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1After Carter has a heart attack, Peter takes over his company.
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4* AdamWesting: When Carter is watching ''The Big Bang Theory'', Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons reprise Leonard and Sheldon, respectively.
5* AsHimself: Creator/HughLaurie reverts to his native British accent after being exposed as the swamp monster after appearing as [[Series/{{House}} Dr. House]].
6* BreakingTheFourthWall:
7-->'''House''': ''House''.\
8'''Peter''': ''Road House''.\
9'''House''': That, too.
10* BrickJoke:
11** One of the things that Peter has Carter do to humiliate him is to invite coworkers to a viewing party of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', which Carter doesn't watch and no one comes to. After finding Dr. House, he asks if he wants to come to watch ''TBBT'' because he genuinely likes it now.
12** Joe is unable to enter the building, due to the lack of a wheelchair ramp and is just left out there. Later, as Carter is removed by security, he asks what Joe is doing there.
13* DramaticUnmask: [[ItMakesSenseInContext The swamp monster was really Dr. House all along.]]
14* FreezeFrameEnding: Parodied. After learning that he got to keep the corporate plane, Peter jumps into the air in joy. But after a few seconds, it's revealed that he's actually stuck there and Lois runs off to find a scientist who can help.
15* PetTheDog: After scaring Peter into signing the company back to Carter, Lois reveals that the contract allowed him to keep the corporate plane, leading to the FreezeFrameEnding above.
16* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Parodied when a young nurse tells Dr. House that the only way to save Carter is to follow the rulebook. House immediately throws it out the window.
17-->'''Peter''': Well, wait a second, how you gonna play by the rules if you don't have the ruleboo--ohhhhhh!
18* ShoutOut:
19** "[[VideoWill If you're watching this one]], it means [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII the train wasn't able to push the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour, and I'm still stuck in 1885]]."
20** The whole swamp monsters sequence riffs on ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' tropes.
21** "I'm having a [[Music/BillyJoel heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack! You oughta know by now!"]]
22* SwampMonster: Spoofed. Lois suggests her dad dress up as a swamp monster to scare Peter away, before a real swamp monster shows up. A ScoobyDoobyDoors chase scene ensues before the swamp monster is actually revealed to be Creator/HughLaurie.
23* VideoWill: Carter has one, and he planned for a variety of scenarios referring to different ways he may've died. Carter's lawyer eventually fast-fowards over this material to get to the important details.
24* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Peter's biggest fear is revealed to be swamp monsters.

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