It's game night at The Bear House, and Cleveland's guy friends are a lot more interesting than Donna's female friends.
Tropes:
- Blatant Lies: Donna lies to Cleveland about, where she goes, when she stays out so late, and also to Yvette, about not being married to anyone.
- Hidden Depths: We learn a lot about Donna's past, and the kind of life she used to live, after her divorce with Robert, and before her marriage to Cleveland.
- On top of that, we learn that Arianna speaks fluent Italian.
- Language Barrier: Holt's new "girlfriend" speaks Italian, making their relationship rather complicated.
- Obfuscating Disability: Junior pretends to be blind, in order to win the pity vote, against the deaf, Oliver Wilkerson.
- Old Friend: Donna contacts her old friend, Yvette, to get together with her again.
- Passing Judgment: Arianna the Bear does this to Donna all the time, criticizing everything about how she runs her life. In this episode, it's mentioned that before marrying Cleveland, she didn't even allow Donna into her house, because she doesn't like single mothers.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Arianna, Kendra, and Fabriza have no idea, who Tom Cruise is.
- Running Gag: This episode introduces the running gag of Mr. Flippers.
- Student Council President: The side plot focuses on Junior being nominated for class president.
