Nicole struggles to be honest with her father. Jessica and Louis coach opposing softball teams in a tournament.
- Baseball Episode: The episode focuses on Louis organizing an amateur softball team out of the Cattleman's Ranch employees, and facing off against a rival team that Jessica commands leadership of.
- The Bet: Matthew believes that the softball team is an unnecessary expense when he first learns about it, and tells Louis that he'll have to disband it if they don't win the game against Jessica (so he can justify it as promoting the business). However, once Matthew ends up a part of the team and is directly a part of the comradery, he changes his mind and calls the bet off.
- Boomerang Bigot: According to Honey, when she originally dated Marvin, she had to hide it from her parents because he was white. When Jessica points out the obvious, that Honey's also white, she claims her parents had high expectations.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Nicole had attempted to reveal her sexuality to Marvin in the past, but chickened out in the end every time, accidentally claiming other things like being a Wiccan or wanting a guitar.
- Coming-Out Story: The episode begins with Nicole finally coming out to her mother, and a significant plot is her struggling with whether or not to tell Marvin as well.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: At the end of the softball game, Cattleman's Ranch has one point, compared to the Denim Turtle's nineteen.
- Drench Celebration: At the end of the game, when Matthew calls off The Bet and says the team can stay, he and Louis are drenched in celebration, ruining the jersey that Eddie had spent the whole episode trying to keep clean.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Eddie spends the entire episode trying to keep the customized softball jersey he ordered clean, even faking a twisted ankle to prevent it getting dirty during the game. It seems like it'll be safe even once it's taken from him, as his replacement on the team is the very un-athletic Matthew Chestnut, but it's caught in the Drench Celebration at the end of the game and completely wrecked.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Matthew Chestnut is completely against the idea of a Cattleman's Ranch softball team at first, and when he's drafted into the team, Louis thinks he's purposely sabotaging things so Louis will lose the bet. When confronted, however, Matthew admits that he was against it because he's genuinely a poor athlete that was always excluded from such events as a kid, and that being a part of Louis' team has completely changed his outlook on it.
- Innocently Insensitive: When Marvin (who's on Louis' team due to Cattleman's being short on members) notices they're playing against the Denim Turtle lesbian bar (which Nicole volunteered to play for), he decides to make a "playing for the other team" pun without realizing that Nicole's been hiding her sexuality. After Jessica's Saying Too Much moment, he uses the last play of the game to explain that he doesn't actually have anything against lesbians, but couldn't resist making the pun, and that he accepts Nicole for who she genuinely is.
- Internal Reveal: Jessica finally learns that her favorite bar, the Denim Turtle, is actually a lesbian bar when Nicole uses it to confess her sexuality to Honey. In fact, before that moment, she had assumed that only men could be gay.
- It's All About Me: When Louis tells his family that he'll need to work hard to ensure the victory of Cattleman's Ranch's softball team, Jessica says that he doesn't need to involve her...but when he says he wasn't planning to involve her, she takes it as him doubting her abilities, and immediately decides to manage a rival softball team out of spite before she even learns that the "squares" in the game are actually called "bases".
- Joke of the Butt: The jersey that Eddie customized and wants to keep pristine? It's labeled "BOOTYMAN", with the number "00" because it looks like butt cheeks.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Jessica doesn't even know the term "bases" when she's outraged that Louis didn't immediately want her help managing his team. This leads her to study a ton of baseball trivia before commandeering the Denim Turtles team, and forcibly insert it in as many speeches as she can...but the trope still applies due to Jessica now managing a team of lesbians without even knowing what a "pride flag" is.
- Poor Communication Kills: After Marvin's Innocently Insensitive moment, Nicole tells Jessica that she'll wait to confess her sexuality that evening, instead of during the game as they had planned. However, she ends up chickening out and lying that she's just stressed about where Jessica's fielding her on the team, which leads to Marvin confronting Jessica about Nicole's "position" and Jessica accidentally outing her when she assumes Marvin's asking her about Nicole's sexuality. Later, they spot Marvin acting upset, but it later turns out he was just upset with himself being Innocently Insensitive instead of at Nicole.
- Pungeon Master: Marvin's desire to be one causes him to be Innocently Insensitive. He even waits until the last play of the game to clear things up just so he can tag Nicole with the ball and say she's "Out".
- Saying Too Much: When Marvin confronts Jessica about Nicole's "position", Jessica says she has no problem with Nicole being gay, but Marvin was actually referring to Nicole's position on the softball field. Jessica spends the next few scenes feeling guilty and unworthy of being a manager for outing her, but the bartender from the Denim Turtle boosts her spirit back up, reminds her that managers have to stick it out through tough moments, and assures her that she shouldn't feel horrible for an accident.
- Shout-Out: When Jessica and Honey are drinking at Jessica's favorite bar and spot Nicole, who initially claims she's there for the alcohol to avoid mentioning her sexuality, Jessica says she's seen enough Lifetime movies to know this'll end with Nicole killing Honey and Marvin for the keys to the liquor cabinet.
- Underdogs Never Lose: Subverted: the Denim Turtles have never lost a game, and The Bet between Louis and Matthew would lead to Cattleman's persevering in the end in a traditional take on this Trope. But in the end, the Denim Turtles crush them and Matthew instead calls the bet off due to newfound friendship.
