Fran suggests a holiday when construction workers next door start to drive herself, Bernard and Manny crazy.
- Berserk Button: Bernard loses it when Manny brings up what happened in Canada, hissing that they'd promised to never talk about it.
- Bilingual Bonus: 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
- Brick Joke: 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.
- Busman's Holiday: 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.
- Bernard: We're going somewhere where I can read, sit, and have a quiet drink.Manny: So you're ideal holiday would in fact be...here?Bernard: Correct. So find somewhere exactly like this.
- God Guise: Apparently this is what saves them when they're Captured by Cannibals.
- Plane Awful Flight: Thirteen days of them out of a two week holiday, because Fran got suspiciously cheap tickets with a ridiculous number of layovers.
- Sequel Hook: The end of the episode reveals the construction work was a rival bookshop setting up next door, which drives the plot of S3E1.
- Vacation Episode: Subverted in that there are no location shots whatsoever and from what we hear of their trip they only managed to spend 40 minutes at their destination anyway.
