Karate Chops: Used to being top dog, Carl can't handle when Adelaide joins his karate class and becomes the star student.
Taco the Town: Hector starts selling Rosa's delicious tacos but gets overwhelmed when they're more popular than the mercado.
"Karate Chops" provides examples of:
- An Aesop: Cheaters never win and Winners never cheat.
- Continuity Nod: Sergio plays an instrumental of "The Little Froggy Song" from the Loud House episode "Room and Hoard" on his stereo. Carl doesn't like that song, but Sergio does.
- Didn't Think This Through: After Carl gets Adelaide to quit karate class by rigging the boards in their board-cutting duel, he is told to do a board-cutting demonstration at Chavez Academy. But Par tells him that this board-cutting demo means life or death for his class, and if the demo fails, then Par's karate class will go out of business indefinitely.
- Epic Fail: Alexis has been taking karate classes for months, and he still can't tie his belt right!
- Evil Laugh: Carl does this as he plots against Adelaide.
- Failed Attempt at Drama: Carl's scheming against Adelaide is briefly interrupted by his mother coming over to take him home.
- Faint in Shock: Many of the students faint when Carl's robot arms fall off.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Carl becomes jealous of all the attention Adelaide is getting as a star karate student. Eventually, Carl learns that cheating's not worth it.
- Hidden Depths: This episode reveals that Par is a karate sensei, and that Adelaide is a veritable karate prodigy!
- My Little Phony: Sugar, Sugar Rainbow Unicorn Friendship Hour, a show Adelaide likes to watch.
- Tempting Fate: When Carl sees Adelaide in the same karate class, he thinks he can curb-stomp her... only for her to curb-stomp him!
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Carl realizes that he may put the karate school in danger due to his cheating, he asked Sergio for help, only for Sergio to tell him to find some other way to cheat since cheating was what got him into that mess.
"Taco the Town" provides examples of:
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: This exchange between Hector and Bobby:Hector: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Bobby: That I should start eating my lunch in the bathroom where it's safe? - Blatant Lies: Vito claims he has no cash when he has to pay for his groceries, yet he's more than willing to pay for one of Rosa's tacos in the same scene.
- Continuity Nod: Jim Sparkletooth, the host of the food show from "Fast Feud," appears in this episode as the news reporter.
- Lethal Chef: When CJ wants Abuela's help with making his tres leches cake, she has Hector step in. Unfortunately, Hector's idea of making a tres leches cake involves putting milk, sour cream, oat milk, and a half-eaten cupcake into a blender.
- Naked People Are Funny: Upon overhearing his grandfather's idea of selling Rosa's red tacos at the mercado, Carl enters the living room with bubbles covering his private parts. It is quickly revealed that Frida is trying to give Carl a bath.
- Splitting Pants: when Hector and Rosa start selling tacos at their convenience store, they make two lines (one for tacos and one for produce) to make the lines less long. Vito, who wants to buy both, tries to do the splits so he'll be in both lines, but ends up ripping his pants.
- Tears of Remorse: Hector ends up crying into a dollar bill when he realizes that his idea of selling red tacos at the mercado has resulted in them disproportionately outselling everything else in the mercado.
