"Flip, flip, flip-ADELPHIA!"
— Dennis, Dee, Mac & Charlie
After their ten-year ban from a flipcup contest is lifted, the gang tries to reignite their rivalry with another local bar only to find out that their old rivals have since moved on with their lives. Fortunately, Dennis finds a new enemy for the gang to focus on after he's disrespected by his old fraternity.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Almighty Janitor: Discussed; Charlie plans to pull a Good Will Hunting on the frat boys until Mac points out that he isn't a genius janitor — he's just a janitor.
- Asshole Victim: The gang gets revenge on the frat boys by poisoning them during the flip-cup competition. They totally had it coming.
- Batman Gambit: The guys' plan in the final flipcup contest against the frat boys relies entirely on Dee choking and being unable to flip her cup so that none of them have to drink the poisoned beer.
- Big Man on Campus: Dennis claims to have been this. It's all but stated this wasn't true; none of the freshmen remember or care about him, his descriptions of college activities are mostly juvenile harassment, and his picture in the dorm has "I CHUG DICK!" written on it, to which Dennis reacts with wounded confusion.
- Bland-Name Product: Frank gets high on Ritarall, a portmanteau of Ritalin and Adderall.
- Break the Haughty: Throughout the episode, Dennis continuously insists that he was the Big Man on Campus during his college days despite all evidence to the contrary. However, when he tries to introduce himself as such to the frat boys, they respond by chasing him out of their fraternity. Dennis' ego is so bruised that he spends the rest of the episode having a meltdown, raving about how he has been disrespected and desperately insisting that he is "a legend".Dennis: These kids these days, I tell you what, they're nothing like we used to be back when we were in fraternities. They have no respect for anybody. They're like, they're like stupid, little goddamn savages.
Frank: Bitches, they're bitches!
Dennis: I mean, I came in there, right, and I was polite and I was nice to them, and I was cordial. And they completely goddamn disrespected me! Little IDIOTS! IDIOTS!! I was completely respectful, they're supposed to be my brothers, right?! They're my brothers?! NO, NO! That's not fun! What they were doing wasn't fun, they kept ZAPPING US AND ZAPPING US! IDIOTS! SAVAGES!! IDIOTS!!! IDIOTS!!!! - But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Art Sloan confronts the Gang for not even showing up to the tournament after all the fuss they caused about it (including destroying his house), they barely acknowledge it and tell him to just "move on".
- Centipede's Dilemma: Dee manages to flip ten cups in a row while practising, but chokes under the pressure during the actual tournament.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Mac and Charlie go to the frat house in order to try and recruit a fourth for their flipcup team, but quickly become distracted when a pair of sexy coeds offer to paint them.
- Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male: Dennis mentions that during his frat days he would haze the pledges by sticking bananas up their asses or putting the tip of his penis into their mouths while they were sleeping, and he seems to consider this kind of behavior to be lighthearted pranking rather than sexual assault.
- Evil Versus Evil: The gang are hardly saints, but the college boys are a bunch of obnoxious bullies with sadistic initiation rituals and a general disregard for anyone who is not a part of their fraternity.
- Fan Disservice: Frank spends the entire episode wearing a pair of skinny jeans.
- Excrement Statement: Dennis urinates in the rival bar when the owner calls the Gang childish.
- Groin Attack: One of the frat boys is shown hazing a pledge by tying him to a chair and repeatedly zapping him in the crotch with a stun gun.
- Hypocritical Humor: Dennis ranting about how the frat boys are savages who have no respect while he's plugging up Art Sloan's sink with towels and flooding his bathroom. He also keeps talking about how back when he was in college, he treated people with respect... and then fondly recalls his time sticking bananas in a guy's ass or putting the tip of his penis in a sleeping guy's mouth.
- The gang also took offense at Art Sloan slamming the bar's front door after storming out and commenting on his supposed "lack of respect", failing to understand his anger is justified because they ruined his home in reignite their Flipadelphia rivalry and then forgetting about it later.
- Kick the Dog: The guys allow Dee to drink first in the flip-cup contest, claiming that it's because they have faith in her newfound abilities. The real reason is to ensure that she's the only one who has to drink the poisoned beer.
- The gang poisoned Art Sloan and his team ten years ago, trash his restaurant, house, and tax payments, and after all that they completely forget to show up to the tournament.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Charlie tries to mimic the titular character of Good Will Hunting by assuming a humble custodial position at a college who then stuns the students there with his great knowledge. However, he misses the crucial step that to come off as a prodigy in a humble position, you have to actually be a prodigy first. Instead of relying on his own knowledge, he just says what Will says in the movie (or what little he can remember of what Will said) and rambles about how the economics student he's talking to will soon be regurgitating facts from Gordon Wood—unaware that Gordon Wood is a historian, not an economist, and the student has no idea what he's talking about. The frat boys (and Mac as well) immediately call Charlie an idiot.
- Minor Insult Meltdown: When Dennis sees that his picture in the frat has "I CHUG DICK!" graffitied on it, he takes it as if his entire self-image has been shot.
- Never My Fault: The gang blames Art Sloan for getting them banned from "Flipadelphia" for a decade, which only happened because they poisoned him and his team.
- A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: The "paint party" that Mac and Charlie attend at the frat house, which involves lots of attractive people walking around with very few clothes on and covering each other in neon paint.
- Serious Business: The gang treats the flipcup tournament with the utmost seriousness, oblivious to the fact that their "rivals" of ten years ago have long since moved on.
- Shirtless Scene: Mac and Charlie both take their shirts off while they're being painted by the women at the frat party.
- Shout-Out: Charlie states that he's going to pull a Good Will Hunting on the frat boys, and later recites some lines from the film.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Dennis insists that he was a "goddamn legend" at his old fraternity, but all the available evidence suggests otherwise.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: The gang gets their revenge on the fraternity at the end of the episode by poisoning the beer. This was also the reason they were originally banned from the flipcup tournament back in '98.
- Unknown Rival: The gang consider Art Sloan, the proprietor of the bar that originally got them banned from the tournament, to be theirs despite the fact that he's now a successful restaurant owner and barely remembers them.
- Urine Trouble: Dennis urinates against the bar in Art's restaurant.
- Villainous Breakdown: Dennis goes into meltdown after he's disrespected by the frat boys, repeatedly screaming in a harsh falsetto that they're "idiots!" and "savages!" and that he's a "goddamn legend!".
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Dee and the frat boys all end up projectile vomiting after drinking the poisoned beer.
- The Watson: Frank has no idea what "Flipadelphia" is at the beginning of the episode, as the gang were banned from the tournament long before he showed up.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Mac and Charlie get painted up by two hot college girls and are about to return the favor when they're kicked out of the party since they're not in the fraternity. They're later seen grumbling over how they would've tried harder in school if they'd known college would be like that.
