"This may not be my box."
A Plot: Fitzy has plans to start a call center. Emma, who was ridiculed earlier for being a homemaker, decides to start working there. But Davis (who worries about how it'll affect the community) and Hank (who had a bad experience with one in the past) work together to try and stop it by calling as many people as possible.
B Plot: Wanda attends a funeral and runs into Oscar, revealing to him that she didn't really know the deceased, and is just there to take time off of work and dine on free sandwiches. When Emma becomes too busy with the call center to make him food, Oscar decides to take Wanda to more funerals and learn how to mooch like she does. Wanda's worried that he'll ruin her scheme and attempts to rat him out to Fitzy's grandma, only to get caught herself.
C Plot: Lacey asks Karen to assist her with moving a dresser, but Karen notices a box in Lacey's house that's never been opened and becomes obsessed over it, getting Brent wrapped up in the issue as well.
Tropes referenced:
- Accidental Misnaming:Jed's Widow: Thank you so much for coming.
Wanda: Corner Gas sends its condolences. Jeff was one of our favorite customers.
Jed's Widow: Jed.
Wanda: Very sad. - Comically Missing the Point: Brent opens the box he and Karen came away with after the Satchel Switcheroo below.Brent: Socks? Why would someone be secretive about socks?
Karen: Those are my socks.
Brent: How'd she get your socks? Geez, you were right to be nosy. - Corrupt Cop: Karen has a loose definition of breaking and entering Lacey's house to look in the box.Karen: I wouldn't be breaking in. She did invite me the other day.
Brent: That's the rule for vampires, not cops. - Crocodile Tears: A variation, in that Wanda teaches Oscar to look pensively at his shoes in order to fake mourning.
- For Inconvenience, Press "1": The reason Hank is so against a call center is because he once tried to call a hotline for a jar of peanut butter and got so confused by the selections he ended up freaking out.
- Imagine Spot:
- Both Karen and Brent imagine what's in Lacey's mystery box. Karen pictures a smaller box, while Brent assumes a fully-cooked turkey.
- One of Hank's ideas to petition against the call center is to shoot people with a tranquilizer dart and make them sign the petition while unconscious.Davis: That might be illegal.
- Implausible Deniability:
- Wanda tries this when she's caught with tuna salad in her coat pockets, to no success.
- Lacey claims she wasn't sure whether or not needing help moving her dresser would be considered a police emergency. It was really just a ploy to get Karen to come to her house and help move it.
- Instantly Proven Wrong:Oscar: You knew Jed?
Wanda: Well of course. We played softball together.
Oscar: He's been in a wheelchair for the last 15 years.
Wanda: That's why we called him "Wheelie". - Mondegreen Gag:Fitzy: I'm hoping all municipal employees can help spread the word about bringing a call center to Dog River.
Hank: [overhearing] You wanna make us a dog center? That's the worst idea I've ever heard!
Davis: That's the worst idea you misheard. - Refuge in Audacity: The whole funeral plot fits:Oscar: We got a good thing going here.
Wanda: No, it's over. Some people died and we had a few laughs, and snacks. Now it's time to move on. - Satchel Switcheroo: Brent and Karen attempt this to find out what's in Lacey's box, but Lacey immediately sees through the ruse and shuffles them around so much that they leave with their original package. It eventually turns out that Lacey's box got mixed up with the holiday decorations of someone else.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Hank and Davis want to petition against the call center because they believe people will be annoyed by the phone calls. So they try to get people to sign the petition by... annoying them with phone calls. Ultimately subverted because the people get annoyed by the calling so much that they fear the call center will be the same and turn against it, anyway.
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Lacey and Karen are rather condescending and dismissive of Emma for comparing her housework and motherly duties to their jobs. This causes Emma to take the call center job.
- That's What She Said: Hank tried and fails to use the expression in the episode's opening, as the "she" in his mind isn't fond of using Double Entendres. It becomes a Brick Joke later on when Karen uses the phrase literally (in reference to something Lacey actually said) and Brent remarks that no one seems to know how to use the joke properly.
- Title Drop: Karen wants to know what's inside a box by taking it out, and Oscar decides to think "outside the box" when Wanda doesn't want to bring him to another funeral for free food, by attending the birthday party of Wanda's kid to get free cake.
- The Un-Reveal: Lacey's actual box is with someone who's living in Scotland and is equally insistent on not opening things when asked to.
- Waxing Lyrical: Upon seeing that the box contains a Christmas wreath that says "Peace On Earth", Brent notes "'Peace On Earth' was all it said", lyrics from the song "One Tin Soldier" by Canadian pop group The Original Caste.
