Laura at Bat: Laura believes that if she just dreams about hitting home runs without practicing, then it will come true. Unfortunately for her, it does not work out that way, so Junior offers to help train Laura in hitting the ball before the day of the big game.
Pie Fight!: When Madame Blueberry ends up losing the annual Petunia Rhubarb Pie Contest to Bob, she is determined to find out whether Bob really cheated or not. This leads to a rematch the next day, in which the contestants are to "un-bake" their pies after making them. In the end, Madame Blueberry and Bob learn a lesson about jealousy and being fair and not saying mean words to each other.
Tropes found in Laura at Bat:
- Baseball Episode
- Big Game: The plot point of the climax of the episode.
- Circling Birdies: Happens to Jimmy after he gets hit by the ball during the big ball game, with baseballs circling his head.
- Deteriorates Into Gibberish: Jimmy ends up doing this after getting beaned by the ball during the game, rendering him unable to speak properly, which prompts Jerry to take over for him and able to
announce very fluently. - Epic Fail: Laura believes, after watching "Air Corgi: Puppy Pilot", that if she dreams hard enough, she'll hit a home run without having to practice. On the day of the game, however, it turns out as well as you'd expect.
- Heroic Dog: Air Corgi from the Show Within a Show movie of the same name has shades of this, being able to fly a plane after just dreaming about it.
- The Hopeless Replacement: Jerry ends up taking over for Jimmy in announcing the ball game after Jimmy gets beaned by the ball, despite the fact that Jerry isn't good at public speaking.
- Pep-Talk Song: "Every Champ Was Once A Chump"
- Rousing Speech: Larry gives several of these to the team when getting them pumped up for the big game of the season.
- Shout-Out:
- The movie that Bob, Larry, Junior, and Laura watch, "Air Corgi: Puppy Pilot", tells the story of a dog who dreams about flying in an airplane, similar to that of Snoopy's World War I Flying Ace persona.
- During the big game, Larry tells the team "Eye of the tiger!", to get them ready for the final inning of the game.
- Show Within a Show: "Air Corgi: Puppy Pilot"
- Third-Person Person: Jerry slips into this when trying to get Jimmy to let him announce the ball game, saying, "Jerry wants a turn".
- Training Montage: Junior puts Laura through one of these, when helping her practice in hitting home runs.
Tropes found in Pie Fight!:
- Broken Win/Loss Streak: Madame Blueberry, who has apparently won the pie contest for years, gets her winning streak broken when Bob unexpectedly takes first place.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Larry appears to be this, since the pie that he made, sarshmallow, is actually made out of marshmallows and sardines.
- Fire-Breathing Diner: Happens to Bob during the "Pie Kind Of Guy" song, after taking a bite out of a slice of spicy pie.
- Food Fight: The characters end up getting into one of these, which starts when Bob accidentally throws his pie into the air and onto Madame Blueberry, resulting in all of the vegetable citizens throwing pies at each other.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Madame Blueberry ends up becoming this after losing the pie contest to Bob, determined to find out whether he really cheated or not.
- Secret Ingredient: While Bob, Larry, Jimmy, Jerry, and Madame Blueberry attempt to "un-bake" their pies, as instructed by Pa Grape, Madame Blueberry then notices that one of the ingredients that Bob used when making his pie is Hazelnut Powder, which the Amaze Pies Gourmet Pies shop does not use, which causes Madame Blueberry to realize that she made a mistake in blaming Bob for cheating.
- Shout-Out: When Jean-Claude, who is acting as one of the judges of the pie contest, along with Pa Grape and Phillipe, tastes Larry's sarshmallow pie (which is actually a pie with marshmallows and sardines in it), he yells in disgust, "Le poisson!".
- Sidetracked by the Analogy:Petunia: Pies are like mean words.Larry: Delicious and better with ice cream?
- Spit Take: Archibald does this after drinking really hot tea, which scalds his tongue pretty badly, making this the second time that Archibald does this since 1996's Dave and the Giant Pickle.
- Volleying Insults: This exchange between Bob and Madame Blueberry when they have a rematch in the pie contest:Bob: I did not cheat. I made a really good pie! Is that a crime?
Madame Blueberry: It is if you consider buying a pie from a pie shop "making a really good pie".
Bob: I'd say that too if I was a second-placer!
Madame Blueberry: You gorilla!
Bob: Ginger root!
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