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* ComicallyIneptHealing: Charlie treats Mac's concussion by giving him poppers. Though weirdly, it seems to work.



* WorstAid: Charlie treats Mac's concussion by giving him poppers. Though weirdly, it seems to work.

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* WorstAid: Charlie treats Mac's concussion by giving him poppers. Though weirdly, it seems to work.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Luther's full name is given as "Luther Mac" in his parole papers, implying Mac went on a LastNameBasis: The Season 7 finale would later establish Mac's full name as "Ronald [=McDonald=]", and Luther later uses this last name as well.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Luther's full name is given as "Luther Mac" in his parole papers, implying Mac went on a LastNameBasis: LastNameBasis. The Season 7 finale would later establish Mac's full name as "Ronald [=McDonald=]", and Luther later uses this last name as well.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Luther's full name is given as "Luther Mac" in his parole papers, implying Mac went on a LastNameBasis: The Season 7 finale would later establish Mac's full name as "Ronald [=McDonald=]", and Luther later uses this last name as well.
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* TheAllegedCar: Mac and Charlie spend the latter half of the episode brutalizing Dee's car. By the end it's been rammed into a wall at speed, had a grenade detonated inside, and shot multiple times.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Mac and Charlie discover that blowing up a car is a lot more difficult in the real world than it is in the movies.
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* ThisIsReality: Mac and Charlie discover that blowing up a car is a lot more difficult in the real world than it is in the movies.

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* ThisIsReality: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Mac and Charlie discover that blowing up a car is a lot more difficult in the real world than it is in the movies.
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* AsYouKnow: Charlie explains to Mac why they're going to a pawn shop. Justified because Mac is suffering from memory loss after the accident and can't remember why they're going.
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* RealityEnsues: Mac and Charlie discover that blowing up a car is a lot more difficult in the real world than it is in the movies.

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* RealityEnsues: ThisIsReality: Mac and Charlie discover that blowing up a car is a lot more difficult in the real world than it is in the movies.
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** The masked orgy is a reference to ''Film/EyesWideShut'', even though it's far more PlayedForLaughs than it was in the film.
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* AllMenArePerverts: After discovering the gloryhole, Dee asks "why would you want to have sex with someone you couldn't see?" Mac retorts "Why ''wouldn't'' you want to have sex with someone you couldn't see?" Frank agrees that it "sounds hot."

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* AllMenArePerverts: After discovering the gloryhole, Dee asks "why would you want to have sex with someone you couldn't see?" Mac Dennis retorts "Why ''wouldn't'' you want to have sex with someone you couldn't see?" Frank agrees that it "sounds hot."
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* AllMenArePerverts: After discovering the gloryhole, Dee asks "why would you want to have sex with someone you couldn't see?" Mac retorts "Why ''wouldn't'' you want to have sex with someone you couldn't see?" Frank agrees that it "sounds hot."
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* SequelEpisode: A direct sequel to [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E11DennisLooksLikeASexOffender Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender]], an episode that ended with Luther promising to kill Mac as soon as he got out.
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* FanDisservice: Dennis and Frank attend an orgy where all the other guests are half-naked, elderly and overweight.

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* FanDisservice: Dennis and Frank attend an orgy where all the other guests are half-naked, elderly middle-aged to elderly, and overweight.

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->'''-- Mac'''

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->'''-- Mac'''
-->-- '''Mac'''




!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:

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-->'''Dee:''' There's a dick-hole in the bar, I need you to come fill it in!
-->'''Charlie:''' ''(to Mac)'' Okay, I gotta go fill her dick-hole, bro.

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-->'''Dee:''' There's a dick-hole in the bar, I need you to come fill it in!
-->'''Charlie:'''
in!\\
'''Charlie:'''
''(to Mac)'' Okay, I gotta go fill her dick-hole, bro.



-->'''Charlie:''' There's my boy! He's making plans again, he's thinking...
-->'''Mac:''' He's back!
-->'''Charlie:''' He's also wearing a wedding dress, though, and I'd like him to take it off.

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-->'''Charlie:''' There's my boy! He's making plans again, he's thinking...
-->'''Mac:'''
thinking...\\
'''Mac:'''
He's back!
-->'''Charlie:'''
back!\\
'''Charlie:'''
He's also wearing a wedding dress, though, and I'd like him to take it off.
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* BodyHorror: To Mac's ever growing concern, Charlie is able to just pull his teeth out with no resistance.
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* RealityEnsues: Mac and Charlie discover that blowing up a car is a lot more difficult in the real world than it is in the movies.
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** Briefly, ''Charlie'' fits this role during the actual faking of the death by refusing to be in the car after Mac announces he's driving it into a wall. He then continues to be this while Mac is [[ConcussionsGetYouHigh severely concussed]].

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In another two-part episode, Mac and Charlie fake their own deaths to avoid the wrath of Mac's father who was released from prison and is out for vengeance. Meanwhile, Frank and Dennis go inside the world of anonymous sex when they discover a glory hole in one of the bathroom stalls, and then mourn (as only they can) the loss of Mac and Charlie when they discover that they've killed themselves.

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In another two-part ->''"The only way my dad is not going to kill us is if he thinks we're already dead."''
->'''-- Mac'''

When Mac's father is released from prison, Mac and Charlie worry that he's out for vengeance against them and decide to fake their own deaths in order to escape his wrath. Meanwhile, Dennis and Frank become interested in anonymous sex after discovering a glory hole in one of the bar's bathroom stalls. (Part 1 of 2)
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!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:

* AccidentalInnuendo: When Dee asks Charlie to fill in the glory hole in the men's restrooms.
-->'''Dee:''' There's a dick-hole in the bar, I need you to come fill it in!
-->'''Charlie:''' ''(to Mac)'' Okay, I gotta go fill her dick-hole, bro.
* BindleStick: Charlie tries to make one at the beginning of the
episode, but complains that he can't fit all of his stuff into a bandana.
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Played for laughs; Mac becomes enamored with an antique wedding dress he finds in the pawnbroker's while suffering a concussion and later ends up wearing it while bleeding profusely.
* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: In their "will", Mac and Charlie have some very odd stipulations about what should be done with their remains. Charlie wants his ashes to made into a tea and drank by everybody in the bar, while Mac requests that his duster be burned in lieu of an actual body.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Mac mostly plays the role to Charlie, preventing him from dousing himself in lighter fluid and warning him to stop pulling his teeth out, but the dynamic is briefly reversed while Mac is suffering from a concussion.
* ConcussionsGetYouHigh: Mac ends up concussed after driving Dee's car into a brick wall and becomes disoriented and oddly fixated on a wedding dress as a result.
* ContinuityNod: Mac and Charlie are worried that Luther wants to kill them after they [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E11DennisLooksLikeASexOffender got him re-arrested]].
* EuropeansAreKinky: Discussed.
-->'''Dennis:''' Europe is leading the way in sexual exploration, and quite frankly, I think it's time we caught up.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted; Mac and Charlie attempt to blow up Dee's car by driving it into a wall, detonating a ''live grenade'' inside of it and finally shooting out the fuel tank, but none of it works and they're eventually forced to abandon the plan.
* ExplosionPropulsion: Charlie seems to think that this is how explosions work, telling Mac that he should get closer to the car to shoot out the fuel tank because the explosion will "blow him to safety".
* FanDisservice: Dennis and Frank attend an orgy where all the other guests are half-naked, elderly and overweight.
-->'''Dennis:''' I don't wanna bang any of these people, they're all paunchy and weird and old!
* FakingTheDead:
Mac and Charlie fake their own deaths in an attempt to avoid the wrath of Mac's father who was released evade Luther's wrath.
* HesBack: Said by Mac when he begins to recover
from prison his concussion.
-->'''Charlie:''' There's my boy! He's making plans again, he's thinking...
-->'''Mac:''' He's back!
-->'''Charlie:''' He's also wearing a wedding dress, though,
and is out for vengeance. Meanwhile, Frank and Dennis go inside the world of anonymous sex when I'd like him to take it off.
* IdentificationByDentalRecords: Discussed; Mac insists that
they discover a glory hole pull out several of Charlie's teeth and scatter them in one of the bathroom stalls, and then mourn (as only car so that they can) can be idntified, despite the loss of fact that that's not remotely how the trope works.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Upon being informed that
Mac and Charlie are dead, Dennis's main concern is the fact that they didn't include him in their suicide pact.
-->'''Dennis:''' My best friends went out in a blaze of glory and they didn't even ask me to be part of it! This is terrible!
* OnlySaneMan: Dee is the only one who seems to realize that Mac and Charlie are still very much alive.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The password to get into the orgy is "orgy".
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Luther is shown doing [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Sarah Connor]]-style pullups in his prison cell
when the guards come to release him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Charlie immediately bails out of the car when Mac announces his plan to drive it into a wall.
* ShoutOut:
** Mac and Charlie holding hands in the car on their video will as
they discover prepare to "die" is a visual reference to ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''.
** Mac stipulates in the will
that they've killed themselves.everyone else in the gang has to name their firstborn child "Murphy" after ''[[Film/RoboCop1987 RoboCop]]''.
* SillyWill: The will that Mac and Charlie leave for the rest of the gang definitely counts. According to Dee, it's literally titled "list of demands".
* StockLegalPhrases: Mac and Charlie both excitedly shout "objection" during Luther's parole hearing.
* SuicidePact: Mac and Charlie claim that they had one to explain their sudden "deaths".
* ThereWasADoor: A variation occurs wherein Charlie throws a chair through his apartment window when he and Mac are trying to make their escape, only for Mac to exasperatedly point out that he could have just opened it.
* TheToothHurts: Subverted; Mac prepares to remove some of Charlie's teeth using pliers and warns that it's probably going to hurt, but they're both rather surprised when the tooth just comes right out. Charlie then proceeds to pull out several more teeth using just his fingers over the remainder of the episode.
-->'''Mac:''' Man, you should really brush your teeth more because that is ''not normal.''
* VideoWills: Mac and Charlie leave a video message for the rest of the gang explaining how they died in addition to their written will.
* WheresTheKaboom: Played for laughs when Mac and Charlie attempt to blow up the car with a grenade and are incredibly disappointed by the miniscule explosion that results.
* WorstAid: Charlie treats Mac's concussion by giving him poppers. Though weirdly, it seems to work.
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In another two-part episode, Mac and Charlie fake their own deaths to avoid the wrath of Mac's father who was released from prison and is out for vengeance. Meanwhile, Frank and Dennis go inside the world of anonymous sex when they discover a glory hole in one of the bathroom stalls, and then mourn (as only they can) the loss of Mac and Charlie when they discover that they've killed themselves.

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