Sure, getting in the ocean would probably be a better way to cool off on a hot summer day, but honestly, would you pass up surfing down the pier on an ice cream tsunami?
The Show
- Cleo: "I know! It's a pizza!" (chews flat beach ball) "Yech. Definitely not a pizza..."
- Pretty much the whole episode "An Itchy Patch", especially this scene:Dr. Din: He seems to have a rash.
Clifford: (Oh, Crap! face) - From "Flood of Imagination":Clifford: Okay, so if we're going to the ogre's castle to rescue Emily Elizabeth, we should take a few things with us. Like a picnic.
Cleo: And some games!
T-Bone: And CAKE!
Clifford: And some maps.
Cleo: And an inflatable swimming pool!
T-Bone: And CAKE!
Clifford: And gas for the car.
Cleo: And 27 pogo sticks!
T-Bone: And CAKE! - In "Cleo's Fair Share", Cleo imagines herself, T-Bone, and Clifford playing with her new chew toy. She imagines T-Bone getting it covered in saliva and Clifford swallowing the toy due to his huge size. The best part is how unapologetically she imagines Clifford would say "Oops."
- At one point, Clifford, T-Bone, and Cleo are making funny faces at each other. T-Bone turns around so he can properly adjust his face. The result? A mildly-angry face with his tongue sticking out.
- In one episode, Clifford is helping to paint the set pieces for a school play, and ends up wagging his tail so much he gets paint everywhere. Jetta however is only hit on the nose, and makes a big fuss about it despite otherwise being clean.
- In "Jetta's Friend", Jetta's pen pal from the city is visiting and Jetta plans out the entire day and uses a timer to keep track of time. After a bird steals and drops it, it shatters on the ground.Jetta: Aww! This was definitely not part of the plan!
- Birdwell Island, as shown in a weather map in one episode, is literally shaped like a dog's chewing bone.
- In one episode, the dogs make the mistake of playing in a field where there happens to be stinkweed growing, causing everyone on the island to shirk away in disgust. As per usual, Cleo refuses to take a bath and instead suggests that they all take a sand bath, hoping it would somehow rub out the stench. Instead it seems to only make things worse, with everyone on the dock backing away and telling him to his face to take a bath. Even Cleo throws in the towel after that plan fails.
- Clifford getting tie-dyed, with the dogs mistaking a set of paint bottles for shampoo when they help him take a bath. Each paint color causes Clifford to laugh harder and harder as they tickle his fur, before his entire back end is now rainbow-colored.
- In one episode, Jetta spends an entire episode with her mother trying to get to Titanic Tower in the city, which is supposed to offer spectacular views of the area. While Emily and Clifford enjoy an entire day back home enjoying the island's simpler pleasures, Jetta and her mother encounter nothing but trouble the entire way, and finally make it up to the building only to have their view ruined by a fog. Jetta's mother makes very clear she has no intention of ever repeating that trip again.Jetta's Mother: "Next time"? Next time, we're going to the zoo.
- Charlie and Emily using Samuel's ice cream maker to serve the customers on the pier, only to find the entire place flooded with ice cream when the machine jams. The thing dispenses absurd amounts of ice cream, which washes the customers away like a tidal wave and is eagerly gobbled up by the dogs.
- By the time Samuel returns to fix the machine, the entire dock is swamped with the stuff. Funnily enough, the guy who was supposed to help Charlie if anything went wrong at the restaurant apparently never took notice of an entire dock swamped with vanilla ice cream.
- Emily and Charlie's attempt to make perfume with Jetta's help as part of a Mother's Day gift for Emily's mom. Jetta's idea of making perfume is simply mixing up all of the sweet or delicious-smelling things they could find, including flowers, pine needles, cookies, bread and chocolate, even Clifford's bone gets added to the mix. Turns out the process is far different than what Jetta understands, and the end result is an absolutely foul-smelling concoction that only results in wasted food.
- Jetta's attempts to steal back a sweater she gave to Emily because she disliked how it looked, forgetting it was a present from her grandmother who happens to be visiting on that particular day. Jetta tries all sorts of schemes to convince Emily to take off the sweater so she can swipe it back, only for Clifford to inadvertently interfere with each "accident" she orchestrates. When we finally meet Jetta's grandmother, we find out that the way she tends to wear her sweater is actually a family thing, and when her grandmother clears up the entire misunderstanding in front of Emily and has Jetta put it on for her friends to see, she smiles with a look that just screams of how much she wishes she weren't there.
- When Mac runs away from home after accidentally ruining Jetta's favorite sweater, the dogs go out to look for him. Cleo gets her fur stuck on a thorn bush and can't get free, so Clifford offers to pull her off with his paw.Cleo: I dunno...
T-Bone: Maybe Mr. Kibble can come out and cut off all your fur instead!
Cleo: (Beat) Nevermind, I'll grab his leg! - In "Limelight Fright," long after the show is over, Cleo continues hopping back and forth frantically, clearly exhausted. After collapsing, the music starts up again. Being completely drained, she can't dance to it, and faints again.
- In "It's my Party", Jetta keeps showing the other kids her home videos. Emily Elizabeth keeps smiling through it all to be polite. Towards the second act, all the guests are bored out of their minds. Emily is still smiling, but at this point, it's less of a smile so much as it is an un-smile. It's pretty transparent she's no less bored than everyone else.
- "Stinky Friends" has our trio of dogs learn the hard way that when a sign says "Do not go into this field", it means everyone, be they person or dog. Mysteriously enough, why did the sign forbid anyone to play in the field? Unknown to our canine protagonists, it was filled with stinkweed. Ultimately, the dogs have to get a bath, with Cleo (who suggest breaking the rules) being the grouchiest as she's bathed, dried and combed.
Clifford's Really Big Movie
- Larry's "Amazing" Animals show at the carnival. While the kids find it quite a disaster, Clifford and the gang find it spectacular.
- Dorothy the cow trying on the tightrope. She panics and her weight causes the wire to lower and she flops on top of Larry, slingshotting Shackleford the ferret into the sky.
- While trying to come up with a plan to make Clifford inconspicuous on their journey.Cleo: We need a plan, guys!
T-Bone: Alright, who's got a plan?
Cleo: I do.
Clifford: Are you sure?
Cleo: Have I ever steered you wrong?
Clifford & T-Bone: Well—
Cleo: Don't answer that.
