Hayley becomes a bartender. Meanwhile, Klaus tries to show Das Boot to Steve and Snot, but gets sidetracked having to explain various German cultural references.
Tropes:
- Animated Actor: The episode ends with a PSA from Nicholas Vanderbilt and Kate Fagan, the in-universe actors who play Stan and Hayley.
- Artistic License: Steve and Snot ask why the Germans and Americans were fighting each other during World War II. Das Boot is actually set right before the Americans joined the war. The enemy that the U-96 crew fight are the British.
- Blatant Lies: Klaus claiming no one knows the reason people fought in World War II. This is for a gag because the people he's saying this to include Snot, descended from survivors.
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: The boys ends up enduring days of Klaus' stories because they keep asking questions about German cultural references they don't get.
- Fake American: In-Universe, Hayley's Animated Actor is Australian.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Stan was right to call out Hayley for being a lazy slouch who doesn't even bother to care for herself.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: At the end of the episode, Klaus has told enough German fairy tales for Steve, Snot, and the stoner video store clerk to fully appreciate and enjoy Das Boot. Then Steve and Snot start to wonder one last thing: why was everyone fighting in World War II? Klaus just gives up and says that nobody knows.
- Lazy Bum: Hayley at the start of the episode. Stan calls her out on it.Stan: You don't make food, you sleep all day, you barely form complete sentences!
Hayley: What are you talkin' me at? - Life-or-Limb Decision: Parodied and played for laughs. When the CIA sends agents to kill Hayley, one of them gets his foot stuck to the ground with maple syrup. Another agent tells him to "leave it", so he nonchalantly shoots his leg off and hops away.
- Offscreen Inertia: Klaus ends up spending so much time telling German fairy tales, and other German fairy tales to explain those fairy tales, that Steve and Snot end up missing school.
- Serious Business: Klaus refuses to let the boys watch Das Boot until they fully understand all its German cultural references down to the root.
- Shout-Out: Klaus's subplot has him trying to show the German war film Das Boot to Steve and Snot.Klaus: This is the greatest German movie of all time...if you don't count the Hindenburg footage.
- Suddenly Shouting: Klaus, when Steve and Snot question him at the beginning of the first story.[Steve and Snot appear in a fairy tale with medieval German-style artwork as Klaus narrates]
Klaus: Das Madchen was taking her beloved Schnauzer for a walk one day when she came across a little person toiling in the fields.
Steve: Why am I the little girl?
Snot: And why am I the little person?
Klaus: BECAUSE GERMAN KINDER DO WHAT THEY'RE TOLD! NOW SHUT UP AND LISTEN! - This Is Gonna Suck: When Klaus finishes the story of the Frog King and the Bürgermeister, he mentions the word "Liebenspiel."Snot: I know I'm gonna regret this, but what exactly is "Liebenspiel"?
