Somewhat irked by Laura's habit of reading his mail, Rob brings it up to Sally and Buddy, and they wind up incorporating it into that week's sketch. Laura becomes furious at her husband for making fun of her on television.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Chekhov's Gun: While they're working on the sketch, Rob tells his coworkers about a rubber raft he ordered for fishing from an army surplus outfit. Laura opens a package to find the raft later.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: While Laura is ranting about Rob broadcasting her quirks to 20,000 people, Rob interjects that the show actually had an audience of 40,000.
- Exiled to the Couch: Laura locks Rob out of the bedroom after he writes a sketch mocking her habit of opening his mail.Rob: Honey, the door is jammed!Laura: [on the other side] It's not jammed, it's locked.Rob: Oh, boy...
- Helpless with Laughter: Rob writes a sketch based on Laura's habit of opening his mail, which includes a scene with the snooping wife getting trapped in a closet with an inflating raft. Their next-door neighbors, Millie and Jerry, find it hilarious. Later, Millie and Jerry come over to apologize for ribbing Laura, but when a package for Rob arrives (and Laura openly expresses curiosity over what it could be), they dissolve into a fit of silent laughter to the point where they can't even answer Laura when she talks to them. Eventually, they manage to leave, only to come back and find that the package was an inflatable raft and Laura opened it, just like in the sketch.
- Innocently Insensitive: Rob tells his coworkers about Laura's habit of opening his mail and they end up writing a sketch based around it. They even end up using the name "Laura" for the snooping wife simply out of accidental association. Rob never realizes that other people might connect the sketch with Laura and tease her about it until he returns home to his furious wife, who considers it a case of Muse Abuse.
- Inspiration for the Work: In-Universe. Rob bases the week's sketch on Laura opening his mail. However, he only tells her she "inspired" it. Once she sees the sketch, she's outraged that Rob would make a skit about her quirks for public television. Rob asks in confusion why she hates it as usually her being his muse gets taken as a compliment. Laura retorts that his earlier "version" of her was a nice, normal girl and not a deranged snoop.
- Misleading Package Size: Laura tries to open a box that Rob gets in the mail. When she finally manages to open it an inflatable dinghy pops out and inflates, leaving it about 5x the size of the original box. It had also just happened in a sketch Rob had written for "The Alan Brady Show", making it a case of In-Universe Truth in Television. Laura assumes Rob did this to tease her further, but actually he had ordered the raft some time ago for a totally unrelated reason (which is why he was inspired to use it in the sketch); it was pure coincidence that it arrived directly after that sketch was written and aired.
