The Gang finds themselves in the middle of a focus group after a screening of Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool. They are determined to restore glory and traditional American values back into the franchise, even if it involves sabotage.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Call-Back: The Gang references the time they raced against the clock to see the last Thunder Gun movie at the theater, only to have it squandered by Frank calling in a bomb threat.
- Casting Gag: John Thundergun is played by the most underrated actor of all time, Dolph Lundgren.
- Cliché Storm: The In-Universe Thunder Gun sequel is shown to be about as cliche an action movie as you could get, but the Gang seem to think that it was too different from the previous installments of the franchise (including the noticeable lack of hanging dong).
- Content Leak: In-Universe, this is how the Gang "save" Thunder Gun: They leak the movie online and the bad reception forces the studio to shelve it and then re-film a new version, which the gang watches... on a pirated website.
- Continuity Nod: One of the Gang’s biggest complaints about the newest installment is the conspicuous lack of dong, which attracted them to the earlier installment.
- The Ditz: Charlie doesn't realize that the movie hasn't started yet while staring at a blank screen. He also has to be told after seeing the movie (and then again after it is literally spelled out for him) that John has a son, completely lost by the entire plot of the movie.
- Enraged by Idiocy: The Moderator gets increasingly angry at Charlie's complete incomprehension of everything about the movie, eventually just yelling at him when he somehow didn't realize that Thundergun had a son despite said son being the main character of the movie.
- Female Misogynist: Dee dislikes the movie's main female character, Dr. Ling, because it shatters her self-confidence to see a smart, capable, and attractive woman as the empowered love interest.Dee: Bed 'em and dead 'em!
- Here We Go Again!: The Gang learns absolutely nothing from the experience, choosing to watch the first installment of the rebooted franchise on Dennis' phone at the bar.
- Hypocrite: The Gang goes on a tirade about how "liberal Hollywood" are now censoring everything and are taking away everything good about movies when the Moderator tells them that they are making the movie PG-13 instead of R, the Moderator points out the reason why the movie is PG-13 is because streaming and piracy are making R-rated movies less profitable than they used to. Then it is revealed that they all ended up seeing the previous Thunder Gun movie on various pirating websites and contributing to the problem. In typical Gang-fashion, they learn nothing from this, ruin Thundergun 4 by leaking it online and then watch the next installment on their phones.
- I Am Spartacus: One scene in the movie has several characters standing up and declaring, "I am Thunder Gun" before they are executed. The Gang try to echo this scene later in the episode in response to the moderator asking, "Who are you people?", only to have Dee butcher it.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Dennis calls it a "mid-point twist" when the moderator tells them Thunder Gun 4 will be PG-13 at about the halfway point of the episode.
- Luke, You Are My Father: The movie's big twist. Dr. Ling's assistant, Max, is revealed to be John's son that he fathered with her a long time ago.
- Passing the Torch: A quite literal example of John passing a torch to his son before dying. Obviously, the Gang completely fail to realize that until the moderator openly spells it out for them.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: The Gang briefly mentions that one of Thunder Gun's "hanging dong" scenes in the franchise was done as a tactic to intimidate a woman.
- Precision F-Strike: Two of them.
- The first one after the Gang complains about the film's lack of a "dong shot" and the moderator responds by saying that the studio thinks gratuitous nudity in this day and age is "a bit much".Charlie: Fuck you.
- The second when the moderator has finally had enough of Charlie's stupidity.Charlie: [John] has a son?
Moderator: Fuck, man!
- The first one after the Gang complains about the film's lack of a "dong shot" and the moderator responds by saying that the studio thinks gratuitous nudity in this day and age is "a bit much".
- Rage Breaking Point: The moderator gets increasingly more irate with the Gang until Charlie forgets, again, that John Thundergun has a son.
- Running Gag: Charlie not understanding even the most glaringly obvious parts of the movie (that Thunder Gun has a son, that he is metaphorically Passing the Torch by giving his son a literal torch, that the movie hadn't even started yet and he is looking at the silver screen, etc).
- Scary Minority Suspect: Discussed. The Gang are unable to recognise the Obviously Evil Colonel Washington as the Bad Guy because he's white and american. They get into a long discussion on what ethnicity he should be to properly get across that he's evil, much to the Moderator's horror.
- Serious Business: The changes made to the Thunder Gun formula are very much this for the gang, specifically the lack of Thunder Gun hanging dong.
- Soft Reboot: The new Thunder Gun movie is this, killing the old character and replacing him with his son. The Gang are not happy about the changes, and leak the movie to ruin the reboot (once the moderator explains that's what's happening).
- Take That!: To long running franchises, the desperate attempts they go to to stay relevant
and most of all the obnoxiousness of the long time fans. - Unusual Euphemism: Frank describes the high amount of unprotected sex that Thunder Gun has had as "Raw-dog loads".
