Kaeloo tries to educate her friends on the importance of saving the environment, but pushes the Green Aesop way too far.
"Let's Play Ecologists" contains the following tropes:
- And This Is for...: Kaeloo forces Quack Quack to eat "org-yurt", a food which tastes absolutely disgusting but is good for the environment. When Quack Quack wastes it, she angrily transforms and force-feeds him org-yurt while yelling for each problem she thinks he caused.Bad Kaeloo: One org-yurt for the rainforest! One org-yurt for the Siberian tiger! And one org-yurt for butt-naked Indians!
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: See And This Is for... above.
- Brick Joke: At the beginning of the episode, Kaeloo tries teaching Stumpy how to recycle stuff, and Stumpy remarks "This recycling business is a nightmare!" When things descend into chaos as a result of Kaeloo taking the Green Aesop too far, Stumpy tells Mr. Cat "I told you recycling was a nightmare!"
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- When the main four find out that Quack Quack has been eating yogurt from non-environment friendly containers, Mr. Cat suggests tying him up in a sack full of rats and setting it on fire.
- Bad Kaeloo, a Nature Lover, sees a piece of garbage on the floor next to Mr. Cat and Stumpy and assumes that one of them must have dropped it. Mr. Cat even offers to pick it up and throw it away, but she picks them both up and throws them in a dumpster.
- The End Is Nigh: Stumpy hears about air pollution harming people, and he panics and starts to hyperventilate. He then assumes that his inability to breathe properly is because of air pollution, and he runs around yelling "We're all going to die! The end is nigh!"
- Force Feeding: Kaeloo does this to Quack Quack when he refuses to eat some disgusting organic yogurt called "org-yurt". He throws up afterwards.
- Green Aesop: Taken to parody levels. Kaeloo tries to convince everyone that if they aren't green, the planet could get destroyed. She ends up forcing Quack Quack to give up his Trademark Favorite Food, yogurt, and makes him eat a substitute called "org-yurt" which is organic and comes in environment-friendly containers, despite the fact that it tastes so bad that he vomits. After he vomits, she punishes him for "wasting food". She also beats up Mr. Cat and Stumpy and throws them in a nearby dumpster just because they dropped a small piece of paper on the ground, and "littering is bad".
- If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: Kaeloo buys Quack Quack organic yogurt to replace his regular yogurt because it is supposedly very healthy. Quack Quack vomits as soon as he eats it. Stumpy tries it and has the same reaction, and even Mr. Cat, who has eaten very questionable food before, says it's "revolting". Kaeloo winds up having to force feed the organic yogurt to Quack Quack.
- Infernal Background: When Mr. Cat says he'll "hunt down the polluters", the background behind him bursts into flames.
- Visible Odor: Kaeloo gives Stumpy a piece of stinky cheese to throw away that has squiggly lines over it to represent its odor.
