To prove to Bykov that he can't hurt him by mocking his fathers, Phil decides to just tell his patients himself... which leads to all six of them refusing him, thinking that he is gay. Meanwhile, Gleb's patient just can't stop hiccuping. When everything else fails, he tries the "folk method" and just scares her, which leads to near-fatal heart attack. Bykov tells Gleb that the only way for him to redeem himself (besides a full week of night shifts) is to cooperate with Phil to help him with his problem... by acting so incompetent, Phil's patient would demand Phil back.
Varya's patient's husband is sure that she cheats on him, and that her lover would attempt to pay her a visit. She only needs to spot him, and call husband. But that lover is no one else but Kupitman. Varya fails to keep this hidden, and warns the guy, but he doesn't believe that his wife may have an affair with someone so old... until his wife (whom Varya asked for this) confirms that, after which he barely resists temptation to kill Kupitman right here and now.
Lobanov's patient is a bookmaker, who quickly provokes him into making a bet. But Lobanov is uncertain that this is a right one, and constantly forces him to change the bet. In the end, he loses... because his original one was correct after all.
This episode provides examples of:
- Cassandra Truth: Subverted. Varya's patient's husband did believe her initially when she told him that his wife's lover is Kupitman, but when he sees Kupitman personally, he says that his wife wouldn't fall for someone so old. Then Varya asks his wife to tell him everything, because she can't keep this hidden forever, and sooner or later her husband would learn the truth. This time, the husband believes the truth.
- Everyone Has Standards: Phil and Bykov have a conflict over Bykov telling about Phil's gay parents to Gleb and Semyon, so Phil decides to prove that it's normal... by telling his patients, who one by one refuses him after hearing that. Bykov helps Phil fixing the situation by sending Gleb with a task of screwing up so badly, the patients would want Phil back. He then explains to Phil that while they may mock each other within a collective, they would never tell such info to outsiders, if not for it being amoral, than for it disrupting their jobs.
- Gave Up Too Soon: Had Lobanov just stick to his original bet, instead of correcting it all the time, he would've earned a good money. Instead, he loses them.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Phil thought that if he would tell his patients about his fathers, he would deprive Bykov of his fun, and come out as a winner. But his patients reacts negatively to this, and all of them asks for another doctor. As Bykov explains to him, telling this to his colleagues is fine (as much as they may love to mock him, they would not tell this to outsiders), but his patients may (and should) live without that information, because it would not help them in any way and in fact would disrupt his work: Russia is a very conservative country. He even makes a hypothetical example with a lavement and (supposedly) homosexual doctor: who would entrust his ass to a doctor who may have ulterior motives for that? Now, they must somehow restore his "reputation", or he would not be able to do his work.
- Hiccup Hijinks: Gleb's patient can't stop hiccuping. When everything else fails, he tries to just scare her ("folk method"!), which leads to a near-fatal heart attack.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Invoked by Bykov: his plans involves Gleb (whom he specifically introduced as a straight man from a "normal heterosexual family") acting so rude, incompetent and plain moronic, that Phil's patients would demand Phil back, even though they previously universally refused him because he's apparently gay.
- Kavorka Man: Works in Kupitman's favour: his lover's husband quickly decides that he may not be his wife's lover, because he is too old, and he "knows" that she would not be interested in the men above thirty. Unknowingly to him, Kupitman is, indeed, his wife's lover.
- Kick the Dog: Continuation of Bykov's "funny" jokes about Phil's fathers from the previous episode. When just mocking Phil for this is no longer enough, he tells this to Gleb and Semyon. They immediately proceeds to mock Phil even further once he appears.
- Mathematician's Answer: When Varya refuses to lie to cover him, Kupitman suggests to tell the truth without going into specifics: when the husband would ask "did the lover appear here?", she would tell "yes", and when he'd ask "who he was?", she would tell "a doctor". Technically true, but without anything which can specifically point to him. This fails, because he asks wether she knows who specifically it was, so she tells him about Kupitman.
- Mistaken for Gay: Predictable result of Phil telling that he has two gay fathers to his patients is being mistaken for gay himself. All of them refuses him.
- Never Heard That One Before: Phil tells Gleb and Semyon (when they attempts to mock him) that they may not bother to create a "creative and funny" joke about his fathers, since every single possible joke was already done to death before he even moved to Russia.
- Not Worth Killing: While initially sceptical (he considers Kupitman to be... a little too old for this) that Kupitman may be his wife's lover, when Varya's patient's husband confirms this, he is after Kupitman's head. But in the middle of strangling him, he realises that Kupitman is too pathetic to be a serious threat, so he just warns him to not try this again, or the next meeting would be Kupitman's last. Bykov considers this to be extremely funny, and mocks Kupitman for that.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: When Lobanov "offers" to change his bet, bookmaker is forced to comply, because Semyon makes it pretty clear that, as his doctor, he may make his life an utter hell if he refuses. In the end, Lobanov still loses, because his original bet was correct after all.
- Will Not Tell a Lie: Varya choses to never lie again (because her lies previously ruined her relationship with Gleb). Unfortunately, Kupitman asks her to cover his relationship with Varya's patient from the patient's husband. He later uses this against her in attempt to provoke her into calling Lyuba fat as revenge... but she avoids this by starting chewing candies.
