A Plot: When the NFL players go on strike and the football season is threatened, Barry gets concerned that he and Murray will no longer have anything to talk about.
B Plot: Beverly decides to start selling a nutritional product from a sketchy company.
- Bilingual Bonus: Jane's energy supplement being called "Energé" is an indication that it's actually fraudulent, as the actual French word for "Energy" is "Énergie".
- Digging Yourself Deeper: One of Bill's original insults when dismissing Barry and Murray's sports talent is comparing them to women, though he immediately realizes that's insensitive and he apologizes for it...while accidentally making another negative remark about women. His apology for that one is a much simpler and to-the-point "Go women athletes, woo!".
- Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Beverly's plot is kicked off when she runs into Jane Bales, who brags that she no longer needs to worry about coupon-clipping and bargain-bin shopping since signing up to sell "Energé", a French energy supplement. To spite her, Beverly starts up her own, similar business.
- Gratuitous French: There's the French energy supplement "Energé" (see Bilingual Bonus), and Beverly starts referring to herself as "Bever-lé" to compete with it.
- Misery Poker: Bill and Vic, first before Barry's tryouts and later during The Tag, try to top which one of them got the most severe injury from their football days, with Bill making claims such as how he can now smell feelings and how it caused his premature balding. However, they both still honestly believe that football is the greatest sport ever.
- Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Barry's plan to keep bonding with Murray is to try out for the NFL himself after being coached by his former-athlete father. When Murray's friends mock the idea, citing how lazy Murray has become and doubting that he was ever an athlete, Murray is spited into actually exerting himself.
- Rousing Speech: Erica and Adam make a sales pitch and market Beverly to herself after she learns the truth about her product and admits defeat, pointing out all of her good points and how she has no reason to feel jealous of Jane.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Barry's enthusiasm for football tryouts lasts up until he hears about the permanent injuries Murray's friends have suffered and seeing men his size get crumpled by larger men at the tryouts, at which point he runs across the football field's width to escape.
- Side Effects Include...: It turns out that Beverly's supplier has been including amphetamines in their products (in addition to odd ingredients like "hummingbird extract"), accidentally turning her friends (and Beverly, who promised to never sell a product she wouldn't take herself) into hyperactive addicts.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: After Barry flees from football tryouts despite Murray spending so much time training him, and even gifting Barry a memento from his own days as an athlete, Barry originally believes that he's broken Murray's heart. But Murray tells him that the time they spent together was still amazing, and he still wants to spend time together, even if it's over literally nothing.
