Nancy breaks off her adulterous affair with John Redcorn after going on a date with Dale and falling in love with him all over again.
Tropes:
- Captain Oblivious: In this episode alone, so much turmoil happens between John Redcorn and Nancy right in front of Dale, and Dale still never wises up as to what's really going on between them.
- Cerebus Call-Back: This episode really hammers in the ramifications of Nancy's affair with John Redcorn by demonstrating Dale, for all of his faults, genuinely worships the ground Nancy walks on and loves the shit out of her. Nancy eventually realizes she was wrong to keep betraying Dale's trust for all of these years, and John Redcorn also starts feeling guilty when Dale offers to help him reclaim some land that used to belong to the local Native Americans. Even if Dale is still a paranoid gun nut, he's also legitimately devoted to his wife and didn't deserve to be cuckolded for so long.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Nancy tells Dale that he is "a sensitive, trusting, sweet, trusting man."
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- The affair has gone on for so long that Nancy has this reaction upon realizing she slept with Dale, her own husband.
- John Redcorn is so touched by Dale offering to help him reclaim some Native land that he winds up ending things with Nancy, realizing Dale really does have a good heart, and he can't keep doing this to him.
- Not Helping Your Case: When Nancy decides to try and rekindle things with John Redcorn, she quotes Woody Allen by saying "The heart wants what it wants."Peggy: Nancy wait! HE MARRIED HIS DAUGHTER!
- Skewed Priorities: Nancy's more upset about how her extramarital lover will take it when she starts sleeping with her husband again, instead of the other way around.
- Sleeping Single: Dale had slept in separate rooms from Nancy for so long that he'd forgotten what her mattress felt like.
