After being shortsighted by Benson awarding members of the park, Mordecai and Rigby try to alter the course of history in their favor.
Tropes
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Snowballs; he's 20 feet tall.
- Back from the Dead: Snowballs managed to eat Rigby before Mordecai restored reality to normal.
- Bait-and-Switch: In the beginning of the episode, Benson proclaims that the next two awards are for two guys at the park who really have done a lot for it. He says “Mmmmmmm...”, and Mordecai and Rigby lean in, expecting him to say their names. But then he finishes with “Muscleman and High-Five Ghost”, much to the former duo’s disappointment.
- Big Bad: Snowballs, the Ice Monster.
- Bittersweet Ending: For Mordecai and Rigby. They manage to get rid of Snowballs and the blizzard but Benson catches them writing in his book and recalls their appreciation plaques.
- Brutal Honesty: Benson tells Mordecai and Rigby right to their faces that he doesn't appreciate them.
- Create Your Own Villain: Rigby's the one who created Snowballs the Ice Monster just so that he and Mordecai be forced to destroy it and be praised as heroes.
- Engineered Heroism: Rigby wrote himself and Mordecai in the book as saving the park from Snowballs.
- Failure Montage: Mordecai and Rigby try to make attempts of doing hard work in order to change Benson’s mind about not appreciating them. However, they mess up the entire time, within full view of Benson, further proving his point that they are not good Park workers.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Snowballs, a 20-foot-tall monster made of snow with a horrifying design.
- Hard-Work Montage: Mordecai and Rigby as a consequence of rewriting the park records book. They pull out weeds from a lettuce garden, pull in a busted golf cart, pick up litter and carry rocks.
- Insane Troll Logic: Who in the right mind creates an ice monster that can breathe fire? Rigby, of course.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Given Mordecai and Rigby's utter contempt for their jobs and their lack of effort when doing it, it's no wonder that Benson didn't give them any appreciation plaques.
- Karma Houdini: Mordecai and Rigby get away with tampering with the Book of Park Records because Benson never learns what happened and they completed all the jobs he gave them.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mordecai breaks Skips' leg by writing it to happen in the book. Rigby makes it even worse by including an attack from Snowballs, the Ice Monster.
- The Perils of Being the Best: Mordecai and Rigby write themselves as Benson's most reliable, most appreciated, hardest working employees in the the Book of Park Records. This comes true and they end regretting having to do so much work, especially since they included that they're constantly sweating from their workload.
- Reality-Writing Book: The Book of Park Records.
- The Slacker: Mordecai and Rigby hate their jobs so much they consider doing even one day's amount of work to be torture.
- Tempting Fate: An extreme version. When Pops tells Mordecai and Rigby to prepare for snow in the middle of summer, the two say that it’s probably one of his delusions after he leaves. They start laughing, then they are immediately hit with a blizzard that pierces the Summer weather.
- Unsportsmanlike Gloating: When Muscle Man and Fives get appreciation plaques instead of Mordecai and Rigby, the former tell the latter to eat on it. They then spin donuts with cart and drive off, throwing off dust.
