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->'''Ethan:''' You have a digital clock??'''

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->'''Ethan:''' You have a digital clock??'''clock??



* Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The two bandits spend the majority of the second half of the episode stealing cows (both legally and illegally). Then when they're finally defeated, they both lament that they really need cows and are so jealous that Carla has so many of them. Emily sets them both straight by saying that it's no excuse to violate Carla's right to property.

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* Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The two bandits spend the majority of the second half of the episode stealing cows (both legally and illegally). Then when they're finally defeated, they both lament that they really need cows and are so jealous that Carla has so many of them. Emily sets them both straight by saying that it's no excuse to violate Carla's right to property.
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!!"When Laws Give You Lemons" contains the following tropes:

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!!"When Laws Give You Lemons" !!This episode contains the following tropes:
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'''"When Laws Give You Lemons":''' When Grandma Gabby moves in with the Tuttle family, she takes her twin grandkids on a wheelchair time machine to France and the Old West to learn about laws and try to save their lemonade stand.

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'''"When Laws Give You Lemons":''' '''Summary:''' When Grandma Gabby moves in with the Tuttle family, she takes her twin grandkids on a wheelchair time machine to France and the Old West to learn about laws and try to save their lemonade stand.
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* AnAesop: We all have God-given, natural rights, and the government's responsibility is to protect those rights. When the government violates those rights, they become the bad guys.

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* AnAesop: We all have God-given, natural rights, and the government's responsibility is "If it's not right for me to protect those rights. When steal from you, then it's not right for the government violates those rights, they become the bad guys.to steal from us too."

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* AnAesop: We all have God-given, natural rights, and the government's responsibility is to protect those rights. When the government violates those rights, they become the bad guys.



->'''Ethan:''' Emily, remind me why we're on this ''death trap'' again?



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sherriff Winkles pauses his arrest of two cow bandits to preach about the sacred duty of his office to the twins. But while doing so, the bandits slip away.
->'''Ethan:''' Emily, remind me why we're on this ''death trap'' again?

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sherriff Sheriff Winkles pauses his arrest of two cow bandits to preach about the sacred duty of his office to the twins. But while doing so, the bandits slip away.
->'''Ethan:''' Emily, remind me why we're on this ''death trap'' again?
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->'''Sherriff Winkles:''' Uh...it was a teaching moment.

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->'''Sherriff ->'''Sheriff Winkles:''' Uh...it was a teaching moment.

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* StrawHypocrite: Besides the fact that those "tax collectors" are really just the bandits in disguise, they claim that collecting cows from Carla will help create new jobs and help the poor and the needy, but they barely hide the fact that they're just plain greedy.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sherriff Winkles pauses his arrest of two cow bandits to preach about the sacred duty of his office to the twins. But while doing so, the bandits slip away.



* RealityEnsues: Sherriff Winkles pauses his arrest of two cow bandits to preach about the sacred duty of his office to the twins. But while doing so, the bandits slip away.



* StrawHypocrite: Besides the fact that those "tax collectors" are really just the bandits in disguise, they claim that collecting cows from Carla will help create new jobs and help the poor and the needy, but they barely hide the fact that they're just plain greedy.

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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The two bandits spend the majority of the second half of the episode stealing cows (both legally and illegally). Then when they're finally defeated, they both lament that they really need cows and are so jealous that Carla has so many of them. Emily sets them both straight by saying that it's no excuse to violate Carla's right to property.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: When the kids are watching the revolt outside of Bastiat's window, a burning wig can be seen flying by.
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The two bandits spend the majority of the second half of the episode stealing cows (both legally and illegally). Then when they're finally defeated, they both lament that they really need cows and are so jealous that Carla has so many of them. Emily sets them both straight by saying that it's no excuse to violate Carla's right to property.



* RealityEnsues: Sherriff Winkles pauses his arrest of two cow bandits to preach about the sacred duty of his office to the twins. But while doing so, the bandits slip away.
->'''Carla:''' Is this like a teaching moment, or did you ''want'' the bandits to escape?
->'''Sherriff Winkles:''' Uh...it was a teaching moment.



->'''Bastiat (horrified):''' It's not for salad!

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->'''Bastiat (horrified):''' It's not for salad!salad!
* WorthIt: The wheelchair runs out of knowledge juice and crashes in the Old West because Gabby made too many stops for slushies. She doesn't mind.

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* BrutallyHonest: When Frederic Bastiat tells the twins they have the right to say the things they want to say, Emily immediately tells him he should wear deodorant.



* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The kids and Gabby visit Frederic Bastiat, a 19th century French writer.

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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The two bandits spend the majority of the second half of the episode stealing cows (both legally and illegally). Then when they're finally defeated, they both lament that they really need cows and are so jealous that Carla has so many of them. Emily sets them both straight by saying that it's no excuse to violate Carla's right to property.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The kids and Gabby visit Frederic Bastiat, a 19th century French writer.writer and economist.



* MacGyvering: Grandma Gabby made her time traveling wheelchair using a Ph. D in physics, carbon alloy and the little plastic thing that holds a bread bag closed.

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* MacGyvering: Grandma Gabby made her time traveling wheelchair using a Ph. D in physics, carbon alloy and the little plastic thing that holds a bread bag closed.closed.
* NeverSayDie: The very first line of dialogue averts this.
->'''Ethan:''' Emily, remind me why we're on this ''death trap'' again?
* StrawHypocrite: Besides the fact that those "tax collectors" are really just the bandits in disguise, they claim that collecting cows from Carla will help create new jobs and help the poor and the needy, but they barely hide the fact that they're just plain greedy.
* ToiletHumor: Grandma Gabby mistakes a bidet for a salad bowl.
->'''Gabby:''' Thanks for letting me borrow the bidet! It sprays salad dressing with such force!
->'''Bastiat (horrified):''' It's not for salad!
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Karinne [[BerserkButton gets very upset whenever someone mispronounces her name.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Gabby quickly establishes that there is no fourth wall in this series when she turns to the camera and admits to wanting to create tension for the ColdOpen.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: When Gabby and the twins crash into Frederic Bastiat's study, he waves a white flag and shouts, "I surrender!" before realizing who his intruders actually are.
->'''Bastiat:''' *chuckles* [[BlatantLies Eh, just a little French comedy.]]


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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Gabby lets her pet raccoon Derek drive. He takes some liberties.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted hard. The twins end up caught in a shootout between the sheriff and a pair of outlaws, and the bullets are very real.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The kids and Gabby visit Frederic Bastiat, a 19th century French writer.


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* LiteralMetaphor: Gabby took the saying, "Knowledge is power," and used it to create a renewable resource that converts knowledge into literal fuel.
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'''"When Laws Give You Lemons":''' When Grandma Gabby moves in with the Tuttle family, she takes her twin grandkids on a wheelchair time machine to France and the Old West to learn about laws and try to save their lemonade stand.

!!"When Laws Give You Lemons" contains the following tropes:
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Grandma Gabby first shows the twins her time traveling wheelchair, Ethan gets excited about the digital clock.
->'''Ethan:''' You have a digital clock??'''
->'''Grandma Gabby:''' [[DeadpanSnarker That's connected to a time machine.]]
->'''Ethan:''' You have a time machine that's connected to a digital clock??
* HowWeGotHere: The cold open shows Gabby and the twins blasting through time and space, and Ethan questions how they ended up in that situation. The episode then cuts to 12 hours earlier [[CutawayGag ...whoops, 11 hours earlier]]...to show just how the twins ended up in said situation.
* MacGyvering: Grandma Gabby made her time traveling wheelchair using a Ph. D in physics, carbon alloy and the little plastic thing that holds a bread bag closed.

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