Oscar, as usual, finds himself short on funds right before the weekly poker game. When the lights go out and fifty dollars disappears from the pot, everyone thinks he's responsible.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- 30-Second Blackout: The lights go out during the weekly poker game and come back on a few minutes later. However, that's long enough for fifty dollars to disappear from the pot.
- Blind Mistake: While he's standing in the corner, a partially eaten sandwich catches Felix's eye and he sees that the maker (Oscar) mistook the dollar bill for lettuce in the dark.
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: When Felix asks for some assurance that Oscar can actually pay the debts he's likely to accumulate from that night's game, Oscar says that any check he writes won't bounce and dares a bolt of lightning to strike him if he's lying. An electrical problem with the socket nearby leaves him looking very nervous.
- Brick Joke: Felix knows their neighbor's very attractive new maid because he met her while on a shopping trip. At the end of the episode, the two of them meet up to go shopping together.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Speed spends so much time ogling an attractive maid that he misses his floor.
- Exact Words: Oscar tries to ask Felix for fifty dollars right before the poker game and gets rebuffed before he can even ask the question. When he protests that what he's going to ask didn't have to do with fifty dollars, Felix lets him ask it. It turns out he wants forty dollars.
- Returning to the Scene: While reading a book for ideas, Oscar sees a passage saying that a criminal back at the scene of the crime would give himself away. He rousts everyone out of bed to reenact the crime scene.
- Shout-Out:
- While pondering how to prove his innocence, Oscar wonders how Charlie Chan would do it.
- When he asks Felix to take off his sleep mask, he says he doesn't feel like talking to The Lone Ranger.
