Everybody Loves Leni: Torn between her work friends and her school friends, Leni tries to bring everyone together.
Middle Men: When Lincoln and Clyde go to tour the middle school, Lynn gives them some questionable advice.
"Everybody Loves Leni"
- A Day in the Limelight: For Leni.
- Berserk Button: For all four friends, muscling in on their time spent with Leni or even insulting each other's fashion sense is enough to make them go to war with each other. The latter is an especially sensitive one for Miguel.
- Big Sister Instinct: Lori's kicks in again when she sees how much Leni's friends have been abusing her time, and after overhearing her decision to skip the sale suggests she stand up for herself if they refuse to get along.
- Continuity Nod: Leni's job at Reininger's.
- Despair Event Horizon: Blaming herself for all the fighting among her friends, Leni skips her favorite sale and instead stays home binging in front of the television, feeling depressed and left out.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Smoothie Guy and Burger Guy. Fiona refers to them both as these even as she's currently dating the latter.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Leni stays at home heartbroken after her party's fiasco, watching TV and eating dozens of cups of pudding.
- Jerkass Realization: Leni's work and school friends get this when they realize they've been unfairly forcing Leni to choose between them.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Downplayed: after being convinced by Lincoln and Lori that she shouldn't let her friends force her into the situation she was in, Leni decided to woman up and confront them... only to discover that they were at the front porch, wanting to apologize.Leni: Oh, you're here. Well, good! There's something I have to say to you!Miguel: Actually, there's something we have to say to you.Leni: No! Me first! If you can't share the store, then you're going to have to march over to the room and grow me up! Wait, that's not right. Dangit, I was gonna practice this on the bus!
- My God, What Have I Done?: Leni's four friends are stunned when she admits she didn't want to go to the sale when she realized it would only lead to both sides arguing. Feeling guilty that Leni missed her favorite sale over them, they all resolve to try to get along and to apologize to Leni.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Instead of going to the pop-up sale, Leni opts to stay home so as not to offend her friends any further.
- Potty Emergency: Leni fakes several of these at Jackie's while talking to Miguel and Fiona on the phone. She gets cornered though when Jackie's brother really does need to use the bathroom, causing the girls to overhear Leni's phone call.
"Middle Men"
- Advice Backfire: Lynn's advice to act aggressive and show power turns out doing more harm than good to Lincoln and Clyde.
- …And That Little Girl Was Me: To make it clear to Lincoln and Clyde how dangerous middle school can be, Lynn keeps telling them stories about a new kid and all the trouble she got into during her first year of middle school. Later on, it's revealed that Lynn was talking about herself and what she had gone through in 6th-grade.
- Directionless Driver: Lynn doesn't let Lincoln and Clyde use a map nor ask for directions in school, because they'll look like "noobs" and people will take advantage of them and misdirect them on purpose, like a certain kid who asked for directions and got sent to the basement until the day was over. Naturally, this backfires on them when as a result they miss Art class, they rebuff seemingly sincere help, and accidentally enter the Photography Club's darkroom, ruining their work in the process.
- Epic Fail: Lincoln and Clyde trying to fight the angry students. Clyde steps on Lincoln's shoelace and they both fall before they can even land a single punch on their opponents.
- Evil Laugh: The School Cook as he prepares to slide the stuck girl, (Lynn), free with Peanut Butter, sadistically asking if she’s allergic to nuts.
- Foreshadowing: Take a very close look at the kid Lynn describes in her flashbacks, from her size and her general shape resembling Lynn's own, let alone how much Lynn even knows about the kid. As it turns out later on, that kid was Lynn, herself.
- The Freelance Shame Squad: In one of her flashbacks, Lynn gets laughed at by the entire class after being stuck between her desk and chair.
- In the Hood: Lynn in her flashbacks.
- Inconvenient Darkroom Illumination: Lincoln and Clyde accidentally cause this to happen when they try to find the middle school's art department, and open the door of a darkroom instead. A student inside angrily shouts at them that they just ruined a month's worth of work.
- Jerkass: The entire campus was this towards Lynn during her first year of middle school. Even the adults apparently, if Lynn's experience with the cook is to be believed.
- My Card: Lincoln and Clyde prepared business cards with a photo of themselves and their shared name Clincoln McLoud, which they plan to distribute at middle school. Lynn disapproves of the idea, though Clyde tells Lincoln to save the cards for high school. In the end, they end up using them anyway.
- Never My Fault: Invoked, as Lynn actually warns Lincoln and Clyde against owning up a mistake. The reason is that when she once admitted to having farted during a test, her classmates wouldn't let her live it down. Later subverted when her advice backfires on the two of them, and Lynn offers to face the music herself before Lincoln stops her.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lynn's advice is meant well, but Lincoln and Clyde following it leads to them being late for art class, and both of them being perceived as bullies by the other students.
- The Reveal: It's revealed that a lot Lynn's behavior stems from how she was bullied all the time at school when she was in 6th-grade—she’s lashing out at the world, especially her family, for being treated so terribly by everyone around her.
- So Bad, It's Good: One of the eighth graders remarks that Lincoln and Clyde's business card is so dorky that it's actually cool.
- Spit Take: Lynn spits out the cookie she's eating when Lincoln tells her he and Clyde have middle school orientation the next day.
- Stuffed into a Locker: In a flashback, Lynn willingly hides in her locker to escape from the teasing of her classmates.
- Tempting Fate: After following Lynn's advice leads to several screw ups, Lincoln and Clyde are glad that their last class for the day, gym, will involve just watching a movie, since according to Clyde they can't mess that up. Naturally, they do.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Lynn. Until her Middle School trauma warped her personality.
- Wham Episode: This episode reveals that a big reason for Lynn's aggressive nature—even if it may not justify some of her actions in a few episodes, it at least explains her inner personality and her inability to mature.
- Wham Line: Lynn: "I'm sorry. I was just trying to spare you guys from what happened to me."
