Original air date: 5/11/2011
Ike goes on a mission to save the Canadian Princess after she is kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Meanwhile, without Ike present for Mr. Mackey's play, Kyle takes over and has to deal with Mackey's anal-retentive standards.
Royal Pudding contains examples of:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Scott is much taller, apparently as a result of radiation poisoning that he contracted in Ottawa. Downplayed as he's only about ten feet tall: impossibly tall for a human, but nowhere near the usual height of this trope.
- Big "NO!": Ike, when he sees the Princess of Canada being abducted during her wedding on live television.
- Brown Note: Ugly Bob is so ugly that anyone who catches a glimpse of his face gets petrified.
- The Bus Came Back: For Scott the Dick and Ugly Bob.
- A Day in the Limelight: Ike is the hero of this episode.
- Drama Queen: Mr. Mackey, to a disturbing extent: he expects the kindergarteners to make no mistakes whatsoever and even if they make one unnoticeable mistake, he still found something wrong with it.
- Driven to Suicide: Numerous Canadian citizens kill themselves out of grief after the Princess of Canada's kidnapping.Canadian man: (opens a skyscraper window) The Princess is gone! AHHHHH! (throws himself out the window, followed by several more Canadians)
- Dull Surprise: The royal wedding narrator, even as the princess is being abducted and attendees are dying, narrates the events with the same deadpan tone.
- E = MC Hammer: At one point, Mr. Garrison is seen using math to prove the class that "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella is badly written due to its nonsensical lyrics.
- Even Evil Has Standards: To Scott, kidnapping the princess is something he would never do because of his patriotism towards Canada.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Scott being a, well, dick, to other people is expected, but he seems especially racist towards the Inuit people for no immediately obvious reason other than his story about paying one of them to give him a blowjob and only having his penis rubbed by a nose for 45 seconds in return.
- Flat "What": One of the kindergartners say this after seeing Mr. Mackey cry Tears of Joy upon learning of Tooth Decay's death.
- Freudian Excuse: The reason why a short play about dental hygiene acted by a class of kindergarteners is such a Serious Business to Mr. Mackey is because Tooth Decay killed his father.
- Guilt by Association Gag: Mr. Mackey slings a ton of verbal abuse towards Kyle and seemingly forces him to play as Tooth Decay because his brother, Ike, left for Canada.
- Informed Deformity: Played with - Ugly Bob can turn people to stone with his ugliness, yet he points out in America everyone just thinks he looks like any other Canadian.
- Karma Houdini: Mr. Mackey receives no retribution for his abusive treatment of the kids, but especially towards Ike and Kyle.
- Prima Donna Director: Parodied. Mr. Mackey is this for a kindergarten pageant about dental hygiene.
- Refuge in Audacity: The families seemed relatively nonchalant about Mr. Mackey's blatant harassment of the kindergartners (and Kyle).
- The end of the Canadian wedding ceremony also veers hard into this, as it involves the prince tearing off the princess' arm and ramming it up his ass.
- Ripped from the Headlines: This episode involves the wedding of the Canadian Prince and Princess, who are based on William and Catherine (whose marriage took place two weeks before the episode aired).
- Running Gag: Whenever someone at the royal wedding does something bizarre, the narrator describes it and says "as is tradition."
- Serious Business: Mr. Mackey takes the kindergartner's play way too seriously, shouting and abusing characters, including Kyle because his younger brother flakes on his role as Tooth Decay.
- Shout-Out: Do the mushroom people of Nova Scotia look familiar?
- Storefront Television Display: When walking home, Ike passes a TV showing a newscaster who announces an order for all Canadians to go home and open their Box of Faith.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Mr. Mackey coldly berates Ike for crying over the Princess of Canada when he's supposed to be playing Tooth Decay in the kindergarten play.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: Initially, it seems like the only connecting factor between the two plotlines is Ike being too distraught by the kidnapping of Canadian Princess to act in the play, but it turns out that Tooth Decay is an actual monster responsible for kidnapping her, and Ugly Bob killing him by petrifying him brings Mr. Mackey closure for the death of his father.
