B Plot: Lacey and Hank talk Brent into renovations. Wanda becomes obsessed with a productivity app, and suggests more additions in order to make more work and use the app more.
C Plot: Karen learns that her name is synonymous with being a Obnoxious Entitled Housewife, and attempts to make other peoples' names synonymous with similar bad habits.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Karen originally refers to herself as a "Karen" jokingly, and gets annoyed when nobody else at the Ruby gets it. After she explains the joke, it quickly becomes a popular insult, and Karen immediately regrets it.
- Comically Missing the Point: While complaining to the cops about how much he's struggling to reunite their burial plots, Oscar remarks that he wished someone would have told him about how they'd have to part in death when he was married. "'Til Death Do We Part" is one of the most well-known phrases used for marriage.
- Conspicuous Consumption: After Brent's renovation fantasies get out of control, he and Lacey try to one-up each other with plans for expensive additions to their businesses, such as a hot tub and ball pit, not factoring in their actual cost until Hank struggles to fit it all on a blueprint and Wanda's written up an invoice.
- Exact Eavesdropping: While at The Ruby talking with Davis about what might happen after death, Oscar admits that he can't stand the thought of an eternity separated from Emma. Coincidentally, Emma has walked in just in time to hear this confession of love, immediately ending their argument...though when she asks him to say something nice to her later, he adamantly refuses.
- Imagine Spot: When Lacey and Hank convince Brent to give himself an office at Corner Gas, Brent imagines himself in a business suit reading a comic book. Later, Oscar imagines himself in various situations when Davis suggests being cremated and repurposing his ashes instead of being buried, such as being tattooed on a biker's arm or catapulted into the sun. There seems to be a third imagined scenario when Davis' alternative to being buried is Karen giving him a Viking Funeral after he sells his graveyard plot to Oscar, but it's soon revealed to be (mostly) real, with Davis having asked Karen to practice her archery on a dummy.
- Insult Backfire: One of Karen's attempts to turn people's names into insults is to call a little girl riding her bike on the sidewalk a "Wanda", but the girl takes it as a compliment as Wanda's known to be smart.
- Literal-Minded: Hank has to stock up on blue crayons (and later blue marker) because that's what he thinks he needs in order to make a proper blueprint.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Early on, Karen makes a few jokes about herself acting like one, which she comes to regret when being called a "Karen" becomes popular. When she learns that Davis bought her a plot next to his, she decides to play it up in order to convince him to sell both plots to the Leroys and solve the issue, even using the phrase "I'll speak to your manager" to refer to complaining to Fitzy.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: After learning that Emma's going to be buried next to "T.B.D.", Oscar's convinced that it's the initials of another man rather than an abbreviation of "To Be Decided". It turns out to not be so absurd when it turns out the plot was actually reserved for "T.B.D.D." as in "To-Be-Dead Davis", and the Leroys are able to convince him to make a deal.
- Sarcasm-Blind: In The Tag, Brent and Lacey realize how unusual it was for them to have trusted Hank so much while planning renovations, and Wanda tells them that it's easy to get someone to do what you want if you butter them up first. She then lies to Brent that a study has connected hot dog consumption to high intelligence, and Brent interprets it as genuine.
- The Scrooge: The reason Oscar and Emma originally have different cemetery plots is because Oscar complained about the cost of being buried in the nicest spot and nagged at Emma to be moved, not knowing that she didn't plan to move her plot as well.
- Take a Third Option: When Oscar's initially unable to find the owner of the "T.B.D." grave to buy a plot next to Emma, and his plan to relocate an already-buried body on the opposite side is illegal, he decides that the best alternative is to sell Emma's plot behind her back and buy her a spot next to his own cheap grave.
- Together in Death: The A Plot is all about Oscar trying to ensure this happens by reuniting his and Emma's plots. Towards the climax, it's learned that Davis owns both the "T.B.D.D." plot and bought Emma's plot after Oscar got the government to refund it, planning to be buried next to Karen as partners in eternity. When Karen learns of this, she's outraged.
