A Plot: Brent buys a drone and torments Oscar with it, convincing him it's an alien spaceship. Meanwhile, Hank attempts to get his mitts on it.
B Plot: Davis publicly taunts Karen's shooting skills, in order to rig a betting pool for a shooting competition in their favor. When Lacey rallies support for her and the pool starts swinging the other way, Davis attempts to convince her to take a dive.
C Plot: Wanda and Emma buy a lop-eyed turkey, wanting to use it for an experiment, and end up trapped by it.
Tropes:
- Accidental Pervert: Hank's homemade drone is too heavy to fly very high, so people accuse him of being a pervert because it keeps taking pictures at crotch height.
- All or Nothing: After Karen gets startled by the drone (when Hank "borrows" it) and misses her shot in the competition, she aims to shoot it down, and Davis talks the crowd into a double-or-nothing bet that she'll hit it on the first try. Which she does.
- Backstory of the Day: Brent is such a skilled sharpshooter in this episode that he's the favourite to win the Turkey Shoot. Such skills have never come up before.
- Bait-and-Switch: When Oscar thinks Brent has been kidnapped by aliens, he yells at them to let his boy go. Brent smiles and heartwarming music starts to play, but then Oscar goes on to say that Brent's a lazy lump who couldn't possibly be of any use to the aliens and will just eat all of their food.
- Big Eater: Brent tries to use his drone to pick up food from The Ruby, but the drone buckles and drops his chili cheese dog.Brent: Looks like I might need a bigger drone.
Lacey: Or start eating lighter.
Brent: Yep, bigger drone. - Buffy Speak: In response to Davis constantly belittling Karen, Lacey notes that with partners like him, who needs... whatever the opposite of partners is?
- Complexity Addiction: Brent's attempts to justify his drone purchase just add unnecessary steps to his daily routine, like sending the drone to pick up food from The Ruby and then going with it to see the look on Lacey's face when it startles her, or sending out the drone to see what someone pulled up to the pumps wants when someone at the pumps would most likely just want gas.Brent: You know, you can poke holes in anything if you try hard enough.
- Condescending Compassion: Lacey's attempts to make Karen feel better about not being a good shot just annoy Karen, especially when Lacey starts encouraging her in a baby talk tone. When Lacey tries to rally the townsfolk into betting on Karen to boost her confidence, Ravi notes that she sucks, but Lacey says that words like "sucks" and "useless" are hurtful. Mavis points out that nobody said "useless," so Lacey says that the point is Karen is garbage and they should all support her.
- Continuity Nod: Wanda buys the turkey from Kirk Berkley of Kirk Berkley's Turkey Jerky, making his first appearance since "Air Show."
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Emma humors Wanda at first, but highly doubts that her turkey experiment will actually lead anywhere. But not only does Einstein the turkey successfully complete the first step of Wanda's contraption (and might have done more if Emma hadn't spooked it by coughing), he also successfully traps Emma and Wanda in his coop.
- Description Cut: Wanda says that Kirk will never catch Einstein because he's too smart. Cut to Einstein sitting in a cage in the back of Kirk's truck.
- Easily Impressed: Hank calls Brent's drone the coolest thing he's ever owned, although Brent points out that Hank said the same thing about his electric can opener.
- Failure Montage: Brent won't let Hank have a turn with the drone because Hank always wrecks his stuff when he borrows it. A series of flashbacks show Hank wrecking Brent's paddle ball (by getting the string caught in a ceiling fan), fishing rod (by hooking it on a bird), and skateboard (by letting an elephant step on it).
- Faked Kidnapping: Brent uses a screen on his new drone to convince Oscar he's been abducted, solely to mess with him.
- Hypocritical Humor: In the end, Fitzy makes Davis give up his earnings, deriving him for gambling and destruction of private property. When it's pointed out that Fitzy lost $50 in the betting pool and destroyed a lawn gnome in anger, his rebuttal is that the police should be held to a higher standard than himself.
- Literal-Minded: Lacey assumes that a Turkey Shoot involves crowding a bunch of turkeys in a pen and taking shots at them. Wanda tries to convince her that it's more like skeet shooting except you throw a live turkey into the air, but Emma corrects that it's just target shooting contest with a frozen turkey as a prize.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Finding the cage that Emma and Wanda were trapped in empty, Oscar falls to his knees and wails that Emma has been taken by aliens... then he adds, "And to a lesser extent, Brent." He doesn't even mention Wanda.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Wanda names the turkey Einstein to boost his confidence. When she tries to convince Kirk that the turkey is a genius, she says he operates 20 moves ahead like Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, then decides that Kasparov would've been a better name.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Wanda believes the turkey, Einstein, is this. She's proven right at the end, when she (and she alone) bears witness to it rallying the other turkeys against the humans. There's also Karen hiding the fact that she recently got laser eye surgery in order to con the townsfolk, but this works a tad too well when Lacey convinces the town to bet on her out of pity.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Davis thinks that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were brothers named Butch and Sundance Cassidy.
- Portmanteau: Karen says that Davis' plan to trick everyone into betting against her isn't gambling, it's a scam, so Davis calls it "scambling." Later, when Davis wants Karen to throw the match so he can make money on Brent, she calls that scummy, so Davis calls it "scumbling."
- Shoddy Knockoff Product: In order to compete with Brent, Hank buys his own remote-controlled flying device...or in other words, a toy helicopter with a camera tapped to it.
- Something Only They Would Say: Oscar thinks Emma's been abducted by aliens, so when he reunites with her at the end, he asks how he can tell she's not a robot puppet pod from Mars. Having no idea what he's talking about, Emma says she'll boot his ass to Mars, which he takes as proof that it's really her.
- Stealth Insult: When tricking Oscar into thinking that his drone was a UFO, Brent says that he also saw the UFO and didn't want to say anything because people would think he's crazy, but he assures that Oscar doesn't have to worry about that.
