Reagan is responsible for planning her mother's wedding, and is desperate to keep Rand from finding out.
Tropes:
- Accent Interest: The main reason Reagan decides to bone Rafe Masters is that he has a British accent.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Despite Harold forcing her to drive to the edge of the Earth (actually the center) and making her miss her flight to Bora Bora, Reagan still begs him not to jump off into the abyss. When Harold does so anyway, Tamiko reassures her that he's in a better place now.
- Anything but That!: Reagan can't stand her parents constantly fighting when they're divorced, which was the reason why she tried to keep Rand Locked Out of the Loop regarding Tamiko's wedding. When Rand suggests the two remarry, the thought of them constantly bickering as a wedded couple is so horrifying that Reagan sabotages it on the spot.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: The Flat-Earthers believe in a Flat World, the Deep State and aliens, but they think the idea of a Hollow World and the various monsters within it (which are true In-Universe) are for gullible losers. Rand lampshades it.
- Rand: You were gullible before! Why can't you be gullible now?
- Asshole Victim:
- Despite Reagan invoking an Alas, Poor Villain moment out of Harold's death, it's hard to feel bad for him, given what a violent narcissistic Jerkass he was throughout the episode.
- Nobody mourns Jeff Bezos after he's unintentionally left on JR's yacht to be eaten by a kraken.
- The Bet: According to Rand, he started the Flat-Earth movement as part of a bet between him and J.R. to see if he could convince people of something incredibly stupid.
- Big "NO!": When Rand proposes to Tamiko that they get remarried at the end, Reagan freaks out and responds with one of these before ordering Glenn to drag Rand off.
- Bittersweet Ending: Reagan misses her vacation flight to Bora-Bora, Harold dives into the center of the Earth thinking it's Australia, and J.R.'s boat is rendered unsellable by the ruckus. On the other hand, she gets a one-night stand with an MI6 agent as a Consolation Prize, her parents have called a truce for the night, and J.R. lets the Kraken eat his boat to cash in on the insurance policy, unintentionally killing Jeff Bezos in the process.
- Bland-Name Product: Some of the Flat-Earthers have clothing with puns on popular logos and brand names, such as "Flatman" (instead of the Batman logo) and "No Sphere" (instead of No Fear).
- Calling the Old Man Out: Reagan does this all episode to both of her parents when they derail her plans to have a nice, quiet weekend. They have the decency to be ashamed when she manages to rescue herself and them.
- The Cavalry Arrives Late: MI6 arrives just after the Cognito employees have subdued the terrorists and are trying to find Reagan's signal. They do evacuate everyone off the sinking ship.
- Celebrity Casualty: Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, is eaten by a Kraken.
- Chekhov's Gun: Reagan manages to send half of a distress signal before a fight destroys the rebuilt radio. MI6 got wind of the signal and arrives to evacuate everyone to safety after Harold has kidnapped Reagan.
- Cool Boat: The wedding is held on J.R.'s mega-yacht, which apparently is big enough to have a horse track on board.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: As Reagan tells her parents while being held hostage by Harold, they can't keep their shit together and that always causes disaster. If Tamiko could stop staging dramatic events to piss off Rand, and Rand could stop disrupting Reagan's carefully-crafted plans, they all could have had a calm weekend. But no, they have to fight, and she has to keep cleaning up their messes.
- "Die Hard" on an X: Attempted by Glenn when the flat-Earthers take over the ship, but his fat gut gets him stuck in the Air-Vent Passageway.
- Drunken Master: Andre when sober is incompetent and in a Troubled Fetal Position. After he licks one of Myc's severed tentacles, he's back to business and triangulates Reagan's location and probable course.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- The Flat Earth conspiracy theory is so stupid that even Cognito treats it with disdain.
- J.R. calls out Jeff Bezos for not seeing that "Joffrey" aka a disguised Brett offered himself as a hostage instead of Jeff.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Rand has the decency to look sheepish that he crashed Tamiko's wedding and learned that she hadn't moved on with another guy, but was marrying herself. Unfortunately, his Moment of Weakness reveals to the Flat-Earthers that he was using them in a power play and lied to them for kicks.
- Despite the fact that Harold wanted to kill Brett, took her hostage, and ruined her weekend, Reagan warns him not to jump into the hollow Earth portal. She says the fall will break his neck, and the sea monsters down there are not friendly.
- As mentioned below, even J.R. is appalled by Bezos actually taking offense when Brett saves him by claiming that he is the richest man in the world.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Brett maintains the lie that he is a billionaire to keep Harold from shooting Jeff Bezos, offering himself as a hostage instead. J.R. is noticeably touched by this and calls out Bezos for being an ungrateful bastard.
- High-Class Glass: Brett wears multiples monocles when he's pretending to be rich(er).
- Hollow World: Reagan reveals to the Flat-Earthers that Earth is actually hollow so they'll switch to another conspiracy theory. When that fails to convince them, she uses the giant portal to Hollow Earth to convince their leader he's actually at the edge.
- Hypocrite: Tamiko calls Rand a Narcissist for crashing her wedding... with herself.
- Idiot Ball: Reagan lampshades that Rand shouldn't have assumed the Flat-Earthers were harmless, unarmed pawns that he could use to crash Tamiko's wedding. As she puts it, they're white men that argue on Internet chatrooms so of course they would bring guns.
- Improvised Weapon:
- Reagan rigs a pair of Amazon Alexas into small bombs, taking out the Flat-Earthers guarding the bridge.
- The cast fight off the rest of the flat-Earthers with a bust of Galileo Galilei, a telescope, and two globes. They're all items related to the Earth being round.
- Irony: A real life example, the episode shows Bezos upset by seeing someone else claiming they are the richest man in the world. Bezos actually lost his title around two weeks after the episode aired.
- Karmic Death: Jeff Bezos dies because he opts to spend the gunfight hiding in the yacht bathroom and no one bothers to search for him. The kraken then eats him alive after MI6 has evacuated everyone else off the boat. The show lampshades the irony of him basically dying because of a bathroom break.
- Laughing Mad: When the agents tell Reagan to have a good time at her mother's wedding all she can do is laugh. It's not a happy laugh.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Reagan is so stressed over keeping her parents from fighting that Myc freaks out to the point where he has to knock himself unconscious after reading her mind.
- Mirthless Laughter: After a Cognito Inc. employee says he hopes Reagan "enjoys" her mom's wedding, Reagan breaks out in one of these, with the flat tone making it clear that she's just desperately trying to stay sane until the whole ordeal is over.
- Narcissist: Tamiko Ridley's narcissism is put on full display as she literally gets married to herself, but she's not the only character who's full of herself in this episode:
- The flat earthers are so absorbed in proving their "genius" to everyone that they will do anything including falling for Rand's manipulations, holding a yacht full of passengers hostage, and jumping into the entrance to the Earth's hollow in their futile quest for recognition.
- Rand leads said flat earthers to crash Tamiko's wedding in the first place because he can't just let Tamiko's latest ploy to get under his skin go.
- Jeff Bezos gets irrationally upset when Brett convinces one of the flat earthers that he isn't the richest man on Earth, despite the fact that it saved Bezos from being taken hostage.
- Pet the Dog:
- Myc is unusually worried about Reagan's well-being in the Cold Open as she does wedding prep for her mother. He offers to help ease her worries with telepathy. It doesn't go well for Myc.
- The only thing that stops Tamiko from her narcissistic ways is if Reagan is actually in physical danger. When Harold kidnaps Reagan and hijacks her escape boat, Tamiko goes Mama Bear and rushes towards them. Reagan doesn't appreciate this because Rand comes along and the two end up bickering in the boat the whole way.
- Racial Face Blindness: When told that Tamiko is actually getting married to herself, Myc admits that he initially assumed the second Tamiko was just another Asian woman that he couldn't tell apart because he's racist.
- Rewatch Bonus: On second viewing, one could notice that just about every line of dialogue spoken in the very first scene ends up serves as Chekhov's Gun in some way.
- Sea Sinkhole: Reagan brings the Flat Earth conspiracist Harold to a door in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to convince him that he has reached the edge of the world, even though, in truth, the gate actually leads into the Hollow Earth. When the gate is activated, its opening creates a massive watery sinkhole that drags a bunch of hapless whales in and nearly does the same to Reagan.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode's name is one to My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
- Rand tells the flat-Earthers that Bruce Almighty is a documentary.
- Brett's rich guy alias is "Joffrey Gameofthrones".
- The flat-Earther leader says the "I'm the captain now" line from Captain Phillips when he takes over the ship.
- When discussing the inhabitants of hollow Earth, one of the visual renders is that of the Legendary version of Godzilla.
- One of the inhabitants of hollow Earth is the family from Land of the Lost (1974).
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Reagan messages Glenn and says they need help, she instructs him to use the Air-Vent Passageway for a Die Hard impression. Glenn tries to make it and nearly does... but he gets stuck in one of the smaller vents. Also, when Glenn has to swim across the ocean to save the Ridleys, he quickly loses energy due to being out of shape.
- Take That!:
- To flat-Earthers, who are all portrayed as violent, gullible, narcissistic idiots without any sympathetic qualities.
- Jeff Bezos is portrayed as sociopathic weirdo who talks funny and only cares about money who gets eaten by a kraken at the end. There are also several shots at his abuse of Amazon employees.Bezos: This is unconscionable! Holding all these people in a hot, stuffy room for hours on end, making us pee in bottles with no paid sick leave? This is in no way ironic to me!
- While convincing the flat-earthers that he is the richest man in the world, Brett points out that wealth so ridiculously huge makes the distinction irrelevant, and that it would be more useful if billionaires were taxed.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Glenn gets his moment in the sun saving the Ridleys from falling into the Hollow Earth portal with his super swimming and ability to command sea life.
