The kids turn the basement into an underground betting parlor while Bob is trying to get a minor cut stitched up.
The Kids Run the Tropes:
- Afraid of Blood: Bob nearly faints at the sight of his own blood. Justified since it's all but stated he's a hemophiliac—if he sees any blood it's not a good sign.
- Bait-and-Switch: Upon finding that the kids are running an unlicensed, underaged casino, Mr. Fischoeder tells the kids that they are in big trouble... because he's a gambling man.
- Batman Gambit: Louise's plan to defeat Mr. Fischoeder in rock-paper-scissors relies on Mr. Fischoeder assuming Bob can't spread his stitched-up fingers to play scissors, which logically means Mr. Fischoeder himself will play paper because he thinks he can't lose by doing so. Tina worries that Mr. Fischoeder has accounted for this, but Louise's prediction turns out to be entirely accurate.
- Bland-Name Product: Two of the board games used in the Meat Grinder—Torpedo and Surgery Sam—are clear rip-offs of real board games (Battleship and Operation respectively).
- Bouncer: Zeke is hired to guard the door at the casino and deal with cheating customers.
- Call-Back:
- After Louise's Running Gag of changing the Burger of the Day was scrapped in the second episode because thinking of the base Burger of the Day was hard enough, it temporarily comes back for this episode as she helms the restaurant in Bob's absence, renaming the "Top Bun Burger" to the "Top Butt Burger".
- The kids name their basement casino the "Meat Grinder". In the pilot episode, Louise tells Hugo that the basement is where her parents grind the meat.
- Expy: Completing the Bland-Name Product, Surgery Sam from the titular game is a clear one to Cavity Sam from Operation.
- Extreme Doormat: Tina tries to insist she's still in charge as Louise opens the casino. Emphasis on tries.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: During the period of build-up to Bob cutting his hand, the camera keeps focusing on him cutting a tomato with his knife as he's distracted by his family's antics in the dining area.
- Funny Background Event: When Bob's wound opens in the car, the driver behind him can be seen with an understandably horrified look on his face.
- Girl Group: Gene starts one named the Cutie Patooties. He originally just acts as their manager, but when the others walk out on him he's forced to take the stage himself.
- High-Pressure Blood: When Bob pokes at his stitches, it sprays like a fountain, much to the horror of himself, Linda, and the guy driving behind them.
- Hustler: Mr. Fischoder loses a few hundred at the Surgery Sam game, then proceeds to break the bank playing Rock Paper Scissors.
- I Know You Know I Know: Tina expresses worry that in the big "double-or-nothing" Rock Paper Scissors game, Fischoeder might know that they're bluffing, and might even know that they know that he knows. Gene shuts her up before she overthinks it any further. It later turns out that Fischoeder was at least aware of the possibility, but assumed Bob was too cowardly to actually follow through on it.
- Illegal Gambling Den: The Meat Grinder, hosted in the basement of Bob's Burgers. Mr. Fischoeder refers to it as an underground casino that's actually underground.
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: The kids' disastrous attempt to run the restaurant ends up scaring off their sole customer, a lady sailor who excuses herself with "I... think I left the meter running." When Gene points out she just got off the boat, the customer replies it's a "boat meter".
- Insistent Terminology: Everyone but Bob seems to call the area between the fingers the "Fingercrotch"note .
- The Intern: When Bob goes in to get stitches, he gets stuck with a rookie doctor who clearly has no idea what he's doing. Bob quite understandably asks for another doctor.
- Irony: The one member of the Cutie Patooties that Gene completely dismisses (to the point of naming her Girl #3 and making her the designated backup singer) is the only one with any actual musical talent.
- Never My Fault: Surprisingly averted; Louise quickly owns up to Mr. Fischoeder about being the casino's ringleader.
- Noodle Incident: Both courtesy of Mr. Fischoeder.
- He was apparently married for a week. It taught him a lesson about learning to walk away.
- He once lost $30,000 on a horse. Not because he bet on horse racing, though—he literally put $30,000 on a horse that promptly ran away.
- Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Even if Bob is a hemophiliac, the amount of blood and the pressure at which it sprays from such an extremely small cut is ridiculously exaggerated, considering the cut didn't even start bleeding right away originally.
- Sadistic Choice:
- "You can keep your money. Or you can keep your nurple. But you can't keep both."
- Bob is later faced with one—use scissors in rock-paper-scissors at the cost of painfully ripping open his stitches, or owe Mr. Fischoeder thousands of dollars. He chooses the former.
- Shout-Out: The Burger of the Day is the "Top Bun Burger". Louise later changes it to the "Top Butt Burger".
- Skewed Priorities: Linda considers the worst part of Bob's probable hemophilia its grossness, not the fact that Bob could bleed out.
- Sudden Musical Ending: The Stinger features Linda singing a show-tune (a parody of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes") about the events of the episode over the credits.
- Too Dumb to Live: In-universe; Mr. Fischoeder wonders aloud why Surgery Sam would swallow an entire car.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Gene puts on one of the Cutie Patootie outfits after the three original Cutie Patooties walk out on him. He's still wearing it when Bob and Linda get home.
- Worst Aid: The doctor intern says that Bob is his first patient without having a supervising doctor and it shows: he has no idea whatsoever how to stitch wounds and starts watching a video online to figure it out, he lies about there being no nurses available because he's too embarrassed to admit he doesn't know how to, the end result looks ridiculously haphazard and it snaps from even the slightest pressure, forcing Bob to turn back and get the wound re-stitched before he even gets back home.
- Worthy Opponent: Mr. Fischoeder seems genuinely impressed that Bob threw scissors with his stitched-up hand, having assumed he was too much of a wuss to do it.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: As Linda implies and is heavily supported throughout the episode, it seems that Bob is a hemophiliac, making even the most minor wound a bleeding mess that requires stitches.Linda: He can't clot to save his life. He bleeds forever. It's gross.
