Halloween
It’s Halloween, and there’s going to be a big Halloween party in the park after sundown- but first, Manny has to go to Victor’s costume shop to repair a broken sewing machine.
”Halloween” includes examples of:
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: As thanks for helping him fix his sewing machine (and make Mr. Lopart a new costume when it looked like the sewing machine was going to be unrepairable), Victor gives Manny and the tools all new Halloween costumes.
- Audible Gleam: Felipe emits one when he strikes a pose after suggesting that his "handsome" face could be used as a model for Manny's jack-o-lantern.
- Continuity Nod: Squeeze’s Halloween costume ends up being a bunny rabbit.
- Deus ex Machina: One occurs late in the episode when Kelly, who supposedly didn’t have the part required to fix the sewing machine, walks into Victor’s store with the needed part, having apparently managed to locate one somewhere in her store.
- Dressed to Plunder: Turner wears a skull-and-crossbones pirate bicorn for his Halloween costume.
- Halloween Costume Characterization: A few instances.
- Mr. Lopart’s overinflated self-image is reflected by the fact that (apparently) he dresses as a superhero every year; when Victor is unable to sew up his superhero costume this year, he ends up dressing as a gumball machine, befitting his status as a candy store owner.
- Kelly is dressed as an angel, both as a reflection of her kind and helpful nature and as a subtle poke at her tendency to provide Deus Ex Machinas.
- Pat, being The Ditz and The Klutz, dresses as a clown.
- Squeeze the Animal Lover dresses as a bunny, which she had been shown to be especially fond of in “Pet Problem”.
- Victor gives Manny a royal outfit, which doesn’t seem to be an example until Victor tells Manny that he’s the “King Of Repairs”.
- Furry Confusion: The scepter that comes with Manny’s “King Of Repairs” costume is modeled after an inanimate hammer.
- Halloween Episode: Naturally, with a brief mention of Die de Los Muertos added. The plot involves Manny having to fix a costume shop’s broken sewing machine, so the shop’s owner can finish sewing people’s Halloween costumes.
- Improvisational Ingenuity: With Victor’s sewing machine unfixable (seemingly; it does get fixed later) and Mr. Lopart’s superhero costume still unsewed, Manny and the tools manage to use odds and ends to construct a gumball machine costume for him instead.
- Never Say "Die": Bizarrely averted, as “death” is briefly mentioned when Manny explains what Dia de Los Muertos is.
- One-Word Title: Has one.
- Shout-Out: Stretch’s Halloween costume is Frankenstein’s monster.
- Something Person: Mr. Lopart apparently dresses as a superhero for every Halloween; when complicated circumstances leave him with a gumball machine costume instead, he declares that he’s dressed as “Super Gumball Guy”.
- Staff of Authority: Manny’s “King Of Repairs” costume comes with one of these, a scepter with a head in the shape of a hammer.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Bizarrely, Dusty, who normally lacks these, manifests some in the form of a pair of eyelashes while dressed as a ballerina for Halloween.
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee: When the tools try to suggest various alternate costumes (specifically, chicken, caveman, and fairy princess outfits) for Mr. Lopart, he rejects them. When Manny draws up a plan for them to make Mr. Lopart a new Halloween costume, without the audience seeing what the plan is of, he ends up liking it.
Squeeze’s Magic Show
Magic Marty, the owner of a shop that sells magic tricks, has a crack in his magic box and calls Manny to fix it. The tools beg to be able to stay with Marty while Manny goes to get wood from Kelly, and he allows it. Unfortunately, while Manny is gone, Squeeze wants to do some magic of her own, and picks out a set of trick handcuffs to be her first prop. A volunteering Dusty is handcuffed to a cabinet, but when Squeeze tries to free her she finds she just can’t figure out how to get the cuffs to open…
“Squeeze’s Magic Show” contains:
- Brick Joke: Early in the episode, Magic Marty levitates Rusty for one of his tricks. Rusty, apparently disliking the experience, says he doesn’t want to be a volunteer in a trick again. At the end of the episode, after Marty’s magic box is repaired, he decides to demonstrate a trick involving it to the tools- Rusty, not wanting to be involved, hides in the toolbox, only for Marty to somehow pull him out of the magic box.
- Deus ex 'Scuse Me: When Mr. Ayala and Marcelo enter Marty’s shop, Marty goes to attend to them, leaving the tools alone and Squeeze free to try out some of his magic tricks, with disastrous results.
- Disappearing Box
- When his magic box is finally repaired, Marty performs a variant for the tools (well, except for Rusty, who was hiding in the toolbox due to not wanting to be involved in any more magic tricks) by reaching into the seemingly-empty box and pulling out Rusty, much to the latter’s shock.
- At the end of the episode, when the tools are back in Manny’s shop, Squeeze performs a more traditional version of the trick with Felipe as her volunteer- Turner, who has spent most of the episode rolling his eyes at any magic tricks, is actually enthusiastic about this one, and when Felipe reappears he complains that he knew the trick was too good to be true.
- Everything's Better with Sparkles: Slightly-yellow-tinged sparkles have a tendency to appear when Magic Marty does a magic trick.
- Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick: Magic Marty performs a lot of these; his Levitating a Lady act actually makes Rusty float; he’s able to open a pair of trick cuffs just by tapping them with his wand despite Squeeze having just spent a decent amount of time trying to do so and failing; and, as the peak of improbability, his reverse Disappearing Box trick literally teleports Rusty (who had been hiding due to not wanting to be involved in any more magic tricks) into the magic box.
- Levitating a Lady: At one point, Magic Marty demonstrates his magican prowess by levitating Rusty as an Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick (although, given that Squeeze and Stretch already float all the time, and that the other tools also have rather tenuous relationships with gravity [see: Felipe and Turner standing on walls or ceilings to screw things in, or any time Pat tries to golf], it might not be that impossible).
- Magic Wand: Marty’s magic shop sells the black-and-white stage magician baton type.
- Offscreen Crash: One results when Mr. Lopart is chased into his shop by a robot that was supposed to sweep out front.
- Special Guest: Penn Jillette as Magic Marty.
- Stage Magician: Magic Marty is one, with Impossibly Awesome Magic Tricks galore.
- Tempting Fate: When a robot Mr. Lopart set to sweep up front of his shop is malfunctioning:Mr. Lopart: I can handle a little broom just fine. "Clean-Sweep Lopart", they call me.
- Visual Pun: Magic Marty tells Squeeze that “it’s always nice to have a big fan” as he produces a literal, rather large paper fan from thin air.
- What Have We Ear?: At one point, Magic Marty produces a rather long screw from where Turner’s right ear would be if he had one. Turner is less than amused by this.
