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* UnkemptBeauty: When discussing how fake ''Series/TheRealHousewives'' actually is Dennis comments that real woman don't look like that, and as Dee walks in he points her out as what a normal woman looks like. It's intended as [[InformedDeformity a slight against her appearance]] and there is some effort to make her hair frizzled, sweaty and clothes look wrinkled, but [[BeautyInversion it would take a lot more effort to make Kaitlin Olsen look unattractive]].
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Dennis projectile vomits pure liquor after downing three shots in a row.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Dennis projectile vomits pure liquor after downing three shots in a row.
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* UnkemptBeauty: When discussing how fake ''Series/TheRealHousewives'' actually is Dennis comments that real woman don't look like that, and as Dee walks in he points her out as what a normal woman looks like. It's intended as [[InformedDeformity a slight against her appearance]] and there is some effort to make her hair frizzled, sweaty and clothes look wrinkled, but [[BeautyInversion it would take a lot more effort to make Kaitlin Olsen look unattractive]].\n* VomitIndiscretionShot: Dennis projectile vomits pure liquor after downing three shots in a row.
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* ThisIsReality: At the end Dennis manages to access and delete everyone's character profiles to show how meaningless the video game world was. He says sometimes things just end without any consolation... [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall and the episode just ends]].
* UnkemptBeauty: When discussing how fake ''Series/TheRealHousewives'' actually is Dennis comments that real woman don't look like that, and as Dee walks in he points her out as what a normal woman looks like. It's intended as [[InformedDeformity a slight against her appearance]] and there is some effort to make her hair frizzled, sweaty and clothes look wrinkled, but [[BeautyInversion it would take a lot more effort to make Kaitlin Olsen look unattractive]].
* UnkemptBeauty: When discussing how fake ''Series/TheRealHousewives'' actually is Dennis comments that real woman don't look like that, and as Dee walks in he points her out as what a normal woman looks like. It's intended as [[InformedDeformity a slight against her appearance]] and there is some effort to make her hair frizzled, sweaty and clothes look wrinkled, but [[BeautyInversion it would take a lot more effort to make Kaitlin Olsen look unattractive]].
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* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Some guy in a restaurant recognizes Dennis, Mac, and Frank as being part of Dee's tribe ''just'' from their similar-looking cartoon NPC's.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Dee, Mac, Charlie, and Frank end up becoming this due to their obsession with the game, acting as if it's a part of their real lives much to the annoyance of everyone else around them.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While he is an asshole about it, Dennis' refusal to jump into the game and become obsessed the same way as the rest of the gang do ends up being justified, as the rest of the gang becomes unhealthily addicted to the game by the episode's climax. Although Dennis ends up claiming that due to his control over "his own universe", it makes him a God.
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-->'''Dennis:''' ''(about Series/TheRealHousewives)'' Real women don't even look like that.
-->''(Enter Dee with messy hair and dark circles under her eyes, looking like she hasn't slept in about a week.)''
-->''(Enter Dee with messy hair and dark circles under her eyes, looking like she hasn't slept in about a week.)''
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-->'''Dennis:''' ''(about Series/TheRealHousewives)'' Real women don't even look like that.
-->''(Enterthat.\\
''(enter Dee with messy hair and dark circles under her eyes, looking like she hasn't slept in about a week.)''
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''(enter Dee with messy hair and dark circles under her eyes, looking like she hasn't slept in about a week.)''
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->'''-- Charlie'''
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-->'''Dennis:''' Storp, Chorley! Dis gayme hash gone on longe enouf.
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-->'''Dennis:''' Storp, Chorley! Dis gayme hash gone on longe enouf.enouf! ''(realizes how ridiculous he sounds)'' ...Shit.\\
'''Mac:''' ...Are you doing ''an accent''?\\
'''Dennis:''' Yeah, it was a British accent.\\
'''Mac:''' That was ''British''?!
'''Mac:''' ...Are you doing ''an accent''?\\
'''Dennis:''' Yeah, it was a British accent.\\
'''Mac:''' That was ''British''?!
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* ScrewYourself: Dennis performs oral sex on a British version of himself while in a sensory deprivation chamber.
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* ScrewYourself: Dennis performs oral sex on meets a British version of himself while in a sensory deprivation chamber.chamber. After the two of them have a discussion about the nature of reality, British Dennis forces the Original Dennis down on his knees and makes him give him a blowjob.
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-->'''Charlie:''' So push "enter" hard, or one, like, slow push and you do your thing, or a little circular enter...
-->'''Dee:''' Just push the button, Charlie.
-->'''Dee:''' Just push the button, Charlie.
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-->'''Charlie:''' So push "enter" hard, or one, like, slow push and you do your thing, or a little circular enter...
-->'''Dee:'''enter...\\
'''Dee:''' Just push the button, Charlie.
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'''Dee:''' Just push the button, Charlie.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Dee offers Charlie a paltry three dollars to stop what he's doing for the rest of the Gang and play a video game for her. The others remind Charlie that he works for them, and Frank pays his rent. Dee increases the offer to five dollars, and Charlie accepts after suffering abuse from the others.
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: Mac makes his game avatar a massive, hulked-out beast... and gets his ass kicked so many times he's reduced to the rank of "soiled fool".
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* {{Butterface}}: Frank's avatar has a sexy lady body, and his Danny [=DeVito=] face. [[KavorkaMan He's still apparently very popular among other players.]]
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-->'''Dennis:''' Storp, Chorley! Dis gayme hash gone on longe enouf.
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* LoveTriangle: Between Charlie, Dee and Mac's avatars in the game; Dee initially marries Charlie after finding out how good he is at pplaying the game, but she later sleeps with Mac in revenge when she thinks that Charlie has betrayed her to the Queen of Thrones.
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* LoveTriangle: Between Charlie, Dee and Mac's avatars in the game; Dee initially marries Charlie after finding out how good he is at pplaying playing the game, but she later sleeps with Mac in revenge when she thinks that Charlie has betrayed her to the Queen of Thrones.
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* ForWantOfNail: Had Charlie not been forced to steal cable from the other building (making him agitated and tired), it's very likely he wouldn't have become as power crazy as he had. Likewise, Dee choosing him to watch over her game also wound up being a factor.
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* ForWantOfNail: ForWantOfANail: Had Charlie not been forced to steal cable from the other building (making him agitated and tired), it's very likely he wouldn't have become as power crazy as he had. Likewise, Dee choosing him to watch over her game also wound up being a factor.
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* ForWantOfNail: Had Charlie not been forced to steal cable from the other building (making him agitated and tired), it's very likely he wouldn't have become as power crazy as he had. Likewise, Dee choosing him to watch over her game also wound up being a factor.
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* JustOneMoreLevel: Dee admits at the begin of the episode that she hasn't showered in "a few days" due to her newfound gaming addiction.
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* NearVillainVictory: After kicking out Frank's party guests, Charlie attempts a power grab: demanding Frank and Mac's shares of the bar and Dee to do Charlie Work from now on in exchange for letting their game characters live. Then, Dennis bursts into the apartment and (after attempting to speak with an accent) reveals he deleted their accounts.
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* CuttingTheKnot: Dennis manages to end the ''Techpocalypse'' plot merely by deleting the others' accounts.
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->'''-- Charlie'''
Dee enlists Charlie's help in playing ''Techpocalypse'', an online [=RPG=], but the two of them along with Mac and Frank
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!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Charlie becomes increasingly egotistical as a result of being good at the game, treating Dee like a kept housewife and ordering the rest of the gang around.
* AlphaBitch: Hilariously, Frank becomes one after creating a female avatar for the game, making "catty" comments about the other women. He even gets himself a GirlPosse who laugh at all his jokes.
* AmbiguouslyGay: At one pont Charlie lists Mac's sexual preferences as "ugly or sick or male or female or whatever it is that you like". Mac just kind of shrugs noncommittally.
* BoisterousWeakling: Mac apparently keeps trying to fight everything he encounters in the game. Unfortunately for him, he sucks at virtual fighting as much as he does in real life, and quickly gets demoted to the rank of "soiled fool".
* BrickJoke:
** Dennis comments at the beginning of the episode that he'll "blow himself" if Charlie ever rules the world. He later ends up doing just that when he hallucinates a British version of himself while in a sensory deprivation chamber.
** Frank states at one point that they have no way of knowing what reality
* ButtMonkey: The episode opens with Charlie holding wires together to get a good picture for Mac and Frank to watch the [=TV=] in the bar, repeatedly shocking himself in the process as the rest of the gang all shout demands at him. The main reason he becomes so addicted to the game is because he actually has status and respect for pretty much the first time ever, even if it's only virtual.
* CallBack: Dennis performs [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E04MacBangsDennisMom Frank's weird gyrating dance move]].
* ContrivedCoincidence: A random stranger at the bar recognizes Mac and Frank from Dee's avatars of them in the game, kicking the episode's B-plot into motion as they attempt to get revenge.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Charlie allowing Dee to spend their (virtual) money on things to make herself look pretty so long as she makes him food and doesn't bother him while he's playing the game is strongly reminiscent of the dynamic between an abusive husband and subservient trophy wife.
* FoodSlap: "Queen of Thrones", the girl who Charlie meets from the game, throws her drink in his face after he presents her with a box of spiders and reveals that he's only meeting her as a distraction so that his followers can attack her tribe.
* AGodAmI: Dennis decides that he's a god after realizing that he has complete control over his own universe.
* HeManWomanHater: Mac states [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS05E11MacAndCharlieWriteAMovie once again]] that he hates women.
* HiddenDepths: Charlie proves to be a natural at playing ''Techpocalypse''.
* HypocriticalHumor: Charlie ranting that he's "thriving" while filthy and covered in Hawaiian Punch.
* InadvertentEntranceCue:
-->'''Dennis:''' ''(about Series/TheRealHousewives)'' Real women don't even look like that.
-->''(Enter Dee with messy hair and dark circles under her eyes, looking like she hasn't slept in about a week.)''
* ItsACostumePartyISwear: A variant occurs where Frank invites Dee to what he claims will be a "classy" party, only for her to look completely overdressed when she turns up in a mink coat.
* JustOneMoreLevel: Dee admits at the begin of the episode that she hasn't showered in "a few days" due to her newfound gaming addiction.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the end of the episode, Dennis says that "sometimes things just... end." Cue credits.
* LickingTheBlade: Dennis does this with a pair of scissors before cutting a girl's hair in one of his sex tapes. It's as creepy as it sounds.
* LoveTriangle: Between Charlie, Dee and Mac's avatars in the game; Dee initially marries Charlie after finding out how good he is at pplaying the game, but she later sleeps with Mac in revenge when she thinks that Charlie has betrayed her to the Queen of Thrones.
* MundaneSolution: Dennis cures the rest of the gang of their addiction by deleting all their characters from the game.
* NoodleIncident: Mac apparently got so mad at the game that he smashed up his computer and somehow gave himself a black eye in an offscreen incident.
* OnlySaneMan: Dennis is this with regards to the fact that he's the only member of the gang not completely obsessed with the game, though calling him "sane" is still a bit of a stretch considering that he decides he's ''God''.
* QuestionableConsent: Dennis states that he "entered" the girl in his sex tape with "almost no resistance".
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Dennis is able to hack the rest of the gang's accounts on the game and delete their characters because they all use the same password: "Paddy's Pub".
* PrettyInMink: Charlie procures a mink coat for Dee by trading with a guy in the game who owns a clothing store.
* RPGEpisode: Charlie, Dee, Mac and Frank become obsessed with an [=RPG=] called ''Techpocalypse'' for the duration of the episode.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Charlie to Dee at the end of the episode.
-->'''Charlie:''' You didn't ''think!'' Because ''you don't think!!'' You're just a stupid kept housewife, okay?!
* ScrewYourself: Dennis performs oral sex on a British version of himself while in a sensory deprivation chamber.
* ShipTease: Charlie seems very interested in having sex with Dee... in the game.
-->'''Charlie:''' So push "enter" hard, or one, like, slow push and you do your thing, or a little circular enter...
-->'''Dee:''' Just push the button, Charlie.
* ShoutOut: "Queen of Thrones" is a pretty obvious reference to ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
* TakeThat: When Mac and Frank are watching ''Series/TheRealHousewives'' at the beginning of the episode, Dennis comments that it's about as far from "real" as you can get.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Dennis projectile vomits pure liquor after downing three shots in a row.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: While he's in the sensory deprivation tank, Dennis hallucinates a version of himself with a pretty convincing British accent. When he tries to replicate it in real life, however, it's somewhat less accurate.
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