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Arlo the Alligator Boy funny moments
Original film | I ♥ Arlo

The pizzeria needs the most work.

General

• The Running Gag of the theater playing movies with all kinds of ridiculous titles that would make any sane person in-universe ask "Who writes this crap?!" In order:
  • Cory the Crocodile Boy
  • Who Ate This?
  • Eating Ice Cream for an Hour
  • Creep Crepe
  • Very Close to Nothing Happens
  • Bro Got Me Thinkin'
  • What Dancing Squirrels Can't Do
  • I SAID thank you
  • And of course, The Pumpkin Boy of Indiana

• Every time there's a close-up of the fountain, the nostrils on the horse bubble up with green gunk that could pass as mucus. Amazingly, the mayor sees it as a feature.

Friendship Couch

• The very first scene where Arlo greets everyone in the morning, showing:
  • A seagull smacking into the old Seaside sign.
  • Another gull knocking Furlecia into the door.
  • Tony asking Arlo to scream if he sees the health inspector, followed by him advertising his pizza parlor:
  Tony: Deal of the day, folks, get one slice, get another for the same price!
  • Arlo greeting Marcellus in the fountain, who responds thustly:
  Marcellus (starring daggers at Arlo): Remove yourself from my fountain at once.
  • When Arlo gets Bertie's attention:
  Bertie: What is it? Who's after you? The seagulls? (eyes narrow) I'll end them.
• Arlo declaring himself as super independent, noting that he brushes his teeth at least once a month.
• Everything about the couch that Arlo and Alia found on the beach. It's every bit as disgusting as that implies. The moment Bertie grips it, green...something...spurts out of it. Her look of absolute disgust says it all.
• Alia leaves Arlo and Bertie to take up a job at Tony's...that was due two hours ago.
• Arlo trying and failing to lift his couch half while sounding completely winded.
• Arlo irritating Tony by calling his parlor twice. Following that, Alia delivers some to him...and almost all of it's already eaten because she got hungry.
• When Arlo goes to Furlecia's salon to at least try to get rid of his alone sorrows, he requests his traditional pageboy cut for over two hours, asking to do more whenever Furlecia says she's done. Arlo's reason?
  Arlo: Well, you see... my hair grows... really fast?
  Furlecia: Mama! I used to crimp my own bangs. I know a cry for help when I see one!
  (Takes the bowl off Arlo's head revealing him comically teary-eyed)
• Most of Arlo's housewarming party guests are completely random folks who happened to be nearby, including a stray dog and a sea turtle.
• Arlo's housewarming setup:
  Arlo: We've got a bunch of strangers, a half-eaten pizza crust, and I've got one cup!
  Marcellus: WHICH YOU'RE BORROWING FROM ME!
• The housewarming gift portrait Bertie gave Arlo featuring the both of them is sweet...thought it probably would be better if it wasn't a pic of Arlo smothering the girl's irritated face.
• Marcellus shacking his backside in front of the old lady at the party wouldn't be as funny if she weren't sporting a Luminescent Blush while he did it.
• Alia dancing with the (non-anthropomorphic) dog.
• The party is shown to have gone on for THREE DAYS STRAIGHT. Come morning, and everyone (minus Arlo) looks completely exhausted. Furlecia in particular is passed out on the floor (though still moving her limbs to the beat) while Marcellus is just standing there and holding the turtle close to his chest.
• Alia leaving Arlo's house while sleeping on a horde of cats that carry her off.
• During "The Way", Bertie looks at Arlo, and out of nowhere he's shown with Bishie Sparkles surrounding him.
• At the very end, Arlo gets Jeromio in the mail, and laughs about how if he had come a day earlier, he and Arlo could have been roommates without needing Bertie to always be there. It's pretty obvious that Bertie just realized this whole thing has been a "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot.

A Memory of Pizza

• The gang repeatedly trying to make a promotional video for Seaside, only for them to keep futzing up the last line, resulting in countless takes.
  • The sign at the beginning reading "The New York Tourism Board has not approved this video".
  • The actual promo is quite amusing with how Tony proudly advertises things like sidewalks and seabirds, one of which tugs on his mustache.
  • They seem to get the line right at one point...then Marcellus shows up with a phone (that's still attached to a cord).
• The moment Marcellus hands Arlo the phone, the poor kid goes flying across Seaside thanks to the cord. Somehow, he has plenty of time to talk to his dad as this goes on before crashing offscreen.
• Ansel repeatedly getting interrupted on the phone by the loud coffee machine next to him. It comes back as a Brick Joke when Arlo uses coffee machine noises to describe what he would do.
• Tony pipes in when everyone's coming up with ideas:
  Tony: I could serve up a pizza meal so elegant we could serve it to a king!
  Alia: Maybe a Rat King.
  Tony: You don't know what you're talking about! My pizza is only appreciated by the finest of palates!
  (gets attacked by a seagull out of nowhere)
  Marcellus: Yeah, this is a fancy person's nightmare.
  (Later after everyone agrees to the plan)
  Tony (still struggling with the gull): Help! Help! I can't let go! Its strength is otherworldly!
  (Gets smashed through the ceiling.)
  Arlo: Yeah, the pizzaria needs the most work.
  (Everyone agrees.)
  • Marcellus stating that he's Only in It for the Money while everyone else is for Seaside.
• The gang spraypainting a box in gold color so that they can hide the fountain's head.
• Alia somehow getting a live bear as a "living rug". Amazingly, it's quite docile, and is also never mentioned again.
• Ansel experimenting with nicknames to give Arlo. The moment he considers "pumpkin", Gordy shows up and just stares at him before making a slit throat gesture to him, complete with "Psycho" Strings.
  Ansel: Okay, not pumpkin.
• Arlo proudly declaring that the fake flowers will outlive them all.
• Bertie serving coffee to Ansel in a cowboy boot painted gold, which she describes as having been worn by the only cowboy outlawed in all 50 states.
  • Once Ansel notices Bessie and tosses the boot away, it lands on Arlo's head.
  Arlo: Look at me! I'm a desperado!
• Mayor Elena telling Ansel that she prefers things that on on the ground, like cars and trains. It's obvious from the man's voice, him being a bird-person, that his heart might have sank a little from that.
• Alia trying to distract Elena with a pitch to lower the legal driving age.
• While everyone's racing to fix up the parlor, Marcellus is just scarfing down pepperoni.
• Tony's "Memory of Pizza" setting Furlecia's hair on fire.
• The fact that this whole thing was a "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot thanks to Ansel interpreting Elena's visit all wrong.
  Ansel: I tend to catastrophize.
  Elena: Okay, well let's listen less to the bird man with the golden helicopter.
• Ansel wonders where Arlo got the idea that he's fancy right before receiving a Memory of Pizza from Marcellus said to be infused with "essense of diamond, caviar, and inherited wealth", which he declares are three things fancy people like him love before realizing where Arlo's coming from.
• After the Uncondemning was announced and Ansel tells Arlo he has a lot of work ahead of him, we see a seagull tossing a stone weight through a window to unleash a horde of birds into the air.
  Arlo: (rolls his eyes) Yeah, we do.
• The gang trying the video again, and they seem to finally get it right...then a dolphin comes out of nowhere and smashes through the window behind them.
  Arlo: We'll get it eventually.

Be the Turtle

• Marcellus toying with Alia with a light made from two spyglasses taped together.
• After Tony slaps Arlo's hand away from the pizza he was preparing, they just stare at each other for a good three seconds of uncomfortable silence before he lets him have it.
• Alia rambling on about what distracted her from her chores, making all sorts of funny faces while doing so, before tons of garbage pours out of her bus, which she dives into.
• Tony declaring that Alia has the attention span of a fruit fly on caffeine.
• Every time Alia gets distracted, her POV is accompanied by an incredibly fast-paced and discordant dubstep/techno theme.
• Tony has a guy on the line in case Alia fails (which he's counting on). And it's a person named...Aunt Guy.
• Alia getting endlessly distracted while going for the foundation sign. Highlights include:
  • Her going to a vegan rally with Bertie off-screen before declaring that she'll never eat meat again right before going for some pepperoni pizza.
  • Her joining Sam the music man in a session that takes her to a rooftop where Gordy is spray painting "Spooky" on the wall. She joins in to spray her name all over his work. After she leaves, he looks down solemnly without changing his expression.
    • Made even more amusing by how, originally, he was going to be Alia's best friend in the movie.
  • Finally, her calling Arlo to tell him that she somehow ended up working a third shift on a water taxi while looking very disheveled.
• While trying to encourage Alia, Arlo starts balancing on his tail to show her what perserverence gets. The funny part is the girl's expression, which just screams Flat "What".
• Tony telling Alia at the end that he never once doubted her before shooing off Aunt Guy before she shows up with another sign.
• Marcellus' brief Oh, Crap! look before the gang jumps into the fountain with Alia.

The Shedding

• Arlo shedding his skin is a case of majorly exaggerated Surprisingly Creepy Moment...and then he comes out just fine with an admittedly creepy-looking shredded skin.
• Alia's "fight" against the large seagull, which just smashes her into the fountain for ten seconds before tipping a trash can onto her.
• After breaking into Arlo's room, Alia goes off about how horrifying the "ghost" she saw was...while her friend is in earshot as she uses every adjective for "hideous" she can think of.
• Alia's "protection spell", which is basically her spreading candles all over Arlo's room. She even implicitly volunteers to sacrifice Jeromio, who's at the center of it without a care, though she thankfully backs off upon hearing him ribbit.
  • Upon asking him for some sage so she can cast a "herbal perimeter", Arlo suggests the oregano from Tony's Pizzeria she always carries around:
  Alia: Yes, oregano. Not...(chuckles nervously)...catnip.
• The large seagull wearing Arlo's skin like a Nemean Skinning.
• The fact that Bertie believes the ghost thing wholesale, believing them to be worse than rats.
• After Arlo is carried off by the seagull, Bertie arrives to see what she missed:
  Alia: The ghost took Arlo.
  (Everyone gasps)
  Furlecia and Tony: A ghost?
  Bertie: Took Arlo?!
  Alia: Yeah, that's literally what I said.
• Arlo is about to sing about his sorrow in the dumpster when Marcellus suddenly interrupts him, demanding he doesn't do that.
  • The dumpster is Marcellus' vacation home where he goes to get away from the fountain, unwind, and eat discarded pizza crusts, the latter of which he does in front of Arlo, complete with Gross-Up Close-Up.
• While talking with Arlo, Marcellus brings up an inside-out fish named Norm who owes him five bucks.
• Tony and Furlecia attacking the skin with a fireplace blower and a hairdryer respectively, followed by it being blown towards Bertie, who just stands there and recites a prayer in anticipation of becoming possessed...before Alia sucks it up with a vacuum.
• Marcellus gloating about being the wise one when Arlo credits him for making him feel better.
• Everyone else's weird bodily functions are fleas (Alia), night sweats (Tony), guitar calluses (Bertie), and...actually Furlecia considers herself to be flawless (which turns out to be a case of Tempting Fate two episodes later).
• Marcellus proudly declaring that they're all equally disgusting before complimenting how damp Tony feels. Doubles as a heartwarming moment.

Community Garden

• Bertie peacefully tending to her flowers...while occasionally cutting to the rest of her friends messing around at Tony's.
  • The scene that takes the cake is Alia imitating Arlo while using two slices of pizza for the alligator jaws.
• Arlo causing a car to crash off-screen while looking for Bertie.
  Driver: Hey, I'm drivin' here!
  Arlo: Hi, I'm walkin' here!
• Bertie trying to explain why she goes off to her private zone, which happens to be below a busy highway.
  Bertie: I like the quiet.
  (A loud truck passes by)
  Bertie: Well, usually it's-
  (another truck honks)
  Bertie: It's usually-
  (a honking clown rolls by on a unicycle while bashing syllables)
  Bertie: IT'S USUALLY-
  (a bunch of police cars go by)
  Officer: Pull over the unicycle!
  • Later throughout the episode, the clown is constantly surrounded by cops about to arrest him.
• Tony dissing Arlo and Bertie's fence due to how easy it is to jump over, bringing up a hypothetical "roving band of crazed jumpers". Only Arlo takes it seriously.
• While building Tony's fence, he and Arlo just pass out mid-way on the grass while Bertie does the rest.
  • Upon noticing that the fence is missing a gate, he decides to jump over it...and then faceplants into the ground.
• Tony finds that the dirt is great for planting his own tomatoes. His reasoning?
  Tony: Then I wouldn't have to bow down to Big Jersey Tomato, that no good gangster who runs the whole TOMATO RACKET!!!
  (Sam is interrupted from his flute solo elsewhere)
  Sam: Me?
  Tony: Not you Sammy, I'm just letting off some steam.
• Arlo suddenly smashing his snout into the ground and sucking up dirt like a straw before declaring it as good dirt and retching it out.
• Alia purring and giving a sly smirk to Arlo when the latter mentions that she could plant her catnip in the community garden.
• Marcellus' stupefied look when Arlo starts singing "Community Garden" before wholeheartedly joining in for the sake of the food.
  • Also during the song, Tony eating one of his homegrown tomatoes and getting dollar signs in his eyes as he bops to the music.
  • Furlecia also lip-syncs along with Arlo at one point.
  • The various plants growing around Bertie while simultaneously causing her flowers to wilt. She even flops down on the ground in despair as the shadow of a palm tree grows over her.
• Marcellus' apron while grilling being a picture of six-pack abs.
• Alia saying to Arlo that Bertie's spot got up and walked away while sounding positively BAKED on catnip before rolling away.
  Arlo: RICKETY BISCUIT, DO YOU THINK?!! ...Wait, that's impossible.
• While looking for Bertie, Arlo passes by not one, but two Big Lipped Alligator Moments (pun not intended). The first is a giant squid watching from next to the grocery. And the other is a bizarre cult in an alley chanting in front of an effigy that bears a disturbing resemblance to Arlo. He actually notices the second one, and slowly walks away looking noticeably perturbed.
• Unable to come up with a solution for Bertie's problem, Arlo lets out a frustrated groan and flops onto the bed, his hair in such a mess that it obscures his eyes.
• Upon hearing Bertie sing about her issues like he would:
  Arlo: My language!
• Alia sitting like a cat would on the window on Bertie's ceiling.
• Furlecia stating that Bertie's smile almost makes the nails she broke worth it.

Blow Out

• One of Furlecia's customers stating in a monotone "I've lost my direction in life" before she livens her up.
• Furlecia's customer queue going up to 9999, and later burning as a result.
• Furlecia losing clumps of hair that Arlo picks up. He tries to comfort her by stating that she's shedding, something that he does too, and demonstrates such by ripping off the skin on his head.
  Arlo: Puberty twins!
• Upon trying to compose herself outside:
  Furlecia: You just gotta change one more client's life, and then if there's time, you can feed yourself. And then, tomorrow, (tosses her mug away) you do it all over again. (laughs) Let's do thi-
  (the vent below blows away ALL of her hair, revealing her unsettling bald form)
  Furlecia (looking at herself and trembling in horror): Ooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh—-
  • Arlo telling Thao that Furlecia's howling is just a sick possum stuck in a rain gutter.
  Arlo: I'll go get the plunger.
• Arlo stating that Furlecia, now hairless, looks like a giant tater tot. Not helping, Arlo.
• Furlecia reassuring Thao that she's in great hands while raking her nails through her hair and bearing a crazed expression.
• Arlo plugging the flooding sink with his snout.
• Arlo taking Furlecia's skates and crashing into the walls. He comes out no worse for wear and assumes that crashing is how you stop them.
• Furlecia hallucinating her discarded sticky note of herself as her living conscious. What makes it hilarious is that it communicates through the simple doodle on the note.
  • At the end of their talk, the note cheerily assures her that she'll see her in her next nervous breakdown before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

In the Blue With You

• The Running Gag of Arlo taking quite some time to tune his banjo to sing the Parental Love Song.
• Right before Arlo can play his song to Bertie, Ansel's yacht siren rings out and shakes them.
• Arlo getting carried onto the yacht by a drone controlled by Ansel.
• After Arlo leaves:
  Ansel (to Bertie): Goodbye, Arlo's friend!
  Bertie: Um, we've actually met before?
• Marcellus showing up just as Arlo has left, having ran all the way just to finish a punchline with "you can say that again, sister!"
  Bertie: Did you run all the way over here just to be snarky?
  Marcellus: Maybe.
  Bertie: Want me to make you a tuna sandwich?
  Marcellus: What does it mean if I say yes?
  • A deleted scene would have turned the above scene into a Brick Joke at the very end, with Marcellus having grown bloated from eating so much tuna while on Bertie's couch, complete with Balloon Belly. Bertie worries that he might get mercury poisoning, but the fish just keeps demanding more before flopping onto the floor.
• The surrogates that Ansel hired to fish for him and Arlo. When we first see them, they're in front of a beautiful sunset bonding as father and son...despite it being the mid-afternoon.
  Ansel: Huh. Weird. It's like a different time of day over there.
• Ansel declaring that what he has in mind will blow the simple stuff "out of the water", then chucking at himself making dad jokes.
• Ansel's crew is basically a barbershop quartet increased in size. Almost every time they appear, they vocalize and sing in the campiest way imaginable.
  • The fact that Arlo, often the first to burst into song, is unnerved by the constantly-singing sailors.
  • In the middle of their first song, one of the sailors, Bruce, is crushed by another named Ben falling on top of him mid-verse. He's left there twitching and groaning in agony while everyone chides Ben and the Beast escorts him away looking like he's going to give him the boot for this.
  • Just the fact that the Beast, the scariest character in the movie, is now the mascot of Ansel's yacht, complete with pink vest and a speedo like Marcellus.
• The moment Ansel's crew discovers narwhals heading close:
  Arlo: Narwhals?! That's not in the lyrics!
  Ansel: Narwhals?! Excellent!
• Arlo being more spooked than amazed at the sight of narwhals (that glow like rainbows).
  Ansel: They're coming right to us!
  Arlo: They're coming right for us! (Gets Wingding Eyes before getting clobbered by one)
• One of the sailors telling Ansel that a dejected Arlo looks like a Save Our Swamps poster.
  Ansel: Those are the saddest.
• Ansel declaring that narwhals are "nature's unicorns" with sparkles in his eyes and a glow from the heavens...and then getting snapped out of it by a sailor and a Record Scratch.
  • He describes narwhals to Arlo that exact same way later.
• Even Ansel grows tired of his crew's singing when they start arguing in song.
  Ansel: THIS ISN'T BROADWAY.
• During "In the Blue", Ansel gets the fishing hook caught in one of his wings, causing him to go overboard and rise out completely entangled in fishing line.

Jeromio, Jeromio

• The episode starts with Arlo's friends giving a funeral for Jeromio who was thought to have died, until Arlo comes over and reveals he's just suffering a Heroic BSoD.
  • What makes it so funny is how over-the-top it all is. Everything is Deliberately Monochrome, everyone's wearing black, Furlecia has running makeup, Marcellus is singing opera, and on top of all of that, Alia intended to turn the whole thing into a Viking Funeral before Arlo showed up. She ends up firing the flaming arrow anyway by accident, which somehow makes the fountain erupt and knock everyone out for the remainder of the episode.
  • We see them later, still there with Bertie putting out the fire, Furlecia in a daze, and Marcellus feebly dragging himself away.
• Jeromio constantly deflating like a balloon is funny when it's not pitiful.
• While Arlo explains Jeromio's problem to Thao, she states that she knows the feeling due to hating parties, particularly her 11th birthday in which she had to do a ribbon dance routine in front of the whole town because of her parents, and she hasn't spoken to them since. Arlo ignores everything she says anyway.
• Arlo repeatedly failing to lift Jeromio onto the roof of his house, resulting in many offscreen smashed objects.
• Arlo's idea of ambience is Halloween lights apparently, along with an album called "Who Cut the Beans?" by Uncle Sam and the Bean Counters. As if the pun for that last one wasn't clear enough, a fart sound effect can be heard in the background.
  • On top of that, the song Arlo plays on the album is TERRIBLE. Jeromio is understandably pissed on top of being sad as Arlo dances along to it.
• Arlo then suggests going hang-gliding off a cliff and landing on a running horse that they can then ride off a cliff before realizing how dangerous that sounds...if it didn't have a helmet.
• While in New York City, Arlo gets the attention of several people named Jeromio (though one believes it to be a surname).
• Arlo manages to get Jeromio's location from a woman carrying a stroller, mistakenly calling her a cop. After he gets the info and leaves, it's revealed that she was indeed police, and the baby was a small cop, who tells the others that their cover has been blown.
• Arlo getting a silent pep-talk from a stone statue on a bench in Central Park that's almost in the exact same position as the bench statue of John Lennon. At one point, they just stare at each other for about four seconds before he realizes what he has to do.

Make a Fish

• The introductory scene seems to be completely dedicated to demonstrating how much of a Heroic Comedic Sociopath Marcellus is, first with him turning off someone's radio, eating someone's hot dog order, and then refusing to help an old lady cross the street...the latter causing the poor woman to get run over off-screen before feebly declaring she's okay. Then Marcellus takes her walker.
• Bertie coming to the fountain to wish for a new guitar (to replace the one that she somehow put her foot through), complete with overdramatic crying that wards everyone off.
  Woman: This is too much emotion for me.
  • Marcellus bluntly stating that wishes never come true to Bertie. Naturally, her eyes turn into Niagara Falls again, to the point where Marcellus can't ignore her off-screen sobbing. It gets so irritating to him that we get a terrifying close-up of his scrunched-up expression of annoyance. Oh, and yes, there are "Psycho" Strings to go with it.
• During the night, Marcellus makes his way to the music store, seemingly to steal the guitar on display. Cut to him in a dumpster getting out a new guitar.
  Marcellus: Ah, the things people throw away in this city, and I didn't even need to break in!
  Smash cut to Marcellus breaking out of the shop with both the guitar and a keytar
• Tony wishing for a better way to make pizza so he can rake in more cash, then struggling to flip the coin before Bertie helps him out.
• Furlecia wishes that the birds would leave her alone, as all manner of seagulls and pigeons have already made a nest in her fur.
• Marcellus' expressions are oftentimes very funny, but NOTHING compares to when he gets the idea to exploit wishes for money. In summary, he got an idea. An AWFUL idea. The fish got a wonderful, AWFUL idea!
• Marcellus pulling a baby out of a dumpster that's currently in the mouth of a raccoon.
• Tony, upon seeing Marcellus' gift to him (a pair of roller-skates with pizza slicers for wheels):
  Tony: Oooooh! Maternal parent-a-mia!
  • Later, Tony's pizza slices are complete messes, and he just doesn't care (though his customer doesn't share his enthusiasm).
• Marcellus' wish-gift to Alia is just a headband with her driving test guide attached to it. Once he puts it on her, she can't look at her phone anymore, her face obscured by the guide.
  Alia: Uh, I can't-my phone...(sighs dejectedly) This is now my life.
• All Marcellus does for Furlecia is toss hastily-made scarecrow-like figures onto her hair to scare the birds away.
• Marcellus getting pelted with coins before waking up.
• The citizens' wishes include one wanting his baby teeth to fall out (he's an adult, keep in mind), one wanting her legs to stop randomly falling off, and an old lady in desperate need of a new walker. Marcellus proudly denies that last one in an operatic voice before she falls over.
• Arlo wishes for a condor egg to give to Ansel that's on top of a building that looks like a Christmas tree...as in, the Chrysler building. Marcellus is understandably panicked into nearly ruining his facade.
• EVERYTHING about Marcellus' opera as he retrieves the condor egg. It's as ridiculous as it is awesome, with him ascending the Chrysler building with plungers and stomping on pigeons to descend as he sings like he's the hero of some kind of operatic tragedy.
• At the very end, Marcellus feels content knowing that he still has his cash from his wish-making racket...only to realize that all of his money is gone. Smash Cut to a seagull having used all of the coins to feed its chicks currently nested in Furlecia's fur, who's now surrounded by money.
  Furlecia: As long as they're happy.

Frogday the 13th

• Bertie and Jeromio's first scene together.
  Bertie: Jeromio, Jeromio, you came into my home-io, and won't leave me alone-io...
• Apparently, frogs are an invasive species in Hawaii, which is why Jeromio can't come there with Arlo.
  Arlo (to Jeromio, adoringly): Who's the cutest threat to the native wildlife?
• Arlo warning Bertie about not letting Jeromio get "hangry", complete with Dramatic Thunder.
• Ansel and the Beast greeting Arlo on the yacht with a luau dance in preparation for their Hawaii trip.
• The Running Gag of the weather reporter getting caught up in the storm and getting increasingly frazzled as the whole thing gets worse.
• Bertie's bedroom scene.
  • It starts with Bertie on her bed watching the storm, then she hallucinates one of her potted plants as a frog head.
    Bertie: When the storm clouds loom... When the FROG EYES?!! ...bloom?
  • Then she sees a scary shadow on the wall, only to find it caused by a shadow puppet of hers.
  • The frog clock on the wall.
    Bertie: Why do I even have that? (throws the clock away)
• Bertie attempting to feed Jeromio. It ends up causing an oven fire and the frog launching every knife in the drawer at her, pinning her to the wall.
• Gordy spinning in the air as the storm worsens.
• Once the storm passes, the reporter is seen hanging on a street light above Marcellus, who takes the time to advertise himself to potential mates on TV, and stealing her purse.
  Reporter: I quit.
• After a whole episode of Bertie thinking Jeromio is trying to kill her, it turns out he was just scared of the storm and wanted a hug - which Arlo tried to tell her before he left on his trip. When he returns and clarifies:
  Arlo: Didn't I tell you it'd be easy. You just have to feed him, and most importantly, give him lots of hugs!
  Bertie: Oh, hugs! That's what you were saying. For a while, I thought you were trying to say that Jeromio might murder me.
  Arlo: Girl, don't be silly! Jeromio ain't no murderer. They were already dead by the time Jeromio got there.
  Bertie: What?
  Episode ends.

Swamp Itch

• The episode begins with Ansel on his yacht crossing out islands that he owns, including "Richman's island", "Charity Beach", "Material Wealth Bay", "Isle of Power", and "Handsome Island". At the end, he decides that the one place he hasn't bought yet is "Passive Income Island". Upon holding the map up, it's shown that he ended up drawing a cat's face while charting it.
• Elena announcing that they've officially gotten rid of the supernaturally strong seagulls in Seaside to the sewers where they belong.
• Marcellus is not thrilled by how his fountain has been cleaned, and he accuses a passing couple with an angry glare.
• Arlo casually mentioning that he and his friends got all the ghosts out. As in, actual, real ghosts this time. And they got relocated to the places they actually do want haunted. That being Alia's bus. Considering that Alia threatens to turn the thing into a mobile coffin most of the time, how could you blame them?
  • Alia being perfectly fine with the ghosts inhabiting her bus, starting a dance party with them.
    Alia: If you guys are gonna stay here, I have one rule... THERE ARE NO RUUUUULES!!!
• Arlo's swamp itch is the result of a sweater that Edmée sent him.
• Bertie and Furlecia gushing over Ansel's Papa Wolf instincts with Arlo. Single Parents Are Undesirable does NOT apply here, evidently.
• Ansel's book for helping Arlo is "How to Nurse Your Toddler Back to Health". Arlo's 15, keep in mind.
  • Not only that, but the author is R. Crego.
• Alia inviting Bertie and Furlecia to a girl's night out in the bus currently inhabited by raving ghosts, the latter of which looks like she's going to deeply regret being around the undead.
• Arlo begging Thao to not give him another package from Edmée.
• Ansel's idea of a comfy space for Arlo is a bunch of twigs for making a nest.
• Ansel isn't all that thrilled to be making chicken soup because...well, take a guess.
• While making soup, Ansel wonders what his parents did when he got hungry. His Imagine Spot shows him alone, asking for food...and getting no response before he just decides to chew on a rock. It's the only time his Dark and Troubled Past has ever been played for laughs.
• Ansel's idea from his flashback is to improvise. And we do mean "improvise". After throwing in every ingredient he can find for the soup (one of which is Bone Juice), he gives it a smell...and then we Smash Cut to Arlo vomiting it all at his chest while he just stands there and takes it.
  Ansel: I understand. The garlic was idiotic! I should have used corn starch!
• Once Arlo gets to the hallucination phase of swamp itch, he ends up taking on the persona of an angry prospector, becoming increasingly crazy and referring to Ansel as a canary as bluegrass music plays in the background. Pretty much everything about it is hilarious.
  • One scene is a montage including him knitting, hanging up his shed skin on a rack like they were his clothes, bursting through the floor with a drumstick to "cut em off at the pass", greeting his imaginary wife Winifred, and riding Ansel like a horse he names Nightscream. All the while, Ansel is completely at his mercy.
• The pet store clerk that Ansel calls for help is more interested in watching his slow loris being cute, as well as being unable to help that much. The guy just settles for haphazardly looking up facts on the internet about gators.
• Ansel has a truck deliver tons of mud to Arlo's room in an effort to calm him down.
• The first time Ansel calls the pet store:
  Ansel: Hello, I've called to ask about what alligators do when they're stick. (grumbles) Not "stick", I mean "sick"!! WHAT DO ALLIGATORS DO WHEN THEY'RE SICK?! HELLO!?!
• Arlo vs. Ansel. Or more accurately, prospector Arlo vs. Ansel Disguised in Drag as Winifred, accent included. The latter comes out on top by surrounding his son with tons and tons of sticks that, come morning take the form of a giant nest.
• We finally see what became of the girl's night out at the end. The bus (which has 'LADIES NIGHT' painted on it) is crashed into the sand, Furlecia is on it looking totally out of it, Alia is sleeping while surrounded by tons of odd artifacts (including a mummy at the driver's seat and a road sign full of bullet holes), and poor Bertie is lying there in the middle, her eyes completely bloodshot from sleep deprivation.
  Bertie (exiting the bus and rushing out): GIRLSNIGHTWASINTERESTINGTHANKYOUSOMUCH!
• Ansel calmly telling Bertie that he and Arlo hate packages now, prompting the exhausted girl to just plop it on the floor before absentmindedly stomping on it and collapsing onto the staircase.
• Ansel getting the swamp itch hallucinations at the very end, prompting Arlo to take his place.

Moody Tuesday

• Bertie noting that $12 for a nondairy cone is insane at the beginning.
• Gordy's cameo here is the funniest out of all of them. After Alia runs over his street graffiti, he twists his head around, and carves out a sad face.
• Angry Arlo is almost impossible to take seriously.
• Some of the Disney Acid Sequence nature of "I Can Lift You Up" is pretty amusing.
• Marcellus noticing everyone singing at his fountain, and offering for someone to wipe sunscreen on his back, prompting the song to come to an abrupt stop as everyone just stares at him. Then they decide to close the day out, causing Marcellus to wonder where his lift is.

Lily Lost and Found

• Arlo's little song at the beginning as he finds things on the beach.
  Arlo: You never know what you'll find on the beach, there's a world full of treasures all within reach! Old sandals, a cooler, someone's blood pressure medication... Oh, hold on. Woah, this is serious.
• Just how nakedly obvious it is that Lily is up to no good. "Innocent sigh", indeed.
• The Rocky Roll Call between Lily, Marcellus, and Arlo.
• When Marcellus tells Arlo that Lily's a larcenist, Arlo brings up all the water from the sea they could use to put out any fire.
  Marcellus: What? No! That's an ARSONIST! A LARCENIST! A THIEF!
  Arlo: That's alright. We all start somewhere.
• Marcellus having to force himself to say that he cares when explaining Lily to Arlo.
• After Lily's nightly raid, Tony checks on his money, finds that none of it was stolen...and then freaks out completely when he sees that the buttons on the cash register have been taken, letting out a Big "NO!" that scares off a bunch of seagulls.
  Tony (despondently): I used to know what numbers I was pressing, but now, it's just a mystery! (starts sobbing)
• Due to Lily stealing her boots, Furlecia has to settle on crocks, prompting a "What are those?!" reaction from Arlo.
• Marcellus got all of his speedos stolen.
  Bertie: You could, uh, wear pants.
  Marcellus: What am I, rich?!
• Lily cheerily waving at a security camera watching her.
• Arlo tries to speak on Lily's defense...right before he winds up without his clothes, courtesy of Lily.
  Arlo: Berries and cream! I've been robbed!
• Arlo declaring that he's going to do something about Lily...by thief-proofing the whole town. As in, taping Furlecia's shoes to her feet, surrounding the fountain with an electric fence (completely glossing over how this could kill Marcellus), and nailing pizza to the tables (that gets stolen by Lily anyway).
• After Arlo finally decides to put his foot down in regards to Lily's stealing:
  Lily: Oh, boiled again.
• Marcellus and Lily seem to get over their rivalry at the end...only for Lily to steal the speedo he was wearing behind his back. We get to see his uncovered backside for about a second.

Stay Cool

• Lily's the only one enjoying the heatwave, basking in the sun with a giant pound of butter on her stomach.
• Fire erupting from an ice cream cart because of the heatwave, scaring some children.
• Everyone sans Arlo and Bertie staying in Marcellus' fountain to escape the heat, much to his annoyance.
  Random citizen: Honey, do you smell boiled fish?
  Marcellus (holding out his plump chest): You WISH you could afford this! (his belly flops onto the fountain) Yup.
• EVERYONE begging Arlo to let them borrow Ansel's yacht. Arlo even recognizes that they're getting away with it through Loophole Abuse.
  • Bertie looks like she's going to be the voice of reason here...and then she rips off her dress to reveal a tankini. Furlecia wonders if she's always worn that under everything.
• Arlo wonders what could go wrong with giving Ansel's yacht to his friends. Smash Cut to the boat going far away from Seaside towards the rest of the sea.
• Marcellus romantically dancing with a golden bust of Ansel that, as Alia points out, looks like a Greek God.
  Arlo: Marcellus, please be careful with dad.
  Marcellus: Kid, back in the clink, they used to call me Careful-handed Jack.
  (He ends up accidentally shoving the statue off the edge of the ship.)
  Marcellus: Uh, they also used to call me, uh, Dummy-feet Pete.
  (Arlo groans in annoyance.)
  • On top of that, the fallen statue is what awakens Peggy.
• Alia catching a big fish that's promptly chomped up by an even larger one. Then one of Peggy's tentacles shows up in her fish bucket, and she thinks it's a party snake.
• Arlo going all First-Name Basis with Ansel in a brief panic on the yacht. It's kind of sad, but the delivery is chuckle-worthy. Not to mention his total Freak Out in general.
  Arlo (pulling on the fire alarm): I'M NOT PANICKING! YOU'RE PANICKING! NOBODY PANIC!!!
• The fact that the button representing a course for Ansel's apartment is a house, and the one for seaside is a trash can with a bird next to it.
• Bertie being an Apologetic Attacker with Peggy's tentacles.
• Marcellus pulling a Screw This, I'm Outta Here during Peggy's assault. Sure, he came back with a boat, but still.
• Arlo tying himself to a palm tree as Peggy drags the yacht down is only funny for how over-the-top it is.
• Marcellus heroically standing on top of a rescue boat after the rest ditch the yacht...only for his belly to give way, ruining what previously looked like a Heroic Build on him.
• Tony kissing Marcellus' head for saving them, prompting the fish to pry him off, but not without saying that it did feel nice.
• Upon hearing Arlo tearfully confess to getting his old yacht wrecked, Ansel has this response:
  Ansel: Now that's the attitude I look for in my building managers! Ask for forgiveness, not permission! Attaboy!
  (Arlo just looks confused.)
  Ansel: Oh, um-no, I mean-eh...that wasn't very responsible of you.
• Arlo decides to pay for the damage he let happen. His "life savings" is a one-dollar bill, an elastic, a button, and a live bug that flies off.
• After Ansel shows no bad blood about the yacht, Arlo slyly tries to encourage Ansel to give him an allowance to pay it off.
  Ansel: (laughs heartily) Don't push it.
• Peggy fawning over Ansel's golden bust.

Tony Baloney

• The episode begins with Arlo and the gang entering Tony's while uttering "Yam!" nonstop like hungry zombies. Arlo even sings it.
• Upon entering Tony's, everyone finds him surrounded by many, MANY empty pizza boxes. As it turns out, his parents are arriving, and he's been stress-eating.
  • Once Tony brings up his parents:
  Marcellus: They finally died, huh?
• Arlo states that he loves it when his parent visits him until he worries about disappointing him.
• While everyone's comforting Tony, Marcellus is throwing pizza dough up in the air halfheartedly before it sticks to the ceiling. It ends up falling on Arlo later on.
• When Tony's makeover is revealed, Arlo gushes at him with hearts in his eyes.
  • Immediately after:
    Tony: I'm so nervous, my feet are sweating.
    (Takes off one of his boots revealing a deluge which spills out)
    Tony: Doesn't matter! (puts on a gold chain necklace) Voila, I'm untouchable!
• Arlo asking of Tony's parents have known him since birth, then calling it fascinating when he's given the obvious answer.
  Arlo: I have no idea how the birthing process works.
• Arlo's "laptop computer", literally just an empty pizza box. It's followed by a "banana phone call", which is just Arlo using a banana as a phone.
• Ansel cancelling out Tony's family argument by playing music with his headphones. Said music is his own song, "Better Life".
• Tony's anger mounting so high that he starts sounding like a boiling tea kettle and steam bursts out of every orifice.
• Ansel bailing out of the helicopter when Tony takes control.
• In the end, Tony's parents steal Ansel's helicopter. Once again, it's nothing he can't replace.
  Tony's mom: We've got everybody's passwords!
  Marcellus: Re...spect.
  Arlo: Oh no. They done stole my laptop too!

Get Lost!

• The episode immediately begins with a flashback of Tony's crew before they met Arlo, in which Alia is driving around the countryside like a maniac (and blindfolded). Tony and Marcellus are screaming their heads off while only Furlecia seems to enjoy it. Cut back to the present, and Tony explains that the whole thing was why they're banned from Canada.
• Arlo getting to play Get Lost, and then immediately tripping over a chair.
• Bertie's Writer's Block.
  Bertie: Hometown, alone town... Seaside, B-side?
• Upon entering Bertie's room, he notes that she looks terrible. Smash Cut to her with Exhausted Eye Bags and an irritated look on her face, along with a Scare Chord to really bring it home.
• Not long after Bertie declines Arlo's offer to join their game, she's ambushed by all of them, who proceed to swarm her before she concedes that they won't leave her alone until she agrees to come.
  Arlo: We're incessant! (chuckles)
• Arlo's expression when he shouts "Dangit!" after Bertie correctly guesses his expression with a blindfold.
• Every time Bertie tries to get back to songwriting, Arlo is quick to get her out of it.
• This episode has the dubious honor of having Bertie nearly undergo Sanity Slippage. Until the last instance, it's somewhat funny to hear what sounds like Mary Lambert cracking behind the mic.
• Alia's complete and utter fascination with garbage trucks, considering them the "silent protectors of the streets."
• Everyone shouting "not it" when debating on who should go outside the bus. As one might guess, Arlo sings the line.
• Arlo banging on the door begging to be let out when the horde of rats shows up.
• The Rat King, after being foreshadowed as a dangerous creature, is revealed to actually be a stuffy musical-writer, who's also a rat with a crown.
  Alia: We should be enemies, you and I, but I can't help but feel a deep sense of respect. (kisses the rat king's hand)
• The Rat King declaring that he should write a musical in which rats state who they are over and over again.
• After the Rat King thanks the gang for giving him inspiration...he immediately takes the bus and the notebook. Oh, and Marcellus who was sleeping in said bus. only Tony seems even vaguely perturbed that their friend just got abducted.
• While Bertie's ranting about their current status, Alia's just on her phone without a care.
• Arlo asking Bertie the next day if she wants to play Get Found, followed by Marcellus promising that they won't kidnap her this time.
• At the very end, Bertie finally has her song, takes a deep breath...and the episode immediately ends. Did you really think they'd play the final showstopper before the last episode?

Going It Arlone

• Thao telling Arlo that she's still getting vaccination shots from some of the packages she's had to deliver to him.
• "Coming Together" at fist plays out a like a straightforward Hard-Work Montage...but then halfway through, everyone's tired out of their minds and collapsed near the fountain except Arlo. Alia lampshades that they'd probably be less tired if they didn't put so much effort into singing while working.
• Elena calling Ol'Bessie a deathtrap, followed by one of its gondolas falling off and exploding. Elena then states that the wheel was made when people thought it was okay to make things out of newspapers and asbestos.
• Arlo interpreting Jeromio's croaks as encouragement to fix Ol'Bessie even if he's exhausted and everyone thinks it's a bad idea. Jeromio tries to protest, but Arlo goes off, prompting the frog to Face Palm.
• Bertie having a nightmare about doing another song and dance number with Arlo.
• Arlo's Imagine Spot in which Ansel congratulates him for fixing the wheel. The funny part? Everyone's voiced by him, even Jeromio, the clouds, and the buildings.
  • The dream ends with everyone but Arlo and Jeromio falling asleep.
  • A gondola falls from the wheel, snapping Arlo awake.
    Arlo: RICKETY BISCUITS, I GOTTA GET TO WORK!
• Ol'Bessie's old manager showing up and spooking Arlo, before stating in a foreboding voice that he now lives in the corn dog stand.
• After opening the instruction book manual, a ghost pops out saying "Dooon't be stupiiiiddddd!"
• The manager leaving Arlo while shouting "Beware!" and riding a bumper car.
• After Ol'Bessie destroys a good portion of Seaside:
  Marcellus: Looks like the work of an amateur to me.
• Marcellus later calls dibs on Jeromio in case Arlo doesn't make it. Furlecia's not impressed.
  Marcellus: Right, like y'all haven't been thinking about eating that frog since day one.
• Ansel cheerily stating that the only casualty of Arlo's blunder will be his bank accounts, followed by Marcellus laughing off-screen.
• Everyone awww'ing at Ansel's love for his son, though they have to hug Marcellus to get him to follow suite. He visibly shakes in discomfort before doing so.
• When everyone declares that they'll still help Arlo, Marcellus openly chooses to opt out.
• Some of Edmée's delivered packages include her fingerprints, a necklace made of human teeth, and an emergency bank-robbing kit.
• Marcellus' "scratch and sniff postcard" is literally a filthy pair of underpants.

Alro

• Arlo's String Theory board includes a pigeon, a rather unflattering pic of Marcellus, and a large picture of Gordy, the latter of which Bertie isn't convinced is real.
• Arlo describing Edmée as the gentlest woman he knows...while holding a picture of her punching the daylights out of a bear while wearing sunglasses.
• Arlo declaring that he'll find his package by fighting a bear like Edmée. Failing that, just being tough like her.
• "Tough Arlo" is funny for out of character it is for him, especially with his fake mustauche, slicked-back hair (which kind of looks like Ansel's), and Cool Shades. This is the face of trying too hard.
  Arlo: Let's go shake down Seaside...and...shake loose...some lies...yeah.
  Bertie: Okay, if that's what you feel you need to do. You want me to pack us a little lunch?
  Arlo: Yes please! (pauses) No crust...on mine.
• After Arlo brashly passes by Ansel:
  Ansel: Hehehe, teenagers. Excellent angst, son! Proud of you.
• Ansel asking Elena for feedback on which hedge sculpture to use, dolphin or porpoise. Said sculptures are nearly identical. Elena almost immediately figures out that Ansel's just looking for excuses to see her, which he feebly denies.
• Arlo telling Marcellus that he's got bigger fish to fry, which actually unnerves the guy into giving info. When he asks if he's seen anything suspicious:
  Marcellus: Kid, everything I do is suspicious.
• Marcellus offering fresh fountain water to Arlo before warning him that he almost certainly peed in it. Even Bertie can't bring herself to pick up the glass because of that last bit.
• Arlo's interrogation of Tony amounts to tossing pizza boxes onto the floor, scaring the poor rat-man to death. Bertie herself is begging Tony to give info in order to make him stop. Of course, once Tony rises from behind the wall he was building, it's revealed that his mustache is a complete mess, scaring both Arlo and Bertie.
• Once Arlo leaves, Tony asks Alia to go back to hiding his stacks of forged cash, which he immediately corrects as earned cashews upon realizing that Bertie's still there.
• Arlo interrogating Furlecia via Perp Sweating, followed by him threatening her with a tiny worn-out dollar store mustache comb.
• A Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that there's a WANTED sign of Furlecia in her backroom. Uh, why?
• After Arlo runs away from the salon.
  Furlecia (looking at the wrecked salon): I will NEVER financially recover from this! (takes a deep breath) Okay, I'm fine.
• Arlo interrogating himself is initially funny for how it's basically his paranoia taken to its logical extreme.
• It is revealed that Arlo's package was given to the titular Alro, who lives down the block. Said person looks almost exactly like Arlo, albeit human and with a deep voice.
  Alro (in a hilariously thick New York accent): Ey, yo, aye! Who's saying my dang name out there!
  Alro's Mom (off-screen): Alro! It's my time to use the listenin' window!
  Alro: I got five more minutes out here, Bortie!
• As it turns out, the misnaming is a result of Ruff and Stucky writing it. And sure enough, it was the former who wrote it. You know? The one who explicitly Never Learned to Read? He very nearly asks for a pony instead of money, which Stucky wants to glue rhinestones onto armadillos, one of which walks past a tied-up Edmée.
• Ruff making sure to include in the note that they appreciated the life lesson Arlo taught them in the movie, and that they've already forgotten about it.
• The fact that Ansel is the one telling Arlo that he'll make him proud this time when he volunteers to watch over Seaside, followed by Elena telling him that there's no way he can do it by himself.
• Arlo looking at another picture of Edmée, this time with him and her next to the bear at a hospital.

The Uncondemning

• Marcellus getting seasickness almost immediately after the journey starts due to eating too much tuna beforehand, then leaving Arlo because he knows that a song is coming up.
• Bertie tells Arlo that they have the cavalry...which includes Tony doing a jig, Furlecia snoring on a beach chair, Alia pawing at the air, and Marcellus wearing one too many life vests.
• Furlecia claiming she's terrified, excited, and enraged all at once when they get to the shack.
• Marcellus gushing over an old swamp boat and putting a GPS tracker on it. It later becomes a Chekhov's Gun.
• Furlecia's camouflage disguises, which include a bush and even a fake cut-out of Tony.
• When Arlo needs help breaking through a root he thinks Edmée is in, Tony whips out a chainsaw that immediately sends him flying in the air with it. Pretty soon, everyone except Bertie and Marcellus (who hides behind the fireplace out of fear) is holding onto each other as the chainsaw makes short work of the root.
• Arlo briefly bringing back his tough persona when interrogating Ruff and Stucky.
• Ruff and Stucky's Warning Song for how it just comes out of nowhere. Throughout it, Stucky's pleasantly surprised that Ruff can actually carry the tune. Afterwards, they ditch the group to get away from the Bog Lady.
• Right before splitting up, Tony states that a wise cheesemaker once told him to cut your curds, bathe in brine, and most importantly, don't get lost. One scene later:
  Marcellus: Well, we're lost.
• Bertie meditating upside-down in order to "change perspective". She and Alia then go for the simple solution and just have her toss the tiger up in the air until she finds where Arlo is.
• Alia giving the Bog Lady big sparkly eyes before meowing threateningly and tearing her claws through the beast's hide.
• Marcellus revealing that he put a tracker on Bertie's back in order to save them. She doesn't seem too bothered by it.
• Arlo gives a heartfelt speech to the Bog Lady about how the swamp will always be a part of his heart, and therefore she will as well. So what's her reaction?
  Bog Lady: Mm, no. I'm gonna eat you!!
  Arlo: I THOUGHT FOR SURE THAT WOULD WORK!
• Edmée's solution to the Bog Lady is to blow the shack up with enough TNT to level a building twice the size. Right before she can finish her plan, the Bog Lady eats everybody. And then the bombs go off.
• After the Bog Lady explodes, Arlo is sent soaring through the sky, and it looks like he's in Heaven...except he's still alive, and everyone's up in the air screaming (except for Marcellus who's just gloating about tracking stuff) before they manage to get into the swamp boat.
• On the subject of Arlo's friends, Edmée says that she likes the fluffy one, but doesn't trust the fish.
• Apparently, Edmée's plan to blow up the shack had about a 50/50 chance of working.
• Marcellus's pecs/stomach sagging in the breeze as the gang arrives back in Seaside, followed by everyone crashing onto the stage.
• Highlights from the Uncondemming party:
  • Edmée doing a silly dance with Jeromio.
  • The sailors from "In the Blue with You" doing a performance.
  • The old lady from "Make a Fish" dancing next to the statue from "Jeromio, Jeromio".
  • Edmée introducing herself to Ansel by spitting into his hand.
  • Yet another Gross-Up Close-Up of the fountain and its backed up nostrils.