The Quinn family cause uproar at a family wedding, and the consequences of the girls' bad behaviour are very serious, especially for cousin Eammon.
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- Actually Pretty Funny: Sister Michael gets stuck talking to Uncle Colm, whose droning, monotone style of storytelling is so incredibly boring that she begins to wonder if she's died and gone to hell. However, after Colm finishes the story she realizes it's actually a pretty funny one.Colm: So, the poor girl — the bride now, this is — she arrives anyway, and isn't she no sooner out of the car than she's lifted up in the air like a paper doll and blown into a flowerbed.
Sister Michael: That's actually quite funny. - Ambiguous Ending: We never learn what exactly happens after the family eats the drug-filled scones.
- Angry Chef: Gerry, put in charge of the kitchen at the wake, goes full Gordon Ramsay :Gerry: Where are me scallions? How can you make a salad sandwich if you don't have scallions? I asked for them ten minutes ago, come on now, people! Let's get it together, please! And there's a multipack of Taytos still waiting to be bowled up! No cross-contamination this time! I want cheese and onion in one bowl, salt and vinegar in another! It is not! That! Difficult, folks!
- Appeal to Flattery: Mary is reluctant to let all the gang into the wedding reception — until James compliments her hat.
- Asshole Victim: Aunt Bridie, who died whilst shaming Mary, Sarah and Joe for their parenting.
- Brick Joke: At the wedding, Colm starts to tell Mary a recollection of another wedding he went to, only for her to silence him. The audience gets to hear the punchline of that story later, when he's telling Sister Michael at the wake.
- Broken Record: Michelle trying to remind her friends of her drug dealer.Michelle: Aye, Macca. Big Macca. Come on! Everybody knows Macca.
Clare: We don't.
Michelle: Wise up! Macca? Macca. Macca! MACCA!
Clare: That's not helping, Michelle! - Culture Clash: At the wake, James is horrified by the casual way Bridie's dead body is laid out for people to view and that visitors can touch her. The girls are baffled by the fact that it's the first time he's ever seen a dead body, due to British funerals being far more formal and even clinical; open caskets aren't as common, bodies are often removed to a funeral parlour rather than being prepared at the family home, often it's only close family that views the deceased, and wakes are usually held after the person's already been buried.Erin: Haven't you ever seen a dead body before?
James: Of course not!
Michelle: Christ, but the English are weird. - Delayed Reaction: After her friends discuss what to do about the scones, which is minutes after they were taken away, Orla finally asks where the scones are.
- Didn't Think This Through: Operating under James' knowledge of movies, the girls try to disposed of the drugged scones by flushing them. It doesn't occur to them that baked goods are heftier than marijuana, leading to a backed up toilet and a flooded washroom.
- Embarrassing Cover Up: When the gang flood the bathroom in Eamonn's house during the wake, Erin has to pretend she had terrible diarrhoea so her mother won't find out what they were actually doing (trying to get rid of Michelle's homemade scones with drugs in them).
- Fee Fi Faux Pas: No only does Aunt Sarah wear a white frock to a wedding, she arrives during the bridal chorus and walks to her seat by way of the main aisle, upstaging the actual bride who walks in immediately behind her. When Mary attempts to clue her in to the faux pas, Sarah assumes that everyone was affronted by Mary's hat.
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Mary and Sarah's aunt dies and the funeral spirals out of control, with the gang flooding a toilet with drugged scones, and Mary and Sarah attempting to steal a pair of earrings from the corpse.
- Get Out!: Eamonn uses this at Bridie's wake after he catches Mary and Sarah trying to loot the corpse's earrings, and then finds that Erin and her friends have flooded his bathroom.
- Gilligan Cut:Erin: And remember — be subtle!
[Orla and another guest]
Orla: I need to take your scone. - Immediate Self-Contradiction:Mary: Best behaviour.
Clare: Completely!
Michelle: You'll have no trouble from us, Mary. [the instant she's out of earshot] Okay girls, who wants to do drugs? - I Wished You Were Dead:Mary: Ach, drop dead, you spiteful old hag!
Bridie: [dies] - Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Mary tells Bridie to drop dead, then she does. While by virtue of genre it's pretty clear to the audience that it's mundane, everyone in-universe is frightened that Mary put a curse on her. According to Joe, his mother (and Mary's paternal grandmother) is known to have "the gift" as well, so Mary's "gift" could be hereditary (and possibly extant in the female line, having skipped Joe and Uncle Colm).
- Mixed Metaphor:Bridie: If your mother saw that hat, she'd be turning in her grave!
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: It's clear Joe is high when he's nice to Gerry.Erin: Look, Granda's had one and now he's acting really, really weird.
Michelle: You're being paranoid, Erin.
Erin: He was nice to Daddy.
Michelle: Jesus! - Wedding Bells... for Someone Else: The episode begins with Aunt Sarah walking down the aisle in a white dress, implying that she's finally getting married. A pan out reveals that she's actually a guest at someone else's wedding, and committed the faux-pas of wearing white — and doubly so by arriving late and walking down the center isle, rather than going around.
