Rob takes Laura and his work colleagues on vacation to a new hotel opened by his old army buddy, Sam Pomerantz. All goes smoothly until Rob accidentally hits Sam's star entertainer in the mouth during a tennis match. Now, to save Sam's opening night, play time will have to become work time.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Busman's Holiday: The writers of The Alan Brady Show vacation at a new hotel and end up putting on a variety performance when head writer Rob accidentally hurts the planned entertainment.
- Delayed Reaction: Initially Ollie is too struck by the snack lady's attractiveness to realize that Stan just gave her their last dollar. Realization dawns shortly after she leaves.
- Distracted by the Sexy: When the Fanservice saleslady asks him to go dancing, Ollie offers to hold her tray and orders Stan to put his hat on his head. Stan confuses his hat (which Ollie poured food into) with Ollie's. He hesitates, but Ollie is too caught up by the prospect of spending time with an attractive woman to consider why Stan is behaving so reluctantly. Cue accidentally-ordered Food Slap.
- Idiotic Partner Confession: A small example; during the Laurel and Hardy sketch, Sam flirts with Fanservicey girl named Alice by saying his mother's name was Alice. Rob spills that it was actually Sarah.
- Fanservice: Laura appears in a very short tennis skirt.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Sam begs Rob not to badger Danny Brewster into playing tennis with him, fearing that it will ruin him for opening night. Rob dismisses the concerns. Unfortunately, Sam turns out to be right.
- Ironic Echo: Rob and Laura are dressed up and ready for tennis, but Rob wants a partner who can give him more of a workout first. He gets turned down by everyone progressively. Mel says he'd be happy to play with Rob after his bossanova lesson. When Rob turns to Laura, she throws the excuse back at him.
- Offscreen Crash: Some sort of crash happens behind the curtain when Rob-as-Stan goes to retrieve a chair for himself. The audience never finds out what exactly happened.
- Reminder of Impossibility: During his and Sam's Laurel and Hardy bit, Rob as Stan sits down on a non-existent chair...until Sam as Ollie tells him there's no chair, and he falls on the ground.
- Revenge Before Reason: During the Laurel and Hardy bit, Sam-as-Ollie pours the blue-plate special and shake into Laurel's hat, presumably intending to put it on his head. Given that they don't have money to go anywhere else (because Rob-as-Stan forgot and spent it), it comes off as irrational for Ollie to waste it.
- Revenge Ballad: Sally sings "I Want to Be Around", which is sung from the perspective of a Woman Scorned hoping that she's there when the guy who broke her heart gets his own broken.
- Sincerest Form of Flattery: A meta-example. In one episode Rob and his friend Sam Pomerantz do a spectacular impression of Laurel and Hardy; in real life, Stan Laurel was Dick Van Dyke's self-confessed comedy hero.
- The Tooth Hurts: Rob accidentally smashes a tennis ball into Danny Brewster's mouth the afternoon before opening night. He has to leave to find a dentist, and Rob has to pick up the slack.
