Mac concocts a scheme to attract single women to Airbnb Dennis' bedroom, while Frank and Charlie concoct similar plans to attract young, European coeds. But neither ad attracts their intended target.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Birds of a Feather: Frank and Charlie with Alexi and Nikki, the Austrian men they accidentally invite to stay with them.
- Black Comedy: The Reveal that Teddy was actually the couple's dead son is given an inappropriate soundtrack.
- The girls Frank and Charlie do end up sleeping with are heroin addicts, one of whom is "aggressive" with her fingers. They're only upset by this because they ruined the spoon gifted to them by Alexi and Nikki.
- But Now I Must Go: Alexi and Nikki, though they promise to return in exactly one year.
- Continuity Nod: Frank's email address contains the name "Warthog."
- Double Entendre: Dee asks Greg to help "clean my pipes."
- Europeans Are Kinky: Because of this trope, Frank and Charlie are excited about the young Austrian co-eds that they think are going to be staying with them. Frank also believes that European girls will want Frank and Charlie to "explore" each other.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Dee offers to help Mac and Dennis continue their plan, only to be forcefully rejected by both of them.
- Friendship Moment: Charlie and Frank each have one with Alexi and Nikki, the father and son duo who initially stay with them, by bonding over yodeling, shared culinary tastes, and toe picking - to the point where they end up underwhelmed by the sexually adventurous European girls who stay with them later.
- Funny Foreigner: Alexi and Nikki, the Austrian tourists who stay with Frank and Charlies.
- Gender-Blender Name: Frank and Charlie are expecting two sexually adventurous European girls, but get a father and son named Alexi and Nikki instead.
- Invoked Trope: Mac, Dennis and Dee are all actively trying to engineer a Meet Cute, mentioning the concept by name multiple times.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- After the failed Meet Cute in the hardware store, Dee declares to herself, "End Act Two!" The show immediately cuts to a commercial break, ending the episode's second act.
- She later begins to complain that men don't control everything anymore, and women can't be silenced, only to have the show itself Smash Cut away from her mid-sentence to another scene.
- Mondegreen Gag: Charlie mishears Mac describing a Meet Cute, think he said "meat cube." He (and later, Frank) become intrigued by the concept, and it eventually becomes a token of affection from their Austrian counterparts.
- Race for Your Love: Charlie and Frank do this to reach Alexi and Nikki before they leave by bus. Unfortunately it doesn't work, though Alexi and Nikki promise to return in one year.
- Running Gag:
- Dennis hears noises Dee makes as bird sounds.
- Charlie's illiteracy leaves him unable to read the note Alexi and Nikki left behind.
- Shout-Out: to Pretty Woman specifically the jewelry box scene.
- The Sociopath: Dennis equates romance with "trapping" women.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Alexi and Nikki are basically the Austrian versions of Frank and Charlie. All four share similar diets and strange behaviors, and the latter pair might also be father and son.
- Toilet Humor: Part of Mac's plan involves defecating in a toilet and clogging it up with toilet paper, leaving their temporary roommate to find it and find out there's no plunger to unclog it with, at which point Mac sends him to a nearby hardware store, where Dee'll be waiting for him. He describes the feces in quite a bit of detail.
- Wrong Assumption: Dennis and Mac get everything wrong about the couple staying with them.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Mac, Dennis and Dee assume they're in some romantic comedy farce with a couple in marital difficulty. Dee thinks she's the heroine (as Dennis snaps that she's the "slut the guy sleeps with"), Dennis thinks he's the charmer sweeping the wife off her feet, and Mac thinks he'll be helping the man come to grips with his sexuality.
- The key issue, of course, is that they assume "Teddy" is the name of either the wife's or the husband's lover, but are unaware that it's actually the name of their dead son.
