Summary: When the twins are unfairly cut from a talent show, Grandma takes them to meet Frederick Douglass and an itsy bitsy spider to learn how to conquer victim mentality.
This episode contains the following tropes:
- An Aesop: "Even when life's not fair, you still have power anywhere."
- Continuity Cavalcade: During the cold open, clips from several past episodes can be seen, and Ethan and Emily reference them in their song.
- Deadpan Snarker: Frederick Douglass.
Douglass: Remind me, what cruel injustice happened to you?
Ethan: Uh...we may have been unfairly cut from the city talent show?
(Beat)
Douglass: I cannot even imagine.
- Historical Domain Character: The twins get to meet Frederick Douglass and learn how he overcame the odds that were stacked against him. He also tells them about Alexander Hamilton and Helen Keller.
- Imagine Spot: The cold open features the twins and Copernicus practicing in the garage while imagining themselves performing at a sold out concert.
- Rigged Contest: The kids find out the talent show they're auditioning for is rigged in favor of a school from a wealthy neighborhood. They're not pleased.
- Shout-Out:
- Karinne's talent show act is a tap dance to a song from High School Musical.
- Gabby: "Honey, I shrunk the niños!"
- In a freeze frame of Itsy's book, one of the spiders she knows is named Shelob.
- Toilet Paper Prank: Karinne ropes the twins into helping her TP the talent show judge's house.
