Original air date: October 2nd, 1992
The girls are at Roll-A-Rama to roller skate, and each have a partner of their own, with the exception of Bright Eyes who is working at the ticket booth. She's about to give some tickets to Bon Bon and her partner Spinner, but then the phone rings, and she struggles to get over to it with her roller skates. Lancer comes in an answers it for her, but Bright Eyes can't stop and skates into him, though he's fortunately able to catch her without falling over. She takes over the phone call which lasts only briefly, then Lancer tries to give Bright Eyes back her tickets, but ends up coiling them around her. She manages to get them off herself, and an apologetic Lancer leaves to go get her a new roll of tickets.
Starlight points out to Bright Eyes that Lancer doesn't have a skating partner for the upcoming roller dance contest, while Ace points out the same thing about Bright Eyes to Lancer. Though Bright Eyes is reluctant, her friends opt to give her a makeover and put on a naive, unassuming demeanor in the hopes of attracting Lancer's attention. Lancer, meanwhile, receives a pep talk from Teddy and Ace, who encourage him to play hard-to-get. Lancer, likewise, has reservations about the idea.
At Roll-A-Rama, Bright Eyes and Lancer attempt to have a conversation, but are both repulsed by each other's pretend demeanors, and quickly reject one another. They later reconcile and admit they weren't acting like their true selves before, and Lancer offers to teach Bright Eyes how to roller skate.
In the contest, the other teams all get themselves disqualified in various ways, but Lancer and Bright Eyes knock it out of the park, winning by a landslide. While their friends look on in confusion as to how they managed to win without following the advice, Bright Eyes and Lancer congratulate each other.
"Roll Around the Clock" provides examples of:
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Ace and Teddy think so, which is why they have Lancer behave as such to attract Bright Eyes, but it doesn't quite work that way.
- Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Subverted; Melody leads the other girls in giving Bright Eyes a needless makeover while Lancer is given a similar overhaul by the boys. Both makeovers wind up backfiring, as they reject each other's new looks and attitudes. It's only when they start dressing and acting normally again that they quietly get together, much to Melody and Ace's confusion.
- Be Yourself: Bright Eyes and Lancer blowing up at each other for their respective acts and winning the contest being their true selves reinforces this lesson.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Bright Eyes and Lancer simultaneously when they are overwhelmed by Floating Advice Reminders of all of their friends.
- Birds of a Feather: Bon Bon's partner is just as gluttonous as her, so it's no wonder they became dance partners.
- Blame Game: Melody and Ace's reaction upon falling over during the contest is to point at each other and say, "It was his/her fault!".
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: In the Russian dub, Patch's roller skating partner named Buddy (like Buddy Holly, for example), was translated as "Приятель", which is Russian for... "friend".
- Brick Joke: Teddy attempts to Crack The Whip with Sweetheart, despite how badly it went during practice. Sweetheart is sent careening into the judge, disqualifying the pair.
- Changing Yourself for Love: Bright Eyes and Lancer are encouraged by their friends to change their looks and personalities to attract each other. Unfortunately, they liked each other the way they already were, and both end up being repulsed by the other's "new".
- Comically Missing the Point: Patch and her partner Buddy get disqualified from the roller dance contest by playing hockey instead of skating.
- Deadpan Snarker: Patch and Buddy start playing hockey in the middle of the roller dance contest, and launch the puck through the judge’s legs. He tells them to inquire about the hockey team later.
- Delicious Distraction: Bon Bon and her partner get themselves disqualified from the contest by taking a break from skating to eat cakes.
- Disqualification-Induced Victory: Bright Eyes and Lancer win the contest primarily because everybody else gets disqualified either through messing up their moves or simply getting distracted and stopping to do something dumb.
- Distant Duet: "Play It Cool" is one where Ace and Teddy prepare Lancer for meeting Bright Eyes while the girls are giving Bright Eyes a makeover.
- Epic Fail: Bright Eyes does a hair swing, only to get her hair over her eyes then fall over.
- Floating Advice Reminder: Exaggerated. A miniature Ace shows up to impart advice to Lancer. Likewise, a miniature Melody appears next to Bright Eyes. Shortly after, miniatures of all of their friends give them advice simultaneously, prompting them both to yell at them to shut up.
- Graceful Loser: Clover and Dandy fall victim to the former’s poor luck, and wind up face-first on the ice. The pair take this in stride.
- Idiot Ball: Bright Eyes is clearly struggling with her roller skates, but insists on wearing them anyway while she's trying to do her job.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Bright Eyes' friends advice to put on a shy and coy demeanor, and Teddy's advice to Lancer to be insulting, only get the duo mad at each other. It's only by ignoring the advice and being themselves that the two succeed.
- Never My Fault: Melody attempts to show off with a “Ta-Da”, leading to Ace trying to show her up, then her responding in kind, knocking them both to the floor, blaming each other for the mishap.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: Bright Eyes and Lancer are both working at Roll-A-Rama at the beginning of the episode.
- No Name Given: Starlight's and Bon Bon's skating partners.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Bright Eyes puts on this act because her friends think it'll make Lancer interested in being her skating partner. It backfires.
- One-Off Character: With only three main boy characters compared to the seven main girl characters (Sweetheart is paired with Teddy, Melody with Ace, and in the end Bright Eyes with Lancer), Clover has a dance partner called Dandy while Patch has one named Buddy. Starlight's and Bon Bon's partners go unnamed.
- Pep-Talk Song: "Play it Cool" is one where Lancer and Bright Eyes are given advice on attracting the other by the boys and the girls respectively.
- Poor Communication Kills: The entire plot happens because neither Bright Eyes nor Lancer know the other one is already interested in being their skating partner.
- Rage Against the Mentor: Bright Eyes doesn't blow up at her friends directly, nor does Lancer at Teddy and Ace, but they do yell at Floating Advice Reminders of them.
- Redundant Romance Attempt: The Twice Shy Lancer and Bright Eyes each get makeovers from their respective friends. Acting "cool" only causes them to lash out — "I never knew you were such a JERK!"/"And I always thought you were smart, not some AIRHEAD!" — but they reconcile after dumping their makeovers and just acting normally, much to the mystification of their friends.
- Through His Stomach: Referenced by Bon Bon's line in the song "Play It Cool":Bon Bon: Want to catch a boy's eye? / Bake a chocolate cream pie!
- Titled After the Song: The tile is one word off from the 1954 rock song by Bill Haley & His Comets, "Rock Around the Clock".
- Twice Shy: Neither Bright Eyes nor Lancer are aware of the other's interest in them.
- Vinyl Shatters: Averted; when Bright Eyes falls while carrying a huge stack of records at the roller rink, they stay in one piece, and are still perfectly usable.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Starlight and her partner appear at the beginning, but don't attend the contest.
