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* TwentyFourHourPartyPeople: Subverted, as Dennis tries to call friends for a big party either anyone not in their immediate group were driven away or... dead. Much of that subplot is trying to recruit new buddies to hang out with, but [[LimitedSocialCircle they are too sociopathic for most anyone]].
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Dennis got a large house for an inheritance with the only stipulation Frank wasn't allowed on property. He allowed Frank and Dee to get married, which was a BatmanGambit from Bruce, who used video evidence Dennis took himself to get to home repossessed.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Frank, Dee, and Dennis absolutely ''refuse'' to understand the concept of a will being read, and alternately berate the Lawyer as if he were making Barbara's decisions, and demand he contact the (dead) woman on their behalf.
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* CryingWolf: Frank has to convince the gang that Barbara is dead because he's tried to claim so before.
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* LonelyFuneral: LogicBomb: Barbara's will both praises Dennis as her "darling son", and derides Dee as "a disappointment and a mistake". Dee points out they're twins so this doesn't make sense.
-->'''Frank:''' "Tell that bitch it doesn't make sense!"
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** After realizingthe above, their LimitedSocialCircle, the guys worry that nobody would come to their funerals if they were to die suddenly.suddenly.
** Later episodes reveal nobody attended Barbara's funeral (not even Dennis, whom she doted on).
-->'''Frank:''' "Tell that bitch it doesn't make sense!"
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** After realizing
** Later episodes reveal nobody attended Barbara's funeral (not even Dennis, whom she doted on).
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** Charlie's illiteracy means he can't read Dee's old diary he found.
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* {{Manchild}}: Charlie is ecstatic to find Dee's middle school diary so he can get Mac and Dennis to read it. Mac and Dennis, as two grown men in their early thirties, couldn't care less about it.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Barbra displays favoritism towards Dennis by leaving her house to him in the same will she calls Dee a mistake in.
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* AbusiveParents: Even from beyond the grave, Barbra manages to be abusive towards her own daughter, calling Dee a disappointment and a mistake in her [[SpitefulWill will.]]
* AbusiveParents: Even from beyond the grave, Barbra manages to be abusive towards her own daughter, calling Dee a disappointment and a mistake in her [[SpitefulWill will.]]
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Frank asks the Lawyer where Bruce is because he wants to "smash his face until he's dead. Killed dead. Killed dead."
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* DeaderThanDisco: When Frank announces his wife's death, he says that she's "as dead as disco".
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* DeaderThanDisco: When Frank announces his wife's death, he says that she's "as dead as disco".
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* AllThereInTheManual: The fratboys are never mentioned by name, but they are credited as Phil and Jonathan.
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* MadeOfIron: Phil gets pushed down the roof of a house ''at least'' two stories high and still shows no injuries the next day.
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-->'''Bruce:''' (To Frank) You're the little ass wipe who raised both of my children, and turned them into monsters. Into animals who lie, cheat, steal, take advantage of people, and who contribute absolutely nothing to society. You're the most horrible people alive.
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-->'''Bruce:''' (To Frank) ''(to Frank)'' You're the little ass wipe who raised both of my children, and turned them into monsters. Into animals who lie, cheat, steal, take advantage of people, and who contribute absolutely nothing to society. You're the most horrible people alive.
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** Barbara is also revealed to have died to a botched necklift, after Frank had previously [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E10DennisAndDeeGetANewDad mocked her "turkey neck"]].
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* SpitefulWill: While Barbara leaves Dennis with the house and Bruce with her money, she leaves Frank and Dee with nothing (even calling Dee "a mistake" despite being twins with Dennis). She also requests to be buried with her jewelry.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked by Bruce, claiming that he wanted to see how far Dee and Frank would go with their scam before deciding they come clean to him. [[DefiedTrope It doesn't work.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked by Bruce, claiming that he wanted to see how far Dee and Frank would go with their scam before deciding they should come clean to him. [[DefiedTrope It doesn't work.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked by Bruce, claiming that he wanted to see how far Dee and Frank would go with their scam before deciding they come clean to him. [[DefiedTrope It doesn't work.]]
-->'''Bruce:''' I was trying to push you to your limits, but apparently you have none.
-->'''Bruce:''' I was trying to push you to your limits, but apparently you have none.
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* KarmicDeath: It is rather fitting that someone as repulsively vain as Barbara would die from a botched attempt to alter her appearance.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bruce dishes out a pretty scathing one that sums up the gang rather well.
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-->'''Bruce:''' (To Frank) You're the little ass wipe who raised both of my children, and turned them into monsters. Into animals who lie, cheat, steal, take advantage of people, and who contribute absolutely nothing to society. You're the most horrible people alive.
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* MistakenForGay: Dennis, Mac, and Charlie try to avoid this when inviting guys to their party. Each attempt [[NotHelpingYourCase makes them look worse]].
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* BoundAndGagged: Dennis and Mac do this to the fratboys, thinking its a little prank.
* ComedicSociopathy: Frank and Dee discuss returning orphans while one is sitting between them. Even worse is Dennis, Mac, and Charlie's idea of hanging out.
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* FreudWasRight: The flyer that Mac, Dennis and Charlie make to invite guys to the mansion ends up looking remarkably like a penis. It's supposed to be a bicep.
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Frank's ex-wife Barbara dies (for real, this time. It's not a trick like it was on "Charlie Gets Crippled"), leaving behind a big inheritance that Frank and Dee will do anything to get. Meanwhile, Mac, Dennis, and Charlie use Barbara's mansion as a men's club to make new male friends.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Barbara's family react to her sudden passing with either complete indifference (Dennis and Dee) or outright celebration (Frank).
* AssShove: Mac and Dennis threaten to do this to the fratboys they lure into their "party mansion".
* ChekhovsGun: The episode opens with Charlie showing the rest of the gang his new throwing knives, which Mac and Dennis later use to torment a tied-up fratboy.
* ContinuityNod: The rest of the gang initially don't believe Frank when he announces that Barbara is dead, as he [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E01CharlieGetsCrippled previously lied about that very thing]].
* FatComicRelief: Lampshaded when Dennis states that they need a funny fat guy for their crew.
* FreudWasRight: The flyer that Mac, Dennis and Charlie make to invite guys to the mansion ends up looking remarkably like a penis. It's supposed to be a bicep.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Charlie and Ernesto are reading from Dee's middle school diary, one of the fratboys can be seen falling past the window in the background after Mac and Dennis [[ComedicSociopathy pushed him off the roof]].
* GraveRobbing: After getting snubbed in Barbara's will, Dee suggests digging up her grave to recover all the jewelry she was buried in.
* HomoeroticSubtext: All over the place in the Mac/Dennis/Charlie subplot. After realizing they have no friends outside of each other, they decide to find some by making a penis-shaped flyer that specifically asks for "guys in good shape" and handing them out to random men in a sports goods shop. When that fails, Dennis lures two college guys to the house under false pretenses, and homoerotic (and non-consensual) pranking ensues.
* KilledOffscreen: Frank reveals that Barbara died from a botched necklift at the beginning of the episode.
* KnifeThrowingAct: The cold open has Charlie showing off his newly acquired throwing knives, before the guys decide to test them out on Dee. Mac and Dennis are later shown throwing them at one of the fratboys.
* LimitedSocialCircle: After they decide to "round up the guys" for a party, Mac, Dennis and Charlie realize that they have no friends outside of the gang. Justified, of course, in that they're all horrible people who have managed to alienate everybody they once hung out with.
-->'''Mac:''' I have two numbers in my phone: Charlie and Dennis.
* LonelyFuneral: After realizing the above, the guys worry that nobody would come to their funerals if they were to die suddenly.
* NoodleIncident: Charlie mentions that he once set one of their old friends on fire, while another apparently has a restraining order against him.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Bruce resorts to some very underhanded tactics in order to expose Frank and Dee's scam, including [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to get them to have sex in front of him]] and eventually ''marrying'' them.
* OnOneCondition: Barbara leaves the house to Dennis on the sole condition that he doesn't let Frank set foot in it. Naturally he ends up breaking this, and loses the house after Bruce gets it on camera.
* PaperThinDisguise: Frank poses as Dee's "fiance" Seamus by donning hippyish clothes along with a
* ParentalIncest: Frank and Dee pretend to
* SecretDiary: Charlie finds Dee's middle school diary in her old bedroom and gets Ernesto to read it out loud to him.
* ShootTheMessenger: Dee and Frank both verbally assault the lawyer who reveals the contents of Barbara's will, despite him repeatedly pointing out that he's just reading what's in front of him.
* TerrifiedOfGerms: Dee claims that "Seamus" is this, as he freaks out when Bruce reveals he's been working with AIDS sufferers after hugging them both. It's just Frank being his usual ignorant self, though.
* TheUnfavorite: Dee was this to Barbara, to the point where she calls her a "mistake" in the will despite the fact that Dennis and Dee are twins.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: Despite the fact that they're not fratboys, Mac and Dennis's idea of male
* WarriorPoet: Played for laughs with Ernesto, the guy Charlie finds buying a crossbow in the sporting goods store. Charlie explicitly calls him a poet and he's shown to be ridiculously sensitive, openly crying at Dee's childhood diary.
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