Original air date: May 15, 2022
Written by: Gabe Delahaye
Directed by: Neil Graf
Directed by: Neil Graf
A new indoor water park is opening in Lone Moose with all of the Tobins wanting to go, but Wolf has no interest because he believes he's cursed to always lose his swim trunks in front of the entire town.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Law: It's cute that Moon thinks there could be a lawyer named Olivia Objections. And it's funny that Wolf Tobin thinks a name change is cheaper if it involves fewer different letters. Changing his name to Goof Tobin would cost the same as changing it to something with fewer or no letters in common, and the reissuing of identification documents would also cost the same.
- Continuity Nod: Wolf still has the tattoo of a glass on milk on his back from "Saved by the Spells Adventure", which can be seen when Wolf is trying to climb out from the drain pipe using an improvised rope.
- Winter World, the Christmas theme park Beef and Jerry went to in "Dip The Halls Adventure" is mentioned once again, in addition to how it was originally a water park called Water World before Kevin Costner sued it into becoming Winter World for being too similar to his film Waterworld. This time, it was depicted pre-lawsuit as Wolf remembers his Slippery Swimsuit curse.
- Couch Gag: The boat in the opening is A Boat a Boy.
- Crappy Carnival: The water park turns out to be one. The most exciting ride has a two hour long wait, the waves in the pool are so big that a 16-year-old like Judy gets tossed around (in a bad way), there aren't enough floaties for the lazy river ride, the food stands are constantly running out of cheese for the nachos, Jason Patric never showed up, and the mermaids (with one of them being a man) at the lagoon only sing one song over and over again.
- Crazy-Prepared: Beef always carries rope with him in case he needs it. In this case, he needs to be tied to a post so he can resist the mermaid show.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: While Wolf isn't exactly crazy, the rest of the family think he is being paranoid with his claims that water parks are cursed. However, after spending the day waiting in lines for crappy attractions, they come around to his way of think. Even Wolf goes back to his belief after starting to believe the opposite when his trunks are ripped off again.
- Downer Ending: Played for Laughs. The Tobins drive home pissed off after not having any fun all day.
- Epic Fail: Pretty much summarizes the Tobins whole day. With the exception of Moon for a couple seconds, not a single one of them had any fun at the water park and Wolf didn't enjoy himself either.
- "Eureka!" Moment: After failing to escape the drainpipe using Honeybee and Beef's ways, Wolf tells himself he's on his own, "no helpie but your selfie". After he said selfie, he realizes he could put his phone on his selfie stick and use his phone camera to see the latch on the drain gate to unlock it and free himself.
- Flipping the Bird: As the Tobins all drive away from Splash Crevasse after having a terrible time, Beef instructs everyone to extend their middle fingers out the windows.
- Hallucinations: While still stuck in the drainpipe, Wolf sees what he thinks is his family at the beginning of the pipe and asks them to form a human chain to pull him out. But after a closer inspection, he realizes they're just marmots and ask them if they could form a marmot chain to pull him out.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: After Wolf gets his trunks ripped off from the retractable steps of Neckbone's truck, Wolf covers himself with his radio.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When Ham tries to get the nachos, he sees how he'll have to cross the whole playfield of the water park just like Judy did if he wants to get the cheese. He decides to eat the chips plain instead.
- Lost Aesop: Wolf learns that you shouldn't subscribe to curses and other such explanations when your problems are result of your own bad decisions, only to go right back to the curse explanation when his trunks get ripped off by Neckbone's big rig through no fault of his own. The Tobins' experience at the water park matches this as while some of their problems are on them (not eating breakfast so they have to get food from the stands and Ham letting everyone go ahead of him on the lazy stream), the majority of their woes (the lines being too long, the wave pool being too powerful, Jason Patric never showing up, the mermaid show being terrible, etc.) are just a result of the awful water park.
- Macgyvering: Wolf tried to escape from the drainpipe by making a grappling hook and rope out of his beach umbrella, his towel, and his t-shirt. He almost escaped, until some marmots caused his makeshift rope to snap, sending him tumbling back into the grate, and the marmots making off with his shirt.
- Once More, with Clarity: Wolf remembers the three times he lost his trunk: first when he slid headfirst, then at the wave pool, then he just lost them while in line for a snack. After his talk with Neckbone, however, he realizes that the first two times he got fair warning but just ignored them, and the third he happened to have a shirt that says, "Pants Me, I Dare You!" and the guy behind him obliged.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title of the episode is an even more labored pun on Pride and Prejudice than Season 1's "Pride And Prejudance Adventure".
- Right on Queue: Both Moon and Honeybee spend their plotlines waiting in line. Moon stands in line for the slide, only to learn that it's a two-hour wait. Honeybee, meanwhile, is in line to meet Jason Patric to see if he will read a scene from Speed 2: Cruise Control with her. Once she reaches the end, it turns out to be someone else telling the fans that Patric couldn't come rather than cancel the meeting altogether; he's a grief counselor and felt more comfortable doing it one-to-one.
- Running Gag: Wolf using the "Houston, we got a x" gag throughout the episode.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Wolf gives up spending an afternoon at the Lone Moose beach after realizing how freezing he is after only ten minutes.
- Shout-Out: Upon hearing that the mermaid show is about to start, Beef asks Honeybee to tie him to a post just like Ulysses in The Odyssey.
- Sirens Are Mermaids: Beef is enthralled by the mermaid show at the park, and when an announcement that it's about to start, Beef asks to be tied up so he can resist. He escapes, however, and even though the show itself is mediocre, he still cannot be pulled away and has to be dragged kicking and screaming.
- Slippery Swimsuit: Wolf thinks water parks are cursed because every time he's gone to one, he's lost his trunks. So instead of going to Water Crevasse with the others, he goes to a small beach by himself, but has a horrible time and then gets stuck in a pipe. When he gets a ride to the park, he's ready to go inside, but then his trunk gets caught on the truck's retractable steps and gets ripped off as it drives away.
- Stripping Snag: After Neckbone drops Wolf off at Water Crevasse, Wolf meets up with his family as they're about to leave because they think Wolf is right about water parks being cursed. Wolf tells his family that water parks aren't cursed and the reason he keeps losing his swim trunks is that he ignores warnings and makes bad decisions; bad luck and curses have nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, during Wolf's speech, his trunks get caught on the truck's retractable steps and get ripped off as Neckbone drives off, leaving Wolf naked in front of his family.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Given Wolf is wearing only a T-shirt, swimming trunks, and flip-flops and they are still in, you know, ALASKA, Wolf can only take spending about ten minutes at the Lone Moose beach before he gives up and leaves.
