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* ActorAllusion: The Gang recreate a famous scene from the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' "The Contest," where [[UniversalAdaptorCast they do a light spoof of that show as those characters but Charlie in particular takes on the Kramer role]]. Creator/CharlieDay hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' some 8 years prior, one sketch involved a murder at an apartment very similar to the ''Seinfeld'' set and Charlie was a police detective who started doing similar Kramer bits.
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* DeconstructiveParody: The first act generally plays a ClipShow with a weak FramingDevice straight, but in the middle of a flashback it suddenly starts deviating from the original episode. It then goes into MindScrew territory as characters start artificially making up entire situations, Charlie imagines watching himself in a fake flashback with The Waitress, and the group adopt an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' as their own. The story then gets stuck in the present and they are trying to figure out who is telling the story by which events are being faked. Dennis in particular becomes obsessed with the issue of altering reality via SelfServingMemory.
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** Dennis uses the spinning top test from ''{{Film/Inception}}'' at the end of the episode in order to determine whether they're back in the real world.
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** Dennis uses the spinning top test from ''{{Film/Inception}}'' at the end of the episode in order to determine whether they're back in the real world. And just like in the movie, we never see if it falls before the episode ends.
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* PetTheDog: With WordOfGod calling it in Dennis's mind, the cut Dee has disappears.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Dee falls off her stool, hitting her head on the bar and eliciting laughs from the guys. This triggers an entire montage of instances in which she's suffered from AmusingInjuries throughout the show's run.
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* SpottingTheThread: Dennis is able to determine that they're all in Frank's memorydue to him suddenly having a full head of hair. He falls victim to this himself later on, when the others realize they must be in ''Dennis's'' mind due to Mac not being his roommate. [[note]]Their reasoning being that it would make no sense for ''Mac'' to imagine such a scenario since he's in love with Dennis, while Dennis finds Mac irritating and would waste no time in trying to get rid of him if given the opportunity.[[/note]]
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* SpottingTheThread: Dennis is able to determine that they're all in Frank's memorydue memory due to him suddenly having a full head of hair. He falls victim to this himself later on, when the others realize they must be in ''Dennis's'' mind due to Mac not being his roommate. [[note]]Their reasoning being that it would make no sense for ''Mac'' to imagine such a scenario since he's in love with Dennis, while Dennis finds Mac irritating and would waste no time in trying to get rid of him if given the opportunity.[[/note]]
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** Dennis mentions Mac's [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS12E06HeroOrHateCrime dildo bike.]]
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* SarcasmMode: After Mac asks Dennis why he doesn't want to be roommates, Dennis responds that he just loves having a roommate who spends three hours a day on a dildo bike.
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-->'''Dennis''': We decided that isn't funny anymore.anymore as a society.
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* ValuesDissonance: Invoked by the Gang, who lambast Dee for trying to remember Taiwan Tammy, an offensive AsianSpeekeeEngrish character she invented way back in season three.
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* BleepDammit: The flashback to the ChristmasEpisode censors the word "retarded" but not Charlie's subsequent ClusterFBomb. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as the former word is a slur and the cast has expressed regret over its casual use in earlier seasons of the show.
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->''"What if we just kick back and remember some of the good old days?"''
->'''--Mac'''
The gang decides to reminisce about the good old days while waiting for their phones to update, but end up altering reality through their misremembering of past events.
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!This episode provides example of the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: When Charlie imagines having a baby with the Waitress, she dumps it on him in order to go and get drunk.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The gang are distracted from Dennis's ''{{Film/Inception}}'' spinning top test when their phones finish updating, meaning they never find out for sure whether they're back in reality or still in someone's head.
* CallBack:
** Dee starts doing some of her [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E03AmericasNextTopPaddys "characters"]].
** The doctor from Dennis's fantasy in [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E06TheGangSavesTheDay "The Gang Saves the Day"]] shows up.
* ClipShow: Starts out as a straight example, with clips from previous episodes being shown as the gang reminisce about the good old days, but takes a turn for the truly bizarre around the halfway point.
* CloseEnoughTimeline: Discussed at one point when the gang are unsure if they're back in reality due to the cut on Dee's head disappearing; Mac asks whether it would matter if such a small detail was the only difference.
* CockFight: Charlie gets into one with ''himself'' while stuck in his fantasy about having a baby with the waitress.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Clips from several previous episodes are played during the gang's flashbacks, including [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E13AVerySunnyChristmas "A Very Sunny Christmas"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E07WhoPoopedTheBed "Who Pooped the Bed?"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E05TheGangSpiesLikeUS "The Gang Spies Like U.S."]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E08FrankSetsSweetDeeOnFire "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E06TheGangGivesBack "The Gang Gives Back"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E08TheGangGoesOnFamilyFight "The Gang Goes on Family Fight"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E02TheGangSolvesTheGasCrisis "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E01FranksPrettyWoman "Frank's Pretty Woman"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E03TheGangBuysABoat "The Gang Buys a Boat"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E05HundredDollarBaby "Hundred Dollar Baby"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS05E07TheGangWrestlesForTheTroops "The Gang Wrestles For the Troops"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E07WhoGotDeePregnant "Who Got Dee Pregnant?"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E07TheGangSellsOut "The Gang Sells Out"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E08TheGangRunsForOffice "The Gang Runs for Office"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E05MacAndCharlieDiePart1 "Mac and Charlie Die"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E13TheHighSchoolReunionPart2 "The High School Reunion"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS12E10DennisDoubleLife Dennis' Double Life"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E13TheNightmanCometh "The Nighman Cometh"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E04MacAndDennisBuyATimeshare "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E08FlowersForCharlie "Flowers for Charlie"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E04DeeMadeASmutFilm "Dee Made a Smut Film"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E10CharlieKellyKingOfTheRats "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats"]] and [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E04SweetDeeGetsAudited "Sweet Dee Gets Audited"]].
* ContinuityNod:
** Charlie imagines himself speaking Mandarin in one memory due to the time he took a [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E08FlowersForCharlie "magic pill"]].
** Charlie pictures how life might have been if he'd [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS12E10DennisDoubleLife actually had a baby with the Waitress]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: The rest of the gang are quick to call Dee out on her racist "characters".
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Charlie calls Mac "the most annoying person in the world", a statement with which the rest of the gang seem to agree.
* HypocriticalHumor: Charlie gets into an argument with his double over which one of them has the high-pitched voice.
* ImpostorExposingTest: Dennis uses this in order to figure out whose memory they're currently in, asking each member of the gang some basic questions to gauge how well their replies fit with reality.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: Used after Charlie tries to change reality by "remembering" himself having a baby with the Waitress.
-->'''Mac:''' It's not like he can change reality, right?
-->'''Waitress:''' ''(entering with a baby)'' Charlie, give me a hand with this kid, would you?! Its diaper smells like a homeless man took a dump in it.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall
** When Mac suggests the gang reminisce about old times while they wait for their phone to update, Dennis says people only do that when they're getting old and running out of ideas.
** When Dee tries to bring back her racist caricatures, Dennis states that they don't find such things funny anymore; the show's creators have recently expressed regret over some of the offensive material used in their earlier episodes (indeed, this episode bleeps out the word "retarded" in one of the clips from [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E13AVerySunnyChristmas "A Very Sunny Christmas"]], whereas it was uncensored in the original).
** Mac suggests that the gang remember some of their "classic" moments, right before a montage of some of the series' most iconic scenes plays.
* NoodleIncident: Dennis mentions that the gang once tried to do their own spin on the infamous "contest" from ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'', with the twist being that the winner was whoever could masturbate for the ''longest''. Only the aftermath of this is shown, with the entire gang hospitalized.
* OnlySaneMan: Dennis repeatedly calls out the others for misremembering past events and warns them of the dangers of changing their realities.
* RealTime: It's mentioned at the start of the episode that it'll take about thirty minutes for the gang's phones to update, which is roughly the length of a ''Sunny'' episode with ad breaks featured in.
* SelfServingMemory: Used liberally, with the gang all misremembering certain events in order to better suit their own agendas. For instance, Frank pictures himself with long legs and a full head of hair, while Mac is convinced he moved to North Dakota with Dennis.
* ShoutOut:
** One of the "flashbacks" is just the gang picturing themselves recreating "The Contest" episode of ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'', with Dee as Elaine, Charlie as Kramer, Frank as George and Mac and Dennis sharing the role of Jerry.
** Dennis uses the spinning top test from ''{{Film/Inception}}'' at the end of the episode in order to determine whether they're back in the real world.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Dee falls off her stool, hitting her head on the bar and eliciting laughs from the guys. This triggers an entire montage of instances in which she's suffered from AmusingInjuries throughout the show's run.
* SpottingTheThread: Dennis is able to determine that they're all in Frank's memorydue to him suddenly having a full head of hair. He falls victim to this himself later on, when the others realize they must be in ''Dennis's'' mind due to Mac not being his roommate. [[note]]Their reasoning being that it would make no sense for ''Mac'' to imagine such a scenario since he's in love with Dennis, while Dennis finds Mac irritating and would waste no time in trying to get rid of him if given the opportunity.[[/note]]
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->'''--Mac'''
The gang decides to reminisce about the good old days while waiting for their phones to update, but end up altering reality through their misremembering of past events.
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!This episode provides example of the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: When Charlie imagines having a baby with the Waitress, she dumps it on him in order to go and get drunk.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The gang are distracted from Dennis's ''{{Film/Inception}}'' spinning top test when their phones finish updating, meaning they never find out for sure whether they're back in reality or still in someone's head.
* CallBack:
** Dee starts doing some of her [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E03AmericasNextTopPaddys "characters"]].
** The doctor from Dennis's fantasy in [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E06TheGangSavesTheDay "The Gang Saves the Day"]] shows up.
* ClipShow: Starts out as a straight example, with clips from previous episodes being shown as the gang reminisce about the good old days, but takes a turn for the truly bizarre around the halfway point.
* CloseEnoughTimeline: Discussed at one point when the gang are unsure if they're back in reality due to the cut on Dee's head disappearing; Mac asks whether it would matter if such a small detail was the only difference.
* CockFight: Charlie gets into one with ''himself'' while stuck in his fantasy about having a baby with the waitress.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Clips from several previous episodes are played during the gang's flashbacks, including [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E13AVerySunnyChristmas "A Very Sunny Christmas"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E07WhoPoopedTheBed "Who Pooped the Bed?"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E05TheGangSpiesLikeUS "The Gang Spies Like U.S."]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E08FrankSetsSweetDeeOnFire "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E06TheGangGivesBack "The Gang Gives Back"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E08TheGangGoesOnFamilyFight "The Gang Goes on Family Fight"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E02TheGangSolvesTheGasCrisis "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E01FranksPrettyWoman "Frank's Pretty Woman"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E03TheGangBuysABoat "The Gang Buys a Boat"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E05HundredDollarBaby "Hundred Dollar Baby"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS05E07TheGangWrestlesForTheTroops "The Gang Wrestles For the Troops"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E07WhoGotDeePregnant "Who Got Dee Pregnant?"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E07TheGangSellsOut "The Gang Sells Out"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS02E08TheGangRunsForOffice "The Gang Runs for Office"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E05MacAndCharlieDiePart1 "Mac and Charlie Die"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E13TheHighSchoolReunionPart2 "The High School Reunion"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS12E10DennisDoubleLife Dennis' Double Life"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E13TheNightmanCometh "The Nighman Cometh"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E04MacAndDennisBuyATimeshare "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E08FlowersForCharlie "Flowers for Charlie"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E04DeeMadeASmutFilm "Dee Made a Smut Film"]], [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E10CharlieKellyKingOfTheRats "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats"]] and [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E04SweetDeeGetsAudited "Sweet Dee Gets Audited"]].
* ContinuityNod:
** Charlie imagines himself speaking Mandarin in one memory due to the time he took a [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS09E08FlowersForCharlie "magic pill"]].
** Charlie pictures how life might have been if he'd [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS12E10DennisDoubleLife actually had a baby with the Waitress]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: The rest of the gang are quick to call Dee out on her racist "characters".
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Charlie calls Mac "the most annoying person in the world", a statement with which the rest of the gang seem to agree.
* HypocriticalHumor: Charlie gets into an argument with his double over which one of them has the high-pitched voice.
* ImpostorExposingTest: Dennis uses this in order to figure out whose memory they're currently in, asking each member of the gang some basic questions to gauge how well their replies fit with reality.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: Used after Charlie tries to change reality by "remembering" himself having a baby with the Waitress.
-->'''Mac:''' It's not like he can change reality, right?
-->'''Waitress:''' ''(entering with a baby)'' Charlie, give me a hand with this kid, would you?! Its diaper smells like a homeless man took a dump in it.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall
** When Mac suggests the gang reminisce about old times while they wait for their phone to update, Dennis says people only do that when they're getting old and running out of ideas.
** When Dee tries to bring back her racist caricatures, Dennis states that they don't find such things funny anymore; the show's creators have recently expressed regret over some of the offensive material used in their earlier episodes (indeed, this episode bleeps out the word "retarded" in one of the clips from [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS06E13AVerySunnyChristmas "A Very Sunny Christmas"]], whereas it was uncensored in the original).
** Mac suggests that the gang remember some of their "classic" moments, right before a montage of some of the series' most iconic scenes plays.
* NoodleIncident: Dennis mentions that the gang once tried to do their own spin on the infamous "contest" from ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'', with the twist being that the winner was whoever could masturbate for the ''longest''. Only the aftermath of this is shown, with the entire gang hospitalized.
* OnlySaneMan: Dennis repeatedly calls out the others for misremembering past events and warns them of the dangers of changing their realities.
* RealTime: It's mentioned at the start of the episode that it'll take about thirty minutes for the gang's phones to update, which is roughly the length of a ''Sunny'' episode with ad breaks featured in.
* SelfServingMemory: Used liberally, with the gang all misremembering certain events in order to better suit their own agendas. For instance, Frank pictures himself with long legs and a full head of hair, while Mac is convinced he moved to North Dakota with Dennis.
* ShoutOut:
** One of the "flashbacks" is just the gang picturing themselves recreating "The Contest" episode of ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'', with Dee as Elaine, Charlie as Kramer, Frank as George and Mac and Dennis sharing the role of Jerry.
** Dennis uses the spinning top test from ''{{Film/Inception}}'' at the end of the episode in order to determine whether they're back in the real world.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Dee falls off her stool, hitting her head on the bar and eliciting laughs from the guys. This triggers an entire montage of instances in which she's suffered from AmusingInjuries throughout the show's run.
* SpottingTheThread: Dennis is able to determine that they're all in Frank's memorydue to him suddenly having a full head of hair. He falls victim to this himself later on, when the others realize they must be in ''Dennis's'' mind due to Mac not being his roommate. [[note]]Their reasoning being that it would make no sense for ''Mac'' to imagine such a scenario since he's in love with Dennis, while Dennis finds Mac irritating and would waste no time in trying to get rid of him if given the opportunity.[[/note]]
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