A Plot: Beverly is thrilled to have coworkers for the first time and sets out to make them all love her.
B Plot: Geoff competes in a beauty pageant to prove to Erica that he can be seen as desirable by other women.
- Always Second Best: Geoff's main concern is that he's the kind of guy that girls like Erica settle for, in comparison to physically attractive men. This is exemplified when his talent for the pageant is playing alto saxophone, but he's immediately upstaged by the other three non-Barry contestants just removing their shirts. Averted in the end, when Erica demonstrating how he's more empathetic than the muscular men leads to him winning the pageant.
- Beauty Pageant: The focus of the B-Plot.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Beverly had tried to befriend the teachers by making them cake, parm and parmed cake.
- Call-Back: Clips from past episodes of Beverly arguing with the teachers plays when Beverly wonders what she could've possibly done to make her new coworkers bothered with her. Additionally, Barry's video for the pageant is a rejected American Gladiators audition, which he's tried auditioning for in the past.
- Dark Horse Victory: Geoff ends up winning the Mr. Ships Ahoy pageant instead of the more physically attractive contestants (or Barry), because Erica cuts in to quiz him on their relationship and his perfect score wins the all-female crowd over.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Upon finding out that Pops was a previous winner of the Mr. Ships Ahoy male pageant, Geoff goes to him for advice...but said advice is incredibly sexist and outdated, such as "winking at the dames" and to "goose their caboose".
- Eye Scream: In the aftermath of Beverly's "spirit day", the young new teacher tells her "My retina's not reattaching like you said it would." She's later seen wearing an eyepatch.
- The Key Is Behind the Lock: Bev put a security lock on the teacher's lounge, only the teachers can't go out because they don't know the code. Bev has the code in her purse, which she unfortunately left in the car. Luckily, when Principal Ball enters shortly after, he leaves the door open.
- Knife-Throwing Act: Barry's talent for the pageant is this. It does not go well (mainly because he'd never thrown a knife before then), with the first knife bouncing off the target, and the second hitting a stagehand behind a curtain. The Tag has him practice with Geoff, who tries to convince Barry to throw softer items at him.
- Revenge by Proxy: After Beverly's attempt to bond with the teachers in an impromptu "spirit day" ends with her coworkers injured, they all take it out on Adam, having him be the only student to take pop quizzes the next day and drafting him onto the football team without giving him a helmet.
- Self-Deprecation: Soon after becoming a finalist in the pageant (by being one of the only five guys that submitted a video entry), Geoff admits the reason he signed up was concern that Erica is merely "settling" for him, and was hoping to prove to both her and himself that he's a legitimately desirable person. He even disses himself during the interview portion of the pageant before Erica cuts in to make him demonstrate how much he cares about her.
- Swapped Roles: Beverly's about to give up at the end of the A Plot, having fought so hard for Adam against the teachers over the years that she's seemingly gained their permanent hatred, until Adam chooses to fight for Beverly and convince the teachers to give her a chance.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Beverly starts the episode expecting all of her coworkers to already be closely bonded, even namedropping Cheers, and is dismayed when they merely tolerate each other (let alone their opinion of her).
- Yes-Man: A new face in the school is a young teacher that works with a grade before Adam's, who always goes with the majority opinion without complaining because she doesn't want to be ostracized.
