Art Show
Manny is called by Carmela to help her hang pictures for the local elementary school’s art show. Judging that this job requires a level, he sets off to Kelly’s to pick one up- and, much to his surprise, meets Beamer the laser level. Beamer’s speed and precision (not to mention his lasers) quickly impress the other tools- except for Stretch, who worries that Beamer’s precision and accuracy will allow him to take over the tape measure’s job.
“Art Show” provides examples of:
- Animal Reaction Shot: Mixed with a bit of Cats Are Snarkers.Mr. Lopart: There’s nothing she [Fluffy] enjoys more than getting her picture painted. Right, Fluffy?
Fluffy: //rolls her eyes// - Artistic License – Physics: The beam of Beamer’s laser is visible at all times, even though (as anyone who’s ever played with a laser pointer can tell you) under normal circumstances lasers should only be visible as a red dot on whatever they’re pointed at; the beam only becomes visible when passed through something like smoke or fog.
- Artsy Beret: Mr. Lopart wears one while trying to paint a picture of Fluffy.
- Becoming Part of the Image: When Mr. Lopart’s portrait of his cat falls on him, his head ends up going through the exact spot of the canvas where Fluffy’s head was.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Triggered by a hungry Felipe asking if the art show has food, and Pat “helpfully” pointing him to a painting of some fruit.
- Fictional Painting:
- Mr. Lopart is seen trying to paint a portrait of Fluffy.
- As can be expected, the art show is loaded with these, including one of Tanya at her ice cream stand (with a comically tall stack of ice cream scoops), one of a dinosaur dancing, one of some fruit set out on a table, and quite a few that appear to be self-portraits. The animators evidently took great care to ensure that these paintings really look like they were made by elementary-schoolers.
- Kids Love Dinosaurs: Implied, as one of the paintings at the elementary school’s art show depicts a dinosaur dancing to music from a boombox.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Mr. Lopart’s claim that Fluffy enjoys getting her picture painted is instantly disproven via Animal Reaction Shot.
- Neat Freak: Beamer is a variation- he doesn’t care about things being organized or clean, but he cares very much about things being straight and level.
- Status Quo Is God: Rather than joining Manny’s team, Beamer decides to become Carmela’s tool, and the two of them are promptly never seen again.
The New Time Capsule
The town of Sheet Rock Hills is building a time capsule, but Manny and the tools don’t know what they should add. In search of ideas, they set out on a walk around town to see what some of their friends will be contributing, but after helping several people with their submissions they still end up stumped. Then Mayor Rosa and the citizens discover that the box they were planning to use has a big (or rather, small) problem with it- but this just might be an opportunity for Manny and the tools to make their contribution.
“The New Time Capsule” contains the following tropes:
- Call-Back: The town of Sheet Rock Hills makes a time capsule once every 100 years.
- Comically Missing the Point: Pat produces a few instances.
- When the tools are searching for a specific pair of shoes in Sherman’s shoe store, and Pat insists in looking in a rather improbable place:Turner: Now how would a pair of sneakers get under there?Pat: I dunno. Walk?
- Later, when Manny and the tools are told they only have five minutes left before they need to go to the park for the time capsule ceremony:Pat: Oh, five minutes! I thought time was running out!
- When the tools are searching for a specific pair of shoes in Sherman’s shoe store, and Pat insists in looking in a rather improbable place:
- Continuity Cavalcade: A good portion of the inhabitants of Sheet Rock Hills are seen at the time capsule ceremony, with items related to previous episodes they’d featured in.
- Knew It All Along: After Turner points out that there was no photo in the picture frame Manny has just fixed, Pat (who had just commented on the “photo” being completely black) claims to have known there wasn’t a photo all along.
- Irony: Sherman was unable to find the pair of sneakers he was planning to put in the time capsule… because he put them on the table beside his store’s door so he’d remember them on the way out.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Bizarrely, the image Manny paints on the time capsule lid manages to mess up how these are applied to his two female tools- Dusty (who doesn’t have eyelashes) is depicted with them, while Squeeze (who does) is drawn without them.
- Time Capsule: The inhabitants of Sheet Rock Hills are building one, set to be opened 100 years in the future, with the two main problems of the episode being that a. Manny and the tools can’t think of what they should add to it, and b. The box for the time capsule is too small to hold everyone’s items. Fortunately, Manny figures out that he can solve both problems at once by building a bigger box (and painting a picture of himself and his tools on the underside of the lid).
