How a history began...
Family LegacyCricket, Tilly and Gramma search for treasure buried somewhere around the Green house to prevent it from being sold, while reminiscing of when their ancestors had to save the farm too.
"Family Legacy" contains examples of:
- Big "NO!": By Gramma in her flashback as her father is about to sell the farm.
- Bottle Episode: Most of the episode takes place on the lawns of the Green house, now and then, with a brief scene in Big Coffee.
- Compressed Hair: Bixby manages to fit his long hair completely under his raccoon hat.
- "Eureka!" Moment:
- Two of them done by Tilly upon finding the answers to each of the clues. The first is after Bixby's flashback when she discovers the meaning behind "Bixby's hands" and "In step with time", causing her to use the 9:00 position on Bixby's watch and have Cricket walk in the same directions as the watch hands. The second is when she sees the ripped shreds of the clue float toward the backyard windmill and realizes the meaning behind Metrona's riddle and the windmill is really the propeller rotor saved from her monoplane, which is all they need.
- Gramma has one after the last flashback upon discovering the meaning behind the last clue and remembering where she hid the treasure.
- Upon inspecting the seemingly worthless items in the box, Cricket and Tilly have a collective one when they realize they're key mementos from all the ancestors they heard about, and they serve as a warning not to sell the farm, prompting them to act up.
- Eye Recall: Gramma does it as she flashes back to the time she saved the farm as a child.
- History Repeats: Cricket and Tilly discover the farm is threatened to be sold every generation, so the youngest members have to find a way to save it. They then place a key element from their time in the buried toolbox as a warning to their future members.
- Identical Grandson: The Greens' ancestors in the flashbacks bear uncanny resemblances to Cricket, Tilly and Bill in the here and now.
- Innocuously Important Episode: The fact that the Greens' house is threatened to be sold every generation becomes an important plot point in Season 2, once Chip Whistler's Community-Threatening Construction comes into effect.
- Land Poor:
- Despite the Greens' meager financial state, it's shown the surrounding development has made the land around their house incredibly valuable. They just don't want to sell something that's been in the family for so long.
- Seemingly every other generation of the Greens experienced a crisis making their land unprofitable, but the children find a solution just before the property is sold off.
- Monochrome Past: The flashbacks are depicted in sepia tone.
- Never Recycle a Building: The Greens' house has stayed the same throughout generations since it was first built, albeit with some deteriorations.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Sure the Greens have saved their farm from being sold as it does every generation, but that doesn't mean it will be safe for long...
- Red Herring: The second clue mentions "a breeze pulling through the sky". At first it was led to be Metrona Green's airplane, which got buried under what is now Big Coffee. But then Tilly realizes it was really referring to the plane's propeller, which was the only thing saved from the plane and got converted into the windmill in the Greens' backyard.
- Saving the Orphanage: The Greens' house is threatened to be sold every generation, and the kids have to convince the old folks to not back down and keep it open. In the present day's case, two realtors want to replace it with a yoga studio, sending Cricket and Tilly on a hunt to find the house's treasure in an attempt to save it like always.
- Treasure Hunt Episode: What sets off the plot.
- Worthless Treasure Twist: Cricket and Tilly find the treasure, but it's a box full of seemingly useless mementos — a watch from Gramma's father, aviator goggles from her aunt, and Gramma's own shovel. Just when Gramma is about to sell the farm, Cricket and Tilly figure out that the items on the box are actually a reminder of how the younger Greens always save the day when the adults have given up, making Gramma realize that the Green family treasure is the farm itself.
Together, they're a success! But separate...not so much.
Paint Misbehavin'Cricket doodles over Gloria's paintings and soon the customers become interested in the art, but Cricket soon takes all the credit when the owner of a famous gallery wants them on display.
"Paint Misbehavin'" contains examples of:
- Cope by Creating: Gloria copes with sadness and extreme stress by painting and is happy to explain how she felt when she painted each work as well as what she was coping with at the time. Unfortunately, she's a Butt-Monkey and nobody sees any beauty in her paintings until Cricket adds crude drawings of common objects to the canvases. The very fact that her paintings got no attention without the help of a small annoying child does not escape her notice.
- Insistent Terminology: Cricket resents Gloria calling his drawings scribbles. They're doodles, thank you very much.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is a pun on Ain't Misbehavin.
- Shout-Out: The episode features two references to Homestar Runner. First, Tilly fixes Bill a cup of skim milk with gummi bears in it, a nod to "suudsu" from the Strong Bad Email "bedtime story". Later, one of the pictures hanging in the gallery resembles Trogdor the Burninator.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gloria's reaction when Cricket doodles all over her artwork.
