What a Tangled Web
Squirt accidentally leaves all of his leftover webs all over Sunny Patch and instead of cleaning it up, he goes off to play.
Tropes in this episode:
- Spaghetti Kiss: A variation of this where the spiders eat some leftover webs. Miss Spider and Holley end up slurping on the same web strand, which causes them to kiss by accident.
Cry Buggie
Squirt bottles up his feelings after Dragon teases him about sharing his feelings with others.
Tropes in this episode:
- Cathartic Crying: Dragon convinces Squirt that "big bugs don't cry". When Squirt injures one of his legs, he tries desperately to hold his tears in. During the soccerberry tournament, his parents come to comfort him and tell him it's okay to cry. While Squirt lets himself sob, a sudden rainstorm cancels the game. As the family goes back inside the tree, Dragon is revealed to be crying over the cancellation. Squirt comforts him and teaches him the lesson their parents had taught Squirt:Squirt: Big bugs do cry, when they need to.
- It's Okay to Cry: This is the lesson taught in the episode where Dragon convinces Squirt that "big bugs don't cry", causing Squirt to hold in his tears when he gets hurt and has to stay home from a sports game he was supposed to be playing in. Eventually, Miss Spider finds him watching the game from far away and tells him that even big bugs cry sometimes when they need to, likening it to how clouds produce rain when they can't hold any more water.
- Men Don't Cry: Subverted in which both Squirt and Dragon learn that "Big bugs do cry, when they need to."
