Welcome to Big City!
Welcome HomeCricket Green and his family move from the country to Big City to live with Gramma, but encounter many obstacles on the way there.
Note: This is chronologically the first episode of the series, but was the eighth aired.
"Welcome Home" provides examples of:
- Buses Are for Freaks: The Greens ride a bus to gramma's house and finds that everyone there is some sort of weirdo.
- But I Read a Book About It: Cricket claims to be an expert on the Big City, even though he's never been there, because he read a book about it once.
- Chekhov's Gun: Some of the Greens' first experience with city stuff are proved useful later on in the towyard; Cricket sets off a car alarm to blind the dogs, he uses the Splish cans he got from the stand to splash them in their faces, and Tilly uses her bird feed to call a flock of pigeons and attack them so they can get away.
- Fingore: After Tilly asks Bill to wave his hand in the air for a taxi, but he wanted to keep his right hand low profile due to him losing his right index finger to the hay baler's gears.
- Establishing Series Moment: The episode starts with the Greens moving to Big City and having their first misadventure.
- Forbidden Fruit: Cricket and Tilly are so taken in by the sights of Big City that they want to get out for a while and explore, but Bill doesn't want them to until they get to Gramma's. Naturally once the Kludge stops at a stoplight, the kids are already out.
- For Want Of A Nail: If Cricket had just listened to Bill and stayed in the truck, then it wouldn't have been towed in the first place.
- In Medias Res: The episode begins with the Greens already leaving the country in the Kludge and arriving in Big City.
- Mid-Battle Tea Break: When the Greens are being chased by the guard dogs at the towyard, Tilly spots a slide and plays with it.
- Mood Dissonance: The montage of the Greens struggling to get around Big City is accompanied by an upbeat song about spending the day with friends.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Cricket is so taken in by the city sights that he and Tilly end up getting out once they stop; Bill ends up stopping in a no parking zone, but Cricket ignores that warning. Thus, the Kludge gets towed.
- Origins Episode: This episode details the Greens' move to Gramma's house, and subsequently their first day at Big City.
- Pilot Episode: This is chronologically the first episode of the series.
- Sewer Gator: Cricket suggests the family use the sewers as a shortcut. He opens a manhole, only to come face to face with an alligator.
- Swallowed a Fly: Cricket when he sticks out his head out the car window while singing. He comments upon it, then has a whole swarm hit him in the face.
- Welcome to the Big City: The instant the Greens first arrive in Big City, the kids are tempted to see the sights, and Bill ends up parking the truck in a no parking zone.
- Wet Cement Gag: At one point, the Greens accidentally walk through wet cement.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Phoenix is nowhere to be seen throughout the episode despite being discovered in the country, suggesting Gramma took her sometime prior to the move.
- The Worm That Walks: Cricket tries to befriend someone at the bus, but he turns out to be a horde of rats hidden inside a hoodie.
When raccoons attack, the family fights back.
RaccoonedWhen Cricket and Bill accidentally disturb a nest of raccoons in the garage, they invade the house, and Cricket and Bill's squabbling keeps ruining every attempt to get them out.
"Raccooned" contains examples of:
- Amplified Animal Aptitude: On top of all the raccoons uniting together, they can throw rocks, slam doors, and even operate a reclining chair.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Implied by Tilly as she gets taken away by the sole remaining raccoon.
- Artistic License – Biology: A raccoon wouldn't be able to carry a human being in their mouth like how one carried Tilly.
- Becoming the Mask: Tilly pretends to be a raccoon to infiltrate the pack, but soon finds herself enjoying it too much.
- Big "SHUT UP!": When the Greens are kicked out of their own house by the raccoons and Cricket and Bill keep bickering, Gramma screams, "SHUT UP!" to stop their quarrel and call them out.
- Black Bead Eyes: Cricket mentions the raccoons' as "horrible" and "beady".
- Bottle Episode: Most of the episode takes place at the Green house, with brief jumps to the park and forest.
- Brains Versus Brawn: Played with Cricket and Bill's clashing ways of capturing the raccoons, with the impulsive Cricket as the brawn and the intelligent Bill as the brains.
- Chekhov's Gun: Tilly pretending to be a raccoon and move amongst them is how she discovers how they work as a team which in turn makes Gramma realize how to get rid of them.
- Damsel in Distress: Tilly becomes this in the climax when the last remaining raccoon captures her and holds her hostage, meaning Cricket and Bill have to truly work together if they want to save her.
- Dissension Remorse: Cricket and Bill are forced to put their feud aside for the sake of Gramma's plead to work as a team; they end up burying the hatchet completely when the last remaining raccoon wants to keep Tilly to itself, thus the two truly become a team to save her.
- Feud Episode: Between Cricket and Bill over their clashing raccoon trap ideas.
- For Want Of A Nail: If Cricket and Bill remembered to close the door before entering the garage, the raccoons wouldn't have taken over their house in the first place.
- From Bad to Worse: Both Cricket and Bill's bickering and clashing ideas only result in the raccoons taking over the house more and more, to the point the house is filled with raccoons.
- Here We Go Again!: In the end when all the raccoons are rounded up, the Greens release them back to the wild...then it's revealed they're taking over the whole city.
- Jump Scare: A raccoon does one in the final shot.
- Leeroy Jenkins: While Bill wants to set up traps and wait for the raccoons to fall in, Cricket has no patience for that and just wants to attack the raccoons head on.
- Minimalist Cast: The only characters present are the four main Greens.
- No, You:Cricket: I almost had him, Dad! Why did you trip me up?!
Bill: The trap was gonna work, but you got in the way!
Cricket: Nuh-uh! YOU got in MY way! - Only Sane Man: Tilly is the only one of the family who has her head straight, as her Becoming the Mask and moving amongst the raccoons is how she discovers their weakness.
- Overly Long Gag: Bill patiently waiting until a raccoon is lulled to his trap, even commenting on it as time passes.Bill: We wait, and we wait... Tick tock... The passage of time... Any minute now. Or could be hours! Who knows? Round and round goes the clock... but we stay still... Tick, tock, tick, tock... Wonder if we got anything yet? Nope, not yet... But that's okay...
- Pest Episode: The episode deals with Cricket and Bill discovering a horde of raccoons and accidentally letting them into the house. When the family tries to get rid of them, Cricket and Bill's ways of capturing them clash with each other; specifically Cricket uses more reckless and direct methods compared to Bill's rational and strategic ones, and they both repeatedly argue over who ruined whose idea and which is better, which only worsens the invasion.
- Two Rights Make a Wrong: Bill and Cricket's plans constantly sabotage each other, usually Cricket scaring the raccoons away from the traps but Bill stopping him before he can actually catch any.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gramma calls Cricket and Bill out for their constant arguing which only made the raccoon situation much worse.Gramma: It's both your dang faults! Your squabblin' ain't gettin' us anywhere!!!
