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* TreehouseOfFunTreehouseOfFun: The A Plot centers around the treehouse that Brent and Hank used to read comic books in, which has since been taken over by a group of kids that do the same thing.
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* CaptainOblivious: Oscar repeatedly denies Emma's accusations that Peggy wants him. He honestly thinks she's just being friendly. [[spoiler: until Peggy just throws herself at Oscar and he runs away, finally getting it.]]

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* CaptainOblivious: Oscar repeatedly denies Emma's accusations that Peggy wants him. He honestly thinks she's just being friendly. [[spoiler: friendly, until Peggy just throws herself at Oscar and he runs away, finally getting it.]]



* EscapeArtist: Wanda appears to be one initially, escaping from the patrol car multiple times and getting out of handcuffs. [[spoiler: It turns out the latch on the car door is broken and Karen let her borrow the cuff keys.]]

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* EscapeArtist: Wanda appears to be one initially, escaping from the patrol car multiple times and getting out of handcuffs. [[spoiler: It turns out the latch on the car door is broken and Karen let her borrow the cuff keys.]]
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* RantInducingSlight: Emma manages to keep her anger about Peggy in check for a while. Then she sees that Oscar has put the spoons away wrong and starts yelling at him to, "STOP MOVING SPOONS!" Oscar is insightful enough to realize that something other than spoons is bugging her, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint but he just asks, "Is this about the salad forks?"]]

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* RantInducingSlight: RageBreakingPoint: Emma manages to keep her anger about Peggy in check for a while. Then she sees that Oscar has put the spoons away wrong and starts yelling at him to, "STOP MOVING SPOONS!" Oscar is insightful enough to realize that something other than spoons is bugging her, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint but he just asks, "Is this about the salad forks?"]]
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* PunBasedTitle: The episode title is based on the phrase "two's company, three's a crowd", referencing both the treehouse plot and the Oscar/Emma/Peggy triangle.
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* NoodleImplements: Hank comes up with a plan for he and Brent to get the tree house back. A [[IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut cut]] shows the two of them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreating]] with a wheelbarrow full of potatoes and an electric fan.

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* NoodleImplements: Hank comes up with a plan for he and Brent to get the tree house back. A [[IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee cut]] shows the two of them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreating]] with a wheelbarrow full of potatoes and an electric fan.
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* ChekhovsGun: Hank's front loader.


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* NoodleImplements: Hank comes up with a plan for he and Brent to get the tree house back. A [[IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut cut]] shows the two of them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreating]] with a wheelbarrow full of potatoes and an electric fan.


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Hank, when the kids start firing pellet guns at him and Brent. Brent runs too, though insists that [[BlatantLies it's only because Hank is his ride.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"She swooped at me!"]]
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* CaptainOblivious: Oscar repeatedly denies Emma's accusations that Peggy wants him. He honestly thinks she's just being friendly. [[spoiler: until Peggy just throws herself at Oscar and he runs away, finally getting it]]

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* CaptainOblivious: Oscar repeatedly denies Emma's accusations that Peggy wants him. He honestly thinks she's just being friendly. [[spoiler: until Peggy just throws herself at Oscar and he runs away, finally getting it]]it.]]



* KidsVersusAdults: Brent and Hank against the new tree house kids

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* KidsVersusAdults: Brent and Hank against the new tree house kidskids.
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* SkewedPriorities: When Emma accuses Oscar of having an affair with Peggy.
-->'''Oscar:''' Aw, come on! She's a ''grandma''!\\
'''Emma:''' She's two years younger than you!\\
'''Oscar:''' Yeah! But I'm not gonna hit on a ''grandma''. ''[makes a disgusted face]'' Eeugh.
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: Subverted in the ColdOpen. Brent explains to Lacey that arm wrestling isn't about strength, it's about physics and leverage, except for Lacey, who loses because her skinny arms are just that weak.

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* MusclesAreMeaningless: Subverted in the ColdOpen. Brent explains to Lacey that arm wrestling isn't about strength, it's about physics and leverage, except for Lacey, who loses and it doesn't matter how big or skinny your arms are. Then he examines Lacey's arms and says that in her case, it ''does'' matter, because her skinny arms are just that weak.skinny.
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* AdviceBackfire: Lacey tells Emma to try a little romance with Oscar, so she makes him a romantic dinner. Then Oscar invites Peggy.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Both times Karen subdues someone with kung fu (the thief at the diner and later Lacey), we only see the aftermath of her holding her opponent down.
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* SelectiveSquick: [[invoked]]Oscar is disgusted by Emma's suggestion that he's cheating on her with Peggy for a strangely specific reason.
-->'''Oscar:''' Aw, come on! She's a grandma!\\
'''Emma:''' She's two years younger than you!\\
'''Oscar:''' Yeah, but I'm not gonna hit on a ''grandma''. ''[grimaces]'' Ewww...
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* SelectiveSquick: [[invoked]]Oscar is disgusted by Emma's suggestion that he's cheating on her with Peggy for a strangely specific reason.
-->'''Oscar:''' Aw, come on! She's a grandma!\\
'''Emma:''' She's two years younger than you!\\
'''Oscar:''' Yeah, but I'm not gonna hit on a ''grandma''. ''[grimaces]'' Ewww...
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* RantInducingSlight: Emma manages to keep her anger about Peggy in check for a while. Then she sees that Oscar has put the spoons away wrong and starts yelling at him to, "STOP MOVING SPOONS!" Oscar is insightful enough to realize that something other than spoons is bugging her, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint but he just asks, "Is this about the salad forks?"]]
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* StealthInsult:
-->'''Hank:''' To defeat a child, you gotta think like a child.\\
'''Brent:''' You ''are'' uniquely qualified.
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* InsistentTerminology: Karen greatly objects to "kung fu" being used as a verb, though at one point she [[HypocriticalHumor does the same thing]].
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** Then subverted a second time, when Lacey thinks Karen used physics and leverage to take down a thief, but Karen insists it ''was'' strength.

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** Then And still subverted a second time, when Lacey thinks Karen used physics and leverage to take down a thief, but Karen insists it ''was'' strength.
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** Then subverted a second time, when Lacey thinks Karen used physics and leverage to take down a thief, but Karen insists it ''was'' strength.
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* EpicFail:
-->'''Emma:''' The last thing Oscar fixed was breakfast, and he broke the toaster... and we weren't even having toast.
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* ShoutOut: When Davis attempts to catch a thief, but just slips off his car and falls, Wanda sarcastically exclaims "Good work, [[Series/StarskyAndHutch Starsky]]!"
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: Subverted in the ColdOpen. Brent explains to Lacey that arm wrestling isn't about strength, it's about physics and leverage, except for Lacey, who loses because her skinny arms are just that weak.
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* EscapeArtist: Wanda appears to be one initially, escaping from the patrol car multiple times and getting out of handcuffs. [[spoiler: It turns out the latch on the car door is broken and Karen let her borrow the cuff keys.]]
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* CaptainOblivious: Oscar repeatedly denies Emma's accusations that Peggy wants him. He honestly thinks she's just being friendly. [[spoiler: until Peggy just throws herself at Oscar and he runs away, finally getting it]]
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* KidsVersusAdults: Brent and Hank against the new tree house kids
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* TreehouseOfFun

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* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Lacey constantly fails at the "swoop" move that Karen teaches her.
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'''A Plot:''' Brent and Hank stumble upon the tree house they had as kids, only to find that is has been re-occupied. They foolishly wage war with the kids to get their tree house back.

'''B Plot:''' Oscar's old friend Peggy comes into town, and her constant flirting angers Emma. Oscar is completely oblivious until Peggy gets more blatant by inviting him over for house work.

'''C Plot:''' Davis tries to prove that Wanda can't get out of the patrol car, while Lacey tries to prove she can learn kung fu from Karen.

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