Summary: Desperate to save Grandma Gabby, Ethan and Emily are thrust into a future world where the government runs every part of daily life.
This episode contains the following tropes:
- An Aesop: "When government businesses don't compete, they rarely improve, and just repeat." Also, "persuasion is greater than force."
- Big Damn Heroes: Grandma Gabby swoops in to rescue the twins before they can be forcibly brainwashed.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Nikola Tesla was just a Brick Joke in the second episode, but his time machine ends up bringing Grandma Gabby to the future so she can rescue the twins.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with F.A.R.T. getting ahold of a sample of knowledge juice for analysis.
- Continuity Cavalcade: The twins and Karinne pop through various time periods and dimensions that they've visited over the season on their way to investigate the future, at one point startling Ben Franklin.
- Freudian Excuse: A young Gabby of all people gives one of these when explaining why she took over a future utopia and turned it into a totalitarian regime. Turns out that instead of rejecting communism outright after suffering under it, young Gabby believed she could do it better.
- Fun with Acronyms: The Freedom and Regulation Team (F.A.R.T.).
Larry: It's pronounced "fairt."
- Heel–Face Turn: Young Gabby has one after seeing her future self interacting with her grandkids and realizing that being a dictator is not the answer to her world's problems.
- I Hate Past Me: Grandma Gabby is deeply ashamed of her actions when she was 25 and tries to hide them from the twins.
- I Was Quite the Looker: Grandma Gabby claims she was quite beautiful when she was younger, despite being psychotic.
- Look Behind You: Steve the robot distracts a couple of police bots by pointing out jaywalkers behind them. It's a family of ducks.
- Never Mess with Granny: Gabby is on the giving and receiving end of one of these— at the same time!
- The Reveal: The totalitarian dictator in the year 3000 turns out to be none other than 25-year-old Gabby!
- Shoe Slap: Defied. Gabby passes up the chancla in favor of a plunger as her weapon of choice.
- Weight Woe: When future and past Gabby meet, past Gabby worries about "surrendering to cookies" and calls her future self "gorda" (fat).
- Would Hurt a Child: 25-year-old Gabby tries to use a machine to forcibly brainwash the twins and Karrine before learning that the twins are her own future grandchildren.
