After disguising themselves to hide from the law, Guy and Sam get a job at a carnival.
Tropes appearing in "Box"
- Animation Bump
- Guy getting tickled by tickle fish.
- Michellee's Freak Out as the Wheel of Insanity starts up.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When he sees that news of the chickeraffe being stolen has gone public, Snerz worries that he'll be arrested, lose his company and, most importantly, be embarrassed in front of his cronies.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: When the waiter at the diner that Guy and Sam had been at in the previous episode informs them that they ordered from the half-off menu.McWinkle: (to Gluntz) What does that tell you?
Gluntz: (with utmost confidence) They're watching their weight! - Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: A nonverbal example as the BADGUYS emerge from the swamp.Narrator: "While McWinkle was bit
By a poisonous snake,
He'd sprained both his knees
And stepped on a-"
(McWinkle does a Rake Take) - Bait-and-Switch: Michellee drives E.B. towards a carnival... only to take her across the road to see the World's Smallest Thermometer instead.
- Billions of Buttons: The controls for the Wheel of Insanity.
- Black Comedy: A sword swallower at the carnival ends up accidentally pulling out his skewered heart.
- Bland-Name Product: UBS for UPS.
- Brick Joke: Guy bursts out laughing when Michellee accuses him of being a con artist, not because he finds the accusation funny but because he still has a tickle fish on him from earlier.
- Broke Episode: Having spent all of their bruckles to get Guy's invention to work, he and Sam are forced to take jobs at a local carnival to lie low and earn some quick cash.
- Calling the Old Woman Out: E.B. finally gets fed up with Michellee's resistance of anything genuinely fun after she takes them to see the World's Smallest Thermometer instead of the much more fun-looking carnival across the road.E.B.: "You're ignoring [the carnival] because you have no idea what fun is! Because you're no fun!!"
- Chekhov's Gun: The sugar high caused by flannel candy helps Gluntz throw an especially hard pitch to knock over the milk bottles in the carnival game.
- Clothing Switch: When Sam and Guy are wanted for Chickeraffe theft, the two switch hats to avoid being noticed. This manages to fool everyone, except Michellee.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Guy is ranting to Sam about his bad luck while inside the box.Guy: Stuff always turns out fine for Sam! You do wrong and win. I do right and it all blows up in my face! When her hat landed in my hands, I really thought your luck rubbed off on me, that I received some of that Sam-I-Am mojo. But what happens to me? I end up doused and soused and fished and flattened, and when I try to be honest, suddenly, I'm Randy!!
(Sam solemnly puts a hand on Guy's knee)
Sam: I thought you were Dave.
Guy: Never mind! I'm through with you. - Cuteness Proximity: Gluntz gets sidetracked cuddling several chickeraffe dolls when Jenkins hides in a pile of them.
- Dissonant Serenity: Michellee and E.B.'s experience the zero-gravity effect in the Wheel of Insanity is more like a kind of angelic enlightenment, as the two giggle and swim through the air as golden sunbeams shine through the windows. E.B. even asks if they're dead.
- Eats Babies: The news report on Mr. Jenkins getting out in a restaurant includes a police sketch of him with devil horns and holding a crying infant in his bat-wing arms.
- Epic Fail
- While working the Wheel of Insanity, Guy manages to set it on too high a speed, then breaks nearly every lever and hits a few other random ones trying to shut it off.
- The carnival patron seen trying to dunk Sam at the Relaxation Station manages to hit everything except the target. For emphasis, his darts are animated moving extra-slowly.
- Foreshadowing:
- The newspaper that Gluntz uses to fan McWinkle has an advertisement for cold air balloons on the back. Sam and Guy later use these to send Mr. Jenkins back to his habitat.
- Sam mentions that he got his Green Eggs and Ham on a stick for free. Being a con man, Sam probably either knew how to sweet-talk the vendor into free food or just stole it.
- Michelee accuses Guy of being a con-artist. She's got the wrong guy on that accusation.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When the BADGUYS run into the post office, the clerk behind the desk can be seen sketching McWinkle.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Mr. Jenkins hides himself among identical chickeraffe stuffed animals (which he thinks are real) at the carnival.
- Human Mail: To escape the BAD GUYS and make it to the next town, Sam and Guy have themselves mailed to Shvizeltown. They share a single cardboard box filled with shipping peanuts.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Michellee's idea of fun is to take E.B. to see the World's Smallest Thermometer, a thermometer so small, that not even the ants can see it.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Discussed. Guy calls out Sam for the fact that he always gets his way no matter what he does, while Guy tries to be honest and suffers for it.
- Letting Her Hair Down: Michellee and E.B.'s hair both comes unfurled while on the Wheel of Insanity, much to their amusement.
- Literal-Minded: Guy sarcastically suggests Sam to rub his luck off onto him, and Sam does just that by rubbing their bodies together.
- Major Injury Underreaction: McWinkle is so exhausted from trying to get out of the swamp that he doesn't even acknowledge the poisonous snake biting his arm.
- Media Scaremongering: The news anchor reporting on Mr. Jenkins getting out in a restaurant tells viewers to start panicking before pushing a literal panic button and getting up on her desk, screaming.
- My God, What Have I Done?: E.B. immediately apologizes and hugs Michellee about saying she's no fun. Michellee herself has a moment of this at the same time when she realizes she really hasn't been letting E.B. have fun.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Mr. Jenkins submerges himself in an entire wall of chickeraffe stuffed animals, causing the whole thing to topple and forcing the BADGUYS to sift through it to find him.
- Nonindicative Name: Downplayed with the Relaxation Station, the attraction where Guy works at the carnival. At first, it is very relaxing, as all he has to do is hang out in a chair over a hot tub. That is, until, someone hits the target next to him with a dart, revealing the tub to actually be a combination dunk tank/Rube Goldberg Device.
- Not What It Looks Like: Guy has the misfortune of running into Michellee while working the carnival, leading her to assume that he's a scam artist with multiple aliases, especially when the manager comes over and addresses him as Randy (which he was using as an alias) just as she's asking whether or not Guy is even his real name. Guy tells her the truth, that he was an inventor, he does want to become a paint watcher and that he's not a felon (his worst crime was jaywalking), and all he's trying to do is keep the chickeraffe safe. Cue Sam running after the BADGUYS, who have Mr. Jenkins, yelling "The chickeraffee is not safe!!" convincing Michellee that Guy is not to be trusted.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Michellee's borderline insane obsession with going on the Wheel Of Insanity is enough to make E.B. apprehensive. Once Michellee starts worrying about the seatbelts, E.B. is relieved.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Sam and Guy switch hats while laying low. It fools everyone. Except Michellee.
- Pokémon Speak: The two police officers who just say "Cops!" over and over.
- Pun: Michellee wants to visit the petting zoo at the carnival, but backs off when she sees one child hurt themselves while petting a porcupine, saying "Let's put a pin in that."
- Rake Take: McWinkle does one.
- Shout-Out: Being a Warner Bros. Animation production, it's no surprise that there'd eventually be some Looney Tunes references.
- Gluntz, on a sugar high from flannel candy, hops up and down with her arms at her side while making hooting noises like Daffy Duck.
- Before taking her shot at a carnival game McWinkle keeps losing, Gluntz squeezes her flannel candy cone and the candy flies into her mouth just like Popeye. She wins in one try.
- When the Wheel of Insanity goes into anti-gravity mode, the animation Michellee and E.B. as they fly screaming towards the camera resembles the ending of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Heckling Hare" when Bugs and the dog fall off a cliff.
- Yet another reference to a different Seuss book, due to Mr. Jenkins' pink hair, the Needle in a Stack of Needles scene resembles the famous thousand-mile-wide field of clovers from Horton Hears a Who!.
- The World's Smallest Thermometer is a parody of The World's Tallest Thermometer
, a real American roadside attraction in Baker, California. - The sword swallower at the carnival resembles the Disney incarnation of Aladdin, with his purple vest and white pants.
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In the above-mentioned Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption, the narrator was going to say that McWinkle was about to step on a shovel, but he stepped on a rake instead.
- Tempting Fate: Sam reassures Guy that, by the time news breaks about their chickeraffe getting out in a small town restaurant, they'll be miles away. Cue a whole fleet of news reporters waiting for them around the corner to get a quote.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Guy gives an exasperated "Oh no..." when he looks up at the Billions of Buttons for the Wheel of Insanity, which he just insisted on working.
- Twinkle Smile: The carny at the booth where Mr. Jenkins is hiding gives a mischievous gleaming smile to Guy, and later McWinkle, as he knows full well his game is rigged.
- The Unsmile: Michellee sports one of these to prove how much fun she is as she and E.B. enter the carnival.
- Visual Pun: The first shot of the episode is a close up of a four-leaf clover, which Guy steps on as they're running away from the chaos in the restaurant. A perfect metaphor for how bad their luck is right now.
- X on a Stick: Sam gets green eggs and ham on a stick at the carnival.
