Meggy and Bob open up a Pawn shop. TIME TO HUSTLE.
Bob's gambling lands his hotel—and Meggy's home—in debt, so he galvanizes his reluctant friend into opening a pawn shop with him. As both parties narrate the workings of their shop, tensions escalate when Bob sells her out to the police.
Tropes present in the episode:
- Absurdly High-Stakes Game: The entire plot is kickstarted when Bob loses one, having gambled away the hotel. At the end of the video, he enters another one and this time bets his soul.
- Accidental Hero: Meggy finds a Freddy Fazbear toy in her pocket, so she uses it to bribe prison guard Swagmaster into freeing her. We later learn that it was Bob who planted it there to frame her for theft; thankfully for him, Meggy didn't notice, so he's able to make up a story about helping her out on purpose.
- Animation Bump: Meggy's dance in the commercial for Bob's pawn shop and her Confession Cam sessions contain much smoother animation, courtesy of TheInvertedShadow.
- Blatant Lies: Bob and Meggy's sales pitches.
- The Cameo: SMG1 and SMG2 are seen being sold an odd looking toilet. SMG3 is also seen trying to buy the YouTube Remote, but is attacked by Susan W.
- Confession Cam: Bob and Meggy each have one, sharing their inner thoughts to the audience while not being able to see each other's recordings. Boopkins gets one for a scene as well to reveal the "magic can of beans" didn't work.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Bob and Meggy.
- Covers Always Lie: Despite having a major presence on the thumbnail, Mario plays a very minor role in this episode and is only seen twice.
- Here We Go Again!: After raising enough money to hustle the hotel back and relocate Meggy's house, Bob bets his own soul in another gambling match, clearly having learned nothing; the one upside is that Meggy has nothing to lose this time.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Meggy eases up on Bob for throwing her under the bus with the police when he says he did it to protect their means of income to buy her home back, even loaning her a Freddy Fazbear doll to help her bribe her way out of prison. Then when she's out of earshot, Bob confesses he made the whole thing up on the spot to weasel out of a well-deserved ass-whooping; the doll was just meant to incriminate her further.
- Never Trust a Title: Hours after the upload, the episode was renamed to "Mario Gets Scammed". Since Mario obviously plays a very minimal role in the episode, it was changed back to normal the following day. Though this could be referring to the scene where Mario gets scammed by Meggy to buy a pair of shoes from "the guy who invented spaghetti".
- Not So Above It All:
- Karen is visibly delighted at the sight of a ball of yarn.
- Meggy initially appears unamused when Bob lies on the money they made, but then proceeds to do the same.
- Not What It Looks Like: Meggy disarms a robber trying to rob the store and points his gun at him. Unfortunately, he is a crippled old man in a wheelchair, so when Mr. Monitor and the police arrive on the scene, the inevitable misunderstanding happens and Meggy is jailed. Bob goading them into targeting her probably didn't help.
- Shout-Out: Meggy's dance at the beginning of the episode is clearly referencing the infamous "Classic Sonic & Tails Dancing" meme.
- Snake Oil Salesman: Bob and Meggy's wares are just useless junk that they advertise as something special, like a "magical can of used beans", that turns someone into The Casanova by sticking their "ravioli" in it.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Meggy, after forcing herself to shill Bob's pawn shop in an ad because her home is on the line, groans out, "Oh boy..."
