Louis tries to play matchmaker for Grandma and her English teacher Bernard (from It's a Plastic Pumpkin, Louis Huang), and Grandma offers to cook the entire Thanksgiving meal to show her appreciation, while Jessica wants to take advantage of Grandma's generosity to borrow her wheelchair and get a good parking spot for Black Friday sales. Evan tries to prove he is mature, only to be mentally scarred when Eddie convinces him to see I Know What You Did Last Summer.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: After a pep talk from Grandma, Evan tells Eddie and Emery that if they don't cancel their post-Thanksgiving plans and take him shopping, he's going to show Jessica the ticket stub he saved and tell her they made him see an R-rated movie. When Emery calls it blackmail, Evan replies "If putting a label on it helps you swallow it, then sure."
- Description Cut: The episode opens with Louis and Jessica getting excited over Thanksgiving, a cut ahead to the day after Thanksgiving to show it was a complete disaster, and then a rewind back to Thanksgiving after the opening title card to explain How We Got Here.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: Evan ends up utterly traumatized after the Barney the Dinosaur balloon pops during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (inspired by real events
). - What Did I Do Last Night?: In The Tag, Honey approaches Jessica and Grandma drinking "the hair of the dog", with no recollection of her own Thanksgiving and hoping she visited them at some point so they can help her understand why Marvin's refusing to talk to her.
