History Recap / KevinCanFuckHimselfS01E04LiveFreeOrDie

* StrongFamilyResemblance: The other escape room participants note that Kevin and Pete resemble each other quite a lot.

* ShoutOut: ''Film/{{Taken}}'', ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'', ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', and [[Film/NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] are mentioned.

* MistakenForCheating: Some odd years ago, Kevin got Allison fired from a previous job as a paralegal assistant because he thought she was having an affair with her much older and {{happily married}} boss. Deconstructed, as Kevin's baseless accusations cost Allison a nice, stable, and well-paying career that she really loved and the pain of that still stings years later.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Allison

* MistakenForCheating: Some odd years ago, Kevin got Allison fired from a previous job as a paralegal assistant because he thought she was having an affair with her much older boss, who was 60 and married. Deconstructed, as Kevin's baseless accusations cost Allison a nice, stable, and well-paying career that she really loved and the pain of that still stings years later.

* YouBastard: Allison's WhatTheHellHero speech to Patty also doubles as a calling out of the audience for sitting back and laughing at the idiotic husbands of other sitcoms past who made their wives' lives miserable.

Kevin, Neil, and Pete open a themed escape room (or as Kevin calls it, an "escape groom", with the theme being husbands escaping their nagging wives) in Kevin’s basement. The plan goes wrong, with the escape room participants accidentally getting locked in the basement.

Allison and Patty embark on a road trip to Vermont to buy the Oxys from a dealer Patty knows. After receiving the wrong order of cocaine and being made to do errands for the dealer's stepson's friend, they are pointed to a dealer named Red Rooster. Patty meets with the Red Rooster, who instead gives her a gun. Allison ends up trying to buy the drugs from a truck driver at the gas station, but the plan goes south when Patty hits him over the head with the gun, thinking he's about to assault Allison; they run off, with Allison taking the trucker's pill bottle. While driving home, Allison and Patty get pulled over by the police; Kevin had called the cops on Allison for failing to answer his phone calls. Following the incident, Allison confides to Patty about Kevin's controlling behavior and admits that she wanted the drugs to poison Kevin.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After [[WhatTheHellHero calling Patty out on ignoring the destructive consequences of Kevin's actions]], Patty stammers that she thought it was all silly and harmless fun. Allison asks Patty if she thinks blowing their savings was also harmless.

* MistakenForCheating: Some odd years ago, Kevin got Allison fired from a previous job as a paralegal assistant because he thought she was having an affair with her boss, who was 60 and married. Deconstructed, as Kevin's baseless accusations cost Allison a nice, stable, and well-paying career that she really loved and the pain of that still stings years later.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Patty is hit with this when she realizes how her treating Kevin's antics as harmless fun led to her ignoring their destructive consequences, as well as her subsequent mistreatment of Allison. She genuinely apologizes to her, and it's here that they become genuine friends.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: The other escape room participants note that Kevin and Pete resemble each other quite a bit.
* WhatTheHellHero: Allison gives Patty an especially harsh call-out for treating Kevin's antics and their destructive consequences as just a big joke. Patty is subsequently horrified with herself for having enabled Kevin for so long.

* CerebusRetcon: Neil's manchild behavior gains some disturbing new context with the revelation that his and Patty's mother died when they were younger and Neil was the one who found her dead body.

* MistakenForCheating: Some odd years ago, Kevin got Allison fired from a previous job as a paralegal assistant because he thought she was having an affair with her 60-year-old and married boss. Deconstructed, as Kevin's baseless accusations cost Allison a nice, stable, and well-paying career that she really loved and the pain of that still stings years later.

* WhatTheHellHero: Allison calls Patty out on treating Kevin's antics and their destructive consequences as just a big joke.

* MistakenForCheating: Kevin got Allison fired from a previous job as a paralegal assistant because he thought she was having an affair with her 60-year-old and married boss. Deconstructed, as Kevin's baseless accusations cost Allison a nice, stable, and well-paying career that she really loved and the pain of that still stings years later.

* PissTakeRap: Alluded to. When told he has to play the emcee, Neil immediately says he can't rap and kept rhyming "snake" with "snake" until they unplugged the mic.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After [[WhatTheHellHero calling Patty out on ignoring the destructive consequences of Kevin's actions]], Patty stammers that she thought it was all silly and harmless fun. Allison asks Patty if she thinks draining the savings account is also harmless.

'''Allison:''' And when he spent all our life savings without telling me? Was that harmless too?

* CerebusRetcon: Neil's manchild behavior gains some disturbing new context with the revelation that his and Patty's mother died when they were younger and Neil found her dead body.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Patty is hit with this when she realizes her treating Kevin's antics as harmless fun, failure to consider their consequences, and mistreatment of Allison.

'''Allison:''' Patty, he got me ''fired''. Right when I felt like I was worth something, he ruined it. And you just watched him and laughed. Can you just think about that for more than one second? He didn't like something that was my own, and so he took it away from me. Like this car. Like my friends. Like any shred of a life that is my own.\\
'''Patty:''' I-It... It seemed... harmless.

Allison and Patty embark on a road trip to Vermont to buy the Oxys from a dealer named Red Rooster. In Vermont, Patty meets with the Red Rooster, who instead gives her a gun. Allison ends up trying to buy the drugs from a truck driver. While driving home, Allison and Patty get pulled over by the police; Kevin had called the cops on Allison for failing to answer his phone calls. Following the incident, Allison confides to Patty about Kevin's controlling behavior and admits that she wanted the drugs to poison Kevin.

* ShoutOut: ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'', ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', and [[Film/NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] are mentioned.

* StrongFamilyResemblence: The other escape room participants note that Kevin and Pete resemble each other quite a bit.

* MoonLogicPuzzle: Invoked with Kevin's "escape groom" idea, which has ridiculously complicated clues that ultimately lead to nowhere.

* ShoutOut: ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'', ''Franchise/FridayTheThirteenth'', and [[Film/NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] are mentioned.

* ShoutOut: ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'', ''Film/FridayTheThirteenth'', and [[Film/NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger is mentioned.

Patty gets questioned by Detective Tammy. Meanwhile, Kevin, Neil, and Pete open a themed escape room in Kevin’s basement. The plan goes wrong, with the escape room participants accidentally getting locked in the basement. Allison and Patty embark on a road trip to Vermont to buy the Oxys from a dealer named Red Rooster. In Vermont, Patty meets with the Red Rooster, who instead gives her a gun. Allison ends up trying to buy the drugs from a truck driver. While driving home, Allison and Patty get pulled over by the police; Kevin had called the cops on Allison for failing to answer his phone calls. Following the incident, Allison confides to Patty about Kevin’s controlling behavior and admits that she wanted the drugs to poison Kevin.

* YouBastard: Allison's WhatTheHellHero speech to Patty also doubles as a calling out of the audience for sitting back and laughing at the idiotic husbands of other sitcoms past who made their wives' lives miserable.

* YouBastard: Allison's WhatTheHellHero speech to patty also doubles as a calling out of the audience for sitting back and laughing at the idiotic husbands of other sitcoms past who made their wives' lives miserable.