The Gang Deal with Alternate Reality
Diane dreams that Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election. Cancer gets cured, but the metoo movement never took off. To her horror, Diane finds out that she's representing Harvey Weinstein. Clinton's corporate tax has put the firm in financial trouble.
Eventually, Diane goes home to discover that Felix Staples plays guitar on something called Trump TV and a Chris Lima is fixing her door. She meets Kurt in her dream, assures him she'll defend his guns wih him, and wakes up to learn she's only been out for ten minutes.
Tropes
- All Just a Dream: The entire episode is Diane hallucinating.
- Alternate Universe: One where Hillary Clinton won the Presidency and the #MeToo movement never took off because of her support of men like Weinstein.
- Dream Tells You to Wake Up: Dream Kurt instructs Diane to try to remember what happened before her dream started.
- Shout-Out: Dream Felix Staples does a cover of "Hey Mickey" dedicated to a Gary.
- Take That!:
- Dream Liz wonders where the Obamas were during Diane's dream about the Trump presidency.
- Much of the episode highlights that Trump's awfulness didn't mean there would have been nothing wrong with Hillary's presidency.
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Diane more or less explains word for word how Harvey Weinstein would attempt to pressure Lucca into sex/trap her in his room. Dream Lucca and Dream Marissa are put off by this when it happens and they thus, thankfully, avoid any consequences.Dream Marissa: Is Diane a witch?
- This Is Reality:
- Dream Marissa at first wonders why Trump would have won the election in Diane's dream, if she dreamed that Hillary got three million more votes, but decides that anything can happen in a dream.
- When Diane tells Dream Liz and Adrian about her "dream" that Trump was president, they welcome her back to reality.
- Diane asks dream Marissa to treat her like she's new to her world. Marissa points out that "her world" is also known as "the real world".
- Dream Lucca points out that female associates can't afford to put their foot down like female partners.
