"Now this is how you quilt!"
"Should we just be a sushi restaurant? Nobody tell Bob, let's just see if he notices!"
—Linda
A random act of kindness sends Bob on a quilt square theft spree with Edith. Meanwhile, the kids attend a bad birthday party, and Linda tries getting Teddy over his aversion to sushi.
Tropey Driver:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Colton is amused by the Belcher kids' attempt to replace their gift with Gene's socks, and actually encourages them to go through with it because it'd drive his parents nuts.
- Bob tells Edith to keep her eyes peeled for Bosco, and she asks if that's a crack about her cataracts. Bob says it wasn't, but that it's still funny.
- Birthday Party Goes Wrong: Colton hates his The Great Gatsby-themed birthday party because it was forced upon him by his parents when he just wanted a simple pizza party. The party was less about him than about his parents having lots of photos for social media because they felt pressure from other parents and the elaborate birthday parties they threw for their kids.
- Bland-Name Product: The kids' present for Colton is a fake Rubik's Cube, sold as a "multi-colored puzzle cube". The kids lampshade that it's not quite an original product.
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Teddy mistakes wasabi for guacamole and eats too much - twice in a row. He does it again at the end.
- Brick Joke: When stealing Lillian's square from the retirement home, Edith claims Bob is her lover. Later, during Bob's Rousing Speech at the Wharf Arts Center, it's made clear that Lillian is still under this misconception as she asks What Does She See in Him?
- Calling the Old Man Out: Colton, supported by the Belcher kids, calls his parents out on the fact that the party was more about them taking pictures than Colton himself having fun.
- Chekhov's Gag: Early on, Colton's parents tell him not to pick his nose while getting his picture taken. Later, he and the Belcher kids sabotage the final photo shoot by putting their fingers up their noses.
- City People Eat Sushi: Teddy is dating a woman who likes sushi, but is too stubborn to tell her that he doesn't feel the same way about it. Linda tries to get him to acquire a taste for it, but he doesn't quite get the hang of it.
- The Comically Serious: Sergeant Bosco's mother is just as hilariously serious as her son.
- Continuity Nod: Louise places a finger under her nose to mimic a mustache when throwing Bob's own words back at him. She did the same thing in "The Hurt Soccer".
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Discussed; Harold claims that one of the members of the freak show was just left-handed, claiming "That was freaky back then."
- Dirty Cop: Discussed; Lillian claims her son will plant drugs on Bob and Edith solely to get them in trouble. Considering Lillian is speaking in anger, and that Sergeant Bosco has proven to be incompetent but not so much corrupt, it's likely she was just trying to scare them.
- Does Not Like Spam: Teddy, who has eaten a sponge and horse-based burgers, absolutely hates sushi.
- Everyone Is Related: Lillian, the leader of Edith's quilting group, turns out to be Sergeant Bosco's mother.
- Foreshadowing: At the beginning of the episode, Bob notes that The Great Gatsby is a weird theme for a kid's birthday party. This hints that Colton's parents were the ones who forced him to have the party in the first place.
- Gilligan Cut: Bob says that Linda is probably worried about him. Cut to her trying to get Teddy to eat sushi while saying "This is the only thing I care about in this world right now!"
- Hidden Depths: The Central Theme of the episode is that there's more to people than their first impression.
- Bob's storyline is about him helping Edith despite their mutual animosity. At first he's just trying to be helpful, but then he gets caught in her scheme to get revenge on her quilting group. But then Bob finds out the reason Edith is angry at her quilting mates; they rejected her square of the sideshow freaks she grew up with, feeling that it was part of the town's history and that they were just people like anyone else.
- The kids feel that Colton is a smug, greedy kid who just wants to get to his presents, and plan to replace their gift with Gene's smelly socks. Then Louise talks to Colton and learns that the elaborate party was his parents' idea and only wants to open his presents sooner so he could get the party done and over with. Louise decides to help Colton by sabotaging the group photo.
- Hypocritical Humor: Edith mocks Bob for thinking of his restaurant as a genuine business, even though her old-timey arts and crafts store isn't in much better shape.
- Ignored Expert: Mort gives Teddy a genuinely helpful bit of advice to just order chicken teriyaki for his date, Teddy instead snaps at him and goes with Linda's not-as-helpful advice of just ordering more sushi to get him to like it.
- Imaginary Friend: Colton claims he has one named Pete Zapparti. Which is why he wanted a pizza party for his birthday.
- Insistent Terminology: The quilters call Bob and Edith queefs (quilt-thieves), much to Bob's annoyance.
- Needlework Is for Old People: Every member of the quilting group is elderly, with the sole exception of the middle-aged Mr. Frond.
- Noodle Incident: Sergeant Bosco previously shot somebody because his mother told him to.
- No, You: When Teddy fears Caroline will find out he's been lying about liking sushi.Mort: Why don't you just get the chicken teriyaki?
Teddy: Why don't you just get the chicken teriyaki, Mort?! - Odd Friendship: Bob and Edith actually seem to be on better terms by the end of the episode. Not good terms, but better.
- Oh, Crap!: Bob has a mild version when he spots a photo of Sergeant Bosco with Lillian, as he realizes that Lillian is Bosco's mother. He also has a mild version when he realizes Mr. Frond is one of the quilters Edith plans to rob.
- Parents as People: Colton's parents mean well, but they start to blur the line between doing things for Colton's sake and for their own sake.
- Pet the Dog: Downplayed, but this episode is perhaps the nicest the Cranwinkles have ever been to Bob.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is a reference to Baby Driver (and indirectly the Simon & Garfunkel song the film is named after).
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Sergeant Bosco, surprisingly. After hearing Edith's motives, he refuses to punish Bob and Edith for stealing his mother's quilt square, instead pretending he is while merely driving them around in order to calm down his riled up mother.
- Shout-Out: Bob and Edith sing "Radar Love" in the credits.
- The names of the Store Next Door and Exterminator Van in the intro both reference Daryl Hall & John Oates songs (You Make My Dreams and I Can't Go for That (No Can Do), respectively).
- Social Media Is Bad: Colton's parents, Blake and Allison, set up a themed birthday party he hates just so that they'd have new photos to post on social media because they're jealous of everyone else's posts, and once they agree to let him open his presents at his own leisure without taking photos of it or staged reactions, they have this exchange:Allison: I think I've been posting pictures of the inside of my pocket this entire time.
Blake: I'm liking them, I'm liking them!
Allison: God, we're so sick. - Stating the Simple Solution: Mort is quick to point out that Teddy could order literally anything besides sushi from the menu.
- Sustained Misunderstanding: Teddy keeps mistaking wasabi for guacamole. After burning his mouth the first time, he immediately eats from the other side thinking it was the real guacamole.
- Themed Party: Tina, Gene, and Louise attend a kid's extravagant The Great Gatsby themed birthday party. The birthday-boy is very uninterested in the party and the kids initially think he's a spoiled brat who doesn't appreciate his parents' hard work. They later find out the parents threw the party for themselves so they could post photos of it on social media and the boy just wanted a low-key pizza party the whole time.
- Undercover as Lovers: It's for maybe ten seconds at most, but Edith passes off Bob as her lover so that they can get away with Lillian's quilt square.
- The Unfavorite: This episode reveals Sergeant Bosco has a brother who's their mother's clear favorite.
- Vague Age: Colton is explicitly stated to not be in any of the kids' grades (i.e. fourth, sixth, and eighth grade), but it's never stated which grade he's in. He appears to be slightly older than Louise (based solely on his height), which would place him at fifth grade.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Collateral, with Bob as the taxi driver who unwittingly drives a hitman to his jobs, only the hitman is Edith stealing quilt squares.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Edith blackmails Bob into helping her by refusing to take her medicine when she has fits. When they pick up Harold, however, he lets slip that the medicine is not for fits but for gas. She had been faking seizures to trick Bob, who is beyond pissed.
- You Keep Using That Word: Bob lampshades that "queef" doesn't mean "quilt thief" like Mr. Frond uses it.
