The trainer, his trainees, and the Train Job they trained for.
Anne, Sprig, and Polly are forced to stay at a daycare center that turns out to be more than it seems.
This episode has examples of:
- All Part of the Show: Tritonio dupes his students into believing he rented the train, hired actors to portray guards that are protecting a fake priceless ruby, and that the whole heist is just a training exercise.
- Ancestral Weapon: Tritonio gives Anne a sword he claims has been in his family for generations.
- Appeal to Flattery: How Tritonio wins over Anne, by claiming she has massive potential that she's wasting.
- Beard of Evil: Invoked by Tritonio.Anne: I just have one last question. Was the goatee even real?
Tritonio: [removes the fake goatee] What do you think? - Blinded by the Light: During a training exercise, Anne reflects sunlight off her sword to blind Tritonio. She uses the same trick while fighting him for real on top of the train.
- Brick Joke: At the start of the episode, Hop Pop remarks that they seem to have two wacky adventures a week. At the end of the episode, he makes a Suspiciously Specific Denial about having been attacked by killer locusts, while the children deny their adventure.Hop Pop: Good to know we didn't have two wacky adventures.
- The Caper: Anne, Sprig and Polly are trained and tricking into stealing a priceless jewel.
- Chekhov's Gun: During training, Anne defeats Tritonio by blinding him with glare from her sword, distracting him enough to knock the sword off his hands. Later, she defeats him again with the exact same trick.
- Dashing Hispanic: Tritonio, who looks like Inigo Montoya.
- Didn't Think This Through: Tritonio gives Polly the boom shrooms so she can use them to break into the train car containing the Tiger Moth's Eye. It never occurs to him that she can use the boom shrooms to break out of the train car after he locks them in. He may not have been expecting her to bring so many, but considering Polly's personality, he really should've known better.
- Fall Guy: All of Tritonio's students. Not just Anne and the Plantar kids; all the children he taught to rob trains before them as well!Tritonio: Ah, they were good kids. Too bad they have to go to prison forever!
- Foreshadowing: Tritonio does this a bit, early in his training.Tritonio: That's right, children! Feel the stones beneath your hands! The strong breeze in your hair! Much like the breeze on a... fast-moving train!Tritonio: Imagine I'm a fearsome assassin! Or perhaps a meddlesome train conductor!
- The first lesson Tritonio teaches the kids is "Trust no-one", which he reinforces by pulling a Look Behind You trick on Sprig and hitting him when he looks. He reminds them of this right before his betrayal.Tritonio: What was the first thing I taught you?
Anne: Oh! Oh! "Trust no-one"!
Tritonio: Bingo. [locks them in the car] - Doubling as Freeze-Frame Bonus, the train car where the ruby is kept has a nameplate on the side that reads "Newtopian Treasury". Newtopia plays a major role in the second season.
- Sprig fools the train conductor by saying that he's "a poor orphan". This turns out to be true in Season 2.
- The first lesson Tritonio teaches the kids is "Trust no-one", which he reinforces by pulling a Look Behind You trick on Sprig and hitting him when he looks. He reminds them of this right before his betrayal.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Hop Pop references the show's Two Shorts format when he says that "it seems like we have at least two wacky adventures a week." (Of course, the joke is partially ruined in the United States by Disney Channel's decision to air the first season as four half-hours a week.)
- Look Behind You: Tritonio reinforces his initial lesson - "Trust no-one" - by telling Sprig to look behind him and then whacking him with a stick when he does."I said trust no-one!"
- Never My Fault: Anne thinks her teachers back home just don't like her, or are jealous of her free spirit, but it's really because she goofs off in class.
- Noodle Incident: Hop Pop claims that he didn't have an adventure involving giant locusts at the convention, but doesn't elaborate.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Hop Pop had his own entire episode involving killer locusts taking place at the same time as this one, but we don't get to see it or even hear about beyond his mention that he did nothing of the sort.
- Pac-Man Fever: A Flashback shows Anne playing with a Game Boy Color, a portable console most commonly associated with the early 2000s, first released in 1998 and discontinued in 2003 (for reference, the show premiered in 2019). It also emits Arcade Sounds.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Anne starts out not trusting Tritonio. She thinks it's because all teachers just don't like her, but he really is untrustworthy on account of being a treacherous criminal.
- Shout-Out:
- Among the weapons Tritonio has at his training camp are the Master Sword and Hylian Shield, the original Megazord's sword, the Soul Eater, and a nail.
- Tritonio's costume is based on Inigo Montoya.
- Surpassed the Teacher: While Tritonio is still her superior in a straight-up fight, Anne remembers his earlier lesson about thinking outside the box when facing a more skilled combatant and manages to defeat him by repeating her previous trick of blinding him with sunlight.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial:
- Tritonio leaves a note for the kids saying: Don't listen to the guards, no matter what they say about "not being actors."
- Hop Pop and the kids each give one to each other when Hop Pop comes to pick them up from the daycare.Anne: How was the convention, HP?
Hop Pop: Oh, fine. Didn't get swarmed by killer locusts, if that's what you mean. How was your weekend?
Anne: Good.
Sprig: We didn't rob a train.
Polly: No crimes committed.
Hop Pop: Good, good. It's good to know we didn't have two wacky adventures.
- That Man Is Dead: Parodied. When questioned by Polly why does she trust Tritonio when she earlier said all teachers were bad, Anne responds in an overly dramatic fashion: "That Anne is dead and buried".
- Train Job: Everything Tritonio teaches his young students is for the express purpose of robbing a jewel from a train.
- Traintop Battle: Between Tritonio and Anne at the episode's climax, as Anne tries to stop him from getting away.
- Villain Has a Point: As Anne points out at the end, while Tritonio may be a crook, he was onto something about Anne applying herself, and she vows to give teachers a chance when she gets home.
- Villain Respect: After Sprig, Anne, and Polly escape from the train car he locked them in.Tritonio: Ha ha! I have to say, even I am impressed!Anne: You really mean it...?
