Klaus gets transferred into the navigation system of Stan's car when Stan refuses to pay for life-saving surgery; Steve and his friends prank Roger, who then terrorizes them for revenge.
This episode includes examples of:
- Accidental Hero: While chasing Steve, Snot, and Toshi, Roger runs over the Zagnut thief Stan and Klaus were driving after, unknowingly helping them catch him.
- All Bikers are Hells Angels: The “Zagnut Boys”, a biker gang that steals cars and candy bars.
- Asinine Alternate Activity:Klaus: Maybe the CIA could put me into, like, a super strong cyborg, with both male and female genitalia!Stan: Oh! Or that crank flashlight radio in the disaster kit under the garage sink!
- Black Comedy: When one of the thieves Stan and Klaus are chasing gets slammed particularly hard with the car, they’re worried that they killed him. The thief weakly tells them that he’s still alive and Klaus asks if they should finish him off. However, Stan says they shouldn’t play god and they drive away…pulling the thief’s body that’s stuck underneath the car.
- Brain Uploading: Klaus transfers his brain into Stan’s car in order to avoid dying of Fish Cough.
- Brick Joke: When Klaus leaves him stranded in the woods, Stan pleads with him, saying it’s “cougar country” out there. Later the scene cuts back to Stan standing next to a pile of dead cougars that he presumably killed with his bare hands in an Offscreen Moment of Awesome.
- Burger Fool: In this episode, Roger is seen working at D’el Taco - a Mexican fast food restaurant.
- Comically Small Bribe: Stan tries to get the vet to offer him alternatives to surgery for Klaus by bribing him with a $5 bill.
- Cutting Back to Reality: After Roger hits Barry with his car, it looks at first like Barry got saved from falling off the overpass by a giant hawk. He’s seen riding the hawk towards a volcano to complete some kind of fantasy quest. However, the scene then cuts back to reality where Barry is flung over the guard rail and barely conscious.
- Drive-Thru Antics: Steve and his friends “prank” Roger at D’el Taco by walking through the drive thru and ordering four ice waters.
- Egging: Taking Roger’s suggestion, Steve and his friends throw eggs at cars driving underneath an overpass. Don’t worry though, they made sure to use pre-cracked eggs in order to not damage the cars’ windshields.
- Eye Cam: We see through Steve’s eyes as he wakes up to Roger sitting on his bed.
- Faking the Dead: Roger faked committing suicide by shooting a skull cap filled with hamburger meat and calamari in order to kill off Frank Trueblue so Stacy and her kids can be free of him.
- Fictional Counterpart: D’el Taco is one for the real life Del Taco.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: When Klaus’s coughing fit keeps interrupting his story, Roger, Hayley, and Francine try to finish it for him.Klaus: And these ruffians stole my… [coughing]Roger: Butt virginity?Klaus: No, my…[coughing]Hayley: Travel-size mouthwash?Francine: Butt virginity?
- Five-Finger Discount: As a crime-fighting duo, Stan and Klaus investigate a string of petty thefts involving Zagnut candy bars.
- Friendship Moment: Stan and Klaus actually bond with each other in this episode, to the point that Stan even refers to Klaus as his friend and sacrifices his truck for him.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Roger’s character Frank definitely has this.
- Incurable Cough of Death: Klaus’s “Fish Cough”, which has a 1% survival rate without treatment.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Steve says the group is safe on the overpass right before a very angry Roger reverses up onto it and then rams Barry with his car.
- Ironic Echo: At the beginning of the episode, when the vet tells them Klaus has only a 1% chance of surviving Fish Cough, Stan says he thinks those odds are great as a Powerball man. Klaus later uses those exact words against him when he leaves Stan stranded in the woods.Stan: Have you been writing down everything I say?!
- Laser-Guided Karma: Unimpressed by their drive-thru prank, Roger tells Steve and his friends to go throw eggs off the overpass. His car then gets hit by the eggs they throw as he’s driving down the highway.
- Shout-Out:
- Klaus compares him transferring himself into Stan’s truck to the 60s sitcom, My Mother the Car.
- The autonomous crime-fighting car concept parodies the basic plot of Knight Rider. The music that plays as Truck!Klaus drives is also evocative of the show’s soundtrack.
- One of the bikers has a tattoo of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
- Stargazing Scene: After a day of fighting crime, Stan and Klaus stargaze together, with Stan laying on the hood of the truck.
- Status Quo Is God: At the CIA, after Stan has saved Klaus, the scientist says he can transfer him into a variety of different, badass animals. Stan, however, chooses for Klaus to be transferred into the scientist’s goldfish Lab Pet.
- Suicide as Comedy: Roger, as Frank, takes his girlfriend Stacy’s white sauce pasta back to a restaurant kitchen because she had asked for red sauce. When the cooks tell him they’re out of red sauce, Frank decides to make some of his own by blowing out his brains onto the plate of pasta. It turns out, however, to have all been an elaborate ruse.
- Tears of Fear: Roger finally catches up to Steve, Snot, and Toshi huddled together in an alley and sobbing out of pure fear.
- Translation: "Yes": Klaus, as Stan’s truck, lets off a long series of honks and then tells Stan, “That’s how we say ‘yes’ in truck language!”
- Wrong Side of the Tracks: Stan and Truck!Klaus go to Lanston to look for crimes and play vigilante. Stan even calls the city this verbatim.
