A family trip to Nantucket leads to Lois getting blocked from a vacation rental app. Meanwhile, Stewie and Brian become door-to-door saltwater taffy salesmen.
Tropes:
- Artistic License: DoorDash does not work as depicted in this episode. To sign up to be a driver, one only needs to go through the app. Lois is shown going to a DoorDash office to apply. Secondly, Lois can see the customer's name before she takes Dottie's order. Although Lois may be able to tell what house it's going to before accepting an order by reading the in-app map, DoorDash does not release a customer's info until after the order is accepted. Dashers also don't get to rate customers, so Lois's entire plan wouldn’t make sense in real life.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Lois in response to James Taylor disagreeing with her in the Bell-Above-The-Doorway Cafe.
- Blatant Lies: Lois keeps downplaying how big the shampoo was and how much was left in it when it's large enough to have a pump and full enough to make an audible thud when placed on the table.
- Door-to-Door Episode: Stewie and Brian try to sell saltwater taffy, but to no avail. They only succeed when they rebrand it as "ChewAnon" to sell to Donald Trump's supporters and as a cure for COVID-19 to Joe Rogan.
- Entitled Bitch: Once it's revealed that she was the one who stole from Dottie's home, Lois refuses to take responsibility for her actions and insists to her family and Bonnie that she did nothing wrong, claiming that the money she paid for the Airbnb visit justifies this indiscretion. She only returns the shampoo and apologizes to Dottie after everyone calls her out on it, and even then, it's just to get the bad review changed.
- Felony Misdemeanor: Lois' obsession with getting a bad review is not helped by the Swansons treating her like a thief that needs monitoring when she's in their home.
- Green-Eyed Monster: The real reason that Lois stole the shampoo was because she was jealous of Dottie's better home and lifestyle, claiming that washing her hair with her shampoo made her "feel like someone who matters" and she wanted to keep feeling like that.
- Justified Title: The title makes it seem like the episode will be a Bottle Episode (as in, an episode like "Brian & Stewie") and is outright advertising itself as such. Instead, the title refers to a shampoo bottle that Lois steals from an Airbnb, which leads to her getting banned from the app after the owner writes a bad review.
- Never My Fault: Instead of admitting to stealing the shampoo bottle from Dottie and simply apologizing and returning it, Lois continuously acts as if she was entitled to it simply because she paid to stay the night at the Airbnb (which she absolutely wasn't). Even when called out on it, she only returns the bottle to get the bad review on her changed back to normal, and when this doesn't happen, she decides to threaten Dottie with giving her a bad Doordash review to overturn the bad review on herself, never apologizing authentically or taking responsibility for her actions once throughout the entire episode.
- Persona Non Grata: Lois is banned from the Airbnb app due to a bad review claiming she stole a bottle of shampoo. She goes above and beyond trying to take revenge.
- Running Gag:
- The flashlight on Lois' iPad stays on throughout the episode, which Stewie always makes sure to point out.
- When Lois calls herself The Pelican, no one else knows what she's talking about except a distant woman that somehow senses how she's doing. A man this woman is with expresses confusion every time she brings it up because he has no frame of reference for who she's talking about.
- James Taylor pops up at several points in Nantucket, serenading visitors personally and singing about stores closing up for the season. He even sings the backstory for the Bell-Above-The-Doorway Cafe.
- Sanity Slippage: Just like in "Customer of The Week", Lois loses what little grip she has left after Dottie leaves her a bad review on Airbnb and goes to insane lengths to get it changed. By the end, she refers to herself as "a secret little psycho with very little to lose", and she's not exactly wrong.
- Self-Applied Nickname: Lois claims that people call her "The Pelican" because she swoops in and scoops things up. When asked by Peter to name people who call her that, Lois is unable to do it. Subverted in that a far-away woman actually does refer to Lois as such, but the man she's with doesn't know who that is.
- Sexy Silhouette: When Lois showers, her body is framed this way behind a shower curtain.
- Shame If Something Happened: Lois points out that it would be a shame if she gave Dottie a bad Door Dash review, since she would get banned from the app and have no choice but to leave the house during winter for food.
- Take That!:
- Courtesy of a voiceover at the end of the episode, one is given to Airbnb users for thinking it's a good idea to rent their homes out to strangers they met online while they're away (not realising just how badly wrong things can go)..
Announcer: Airbnb. What are you doing?! It's your HOUSE!- Brian and Stewie decide they need to find some suckers to offload their supply of saltwater taffy to. They rebrand it "ChewAnon" and sell it to MAGA supporters and Joe Rogan as a cure for COVID-19.
- In response to Lois yelling at him, James Taylor replies, "You can't scare me. I used to be married to Carly Simon."
- Technologically Blind Elders: Lois regularly forgets to turn the flashlight off on her iPad and Stewie does not hesitate to mock her age for it.
- Vacation Episode: Lois books an Airbnb in Nantucket for the whole family despite it being the off-season. When it's all said and done, Lois tries to book the same house again, only to find that she's banned from the app due to a bad review.
- Villain Protagonist: Lois serves as one for the episode, much like she did in episodes like "Customer Of The Week" and "Prescription Heroine". She steals a big bottle of fancy shampoo from the Airbnb (causing her to get blocked after the owner writes a negative review), lies about it to her family, tries to browbeat the Airbnb owner into changing her review, and then, when the owner refuses, she stalks and blackmails her into giving in. The episode ends with Lois admitting that she stole the shampoo so she could "feel like somebody" and ranting about how people (especially those who let her into their home) should be wary of her.
