Against Alan's judgment, Charlie falls for a seemingly crazy woman named Frankie. Guest star: Jenna Elfman.
Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch: When Frankie goes to a mysterious big house and returns to the Harper's car with her daughter Joanie, Charlie looks as if to confirm their worst suspicions about Frankie.Charlie: (to Alan) You were right...we should've taken the Volvo.
- Batter Up!: Alan and Charlie meet Frankie when she is destroying her psychiatrist's char with a baseball bat.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Alan and Frankie meet this way as they clash with one another and make snarky comments toward one another. Alan doesn't really like her, at first.
- Berserk Button: Frankie really didn't like being told she has anger issues from the corrupt psychiatrist who hit on her.Frankie: He said I have anger issues. (hits car window with a baseball bat)
- Betty and Veronica: Alan is the Betty and Charlie's the Veronica over Frankie's Archie.
- Big Fancy House: Alan and Charlie take note of the nice house Frankie stops at so she could pick up a few things.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
- Charlie ogling Frankie as she destroys a car with a baseball bat. As he quips to Alan, "Look at the passion, the fire...the ass!".
- Frankie naming some of the unnecessary medications the perverted psychiatrist gave her, "Antidepressants, tranquilizers, sleeping pills..." Then she offers them to Alan and Charlie before tossing the meds out the window.
- Alan's many guesses for who makes Frankie pancakes.
Alan: So nobody makes you pancakes where you live? Not your husband? Boyfriend? ...Girlfriend? Mother? Father? Grandma? ...Cellmate? - Cloudcuckoolander: Frankie seems to be this as she's believed to be crazy considering the way she talks and how trashed her shrink's car with a baseball bat and threw prescription drugs out the car window. Then it turns out, she isn't as crazy as the brothers believe her to be.
- Crazy in the Head, Crazy in the Bed: Charlie is extremely attracted to Frankie not only in spite of her craziness, but because of it, thinking it will make her a passionate, unrestrained lover. Alan is baffled by the idea, but soon is just as attracted to Frankie as Charlie is.Alan: [watching her destroy a car with her baseball bat] This woman is clearly a lunatic.
Charlie: Yeah, but look at the passion, the fire... the ass. - Crocodile Tears: Frankie makes these to get Charlie and Alan to stop fighting so they could drive her to a big house.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Charlie and Alan space out when Frankie describes an erotic dream she had.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Charlie takes the opportunity to watch from the deck as Frankie swims in the ocean naked.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Alan asking if all cars have an alarm system. Then kicking it, setting off the alarm.Alan: Don't cars like this have an alarm system? (kicks the car, the alarm goes off)Frankie: Thanks! Thanks a lot!
- Foreshadowing: Frankie telling the Harper brothers that she's having "family problems".
- Girl of the Week: Frankie, to Alan and Charlie.
- Gender-Blender Name: Frankie.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Charlie finds a crazy woman destroying her shrink's car with a baseball bat sexy.Charlie: That's a very sexy woman.Alan: I'm sorry. That arouses you?
- Love Triangle: Charlie and Alan find themselves competing over new girl Frankie.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Alan kicking the car and setting off the alarm causes the Harper brothers to panic and they have to take Frankie with them.
- Noodle Incident: Rose supergluing Charlie's testicles to his thigh.Rose: You might wanna be careful with a girl like that, Charlie. One day it's baseball bats and windshields, the next day you wake up with your testicles superglued to your thigh. I'm sorry about that, by the way.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Alan, when he kicks the car Frankie is destroying with a baseball bat and the car alarm goes off.
- Again, when Frankie asks if Charlie and Alan know a place she could stay and Charlie smiles.
- Prison Rape: Implied when Charlie and Alan discuss what would happen if they had to do hard time.Alan: I can't do hard time, Charlie. I have allergies.Charlie: Yeah. That's gonna be your biggest problem.
- The Reveal: When Frankie goes inside a nice big house to pick up something important: her daughter Joanie.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Upon arriving at the Harper beach house, Frankie immediately begins stripping out of her clothes when she sees that the Harpers live right at the beach and she goes swimming in the ocean nude. Charlie has no problem with it. Alan is alarmed by her behavior.
- Shout-Out:
- Frankie calls Alan "Mush Mouth" due to his lisp.
- Charlie chants "Tora, Tora, Tora!" as he Alan and Frankie enjoy warm saki with their dinner.
- Sibling Triangle: As the day goes by, Alan and Charlie find themselves fighting over Frankie.
- Wham Line: Two from Frankie.
- The first one when she's talking on the phone in her room.
Frankie: (on the phone) Are they looking for me? You didn't say anything, did you? (hears a knock at her bedroom door) I love you. I gotta go. Call you soon.- The second when she's telling her daughter where's their next destination.
Joanie: Where are we going, Mommy?Frankie: We're going to Charlie and Alan's house, Hon. It's a wonderful place where those awful people will never find us.
