- Alien Invasion: Harold fears the attack of alien chili dogs.
- Benevolent Alien Invasion: Jude thinks that the alien chili dog is a messenger of peace who will lead humanity to enlightenment.
- Big Eater: Owen eats everyone else's lunch when his friends made the mistake of sharing their lunch with him.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Harold's imagination really runs away in this episode.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: Izzy and Harold are good cop and bad cop, respectively, when interrogating the chili dog, stuffed with a walkie talkie.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Harold convinces himself that Owen's chili dog ate Noah. Obviously, he's wrong.
- Pun: Jude makes a dumb joke about his policeman puppet.Jude: Thanks puppet dude, you came in pretty "handy"!
- Real After All: It turns out Harold was actually right about chili dog aliens invading the planet, but not for the reasons he thought.
- Retirony: The puppet cop "died", when he was only three weeks away from retirement.
- Toilet Paper Substitute: Noah runs out of toilet paper and has to resort to using his vest.
