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* IncestSubtext: The Frank/Dennis subplot has more than a bit of this, with Frank promising to take care of Dennis and calling him "baby" and "my one and only". Granted, they aren't blood related, but it's still somewhat disturbing.
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* ImpliedRape: It's made very clear that Dennis doesn't really have a choice in sleeping with the clients, and Frank tells one of them that it'll cost extra if they want him to act like he's enjoying it, but nobody actually calls it rape.
* IncestSubtext: The Frank/Dennis subplot has more than a bit of this, with Frank promising to take care of Dennis and calling him "baby" and "my one and only". Granted, they aren't blood related, but it's still somewhat disturbing. The podcast outright names what Frank is doing as grooming.
* IncestSubtext: The Frank/Dennis subplot has more than a bit of this, with Frank promising to take care of Dennis and calling him "baby" and "my one and only". Granted, they aren't blood related, but it's still somewhat disturbing. The podcast outright names what Frank is doing as grooming.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Dee and Mac are both icked by Frank controlling Dennis and Dennis just doing what he's told instead of fighting back.
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* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Other than breaking Cricket's legs, it is unclear if the mob does anything mob0like most of the time.
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* VisualPun: Peter Nincompoop is a white hose that Charlie rides. "Riding the white horse" is an old euphemism for doing coke.
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* DoubleEntendre: Mac keeps accidentally doing this, much the annoyance of the mobsters.
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* InsistentTerminology: Dennis is offended when Dee calls him a prostitute, preferring to refer to it as a "very important service for people in need."
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* BeatBag: Charlie and Dee try to pull this trick by cutting cocaine with flour, but by the time they try, the cocaine is badly depleted and they add way too much flour, resulting in a bag that's more flour than cocaine. Even they figure out pretty quickly that the mob is going to realize the switch.
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* BeatBag: Charlie and Dee try to pull this trick by cutting cocaine with flour, but by the time they try, the cocaine is badly depleted and they add way too much flour, resulting in a bag that's more flour than cocaine. Even they figure out pretty quickly that the mob is going to realize the switch.
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-->'''Mac:''' I'm so hard that people are scared of me, and they should be, 'cause I'll explode all over them.
-->'''Mobster #1:''' Whoa, come on! What's the matter with you?
-->'''Mobster #2:''' I'm eatin' here!
-->'''Mobster #1:''' Whoa, come on! What's the matter with you?
-->'''Mobster #2:''' I'm eatin' here!
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-->'''Mac:''' I'm so hard that people are scared of me, and they should be, 'cause I'll explode all over them.
-->'''Mobsterthem.\\
'''Mobster #1:''' Whoa, come on! What's the matter withyou?
-->'''Mobsteryou?\\
'''Mobster #2:''' I'm eatin' here!
-->'''Mobster
'''Mobster #1:''' Whoa, come on! What's the matter with
-->'''Mobster
'''Mobster #2:''' I'm eatin' here!
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-->'''Cricket:''' Ever since you convinced me to abandon the church my life has been in a bit of a tailspin.
-->'''Dee:''' Who, me or Charlie?
-->'''Cricket:''' ...''You'', Dee. You!
-->'''Dee:''' That doesn't ring a bell. It doesn't ring a bell.
-->'''Dee:''' Who, me or Charlie?
-->'''Cricket:''' ...''You'', Dee. You!
-->'''Dee:''' That doesn't ring a bell. It doesn't ring a bell.
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-->'''Cricket:''' Ever since you convinced me to abandon the church my life has been in a bit of a tailspin.
-->'''Dee:'''tailspin.\\
'''Dee:''' Who, me orCharlie?
-->'''Cricket:''' ...Charlie?\\
'''Cricket:''' ...''You'', Dee.You!
-->'''Dee:'''You!\\
'''Dee:''' That doesn't ring a bell. It doesn't ring a bell.
-->'''Dee:'''
'''Dee:''' Who, me or
-->'''Cricket:''' ...
'''Cricket:''' ...''You'', Dee.
-->'''Dee:'''
'''Dee:''' That doesn't ring a bell. It doesn't ring a bell.
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-->'''Mob boss:''' I need you to go over to my house and take care of me wife.
-->'''Mac:''' You mean like rub her out?
-->'''Mob boss:''' No!
-->'''Mac:''' You want me to bang her?
-->'''Mob boss:''' No. What the hell is wrong with you?
-->'''Mac:''' You mean like rub her out?
-->'''Mob boss:''' No!
-->'''Mac:''' You want me to bang her?
-->'''Mob boss:''' No. What the hell is wrong with you?
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-->'''Mob boss:''' I need you to go over to my house and take care of me wife.
-->'''Mac:'''wife.\\
'''Mac:''' You mean like rub herout?
-->'''Mobout?\\
'''Mob boss:'''No!
-->'''Mac:'''''No!''\\
'''Mac:''' You want me to bangher?
-->'''Mobher?\\
'''Mob boss:''' No. What the hell is wrong with you?
-->'''Mac:'''
'''Mac:''' You mean like rub her
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'''Mob boss:'''
-->'''Mac:'''
'''Mac:''' You want me to bang
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'''Mob boss:''' No. What the hell is wrong with you?
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-->'''Charlie:''' Who is it?
-->'''Cricket:''' It's Matt.
-->'''Charlie:''' Who?
-->'''Cricket:''' Matthew Mara!
-->''(Dee and Charlie exchange confused looks)''
-->'''Cricket:''' ''(annoyed)'' It's Rickety Cricket!
-->'''Charlie:''' It's Rickety Cricket! ''(Opens the door)''
-->'''Cricket:''' It's Matt.
-->'''Charlie:''' Who?
-->'''Cricket:''' Matthew Mara!
-->''(Dee and Charlie exchange confused looks)''
-->'''Cricket:''' ''(annoyed)'' It's Rickety Cricket!
-->'''Charlie:''' It's Rickety Cricket! ''(Opens the door)''
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-->'''Charlie:''' Who is it?
-->'''Cricket:'''it?\\
'''Cricket:''' It'sMatt.
-->'''Charlie:''' Who?
-->'''Cricket:'''Matt.\\
'''Charlie:''' Who?\\
'''Cricket:''' MatthewMara!
-->''(DeeMara!\\
''(Dee and Charlie exchange confusedlooks)''
-->'''Cricket:'''looks)''\\
'''Cricket:''' ''(annoyed)'' It's RicketyCricket!
-->'''Charlie:'''Cricket!\\
'''Charlie:''' It's Rickety Cricket!''(Opens ''(opens the door)''
-->'''Cricket:'''
'''Cricket:''' It's
-->'''Charlie:''' Who?
-->'''Cricket:'''
'''Charlie:''' Who?\\
'''Cricket:''' Matthew
-->''(Dee
''(Dee and Charlie exchange confused
-->'''Cricket:'''
'''Cricket:''' ''(annoyed)'' It's Rickety
-->'''Charlie:'''
'''Charlie:''' It's Rickety Cricket!
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* AFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, the mobsters are coke-pushing criminals who carry guns on principle. However, they're also shown enjoying casual activities, like playing cards and having lunch, and treat Mac's attempts to get into the group like a fraternity pledge hazing.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: Frank gradually breaks Dennis's psyche down until he's basically completely emotionless about the women he's sleeping with, acting like a robot. Mac helps snap him out of it.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: Frank gradually breaks Dennis's psyche down until he's basically completely emotionless about the women he's sleeping with, acting like a robot. Mac helps snap him out of it.
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* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, the mobsters are coke-pushing criminals who carry guns on principle and openly plan to murder the gang if they can't pay up. However, they're also shown doing things like playing cards and having fun together, and treat Mac's "initiation" into the group lke a fraternity hazing.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Dee ''tries'' to invoke this trope by focusing on raising the money they need for the mob and warning Charlie about trying the cocaine and getting hooked on the stuff. Unfortunately, she's not very good at it.
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* AFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, the mobsters are coke-pushing criminals who carry guns on principle. However, they're also shown enjoying casual activities, like playing cards and having lunch, and treat Mac's attempts to get into the group like a fraternity pledge hazing.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: Frank gradually breaks Dennis's psyche down until he's basically completely emotionless about the women he's sleeping with, acting like a robot. Mac helps snap him out of it.
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** There's also Dennis's gradual transformation into more and more of a prostitute. At first, he has rules about his clients and takes them on dates; as time passes, Frank removes all of the rules, tells him that from now on he's ''just'' going to have sex with women, and slaps him around when he tries to resist. Dennis ends up doing whatever Frank tells him with whoever Frank chooses, reciting his "sexy" patter without any emotion.
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->'''-- Dee'''
Dee and
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!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbusiveParents: Frank pimps out his own (step)son, and his treatment of Dennis gets progressively worse throughout the episode as he gets more and more into his role.
* AccidentalInnuendo: Mac does this when he's trying to prove to the mobsters how "hard" he is.
-->'''Mac:''' I'm so hard that people are scared of me, and they should be, 'cause I'll explode all over them.
-->'''Mobster #1:''' Whoa, come on! What's the matter with you?
-->'''Mobster #2:''' I'm eatin' here!
* AddledAddict: Rickety Cricket quickly becomes one after Charlie and Dee get him hooked on cocaine, spending all their drug money on "kettle drums" (actually trash cans) and rambling nonsense about writing a musical.
* AmbiguouslyGay: One of the mobsters comments that Mac has "gorgeous hands", earning himself some weird looks from the others.
* BestialityIsDepraved: Charlie is convinced that the jockeys at the country club were "raping the shit" out of the horse.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Dee struggles to remember her role in getting Cricket kicked out of the priesthood.
-->'''Cricket:''' Ever since you convinced me to abandon the church my life has been in a bit of a tailspin.
-->'''Dee:''' Who, me or Charlie?
-->'''Cricket:''' ...''You'', Dee. You!
-->'''Dee:''' That doesn't ring a bell. It doesn't ring a bell.
* ChekhovsGun: Frank's pimp chalice, which Dennis ends up selling at the end of the episode in order to get the money for the mob.
* ContinuityNod:
** Dee warns Charlie that they should be careful with the cocaine, given their past addictions to [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E03UnderageDrinking glue]] and [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E03DennisAndDeeGoOnWelfare crack]].
** Cricket reminds Dee that [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E07TheGangExploitsAMiracle it's her fault he's no longer a priest]].
* CrazyHomelessPeople: Cricket averts this at first, but fits the trope much more closely after getting hooked on drugs.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Mac thinks that the mob boss is doing this when he asks him to "take care" of his wife, but it turns out he actually just wants Mac to clean her roof gutters.
-->'''Mob boss:''' I need you to go over to my house and take care of me wife.
-->'''Mac:''' You mean like rub her out?
-->'''Mob boss:''' No!
-->'''Mac:''' You want me to bang her?
-->'''Mob boss:''' No. What the hell is wrong with you?
* DirtyOldWoman: Most of Dennis's clients. He comments that one of them looks "about a hundred years old".
* EmbarrassingNickname: The mobsters take to calling Mac "Pussyhands" after he starts going on about his "catlike reflexes".
* EvilLaugh: Charlie lets one out after he and Dee force Cricket to take the cocaine.
* FalseRapeAccusation: The mob boss's wife accuses Dennis of trying to rape her as revenge for Mac calling her gross and both of them refusing to sleep with her.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Dee and Charlie have enough money to pay off the mob after getting Cricket to flip the first batch of cocaine, but their greed gets the better of them and they instead decide to use it to buy more drugs so they can make even ''more'' money and have some left over for themselves.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Charlie is persuading Cricket to help them sell the drugs, Dee can be seen in the background doing more cocaine.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Mac slaps Dennis to try and break the control that Frank has on him, then ''Frank'' slaps Dennis to try and get him back in line, which leads to the two of them slapping him back and forth until he yells at them to stop.
* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Dee and Charlie end up doing most of the cocaine they're supposed to be selling, despite Dee lampshading the trope at the beginning of the episode.
-->'''Dee:''' We talked about this. No getting high on the supply!
* GoneHorriblyRight: Charlie and Dee's plan to get Cricket hooked on the cocaine works a little ''too'' well, as he ends up spending all their
* IncestSubtext: The Frank/Dennis subplot has more than a bit of this, with Frank promising to take care of Dennis and calling him "baby" and "my one and only". Granted, they aren't blood related, but it's still somewhat disturbing.
* LoveMartyr: Despite everything she's done to him, Cricket is still obsessed with Dee to the extent that Charlie is able to manipulate him into helping them by promising to let him stay at Dee's apartment.
* MexicanStandoff: At the end of the episode, between Frank, Dee & Charlie and the mobsters.
* MundaneUtility: Frank drops an insane amount of money on getting a golden gem-encrusted pimp chalice made, and then uses it to eat cereal out of.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Dee and Charlie fail to recognize Cricket's real name when he knocks on the door.
-->'''Charlie:''' Who is it?
-->'''Cricket:''' It's Matt.
-->'''Charlie:''' Who?
-->'''Cricket:''' Matthew Mara!
-->''(Dee and Charlie exchange confused looks)''
-->'''Cricket:''' ''(annoyed)'' It's Rickety Cricket!
-->'''Charlie:''' It's Rickety Cricket! ''(Opens the door)''
* TheOldestProfession: Dennis continues trying to raise the money by working as a male prostitute, with Frank as his controlling pimp.
* PimpDuds: Frank takes to wearing them as he gets into his role.
* RecoveredAddict: Dee points out that she doesn't smoke crack anymore. Averted with Charlie, who still huffs glue every day.
* TheScapegoat: The gang all blame Cricket for insulting the mob boss's wife, causing him to get beaten up and have both his legs broken.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Charlie and Dee decide to skip town after realizing they won't be able to pay the mob.
* ShirtlessScene: Cricket spends the second half of the episode without a shirt or pants, though it isn't remotely sexy. Dennis also unbuttons his shirt while performing a ShamefulStrip for one of his clients.
* ShooTheDog: Charlie does this to Peter Nincompoop, the horse he stole from the country club, after Dee points out that they'll definitely be spotted if they try to leave town on horseback.
* ShoutOut: The mob boss asking Mac to take care of his wife is similar to one of plots from ''Film/PulpFiction''.
* StreetUrchin: Charlie and Dee describe Cricket as such.
* TraumaCongaLine: Cricket gets put through one, courtesy of the gang. He's already homeless at the start of the episode, and by the end of it he's also gotten addicted to cocaine and had his legs broken by the mob.
* VillainsOutShopping: Mac is extremely unimpressed by how boring the mobsters are in their downtime.
-->'''Mac:''' Don't you guys do anything besides play cards and eat deli meats?
* WateringDown: Dee and Charlie try to cut the last of their cocaine with flour, but end up using way too much.
* WeightWoe: Frank won't let Dennis drink beer because it has too many calories and he needs to keep his body in shape.
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Frank pulls this on Dennis at one point.
-->'''Frank:''' Hey, I don't wanna hit you, baby. So please don't make me, okay? You're my one and only. You gotta do right by me, okay?
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