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1Fran suggests a holiday when construction workers next door start to drive herself, Bernard and Manny crazy.
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4* BerserkButton: Bernard loses it when Manny brings up what happened in Canada, hissing that they'd promised to never talk about it.
5* BilingualBonus: When Manny, Bernard and Fran finally arrive in Heathrow, they each speak to the barman in a different language. Manny says 'An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas', Irish for 'Can I go to the toilet'. [[note]]It's a RunningGag among Irish people that this is the one sentence everyone -- bilingual or otherwise -- remembers from primary school.[[/note]]
6* BrickJoke: The customer they send into the hopelessly disorganised stacks to find a book on Schubert is still there, feral and gibbering, when they return two weeks later.
7* BusmansHoliday: Bernard describes his ideal holiday as being sitting around reading and drinking, which Manny points out is all he does at home. They pick a destination with an English-language bookshop for him to hang out in.
8--->'''Bernard:''' We're going somewhere where I can read, sit, and have a quiet drink.
9--->'''Manny:''' So you're ideal holiday would in fact be...here?
10--->'''Bernard:''' Correct. So find somewhere exactly like this.
11* GodGuise: Apparently this is what saves them when they're CapturedByCannibals.
12* PlaneAwfulFlight: Thirteen days of them out of a two week holiday, because Fran got suspiciously cheap tickets with a ridiculous number of layovers.
13* SequelHook: The end of the episode reveals the construction work was a rival bookshop setting up next door, which drives the plot of [=S3E1=].

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