The 118 suffer from the effects of drug-laced baked goods. After being rescued by the 118, reporter Taylor Kelly is eager to use this as a chance to jump start her career. While helping Athena prepare for May’s homecoming dance, Bobby must deal with his own lost moments with his own children.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Angst: The episode has Bobby dealing with the fact that it would have been his daughter’s 13th birthday and then with him seeing May getting ready for her homecoming dance, shows him the moments that he will miss with his own children.
- Beauty Contest: The 118 respond to a call to a toddler pageant.
- Call-Back: During his interview with Taylor, Chimney brings up his “Hot Firefighter Calendar” picture.
- Chekhov's Gun: Early in the episode Chimney shows Taylor that the public often leaves baked goods for the firefighters to eat . . . guess what gets dosed with the LSD.
- Close to Home: Maddie receives a 9-1-1 call that reminds too much of what she herself had escaped, when the woman hangs up Maddie breaks down in tears.
- Damsel in Distress: Taylor Kelly’s news helicopter has a malfunction and the 118 have to step in to rescue her and her pilot.
- Eating Contest: The 118 respond to a call out to one of these.
- Everybody Must Get Stoned: The firefighters regularly receive baked goods from the public. One day, someone slips some LSD in their brownies... A Mushroom Samba ensues.
- 15 Minutes of Fame: After being rescued by the 118, Taylor wants to use her new fame to help her career and get herself in front of the camera, instead of just being the voice for the daily traffic report.
- Film the Hand: Bobby stops Taylor’s cameraman from filming inside the firehouse by doing this.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: While watching Taylor’s puff piece report, Bobby realizes just who drugged the brownies. It was the lady who was hosting the eating contest, she just worried that the station was under too much stress and wanted to do something to ease their minds.
- Get a Room!: Buck and Taylor are told this by her cameraman as they flirt/bicker about her wanting to use all the footage she shot.
- Going for the Big Scoop: Taylor is willing to continue to record the members of the firehouse even after they have all been dosed with LSD, especially Bobby when he starts talking about his dead daughter and ends up on the roof. She grows a conscience when it looks like he’s going to jump and calls 9-1-1. However, she did want to use all of the footage, but she got overruled, the firehouse lawyers are scarier than the news’
- Improvised Weapon: A woman uses a high heel to impale another woman’s cheek at a toddler pageant.
- Intrepid Reporter: Taylor Kelly is introduced as one. Willing to do anything for a story too advance her career.
- Mood Whiplash: The actions of Hen, Eddie and Buck while high at the toddler pageant, which include thinking the toddlers were women who had been shrunken, Eddie using his penlight on some balloons, Hen telling Athena that she smells like love are pretty hilarious which quickly changes when Athena arrives back at the 118 station to find Bobby standing on the edge of the roof because he wants to float away with his dead daughter.
- Mushroom Samba: As a result of eating brownies laced with LSD, the entire unit (except Chimney) is hallucinating. The entire scene is Played for Laughs, but that turns a complete 180 when Bobby says he sees his daughter, telling him to join her in the sky.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Happen between Maddie and Buck.
- Maddie: He’s so cute.Buck: Yeah he gets that a lot. Uh, you should meet his kid though.Maddie: Wait. Chimney has a kid?Buck: No. I-i thought you meant . . . (Maddie walks off) Chimney?!
- Only Sane Man: Chimney, who only just missed out getting dosed with LSD because he was the last to arrive at the table and all the laced brownies were all eaten.
- Popcultural Osmosis Failure: Maddie doesn't get Chimney’s Mission: Impossible Film Series reference when referring to the amount of security she’s had installed into her new house.
- Social Media Before Reason: When Taylor Kelly’s helicopter is in trouble, many bystanders happily stand around and record the event instead of getting to safety. It takes Athena yelling at them to get them to even move.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Brownies left for the firefighters are laced with LSD.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Once again, Chimney doesn't react well when an animal is discovered on a call. He freaks out when he spots an iguana at the Eating Contest call out.
