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A Plot: Lacey plans a parade for Dog River Days with all the fixings. She tries to cooperate with Brent, but his ideas are too outlandish, so she then convinces Oscar to try and outshine his son with a "traditional" float.B Plot: Wanda uses a mascot to convince a corporate sponsor, Redwhip Licorice, to support the cause.
C Plot: Hank battles Emma for the beauty pageant crown. They both ask Karen to train them, since she once won a pageant, while Davis prepares to be the parade marshal.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: Karen attempts this after Hank and Emma fire her as their pageant coach, entering it herself with the aim of beating them both. However, Fitzy immediately orders her not to participate, since Davis is the parade marshal and someone still needs to enforce the law during Dog River Days.
- Beauty Contest: The focus of Hank and Emma's plot.
- Blatant Lies: Brent convinces Oscar to join their floats together by saying Lacey told him they should do that, but Oscar shouldn't tell Lacey because it's a surprise. Oscar doesn't realize the flaw in this logic, and just calls Lacey a flake.
- Book on the Head: Hank assumes this is how Karen will coach him on posture, but she instead asks him to use a full cup of hot coffee, since "coffee is for closers".
- Call-Back:
- "Dog River Days" was the focus of one episode in the live-action series. Apparently everyone in town just forgot to have another one until Lacey remembers at the start of this episode.
- Licorice was established as Wanda's junk food of choice back in the live-action episode "American Resolution", where she had to give it up for her New Year's resolution. This time she tries to get sponsorship from her favorite licorice company.
- Cool Car: Hank wants to participate in the beauty pageant just because the winner gets to ride in a cool convertible.
- Culture Clash: Karen has no problems convincing the age-appropriate girls to not participate in the pageant and get in the way of Emma or Hank's victory, as they consider it to be both demeaning to women and outdated.
- Dangerous Workplace: "Flameball Candy", the parade's previous sponsor, closed down after it was revealed that they stored their candy in asbestos.
- Department of Redundancy Department: When the mega-float he made turns out to be too big to tow, Brent ends up just walking in the parade and using a megaphone to tell people to check out the float at Corner Gas that tells people to check out Corner Gas.
- Didn't Think This Through: Brent lies to his father in order to combine their float plans into a mega-float...and then it turns out to be too heavy to tow.
- Double Entendre: When Hank says that he and "his junk" should be able to enter the pageant, Wanda zings him with "Your junk hasn't entered anything in years."
- Fictional Counterpart: "Redwhip Licorice" is clearly based on the Red Vines brand created by the American Licorice Company, down to the blue-and-red packaging.
- Goofy Suit: Wanda makes one of her own, which resembles an open box of Redwhip Licorice, as part of her attempt to gain their sponsorship.
- I Know You Know I Know: Brent realizes that Oscar's up to something, but Oscar says that Lacey told him to keep it a secret, so Brent lies that Lacey told him to tell Oscar to tell him.
- Imagine the Audience Naked: Karen thinks this is a rookie mistake, and actually encourages Emma to imagine herself naked while on-stage, as the inevitable acknowledgement that she's not really naked will be a relief. To Karen's credit, Emma does feel more confident on the day of the pageant after doing this.
- Ironic Echo: Brent convinces Oscar to go with his outlandish mega-float idea by lying that Lacey told him to tell Oscar to do that. In the end, Oscar is announcing to the parade attendees that the trashy float left in front of Corner Gas is entirely his jackass son's fault, and tells Brent it's because Lacey told him to tell them.
- It's All About Me: When Wanda succeeds in getting some candy from Redwhip Licorice to throw at the parade (mainly so she doesn't go too far and get them bad media attention), she thinks her mascot character could be profitable and decides to keep the sweets as a "kickback". This leads to all the kids beating her up at the parade for refusing to share.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Hank and Emma realize Karen might be this after receiving outlandish advice on improving confidence and posture, and have it confirmed when she admits the pageant she won was for cutest baby.
- Meaningful Name: "Flameball Candy" used asbestos, a fire retardant (that causes very negative effects on human bodies), to store their candy.
- Mushroom Samba: At one point, Davis accidentally mucks up the cop car while cleaning it up for the parade. While trying to fix it, the paint fumes make him imagine a giant green talking rabbit, and when he snaps out of it, he sees he's now painted a pentagram on the car.
- My Greatest Failure: Emma considers hers to be...her marriage, but the relevant runner-up is being part of a beauty pageant as a teenager and getting disqualified after panicking and tripping another contestant.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Emma wants to win the Dog River Days pageant for this reason (see above for details).
- Noodle Incident: Redwhip Licorice decides to send Wanda candy and some money because they think her craziness is escalating and don't want a repeat of an incident from 2009, which isn't elaborated on except for the CEO walking away while crying "I'm sorry!"
- Poor Communication Kills: Davis accidentally messes up the paint on the cop car after Karen tells him the cleaning fluid is in a red, labeled-brown bottle, before she can clarify that she meant red-labeled, brown bottle and what Davis just used is actually paint thinner.
- Throwing the Fight: Hank decides to back out and let Emma win, giving up his chance to ride in a convertible, when it turns out that two of the judges are the girls Emma was running against as a teenager. As a sign of appreciation, Emma lets him drive the car, after intimidating the car's owner.
- Toilet Humor: Brent builds an overly elaborate float of Bigfoot pumping gas for the parade, but the arms come loose when he attempts to move it, making it look like the creature is instead peeing (and right into the model of the Ruby that Oscar made).
- Tongue Twister: The CEO of Redwhip Licorice has serious trouble pronouncing the name of his own company, despite having worked there for thirty years. It keeps coming out as "whed-rip".
