"It's the same exact thing, but it's with women, right? So it's a new idea."
— Dee
To one-up the guys, Dee has organized an "all-female reboot" of the Wade Boggs challenge on a first-of-it's-kind, all-female flight headed to L.A. for the women's march.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Affectionate Parody: Of the recent trend of all-female remakes of popular franchises, e.g. Ghostbusters (2016) and Ocean's 8
- The Alcoholic: The Waitress reminds Dee that she's this when asked how she's able to knock 'em back so quickly.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Mrs. Kelly claims to be attracted to racehorses.
- Bottle Episode: Save for The Stinger, the entire episode takes place on a plane.
- The Bus Came Back: Artemis and Gail the Snail return for the first time since season eleven and nine, respectively.
- Call-Back:
- From the first Boggs episode:
- Mrs. Mac plays the role of commissioner, just like her son.
- The same map and scoreboard effects from the first Boggs episode are used to show the flight's progress and the ladies' ranking in the competition.
- Frank appears and claims he's "posting up" in the women's toilet.
- The Waitress uses the on-board PA system, much as Dee did in the first episode.
- Dee has hallucinations of Martina Navratilova (or what she thinks Martina Navratilova looks like) and Boss Hogg.
- Much like her brother before her, Dee is forced off the plane in North Dakota.
- Mrs. Mac and Mrs. Kelly are the only ones to make it to California, and end up at the same baseball diamond as Mac and Charlie.
- The frequently recurring Guigino’s waiter is now working as a flight attendant.
- The Waitress has sex with Frank again.
- Dee salts the Snail.
- From the first Boggs episode:
- The Cameo: Lampshaded by Frank in his one scene.Frank: In every reboot you gotta have somebody from the original to make a cameo.
- Commander Contrarian: Artemis plays this role throughout the episode, arguing that Dee’s plan is derivative and just doing the exact same thing as the guys, ultimately dropping out after just six beers to start her own scheme.
- Continuity Nod: Dee explains that Dennis lost because of sex the last time.
- Darkest Hour: After having sex with Frank, the Waitress starts crying and declares that she wants to drink herself to death.
- Disco Dan: Mac's mom still thinks it's legal to smoke on an airplane, which was banned on most domestic flights in 1990, and wonders why the "coloreds" are allowed to sit with whites.
- The Dog Bites Back: After years of getting abuse heaped on him by the gang, the waiter/flight attendant has his moment when he writes Dee’s score on her forehead before kicking her off the flight in North Dakota.
- Double Standard: Dee states that alcoholism is sad and pathetic in women, despite celebrating the exact same thing in men.
- Everyone Has Standards: Mrs. Mac (while overdosing on nicotine) says more words than she ever had before... and it's a racist screed wondering why "the coloreds are allowed to sit up front." Dee is absolutely and rightly disturbed:"Wow. I've never heard you talk so much. Truly awful."
- Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: When they reached L.A (Mrs. Mac and Mrs. Kelly), this is the result:Mrs. Kelly: (makes a sound)
Subtitle: ??????? - Female Misogynist: Bonnie immediately tries to get off the plane after learning that both pilots are women.
- Five-Man Band: The group of ladies forms their own parallel to the Gang. Dee and the Waitress even lampshade how their group does this.
- Dee is forced into the part of Dennis, as she's the ostensible, overstressed leader of the group.
- The Waitress lampshades how she's like Dee in how she becomes comically drunk - she even forms a rivalry with Dee - and by extension, with Dennis (similarly to how Dennis and Dee form one in the first Boggs episode).
- Artemis becomes the Frank in the situation as the contrarian hustler.
- Mrs. Mac (after a lot of nicotine patches) becomes similar to her son, both as commissioner and in her surly, unpleasant attitude.
- Mrs. Kelly is much like Charlie in her erratic neuroticism.
- Foreshadowing: According to the waiter/flight attendant, he had to serve the Gang again when they went to the Super Bowl in Minnesota, where he had recently moved to.
- Gretzky Has the Ball: Secretariat was a stallion (male), a fact none of the characters are initially aware of. Bonnie also (wrongly) asserts all racehorses are male.
- Hidden Depths: Dee displays a surprising aptitude for mental arithmetic, calculating how much wine is needed to equal Boggs' seventy beers due to the differing alcohol content.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Artemis makes several pointed comments about the futility of women recreating the exact plots that have already been carried out by men. In-Universe, of course, she's referring to the Wade Boggs plan, but it could also apply to the episode itself.
- Lethally Stupid: Mrs. Kelly tries to open the doors while the plane is in mid-flight.
- Mile-High Club: The Waitress becomes obsessed with joining in order to "beat" Dennis. She ultimately sleeps with Frank, the only male on board other than the flight attendant.
- Must Have Nicotine: Mrs. Mac tries to light a cigarette while boarding the plane, and later admits to eating all of her nicotine patches, which Dee says she had a 2 week supply of.
- Only Sane Man: For a relative value of "sane", but between the Waitress' mood swings and obsession with joining the mile high club, Artemis giving everyone tea spiked with ayahuasca, Mrs. Kelly's neuroticism and Mrs. Mac's racism and nicotine high, Dee manages to qualify.
- Out of Focus: Charlie, Mac and Frank are only in a single scene each, while Dennis doesn't appear at all.
- The Quiet One: Dee expresses amazement when Mrs. Mac utters a full sentence.Dee: Wow, I've never heard you talk so much. Truly awful.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: The waiter and Artemis apparently have no idea who Wade Boggs is.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Dee calls the Waiter a "soyboy beta cuck" for espousing ideas of female equality.
- Potty Failure: Almost all of the women on the plane suffer explosive diarrhea after Artemis spikes their tea.
- Racist Grandma: Mrs. Mac asks why the "coloreds" are allowed to sit with the whites.
- Remake Cameo: Lampshaded. Frank shows up in the lavatory, claiming that someone from the old version always shows up in the new one. He then bangs the Waitress.
- Rousing Speech: Towards the end of the episode, Artemis gives one of these claiming that it’s time for women to start writing their own stories… right before revealing she’s spiked their tea with ayahuasca.
- Running Gag: The Waitress' ill-advised crush on Dennis. At one point she drunkenly tries to kiss Dee, having mistaken her for her twin.
- Sequel Episode: To "The Gang Beats Boggs".
- Shout-Out: A League of Their Own is praised by Dee's hallucination for being a massively popular female centered film that was also an original creative idea and not a remake.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Dee considers the Waitress to be hers, explaining that their rivalry is what motivates her to keep going with the competition. After the Waitress crashes out, Gail the Snail fills the role.
- Snake Oil Salesman: Artemis plans to make a quick buck by peddling fake New Age trinkets to gullible women.
- Take That!: The episode repeatedly takes shots at Gender Flip remakes of works originally starring men (such as Ghostbusters (2016) and Ocean's 8), claiming the practice is unoriginal and lazy and naturally leads to poor audience reception.Artemis: You can't change one specific practice and call it new.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The male waiter, who's been humiliated and physically abused by the gang in the past and they don't even bother to remember any of it, finally gets a minor form of payback by telling Dee that she's been judged unfit to fly to California and needs to get off at North Dakota, writing the final beer/wine tally on her forehead with a marker as she's lying on a stretcher and telling her to come back again.
- Toilet Humor: Artemis states that gross-out humor is more shocking when it comes from women, which later becomes a Chekhov's Gag when multiple women suffer violent vomiting and diarrhea as a result of the spiked tea.
- Unknown Rival: Dee tells the Waitress that the only reason why she invited her was because she is her rival and that her hatred for her is a motivating factor in winning the Boggs Challenge.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Multiple times once the spiked tea kicks in.
