It's an adventurous V-Day for all. As Bob tries giving Linda a nice surprise, Gene develops a kiddie crush on a substitute lunch lady, Tina fights diarrhea and Louise realize that she may have feelings for Regular-sized Rudy.
Tropes Actually:
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Louise won't admit it, but she really loves Rudy enough to kiss him.
- Berserk Button: When Louise finds out that Chloe is using sweet Rudy to get good grades, she flips out.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Gene is infatuated with Isabella, the plump Italian substitute lunch lady, especially when he tries her dark chocolate.
- Big Damn Kiss: Louise gives Rudy a whopper of one; followed by a slap and a threat if he tells anyone.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Chloe Barbash is just exploiting Rudy's feelings for her to get quiz answers.
- Dance-Off: Bob and Teddy take a hip-hop dance class and get challenged to a dance-off by Flips. As the dance battle begins, he hurts himself, so Bob and Teddy win by default before they even make a move.
- Dissimile: This happens when Teddy encourages Bob to take a dance class.Teddy: You take one lesson, and you'll be like Gene Kelly, if Gene Kelly only had one dance lesson.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Everyone. Gene bonds with the substitute lunch lady over making chocolate, Bob manages to impress Linda with his dance lessons, Rudy gets a Valentine's Day kiss from Louise, Speedo Guy gets with the mermaid he's been crushing on, and Tina gets that Big Damn Kiss with Jimmy Jr. in spite of her diarrhea.
- Epic Fail: Flips challenges Bob and Teddy to a dance-off, which they win by default when Flips face plants trying to dance on a chair.
- Everyone Has Standards: Louise is horrified that Chloe is just using Rudy for quiz answers.
- Funny Background Event: During Bob and Teddy's performance for Linda, a car slows down to get a better look at what's going on.
- Green-Eyed Epiphany: Louise isn't interested in returning Rudy's supposed crush on her until she learns he actually has one on a girl named Chloe Barbash, after which she becomes mildly upset and jealous about not being Rudy's Valentine.
- Growling Gut: Tina suffers a rumbling stomach throughout the episode due to a base case of diarrhea.
- I Can't Dance: Bob's Valentine's Day gift to Linda was supposed to be that he took dance lessons for her. Unfortunately, the only dance class available is for hip-hop. Nevertheless, his dance routine at the end touches Linda, if only because he made the effort.
- Imagine Spot: After trying dark chocolate, Gene fantasizes about marrying Isabella and opening a dark chocolate factory, which is having its "Grand Re-Re-Opening."
- Kiss-Kiss-Slap: Pretty much literally: Louise slaps Rudy's face immediately after kissing him, He's so wowed by the kiss that the slap only elicits a quiet "Ow."
- Literal Metaphor: Rudy says that Chloe takes his breath away—which is because everything takes his breath away due to his asthma.
- Nice Girl: Isabella the substitute lunch lady, contrasting the jerkass she's replacing.
- Noodle Incident: The ballroom dancing class is cancelled because the teacher died from undisclosed causes.
- Potty Emergency: Tina spends most of the episode stuck on the toilet, after a victory in chili-eating comes back to haunt her.
- Precocious Crush: Gene gets one on the substitute lunch lady. He's disappointed when he learns she has a boyfriend.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Well, white gal, but Shelly (the hip-hop teacher Bob takes lessons from) definitely counts. So does her son, Flips Whitefudge.
- Red Herring:
- Louise (and the audience) assume that Rudy has a crush on her. Then it's revealed that he instead has a crush on Chloe and was only approaching Louise so she could give Chloe his card and love weed. Then the ending all but states that he does in fact have a crush on Louise.
- Ms. Selbo's boyfriend is initially set up to be a jerkass who broke up with Selbo recently for no reason, but it's later shown that Selbo is the nutty one and they broke up a year ago.
- Running Gag: Ms. LaBonz keeps getting shown stealing school supplies and claiming she's bringing them from home. By the time she shows up with a printer, she just claims she's taking it home to fix it.
- Ship Tease: The episode overall and especially the ending gives a ton for Louise and Rudy.
- Shout-Out:
- Flips Whitefudge is named after a brand of pretzels.
- Ms. LaBonz lying that she's stealing a printer to fix it at home brings to mind a similar excuse used in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Ms. LaBonz is seen carrying off several toilet paper rolls, and later some coffee filters, all of which she brought from home and not the other way around.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Love Actually, from the Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title to the format of multiple plot lines happening in parallel.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: During the hip-hop battle, Flips Whitefudge hurts himself when he tries to do a chair tilt and falls flat on his face, meaning Bob and Teddy win without even lifting a finger.
- Yandere: Ms. Selbo has been obsessed with her ex-boyfriend after their one-year break-up to the point of stalking him by camping outside his home and stealing his pet dog.
