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* ToiletHumor: Part of Mac's plan involves defecating in a toilet and leaving their temporary roommate to find it. He describes the feces in quite a bit of detail.

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* ToiletHumor: Part of Mac's plan involves defecating in a toilet and clogging it up with toilet paper, leaving their temporary roommate to find it.it and find out there's no plunger to unclog it with, at which point Mac sends him to a nearby hardware store, where Dee'll be waiting for him. He describes the feces in quite a bit of detail.
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* RaceForYourLove: Charlie and Frank do this to reach Alexi and Nikki before they leave by bus. Unfortunately it doesn't work, though Alexi and Nikki promise to return in one year.
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* FriendshipMoment: Charlie and Frank each have one with Alexi and Nikki, the father and son duo who initially stay with them, by bonding over yodeling, shared culinary tastes, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and toe picking]] - to the point where they end up underwhelmed by the sexually adventurous European girls who stay with them later.
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* ClicheStorm: Mac and Dennis try to create a cliché and by the books romantic comedy plot with them as the leads, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome naturally it doesn't end the way they hoped.]]



* HarsherInHindsight: As this episode originally aired in 2019, Alexi and Nikki's pledge to return a year later likely [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic couldn't happen]].

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%% LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.

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%% LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.* HarsherInHindsight: As this episode originally aired in 2019, Alexi and Nikki's pledge to return a year later likely [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic couldn't happen]].
* InvokedTrope: Mac, Dennis and Dee are all actively trying to engineer a MeetCute, mentioning the concept by name multiple times.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** After the failed MeetCute in the hardware store, Dee declares to herself, "End Act Two!" The show immediately cuts to a commercial break, ending the episode's second act.
** She later begins to complain that men don't control everything anymore, and women can't be silenced, only to have ''the show itself'' SmashCut away from her mid-sentence to another scene.
* MondegreenGag: Charlie mishears Mac describing a MeetCute, think he said "meat cube." He (and later, Frank) become intrigued by the concept, and it eventually becomes a token of affection from their Austrian counterparts.


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* ShoutOut: to ''Film/PrettyWoman'' specifically the jewelry box scene.
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** The girls Frank and Charlie do end up sleeping with are heroin addicts, one of whom is "aggressive" with her fingers. They're only upset by this because they ruined the spoon gifted to them by Alexi and Nikki.

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* BirdsOfAFeather: Frank and Charlie and Alexie and Nikki, the Austrian men they accidently invite to stay with them.

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* BirdsOfAFeather: Frank and Charlie and Alexie with Alexi and Nikki, the Austrian men they accidently accidentally invite to stay with them.



* ButNowIMustGo: Alexie and Nikki, though they promise to return in [[SequelHook exactly one year.]]

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* ButNowIMustGo: Alexie Alexi and Nikki, though they promise to return in [[SequelHook exactly one year.]]



* EuropeansAreKinky: The two Austrian girls Charlie and Frank invite to stay with them. Frank also believes that European girls will want Frank and Charlie to "[[GuyOnGuyIsHot explore]]" each other.

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* EuropeansAreKinky: The two Because of this trope, Frank and Charlie are excited about the young Austrian girls Charlie and Frank invite co-eds that they think are going to stay be staying with them. Frank also believes that European girls will want Frank and Charlie to "[[GuyOnGuyIsHot explore]]" each other.



* FunnyForeigner: Alexie and Nikki
* GenderBlenderName: Alexie and Nikki, Frank and Charlie are expecting two sexually adventurous European girls but they get a father and son.
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* FunnyForeigner: Alexie Alexi and Nikki
Nikki, the Austrian tourists who stay with Frank and Charlies.
* GenderBlenderName: Alexie and Nikki, Frank and Charlie are expecting two sexually adventurous European girls girls, but they get a father and son.
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** Charlie's illiteracy leaves him unable to read the note Alexie and Nikki left behind.

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** Charlie's illiteracy leaves him unable to read the note Alexie Alexi and Nikki left behind.



* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Alexie and Nikki are basically the Austrian versions of Mac and Charlie; all four share similar diets and strange behaviors.

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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Alexie Alexi and Nikki are basically the Austrian versions of Mac Frank and Charlie; all Charlie. All four share similar diets and strange behaviors.behaviors, and the latter pair might also be father and son.



* WrongGenreSavvy: Mac, Dennis and Dee assume they're in some romantic comedy farce with a couple in marital difficulty. Dee thinks she's the heroine as Dennis snaps she's the "slut the guy sleeps with" while Dennis thinks he's the charmer sweeping the wife off her feet and Mac on helping the man come to grips with his sexuality.
** The key issue, of course, is how the gang assumes "Teddy" is the guy either the wife or the husband slept with unaware that's the name of their ''dead son''.

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Mac, Dennis and Dee assume they're in some romantic comedy farce with a couple in marital difficulty. Dee thinks she's the heroine as (as Dennis snaps that she's the "slut the guy sleeps with" while with"), Dennis thinks he's the charmer sweeping the wife off her feet feet, and Mac on thinks he'll be helping the man come to grips with his sexuality.
** The key issue, of course, is how the gang assumes that they assume "Teddy" is the guy name of either the wife wife's or the husband slept with husband's lover, but are unaware that's that it's actually the name of their ''dead son''.
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* BlackComedy: TheReveal that Teddy was actually the couple's song is given an [[SoundtrackDissonance inappropriate soundtrack.]]

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* BlackComedy: TheReveal that Teddy was actually the couple's song dead son is given an [[SoundtrackDissonance inappropriate soundtrack.]]
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* ButNowIMustGo: Alexie and Nikki, though they promise to return in [[SequelHook exactly one year.]]

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* BlackComedy: TheReveal that Teddy was actually the couple's song is given an [[SoundtrackDissonance inappropriate soundtrack.]]



* DoubleEntendre: Dee asks Greg to help "clean my pipes."



* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Dee offers to help Mac and Dennis continue their plan, only to be forcefully rejected by both of them.



* RunningGag: Dennis hears noises Dee makes as bird sounds.

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* RunningGag: RunningGag:
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** Charlie's illiteracy leaves him unable to read the note Alexie and Nikki left behind.


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* WrongAssumption: Dennis and Mac get ''everything'' wrong about the couple staying with them.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Alexie and Nikki are basically the Austrian versions of Mac and Charlie; all four share similar diets and strange behaviors.

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* EuropeansAreKinky: The two Austrian girls Charlie and Frank invite to stay with them.

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* ContinuityNod: Frank's email address contains the name "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS08E07FranksBackInBusiness Warthog]]."
* EuropeansAreKinky: The two Austrian girls Charlie and Frank invite to stay with them. Frank also believes that European girls will want Frank and Charlie to "[[GuyOnGuyIsHot explore]]" each other.
* FunnyForeigner: Alexie and Nikki


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* RunningGag: Dennis hears noises Dee makes as bird sounds.
* TheSociopath: Dennis equates romance with "trapping" women.
* ToiletHumor: Part of Mac's plan involves defecating in a toilet and leaving their temporary roommate to find it. He describes the feces in quite a bit of detail.
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* ClichéStorm: Mac and Dennis try to create a cliché and by the books romantic comedy plot with them as the leads, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome naturally it doesn't end the way they hoped.]]

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* ClichéStorm: ClicheStorm: Mac and Dennis try to create a cliché and by the books romantic comedy plot with them as the leads, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome naturally it doesn't end the way they hoped.]]

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%% LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.

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%% * BirdsOfAFeather: Frank and Charlie and Alexie and Nikki, the Austrian men they accidently invite to stay with them.
* ClichéStorm: Mac and Dennis try to create a cliché and by the books romantic comedy plot with them as the leads, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome naturally it doesn't end the way they hoped.]]
* EuropeansAreKinky: The two Austrian girls Charlie and Frank invite to stay with them.
* GenderBlenderName: Alexie and Nikki, Frank and Charlie are expecting two sexually adventurous European girls but they get a father and son.
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LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.
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Mac concocts a scheme to attract single women to Airbnb Dennis' bedroom, while Frank and Charlie concoct similar plans to attract young, European coeds. But neither ad attracts their intended target.
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** The key issue, of course, is how the gang assumes "Teddy" is the guy either the wife or the husband slept with unaware that's the name of their ''dead son''.

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** The key issue, of course, is how the gang assumes "Teddy" is the guy either the wife or the husband slept with unaware that's the name of their ''dead son''.son''.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.

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* %% LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.examples.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Mac, Dennis and Dee assume they're in some romantic comedy farce with a couple in marital difficulty. Dee thinks she's the heroine as Dennis snaps she's the "slut the guy sleeps with" while Dennis thinks he's the charmer sweeping the wife off her feet and Mac on helping the man come to grips with his sexuality.
** The key issue, of course, is how the gang assumes "Teddy" is the guy either the wife or the husband slept with unaware that's the name of their ''dead son''.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples.

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