Oscar wins a car on Dick Clark's radio show, using Felix's knowledge of opera. Trouble starts from the get-go when Oscar tries to take full possession of the car. Even after he and Felix agree to share it, they quickly find that the two of them owning and needing to park a car is no cakewalk.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Big Rotten Apple: Oscar wins a new car through a radio game show using Felix's answers. After an entire episode of them agonizing over parking it, they ultimately look out their window to find the car with most of its parts stolen, which pretty much forces them to sell what remains of it to Pushover Paige.
- Brick Joke:
- Oscar tries to bribe Myrna and Murray to side with him in the car dispute by offering to take them on an outing somewhere, specifically suggesting the funhouse to Murray. After he and Felix agree to share the car, Murray excitedly says that now they can go to the funhouse.
- The parking lot owner offers to give Felix and Oscar a parking space for $200, claiming that it's the same price he charged his mother. After the two leave, he says that once they've tried parking on the streets for a while, they'll come back begging...like his mother did.
- Comically Small Bribe: Oscar and Felix are trying to get bumped up the waiting list for a space in a mid-town parking garage. Felix tries to "schmooze" the owner (played in a delightful guest shot by John Byner) by coyly displaying some currency:Felix: Will...um...this get us anything?Owner: (Glances at bill) Yeah — two fives.
- Gag Nose: When talking about the funhouse, Oscar mentions how the funny mirrors will shrink Murray's nose.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: When Felix chews him out over trying to commit insurance fraud, Oscar says that the guy he's calling is a big businessman with nothing to hide. Then he introduces himself over the phone as "Goldilocks" and asks to talk to "Papa Bear."
- Runaway Bride: Amusingly, the episode combines this with Runaway Groom. Felix comes home early from a wedding because the intended couple jilted each other, leaving him and the caterer standing at the altar.
- Sore Loser: When Felix successfully points to the spot on the chart that proves he needs to park the car, Oscar punches it hard enough to put a hole through it before storming out to take care of it.
- Tempting Fate: After agreeing to sell the car, Felix waxes poetic about it using words from John Keats' poem "Endymion". As he reaches the line "it shall never pass into nothingness", he looks out the window...and sees the car stripped of parts and covered in spray-paint graffiti.
- The Triple: Oscar receives a call from Dick Clark, who picked his name out of the phone book to quiz a random person on opera. Given that Oscar's standing right next to Felix, he's able to hear and repeat Felix's answers. The first two times that he lists a prize (opera records and a magazine subscription), he describes it as Felix having won something. After Dick tells him about the biggie prize, he yells that he won a car.
- Worse with Context: When Oscar asks "Pushover Paige" the car buyer how much the car is worth with depreciation, she mutters, "$3000". Oscar thinks that's not bad...until she corrects him that the $3000 is the depreciation, not the price. With all the fees, her offer is $900.
