Beavis and Butt-Head get a substitute after Van Dreissen breaks his leg.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Jim finds Butt-Head's Joe Mama joke hilarious and encourages the rest of the class to be just as creative.
- Cool Teacher: Jim is a great teacher who is able to motivate the rest of the class in ways Van Dreissen couldn't. Unfortunately, Beavis and Butt-Head are there.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Beavis and Butt-Head laugh when both Van Driessen and Jim get injured.Butt-Head: School has gotten a lot cooler lately.
Beavis: Yeah. I'm getting, like, instrested in learning or something. - Comically Missing the Point: When the class are giving fake names, Beavis doesn't understand what's going on and introduces himself as Jack Mama.
- First-Name Basis: Jim insists the students call him by his first name.
- Heh Heh, You Said "X": Van Dreissen presents "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" by Emily Dickinson, much to Beavis and Butt-Head's joy.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Jim thinks that Beavis and Butt-Head are struggling youths who were never given proper guidance and love.
- Noodle Incident: Jim lent Beavis and Butt-Head old Superman comics; they repaid him by giving them to a student who showed them a dead deer.
- Rule of Three: Three injuries happen over the course of the episode: Van Dreissen falls off his desk and breaks his neck, Jim falls after a failed trust building exercise, and the blackboard falls on Van Dreissen as a result of a crack that had been slowly building throughout the episode.
- Sickening "Crunch!": Happens whenever somebody is injured.
- Tranquil Fury: Van Dreissen at the end of the episode when Butt-Head fails his quiz again.Van Driessen: No, Butt-Head. You didn't score. We'll discuss this later.
- Trust-Building Blunder: Jim attempts a trust fall to show Beavis and Butt-Head that he cares about him. Unfortunately, Beavis only realizes after he falls that they were supposed to catch him.
