"Of course everybody wants to be famous, because celebrities get everything. It's the easiest job in the world."
— Dennis
Mac, Frank and Charlie decide to create their own public access news show, while Dennis and Dee attempt to become local celebrities by making it big on the hip club scene.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Accidental Hero: Mac accidentally saves a guy from choking on a grape by punching him in the stomach. Being Mac, he's mostly concerned about the fact that Charlie didn't put a tape in the camera so his "heroism" wasn't caught on film.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Mac's panicked response to a man choking is to simply slug him in the stomach. It actually does the trick.
- Answer Cut:Dee: Usually when you get involved somebody gets hurt.
Frank: That's ridiculous. I'm just palling around the guys, how's anybody gonna get hurt?
(cut to title card: "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire") - Celebrity Paradox: Charlie wears a Bayside Tigers shirt in this episode, a clear reference to Saved by the Bell. Saved by the Bell star Dennis Haskins appeared in a previous episode, meaning presumably both Haskins and his character from that episode exist in the Sunny universe.
- Club Kid: Dennis temporarily becomes one.
- Confused Bystander Interview: Mac gives one of these after witnessing a bus crash at the beginning of the episode, and is incensed when his twenty minute rant is cut down to a single soundbite in the final broadcast.
- Conveyor Belt o' Doom: Played for laughs when the guys attempt to construct a conveyor belt that leads to Charlie chopping enthusiastically with a butcher's knife, so that Dee can rescue some kittens for their fake news story.
- Coolest Club Ever: The club that Dennis and Dee spend much of the episode trying to get into.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Mac is appalled by the open racism of Irvine and calls her "a crazy, old racist."
- Friendly Local Chinatown: Mac, Charlie and Frank visit one in search of a story for their news show.
- Guilty Pleasure: In-universe, Dancing Man's show is this for the gang. It's just a man in his underwear dancing in front of a green screen, but they all agree that it's strangely addictive.
- Heroic Fire Rescue: Frank and Charlie attempt to stage one of these by having Mac run into a burning building to save a box of kittens. When Mac refuses, they get Dee to do it instead — without telling her that they intend to set the building on fire.
- Later, they pull the same trick by putting another box of kittens down a well, and ask Dee to save them, all while promising that this time they won't set the well on fire. Guess what happens.
- Incest Subtext: After getting high on ecstasy in the club, Dennis and Dee end up on Dancing Man's channel grinding against each other while half-naked and wearing diapers. Earlier, Dennis claims that he'll talk Dee into doing some "nip-slips and upskirts" to help them get famous.
- Insane Troll Logic: Mac's ridiculous theory for how the traffic system could be improved.Mac: We should only have yellow lights, because then we could be very cautious but not get stuck in traffic!
Dee: That sounds incredibly dangerous and stupid. - Man on Fire: Frank sets Dee on fire. Twice.
- Not on the List: The bouncer pulls this when Dennis and Dee force their way to the front of the line. When Dee insults him, he lets Dennis through but not her.
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: A running gag throughout the episode is that Mac can't stop sweating whenever he's being filmed.
- Prison Rape: Frank seems to think that a version of this goes on in nursing homes.
- Racist Grandma: While trying to dig up a story in the nursing home, Mac interviews a sweet old lady... who also happens to be horribly racist.Mac: Is there anything about this place you don't like?
Irvine: The blacks. - "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Dee delivers a brutal one to the bouncer when Dennis encourages her to "take a shit on him" to establish her celebrity cred. She takes it a bit too far, and ends up being refused entry to the club.
- Schmuck Bait: Shortly after setting Dee on fire to make her kitten "rescue" more authentic, the guys ask her to try again, promising that they definitely wouldn't set her on fire again. Dee agrees.
- School Newspaper News Hound: Mac and Charlie apparently had their own news show in 8th grade. Dennis claims that their "stories" mostly consisted of them setting GI Joes on fire and throwing rocks at cats.
- Shout-Out: Mac and Charlie reference both Tokyo Drift and Big Trouble in Little China in Chinatown.
- Spoiler Title: Played for laughs, both with the Gilligan Cut where it's shown and the constant inevitable build-up to it actually happening.
- Take That!: To Paris Hilton.Dennis: You don't even have to do anything anymore to be famous.
Dee: No. I mean, look at Paris Hilton. She's just a dirty drunken whore. - This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!:Mac: I saved your life, bitch!
