A Plot: Adam runs into a junior at the high school, and remembers her as the cute "Waffle Girl" who served their family at a restaurant a few years ago. He wants to ask her out, but feels he has to look like a "player" first. Taking a tip from The Brady Bunch episode in which Jan Brady made up the fake boyfriend George Glass, Adam makes up a girlfriend named Lampie Tableman. Erica makes fun of Adam and says his plan will never work, but she soon pulls a "George Glass" of her own, making up a college-age boyfriend named Jordan Wahlberg (combining the names of two members of New Kids on the Block) in hopes that Geoff Schwartz will become jealous.
B Plot: Barry wants badly to go to Live Aid in Philadelphia, but Murray says no. Barry refuses Beverly's offer of tickets to see The Beach Boys, with neither he nor Beverly realizing the Beach Boys are on the bill at Live Aid. Murray has to go with Beverly instead, but he gets into an argument over a parking space, causing them to miss the concert.
- Amusing Injuries: Adam asks Dave Kim to help him fake some kiss marks with a vacuum, to "prove" he has a girlfriend. When the marks look horrible, he then gets Dave to shoot him with a paintball gun to make him look badass. This then leads to Adam being invited by Waffle Girl to paintball, where he accidentally helps his team win by taking a lot of hits for them.
- Call-Back: The episode's final scene is one to the first episode, with Adam once again having a Right Behind Me moment while discussing his romance plans with Pops and Beverly at the Waffle House.
- Determinator: Murray tries to play off his arguing for a parking space or proper restaurant service as this, and states that Beverly does the same thing. However, Beverly retorts that the things she argues for affect the whole family, like fighting over a bill for a washing machine, while Murray only gets stubborn for things that affect him.
- Gilligan Cut: Adam boasts to Erica that his plans have led to him going to a paintball match with Waffle Girl and how it'll let him show off his manliness, only to cut to him surrendering and running away in fear.
- Girlfriend in Canada: Barry pities Adam and Erica for trying to make fake relationships, but the latter retorts that he once supposedly dated a "Marian Lemieux" from Canada (likely inspired by Canadian hockey player Mario Lemieux), who he met at camp but left for a modelling emergency before Erica (who was also attending that camp) could meet her.
- Invented Individual: Both "Lampie" (later replaced by "Paintsie McBallerton") and "Jordan". A cool guy going by the name Jordan Wahlberg does show up at the end to compliment Erica, but he's really just someone Adam asked to corroborate Erica's stories, recognizing her feelings for Geoff as stronger than the crush he had on Waffle Girl.
- Irony: Barry, who wants to go to Live Aid, refuses Bev's offer to take him to see The Beach Boys, neither of them realizing she was going to see them at Live Aid until Bev and Murray are already stuck in traffic.
- Line-of-Sight Name: This episode has Adam wanting to do this to impress Waffle Girl, but Erica beats him to it by saying her new boyfriend is Jordan Wahlberg. Of course her façade falls apart in front of the JTP.
- Parking Problems: Murray and another man fight over the "perfect" space for the entire length of Live Aid, to Beverly's consternation. The end-of-episode clip to Adam's real-life childhood is also of Murray and a stranger fighting over a parking space.
- Shout-Out: The episode title refers to a famous instance of an Invented Individual from The Brady Bunch, which is name checked by the show's characters.
