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  • "Sin Bin"
    • The Cold Open where New York is being destroyed by a giant wave of energy, only to reveal that it's just Alex zoned out while staring at the light from a copier.
    • Alex and the gang getting a first look at the disgusting hovel apartment Alex has just rented without checking it out first. Made even better when you remember the Imagine Spot Alex had earlier about how he was going to be "the man", now that he has his own hip New York apartment, complete with him getting out of a limousine with A Lady on Each Arm.
    • Alex selling parts of his toy collection at the comic book store to pay for a rental truck, only to blow half of his profit on a Mr. T action figure.

  • "Train Pain"
    • The opening where Fruity is looking through old pinups at the Lord Of the Hoard, and Matt points out that they were made in the 1960's, so the women he's drooling over are likely in their 70's or older by now, much to Fruity's annoyance.
    • While Fruity is trying to woo a girl on the train they're taking, Matt at one point draws a bunch of comics where Fruity is a repulsive creature (e.g., a rat or an insect) that makes an inappropriate pick-up line toward an attractive girl and the girl inflicting pain on him in retaliation.
    • The b-plot about Alex and Jen sneaking off to check out some illicit "merchandise" Jen just got her hands on... which turns out to be a bunch of vintage board games.
    • To get back at the man who deliberately prevented them from getting onboard the next train on time, Chaka and Mecca moon him when they see him through the window of the train next to the one they're currently riding. Near the end of the episode, the man meets them again on Coney Island and refutes their denial of mooning him by revealing that he remembers Chaka having a birthmark on her cheek. When Mecca replies that Chaka doesn't have a birthmark on her cheek, the man clarifies that he wasn't talking about the cheeks on her face.

  • "Hot Spot"
    • Due to a new trendy club buying the old dive bar in Alex's apartment building, Alex is kept up all night by the annoying music, and ends up taking the night shift at the copy shop just to get away from it. Chaka, predictably, takes advantage of this by partying all night at the club, then sleeping it off at Alex place before he comes home.
    • Jen comparing the slow, trendy gentrification of New York City to Planet of the Apes.
    • In a last-ditch effort to drive out the club attendants, Jen sets off the sprinklers... which just turns the club into a foam party, a Call-Back to an earlier remark Jen herself made.
    Jen; My god. The prophecy! It came true!
    • What finally does get the club shut down? An undercover ATF agent nails Chaka for underage drinking, not only shutting down the club, but also giving her community service. Cut to the credit gag where Alex and Jen sit on a park bench and throw trash she has to pick up.

  • "Insomnia"

  • "The Con"
    • Fruity is annoyed over the neighboring booth at the convention belonging to The Undertaker, who hogs the attention of all the female attendants. Matt says it could be worse, and points out that the both to their right side belongs to a furry convention. Even funnier is that this is one of the earliest appearances of the furry fandom in mainstream pop culture, beating out the infamous CSI episode "Fur And Loathing" by 3 years.

  • "Graffiti"
    • The urban legends Chakka, Fruity and Matt talk about while in the subway, ranging from the belivable and semi-correct (the electric third rail and "mole people" sewer dwellers) to ridiculous (one of Matts friends said he saw an electric eel living in a flooded tunnel) to just utterly bizarre (the train cops use a moving flatbed train as a fight club at night). The Stinger show that the last one is true.
    • Alex goes out in search of adventure, but ends up spending all night hanging out with Jen's promiscuous roommate and watching her dating life crash and burn. By the end, there's two guys in her apartment and another on the phone, and they're all arguing with eachother. The best is arguably the vaguely Asian man who claims that in his country, only men are allowed to cheat.

  • "Hotel Bar"

  • "Limo"
    • Jen telling Leah about her Friday night plans with Alex; ordering two types of blintzes at a local diner, and watching forgettable Adam Sandler movies. Even Jen herself knows how boring her life is.

  • "Testing"

  • "Night Shift"
    • Alex has a big, important job that needs to be finished by next morning as part of a court case, but finds himself constantly interrupted by annoying customers, Goat, his comic shop friends, and finally, some hijinx involving Jen and Serena. He lucks out though - the witness for the case got murdered during the night, so the copies he failed to finish weren't needed after all.

  • "Before And After"
    • Alex having a mental breakdown after Jen convinces him to get rid of all the random crap he's accumulated over the years and let go of his clutter. He ends up having to run all over the neighborhood buying his old stuff back from scroungers. Incidentally, he also ends up buying a Boss Hog cookie jar.

  • "Cropsey Clanners"

  • "Trip Or Treat"

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