Written by: Dan Hernadez and Benji Samit
Directed by: Andrew Bowler
Directed by: Andrew Bowler
Koala Man's faithful wife Vicky comes up with a plan to reduce kid's sugar consumption. Meanwhile, Koala Man gets on the wrong side of Australia's most elite class: the Tradies.
Tropes:
- All Your Powers Combined: When the Tradies are starting to lose, they merge together to form a superbeing known as Jack of All Tradies.
- Boss Subtitles: The Tradies are introduced this way. First their group name and then introduces each of the tradies and later when introducing Jack of All Tradies.
- Brick Joke: The episode starts with Koala trying to teach Mrs. Banks how to switch to the HDMI 1 setting on her TV after her son bought her a Blu-ray player. By the end of the episode, she finally did it on her own and she reveals she's using her Blu-ray player to watch snuff films... that she starred in.
- Cape Snag: Koala Man's cape accidentally saves him from Lady Tradie's time powers when he accidentally trips and falls from it, causing her time power to hit Brickie which causes him to fall on top of Lady Tradie and Chippy.
- Coincidental Dodge: Koala Man beats the rest of the Tradie by dumb luck when Lady Tradie fires her time powers to freeze Koala Man, but he trips on his cape when trying to leave and she ends up hitting Brickie by mistake. Since Brickie is in his brick form and he's frozen, he falls on top of Lady Tradie and Chippy.
- Elite Four: The Tradies are four tradesmen who have superpowers. Sparky can shoot lightning from his hands, Brickie can transform his skin into bricks, Chippy can manipulate wood or at least wooden planks, and Lady Tradie can slow or stop people with her construction sign.
- Frame-Up: When Vicky demands Alison to reveal who's really responsible for the soda smuggling in school, Alison pins the blame on McKayla by stashing sodas in her locker. When McKayla tries to reveal Alison is behind the smuggling, Janine, who also has a hand in the smuggling, covers her mouth to prevent her from saying more.
- Futureshadowing: After Liam's brain was shocked by Sparky, he gets a vision of a sport podium, Dapto on fire, Alison crying, and an angry kookaburra. These visions foreshadow events in "The Handies" and "Hot Christmas".
- G-Rated Drug: The sodas at the school is treated like this after Vicky gets sodas banned because of the negative effects it has on the students. After Alison and Liam starts smuggling sodas in the school, all the students are either jittery or exhausted from consuming too much soda.
- Gilligan Cut: When Vicky demands Alison to reveal who's really behind the soda ring since Liam isn't capable of doing it on his own, Alison tells her she's not gonna lie to her and tells her the truth. We cut to school where Koala Man and Principal Bazwell opens up a student's locker to reveal multiple sodas inside and reveals the locker belongs to McKayla.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Lady Tradie tries to freeze Koala Man in time but he accidentally dodges her powers and she ends up hitting Brickie by mistake, who falls on top of her and Chippy.
- Improvised Jet Pack: When Alison doesn't know how she can get her family out from the Tradie's burning base, Liam telepathically tells her to use the deep pockets. She doesn't get it at first but finally realizes she can fly herself and her family out by putting the shaken up soda in her deep pockets of her pants and blast herself out from the base.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: When Alison tells Liam everyone in the school will hate them because their mom, Vicky, got sodas banned in their school, Liam is confident that no one's going to blame them for it. Cue a bunch of angry students carries weapons planning to take their frustration out on them.
- Karma Houdini: Alison gets off scot-free for running the soda ring in her school and nobody knows she started it except for Janine and Liam, who's the only one grounded for being involved.
- Literal Metaphor: Sparky tells Koala Man that if they ever see him do any trade work they'll burn him to a crisp. When Koala Man confronts them about supplying soda to the school, Sparky reveals he wasn't exaggerating when he said he'll burn him to a crisp because he reveals he has lightning powers.
- Literal-Minded: When Koala Man arrives to help figure out who's been smuggling soda into the school, Vicky tells him she doesn't need his help dealing with the kids and she'll talk to them at their own level. Koala Man misinterpret her words so when a student walks by, he picks up that student and pins him to a wall at his eye level and interrogates him. When the student starts crying, Koala tells Vicky her way does not work.
- Misplaced Retribution: After Vicky gets sodas banned at the school, McKayla and several other students decide to take their frustration out on Alison and Liam, but Alison manages to stop them from beating them up by promising them they'll bring them sodas.
- "Pop!" Goes the Human: The Jack of All Tradies dies when Vicky forces soda down his throat, causing him to swell up and then explode.
- Precision-Guided Boomerang: After Big Greg declares soda is now legal in school, he throws his belt buckle at the soda vending machine to break off the chains and then the buckle returns back to him.
- Technologically Blind Elders: Koala Man tries to show Mrs. Banks how to switch to the HDMI 1 setting on her TV. But Mrs. Banks not understanding how to use the remote control and Koala Man going too fast makes it difficult for her to understand it.
- That Came Out Wrong: Chippy's catchphrase is "I'm gonna whack my wood" while shaking his fist up and down. Sparky tells him he needs a new catchphrase.
- Touched by Vorlons: Sparky's attempt to fry Liam's brain with a bolt of electricity catalyzes psychic abilities. While unconscious, Liam telepathically directs Alison to use the sodas for propulsion to help her carry everyone out of the blazing warehouse.
- Use Your Head: When Sparky is about to kill Koala Man, who's currently slowed down by Lady Tradie's powers, Koala Man reveals he can move regularly again after drinking some ginger carrot juice for energy and then headbutts Sparky to knock him out.
- Varying Competency Alibi: After learning that Liam is involved with the soda smuggling in the school, Alison tries to play dumb and make it look like Liam is behind the whole thing, but Vicky doesn't believe her because she knows that Liam doesn't have it in him to pull this off on his own so he must have been following someone's orders.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The thing that kills the Tradies is drinking soda, because drinking will ruin their perfect bodies.
- Would Hurt a Child: When the Tradies thinks Liam was setting them up to get caught when Koala Man and Vicky catches them with the sodas, Sparky zaps Liam's brain as punishment.
