"Kinda tough to spread mustard with this, but nothing illegal about it!"
A Plot: Brent and Karen go to war over the antiquated laws in Dog River. This leads to Lacey going to jail, and Davis losing his passion for justice.
B Plot: Hank and Emma track down Oscar's prize quarter. Wanda is asked to distract Oscar during their search.
- Blatant Lies: After Brent's My God, What Have I Done? moment, he comments to Karen that Lacey's crocodile tears fooled them both. Karen, who'd already had her moment when Lacey threatened to call a lawyer, states unconvincingly that Lacey really got them both and she "wasn't in on it at all".
- Brick Joke: In addition to the truth about Brent's record, early in the episode Karen brings up how the police station has a lot of old-fashioned equipment from when the antiquated laws were first established; at the end, for being "a man of business that knowingly tricked a maiden", Brent's put into a stockade.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Lacey claims to be a law-abiding citizen that's willing to just pay for her mistakes in an attempt to get Brent and Karen to stop trying to trick each other with petty infractions, and to prove her point, she is even willing to go to the precinct when it turns out she's broken an old law about serving fish on days other than Friday. Then she learns that she'll have to be held in a cell for a minimum of seven days while just waiting for a judge to arrive, let alone what the actual punishment would be afterwards.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: The first "antiquated law" Brent tries to use to get revenge on Karen is that women are only allowed to wear dresses in public, not pants.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- The episode starts with Karen upset at Brent for a rock that got stuck in the police car's tire from his unpaved road. When Brent removes the rock with a folding knife and charges her $5 for it, she confiscates the blade and gives him a $60 ticket for possessing a folding weapon. Davis calls Karen out on this soon after, though he states Brent was also a jerk in order to try and calm her down.
- Some of the antiquated laws have extreme penalties to them, such as serving fish for non-religious purposes leading to a week of incarceration, or how Brent and Karen's feud got Lacey involved and nearly incarcerated ends up with Brent in a stockade for a full 24 hours because he's "a man of business that misled a maiden".
- Exact Words:
- When Emma notices that Oscar's quarter has gone missing, she calls Hank and asks him to please tell her that he hasn't exchanged it yet. So Hank says he hasn't. Then Emma asks for it back, and he admits he did exchange it, but said he didn't because Emma asked him to say that.
- In exchange for keeping Oscar busy all day, Wanda asks Emma about Brent's supposed "police record", and Emma promises to admit everything she knows about it. At the end of the episode, Emma admits that she knows absolutely nothing...though fortunately for Wanda, Brent willingly explains that he was talking about a vinyl record of The Police.
- Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Hank has recently started a business as a "money manager", offering to take people's spare change to local businesses and exchange them for bills, charging a 10% cut for his service.
- Good Luck Charm: Oscar's quarter, which Hank doesn't realize the importance of when he decides to take it as a "money manager". When it's finally found at Corner Gas, Oscar admits the only reason he thinks it's valuable is that it was minted with actual silver, making it worth roughly three dollars.
- Laser-Guided Karma: At the end of the A Plot, Karen's surprised that she was able to get off scot-free after everything that's happened, only to immediately end up with another annoying rock stuck in the police car's tire.
- Literal Metaphor: Brent is rather upset at the $60 ticket he receives at the episode's start, claiming that he's concerned about his police record, to Wanda's confusion. At the end of the episode, it turns out that he just has a vinyl music record of The Police that the officers had borrowed from him, and he didn't want Karen holding it hostage if he didn't pay the fine.
- Loophole Abuse: After having his folding blade confiscated, Brent learns that REGULAR blades are legal, and decides to show off a machete and a sword just because he can.
- Manchild: When Brent is removing the rock from the police car's tire, Wanda notes that his Spiderman underwear is riding up, which she didn't know came in ages "Bald and Up". Brent's quick to point out that he's just balding.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Karen starts to panic about locking up Lacey when she threatens to actually call a lawyer over it. Later, Brent realizes that they may have gone too far when Lacey has a breakdown and claims she might need to sell the Ruby to pay legal fees, though it soon turns out she was exaggerating to guilt trip him and Karen was in on it.
- Not What It Looks Like: While looking for Oscar's quarter, Emma and Hank look through a charity coin bin before deciding to check the bar next, which a bystander mistakes as them robbing donations to buy booze.
- Produce Pelting: After being put in a stockade for "misleading a maiden", a hungry Brent mentions how this usually goes hand-in-hand with Stock Punishment to convince Lacey to throw a chili dog at his face so he can eat it.
- Rage Breaking Point: When Davis is feeling disillusioned, he permits littering, jaywalking, and even someone spitting their gum onto a window...but after he and the elderly Mavis are nearly run over by a speeding car, and he catches Zeke publicly urinating, he's so fed up that he rounds up all the petty offenders and puts them in jail.
- Shout-Out:
- While trying to keep Oscar distracted, Wanda asks him to film a suspected shoplifter and gives him a flashlight, saying it's a James Bond-style secret camera.
- When Davis becomes disillusioned with the law as a result of Karen and Brent's feud, he starts letting people jaywalk and litter right in front of him, and someone immediately announces that The Purge has begun.
- Stock Punishment: As punishment for getting Lacey put in jail, Brent ends up in an actual stockade kept at the police station.
- Time Skip: The Tag has Brent wonder if people from the future will think that modern laws are as weird as he thinks Dog River's old laws are now. It then flash-forwards thousands of years to Brent, Wanda, and Hank lookalikes musing how absurd it was that murder used to be illegal, followed by Wanda zapping Hank into a pile of ash with a Disintegrator Ray and Brent instantly reintegrating him.
- Toilet Humor: Zeke ends up getting Davis passionate about the law again when he's caught publicly pissing against a wall, which Davis finds absolutely disgusting.
