Nancy loses her job to Luanne, and plans to get a facelift to look younger — which Dale pays for by suing his favorite cigarette company.
Tropes:
- Bad "Bad Acting": The reason why Dale kept Nancy from getting involved with his plan to sue the tobacco company was because she's not a good actress based on how her performance in the play Doctor Dolittle "did little" with the audience. This plan works for Dale due to her reactions being genuine enough for the tobacco company spying on them realize they might lose, but works too well when Nancy blows off Dale.
- Chroma Key: Parodied when Luanne is hired as weather girl not because of her acting, but because her conservative blue dress with a white top melds perfectly with the blue background.
- Complexity Addiction: Dale's plan to sue the tobacco company is this.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Dale tries to invoke this on Nancy in order to pay for her face treatment.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Bill tells Dale that Nancy is really going to leave him once his plan backfires because it happened to him before.
- Everyone Has Standards: Bill was onboard with Dale's plan because he knew eventually it will backfire with Nancy leaving him and so he can bond with him as fellow lonely friends, only to back out because it didn't feel right to have Dale go through the same thing did.
- Fanservice: Luanne is hired as weather girl for this reason because of the Chroma Key example above also has her perky bust shown much to Channel 86's manager Tom and his crew's perverted delights.Tom: It's a good color on her.
- Frivolous Lawsuit: Dale tries to sue the tobacco company for making Nancy look hideous in order to pay for her facelift. The plan would have worked considering Dale would have gotten even a bigger settlement due to Manitoba Tobacco Company realizing they have a losing case. However, he had to give it up so he can win back Nancy's heart and make her feel that she's still beautiful as ever to him. Thankfully, he is able to get Nancy's job back by threatening to sue Channel 86 for age discrimination which by federal law is justified.
- Get Out!: After having to deal with Dale's Courtroom Antics, and since Dale apologized for making Nancy think she was ugly when she wasn't, the judge rules that Dale's lawsuit against the Manitoba Tobacco Company has no merit and tosses it out. Once the ruling's made official the judge angrily shouts: "now all of you, get hell out my courtroom!"
- Innocently Insensitive: Anchorman Burl Arlington signs off before going on vacation by being the first one to wish Nancy her Happy 40th Birthday, despite that she's uncomfortable about her age to the point of even trying to hide the "Happy 40th Birthday" banner blaring behind her on the screen.
- Kangaroo Court: Dale turns his court case into this by constantly acting as the prosecutor and person on the bench.
- Kick the Dog: Channel 86 was NOT kind to Nancy in this episode. Not only demoting Nancy's job as weather girl to late-night and weekend slots because of Luanne being younger and "perkier" at front, but even firing her to the point of Tom even telling her that he does not want to see her ugly face anymore even though her makeup was sabotaged to cause her allergic reactions. Dale gets back at them by threatening to sue them for age discrimination to get Nancy's job back.
- Not Helping Your Case: Reynolds Penland, CEO of Manitoba Tobacco Company wanted to know from his lawyers if they can really lose the case against Dale. The lawyers tried to assure him that they got rid of the tape so Dale's treatment of Nancy wouldn't be used as evidence against them and that the relationship between the juries and tobacco companies have cooled. Reynolds was not convinced at the slightest.Reynolds: Can we lose this thing?!
- Oh, Crap!: Manitoba Tobacco Company's CEO Reynolds Penland has this reaction when hearing through the tape of Dale uses their bugging against them by treating Nancy badly as part of making a case of second-hand smoking ruining her looks. This causes him to realize the juries will be hating him more than Dale who has a shot to beat their countersuit.
- Properly Paranoid: Dale sees that he's being bugged for real by the Manitoba Tobacco Company through their gift. This causes him to up the ante about winning his lawsuit by making it look like second-hand smoking did make Nancy ugly which actually works against them.
- Shower of Angst: Dale takes one when Nancy, induced by his cruelty that he was exhibiting, blows him off. As expected, there's numerous cigarettes and cigarette boxes floating in the bathwater along with him.
