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A Plot: Karen, Wanda, and Lacey struggle to get noticed on a dating app. However, Davis is unusually popular on it.

B Plot: Oscar, Emma, and Hank try to figure out who purchased the abandoned lot in town, while Brent tries to be the voice of reason.


  • Bait-and-Switch: Hank admits that the empty lot is special to him, because it's where he experienced his first kiss...but as an observer, not a participant. Later, Brent admits he also had his first Kisses there...as in a whole bag of chocolate Kiss candy.
  • Batman Gambit: Emma eventually decides that the only way to prevent the lot from being developed by an outsider is to buy it herself. But Brent, who had tried to be the "voice of reason" and convince the town they were getting worked up over nothing, turns out to have been the one that originally bought the lot (for a similar reason at that), and ends up making a profit when she buys it from him (though the realtor took a huge cut that she tried hiding from Brent).
  • Catfishing: The girls' plans to get popular on the dating app eventually leads to them doing this, bragging that Karen's got a Purple Heart award (instead of a purple heart-shaped pillow) or that Lacey owns a café franchise.
  • The Cameo: Tantoo Cardinal, an Aboriginal Canadian actress, voices the realtor that sold the lot.
  • Double Entendre: The dating app is called "Ringer", with flirts referred to as "ding-dongs", and the girls complain when they don't receive any Dongs in their inboxes.
  • Double Standard: When Brent asks why Lacey doesn't contact a guy herself, she states that doing so would make her seem needy, while guys making the first move are confident go-getters.
  • Failed a Spot Check: At the end of the B Plot, the girls realize that the reason they hadn't been getting any messages through the app is because they never actually activated their accounts.
  • I Need to Go Iron My Dog: After the girls argue that they could each get more popular than the others by debasing themselves with sex appeal, Karen leaves to update her profile and says she needs to go water her...laundry.
  • Kavorka Man: The girls quickly find out that Davis has a profile on "Ringer", and are aghast to learn his inbox is already full with "Dings" from over fifty different women, including bikini models (which he won't date because he hates sand) and a former UN Employee that enjoys craft beer (he'd prefer someone employed).
  • Literal Metaphor: When the girls start lying on their profiles and wear more makeup than usual, Brent calls them out for Catfishing. At the end of the B Plot, the girls start receiving messages from guys that are holding actual fish (and one that turns out to NOT be an eel).
  • Literal-Minded: In the opening, the townsfolk speculate that whoever bought the lot will end up attracting miscreants like biker gangs, and Brent dismisses it as a "phantom biker problem". Hank interprets that as an impending ghost invasion.
  • Lost Food Grievance: When Brent sees that Lacey's licked a donut for her "sexier" profile picture but wasn't planning to actually eat it, he immediately calls dibs before it can be trashed.
  • Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: In The Tag, Emma tries to resell her lot, but the realtor claims that Emma's earlier protests have just been made known and devalued the property...and also, the realtor hates her after Emma tried to get Davis to interrogate her about the property earlier in the episode.
  • Protest by Obstruction: Anxious that the lot might have gone to someone undesirable (with no way to prove it), Hank and the Leroys set up a protest and try to block traffic, which doesn't work.

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