Awesome / Fillmore!

"Um, Elliot? Here's your candy back."

Winston Cotter: You haven't won, Fillmore. I still have the printing press. I still have the plates. You and your partner can't stop me by yourselves.
Vallejo: They're not by themselves. Not anymore.

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General

• How about every Chase Scene in the entire run of the series?

Season 1

To Mar a Stall

• While visiting Randal the Vandal in detention, Ingrid and Fillmore are asked to surrender any writing utensils. The guard gets pushy with Ingrid asking if she has any lipstick or eyeliner. Clearly upset at seeing his partner being badgered unfairly, Fillmore, deciding to mess with the guard a bit, tells him he doesn't have any eyeliner or lipstick either, thanks for asking. Also overlaps with Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
  • However, said moment is then at least partially justified as the teacher/guard shows them a picture of what Randal did with a miniature golf pencil. We only see the reactions, but if he could do that with a mere min-golf pencil, then clearly he's very clever and all the security is needed. We then later see for ourselves what he's capable of doing when a tiny pencil is accidentally left around him again, and the result is arguably a moment of awesome in and of itself.
• Fillmore's speech to Randall Julian when he is about to deface the Teacher's Lounge bathroom, he says that if Randall thinks his graffiti is so amazing, and he cares about attention more than anything else, he should sign it with his own name instead of hiding behind a fake alias. When he tries, his hand shakes so much that he can't do it, and Fillmore lectures him on wasting his talent on graffiti and giving up his passion for macaroni collages because he had let fame get to his head, forgetting that he loved making art purely for it's own sake. Realizing how far he'd fallen, this successfully convinces Julian to back off....and has him planning to start making macaroni art again

Test of the Tested

• Fillmore's entrance when blocking Elliot's escape route. Still fully clad in the lobster suit, Elliot stops immediately and turns around as all that's seen is the top of the suit with the eyes looking straight at him. Fillmore then chases Elliot down the hallway with a floor waxer set to full power, and nearly manages to grab him. Unfortunately, he misses and is forced to eject from the waxer, resulting in its destruction.
• Just as Elliot is about to escape, Ingrid casually rolls by with her new scooter, tossing the candy he used to trip her up earlier right at his feet.
  Ingrid: You should stay away from that stuff. It's real bad for you.

A Wurm in Our Midst

• Fillmore is convinced that Tony Clementina, a certain crook who's a constant thorn in the Safety Patrol's side, is behind the theft of all the books in the school's library. Ingrid however becomes convinced that he's not behind it since the books were hidden in a tree house and the supposed thief is so petrified of heights he once threw up having to watch a movie about a hot air balloon. When she tries to convince Fillmore to seek another answer, he refuses because of the guy's past crimes. Ingrid, fed up with this line of thinking, calls him out on his hypocrisy by tossing the files she dug up about Fillmore's delinquent past onto his desk and leaving the room in disgust. This call-out not only gets Fillmore to change his mind about his accusation but prompts him to tell her the full story behind the soda can rocket that prompted her to dig into his past in the first place.
  • Also Tony stopping the thief.

A Cold Day at X

• Quite possibly the best and most clever line in the series: An algebra teacher, whose introductory scene shows her explaining to her classmates that no matter what, for any given equation the value of x will always stay the same, strongly believes that when you give them the chance and simply trust them, students will do the right thing on their own. Fillmore contests this and tells her that times have changed since she was a student at X Middle School and thus stays at school overnight to ensure that a group of students don't steal the test answers. However, by the end of the episode, Fillmore realizes that she turned out to be right, at least with those kids. When the teacher talks to him the next day, she says: "So Fillmore, you had a whole day of school to yourself. Did you manage to learn anything?" Fillmore's reply? "Yeah. The value of X remains constant."
  • A keen teaching moment too. Given that she was put in a scenario where her own teacher had accidentally left the answers up while she was taking the make-up test, a test that wasn't altered from the original and with no proof that she actually cheated, she still refused to look at the answers and earned a C on the test. Fast-forward to the episode, she put her answer key in the drawer and announced it to the class. To quote many real life teachers, if you went through that much effort to cheat, then you're only cheating yourself.

Masterstroke of Malevolence

• Fillmore's Batman Gambit to find the culprit-after getting O'Farrell's camera film developed, Fillmore says he knows who the perpetrator is he looks right at Leo and Leo admits to the crime, later it's revealed that the picture in the camera was of O'Farrell's shoes, so Fillmore managed to bluff Leo into confessing based on pure instinct.

A Forgotten Yesterday

• Fillmore Out Gambits the culprit, his Evil Former Friend Sonny Lombard, by taking advantage of one minor detail he overlooked: the phone call he made to Representative Peabody was on the phone he gave to Fillmore and wasn't deleted, therefore the Safety Patrol was able to get a warrant to steal the ledger, making it entirely legitimate. He then reveals that he's taped his entire confession. Cue Ingrid moving in on them with a ship, lighting Lombard with a spotlight.
  • After the culprit is apprehended, he tells Fillmore it didn't have to end this way. Fillmore tells him he's right. Sonny should've came along with Fillmore after he went straight. His life with the safety patrol is far better than his life as a thief and there's no chance of him ever going back to that.

Of Slain Kings On Checkered Fields

• Fillmore standing up to Folsom's badgering and coldly informing her that he and Ingrid are protecting Checkmatey for Checkmatey's sake, not for her and not so the school will look good if he wins the chess match. It's one of the few times, if not the only time, Fillmore has ever snapped back at Folsom during any of her complaints and nagging about the Safety Patrol's supposed failures. It's telling all Folsom does is glare at Fillmore in response.

Season 2

The Currency of Doubt

• The culprit dresses and moves like a ninja while attacking Fillmore and Ingrid, complete with flips across awnings.

The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes

• Francine Bishop has singlehandedly made enough high-quality ice sculptures in her backyard to fill a small museum wing, including a castle half the size of her house. Since they are outdoors and not being refrigerated, that means that she made all of them over one winter while still taking time to attend classes and Drama Club meetings.

Foes Don't Forgive

• When Stage Magician Linus Santiago asserts his innocence in a theft, he makes a live dove appear in his hands while illustrating a point about how magic and innocence can both be hard to prove. The awesome part is how he has been under questioning for minutes and may have been searched before then, but there's still no hint of the dove's presence until he makes it appear.

South of Friendship, North of Honor

• Wayne in backstory. He was the only person who saw anything worth saving in Fillmore, a known hardened delinquent and crook, and offered him the choice between an unspecified but probably long period of detention and helping the Safety Patrol bust a crook. Fillmore chooses the latter and became the best Patroller the force has ever seen. Fillmore echoes this when he tells Wayne he's too good to look the other way no matter what the corrupt Sheriff of the Safety Patrol and his flunkies do. Wayne repays this gesture by breaking out of the detention he received for investigating the theft that drives most of the episode's plot to help Fillmore when he gets into trouble going after the Sheriff by himself (despite it having been Fillmore's idea to investigate and therefore, indirectly his fault Wayne got demoted) and the pair end up jointly completely busting the Sheriff, getting him shipped off to military school with Wayne gaining leadership of the Safety Patrol with all the help he needs to clean up the school.

Immune to All but Justice

• Vallejo and the Safety Patrol's Big Damn Heroes moment: Vallejo personally threatening the son of a Canadian ambassador who abuses his diplomatic immunity, knowing full well it lies outside his jurisdiction and that his title of Junior Commissioner could be suspended. Note this also happens after his two best officers quit the safety patrol to take care of the perp and his gang on their own, after he nagged them about leaving said kid alone. Vallejo would have been obligated to take Fillmore and Ingrid's badges, and he cares about the two enough to not want to be the one to do it. You know he knows what's at stake, and he goes through with it anyway.
  Winston Cotter: I'll see to it that Principal Folsom has all of you expelled!
  Vallejo: What are you gonna do? Tell Principal Folsom we ruined your counterfeit baseball card operation? I kinda doubt that. We may not be able to officially bust you, but if you cause any more trouble in this school, the entire Safety Patrol is going to turn your life into a nightmare from which you will never wake. Am I making myself clear?
  Winston Cotter: ...Yes, sir.
• In the final scene of the episode, Fillmore figuring out that Penny was the one who stole the cards by noting that he never told her what cards were stolen. Then, when she tries to convince him to let it slide, he responds with this:
  Fillmore: You played me for a sucker, Penny. I'm not going out like that. Not for you, not anymore. Be at H.Q. first thing in the morning. Don't make me come get you. And one last thing baby, that chicken was dry. Real dry.

The Nineteenth Hole is a Shallow Grave

• Fillmore managing to beat the school mini-golf club so hard that he won every trophy they'd ever won in a row, solely because they wouldn't let him join. Yes, it was a horrible thing to do, but he managed to beat all of them in what was implied to be one day. That takes serious talent.
  • And then he tops it by being man enough to admit it was terrible and make amends.
• Biggie Clement and his cronies attempted to sabotage Fillmore at the last hole, and he handcuffed Ingrid to himself so she couldn't scream at Fillmore to warn him - as if he lost his concentration, there would be no do-overs. One of his thugs was prepared to fire chutney at Fillmore and the other was on the street with an airhorn. So as they were about to act, Ingrid snatched Biggie's churro from his hands, using it to divert the chutney to fire at Biggie's face instead and then threw the churro into the airhorn, clogging it and allowing Fillmore to make the last shot and win the open, ruining Biggie's entire business and saving the open. And since Biggie handcuffed himself to Ingrid, he couldn't make a break for it when Fillmore got everyone present to help him escort Biggie back to the Safety Patrol Headquarters.

Codename: Electric Haircut

• A tied-up Fillmore uses a CD to cut his bindings and then uses the severed ropes to restrain his assailant.
• When Ingrid tries to race out of a room, the Forced into Evil accomplice is revealed to be a former member of the cheerleading squad who rolls and cartwheels across the desks to get ahead of her and then does the splits between the desks on either side of the door to block her from getting out.

The Unseen Reflection

• Tori calling out the author of the Vampirita novels for the lack of respect she has for her fans and her apathy towards the series itself. While this could've just been Tori being a Straw Fan or Loony Fan attacking the author for not having the same zeal for the series as her fans do, it instead comes out as a fan having legitimate complaints for the lack of effort and care the author has put into the latest entry. It's further justified in that said author clearly doesn't care about the books or her fans and has only been writing them for the money and because of her contract (possibly having become disillusioned after writing the series for so many books). What started this off was the author calling Tori's best friend Terri "a nutso fan" for the lengths Terri went through to secretly sabotage their entries in the fan contest to get them featured as characters in the new book after learning how horribly the series Jumped the Shark (Vampirita suddenly dating her "sworn genetic enemy" and giving him all the secrets of the resistance for no justifiable reason). The author even admitted she wrote the entire thing on a plane trip to Milan, which proves she's not even interested in making an effort to earn her paycheck at this point. As Tori puts it, a book is supposed to be a promise made to the readers, and she suggests the author try keeping it next time.
  Tori: Just...a book?! Too bad some people don't know their own characters well enough to know that they don't end up dating their sworn genetic enemies. You know, some people would say that this whole thing happened because Terri promised her cousin she wouldn't tell me about the book or because TQ promised he wouldn't rat Terri out. But I say it happened because you didn't know how to keep your promise to your fans. That's what a book is Madam, a promise. Try keeping it next time.