Jack takes Liz to a high society party in honor of an Austrian prince, while Jenna tags along. Meanwhile, Tracy tries to get Pete to cheat on his wife, while Kenneth tries to convince him otherwise.
The episode uses the following tropes:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Prince Gerhardt is smitten with Jenna. Jenna...doesn't quite reciprocate.
- Amicable Exes: Subverted with Jack and his ex-wife, Bianca. They can act friendly towards each other, but they're both clearly not over each other and devoted to making the other unhappy. When Bianca's led to believe that Jack proposed to Liz, she goes into a frenzy and attacks her.
- Annoying Laugh: When Prince Gerhardt laughs, it comes out more as a loud scream.
- Bilingual Bonus: Both Liz and Jack speak fluent German.
- The Conscience and The Corrupter: Kenneth and Tracy take these roles, respectively, when it comes to Pete. To make the subtext clearer, when they poke their heads into the men's bathroom through the vents, Kenneth's is lit blue, while Tracy's is lit red.Kenneth: Remember the vows you and your wife took!...you promised fidelity—Tracy: Lick! Her! Face!
- The Casanova: Jack has apparently slept with almost every woman at the party, and he lists many other former paramours, including Elizabeth Hurley, Beyonce, and Martha Stewart.
- Defeat by Modesty: Bianca attempts to pull this on Liz, pulling down the top of her dress and her bra so that she's topless. Liz pulls it up again, and is philosophical about it later.
- Driven to Suicide: It's implied that Prince Gerhardt drank champagne knowing that it would kill him (not through alcohol, which is technically poison, but through the grapes his body can't metabolize.)
- Fake Relationship: Jack and Liz pretend to be a couple in front of Bianca, Jack's ex-wife.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Jenna downs her glass of champagne as she puts up with Prince Gerhardt.
- Rooting for the Empire: In-Universe, the pious Kenneth apparently thinks that the dance-loving teenagers of Footloose are the bad guys.
- Royal Inbreeding: Prince Gerhardt, as part of the Habsburg dynasty, is grotesquely inbred, and it's taken a physical toll on him: he has floppy puppet legs, horrible teeth, clawed hands, and is unable to metabolize grapes, resulting in his death.
- Translation: "Yes": A long German sentence is translated by the subtitles to "yeah".
- Younger Than He Looks: To Jenna's shock, Prince Gerhardt is only twenty-five.
