"I WILL EAT YOUR BABIES, BITCH!!"
— Dee
After the guys leave Dee alone with a mugger, Frank offers to help her learn self-defense, but things quickly get complicated when she agrees to a boxing match against the daughter of his old rival. Meanwhile, Dennis and Mac train Charlie for an underground fighting ring so they can make money off him.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Alpha Bitch: Brianna, the daughter of Frank's old rival, come across as this. At one point she compares Dee to a Holocaust victim.
- Artistic License – Sports: Justified as the characters don't really know what they are doing. Frank's advice to Dee in training involves resting the barbell on her neck, jerking the weight up and locking her knees. Even she seems to recognize how horrible the advice is. Dennis and Mac also train Charlie on just being a Stone Wall, doing nothing except hitting him with fists, chairs and boards to toughen him up.
- Asshole Victim: Unlike most of the people who have their lives wrecked by the gang, Bobby and Brianna are such huge jerks in their own right that it's hard to have much sympathy for them.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment:Mac: Dennis and I are gonna train you to be an underground street fighter.
Charlie: What?! ...That is brilliant! - The Blind Leading the Blind: Most of Frank's "training advice" makes it clear that he has no idea what he's actually doing.
- The Boxing Episode: The episode revolves around two separate fights, one of which is an actual boxing match.
- Brick Break: Charlie attempts to do this with a wooden board at the beginning of his training, and fails dismally.
- Brick Joke: At the beginning of the episode, the gang fight over whether or not Charlie could pull a four-by-four through the snow like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV. One of the scenes in the Training Montage later on has him pulling Dennis's Range Rover - with Mac and Dennis riding on top of it - while hopped up on steroids.
- Call-Back: Once again, somebody has to yell over the gang's bickering several times to get their attention.
- Comedic Sociopathy: This exchange:Fight organizer: These are waiver forms, in case your fighter is seriously injured... or killed.
Mac: Oh, we don't care about that. Sign away. - Description Cut: Dennis states that they've turned Charlie into an "animal". Cut to a 'roided-up Charlie growling and gnawing on a piece of meat.
- Dirty Coward: When the gang is mugged by a junkie with a knife, the guys all shove Dee forwards and run away.
- Eats Babies: Dee claims to as part of her Trash Talk.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Dennis enters Charlie into the fight under the name "Clown Baby", reasoning that it will cause people to bet against him so that they make even more money.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The mugger at the beginning is taken aback by the Gang abandoning Dee. He sarcastically says "Nice friends" to her.
- Fight Clubbing: Mac and Dennis enlist Charlie in an illegal underground pit fight, as they believe he is impossible to injure.
- Girls with Moustaches: Dee is shown shaving her facial hair during the Training Montage, likely as a result of her steroid abuse.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: As part of the Training Montage, Mac hits Charlie over the head with a beer bottle.
- Homoerotic Subtext: Mac and Dennis seem oddly fixated with getting Charlie to take his shirt off. They also massage his shoulders and hand before they begin "training" him, and when Mac leaves the room Dennis continues to do so while moaning in Charlie's ear.
- Lightning Bruiser: This is Mac's excuse for why he ends up getting beaten by a much smaller opponent; he claims that the guy was just freakishly fast.
- Made of Iron: Mac and Dennis seem to believe that Charlie is incapable of being severely or permanently injured, and much of their "training" of him consists of them pummeling him with their fists, throwing trash cans at him and breaking boards, chairs and even glass bottles over him. To be fair, he does take most of it without seeming much worse off.
- Oh, Crap!: Frank's reaction at the end of the episode, when he realizes that he's most likely paralyzed Brianna after his One-Hit KO of her father causes her to break her neck.
- Papa Wolf: Bobby Thunderson hesitates to accept Frank's challenge to a fight until Frank threatens to hit Brianna, prompting Bobby to accept the challenge.
- Pet the Dog: Frank seems genuinely concerned when he learns that the guys left Dee alone with the mugger.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Dennis claims Million Dollar Baby is unrealistic because girls can't fight. Because they don't have muscles. Brianna later mocks Dee's roided-affected appearance as looking like a Holocaust victim.
- Punch a Wall: Dee manages to punch a hole in the wall of her apartment when she's on steroids.
- The Rival: Bobby Thunderson is Frank's old boxiing rival from the sixties, and there's still a fair amount of animosity between them. His daughter Brianna is also this for Dee.
- Sanity Slippage: Both Dee and Charlie become increasingly unhinged as they continue to abuse steroids.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: After everything they go through, neither Dee nor Charlie ends up participating in their fight, as they both get arrested for beating up a bystander outside the bar while high on steroids. Mac ends up taking Charlie's place, while Frank takes Dee's.
- Shout-Out: The title of the episode is a reference to the film Million Dollar Baby, which is also discussed by the characters during the cold open. Brianna's neck breaking on an errant stool is also a riff on the film
- Training Montage: Set to Joe Esposito's "You're the Best" as Dee and Charlie both prepare for their respective fights.
- Victory by Endurance: Dennis and Mac's strategy for training Charlie is simply to hit him with things, reasoning to just make him a Stone Wall. This was after Charlie's punching strength was seen to be lacking.
- With Friends Like These...: Mac and Dennis enlist Charlie in a dangerous and illegal underground fighting match with no apparent concern for his safety, simply to make a quick buck. When Mac ends up taking Charlie's place, Dennis secretly bets against him, allowing Mac to get his ass kicked and pocketing all of the cash. Then when Mac finds out, he leaves Dennis alone in an alleyway with a mugger, telling the mugger to stab him.
