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* ShoutOut: Frank gets Mac to paint his chair gold the same way [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]] got other kids to paint his aunt's fence.
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* BlatantLies: Dee tells Ingrid that she is a working model who went to high school and loved it.
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* HollywoodBeautyStandards: Dennis starts looking for a model that matches his sketches only to find they don't exist. So he's telling a gorgeous, slim and busty model to suck in her gut.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Dennis starts sketching his own dress designs but are really just crude caricatures of busty women, some of which have no clothing at all. Dee comments that they don't have rib cages.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Dennis starts sketching his own dress designs but are really just crude caricatures of busty women, some of which have no clothing at all. Dee comments that they don't have rib cages.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The dialogue in this episode strongly indicates that Dennis' high school popularity was real. This contrasts with the later seasons, which make it clear that Dennis was never popular, just deluded. Though this could be explained away as a result of Dennis gaslighting the rest of the gang which would be perfectly in character for him.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The dialogue in this episode strongly indicates that Dennis' high school popularity was real. This contrasts with the later seasons, which make it clear that Dennis was never popular, just deluded. Though this could be explained away as a result of Dennis gaslighting the rest of the gang which would be perfectly in character for him. Regardless, the police officer at the end acknowledges that he remembers Dennis being one of the cool kids.
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--> "''Okay, first off, your breath smells like an old lady fart passing through an onion...''"
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--> "''Okay, first off, I'm gonna stop you there. First of all, your breath smells like an old lady fart passing through an onion...''"
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* YouNeedABreathMint: Dee has an especially colorful way of saying this when Mac gets a little too close:
--> "''Okay, first off, your breath smells like an old lady fart passing through an onion...''"
--> "''Okay, first off, your breath smells like an old lady fart passing through an onion...''"
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The dialogue in this episode strongly indicates that Dennis' high school popularity was real. This contrasts with the later seasons, which make it clear that Dennis was never popular, just deluded.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The dialogue in this episode strongly indicates that Dennis' high school popularity was real. This contrasts with the later seasons, which make it clear that Dennis was never popular, just deluded. Though this could be explained away as a result of Dennis gaslighting the rest of the gang which would be perfectly in character for him.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frank and Mac's "sweatshop" gets more and more like a forced labor camp the longer the episode goes on, with eastern European women appearing out of nowhere to work the sewing machines. This lampshaded when Frank comments that the German war propaganda playing over the speakers is a nice touch. You can even hear [[Music/RichardWagner Wagner's]] StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries playing in the background at one point.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frank and Mac's "sweatshop" gets more and more like a forced labor camp the longer the episode goes on, with eastern European women appearing out of nowhere to work the sewing machines. This lampshaded when Frank comments that the German war propaganda playing over the speakers is a nice touch. You can even hear [[Music/RichardWagner Wagner's]] StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries "StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries" playing in the background at one point.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frank and Mac's "sweatshop" gets more and more like a forced labor camp the longer the episode goes on, with eastern European women appearing out of nowhere to work the sewing machines. This lampshaded when Frank comments that the German war propaganda playing over the speakers is a nice touch. You can even hear [[Music/RichardWagner Wagner's]] StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries playing in the background at one point.
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* InformedDeformity: When showing off his dress model, Dennis keeps calling her ugly, claiming she has tiny breasts and her gut is huge, when neither of these things are true. As far as the viewer can tell, she simply doesn't match Dennis's hypersexualized illustrations. Ingrid repeatedly tries to point out that the model looks fine, and the problem is that she's done no favors by the dress (calling it "an ill-fitting garbage bag"), but Dennis just interprets the "ill-fitting" part as [[NeverMyFault meaning the exact opposite and that he needs to find a better model.]]
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* InformedDeformity: When showing off his dress model, Dennis keeps calling her ugly, claiming she has tiny breasts and her gut is huge, when neither of these things are true. As far as the viewer can tell, she she's a very pretty woman who, at worst, simply doesn't match Dennis's hypersexualized illustrations. Ingrid repeatedly tries to point out that the model looks fine, and the problem is that she's done no favors by the dress (calling it "an ill-fitting garbage bag"), but Dennis just interprets the "ill-fitting" part as [[NeverMyFault meaning the exact opposite and that he needs to find a better model.]]
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* InformedDeformity: When showing off his dress model, Dennis keeps calling her ugly, claiming she has tiny breasts and her gut is huge, when neither of these things are true. As far as the viewer can tell, she simply doesn't match Dennis's hypersexualized illustrations. Ingrid repeatedly tries to point out that the model looks fine, and the problem is that she's done no favors by the dress (calling it "an ill-fitting garbage bag"), but Dennis just interprets the "ill-fitting" part as [[NeverMyFault meaning the exact opposite and that he needs to find a better model.]]
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The dialogue in this episode implies that Dennis' high school popularity was real. This contrasts with the later seasons, which make it clear that Dennis was never popular, just deluded.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Dee is envious of Ingrid's success, which causes Dee to want to take her down.
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* SerialRapist: Implied with Dennis, who admits that, as a "winner," he doesn't hear words like "no, don't, or stop."
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* SnowballLie: Dennis lies that Ingrid purchased 25, then 100 copies of his prototype dress. This escalates into Frank and Mac ratcheting up their sewing operation into a sweatshop with German war propaganda, Dee attempting to arrest Ingrid for slave labor, and Dennis bursting into Ingrid's office in full drag because he couldn't find a model meeting his ludicrous standards.
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* SnowballLie: Dennis lies that Ingrid purchased 25, then 100 copies of his prototype dress. This escalates into Frank and Mac ratcheting up their sewing operation into a sweatshop with German war propaganda, Dee attempting to arrest Ingrid for slave labor, and Dennis bursting into Ingrid's office in full drag because he couldn't find a model willing to work with him and meeting his ludicrous standards.
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* SnowballLie: Dennis lies that Ingrid purchased 25, then 100 copies of his prototype dress. This escalates into Frank and Mac ratcheting up their sewing operation into a sweatshop with German war propaganda, Dee attempting to arrest Ingrid for slave labor, and Dennis bursting into Ingrid's office in full drag.
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* SnowballLie: Dennis lies that Ingrid purchased 25, then 100 copies of his prototype dress. This escalates into Frank and Mac ratcheting up their sewing operation into a sweatshop with German war propaganda, Dee attempting to arrest Ingrid for slave labor, and Dennis bursting into Ingrid's office in full drag.drag because he couldn't find a model meeting his ludicrous standards.
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* BackhandedCompliment: Ingrid's first conversation with Dee is one long series of these, in which almost every compliment comes with a reminder of how much of a loser the other used to be: "You look so different -- what happened to all the fat parts?" "You look so beautiful! You don't have that hideously ugly, disgusting back brace anymore! Do you remember how you used to say that you were gonna be famous, and all the kids did was laugh at you?"
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-->'''Ingrid:''' You must be so busy!
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'''Dee:''' So busy! So busy that I have to go!
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-->'''Mark:''' ''(to Dee)'' I used to know your brother. Now he was a pretty cool guy, whatever happened to him?
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-->'''Mark:''' ''(to Dee)'' I used to know your brother. Now he was a pretty cool guy, whatever happened to him?
-->''(Dennishim?\\
''(Dennis bursts into the room wearing his prototype dress, makeup and fakebreasts.)''breasts)''
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* NeverMyFault: Dennis's singleminded refusal to acknowledge that Ingrid doesn't want his dresses quickly turns into this. Even when Ingrid point-blank calls the dress an ill-fitting garbage bag and threatens to call the police, his takeaway from this is that the model is ugly (she isn't) and she's making the dress look bad.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The dialogue in this episode indicates that Dennis' high school popularity was real. This contrasts with the later seasons, which make it clear that Dennis was just deluded rather than legitimately cool.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The dialogue in this episode indicates that Dennis' high school popularity was real. This contrasts with the later seasons, which make it clear that Dennis was never popular, just deluded rather than legitimately cool.deluded.
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* MusicToInvadePolandTo: Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" can be heard playing during the German war propaganda.
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* LiteralMinded: When Frank tells Mac to treat Charlie like a dog, Mac starts treating him like an actual dog. It works.
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Dee is jealous of an old high school friend, who is now thin and making a name for herself with her own boutique. Meanwhile, Frank and Mac run a sweatshop while Dennis tries to find a model for his ill-designed dress.
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->''"I've got a fatty to take down."''
->'''-- Dee'''
Deeis becomes jealous of an old when she runs into Ingrid Nelson, a FormerlyFat high school friend, who is now thin classmate turned successful fashion designer, and making a name for herself decides to get into the fashion business to put her in her place. Meanwhile Dennis decides to design his own dress but quickly becomes obsessed with her own boutique. Meanwhile, finding the perfect woman to model it, and Frank and Mac run oversee manufacturing by running a sweatshop while from the basement of Paddy's.
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* BadassBoast: Dennis's response when Dee claims he "peaked" in high school.
-->'''Dennis:''' Let me tell you something: I haven't even begun to peak. And when I do peak, you'll know. Because I'm gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia's gonna feel it.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Dee claims that she caught Charlie "enjoying" Dennis's lewd sketches a great deal.
* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E03UnderageDrinking Dee wearing a back brace in high school]] is mentioned yet again.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Dennis eventually decides that he is the only one worthy of wearing his dress, and the ending of the episode has him bursting into Ingrid's office in it, complete with full makeup and basketballs as "breasts".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frank and Mac's "sweatshop" gets more and more like a forced labor camp the longer the episode goes on, with eastern European women appearing out of nowhere to work the sewing machines. This lampshaded when Frank comments that the German war propaganda playing over the speakers is a nice touch.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Dee and Ingrid were respectively known as the Aluminum Monster and Fatty Magoo in high school. Ingrid seems a lot less bitter about it than Dee is.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The cop who Dee tries to get to arrest Ingrid reveals that he went to high school with them.
* EvilMentor: Frank becomes one to Mac, teaching him how to manipulate people and run a sweatshop.
* FencePainting: Frank manipulates Mac into spray painting his chair gold at the beginning of the episode.
* FormerlyFat: Ingrid.
* HiddenDepths: Charlie is revealed to be quite skilled at sewing, as he claims that he's been fixing his own clothes his entire life.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Dee's less than graceful attempts to get away from Ingrid after running into her while out shopping.
-->'''Ingrid:''' You must be so busy!
-->'''Dee:''' So busy! So busy that I have to go!
* InadvertentEntranceCue:
-->'''Mark:''' ''(to Dee)'' I used to know your brother. Now he was a pretty cool guy, whatever happened to him?
-->''(Dennis bursts into the room wearing his prototype dress, makeup and fake breasts.)''
* LimitedWardrobe: Dee takes Charlie shopping as he only owns "like four articles of clothing".
* ManipulativeBastard: Frank outright admits to being this.
-->'''Mac:''' Why am I helping you?
-->'''Frank:''' Because I'm manipulating you. That's the way I get people to do things for me.
* MirrorMonologue: Dennis has one when he's psyching himself up to model his dress.
* NoMeansYes: According to Dennis it does, anyway.
-->'''Dennis:''' I'm not gonna take no for an answer, because I just refuse to do that, because I'm a winner. And winners, we don't listen to words like "no" or "don't" or "stop". Those words are just not in our vocabulary.
* OnlySaneMan: Dee is the only one who seems to be aware of how utterly insane everyone is going when Frank and Mac implement a full-on sweatshop in the basement of the bar and succeed in completely breaking Charlie's spirit.
* ThePerfectionist: Dennis shows signs of this while trying to find a modelfor he deems attractive enough to wear his ill-designed dress.dress.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Ingrid, an overweight loser in high school, is now thin, beautiful and the owner of a successful clothing line. Subverted with Dee, however; although it's noted that she's become much more outwardly attractive since her high school days, her personality has only grown more twisted with age.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Dennis constantly refers to himself as a "winner" and genuinely seems to believe that his dress is a masterpiece, when the reality is pretty much the exact opposite.
* StickyFingers: Charlie steals several items of clothing from Ingrid's store at the beginning of the episode.
* TerribleArtist: A running gag throughout the episode is that all of Dee's sketches are childish stick figures wearing oddly-shaped garments. While Dennis appears to have slightly more artistic skill, his sketches are equally useless to a fashion designer in that they're all borderline pornographic images of large-breasted women, some of whom aren't even wearing clothes.
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Dee
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!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* BadassBoast: Dennis's response when Dee claims he "peaked" in high school.
-->'''Dennis:''' Let me tell you something: I haven't even begun to peak. And when I do peak, you'll know. Because I'm gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia's gonna feel it.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Dee claims that she caught Charlie "enjoying" Dennis's lewd sketches a great deal.
* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E03UnderageDrinking Dee wearing a back brace in high school]] is mentioned yet again.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Dennis eventually decides that he is the only one worthy of wearing his dress, and the ending of the episode has him bursting into Ingrid's office in it, complete with full makeup and basketballs as "breasts".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frank and Mac's "sweatshop" gets more and more like a forced labor camp the longer the episode goes on, with eastern European women appearing out of nowhere to work the sewing machines. This lampshaded when Frank comments that the German war propaganda playing over the speakers is a nice touch.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Dee and Ingrid were respectively known as the Aluminum Monster and Fatty Magoo in high school. Ingrid seems a lot less bitter about it than Dee is.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The cop who Dee tries to get to arrest Ingrid reveals that he went to high school with them.
* EvilMentor: Frank becomes one to Mac, teaching him how to manipulate people and run a sweatshop.
* FencePainting: Frank manipulates Mac into spray painting his chair gold at the beginning of the episode.
* FormerlyFat: Ingrid.
* HiddenDepths: Charlie is revealed to be quite skilled at sewing, as he claims that he's been fixing his own clothes his entire life.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Dee's less than graceful attempts to get away from Ingrid after running into her while out shopping.
-->'''Ingrid:''' You must be so busy!
-->'''Dee:''' So busy! So busy that I have to go!
* InadvertentEntranceCue:
-->'''Mark:''' ''(to Dee)'' I used to know your brother. Now he was a pretty cool guy, whatever happened to him?
-->''(Dennis bursts into the room wearing his prototype dress, makeup and fake breasts.)''
* LimitedWardrobe: Dee takes Charlie shopping as he only owns "like four articles of clothing".
* ManipulativeBastard: Frank outright admits to being this.
-->'''Mac:''' Why am I helping you?
-->'''Frank:''' Because I'm manipulating you. That's the way I get people to do things for me.
* MirrorMonologue: Dennis has one when he's psyching himself up to model his dress.
* NoMeansYes: According to Dennis it does, anyway.
-->'''Dennis:''' I'm not gonna take no for an answer, because I just refuse to do that, because I'm a winner. And winners, we don't listen to words like "no" or "don't" or "stop". Those words are just not in our vocabulary.
* OnlySaneMan: Dee is the only one who seems to be aware of how utterly insane everyone is going when Frank and Mac implement a full-on sweatshop in the basement of the bar and succeed in completely breaking Charlie's spirit.
* ThePerfectionist: Dennis shows signs of this while trying to find a model
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Ingrid, an overweight loser in high school, is now thin, beautiful and the owner of a successful clothing line. Subverted with Dee, however; although it's noted that she's become much more outwardly attractive since her high school days, her personality has only grown more twisted with age.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Dennis constantly refers to himself as a "winner" and genuinely seems to believe that his dress is a masterpiece, when the reality is pretty much the exact opposite.
* StickyFingers: Charlie steals several items of clothing from Ingrid's store at the beginning of the episode.
* TerribleArtist: A running gag throughout the episode is that all of Dee's sketches are childish stick figures wearing oddly-shaped garments. While Dennis appears to have slightly more artistic skill, his sketches are equally useless to a fashion designer in that they're all borderline pornographic images of large-breasted women, some of whom aren't even wearing clothes.
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