Jon Taffer heads to Santa Clarita, where he finds a bar with trashy decor, trashier workers, a degenerate clientele, an environment designed to cater to them, and a helm leader who is too unwilling to put family aside for her business.
Episode Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Jon Taffer laughs at the guy mooning the bar, but he still rightfully chides the bar for permitting that later on.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: The Shot Exchange is still open as of August 2023.
- Extreme Doormat: Diane lets the staff walk all over her because she is afraid of betraying her family.
- From Bad to Worse: When trying to put out the fire, the fire extinguisher turns out to be defective, nearly causing the fryer to flare up.
- Mooning: A drunk customer at the bar moons the bar during recon.
- Not So Above It All: Pops calls Christine a bitch loudly in front of the customers.
- Only Sane Man: Pops is the most responsible member of the family; even in his Not So Above It All moment, he immediately apologizes and admits he should've handled that more civilly.
- Shout-Out: Pops assures them they'll get through the hardships the bar is causing them because "We're the Millers".
- Thicker Than Water: Diane is so unwilling to fire unruly staff because of her loyalty to them as family members.
