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* ADayInTheLimelight: Dee gathers a number of recurring female characters in order to do a "female reboot" of the Wade Boggs game the gang played several years prior. Other than revealing Frank snuck onboard halfway through, none of the other guys appear.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: The male waiter, who's been humiliated and physically abused by the gang in the past and they [[ButForMeItWasTuesday don't even bother to remember any of it]], finally gets a minor form of payback by telling Dee that she's been judged unfit to fly to California and needs to get off at North Dakota, writing the final beer/wine tally on her forehead with a marker as she's lying on a stretcher and telling her to come back again.
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* MustHaveNicotine: Mrs. Mac tries to light a cigarette while boarding the plane, and later admits to eating all of her nicotine patches.

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* MustHaveNicotine: Mrs. Mac tries to light a cigarette while boarding the plane, and later admits to eating all of her nicotine patches.patches, which Dee says she had a 2 week supply of.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dee calls the Waiter a "beta cuck" for espousing ideas of female equality.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dee calls the Waiter a "beta "soyboy beta cuck" for espousing ideas of female equality.
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* GretzkyHasTheBall: Secretariat was a stallion (male), a fact none of the characters are initially aware of. Bonnie also (wrongly) asserts all racehorses are male.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Mrs. Mac (while overdosing on nicotine) says more words than she ever had before... and it's a racist screed wondering why "the coloreds are allowed to sit up front." Dee is absolutely and rightly disturbed:
-->"''Wow.'' I've never heard you talk so much. Truly awful."
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* FiveManBand: The group of ladies forms their own parallel to the Gang. Dee and the Waitress even [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] how their group does this.
** Dee is forced into the part of Dennis, as she's the ostensible, overstressed leader of the group.
** The Waitress lampshades how she's like Dee in how she becomes comically drunk - she even forms a rivalry with Dee - and by extension, with Dennis (similarly to how Dennis and Dee form one in the first Boggs episode).
** Artemis becomes the Frank in the situation as the contrarian hustler.
** Mrs. Mac (after a lot of nicotine patches) becomes similar to her son, both as commissioner and in her surly, unpleasant attitude.
** Mrs. Kelly is much like Charlie in her erratic neuroticism.
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* AbsenteeActor: Dennis does not appear at all in this episode, but is mentioned multiple times.
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* RemakeCameo: Lampshaded. Frank shows up in the lavatory, claiming that someone from the old version always shows up in the new one. [[DirtyOldMan He then bangs]] [[ReallyGetsAround the Waitress]].

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* DarkestHour: After having sex with Frank, the Waitress starts crying and declares that she wants to drink herself to death.



* RockBottom: After having sex with Frank, the Waitress starts crying and declares that she wants to drink herself to death.

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* DiscoDan: Mac's mom still thinks it's legal to smoke on an airplane, which was banned on most domestic flights in 1990, and wonders why the "coloreds" are allowed to sit with whites.



* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: The waiter apparently has no idea who Wade Boggs is.

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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: The waiter and Artemis apparently has have no idea who Wade Boggs is.is.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dee calls the Waiter a "beta cuck" for espousing ideas of female equality.


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* RockBottom: After having sex with Frank, the Waitress starts crying and declares that she wants to drink herself to death.
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->''"It’s the same exact thing, but it’s with women, right? So it’s a new idea."''
->'''--Dee'''

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->''"It’s ->''"It's the same exact thing, but it’s it's with women, right? So it’s it's a new idea."''
->'''--Dee'''
-->-- '''Dee'''







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*** The same map and scoreboard effects from the first Boggs episode are used to show the flight’s progress and the ladies’ ranking in the competition.
*** Frank appears and claims he’s “posting up” in the women’s toilet.

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*** The same map and scoreboard effects from the first Boggs episode are used to show the flight’s flight's progress and the ladies’ ladies' ranking in the competition.
*** Frank appears and claims he’s “posting up” he's "posting up" in the women’s women's toilet.



* HiddenDepths: Dee displays a surprising aptitude for mental arithmetic, calculating how much wine is needed to equal Boggs’ seventy beers due to the differing alcohol content.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Artemis makes several pointed comments about the futility of women recreating the exact plots that have already been carried out by men. InUniverse, of course, she’s referring to the Wade Boggs plan, but it could also apply to the episode itself.

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* HiddenDepths: Dee displays a surprising aptitude for mental arithmetic, calculating how much wine is needed to equal Boggs’ Boggs' seventy beers due to the differing alcohol content.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Artemis makes several pointed comments about the futility of women recreating the exact plots that have already been carried out by men. InUniverse, of course, she’s she's referring to the Wade Boggs plan, but it could also apply to the episode itself.



* MileHighClub: The Waitress becomes obsessed with joining in order to “beat” Dennis. She ultimately sleeps with Frank, the only male on board other than the flight attendant.

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* MileHighClub: The Waitress becomes obsessed with joining in order to “beat” "beat" Dennis. She ultimately sleeps with Frank, the only male on board other than the flight attendant.



* OnlySaneMan: For a relative value of “sane”, but between the Waitress’ mood swings and obsession with joining the mile high club, Artemis giving everyone tea spiked with ayahuasca, Mrs. Kelly’s neuroticism and Mrs. Mac’s racism and nicotine high, Dee manages to qualify.
* OutOfFocus: Charlie, Mac and Frank are only in a single scene each, while Dennis doesn’t appear at all.

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* OnlySaneMan: For a relative value of “sane”, "sane", but between the Waitress’ Waitress' mood swings and obsession with joining the mile high club, Artemis giving everyone tea spiked with ayahuasca, Mrs. Kelly’s Kelly's neuroticism and Mrs. Mac’s Mac's racism and nicotine high, Dee manages to qualify.
* OutOfFocus: Charlie, Mac and Frank are only in a single scene each, while Dennis doesn’t doesn't appear at all.



-->'''Dee:''' Wow, I’ve never heard you talk so much. Truly awful.

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-->'''Dee:''' Wow, I’ve I've never heard you talk so much. Truly awful.



* RacistGrandma: Mrs. Mac asks why the “coloreds” are allowed to sit with the whites.

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* RacistGrandma: Mrs. Mac asks why the “coloreds” "coloreds" are allowed to sit with the whites.



* RunningGag: The Waitress’ ill-advised crush on Dennis. At one point she drunkenly tries to kiss Dee, having mistaken her for her twin.
* SequelEpisode: To [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E01TheGangBeatsBoggs “The Gang Beats Boggs”]].

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* RunningGag: The Waitress’ Waitress' ill-advised crush on Dennis. At one point she drunkenly tries to kiss Dee, having mistaken her for her twin.
* SequelEpisode: To [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E01TheGangBeatsBoggs “The "The Gang Beats Boggs”]].Boggs"]].
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* UnknownRival: Dee tells the Waitress that the only reason why she invited her was because she is her rival and that her hatred for her is a motivating factor in winning the Boggs Challenge.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: According to the waiter/flight attendant, he had to serve the Gang again [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS13E09TheGangWinsTheBigGame when they went to the Super Bowl in Minnesota]], where he had recently moved to.



* NoodleIncident: According to the waiter/flight attendant, he had to serve the Gang again when they went to the Super Bowl in Minnesota, where he had recently moved to.
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* NoodleIncident: According to the waiter/flight attendant, he had to serve the Gang again when they went to the Super Bowl in Minnesota, where he had recently moved to.
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* AbsenteeActor: Dennis does not appear at all in this episode, but is mentioned multiple times.

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* BoomerangBigot: Bonnie immediately tries to get off the plane after learning that both pilots are women.


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* FemaleMisogynist: Bonnie immediately tries to get off the plane after learning that both pilots are women.
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** '''Mrs. Kelly:''' (makes a sound)\\

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** '''Mrs.-->'''Mrs. Kelly:''' (makes a sound)\\
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* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: When they reached L.A (Mrs. Mac and Mrs. Kelly), this is the result:
** '''Mrs. Kelly:''' (makes a sound)\\
'''Subtitle:''' ???????

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* ShoutOut: ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn'' is praised by Dee's hallucination for being a massively popular female centered film that was also an original creative idea and not a remake.



* TakeThat: The episode repeatedly takes shots at the idea of GenderFlip remakes of works originally starring men, claiming the practice is unoriginal and lazy.

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* TakeThat: The episode repeatedly takes shots at the idea of GenderFlip remakes of works originally starring men, men (such as ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' and ''Film/OceansEight''), claiming the practice is unoriginal and lazy.lazy and naturally leads to poor audience reception.
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->''"It’s the same exact thing, but it’s with women, right? So it’s a new idea."''
->'''--Dee'''



* AffectionateParody: Of the recent trend of all-female remakes of popular franchises, e.g. Film/Ghostbusters2016 and Film/OceansEight
* TheAlcoholic: The Waitress reminds Dee that she's this when asked how she's able to knock 'em back so quickly.
* BestialityIsDepraved: Mrs. Kelly claims to be attracted to racehorses.



* BottleEpisode: Save for TheStinger, the entire episode takes place on a plane.
* TheBusCameBack: Artemis and Gail the Snail return for the first time since season eleven and nine, respectively.
* CallBack:
** From the [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E01TheGangBeatsBoggs first Boggs episode]]:
*** Mrs. Mac plays the role of commissioner, just like her son.
*** The same map and scoreboard effects from the first Boggs episode are used to show the flight’s progress and the ladies’ ranking in the competition.
*** Frank appears and claims he’s “posting up” in the women’s toilet.
*** The Waitress uses the on-board PA system, much as Dee did in the first episode.
*** Dee has hallucinations of Martina Navratilova (or what she thinks Martina Navratilova looks like) and Boss Hogg.
*** Much like her brother before her, Dee is forced off the plane in North Dakota.
*** Mrs. Mac and Mrs. Kelly are the only ones to make it to California, and end up at the same baseball diamond as Mac and Charlie.
**The frequently recurring Guigino’s waiter is now working as a flight attendant.
**The Waitress [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E04MacBangsDennisMom has sex with Frank again]].
**Dee [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS05E04GangGivesFrankIntervention salts the Snail]].
* TheCameo: Lampshaded by Frank in his one scene.
-->'''Frank:''' In every reboot you gotta have somebody from the original to make a cameo.
* CommanderContrarian: Artemis plays this role throughout the episode, arguing that Dee’s plan is derivative and just doing the exact same thing as the guys, ultimately dropping out after just six beers to start her own scheme.
* ContinuityNod: Dee explains that [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E01TheGangBeatsBoggs Dennis lost because of sex the last time.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: After years of getting abuse heaped on him by the gang, the waiter/flight attendant has his moment when he writes Dee’s score on her forehead before kicking her off the flight in North Dakota.
* DoubleStandard: Dee states that alcoholism is sad and pathetic in women, despite celebrating the exact same thing in men.
* HiddenDepths: Dee displays a surprising aptitude for mental arithmetic, calculating how much wine is needed to equal Boggs’ seventy beers due to the differing alcohol content.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Artemis makes several pointed comments about the futility of women recreating the exact plots that have already been carried out by men. InUniverse, of course, she’s referring to the Wade Boggs plan, but it could also apply to the episode itself.
* LethallyStupid: Mrs. Kelly tries to open the doors while the plane is in mid-flight.
* MileHighClub: The Waitress becomes obsessed with joining in order to “beat” Dennis. She ultimately sleeps with Frank, the only male on board other than the flight attendant.
* MustHaveNicotine: Mrs. Mac tries to light a cigarette while boarding the plane, and later admits to eating all of her nicotine patches.
* OnlySaneMan: For a relative value of “sane”, but between the Waitress’ mood swings and obsession with joining the mile high club, Artemis giving everyone tea spiked with ayahuasca, Mrs. Kelly’s neuroticism and Mrs. Mac’s racism and nicotine high, Dee manages to qualify.
* OutOfFocus: Charlie, Mac and Frank are only in a single scene each, while Dennis doesn’t appear at all.
* TheQuietOne: Dee expresses amazement when Mrs. Mac utters a full sentence.
-->'''Dee:''' Wow, I’ve never heard you talk so much. Truly awful.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: The waiter apparently has no idea who Wade Boggs is.
* PottyFailure: Almost all of the women on the plane suffer explosive diarrhea after Artemis spikes their tea.
* RacistGrandma: Mrs. Mac asks why the “coloreds” are allowed to sit with the whites.
* RousingSpeech: Towards the end of the episode, Artemis gives one of these claiming that it’s time for women to start writing their own stories… right before revealing she’s spiked their tea with ayahuasca.
* RunningGag: The Waitress’ ill-advised crush on Dennis. At one point she drunkenly tries to kiss Dee, having mistaken her for her twin.
* SequelEpisode: To [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E01TheGangBeatsBoggs “The Gang Beats Boggs”]].
* SitcomArchNemesis: Dee considers the Waitress to be hers, explaining that their rivalry is what motivates her to keep going with the competition. After the Waitress crashes out, Gail the Snail fills the role.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Artemis plans to make a quick buck by peddling fake New Age trinkets to gullible women.



-->'''Artemis:''' You can't change one specific practice and call it new.

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-->'''Artemis:''' You can't change one specific practice and call it new.new.
* ToiletHumor: Artemis states that gross-out humor is more shocking when it comes from women, which later becomes a ChekhovsGag when multiple women suffer violent vomiting and diarrhea as a result of the spiked tea.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Multiple times once the spiked tea kicks in.
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* BoomerangBigot: Bonnie immediately tries to get off the plane after learning that both pilots are women.
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* TakeThat: The episode repeatedly takes shots at the idea of GenderFlip remakes of works originally starring men, claiming the practice is unoriginal and lazy.

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* TakeThat: The episode repeatedly takes shots at the idea of GenderFlip remakes of works originally starring men, claiming the practice is unoriginal and lazy.lazy.
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To one-up the guys, Dee has organized an "all-female reboot" of the Wade Boggs challenge on a first-of-it's-kind, all-female flight headed to L.A. for the women's march.

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* TakeThat: The episode repeatedly takes shots at the idea of GenderFlip remakes of works originally starring men, claiming the practice is unoriginal and lazy.

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