Guess Who's Shopping for Dinner?: Abuela teaches Ronnie Anne that getting ingredients for dinner is no small task.
New Roomie: When Vito's apartment floods, the kids try to find an apartment that suits him best.
"Guess Who's Shopping for Dinner?" provides examples of:
- Birthday Episode: The subplot involves Sergio celebrating Sancho the pigeon's birthday.
- Cool Old Lady: When Ronnie Anne confesses to Rosa that she got the wrong ingredients, Rosa immediately races to the fish market to help Ronnie Anne acquire some crab legs. And the way she does this resembles the chase scene from one of the Phoebe Powers movies.
- Oh, Crap!: Ronnie Anne gets like this when Rosa informs her that a food critic is coming to the apartment to taste the soup she is making. Eventually, Ronnie Anne decides to forgo the movie she wants to watch in favor of buying the right ingredients for her abuela.
- The Reveal: The ending reveals that the food critic Rosa wanted to please is Phoebe Powers in disguise.
- Shout-Out: The episode's title is based on the 1967 movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
"New Roomie" provides examples of:
- Comically Missing the Point: Carl thinks that Vito has left his apartment because he's out of toilet paper.
- Disguised in Drag: Carl's plan involves dressing Lalo as a woman to get Vito out of the Casagrande apartment.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Upon realizing that Vito only left his apartment because he wants company, Ronnie Anne and Sid decide to give him the latter's robot Robbie.
- Freudian Excuse: When the Casagrande family visits Vito's apartment to fix his leak, they learn that there is no leak, but come to believe that Vito has broken up with his girlfriend and doesn't want to talk about it. But the real reason why he left is because he was lonely after his son moved off to college.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: As Ronnie Anne and Bobby try to convince Vito to move someplace else, we have to see Vito's disgusting toenails.
- Hidden Depths: Vito is also a skilled cook, as he makes spaghetti and meatballs, and cannoli for dessert.
- He also likes to sing opera, with the implication that he was a professional opera singer in his younger years.
- The Picture Came with the Frame: Turns out the woman on Vito's photo frame wasn't his ex-girlfriend, it was just some pictures that came with the frame.
- Red Herring: At Vito's apartment, the Casagrande family sees a photo frame with three photos of a woman in it and assume that this is Vito's ex-girlfriend. As it turns out, the photo frame was for Vito's college-aged son.
- Shout-Out: The music that plays over the title card is "La donna è mobile" from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.
- In one scene, Tia Frida does a painting of Rosa in the style of the Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" poster.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Vito becomes this over the course of the episode. At first, the Casagrande family likes him for his cooking skills, but before long, Ronnie Anne and Bobby become annoyed with his habit of making smoothies for his dogs early in the morning, using the shower for an extended period of time, and sleep-singing. And every time they try to send Vito to another apartment, he just gets sent out by said apartment's annoyed tenants.
