The kids gets into a feud with a cranky smoothie truck driver. Meanwhile, Linda does her best to keep Gayle from quitting her new job.
As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Tropes:
- Berserk Button: Louise gets set off at the implication she's too old to be riding a tricycle.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs:Linda: What do we do to put off doing the dishes?Tina: Parcheesi?Gene: Cheese party?Linda: Parcheesi cheese party.
- Brick Joke: While at the bike party, Gene tells Jimmy Jr. and Zeke to get a bike basket. At the end of the episode, they follow his advice.
- Butt-Monkey: Rudy gets the short end of the stick here by losing his ramps and Louise suggests to the police that he's a Littlest Cancer Patient.
- Epic Fail: According to Gene, moving from drinking milk from the breast to the bottle was such a hard transition that it took him 4 years to get used to it.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Alice is willing to call the cops on the Belchers for a bike party, throw a smoothie at them, and steal Rudy's ramps just to push the kids out of the alley but is brought to tears when she realizes she could've killed Louise by running over her tricycle.
- Everyone Has Standards: Not even Tina has the patience to listen to Linda placate Gayle, and she's the one Belcher kid who shows Gayle any semblance of respect.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Alice is feeling on edge due to blowing her savings on the smoothie truck and overall being unsure if she'll ever make back the money. Upsetting, sure, but even then she took her anger out on kids who didn't have anything to do with her problem, and doesn't let up until she gets so pissed she nearly runs over Louise.
- Gone Horribly Right: Linda convinces Gayle that her security guard job doesn't have to be boring by getting her to "stake out" a guy who keeps coming in to look at a particular painting. Gayle gets so wound up about it she tries to arrest the guy and locks him in the employee bathroom.
- Hypocritical Humor: Linda calls Bob "not very bright".
- Innocently Insensitive: When Neil says looking at the painting for days reminds him of his dead wife, Linda is touched... except he says he's lying about that and is actually being reminded of his dead cat instead. Gayle gasps at that part.
- Jerkass: Alice is a gigantic A-hole: she insists on driving through the alley the kids are playing in every morning just because she doesn't want to turn left at an intersection, she loudly sings along to a song she's listening every morning, she throws a smoothie into a trash bin the kids are standing in front of, splashing them with it in the process and calls it a "happy accident", she teases Louise for still riding a tricycle, she calls the cops on them, and she moves Rudy's ramps next to the trash bin while laughing to herself so that the trash men will pick them up along with the rest of the trash.
- Littlest Cancer Patient: When Alice calls the cops on Louise's bicycle party in the alley, Louise tells them it's a benefit for Rudy, and implies that he's very sick. The cops see weak little Rudy and fall for it hook, line and sinker, with Rudy being confused about the situation and insisting there's nothing wrong with him.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Alice learns that she ran over Louise's tricycle and dragged it under her car for at least 2 miles, she realizes she could have killed her, and is so upset she starts crying.
- My God, You Are Serious!: When Alice decides to continue her weird smoothie & hair truck job, Tina laughs at her, and then immediately realizes she's serious. This is after Tina delivers the episode's aesop.
- NEET: Not that it was ever truly ambiguous, but this episode confirms Gayle is for the most part unemployed at any given moment.
- Never My Fault: Louise blames Rudy's ramps being stolen on Alice and Mr. Huggins (partially) despite the fact that she left the ramps in the alley instead of taking them into the house. Granted, Alice did move them to the dumpster so they'd get hauled off, and Mr. Huggins did fail to issue a warning despite having ample opportunity, but Louise attempts to act as if they were the sole causes even though she kickstarted the events that led to them being taken.
- Really Gets Around: Once Gayle learns Neil is a cat person, she immediately becomes smitten with him, which weirds him out.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Linda gets a phone call, Bob just walks away the instant he realizes it's from Gayle.
- Shout-Out:
- The title of the episode is paraphrasing the first line of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise". Or alternatively Psalms 23:4, which the above line is itself a paraphrase of.
- Alice's smoothie truck is called "When Hairy Met Smoothies".
- The night after the bike party, the Belchers are all crowded around the TV watching Mr. Robot. Linda gets confused at the fact that he's not a robot.
- The end credits features Bob and Louise singing "Bat Out of Hell" by Meat Loaf.
- The first Burger of the Day is The Sun'll Come Out To-Marrow Burger.
- The third Burger of the Day is The 500 Glaze of Summer Burger.
- Status Quo Is God: Yet another aversion—Louise has been riding her "mean green machine" since Season 3. It gets mangled beyond repair here, and rather than replace it with an identical tricycle Bob teaches her how to ride a bike; all future episodes show that the lessons stuck, as Louise is seen riding a bike alongside the others.
- Stealth Insult: While Linda's on the phone convincing Gayle that a guy in the museum is a potential art thief, she hangs up and announces to everyone that this is why she's a great sister... only to then notice Bob, Gene and Tina all left while she was coddling Gayle. It goes to show just how little pretty much everyone wants to deal with Linda's toxic relationship with her sister.
- Take This Job and Shove It: Gayle has a bad habit of doing this. She doesn't even stick around long enough to get a paycheck.
- Trying Not to Cry: Bob has a habit of tearing up whenever he teaches bike riding to his children (and that's without doing it in full from the start). Even reminiscing about it or looking at children riding bikes is enough to trigger his tears.
- Violation of Common Sense: Alice's job is rather odd and a strange combo that shouldn't work. Her work truck offers smoothies and hair removal in one package, which makes Mr. Huggins wonder if the combination is removal of hair from smoothies.
