Green Greens
When Cricket finds a discarded florescent light bulb in the trash, Tilly and Bill set out on an epic journey to get the bulb to the e-waste center before it closes. Meanwhile, Cricket and Gramma learn about recycling.
"Green Greens" contains examples of:
- Animation Bump: Similar to other episodes animated by Rough Draft Studios, Many of the facial expressions are much more exaggerated, such as Tilly's lips visibly puckered after she spits the bulb out, and Cricket and Gramma's devious faces. The lighting at the landfill is much more detailed than previous fire scenes, and even the scene of Bill brooding to himself about the bulb is done with infernal red colors, something Season 1 never had the courage to animate.
- Big "NO!": By Tilly when she stops Bill from dropping the bulb into the dump.
- Determinator: Tilly will stop at nothing to recycle the bulb.
- Do Wrong, Right: Alice scolds Cricket for throwing away the house bills in the garbage... because they belong in the recycling bin.
- Green Aesop: Cricket and Gramma learn about recycling while looking for a way to get rid of the garbage in their yard.
- Hidden Depths: Bill was a hackey-sack champion in 1998.
- Horrifying the Horror: At the dump, Bill and Tilly are accosted by scary looking thugs. They run away screaming when Bill shows them the fluorescent bulb, because they don't want to go through the trouble of recycling it.
- Infernal Background: When Bill begins to lose his mind and considers leaving the bulb in the dump, the whole scene goes flaming and infrared-like.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: When Gloria first hears about what Bill and Tilly are doing, she's all in, a feeling she drops the instant she hits a traffic jam.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: In the process of walking through the city dump to the e-waste center, Tilly loses both of her shoes.
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: A woman is walking by the Greens' home when the trashcan explodes from too much garbage. The woman just says "Nope!" as she runs away.
- Race Against the Clock: Tilly and Bill have until 3:00 to reach the e-waste center before it closes until next week.
- Rope Bridge: To get to the e-waste center, Bill and Tilly have to cross the "Bridge of Sorrows", a rickety old wooden bridge over a polluted river. Bill falls through and almost drops the bulb, but manages to catch it using his hacky sack skills. A butterfly landing on the handrail causes the whole thing to collapse, forcing Bill and Tilly to run for their lives.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Gloria is at first willing to drive Bill and Tilly to the e-waste center, but there's a lot of traffic and the center closes in twenty minutes and doesn't open again until a week later. Cut to Gloria leaving them back at the house.
- Shout-Out: Bill quotes Lord of the Rings during his breakdown.Bill: It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over such a small thing.
- Sniff Sniff Nom: Seeing that his kale isn't growing well, Bill tastes the soil and detects trace amounts of plastic. Sure enough, Cricket had been burying the trash on the "trash hole" he's made in the kale patch.
- Trash of the Titans: Cricket has let a lot of trash accumulate in the house, so much he can't put it all on one trashcan. He does try, though, and it causes the can to explode.
Truce Bomb
Tilly meddles with Gramma and Mr. Grigorian to help them settle their long-lasting feud, but when they call a truce and make up, things don't seem normal anymore.
"Truce Bomb" contains examples of:
- Animation Bump: Cricket and Tilly's devious faces as they emit an Evil Laugh are about three times much better than how they emoted in Season 1, appearing much more exaggerated and squashed up instead of just a single face with barely minimal movement.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Upon seeing Gramma and Mr. Grigorian not feuding, Cricket asks Tilly this, which eventually causes her to realize her meddling made things worse.Tilly: Without the feud, their lives have become so much happier!
Cricket: I don't know, Tilly... They seem happy to you? - Feud Episode: The longstanding feud between Alice Green and Mr. Grigorian is the focus of this episode.
- Foreshadowing: Early on, Bill warns Tilly against meddling in Gramma and Mr. Grigorian's feud, saying that "sometimes things that look broken don't need fixing." Sure enough, Tilly "fixing" the feud actually makes them feel worse.
- Freudian Excuse: We learn from the flashback to when the feud started that Alice's beef with Mr. Grigorian was that she was tired of the city encroaching on what was once her farm and thought he was just another city slicker being annoying, when Mr. Grigorian was a newcomer to the city himself.
- Sequel Episode: To "Forbidden Feline" back in Season 1.
- We Want Our Jerk Back!: Having Gramma and Mr. Grigorian settle their feud actually makes them miserable, since their animosity was the only thing bringing purpose to their lives, and without it they become passive and lethargic. So Tilly and Cricket resolve to restart the feud.
