Olga suggests Semyon to celebrate the anniversary of their marriage with the hand-made gifts. Semyon actually proceeds with it, preparing a photo collage... until Kupitman tells him that only cheapskates do this (and shows a wooden statues of animals one of his patients keeps gifting him). Lobanov ignores him at first, but then Phil shows up and tells him about one time when he gifted Olya with a hand-made puppet theatre. After this, Semyon loses any motivation he had left. Kupitman finds Lobanov in bad mood, and tries to help by offering alternate options for a hand-made gift. But Lobanov botches them all, and gives up; he just takes one of the wooden statues from Kupitman's office, not knowing that it has a dedication to Kupitman written on it. When accused of lying after being busted, Semyon snaps and tells Olga how he struggled to make a gift, only to realise that he's unable to do anything more complex than some crappy photo collage. Unfortunately, Olga prepared a photo collage for him, and now feels insulted. Lobanov makes the last attempt to apologise, and uses Phil's idea to create a crude "puppet theatre", with only one "actor" — a potato which represents Semyon himself, which states that everything Lobanov did was done out of stupidity and fear to let Olga down. He then reveals his original gift — his own photo collage. Olga just smiles, and forgives him.
Gleb considers to follow Varya's example and leave the Therapy. After considering — and rejecting — several options, he even finds where he wants to work: Functional Diagnostics, where he expects to do next to zero work, with the same salary. But when he actually tries to go there, he learns that he's not the only one to want such easy job, and they have no free vacations — and wouldn't, in foreseeable future. He then tries, one by one, the other options from the list which he previously rejected, but no one actually accepts him. And when he tries to go back to Therapy, Bykov refuses to accept him back, either. Rita presumes that it was Bykov who set up for Gleb being rejected everywhere. Bykov, when confronted, confirms it and tells that he'd invested too much into Gleb to simply allow him to leave like this; plus, he can't just let his "favourite enemy" to go away so easily.
Phil must help Kisegach to improve her English skills before international conference in London. He quickly realises that her skills are... less than stellar, to say the least. Phil barely can tolerate her speaking near him, and asks Bykov for advice. Bykov's advice? Just tell her directly! Warn her that her English is hopelessly terrible (she, for whatever reason, considers it to be better than it is), before she would make herself a fool on the conference. Phil attempts to stop the lessons to save his sanity, and while he only comes up with something which amounts to "your English arouses me, and we can't continue any further", this still works. Bykov hears that Kisegach now considers her English to be "sexy", and explains to her that Phil just panicked and said to her the first thing he could think of. She confronts him and forces him to say what he really thinks. She reacts adequately to him calling her English terrible... not so much to him coming into details just how bad it is.
This episode provides examples of:
- Blatant Lies: The Head of Psychiatry claims that his colleagues are nice and cheerful. His zombie-like look blatantly disagrees with it.Head of Psychiatry [in Creepy Monotone, without blinking even once]: They say, profession leaves its mark on you; they are liars. All my colleagues are cheerful people.
- Brutal Honesty: Bykov suggest Phil to tell Kisegach right from the start that her English is terrible (she, for some reason, considers it to be better than it is) before the conference; it would be better than allow her to make a fool out of herself. However, he formulates his suggestions in rather insulting manner (not that Phil listened past initial suggestion).
- Chekhov's Gun: Those wooden statues from Kupitman's office? It's not just off-hand joke, Lobanov later takes one of them and re-gifts to Olga (with disastrous consequences).
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Kisegach feels insulted because Bykov is not jealous enough; she interpreted his lack of jealousy-induced paranoia as a sign that he stopped loving her. Such behaviour is out-of-character for her, and wouldn't be brought up again at any point, so it's likely pregnancy-induced.
- Crocodile Tears: Gleb fakes sadness (he even uses the eye drops to cause real tears) when his attempt to find a new place to work fails, in order to force Bykov into accepting him back; it doesn't work, because Bykov sees right through it, and instantly calls him on the real reason: he's asking to be accepted back because literally everyone else already rejected him, and Bykov plans to be the next one to do so.
- Didn't Think This Through: Gleb wants to work in a place where you're expected to do next to zero work, while receiving same salary as everyone else. Then he finds out that he is not the only one to try this, and they wouldn't have the places for new interns in foreseeable future.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: When confronted about breaking the promise to create a hand-made gift for Olga, Lobanov tries to explain that he feared that his only idea (photo collage) is completely horrible. Unfortunately, Olga had the same idea for a gift for him (thinking that it's sentimental value that matters), and this statement only makes her more angry at him, forcing Semyon to find another way to apologise.
- Empty Shell: When thinking about a new place to work, Gleb imagines the Head of Psychiatry as almost zombie-like due to his lack of emotions; Gleb rejects this idea on the spot for this very reason.
- Epic Fail: When Semyon gives up on creating a gift for Olya by himself, he just takes one of the wooden statues in Kupitman's office... only for Olga to find a dedication to Kupitman from original author.
- Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving: Kupitman suggests to Lobanov to just throw out his hand-maid gift for Olya (a photo collage of their most valuable moments together) and buy something more expensive, like brilliant-decorated ring, stating that something cheap and crude would never work, no matter how hard he tries, while something "expensive and beautiful" would be remembered, no matter how hard Olga insists on sentimental values; he compares it to one of his patients who gifted him with several (highly detailed and of rather good quality) wooden animal statues, which Kupitman considers to be worthless — he would rather receive a bottle of cognac.
- I Resemble That Remark!: When Gleb imagines what to expect from the Psychiatry department, the Head of Psychiatry claims that he and his colleagues are all "cheerful people" and that rumours of them becoming Empty Shells are completely false... in Creepy Monotone, without blinking even once. His face looks rather blank and emotionless as well. When Gleb later meets him for real, he turns out to be only marginally better than that.
- Last-Second Word Swap: When Phil attempts to tell Kisegach just how bad her English really is, he fails due to changing what he really meant to her sounding "sexy" at the very last moment. He proceeds with blatantly made-up "justifications" for it, but at least it convinces Kisegach to ask him to forget that they ever tried those lessons... or even talked about it.
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Kisegach's attempts to speak English sounds rather silly due to her low experience with it, with broken grammar and mistaken words, spiced with thick Russian accent. This is why she asked Phil for help in the first place. It's so bad, it is literally painful for Phil (an American) to hear; then she starts singing... In the end, Phil just gives up on teaching her anything, considering her to be hopeless.
- My New Gift Is Lame: Inverted. Lobanov considers his (original) gift for Olga (a photo collage) to be lame (particularly when compared to Phil's hand-made puppet theatre), and because of this, he breaks the promise to create a gift by himself, bringing her one of the wooden statues he took from Kupitman; unfortunately, the statue has a dedication to Kupitman, from original author, which Olga later discovers. When confronted by Olya, Semyon even calls his photo collage "crap". Unfortunately, she had the same idea for a gift for him, and she reacts badly when she hears this.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Bykov all but states that he considers the right to shout, abuse and punish Gleb to be his exclusive when he explains why he sabotaged his attempts to find a new job.
- Suckiness Is Painful: Phil's reaction to Kisegach's attempts to speak in English is near-physical agony. He even considers to tear out his ears to stop hearing it.
- Stylistic Suck: Lobanov's potato puppet theatre doesn't even try to look half-way decent; it is supposed to be crude and awkward, yet cute — to represent Lobanov himself, who had made a bunch of mistakes and now feels sorry about them. It works.
- Terrible Artist: Lobanov's attempts to do hand-made gift for Olga (after he stopped bothering with a photo collage) includes: painting of Capricorn for Olga (which results in something barely recognisable); plasticine figure (which Kupitman compares to something made by a child... little child); origami (which, after several failed attempts, leads Lobanov to destroying his last attempt in a fit of rage; and finally poetry (where he wastes half an hour on trying to find a rhyme to word "Olya"; while Kupitman manages to find several in less than a minute). Then he gives up and uses one of the wooden statues from Kupitman's office... which doesn't work either, as he failed to notice a dedication to Kupitman on it.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Gleb's attempts to find where to transfer from the Therapy; in the end he realises that there's simply no place he could transfer to.
- At first, he just thinks about which places he can try, only to reject several options on the spot: Nephrology (because they have way too many patients), Surgery: (because it requires lots, lots of practice until you would be accepted as a part of the family), Gynaecology (he realises that he would be the only man in a big team of crazy women), Neurology (their patients are just way too creepy), Traumatology: (it fits only for the "real men") and Psychiatry (Gleb is afraid of becoming an Empty Shell like them). He finally sticks with Functional Diagnostics (expecting them to do next to zero work, with the same salary as everyone else).
- Then comes his real attempt to join one of them... only to be rejected every single time. Head of the Functional Diagnostics rejects him because they have no place for another intern, Head of Neurology tests his skills (and he utterly fails), Head of Traumatology rejects him as being "too weak", Head of Psychiatry just refuses to take interns at all ("too much psychic pressure"), Head of Gynaecology states that his mere presence would cause conflicts in (female-only) collective. Nephrology and Surgery are omitted, so it's not clear whether they rejected him, too, or he gave up without even trying them.
