The Belchers enter a float contest for a $500 fifth place prize, but have to compete with Jimmy Pesto and bad driving from Teddy.
Paraders of the Lost Tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: With greater emphasis on the "sweet". Teddy notes that the Belchers will have to use most of the $500 cash prize to fix up the now-ruined parade float, but they still make an overall profit (more than they would have made staying at the restaurant), have a fun day at the parade, and get the last laugh over the Pestos.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Bob is so busy sulking over Jimmy Pesto that Louise greets Marshmallow in his stead.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When Bob becomes determined to get ahead of Jimmy Pesto's float.Linda: It's not a race!
Bob: You're right, it's not a race. It's a war.
Gene: It's a race war!
Bob: Gene... - Call-Back: While the rest of the Belchers wear pickle costumes on the parade float, Gene wears his Beefsquatch costume.
- The Cavalry: Gretchen, Marshmallow, and the other parade-goers help push the Belchers' float to the finish line.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Jimmy Pesto sabotages Bob's float to try and win the fifth-place prize, but his efforts are All for Nothing.
- Dance Party Ending: The Belchers join the parade-goers in dancing to "Hot Pants Rain Dance".
- Department of Redundancy Department: "Cash is the best kind of money."
- Easy Come, Easy Go: The Belchers manage to win the $500 prize for coming in fifth place, but Teddy notes that they might have to spend most of it fixing up the float they borrowed.
- Epic Fail: Determined to get ahead of Jimmy, Bob has the float turn off the route and take a shortcut to come out the first in the parade. Unfortunately, the street veers in the opposite direction of the route and they can't turn around. Ten minutes later, the Belchers have no idea where they are.Linda: We're lost, Bob! Who gets lost on a float?!
Tina: Dad did. Oh, was that not a real question? - Foil: Bob and Jimmy are both petty in their feud, while the rest of their families just want to enjoy the parade. However, what separates them is Bob's willingness to pull the stick out of his ass in order to enjoy his time with his family, which ultimately costs Jimmy the coveted fifth-place reward. Best shown at the very end—while Bob joins Linda, Tina, Gene, Louise, and the Pesto kids in dancing to "Hot Pants Rain Dance", Jimmy Pesto just sulks in the background.
- Friendly Enemy: The Pesto kids are nowhere near as hostile to the Belchers as Jimmy Sr. is. Jimmy Jr. does sabotage the float on his father's orders, but he has no idea what he's actually doing and clearly didn't mean any ill will.
- Graceful Loser: Trev doesn't mind losing out on fifth place to the Belchers, acknowledging that they earned it, and the Pesto kids are okay with it as well since they just want to have fun with the parade. Jimmy Pesto, on the other hand, is not happy at all.
- Hypocrite: After going through so much trouble to sabotage the Belchers, Jimmy Pesto has the gall to claim he was robbed of the fifth-place prize.
- Insult Backfire: After Bob shoots Jimmy Pesto in the gut with a t-shirt cannon, Jimmy tries this comeback:Jimmy: You shoot a t-shirt at a guy like a girl!
(Louise shoots Jimmy in the face with her own t-shirt cannon)
Louise: So, like that? - Jerkass Realization: Seeing his family have fun makes Bob feel guilty for letting his rivalry with Jimmy Pesto spoil things for his family.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Jimmy Pesto spends the episode being a bigger jerk than usual, and for his troubles loses the $500 prize to the Belchers while suffering from two t-shirt cannon blasts. He deserved every last bit of it.
- Meaningful Background Event: While the Belchers discuss their plan for the parade, Jimmy Pesto can be seen in the background, tilting his head to eavesdrop on their conversation.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Played for laughs when Tina gets worried things are getting too competitive when she gut-shots Jimmy Jr. with a t-shirt cannon.
- Naked People Are Funny: To fit in with the free spirits at the parade, Bob strips down to his underwear.
- Nice Guy: As much of a roadblock as he is, the dogwalker who blocks the street with 5 dogs that have tied him up with their leashes is a fairly affable dude.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bob brags to Jimmy that he's doing the parade for the cash prize, giving Jimmy (who was previously completely uninterested in Bog to Beach) the idea to do the same.
- Not So Above It All: Bob is rather on-board when Louise offers to shoot Jimmy Pesto with a t-shirt cannon. Later in the parade, both of them revel in actually doing so.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: It's a Shout-Out to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Retcon: The Beefsquatch mask was returned to Peter Pescadero at the end of its debut appearance, but here Gene is shown to still have it. It is possible Peter gave it to Gene again at some point.
- Serious Business: While everyone else tries to enjoy the parade, Bob is (as usual) obsessed with beating Jimmy Pesto in the float contest.
- Shout-Out: When Jimmy starts pulling decorations off of the Belchers' float, Gene says, "Get your damn hands off her, Biff!"
- Suspiciously Apropos Music: The song Linda wants to lip-sync to, "Hot Pants Rain Dance", starts with lyrics about finding hope just when things seem most hopeless. Sure enough, it starts playing as Bob has his Jerkass Realization and decides to quit worrying about the contest and have fun.Just when I thought I was lost and washed-out
Somebody reminded me what it was all about - Sweet and Sour Grapes: Bob learns he should stop taking the float contest so seriously and just enjoy the festivities. Seeing Bob and his family partying with the parade-goers to "Hot Pants Rain Dance" is what convinces the judges to award fifth place to them instead of Jimmy Pesto.
- Tempting Fate: Bob observes the weather the day before Bog to Beach and remarks that it might not rain during the parade as was previously predicted. Cut to a rainy day.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: The Belchers' original plan for the parade float contest—there are cash prizes all the way through fifth place, but only four other floats are participating. With only five floats total, the Belchers are guaranteed fifth place just for participating. Unfortunately, Jimmy Pesto copies the idea, so the Belchers have to actually work for their prize.
- You Fight Like a Cow: Jimmy Pesto claims that Bob shoots like a girl after being hit with a t-shirt cannon. Louise proceeds to show him the hard way that a girl shooting a t-shirt cannon is just as painful as a grown adult shooting one.
