The Guys are in the final preparation stage for an unknown scheme when Dee excitedly enters to inform them that today is "Dee Day". The guys have to do everything she wants without complaint.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: It's revealed that Dennis deliberately keeps candy in his pockets when he needs Charlie to pay attention. It works — Charlie is laser-focused on everything Dennis says because he wants the sweets.
- Batman Gambit: Dee knows that the Guys will be aching to insult her as soon as Dee Day is over (e.g., at 12:01 AM), so she deliberately sets a clock ahead by an hour to trick them into going after her when it's still 11:01 PM on her Day — which, according to the Gang's rules, means she gets a second twenty-four hours of doing whatever she wants.
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Banned Episode: It's one of five episodes of It's Always Sunny which is no longer available for online purchase or streaming due to its depiction of Blackface/Brownface.note - Brownface: Dee makes Frank dress up as Martina Martinez, including the darkened complexion.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Dee, knowing full well that the Guys' insult of choice for her is "bird", deliberately makes them go bird-watching and shares fun bird facts just to tempt them into mocking her (which, according to the rules of the Gang's Days, would mean she would get a second Day of doing whatever she wanted).
- Continuity Nod: Charlie asks for a screaming pillow.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Dee uses her day to torture the guys for their treatment of her. Among other indignities she forces Dennis to wipe off his make-up, destroying his confidence and showing just how unhealthy he is, and forces the gang to dress up as her characters to perform a play.
- Cringe Comedy: Dennis attempting to seduce the councilwoman. Without make-up.
- The Dog Bites Back: Dee uses her "day" to effectively humiliate the gang after spending years of getting abused from them.
- Do Wrong, Right: The Gang are forced to play Dee's extremely racist characters as part of her day, and Dennis keeps up his Irish stereotype even when Dee's not there. When confronted, he explained that if he has to do a racist stereotype, he's going to commit to it.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The rest of the Gang is appalled that Dee forces them to act as her racist characters, and they openly complain about their racist nature when Dee isn't around.
- Guy on Guy Is Hot: Dee makes Dennis and Charlie perform a play she has written in which their characters make out. When they give each other a quick dry peck, she chastises them and demands a real kiss. Mac is very eager to hear details, and suggests that him and Dennis go up next.
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with the Gang forced to endure another Dee Day because of Dee's Batman Gambit.
- Hypocritical Humor: When it is revealed that the guys' plot was to ensure a new law that allows public urination to pass, it is revealed that Dee secretly ensured it would pass because she wants that right just as much as they do. The guys call her disgusting over it.
- I Gave My Word: Though the Guys can't stand the idea, they have to do whatever Dee demands on Dee Day because of the rules they established. They try to pull off their latest Zany Scheme while still following her orders, but Dee sees through every one of their attempts and masterfully outplays them.
- Incest Subtext: Dee's The Dog Bites Back humiliations for Dennis all have some sexual sadism to them, getting him to make out with Charlie and wanting him to flirt with multiple women with his make-up gone.
- Just One Second Out of Sync: Invoked by Dee at the episode's end. One of the rules of the Gang's "days" is that the person whose Day it is cannot be insulted or disagreed with in any way, or that person gets a second Day to do whatever they want. As such, the Guys have to wait until midnight to start attacking her again...and that's when Dee reveals that she secretly set the clock she's been using to mark the time ahead by an hour, meaning that it's still technically her Day — and they just insulted her on it.
- Manchild: Charlie pays close attention to Dennis because the latter fills his pockets with candy and bribes him into good behavior with it. When Charlie announces this, Mac and Frank demand candy, too.
- Mundane Solution: Invoked by Dee who asks why the guys didn't just slash that councilman's tires... which is exactly what she did to ruin the vote.
- Red Right Hand: Discussed — Charlie says that Dennis' hideous appearance without his makeup is "what his soul looks like".
- The Reveal: We finally get to see what Dennis looks like without his make-up and other cosmetics (including hair paint, tape to pull back his jawline and eyes, and pectoral padding) — and it's not pretty.
- Sequel Episode: To "Mac Day", which featured the Gang having to do whatever Mac wanted them to do. Dee gets the same treatment in this one.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Years of starving himself, drinking and never letting his skin or hair breathe without some sort of product has made Dennis look ghoulish in reality. His skin is terrible and his hair is all lank and greasy.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: After over ten seasons worth of being the Butt-Monkey, Dee finally scores a win over the guys.
