Manny’s Makeover
While working on Mrs. Lopart’s oven, Manny accidentally gets his shirt covered in grease in ruined. Mrs. Lopart decides to give him another shirt to replace it… a bright-red-with-blue-polka-dots-and-a-built-in-tie shirt she sewed herself. And it comes with a matching bag for the tools to ride in!
”Manny’s Makeover” provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Manny’s Makeover
- Audible Gleam:
- The overly shiny red-and-gold shirt Mrs. Lopart made for her son emits one when he holds it up.
- One shines on the oven’s handle after Manny repairs it.
- Continuity Nod: A shot of Mrs. Lopart’s house reveals that her mailbox is still upside-down.
- Damned by Faint Praise: The only good thing Manny can say about the horrid shirt Mrs. Lopart knitted for him is that it’s “one of a kind”.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: At the beginning of the episode, Rusty is scared by a toy mouse that Manny made for Fixit.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: One happens after Manny goes back to wearing his normal shirt, and Flicker expresses disappointment at the shirt’s lack of polka dots.
- Gilligan Cut: When Manny is wearing his horrid Mrs. Lopart-made shirt (and the tools are in a matching tool bag), Felipe hopefully suggests that, maybe, no one will notice them. Cue a montage of Manny walking through the town, and everyone reacting with shock to his awful clothes.
- Homemade Sweater from Hell:
- When Manny accidentally gets grease all over his shirt, Mrs. Lopart gives him a replacement in the form of a bright red… thing with blue polka dots and a blue ruff/built-in tie. Oh, and it comes with a matching bag for the tools to ride in.
- Apparently, Kelly’s grandmother once gave her a purple sweater with an image of a bunny on it, which Kelly hated.
- Instantly Proven Wrong:Mr. Lopart: I can handle a simple little repair like this. (The handle on the oven door falls off)
- Musical Gag: When the tools are riding in the Mrs. Lopart-made polka-dotted tool bag, the soundtrack plays an instrumental rendition of “Hop Up, Jump In” with an amazing amount of spacing between notes, as if the notes themselves are embarrassed to show their face around the tacky monstrosity.
- Needlework Is for Old People: Mrs. Lopart, who was previously established as being fond of knitting, is now also shown to be decent (for a certain sense of the word) at sewing as well.
- Offscreen Crash:
- One happens when Mr. Lopart is trying to work on the oven. Fluffy is involved, somehow.
- Later, Mr. Lopart is seen tossing a detached oven handle to himself and failing to catch it, causing another one. Again, Fluffy is involved.
- Only One Finds It Fun: While Manny and all of the other tools are horrified at the shirt (and matching tool bag) Mrs. Lopart made for Manny, Flicker loves the shirt, and is regularly distracted by its polka-dotty beauty.
- Running Gag: Flicker being hypnotized by the lunares (polka dots) on Manny’s new shirt.
- Status Quo Is God: By the end of the episode, Manny’s ugly new shirt is ruined when the ruff gets stuck in Mrs. Lopart’s oven, and Mrs. Lopart sews him a second shirt which looks exactly like the one he normally wears.
- That Poor Cat: Fluffy ends up being somehow involved in both of the Offscreen Crashes caused by Mr. Lopart.
Singing Salon
Aurelia, the hairdresser at the Singing Salon, calls Manny- her record player is broken, and, without it, she can’t fulfill the “singing” part of her salon’s name. When Manny leaves to go to Kelly’s, the tools stay at the salon to keep Mrs. Portillo (who needed to get her hair styled to look her best attending her niece’s wedding, apparently) company- and decide to try to do Mrs. Portillo’s hair themselves.
Tropes in “Singing Salon” include:
- Alliterative Title: Singing Salon
- Contrived Coincidence: Kelly somehow has the exact rare record player gear Manny needs lying around in her box of old parts.
- Damned by Faint Praise: This ensues when Mr. Lopart tries to test an automatic cat groomer he bought for Fluffy on himself.Manny: Uh, your hair looks… interesting.
- Deus ex 'Scuse Me: While Manny is at Kelly’s store, Aurelia is called away by a ringing phone, and, unsupervised, the tools decide that they can “fix” Mrs. Portillo’s hair themselves. The fact that the process of (incorrectly) doing Mrs. Portillo’s hair would take much longer than one phone call is given an explanation when Aurelia finally gets back to the tools- apparently, multiple people had been calling in to schedule appointments.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: When Kelly arrives at the Singing Salon for her appointment at the end of the episode, and Squeeze asks if the tools could help.Squeeze: Can we do it? Can we do it?
Everyone (remembering the disaster Squeeze had just made of Mrs. Portillo’s hair): No!
Squeeze: Okay. Maybe I’ll just sing along. - Gag Haircut: A variation ends up occurring when the tools try to style Mrs. Portillo’s hair, with the result being an epically hilarious mess which stands straight up. Fortunately, as no cutting was involved, Aurelia is able to fix the mess fairly easily.
- I'm Okay!: Pat says this in the beginning of the episode when he slips after limboing under Stretch’s tape.
- Location Title: Named after Aurelia’s hairdressing place.
- Musical Chores:
- Aurelia the hairdresser sings “Cabello” while doing people’s hair; the song is entirely diegetic, with the backup “instrumentation” being provided by a record player.
- This trope gets lampshaded at the beginning of the episode:
Turner: Whoever heard of someone who has to sing to do their work?
Felipe: But we always sing when we work. “Let’s get going, and fix it right”... - Musical World Hypotheses:
- “Cabello” is entirely Diegetic, as Aurelia needs a record player to provide accompaniment as she sings it.
- “We Work Together” is a case of a Musical Alternate Universe, as Felipe is shown to be aware of it despite the fact that it couldn’t possibly be diegetic, as it plays over a Hard-Work Montage.
- Tempting Fate: When Felipe suggests that the tools try to do Mrs. Portillo’s hair themselves, he makes the mistake of asking:Felipe: How hard can it be?
- Tyop on the Cover: Handy Manny’s Disney+ upload mistakenly refers to the episode as “A Singing Salon”.
- We Sell Everything: Apparently, Kelly has a bin of old, rare, and frankly bizarre parts she keeps in her store just in case someone needs them- contained within the bin are a cuckoo clock, a wheel from her Uncle Herbert’s old unicycle, and the exact record player gear Manny needed for Aurelia.
- What Are Records?: Before fixing Aurelia’s record player, Manny has to explain to the tools what a record player is.
