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Recap / VeggieTales in the House, S1, E9

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Lie-Monade: Desperate to buy the new video game on sale, "Baseball 3 Billion", Larry decides to sell lemonade. Larry then decides to sell his lemonade to everyone for 10 dollars a cup, even if it means telling a few lies to his friends.

Let's Build a Fort!: When Captain Mike is too busy with his bowling game to help Junior with building a new fort, Junior and Laura enlist the help of Larry to help build a cardboard fort. Unfortunately, the fort that they've built turns out to be incredibly unstable so it ends up causing a lot of mayhem, until Mike comes to the rescue.


Tropes found in Lie-Monade:

  • Band Wagon Technique: The whole plot of the episode, in which Larry is desperate to buy the newest video game, "Baseball 3 Billion", being the only veggie in town to not own that game.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: "Nobody wants to buy your old comics. They're old."
  • Does Not Like Spam: We learn in this episode that Mr. Lunt hates liver and onions.
  • Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: Apparently, "Baseball 3 Billion" involves the player playing against robot zombie baseball-playing trout.
  • Pep-Talk Song: "Larry's Lemonade Plus"
  • Piano Drop: Even though it wasn't seen, Jimmy apparently fell victim to this after trying to lift a piano over his head.
  • Record Needle Scratch: Happens when Larry realizes that buying 'Baseball 3 Billion' in 17 years is bad.
  • Shout-Out: The "Larry's Lemonade Plus" song can only bring to mind "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man, or even "Passamashloddy" from Pete's Dragon (1977).
  • Title Drop: "Lie-Monade" is actually said a couple of times in the episode.


Tropes found in Let's Build a Fort!:

  • Fun with Acronyms: C.A.S.P.E.R., which stands for Cybernetically Advanced Scientific Pin Eradication Robot.
  • I Can See My House from Here: Larry says this at the end of the episode, while he is still hanging onto the ceiling fan cord.
  • Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?: Spoofed, when Junior wonders if Larry can actually help with building a fort, to which Larry can reply, "Can a donkey tap-dance?", to which Laura then asks what it means.
  • Piano Drop: C.A.S.P.E.R. drops a piano on top of the pins at one point.
  • Shout-Out: The part in which the fort that Larry, Junior, and Laura are trapped inside as it starts rolling towards town can only bring to mind the video game Katamari Damacy.
  • Something We Forgot: In the end, after Junior and Laura have been saved by Mike from the giant ball-like fort that came loose, Junior and Mike are now able to spend time with each other, but they've realize that they've forgotten about Larry, who is still dangling onto the ceiling fan cord.
  • Title Drop: "It means, let's build a fort!"


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