Al decides to sell his old clunker Dodge, but instead of getting an offer, an executive approaches him with the chance to get a Viper provided they film him passing the 1 million mile mark.
This work contains examples of:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Kelly ends up finding a real life Waldo.
- Death by Irony: Usually Al's plans fails because he gets too confident it'll go well. This time it fails because he got too paranoid and stayed up all night.
- Downer Ending: Before the film crew comes, Al falls asleep behind the wheel, releasing the parking brake in the process, and the car barreling down the driveway causes it to pass the one million mile mark and voiding the offer.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Marcy needlessly makes Al paranoid the car deal will fall through, which ends up making it happen. Turns out the Al ended up crashing into the new car Marcy bought for Jefferson and paid for expensive repairs for.
- Real After All:
- It's implied throughout the episode that Jefferson fell for an obvious con where he buys a car that doesn't exist, pays for a bunch of fake repairs, and nothing ever comes of it. It turns out at the end that the car was not only real, but returned right before Al's Dodge went barreling down the driveway. The car proceeds to be broadsided before he can ever drive it.
- Bud sends Kelly on a wild goose chase to find Waldo, she actually finds a man dressed like and apparently named Waldo.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Al is so paranoid about missing his chance at the Viper that he stays up all night and falls asleep at the wheel, thereby passing the 1 million mile mark before the film crew shows up.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Aside from a typo making buyers believe the Dodge was 40 dollars over 4000 dollars, the prospective buyers include alcoholic bums who want to not drink and drive, mafia hitmen who want to use his car to store dead bodies, a terrorist planning to use the car to transport a bomb to the Sears Tower, Kelly (who was literally looking for Waldo and stumbled back upon the house), and a Japanese auto salesman who only came to rub the success of the Japanese auto industry in Al's face.
