Stan tries walking a mile in Roger's 800 pairs of shoes.
When Roger develops a tumor, he has Stan take over his personas until he recuperates. Unfortunately, Stan doesn't take his roles seriously, leaving the city in utter chaos. Meanwhile, Steve joins his school's swing jazz club.
Tropes:
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: "Love" is a strong word, but Stan does show concern for Roger's health when he notices an odd bump on his head.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- Principal Lewis says that he has a zero-tolerance policy...for not taking drugs.
- One of the personas Stan plays is a guy who talks about baseball cards in a store. He's surprised to find he doesn't actually work there but is some creep.
- The rollerblade cobbler is trying to raise money for his wife's surgery. It initially sounds like she has a serious illness, but then it's revealed she's trying to get breast enhancement surgery.
- Big Damn Heroes: Rogu, or rather, "Rogu Spanish," saves Roger from being killed by Stan while the latter is dressed as Ricky Spanish.
- Board to Death: As Ricky Spanish, Stan kills the heads of the local Italian, Russian, and Irish mobs with a smoke bomb. It spells out the words "Licky Anus", which he laments that it was supposed to say "Ricky Spanish".
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The personas that Roger introduces at the beginning are a poorly-reviewed eBay seller, a tall fifth grader, a Puerto Rican hand model, and a serial killer.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Klaus does this after it's revealed that Ricky Spanish has been unleashed.Klaus: That's right, bitches! Ricky Spanish is back! And it's all thanks to Klaus! Who's your least favorite character now, Reddit?
- Cain and Abel: Ricky Spanish turns out to be the Cain to none other than Jeannie Gold's Abel.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Subverted. Despite Jazzma Attack being hopped up on everything from meth to testosterone supplements, they actually win the competition.
- Chekhov's Gun: Roger tells Stan to stay out of his wardrobe because it contains, among other things, retired characters. One of those characters is Ricky Spanish (Ricky Spanish).
- Connected All Along: Played for Laughs. This episode reveals that Roger's personas Jeannie Gold and Ricky Spanish are not only mortal enemies, but siblings. Klaus gasps, stating "So many things make sense!"
- Definitely Just a Cold: Stan notices a small bump on Roger's head, which he insists is just an ingrown hair. It gets progressively bigger until it becomes a massive tumor hanging out of his head that forces them to take him to Dr. Kalgary.
- Disaster Dominoes: Because Stan doesn't appear as one of Roger's personas, a local rollerblade cobbler is unable to get the money for his wife's breast enhancement surgery. His son tries to rob a store but ends up killing the shopkeeper. The Italians, who were running protection for the store, suspect it was the Russians and assassinate their head with a car bomb. The Russians suspect it was the Irish and assassinate their leader with a phone bomb. By the time Stan wakes up to sing "Good Morning, USA!", all of Langely Falls has descended into violence.
- Dissonant Serenity: Even as Langley Falls has collapsed into anarchy, Roger is completely calm from his time at the spa, telling Francine that he fully expected this to happen.
- Hypocritical Humor: Dr. Kalgary tells Roger that he needs total rest and relaxation for several days to recover, while shouting at him to rest and relax.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Stan spends the first act calling Roger's personas meaningless and that he's just spending his time goofing off. But when he offers to help Roger do anything so he can recover, Roger tells him he needs Stan to take over his personas. Francine lampshades how Stan has to do something he hates.
- The Mafia: One of Roger's personas is an Italian gangster named Johnny Lasagna.
- Mini-Me: This episode introduces Rogu, who developed from Roger's tumor and is later used to take on some of his persona work.
- My God, What Have I Done?: The son of the rollerblade cobbler freaks out when he shoots the liquor store owner.
- Not Helping Your Case: Roger objects to Stan's claim that all he does with his personas is goof off, then says one of his personas is named "Olladouis Goofoff."
- Not Hyperbole: Roger says the town would "fall apart without him." And it does, thanks to Stan not taking his rollerblades in for repair and then tempering the response of the Italian mafia by playing their leader.
- Oh, Crap!: Roger when he realizes that Stan has taken out his Ricky Spanish costume.
- Opening Shout-Out:
- Stan berates Roger for ruining his "good morning song."
- Midway through the episode, Stan gets out of bed to sing his "good morning song" when he realizes that the city has descended into anarchy because he failed to appear as one of Roger's personas. He is on the verge of tears as he tries singing "Good morning, USA."
- Pass the Popcorn:
- Hayley eats her cereal while watching the town burning.(Someone blows up a house with a rocket launcher)Hayley: Oh, sick! No way!
- Klaus munches on some popcorn as Jeannie Gold and Ricky Spanish run towards each other.
- Hayley eats her cereal while watching the town burning.
- Running Gag: Several times, Roger's personas are mentioned as being incontinent.
- Schedule Fanatic: Roger has an extremely packed schedule of personas that he has to appear as at specific times all day. It eventually wears him out and causes him to grow a tumor that threatens to kill him.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Stan quickly gets fed up with having to be Roger's personas and quits without getting to half the things on his list.
- Seen It All: Francine's reaction to Greg's reporting of the mob war being caused by "a botched robbery committed by the desperate son of a humble rollerblade cobbler" indicates she's not fazed by any of the chaos caused by Roger's personas.Francine: Tale as old as time.
- Serious Business:
- Stan considers his "good morning song" to be the most important part of his morning routine, as it gives him the energy to start the day with gusto, zest, and, most importantly of course, verve.
- All members of Jazzma Attack take performance enhancing drugs to win the contest.
- Shout-Out:
- Roger's Italian mobster persona, Johnny Lasagna, has a similar hairstyle and name to Paulie Walnuts from The Sopranos. Amusingly, Tony Sirico voices one of the Italian mobsters.
- Stan's surprise appearance at the Mafia meeting is a reference to the Joker's in The Dark Knight.
- Special Edition Title: During the opening titles, Stan sings "Oh boy, it's swell to say..." but Roger doesn't pop out as he always does. He weakly sings the lyric again, then stops the car and looks for Roger in the backseat, cursing him for disrupting his morning routine. Dick then drives past Stan and crashes into the flagpole instead, hitting it with enough force that he is thrown through his windshield. The episode then immediately picks up from there by having Stan looking everywhere for Roger to make sure he's okay.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: After realizing that Stan isn't dead after Rogu slit the throat of the alien skin suit, Roger strips off the Ricky Spanish costume and the skin suit, leaving Stan naked. Stan says that he had to take the skin suit off because the costume overrode it as well, which Roger shrugs at while admiring Stan's package.
- Toilet Humor: A lot of Roger's personas are incontinent including, as it's revealed, Jeannie Gold.
- What Would X Do?: One of the Italian mobsters is hesitant to hit back at the Russians, saying their boss, Johnny Lasagna, wouldn't do that. Another replies that Johnny Lasagna isn't here to tell them not to.
- Who Writes This Crap?!: Stan gets fed up with doing personas when he sees that one of them is an "incontinent jai alai instructor."
- X-Ray Vision: Billy says he doesn't have it when asked why he didn't put more La Croix in the refrigerator, but according to Dr. Kalgary, he does have it.Dr. Kalgary: Billy, sometimes you just make me SO MAD!!!
