When the Bears’ beloved laptop breaks, they finally have the need to do something they've never done before: get jobs. Working at a trendy cupcake shop, the Bears find that the working world is much tougher than they realized.
Tropes:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Ice Bear manages to panhandle for a large amount of cash while trying to dodge water streams in a fountain.
- Assembly Line Fast-Forward: Panda's job packing the cupcakes is complicated when Grizz starts ordering more than one at a time. A glitch resulting in an order of 300 at once is what starts the big breakdown.
- Big "NO!"/Skyward Scream: Grizz when he realizes the laptop won't work.
- Blatant Lies: "Ice Bear not guilty."
- Covered in Gunge: The frosting machine explodes and covers Grizz, Panda and the customers in pink icing.
- The Ditherer: One of the customers can't decide which cupcake to get, or which of his credit cards to use.
- Fake-Out Opening: The episode opens on a couple hiding from zombies, which happens to be a movie Grizz and Panda are watching. That scene is later mirrored by Grizz and Panda as they try to fend off the angry customers.
- Goofy Suit: Ice Bear's job is to lure customers while wearing a cupcake costume.
- Modern Major General: Ice Bear can do lots of things. Being a mascot is not one of his strong suits.
- New Job Episode: The bears have to get a job to pay for repairs to the laptop.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Literally: the end reveals that Ice Bear broke the laptop... by putting it in the washer and dryer.
- Though all three confess to doing things that could have damaged the laptop, like Grizz using it to swat a fly and Panda dancing with it while listening to music.
- Not-So-Final Confession: In the opening movie clip, a couple is surrounded by zombies, and the man confesses that he was the one who caused the Zombie Apocalypse. Later, when Grizz and Panda are caught in a similar situation, both confess that they might have been the ones who broke the laptop.
- Overcomplicated Menu Order: One of the customers makes an overly complicated order that Grizzly Bear can't figure out how to configure on the machine.
- Plot Tailored to the Party: Heavily inverted. See Wrong Line of Work.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: While the bears didn't do any favors with their non-resume, the boss gets no gold star for his inability or apathy towards gauging their basic proficiencies, leading him to completely mismatch them in duty assignment. Also, he doesn't check in on them as he suggested, only making his judgment on them, which results in them getting fired, based on the simple fact that things went up in smoke, seemingly more interested in taking off to go fishing.
- Shaped Like What It Sells: The cupcake shop.
- Unsatisfiable Customer/Entitled Bastard: Not just the businesswoman who makes the super-specific order that triggers the meltdown (though she is insufferably rude); when Grizzly goes in to check on the booth to make sure nothing's happening, the customers become impatient. Things only get worse from there, when the machine explodes and the customers angrily break into the booth. The customers end up getting discounts from the company, and the bears are fired for something that could hardly be helped.
- The Unsmile: Ice Bear is told by the manager to smile bigger until he has a wide open mouth with teeth showing.
- Wrong Line of Work: The premise of the entire episode. The bears are all miscast in their roles, particularly the klutzy, neurotic Panda getting assigned to assembly duty, while Ice Bear, who would have had no problem there, ends up being assigned the cupcake mascot role to attract people where he is asked to put on a massive grin... which clearly isn't his department. Grizzly Bear, who would have been best suited for that role, is instead stuck as Cupcake ATM assistant, which he is a little too eager to please for. As you can guess, the more tech-savvy Panda would have been perfect in that role. Only by a fluke do the bears actually get any money. (see: Achievements in Ignorance)
