Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice arrive at a school in the middle of the woods where all the students are forest animals with a lovestruck teacher, her cantankerous father and financier, and a rampaging gorilla. Greg happily joins the animal children, while Wirt sticks around by the teacher's order to spite Beatrice for calling him a pushover.
Tropes:
- Accidental Hero: Wirt tripping on his untied shoelaces incapacitates the gorilla, and reveals the latter to be Jimmy Brown. Greg celebrates his brother being a "hero".
- Animals Not to Scale: Despite being mostly non-anthropmorphic, most of the students are the same size as each other and around the same size as Greg.
- Animal Stereotypes: The animals playing hooky include a raccoon and an opossum, both of whom wear dirtier and more lower-class period outfits than the other students.
- Bait-and-Switch: The gorilla that's chasing everyone is actually a person in a costume. More specifically, it's Jimmy, Miss Langtree's boyfriend.
- Bigger on the Inside: The single-room schoolhouse somehow also includes a small cafeteria and a lengthy bedroom.
- Bothering by the Book: In an effort to spite Beatrice, who accuses him being a pushover, Wirt starts obeying everything Miss Langtree says, even though he doesn't have to.
- Break-Up Song: "Langtree's Lament", which Langtree unsuccessfully tries to disguise as a song about the alphabet.
- Breather Episode: This episode is a low-stakes, mostly lighthearted story, with Wirt purposely annoying Beatrice, Greg cheering up some adorable animals, and the brothers helping a struggling school with its financial troubles. The (apparent) Killer Gorilla's introduction is slightly scary, but the scene quickly turns into a comical slapstick chase, so that the gorilla comes across as more funny than menacing, even before we find out that he was never remotely a threat. It's a silly episode with a happy ending... the next episode, things get dark again.
- Chekhov's Gag: Wirt has trouble keeping his shoes tied at the beginning. This helps later when he accidentally defeats the gorilla by tripping on his laces.
- Chekhov's Skill: Greg's ability to burst into fun song, and to have "fun." It helps the school put on a show.
- Civilized Animal: The school's students, which appear to be ordinary animals wearing clothes. The school's mission is actually to teach animals to act human.
- Clingy Costume: Jimmy Brown, Miss Langtree's boyfriend, got a job as a circus gorilla to buy a wedding ring, but he couldn't get out of his costume and others were too scared of him to help.
- A Day in the Limelight: Greg is the focus of the episode, as it's his antincs that leads to Miss Langtree's school getting the funding it needs.
- Educational Song: Parodied with "Langtree's Lament", ostensibly a song to help the animals learn the alphabet, but really just a way for her to let out her frustration over her boyfriend.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Mr. Langtree is set up as one, taking all the musical instruments and threatening to close down the school. Turns out that he was the one who started the school, but was so heavily in debt because of it that he had to take the instruments to sell them to save the school.
- Furry Confusion: Greg leads some hooky-playing students in a game of "Two Old Cat", which involves them catching less anthropomorphized old cats (which aren't clothed but have eyeglasses).
- Hey, Let's Put on a Show: How Greg and several musically-inclined students ultimately save the school from financial ruin.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mr. Langtree. Although he didn't set up the "school" for fun, he only sells the instruments to keep the school going.
- Killer Gorilla: One of them threatens the school. Turns out to be Miss Langtree's boyfriend in a Clingy Costume.
- Lighter and Softer: This is easily the most light-hearted and least creepy episode of the show.
- Musical World Hypotheses: Greg and Miss Langtree burst into song at different points in the episode.
- Restored My Faith in Humanity: Mr. Langtree eventually warms up to Greg after the latter puts on a band concert that saves the school. He says, "Life IS as sweet as potatoes and molasses."
- Shout-Out: The animal students are designed in Beatrix Potter's art style. One feline student in particular resembles Tom Kitten.
- When He Smiles: Mr. Langtree at the end when he sees the money that Greg has raised to save the school.
