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The gang go to visit Mr. B and the Secret Six on the farm bought with the puppies' championship money. Unfortunately, chores and catching up fall by the wayside when a monstrous farmer turns up.


This episode includes examples of the following tropes:

  • Animal Wrongs Group: Frida Flora wanted to take the Secret Six puppies to protect them from the Demon Farmer. Though she becomes a suspect when it's revealed that whoever possesses the puppies, owns the farm and even tried to take them by force. Fortunately, the puppies trap her inside a silo. Presumably, she gave up (if unwillingly) when the Demon Farmer was caught.
  • Haunted Technology: According to Farmer P, Farmer Terwilliker irritated the spirits by building his farm on top of their burial places. In revenge, they used the farmer's tractor to kill him.
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Midway through the episode, the gang discovers a vault on Mr. B's farm. The code to the vault comes from the correct orientation of the numbers on the puppies' collars.
  • Impossibly Delicious Food: The rainbow-colored popcorn that Mr. B and Jonas have been secretly working on, with each kernel coming in an odd combination of two flavors (i.e. marshmallow and onion ring). This was also the culprit’s motive: he knew that popcorn would be bad for his own business and wanted the recipe for himself.
  • Indian Burial Ground: The ghost of the week's backstory involves him angering a group of spirits by farming on their resting places. It may not be an Indian burial ground (the ethnicity of the spirits is never given), but it carries the same nasty consequences that usually follow the trope.
  • Murder Into Malevolence: While we never see much of what Farmer Terwilliker was like in life, he doesn't seem like a bad guy from the brief story. After being murdered by the spirits, using his own tractor, he became a bloodthirsty monster who will attack innocent people (or dogs) just for being on his land.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Farmer P, Mr. B's neighbor, turns out to be Neville Popenbacher, a popcorn magnate who heavily resembles Orville Redenbacher, himself a popcorn mascot.
  • Popcorn on the Cob: Mr. B and Jonas's genetically-engineered corn has multicolored popcorn literally growing right on the cob, rather than popping from the kernels.
  • Pun-Based Title: The title is a pun on "armed and dangerous."
  • Saying Too Much: Velma pretends to let the puppies' hiding spot slip when Frida comes back with a legal order to get them away from the farm (and the ghost). She goes to retrieve them and they lock her in a silo.
  • Sinister Scythe: The ghost replaced one hand with a scythe blade
  • Take That!: Possibly one against Orville Redenbacher. Not only his counterpart in this episode, Neville Popenbacher, turns out to be the culprit, but the gang make unflattering comments about his popcorn brand.
  • Tastes Like Feet: According to Daphne, Popenbacher's popcorn tastes like "greasy cardboard".
  • Wham Line: After Mr. B gets himself stuck in Fred's trap for the ghost, Velma suggests they go to Farmer P to borrow a pair of wire-cutters. Mr. B reveals he doesn't know anyone named Farmer P.

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