Listen Up!
When Cricket disobeys Bill's warning about his destructive toys from his past, some poppers cause him to temporarily lose his hearing and tries to hide the truth to avoid further punishment. Meanwhile, the rest of the Greens and Remy play a card game which turns out to be destructive.
"Listen Up!" contains examples of:
- Big Ball of Violence: Tilly, Remy, Alice and Nancy get into one when they find out Tilly cheated to get a win.
- Bottle Episode: The majority of the episode is set at the Greens' house, with brief shifts to a curb and the community pool during Cricket's Imagine Spot.
- Creepy Changing Painting: When Remy takes a closer look at the One-O box, the happy and smiling faces of the family suddenly change into angry feuding expressions, causing him to realize how destructive the game is.
- Easily Forgiven: Bill quickly forgives Cricket for not listening to him. Justified as Cricket both just nearly died and learned his lesson.
- Feud Episode: The B-plot becomes this between the female Greens and Remy over the One-O game.
- Foreshadowing: Gramma screaming and throwing her cards all over the place, before shouting "I win!", is the first visual sign of how dangerous and hostile the One-O game is.
- Game Night Fight: We find out halfway why One-O was in the "Danger" box, when Tilly, Gramma, Nancy and Remy get into a fight mid-game.
- Here We Go Again!: A single One-O card somehow survives the fire and flies out of the chimney, and Benny catches it and is soon interested in it...
- Hiding the Handicap: Cricket tries to keep his temporary hearing loss a secret from Bill, fearing he'll be grounded for not paying attention. This gets him in arguably more trouble than if he had been honest about it. Bill also did the same thing when he didn't listen to Gramma.
- Inner Monologue: Most of Cricket's dialogue comes through his thoughts after he gets his hearing loss, showing him panicking over what to do now that he can't hear Bill after not listening to his warning.
- It Runs in the Family: Turns out Cricket wasn't the only one to disobey a parental image and loses his hearing with the popper disks — after apologizing to Bill, he reveals he did the same exact thing when he was his age.
- Kill It with Fire: After the Greens discover the One-O game is dangerous and meant to drive people nuts, Remy refuses to put it back in the garage in fear someone would find it, thus the family decides the only way to "finish the game permanently" is by throwing all the pieces into the chimney fire.
- Laser-Guided Karma: A
rather dangerous one in Cricket's case, as he experiences a Near-Death Experience where he almost falls into the chimney fire the others were using to destroy the One-O game as karma for not telling Bill he didn't listen to him. - Late to the Realization: After Cricket doesn't listen to Bill, he sets off all the poppers and somehow loses his hearing; it's at that point he reads a warning label on the bottom of the package that the poppers have a side-effect of causing temporary hearing loss, something he didn't know of until too late.
- Mondegreen Gag: Cricket mishears "Don't wake up the rooster" as "Go shake up the rooster", which drives Cogburn mad.
- Musical Spoiler: After Tilly tells how ironic the One-O ended up in the box of Bill's danger toys and quips it's "as safe as can be", ominous music is heard as the party continues playing, which foreshadows how destructive the game turns out to be later on.
- My Little Panzer: Bill's old toys come with sharp points, toxic chemicals, and flamethrowers. That's why the box was branded "Danger". Even the seemingly innocuous One-O drives people crazy.
- A Rare Sentence:Cricket: "Property of Bill", "Danger". Those were words I never thought I'd see together.
- Reading Lips: Cricket tries to read Bill's lips and thinks he wants him to shake the rooster, when in reality Bill was warning him not to wake the rooster.
- Single-Episode Handicap: The episode revolves around Cricket receiving a temporary hearing loss due to a side-effect of the poppers.
- Take That!: One-O seems to parody the classic card game Uno.
- Tempting Fate: Tilly takes the One-O deck from the box of dangerous toys and decides to play it with Nancy, Gramma and Remy, telling herself how safe the game is. It's not long before all four of them are at each other's throats.
Big Picture
While at a drive-in movie, Gloria is jealous of all the Snap-A-Gram posts and tries to prove her life is exciting by taking the best picture ever with Cricket's help. Meanwhile, Bill and Gramma get lost when they use the bathroom, leaving Tilly and Nancy to watch the movie themselves and Nancy soon realizes she missed specific details about the flick.
"Big Picture" contains examples of:
- Animorphism: The premise of Honey, You Turned Me Into a Monkey has the doctor get transformed into a monkey after his airheaded assistant causes a project to go wrong.
- Book Ends: The episode begins with the Greens and Gloria driving into the drive-in, and ends with them leaving.
- Bottle Episode: The entire episode takes place at the drive-in theater the Greens and Gloria visit.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: At the food truck, Bill is given a spaghetti and meatball smoothie. He does not enjoy it.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: While rewatching Honey, You Turned Me Into a Monkey, a movie she enjoyed as a child, Nancy notices that the character of Dr. Ditzy is treated as a Brainless Beauty who can't do anything right. Nancy worries that Tilly will think this is how women are supposed to act, especially after she repeats a line from the movie, "I guess I'm dumber than a monkey."
- Department of Redundancy Department: Bill and Gramma find a food truck called The Food Truck Food Truck.
- The Ditz: Dr. Professor's airheaded assistant Dr. Ditzy, true to her name.
- Dude, Where's Our Car?: Bill and Gramma's subplot starts with Bill accompanying Gramma to the bathroom and then both struggling to find the truck.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Gloria disagrees to Cricket's assertion that she's the newest member of the Green family, pointing out that her cafe name is 'Gloria + Green' and she just happens to be living in their house before following the train of thought and realising that she actually is a Green in all but name.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The Snap-A-Gram post of Alexander and Terry has the hashtag "#DATENIGHT".
- Not So Above It All: Bill is worried that Gramma will get lost on her way to the restroom and back, so he follows her. But when it's time to return to the truck, Bill himself doesn't know the way back.
- Shout-Out: Honey, You Turned Me Into a Monkey sounds pretty much like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
- Social Media Before Reason: In her desperation to take the perfect photo for her Snap-A-Gram account, Gloria gets herself and Cricket chased around the drive-in by an angry monkey.
- Social Media Is Bad: Gloria's plot has her jealous of other's Snap-A-Gram posts showing them living more exciting lives than her. In trying to prove that she can have an exciting life too, she and Cricket try to get a picture with Mr. Bananas, the monkey from the movie playing at the drive-in. The monkey, however, goes berserk when Gloria touches him; a later attempt to get the picture while Mr. Bananas is sleeping fares even worse, and they end up hiding in a dumpster. When Gloria resigns herself to having an unexciting life, Cricket reminds her that they were just in an exciting situation, but there is no need for the rest of the world to know about it, and she shouldn't be worrying about what people online think of her.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: The professor in the movie who gets turned into a monkey is called Dr. Professor.
- Tempting Fate: Moments after Cricket said "That monkey's never gonna find us!", Mr. Banana hears him and turns to see their shadows projected onto the bigscreen, alerting him where they are.
