Dee: Are you actually gonna throw away all your convictions for a chance to get laid?
Dennis: I don't really have any convictions...
Dennis: I don't really have any convictions...
While playing basketball with Mac, Charlie encounters his old high school flame who surprises him with a son that she claims is from his seed, so Charlie goes to the free clinic for a paternity test. Meanwhile, Mac and Dennis decide that the best way to pick up chicks is to get involved in the "pro-life vs. pro-choice" abortion protests.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- The Alcoholic: Mac lists "a little bit of an alcohol problem" among the reasons Megan should get an abortion, though he might just be exaggerating his flaws in an attempt to convince her.
- As the Good Book Says...: Mac quotes from Genesis to argue against abortion.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: Charlie asking the Waitress if she's buying toys, while they're standing in a toy shop.
- Auto Erotica: Mac has sex with an anti-abortion campaigner in her car.
- Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: Albeit a brunette, Megan is a conservative Christian and Mac refers to her as a "freak" in bed.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Charlie's "son" Tommy has a serious attitude problem. He bites people, repeatedly throws tantrums more befitting a two-year-old, makes racist and homophobic comments... the list goes on.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Charlie's old flame Stacey apparently went to high school with the gang but is never seen or mentioned again, even in the reunion episode.
- Comically Missing the Point: After the Waitress tells Charlie she's the Big Sister of the little girl she's with, Charlie mentions the kid "looks Mexican." The Waitress then explains that it's the Big Sister program and not literally her little sister.
- Company Cross References: In the background of the toy store is a shelf of prominently-displayed Stewie Griffin plushies.
- Cute But Psycho: Megan, the anti-abortion protester Mac hooks up with. She's turned on when Mac shows her a "list of doctors he's going to kill", especially after noting that some of the names have already been crossed off.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Dennis decides to switch from the pro-choice side of the protest to the pro-life side to see if Mac is having a better time scoring, the pro-lifers think he is climbing the fence to attack him and pelt him with eggs. The pro-choicers think they are getting attack and start throwing eggs back, Dennis taking the majority of the attacks from both sides because he's on the fence.Pro-Life Protester: Hey, there's a guy on the fence!
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Later episodes depict Charlie as mostly uninterested in women (besides the Waitress), but here an Old Flame shows up that he explicitly had sex with at least once. Charlie Day has stated outside of the series that he believes this is the only time Charlie ever had sex before the events of the series, and it traumatized him, leading to an in-universe justification for his behavior to most women.
- Mac is depicted as someone who only has minor knowledge about Christianity, and is perturbed by the religious extremists of the pro-life group. Later seasons firmly establish Mac as an extreme fundamentalist of Christianity.
- Flowery Insults: Charlie states that he's going to "smash [Tommy's] face into a jelly".
- Fun Tshirt: The episode opens with Dennis making fun of Mac's tendency to wear these, though he later reverses his stance in an attempt to his on a woman with a pro-choice slogan on her t-shirt.
- The Fundamentalist: Megan, even more so than Mac.
- Hypocrite: Dee spends a great deal of time pointing out the hypocrisy of Mac's religious convictions, as he's opposed to abortion and birth control but has no problem with premarital sex. Also, when he thinks he has gotten Megan pregnant, he immediately tells her to get an abortion.
- Mistaken for Gay: Stacey thinks that Charlie and Dennis are a couple when they go to her house together to pick up Tommy. A woman at the free clinic later makes the same mistake when Dennis accompanies Charlie for his paternity test, assuming they're there to get HIV results.
- No, You: Charlie gets into a round of this with Tommy when the latter calls him ugly.
- Operation: Jealousy: Charlie asks Dee if she'll pretend to be his girlfriend in order to make the Waitress jealous, but Dee isn't having it.
- Opinion Flip-Flop: Dennis repeatedly switches between being pro-choice and anti-abortion depending on which he thinks it more likely to get him laid.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Tommy calls Dennis and Charlie "fags" and threatens to tell his mother that they took him to a "black people's home".
- Produce Pelting: Dennis ends up getting pelted with eggs by both sides of the abortion protest when he attempts to hop the fence between them.
- Series Continuity Error: The Waitress tells Dee "Nice to meet you" when later episodes firmly establish that Everyone Went to School Together.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: According to Dennis, Mac cuts the sleeves off all his t-shirts in a deliberate attempt to invoke this.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: The episode opens with Mac and Dennis mocking each other's fashion choices, before both of them start ripping on Charlie for being too short to play basketball with them.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After Tommy gets drunk when Charlie leaves him unsupervised at the bar. Worse, he does it in front of the Waitress, who had actually agreed to carpool with Charlie to an event after he tells her he's part of the big brother program.
- Waving Signs Around: There's a lot of this going on at the protest. For the pro-choice side, Dee carries around a sign that reads "Viva la Vulva", while over on the opposite side Mac is shown painting the slogan "What if Jesus was aborted?"
