"Internet: there's another fad that'll be over in a week."
A Plot: When Brent starts treating Wanda more nicely after she wears a skirt to work, she becomes convinced that it is due to Brent's masculine instincts kicking in. She tries to play it up by looking even more feminine, and it seems to work at first. Eventually Wanda finds out that Brent was only being nice because her uncharacteristically feminine behavior made him think she was going crazy.B Plot: Hank and Oscar have an imaginary-stock-buying contest to see who can understand the market better. After Hank cleans up, Oscar believes he can turn around with "insider knowledge".
C Plot: The dishwasher is broke at The Ruby, so Lacey is forced to hand wash, which she is terrible at. Emma offers to help as a friend, but Lacey tries to pay her, which Emma finds insulting. In an attempt to prove a point, Lacey then makes things worse.
D Plot: When Karen discovers that Davis has a weak stomach, she uses it to tease him. Davis tries to keep his composure to save face.
Provides examples of:
- Alliterative Name: "This isn't a Peace Pie, it's a Point Pie. A Patronizing Point Pie."
- Big Eater: Emma has a rare moment of this.Emma: I have to lie down now... I just ate a whole pie...
- Comically Missing the Point: Oscar pretend-invests in a company after hearing about their insider trading. He thinks it means they have a leg up, and completely misses that the company got busted because insider trading is illegal.
- Department of Redundancy Department:Hank: [Oscar's] got no more money. He can't pay you back.
Brent: But it was fictional, nonexistent, imaginary money that wasn't even real. I don't know how else to put it. - Exact Words:Emma: Yeah, Brent thought you were crazy wearing a skirt at a gas station, and then with that flower in your hair? He'd thought you'd gone off the deep end, but I think it's cute.
Wanda: He thought I looked crazy?
Emma: No, no. He thinks you are crazy. - Insistent Terminology: Brent is adamant that his shirt isn't a powder blue blouse, but is sky blue, like the sky, where there's jet fighters and lightning.
- Ironic Echo: While Oscar and Hank are setting up their contest:Oscar: We can each take ten grand, that's it. That's the rules. Without rules, nothing makes sense.
Brent: With rules this makes no sense. - Laser-Guided Karma: After Karen has been torturing Davis all episode by exploiting his weak stomach, he discovers that she can't stand the squeaking of the hinge on his clipboard and has his revenge.
- Literal-Minded: A Running Gag in the episode is a clueless Ruby customer misinterpreting various common idioms:Lacey: Just doing dishes the old-fashioned way, with elbow grease.
Customer: You're washing dishes with grease?
Lacey: It's a figure of speech.
Wanda: [walking up and taking Lacey's pin] I need to borrow this for an experiment. I'll have it back in a second.
Customer: How will she get it back in one second?
Lacey: That might be a figure of speech, too.- Later:
Lacey: I just shot myself in the foot again.
Customer: You shot your own foot?!
Lacey: Figure. Of. Speech. - Misophonia Gag: Karen spends the episode tormenting Davis over the fact that he gets queasy at just the mention of certain gross foods. In The Tag, Davis discovers that Karen hates the squeak of the hinge on his ticket book, so he starts squeaking it intentionally to get back at her.
- Mutually Unequal Relation: At the end of the B Plot, Oscar technically wins because of a massive imaginary loan he gets from Brent as repayment for years of parenthood. When an upset Hank asks what Brent thinks their friendship is worth, Brent just states that Hank can owe him.
- Not Helping Your Case: After finding out that Brent was actually treating her differently because he thought she'd gone crazy, she yells at him and declares that she'll prove her competence by working harder than usual, even though it's currently her week off. Brent states sarcastically, "Yeah, that proves you're not nuts."
- Old-School Chivalry: Wanda thinks this is why Brent is suddenly being nicer to her when she starts looking and acting more feminine. It's actually because she's normally such a Lad-ette that her behavior was making Brent think she'd lost her mind.
- Principles Zealot: Lacey bakes a pie and gives it to Emma in the guise of making peace. However, her real intention is to catch Emma being hypocritical for taking the pie while refusing the money Lacey offered.
- Sarcastic Confession: One backfires on Oscar:Emma: Oh, did you bring back the milk?
Oscar: [sarcastic] No, I forgot to buy milk.
Emma: Are you being sarcastic or did you really forget?
Oscar: ...I forgot. - Shout-Out: Brent mentions George Jetson in the Cold Open when talking about cars in the future.
- Squick: In-universe, Davis is easily grossed out by strange food combinations. Karen uses this to mess with him.
- Stealth Insult:Brent: [Oscar] raised me, taught me everything I know. That's got to be worth 10,000 imaginary dollars.
Oscar: It's worth more than that!
Brent: How bout 20?
Oscar: Deal! - Verbal Backspace: Though the only change is in the tone of voice:Brent: Why are you wearing a dress? [jokingly] Did somebody die? [Beat, then suddenly serious] Oh no, did somebody die?
