Gayle prepares to host an artists' workshop, and Linda reluctantly offers to help in order to support her sister. Meanwhile, Gene and Louise enlist help in finding a lost cat for the reward money.
Tropey Rotten Scoundrels:
- All for Nothing: After all the trouble the kids go through to catch the cat, when they call the owner for the reward, they learn the cat had already been returned and they simply caught a similar-looking cat.
- Big Sister Instinct: Yet again, Linda plays this role to Gayle, though she realizes she didn't need to this time.
- Call-Back: Louise shows Gayle the lost cat flyer and asks if she took it, to which Gayle replies that she didn't but definitely would have. In "Turkey in a Can," it was shown that she took Mr. Business from a porch, thinking he was a stray.
- Caustic Critic: Linda finds out that Annie, the only one to sign up to Gayle's art workshop, is an online reviewer who goes by "Annie-sassin", who gives scathing reviews. Afraid that she'll humilate Gayle, Linda confronts her, only it turns out that Annie was sincerely impressed by Gayle's uninhibitedness and wanted to learn art.
- Character Name Alias: So that Annie doesn't find out she's Gayle's sister, Linda uses the name Loni Anderson, so she can say "Not that one, the other one".
- Comically Missing the Point: Linda tells the kids to stop wasting ketchup because it doesn't grow on trees. When Bob points out that it sorta does because tomatoes grow on plants, Linda asks what that has to do with anything. Bob gives up trying to explain it.
- Continuity Nod:
- This is the first episode since Gayle's debut that focuses on her love of art.
- This isn't the first or even the second episode where Tina uses an alias that sounds quite similar to her original name (in this case, Lena).
- Dumbass Has a Point: While Linda was a bit paranoid about Annie coming to "Annie-sassinate" Gayle, Annie's track record kind of leaves only one conclusion when she shows up to the yurt.
- Eccentric Mentor: To call Gayle's teaching methods eccentric is generous. She doesn't let her students use paints at first, expecting them to start with blood; since no one is willing to shed blood to paint with, she suggests spit instead (and even brought a jar of her own just in case). For the final lesson, she has them go out in the woods and paint... while she stalks them wearing a cardboard box as "artistic block".
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Gayle claims to know all there is about art because she's listened to every audio book about art ever made.
- Naked Apron: Gayle asks her students to take off their clothes so they can put on their smocks (well, two smocks and one burlap sack) because that's how she wears them. They refuse and just wear them over their regular clothes; Gayle compromises and wears her smock over her clothes, but she does take off her skirt. (She's wearing Spanx underneath, though.)
- Noodle Incident: "And that's how I learned you should open a window when you're using turpentine."
- Not Me This Time: The kids ask Gayle if she was the one who took the missing cat. She tells them she didn't, but she would've taken it in a heartbeat if she saw it.
- Not So Above It All: Bob eventually asks for a cut of the reward. Louise offers 5%, which he accepts.
- Right Behind Me: Linda confronts Annie inside the yurt, and as it falls down upon them, she confesses what she really thinks of Gayle and her art (namely, that it's bad and her life is out of control). From outside, Tina tries to warn her that Gayle is there listening, but Linda realizes this too late.
- Shout-Out:
- The Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title is a reference to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
- The Exterminator Van in the opening is Mite Club Exterminators.
- Bob's Burger of the Day is The "This is What it Sounds Like When the Cloves Fry" Burger.
- Linda's "She's my sister. She's my daughter." breakdown at the end is a shoutout to Chinatown.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Gayle thinks that she knows more about art than anyone in the world. In reality, calling her the next da Vinci or van Gogh would be an insult to those artists.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Rudy tells Louise that instead of helping her; he and the Pesto twins could just find the cat and claim the reward for themselves. She then asks if him he brought a pencil to write the phone number, which he didn't.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Linda and Gayle repeatedly claim that they don't know each other, and Gayle eventually involves Tina in the mix. Naturally, the truth is exposed by the end.
- Talk About That Thing: Bob drops his rag and asks for Linda to help him pick it up so he can talk to her about Gayle under the counter. Later, Gene and Louise do the same to talk about finding the missing cat.
- Terrible Artist: Tina attends Gayle's art workshop so she can learn to draw a horse; Louise thought she was drawing people sideways. Judging by the drawing she makes at the end, she has improved somewhat.
- Tropey, Come Home: The B-plot involves a man who puts a missing cat poster offering a reward; which Gene and Louise want to find so they can collect the money, but since Linda and Tina are with Gayle and Bob needs their help at the restaurant. So they get Regular-Sized Rudy and the Pesto twins to find the cat for them.
