"No one is abandoning me. But, if you'd like to be the first, please feel free."
A Plot: Emma digs her old piano out of the basement and decides to start giving lessons again, taking on Davis and Wanda as students. Davis proves to be far more talented than Wanda, who finds this unacceptable.
B Plot: Lacey breaks her arm, forcing her to wear a cast. Hank decides to give Lacey advice stemming from his vast experience with being injured, explaining the three stages of others' reaction to injury. Meanwhile, Karen refuses to sign Lacey's cast for some reason.
C Plot: Oscar discovers the "ding" on the air pump at Corner Gas is broken and hounds Brent to fix it. When Brent replaces the pump with a brand new, coin-operated model, the townsfolk revolt against having to pay for air.
Tropes Referenced:
- Ambiguous Syntax: While Oscar is checking out the new air pump:Oscar: It's all shiny and chromey, thinks it's better than me.
Brent: Not better, just different.
Oscar: Take it back!
Brent: All right, I'm sorry I said that.
Oscar: I mean take this pump back. - Attention Whore: When Hank tells Lacey that the second stage of injury is Attention, she gets awfully excited.
- Bait-and-Switch: When Emma wants to ask Brent to try piano lessons again:Emma: Brent's older now. He might just give it another go.
[Cut to Brent on the phone at Corner Gas.]
Brent: Sure, what the heck. Sign me up!
Emma: [at the counter] Who was that?
Brent: I just got a new subscription to TV Guide. Now what were you and I talkin' about?
Emma: Piano lessons.
Brent: Ah, right. I think I'll pass. - Description Cut: In The Tag, after the outcry over having to pay for air, Brent states he'll find some way of paying for a new pump. Cut to Karen paying an overly inflated price for bottled water.
- Hourglass Plot: In The Tag, after a tire blows due to misusing the air pump and Hank crashes his truck into the piano, he's now the one in the cast trying to get people's attention.
- Imagine Spot: When Wanda asks Brent if she thinks Emma will "take her on" (she means as a student), Brent immediately imagines the two having a pro wrestling match.
- Insane Troll Logic: Oscar, when hearing Emma play her old piano:Emma: Anyway, it just has to be tuned.
Oscar: That's your solution to everything.
Emma: Piano tuning's my solution to everything? Do you even listen to yourself anymore? - Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Wanda is convinced she can take on piano exercises far beyond her talent and skill level.
- Lame Pun Reaction: The reason why Karen refuses to sign Lacey's cast. The last time she signed a cast, everyone ridiculed her for making a lame pun. The same thing happens again after she is finally convinced to sign Lacey's cast.
- Literal-Minded:Lacey: You wanna sign my cast?
Davis: All right!
Lacey: Lucky for you there's a little space near my wrist with your name on it.
Davis: [sad] Why would someone else sign my name?
Lacey: Uh... Oh, wow, look, I was wrong. Sign away. - Metaphorgotten: When Hank is explaining the transition from stage two to stage three:Hank: You see, right now you're soaring like an eagle. But sooner or later, the eagle gets shot in the neck or hits a power line and drops to the ground and everyone just kinda forgets about the eagle.
Lacey: Well, couldn't I just be a puppy?
Hank: [ominously] Oh, you don't wanna know what happens to the puppy. - Person as Verb:Hank: I thought Lacey would benefit from my years of experience, but she doesn't want my help at all. I feel so directionless, so purposeless, so...
Wanda: Hank-like?
Brent: Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. You're an adjective now. - Sarcastic Clapping: Name-dropped by Wanda after Davis plays:Davis: Thanks, Wanda.
Wanda: That was a sarcastic clap. The space between the claps means sarcasm. - Seinfeldian Conversation: Hank, Brent and Davis debate over whether the figure on a Wet Floor sign is dancing a jig or a kick-step. They also wonder whether or not it's possible for someone's legs to go "akimbo". Apparently they can, as the guys discover when Lacey slips and falls.
- Self-Serving Memory:Brent: So you just fixed the bell? You said you'd fix everything!
Oscar: I did not!
[Flashback to earlier scene]
Flashback!Oscar: I'll have everything fixed on the old one before you know it.
[Back to the present]
Oscar: That's not how it went!
[Flashback to the same scene except Oscar is now surrounded by hot cheerleaders]
Flashback!Oscar: I'll have everything fixed on the old one before you know it.
Cheerleaders: [cheering] WOOOOOO~!
[Back to the present]
Brent: That's almost the same thing.
Oscar: [grinning] But I tell it better! - "Shaggy Dog" Story: Wanda manipulates Davis into quitting piano lessons so she can spend more time practicing, which leads to Emma donating the piano to the Ruby, and Lacey then just giving the piano directly to Wanda...but then Hank accidentally crashes into the piano and obliterates it while it's being transferred.
- Shout-Out:
- In order to convince Davis to stop taking piano lessons so she can spend more time learning from Emma, Wanda uses a Star Wars comparison, saying he needs to ditch "Ben Kenobi" to find a Yoda.
- The episode title may be a sly reference to the infamous Shock Site “Two Girls, One Cup”; if that’s the case, this would be an uncharacteristically blue reference for the show to make.
- Stealth Insult:Hank: Don't feel bad. You'd be surprised how many times I've broken a bone doin' somethin' stupid.
Lacey: You'd be surprised at how unsurprised I am. - Verbal Backspace: When Wanda convinces Davis to stop taking lessons and tells Emma they'll be spending more time together, Emma donates the piano to the Ruby and says she's glad to get rid of it. When Lacey asks why, Emma says she meant that she's glad to be giving back to the community. Lacey notes that her tone sounded completely different the first time, to which Emma states that "the usual convention is to let that kind of thing go".
- Wrong Assumption: After Lacey reacts to hearing both Wanda and Davis are taking up piano:Wanda: It's just with him you sounded enthused, and with me you sounded kinda patronizing.
Lacey: I was actually patronizing both of you.
Wanda: Well, all right then.
