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Recap / The Casagrandes S 1 E 20 Whats Love Gato Do With It Dial M For Mustard

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What's Love Gato Do With It?: Bobby is hypnotized into acting like a cat, and the rest of the family must break the spell.

Dial 'M' for Mustard: Ronnie Anne and the gang try to solve the mystery of Bruno's missing hot dog cart.

"What's Love Gato Do With It?":

  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Bobby lists the reasons why his family hates the street cats as "the screeching, the scratching, [and] the scooping of poop."
  • Big "NO!": Bobby screams one as he is being hypnotized.
  • Birthday Episode: Downplayed; Bobby gets hypnotized when he attends Alexis' birthday party.
  • Cranial Eruption: Bobby develops one when he hits his head on the floor at the end of the episode. It's this incident that finally breaks the magician's spell.
  • Delusions of Doghood: The episode revolves around Bobby getting hypnotized into thinking he's a cat when he hears any bells. He returns to human mode, however, if he hears the word "papaya."
  • Hairball Humor: A Running Gag has Bobby in cat mode coughing up hairballs made of hairspray, cat litter, and price tags.
  • Hypno Fool: Bobby is hypnotized by Greta the Great to act like a cat whenever he hears a bell. It's so crazy that the rest of the family is unaware until they figure it out.
  • Leitmotif: Melodic cats' meowing is heard every time Bobby is in cat mode.
  • Manchild: Bobby is about to go back to work...until Alexis brings up the fact that a magician is attending. Then Bobby chooses to attend.
  • Ocular Gushers: Tia Frida does this when Cat!Bobby runs away.
  • Thermometer Gag: A discussed example—when Maria and her ex-husband, Arturo, are examining their son after he's been hypnotized into thinking he's cat, they try taking his temperature using an oral thermometer, but Bobby swats it out of his mom's hand. Ronnie Anne (after looking it up on her phone) explains to her parents that for cats, you have to check their temperature rectally (even showing a picture of a cat's butt for emphasis). Obviously not wanting to do that, Arturo decides to instead check Bobby's eyesight using a laser pointer.
  • Titled After the Song: The episode title is a pun on Tina Turner's 1984 hit single, "What's Love Got to Do with It".
  • Trigger Phrase: Unsurprisingly used for the "snap out" function. Bobby turns into a cat when he hears a bell ring; to turn back to normal, he has to hear the word "papaya".

"Dial 'M' for Mustard":

  • Chekhov's Skill: Ronnie Anne's vertigo trick, which she used at the beginning of the episode, saves the day when she uses it to make the culprit dizzy.
  • Entertainingly Wrong: After learning from Bobby that Hector's competing in the same hot dog contest as Bruno (and given how nervous Hector was when the kids were interrogating him), Ronnie Anne and the other boys naturally suspect that su abuelo is the culprit (thinking he did it to eliminate the competition). But it soon turns out that Hector had taken a hot dog from Bruno's cart without paying for it after Bruno left for a bathroom break (Hector pays up for it at the competition).
  • False Teeth Tomfoolery: While investigating Hector, Sergio gets his head stuck in Hector's dentures.
  • Freudian Excuse: Vito took Bruno's hot dog cart because the winner of the hot dog contest gets a month-long trip to Vienna and didn't want to go that long without Bruno's hot dogs.
  • Gasshole: Hector gets like this when he's nervous.
  • Mystery Episode: Bruno's hot dog cart has gone missing, and Ronnie Anne and the gang have to find out why.
  • Obnoxious In-Laws: While he and Maria are technically divorced, Hector doesn't take too kindly to Arturo initially giving his hotdog an 8/10—and when Arturo raises it to a 9/10, Hector says, "Who made this bobo a judge?"
  • Ocular Gushers: Vito and his two dogs cry in this manner when they are told that Bruno's hot dog cart is stolen.
  • Red Herring: The evidence in the first half of the episode leads us to believe that Hector stole the hot dog cart. It is later revealed that Hector did steal a hot dog, just not the hot dog cart. Later still, we see that the real culprit is Vito.
  • Shout-Out: The episode title comes from the 1954 crime mystery film Dial M for Murder.

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