History Recap / CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet

* RealityEnsues: Cole pretends to be sick so he can stay home and stop his mom from killing any rats. But because Paige is actually sick, his exposure around her cause him to catch her cold and actually get sick.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Owen has a system to help keep Central Park trash-free, Birdie describes Owen's system as as "Garbage Ballet", which leads to the titular song where the park workers and garbagemen do ballet dancing while transporting the garbage.

* DestroyTheEvidence: After Molly and Hazel discovers that Molly accidentally took Brendan's phone with her after the peanut allergy kiss and Hazel sees Molly left Brendan a ton of embarrassing text messages, Hazel tells her they need to erase all the texts before they return the phone.

* {{Chickification}}: InUniverse. When Molly's friend Hazel reads her comic, she realizes that molly's self-insert, Fistypuffs, used to be a badass that was saving the city, but ever since Kite Boy showed up, the comic derailed into nothing but her swooning over Kite Boy.

* FeverDreamEpisode: Downplayed. While we don't see it from her perspective most of the time, Paige thinks there are rats inside their home and tries to kill any while Cole tries to stop her. When Paige and Cole are in the basement, they hallucinate seeing a swarm of rats eating their food and they run back upstairs. It's proven they imagined it when Owen reveals that he and the exterminator never found any rats down there.

* PlayingSick: When a sick Paige plans on killing any rats they might be inside their home, Cole pretends to be sick so he can stop her from killing any. He eventually catches his mom's cold and is sick for real.

* FaceYourFears: The housekeeping staff at Bitsy's hotel are too afraid to clean on the seventh floor because they think it's haunted, specifically Room 723, so Bitsy tries to get her staff to face their fears so they can do their jobs. The staff is able to keep every room on the seventh floor but refuses to clean Room 723 unless Bitsy sleeps in the room for one night to prove it's not haunted, which she agrees to do.

* FaceYourFears: The hotel cleaning staff at the Bitsy's hotel are too afraid to clean on the seventh floor because they think it's haunted, so Bitsy tries to get her staff to face their fears so they can do their jobs.

* ShoutOut: "I'm the Worst" features explicit references to ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[{{ComicBook/TheMightyThor}} Thor]], ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', and ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Bitsy spends the entire Episode trying to convince the cleaning staff that the seventh floor is not haunted. She agrees to spend the night on said floor in order to convince them. While she openly mocks them for thinking the floor was haunted, as soon as Bitsy is alone, she openly expresses that she can feel her Father haunting the floor.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Esposito, garbage sanitation manager, is not too fond of the attitude the Mayor has about the entire thing and helps Owen in finding a loophole, allowing them to collect the trash from Central Park.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Bitsy spends the entire Episode trying to convince the cleaning stff that the seventh floor is nto haunted. She agrees to spend the night on said floor, in order to convince them. While she openly mcks them for thinking the floor was haunted, as soon as Bitsy is alne, she openly expresses that she can feel her Father haunting the floor.

--->'''Birdie:''' Sir, not only are you a gentleman, you are an exceptional potter.
--->'''Esposito:''' Oh, I didn't make that. I made this.
--->''(Esposito takes out a less-impressive pot)''
--->'''Birdie:''' Well, you are a gentleman.

* ShoutOut: "I'm the Worst" features explicit references to [[{{Franchise/SpiderMan}} Spider-Man]], [[{{Film/TheDarkKnightRises}} The Dark Knight Rises]], [[{{ComicBook/TheMightyThor}} Thor]], [[{{Film/AvengersInfinityWar}} Avengers: Infinity War]], and [[{{Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay}} Terminator 2: Judgement Day]].

--->'''Esposito:''' Look I'd really like to help you
--->But this isn't gonna work
--->My orders they come straight from the mayor
--->And he's being such a... penis-face.
--->'''Birdie:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why didn't you just say jerk? It would've rhymed.]]

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Used in "Manager to Manger". It also inverts the usual gag with this trope as the failed rhyme was even more profane than the expected rhyme. Birdie lampshades this.

--->'''Birdie:''' Why didn't you just say jerk? It would've rhymed.

* FeverDreamEpisode: Downplayed. While we don't see it from her perspective, Paige thinks there are rats inside their home and tries to kill any while Cole tries to stop her. When Paige and Cole are in the basement, they hallucinate seeing a mischief of rats eating their food and it's the only time we see their hallucination. It's proven they imagined it when Owen reveals that he and the exterminator never found any rats down there.

* FeverDreamEpisode: Downplayed. While we don't see it from her perspective, Paige thinks there are rats inside their home and tries to kill any while Cole tries to stop her. While Paige and Cole are in the basement, they hallucinate seeing a mischief of rats eating their food and it's the only time we see their hallucination. It's proven to be an hallucination when Owen reveals that he and the exterminator never found any rats down there.

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