Louise: Mom, take my picture with it!
Linda: No! I don't want that picture in our family.
Linda: No! I don't want that picture in our family.
As Bob gets roped into a road trip with Teddy, Linda competes with the kids for the title of employee of the day.
Driving Big Tropey:
- The Alleged Car: Downplayed with Teddy's truck. Aside from stalling a little when they set out, it runs pretty well. The biggest problem with it is a loose side window that rattles when it goes over 50 mph, forcing Bob to hold it.
- Bait-and-Switch: At the end of the episode, Teddy talks about visiting a guy with a Hook Hand who used to juggle chainsaws. But that's apparently not how he lost his hand... it's how he lost his foot.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Tina suggests that to win the competition, she'd be open to dealing with Linda through illicit means.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Linda is goofy and boisterous and loves to crack jokes, but here she demonstrates that she is a highly experienced restaurateuse, capable of waiting tables, bussing dishes, and cooking meals on a slammed dining room without breaking a sweat. Even her sardonic children are awestruck.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: All three kids against just Linda for Employee of the Day—the results are rather one-sided, but not in the way the number of people on each side would imply.
- Demonic Dummy: Big Dummy, the giant ventriloquist dummy head Teddy is delivering. Tina states that it will haunt her dreams, Louise hopes it will haunt hers, and Linda refuses to take Louise's photo in front of it.
- Down to the Last Play: Well, last sale, but Linda beats the kids in the competition by one Burger of the Day.
- Employee of the Month: Linda and the kids are left working at the restaurant while Bob is away. With a big rush of customers coming in and the kids being as unhelpful as ever, Linda tries to entice them to work harder by offering an Employee of the Day award; the winner gets twenty seconds worth of soft serve ice-cream from the machine. The competition later changes to have all three kids team up against just Linda.
- Forbidden Fruit: The kids treat having soft serve directly from the nozzle as this.
- I Let You Win: Linda lets the kids win when she realizes how hard they worked, falsely claiming that one of her own sales actually belonged to the kids.
- Innocently Insensitive: While Teddy is good at making small talk with his acquaintances, he doesn't realize how much his constant stops and delays have been annoying his best friend Bob until Bob reaches his Rage Breaking Point.
- No Social Skills:
- Bob acknowledges that he doesn't really like people, and admits that he admires Teddy's ease at engaging in casual conversation with everyone he meets.
- Inverted with Teddy, who does have social skills but at the same time is incapable of recognizing that repeatedly engaging in so many side trips and delays is annoying Bob to the point of frustration.
- Oh, Crap!: The kids realize that in spite of their number-based advantage, they are hopelessly outmatched against Linda.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is a reference to Driving Miss Daisy.
- Rage Breaking Point: When Teddy gets the truck stuck in a ditch and blames Bob for it, Bob snaps and admits he's only accompanying Teddy out of pity.
- Road Trip Plot: Bob and Teddy go off on what was supposed to be a four hour errand run to pick up a sink and drop off Big Dummy to a miniature golf course. That was the plan, anyway, but Teddy making multiple stops means that it takes much longer than Bob would want.
- Shout-Out:
- The Store Next Door is Talcum in the Middle.
- When Bob notes that he wouldn't be able to fit a new kitchen sink in the car unless he removed the back seats, Gene claims that the kids could ride on the roof like in Teen Wolf.
- The Burger of the Day is the "Marvelous Mrs. Basil Burger".
- Bonnie has a tattoo of Blinky. Well, that's what she claims it is.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Bob is less than open to the idea of a road trip with Teddy.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: A large group of people come into the restaurant while they're understaffed, unlike previous episodes with a similar premise nothing goes wrong and Linda and the kids are able to serve all the customers competently.
- Unsportsmanlike Gloating: The kids are not very dignified when they celebrate their "win" over Linda.
- You Talk Too Much!: Bob's main objection to going on the road trip with Teddy is that he never stops talking, which is very much proven right over the course of the episode. What was meant to be a two-hour trip (four hours as a round trip) takes so long that it becomes dark out before they even arrive at the halfway point of their trip just because Teddy keeps making stops to talk to people. And once Bob reaches his breaking point, he calls Teddy out for essentially holding him hostage.
