LaCienega's Papi is sent to a nursing home when he makes three mistakes at home, but he soon learns it's not a real nursing home, but a front for an okra plantation where the residents are enslaved. When the kids learn the truth behind the nursing home, nobody believes them when they return with their parents to investigate. However, of the adults, only Suga Mama believes them, at which point she and the kids break into the nursing home at night to free Papi. Soon enough, Papi and Suga Mama are on the run, especially when Papi's escape doesn't go unnoticed.
Tropes:
- Adults Are Useless / Police Are Useless: The adults don't believe the kids when they investigate the goings-on at Happy Endings. Bonus points for Sunset, a police officer, for refusing to believe her own daughter, but it is after they and Felix take a second look after the kids help Suga Mama free Papi do the adults finally realize the truth.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Helga embodies the Happy Endings retirement home's deceptive nature. During visiting hours, she may seem willing to go above and beyond to make senior citizens happy. But when visiting hours are over, she proves to be an unscrupulous monster who would gladly enslave weak and feeble elders to work on her okra farm.
- Cassandra Truth: When the kids learn about Happy Endings' true nature, they try to tell the adults what they witnessed. But the idea of elders being used as slaves for an okra farm is so outlandishly cruel that they don't fully believe them. It doesn't help that when the adults do investigate the kids' claims, Helga has already gotten rid of any evidence that Happy Endings is anything but a generous retirement home.
- Continuity Nod: The Boulavardezes' hereditary trait of abnormally large feet, as revealed in "Love Thy Neighbor", is mentioned once again, as this is what tips Suga Mama off that everything is not as it appeared at Happy Endings when the Prouds and Boulavardezes go there during visiting hours to investigate the kids' claims.
- Crazy-Prepared: As Suga Mama is about to kiss Papi in celebration of Helga's arrest, she accidentally shifts it into drive, causing it to plummet off the Grand Canyon. It’s a good thing Bobby’s car was equipped with an emergency parachute, which saves the duo just in time.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: If Helga's post-visiting commands (such as "CUT!" "That's a wrap!") are anything to go by, it is very likely that she was once a film director.
- El Spanish "-o": Despite the fact that Felix can speak Spanish well, he responds by saying: “Me-o” when entertaining the thought of Papi needing a chaperone to one of Happy Endings' "sister resorts". Sunset's response? "Don't even think about it!"
- Hairpin Lockpick/Improvised Lockpick: While Penny, LaCienega, Dijonay, Zoey, Sticky and Suga Mama infiltrate Happy Endings to rescue Papi, Dijonay's attempt at opening his cell with her hairpin fails, so Suga Mama uses, of all things, her large toenail.
- Hellhole Prison: The okra farm of Happy Endings is this.
- Laser-Guided Karma / Put on a Prison Bus: Helga, who has enslaved countless senior citizens to work on her okra farm, is exposed and arrested by the end of the story, and according to Sunset, she and her staff will be serving a long prison sentence.
- Loose Lips: Penny lets it slip that herself, Suga Mama and her friends broke Papi out of Happy Endings retirement home.
- Noodle Incident: In the opening of the episode, after Papi sprays Oscar with a garden hose before Felix shuts it off. Oscar then says it is the third time in a week Papi has done it to him.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Papi is calling for Suga Mama for help, and saying that he's actually glad to see her, you know the situation is dire.
- Pet the Dog: After everything she did to protect him from ever going back to the okra farm, Papi tells Sugar Mama that she may have "the face of a lion", but she also has the heart of one. As back-handed as the compliment is, he's nonetheless acknowledging she saved him and kept him out of Helga's clutches to the bitter end.
- Shout-Out: The title of the episode is an obvious reference to Thelma & Louise, and even has a similar plot in the second half as Suga Mama and Papi go on the run to escape the manager of Happy Endings. Suga Mama and Papi even drive off a cliff, threatening to do so if Helga drew any closer, only for her to be arrested... but since it was Bobby's car, after Suga Mama accidentally shifts it into drive as she is about to kiss Papi in celebration of Helga's arrest, they’re saved by the parachute he had installed in it.
- Spotting the Thread: What tips off Suga Mama that the kids were telling the truth is that the feet of the Papi they all saw apparently living it up at Happy Endings when the families went to check on him were way too small for it to be really him. The Papi they saw being pampered was, in fact, one of Helga's cronies disguised as him; should visitors show up, the actors that work for Helga disguise themselves as the residents to cover up the okra operation while the real residents are either working on the farm (which is covered up by a backdrop), hidden behind a secret wall or locked up in their cells.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The show is a relatively light-hearted sitcom, but the administrator Helga is outright disturbing that her cruelty is played VERY seriously. Her sadism towards the elderly who enter Happy Endings, making them farm okra, and ruthless determination to hunt those who leave make her stand out. At best, any other villain who appeared was pretty over the top and had some humor attached to them.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The climax of the episode is based on Thelma & Louise.
- Would Harm a Senior: Played with. While not under the category of beating up old people, Helga's treatment of the elderly is anything but saintly. She uses the Happy Ending retirement home as a front, so she can enslave elderly people to work on her okra farm.
