"We're gonna do this old school, baby. Maps, fresh cigarettes, fresh coffee. Cooking out on the grill, sleeping in sleeping bags..."
— Dennis
The gang attempts to go on a road trip to the Grand Canyon, but their many stops keep them from setting foot out of Philly.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Charlie and Dennis decide to burn wicker chairs inside a trailer to cook hotdogs after drinking several beers. Dee decides throwing pee out the window of a moving car is a good idea while she's drunk.
- Catchphrase: Lampshaded when Mac claims that calling people "bozo" is his new thing.
- Continuity Nod:
- Dee finally gets a new car after Mac and Charlie destroyed her old one.
- Mac attempts to hotwire Dee's car, a skill he learned in "Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender".
- Cutting Corners: Dee doesn't get a car with a CD player because the dealer knocked a measly $50 off the price.
- Designated Driver: The gang pick up a hitchhiker so that he can drive, allowing them all to drink.
- Do You Want to Haggle?: The gang insist on haggling with the vendors at the Italian Market they visit, despite the fact that they're all terrible at it (to the point that they keep mistakenly calling it bartering).
- Duct Tape for Everything: Dennis uses duct tape to hold the furniture in place inside the trailer. He runs out before he can secure the grill though.
- Epic Fail: Dennis and Charlie attempt to burn some wicker chairs inside the trailer so that they can cook hotdogs over an open fire, only to end up knocking themselves out with the toxic fumes that result.
- Extreme Omnivore: Charlie eats an entire pear, including the inedible parts.Mac: Did you eat the stickers that are all over it?!
Charlie: Yeah, it was gross!
Mac: Of course it's gross, it's a sticker, bro!
Charlie: I EAT STICKERS ALL THE TIME, DUDE!! - The Friend Nobody Likes: The guys initially plan to leave Dee behind by setting off before she arrives at the bar. When she foils that plan, they still attempt to drive off without her on more than one occasion.
- Foreshadowing: Charlie states that he's never left Philadelphia and doesn't feel comfortable doing so, and sure enough, when he's the only one inside Dee's new car with the hitchhiker driving it with the rest of the gang passed out inside the trailer, he gets cold feet and asks the hitchhiker to drop him off at Paddy's Pub, which he does along with the rest of the gang, followed by him stealing Dee's new car.
- Global Ignorance: Mac, Dee and Frank try to play "50 states", but Mac and Dee get stuck after about the first three and start naming "states" such as Philadelphia and South Virginia, much to Frank's amusement.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: Mac throws a beer bottle out the car window at a cyclist who was rude to Dennis, causing him to drive off the road and crash.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Both Mac and Dee decide the hitchhiker is harmless and allow said hitchhiker to drive. He steals Dee's car after dropping everyone back off at Paddy's.
- Jar Potty: Frank buys Dee a jar to pee into so that they don't have to keep stopping for her to use the restroom. She later throws it out the window once it's full, causing it to drench Mac - who's sleeping in the backseat with his window down - in her urine.
- No, You:Mac: The antenna is probably broken on this PIECE OF SHIT CAR!
Dee: You're a piece of shit... car. - Not Where They Thought: After a daylong struggle to get on the road to the Grand Canyon, the Gang allows a young hitchhiker to drive Dee's car so they can get drunk and pass out in the U-Haul. The next morning they realize they've stopped, and get out at what they think is the canyon... and realize the hitchhiker stole the car and stranded them right in front of Paddy's Pub where they started.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: The gang continually refer to the vendors at the Italian market as "gypsies".
- Road Trip Plot: The episode revolves around the gang's attempts to go on a road trip to the Grand Canyon — though predictably, they never make it more than twenty minutes away from Paddy's.
- The Runaway: Dee realizes that the hitchhiker she picked up is a young runaway heading for Hollywood. She then starts drunkenly singing Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" to him.
- Running Gag: For the second time in as many seasons, Dee's car is lost or destroyed thanks to the antics of the gang.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: The episode ends with Dennis, Dee, Mac and Frank stepping out of the trailer they've been sleeping in only to find themselves back at the bar after Charlie got scared about leaving Philadelphia and the hitchhiker stole Dee's car.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Lampshaded when Mac starts going on about his nonexistent self-defense skills.Dennis: How exactly do you view yourself, within the context of our group?
Mac: ...The Sheriff of Paddy's? - They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Discussed when Dennis warns Dee about picking up random hitchhikers; she says that the kid looked too sweet and innocent to be dangerous, to which Dennis argues that the ones who look unsuspecting are usually the most dangerous of all. Of course, the fact that it's Dennis saying all this only adds to the irony.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!:Charlie: I don't have a bucket list, dude, 'cause I'm not dying.
Mac: Everybody's dyin', bitch. Let's get you some fruit. - You Keep Using That Word: The entire gang refers to haggling as "bartering". Bartering is the exchanging of goods for other goods.
