Owen wins an Uber-Ball from the claw machine, which is instantly confiscated by Chef.
Tropes:
- #1 Dime: The Uber-Ball to Owen, and later, the Hannah Hug Doll to Courtney.
- Air-Vent Passageway: This episode centered around the babies crawling through the air vents to get around the daycare center, undetected.
- Big Eater: Izzy swallowed an entire machine of gumballs. She also mentioned swallowing a compass when she was a baby.
- Body Wipe: With Owen, at the beginning of the episode, when he barges in the room to tell everyone his big news.
- Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Duncan used Chef's glass eye to get past the retinal scan.
- Brick Joke: Gwen mentions that the gang's plan will end with them dying in the vents. Later, the gang (sans Duncan) ended up getting lost and Courtney laments that they will die up there. Izzy even Lampshades this by stating that Gwen will be happy.
- Callback: The electric aura, produced by The Uber-Ball was similar to the one from the dodgeball, thrown by Cody in the Total Drama Island episode, "Dodgebrawl".
- The Cameo: A toy version of the Drama Machine was briefly seen among the toys in the safe.
- Circling Birdies: When Owen was knocked out, a bunch of Uber-Balls circled around his head.
- Establishing Character Moment: As soon as Gwen first appears, we know already what she's all about.Gwen: (emerges from the shadows) Last year alone, there were over 43 crane related deaths.
- Follow Your Nose: Owen led the rest of the kids out of the air vents, by following the scent of pizza.
- Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: Chef didn't allow kids to bring toys from home, and if they did, he'd swipe them and lock them in the safe.
- Fun with Homophones: When Courtney explains to Jude, the difference between "retinal" and "rectal".Courtney: For the last time, Jude. "Retinal" is the eye, and "Rectal" is the-Owen: BUT, how will we open the lock?
- Glass Eye: It's revealed Chef has one, though the episode never really makes this clear. Duncan stole it and replaced with with a marble.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: Noah and Duncan, respectively, served as this to Owen, when trying to convince him to make the right decision with the Uber-Ball.
- Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball: The Uber-Ball.
- Joke of the Butt: Jude mistakenly referred to the retinal scan as a "rectal scan".
- The Load: Jude was part of the team of kids going to get Owen's ball, despite serving no purpose to the plan.
- Naughty Is Good: Duncan's plan to escape daycare was evil in theory, but technically some good came of it, since he did help Owen get his ball back, ... even if it was to trick his followers and betray them.
- Out of Focus: Leshawna, Bridgette, and Beth had no lines and Cody didn't appear.
- Shout-Out:
- One of the prizes that Owen attempted to win from the crane game is a Nintendo Switch.
- The marble Duncan switches with Chef's glass eyes resembles a Mega Stone.
- The Stool Pigeon: Duncan and Courtney both knew that the latter would rat everyone out, the second she laid eyes on Chef.
- Trash the Set: At the end of the episode, The Uber-Ball went haywire once more, and turned the entire daycare center into a pile of rubble.
- Unwitting Pawn: Owen was an absolute sucker to Duncan, blindly going along with everything he told him to do.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Beth, Bridgette, and Leshawna appeared as though they'd be joining the team on their adventure, due to them being in the "Yeah!" shot, but they were never seen after this point.
- Zany Scheme: Duncan's crazy plan to sneak through the vents and escape the daycare center, and to make it look innocent, he'd also have to break into Chef's safe and get Owen's ball back.
