with a giant bill, and one that looks like the bill from Schoolhouse Rock!.
- Wedding Smashers: Bloo crashes Mac’s (cousin’s) wedding by carrying out all the pranks they initially had planned for Duchess’s tea party, perfectly timed right after the priest says Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace.
