"What's this? You guys running a day care?"
A Plot: Corner Gas has an unwanted visitor: a mouse. Oscar makes it his personal mission to capture and kill it, but Davis tags along to try to convince him to do the humane thing and let the mouse free.
B Plot: Wanda injures her back, and both Emma and Karen have suggestions to help her. The two bicker back and forth about what method is better, Karen with physiotherapy and Emma with a home remedy. Unfortunately for Wanda both ideas actually make her back worse.
C Plot: When Lacey is confused by Hank and Brent claiming they've never heard of Trivial Pursuit, they admit they're actually playing a game where they get people to believe a ridiculous lie. Annoyed, Lacey tries her hand at the game to get them back, but doesn't seem to grasp the concept.
Tropes referenced:
- And You Thought It Was a Game: After being told by Lacey and Wanda that Wanda's back still hurts, Brent and Hank don't believe it, and decide to mess with Wanda. It's only after swinging Wanda around by her arms and legs that Lacey sees them and scolds them for thinking it was part of their lying game, though miraculously, it actually fixes her back.
- Ask a Stupid Question...:Karen: [seeing Wanda laying her head on the counter and moaning] Hey Wanda, you okay?
Wanda: Oh yeah. I find it relaxing to lay my face on a counter and groan like a harp seal.
Karen: Harp seals don't groan. Harp seals harp. - Blatant Lies:
- Lacey's attempts to play the game end up this way. She claims she can't serve vanilla ice cream because she's deathly allergic, but Brent says he saw her eating it the day before and Hank even points to a guy eating ice cream at the counter that very second.
- After messing around with Wanda coincidentally fixes her back, Brent starts to claim that he knew it would because he trained with Tibetan monks, but Lacey tell him to shut up.
- Brick Joke: When Davis is explaining his love for animals, he mentions nursing an owl named Hootie back to health. Later, when the mouse is caught and is released into the field, Hootie swoops down and takes it as prey.
- Cassandra Truth:
- Wanda doesn't believe Davis and Oscar's claims that there's a mouse in Corner Gas until she's left on the floor with her injured back and the mouse climbs up on (and pees on) her.
- Wanda keeps insisting her back is better, mainly to deter further attempts at Comically Inept Healing, so much that Brent and Hank are completely unconvinced when she finally admits she's still in pain.
- Comically Inept Healing: Both Karen and Emma's back remedies make Wanda's back hurt more, though they each blame the other for the failures.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Lacey greatly fails in her attempts to play Hank and Brent's game. The point is to make someone believe a lie for a long time, whereas she reveals her lies immediately and acts like she won the game.
- This conversation when Karen sees Trivial Pursuit on the Ruby counter:Karen: I have the Genius Edition at home.
Lacey: It's "Genus". There's no 'I'.
Karen: There's an 'I' in "Genius".
- Crying Wolf: When Lacey realizes Wanda's actually in pain and tries to get Brent and Hank to prevent anyone else from messing with her while she gets a doctor, they think it's another of Lacey's Blatant Lies and decide to mess with Wanda.
- Flashback Cut: Wanda claims she hurt her back because Brent asked her to stack wiper fluid. Cue a flashback of Brent asking her, but Wanda claiming she's busy while trying to open up a lounge chair in order to relax and shirk work, hurting her back in the process.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After causing Wanda pain with their Comically Inept Healing, Karen and Emma are still insistent that their cures work and want to rub it in the other's face, so Karen tries cracking Davis' back (injuring her own back in the process) and Emma uses paste on her wrist to relieve arthritis pains (giving herself burn marks).
- Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Wanda does this to both Karen and Emma, claiming to each one separately that their method helped her back, when in actuality neither did. This falls apart almost immediately, as Karen and Emma try to brag to each other.
- Mondegreen Gag:Davis: [standing outside the Corner Gas window holding up Oscar's mouse traps] I'm confiscating these.
Oscar: You've gone skating with thieves? - No Sympathy: When Emma's back paste makes Wanda turn completely red and her skin burn like fire, Emma simply says "glad that's not me".
- Obfuscating Stupidity: This is the whole point of Brent and Hank's game "Gullibaloney". You make up a ridiculous lie, like an adult having gone through their whole life never having heard of an immensely popular board game like Trivial Pursuit, and you try to get someone to believe it.
- Oblivious Mockery: Lacey, finding out Wanda's back is hurt, after Wanda has already taken treatments from Karen and Emma:Lacey: I won't touch you, then. People should not mess around with someone who's back is out. That's just stupid.
Wanda: Oh, you're telling me.
Lacey: Because anyone who would let an untrained person try and fix her back is just a brainless moron. A stupid, idiotic bonehead.
Wanda: Okay, you made your point. - Parenthetical Swearing:Oscar: What are you, some kind of animal lover?
Davis: Why? Is that a bad thing?
Oscar: It is when you say it like this: Animal lover?
Davis: You're right. That does sound bad. - Pun-Based Title: Based on the tennis phrase "game, set and match".
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: This is Davis's opinion of mice, which is why he doesn't want Oscar to kill the one in Corner Gas.
- Seven Minute Lull: While at the bar having drinks with Brent, Hank laments the fact that they've run out of things to say.
- Shout-Out:
- When Oscar first sees the mouse and claims it's the biggest he's ever seen, Brent asks if it wore boxing gloves and bounced, saying the mistake's happened before. When Oscar claims he's going to catch it, he even adds an "Oh, father", doing an impression of Sylvester Jr..
- The "mousetrap" Oscar buys at a garage sale, pictured above, is clearly a game of Mouse Trap (1963).
- Toilet Humour: When Brent reveals the game is called Gullibaloney:Hank: I thought we were calling it "Gulli-Bull", as in "Bull"- [makes a move and noise like he's taking a dump].
