A shocking revelation about his past sends Bill into a drunken funk...and in his drunken stupor, he steals a tank. Meanwhile, Peggy and Bobby try to win the Megalo-Mart's "Guess Your Sundae's Weight" contest.
Tropes:
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: After Bill comes to (and throws up in a nearby sandbox), Hank asks him what he was thinking by stealing a tank. Bill points out he wasn't; he was just at the base and got drunk.
- All Just a Dream: The original ending
to "Lucky's Wedding Suit" had Hank say this episode was just a dream Bill had after eating at a Hungarian restaurant. Though given its deletion from the finished episode, it's unclear if it's canon. - Batman Gambit: After getting the photos of Bill's file, Dale knew he couldn't get the guys to come over by saying he found proof, so he claimed to have a new fishing rod that he wanted to show off.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: While returning the tank to the army base, the guys are pulled over by the police. Dale panics, but Bill reassures them he can talk his way out of it. Bearing in mind that Bill is in nothing but his boxer shorts, a wrist cast, and he smells horrible; he is able to convine the police to pretend they didn't see anything and leave just by speaking like a Drill Sergeant Nasty. He even gets the female officer to agree to date that weekend.
- Brick Joke: Dale got the guys to come over to see the photos by saying he has a new fishing rod and freshly baked cookies. The first part was a lie, but the cookies are actually still baking. Later, after a depressed Bill storms out, the oven timer goes off and Dale happily announces it's cookie time.
- Broken Pedestal: Bill becomes disillusioned with the army after discovering they used him as a guinea pig for a project that was ultimately useless.
- Canon Discontinuity: An unused scene in "Lucky's Wedding Suit" retcons this episode as being just a vivid dream Bill had after eating some bad food. Though given its deletion from the finished episode, it's unclear if it still applies.
- Dirty Coward: When a drunken Bill drives the tank into the neighborhood, Dale thinks the Army is out to get him for snooping on their files. He rushes into the safe room (aka his closet) and tells Nancy to not be taken alive. Later, after it appears Bill died sacrificing himself for the others, Dale freely admits he wouldn't have done the same.
- Driven to Suicide: After realizing that everything wrong with his life is his fault and no one else's, Bill drives the tank into incoming mortar fire while tearfully singing Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Thankfully, Bill survives getting blown up with only a broken arm.
- Flashback: When Bill recounts his Formerly Fit self first joining the Army and having greater ambitions.
- Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: Parodied. Dale enters the army base in his exterminator uniform, then removes it, revealing an army uniform, walks for a bit, salutes another officer, then removes army uniform to reveal another exterminator uniform.
- Manly Tears: After Bill drives the tank to draw the fire of the artillery battery that believed the tank was a target vehicle, it gets suffers a direct hit and blows up. The guys rush to the burning wreck and break into tears over Bill's Heroic Sacrifice, only discover that Bill was able to get out in time, but the explosion, knocked him down and broke his arm, but they're still happy he's still alive.
- Obligatory Joke: Dale describes his fishing rod Batman Gambit as bait.
- Placebo Effect: It turns out Bill was part of the control group of the experiment, but Dale misread placebo as "Place-Bo"; thus Bill's failing health was his own fault, not the government's.
- Pyrrhic Victory: In the end, Peggy does manage to correctly guess the weight of a sundae. She celebrates this victory that cost substantially more than the price of one sundae.
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: Peggy's obsession to prove the smug sundae clerk wrong by correctly guessing the weight of her sundae and getting it for free naturally leads her to buy several extra sundaes to guess again and then a large number of toppings so she can use them to practice at home when she visits the place again later.
- Take That!: As Bill bemoans the Army using him as a test subject.Hank: Bill, it was a different time. It was back when we didn't know the Russians were incompetent.
- Tank Goodness: A drunken Bill steals a tank and goes on the rampage.
- Unwitting Test Subject: According to the files Dale discovers on the army base, Bill was subject to an experimental drug test as part of a secret Super-Soldier project named "Operation Infinite Walrus". Supposedly, it was designed to create an elite group of arctic commandos that could survive the frigid temperatures of Alaska for long periods, by fostering the growth of excess body hair and blubber on the abdomen, and able to go into periods of hibernation. Hearing this, Bill concludes the drug to be responsible for his failing physique.
