A Plot: Brent shows off his new shirt, claiming he has "shirt powers". However, Hank has bought the same shirt, and their friendship is tested when Brent won't follow Hank's "shirt days" plan. They both abandon the shirts when Karen informs them they're actually for women.
B Plot: Feeling a sense of ennui, Lacey decides to start her own Pilates class, but no one wants to try. She also gets hostility from Wanda, which she later finds out is because Wanda already runs a "Mat Class" in town.
C Plot: After Oscar attends a funeral with (in his opinion) a cheap-looking coffin, he sets out on building his own so he can be seen as a master craftsman. Emma criticizes his lack of building skills. Oscar changes his mind after realizing the morbidity of it all.
Tropes Referenced:
- Air Quotes: While explaining to Lacey why putting quotes around the word "Free" on her flier is wrong, Wanda uses air quotes to explain that hot dogs aren't food, they're "food".Brent: [mildly offended] Hot dogs are food.
- Blank Stare: Lacey gives one to Davis when she realizes there's no logical response to him confusing Pilates with Pontius Pilate.
- D.I.Y. Disaster: Oscar's construction projects are implied to be like this.
- Millennium Bug: Oscar believes that Y2K "could still happen".
- Name One:Oscar: Give me one reason why I can't build my own coffin.
Emma: Okay.
[Montage of shoddy woodworking projects Oscar has done]
Oscar: I said one reason! - Noodle Incident: When Oscar takes a closer look at a dead man's coffin, Emma says people will think he's stealing the guy's necktie, which Oscar explains was a "misunderstanding".
- Performance Anxiety: Lacey acknowledges that she struggles with this when it comes to public speaking. This is proven true when Lacey nervously begins her Pilates class, despite a Reveal Shot showing that only Davis is attending the class.
- Shout-Out: Hank tells Brent that "with great shirt powers comes great shirt responsibility".
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Several people mistake Pilates for Pontius Pilate and don't want to attend a class named after "the guy who killed Jesus". When they are told that Pilates isn't the guy who killed Jesus, they would say "Well, he gave the order..."
