Trivia
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General[]
- Moral: Just because your children break the rules doesn't mean they will end up bad.
- Bill and Gramma are absent in this episode.
- While the first images of most upcoming episodes were released three days before their airdate (on Wednesday), the first images of this episode was posted two days before airing (on Thursday) for some reason.
- This is the eleventh episode with a title that rhymes, after "Fill Bill", "Suite Retreat", "Axin' Saxon", "Gabriella's Fella", "Cricket's Tickets", "Animation Abomination", "Frilly Tilly", "Chill Bill", "Bad Dad", and "Remy Dilemmy".
- This is the third Smalton episode where Nick does not appear since his debut following "TP'd" and "Broken Karted".
- This is the second time Cricket's middle name was mentioned, following "Bleeped".
- This marks the third time Cricket almost goes to jail, following "Green Streets" and "Good Grief".
- Although there were 95 quirky laws in Smalton, only 11 of them were named in-episode.
- Cricket laughs maniacally a total of seven times throughout the episode, while Nancy does it twice.
- List of the laws Cricket broke and how he broke them:
- Dancing while churning butter - Dancing along with the Jimmy Porker animatronic with Nancy joining in before Frank stopped him.
- Saying "sasparilla" - Cricket says it out loud repeatedly in the Historic Center.
- Tricking a redhead on Tuesday - Swaps out the sheet of laws for a music sheet to fool Nancy.
- Crabwalking in a barber shop - Does a crabwalk inside the Smalton Barber.
- Playing a harmonica with your armpit - Cricket does so on a bench outside.
- Talking in Pig Latin before noon - Cricket says the law in Pig Latin outside the town hall.
- Building a fort out of fertilizer bags - Setting up one in Feed-N-Seed and putting a dummy of himself inside to throw off the adults.
- Petting a chicken 100 feet above sea level - Pets a chicken on the water tower that high.
- Eating a sandwich on the town cannon - Almost does so before Nancy initiates a mad chase; he ultimately chooses to stop when Nancy goads him into it, but upon realizing he's his own person, she distracts the other adults while he succeeds.
- In Nancy's fantasy of Cricket being in jail, she imagines him with an eyepatch, similar to her dad, with it being on the left side rather than the right side.
- This episode shows some of Cricket's impossible feats; he immediately disappears from the barbershop just mere seconds before Nancy enters and somehow teleports across the street to the bench behind her.
- When Cricket comes close to breaking every law, the weather changes from bright and clear to dark and rainy, to represent Cricket's malicious behavior and wanting to break the laws with no one to stop him.
- This is the second episode where Tilly and Remy share a subplot together after "Times Circle".
Continuity[]
- The plot of the episode is almost the same as "Bleeped". Both episodes have Cricket obsessed with doing something bad (saying cuss words, breaking laws), and one of the parents (Bill and Nancy) is against it and does whatever they can to stop him but to no avail. Cricket also manages to stop when the parent talks him down in a way, and in return learns the lesson of the episode. Unlike "Bleeped" where he decides to stop cussing all together after Bill asks him if it's the kind of person he wants to be, Cricket only refuses to break the final law after getting scared by Nancy telling him to do it and live a life of crime, and she allows him to do it upon him saying he has no such intention and was only having fun.