Self-absorbed park ranger, Steve Williams worries that Ethel's arrival will jeopardize his stranglehold on Ranger of the Month and does whatever it takes to sabotage her. Meanwhile, Malloy, a bitter, sarcastic bear cub (who was adopted by Head Ranger, Woody), is put on a diet after Ethel declares that Malloy's junk food eating will take years off his life — and goes on a desperate search for his beloved fatty foods.
- The Ace: In direct contrast to Steve, Ethel is a highly-competent park ranger who easily succeeds at everything she does.Steve: Freaking show off.
- The Alcoholic: Ethel is revealed to be an alcoholic, who got fired from her last job as a tour guide at Yellowstone for getting drunk at work.Ethel: So, this is a tree, ... and I've had 11 abortions.
- Asian Store-Owner: Woody hires a Korean convenience store owner to follow Denzel around and make sure he doesn't steal anything.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Bobby rapes Malloy up the butt. However, nobody seems to care and Steve only punishes Bobby by making him pick up litter.Steve: What? Same-sex bear molestation is only a misdemeanor.
- Black Comedy: Woody has a dark sense of humor, as exemplified in this episode.Woody: That guy you hit with a jetski decided to forget the lawsuit. Of course, he forgets everything now because of the brain damage! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- Blackface: Steve went in blackface for his ranger of the month photo for February.Steve: That's right, brotha. Black History Month too!
- Collector of the Strange: Connie collects Ethel's toenail clippings ... and snorts them like coke.
- Cutaway: This episode has several.
- Expository cutaway of Steve killing Malloy's parents.
- Malloy making Steve an AIDS cake for breakfast.
- Denzel gets a surprise vsit from the KKK.
- Malloy steals Ethel's vibrator batteries.
- Woody acts like a psychopath and shoots himself in the head, while using a Kermit the Frog puppet.
- Ethel going on a drunken tirade at Yellowstone.
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: At the end of the episode, Steve accidentally says out loud, how he spiked Ethel's coffee, when he thought he was saying it in his head.Steve: Good thing I'll never tell a soul.
- Drunk Driver: Ethel gets drunk off her ass and drives a helicopter. As you can guess, chaos ensues and she causes a complete trail of absolute destruction all over Hazelhurst.Ethel: Hey, get out of the fast lane! Stupid mountain.
- Employee of the Month: Steve has been the ranger of the month every month since he started working there, although this is mostly just because nobody else gives a shit about their job.
- Establishing Character Moment: Denzel explains his love for old white women as though this is the first time people have heard about it.
- Failure Hero: Steve fucks up absolutely everything he tries in this episode.Steve: Woody, look! I saved a hiker!Woody: ... He's dead, Steve.Steve: He was alive when I found him.
- Freudian Slip: Steve accidentally says something about an amputee kid.Steve: It's good to be here, speaking to the Nub Scouts.
- Friend to All Living Things: Ethel goes all Ace Ventura in this episode, having all the park animals crawl all over her, loving everything about her.
- The Graph Shows the Trend: Woody shows a chart, showing how tourism at Brickleberry has dropped significantly this past month.Woody: Alright, rangers. Do you know what that is?Denzel: Is it the devil's penis?
- Irony: Steve reads a book about safe driving, ... while driving. He ends up running over two bears and killing them.
- Love at First Sight: Steve and Connie both experience this for Ethel upon first seeing her.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Although he's already a complete dumbfuck as it is, when Steve saw Ethel watching him, while he was teaching the cub scouts, he suddenly started acting a little bit dumber and ended up emptying an entire canister of gasoline into a campfire, blowing the place up.
- Never My Fault: Woody fires Ethel for her drunk helicopter flying and later regrets it, as she was the park's best ranger. He blames Steve for letting him fire her.
- Although, technically it was kind of Steve's fault, as he was the one who spiked her coffee and got her drunk to begin with.
- Noodle Incident: Malloy reminds Steve of a time when he got drunk and thought the paper shredder was a vagina.
- Man on Fire: Steve uses way too much gasoline, when lighting a campfire and sets himself on fire.
- Minor with Fake I.D.: Malloy is canonically about 13 years old in bear years and he tried to buy alcohol from a convenience store with Woody's ID.
- The Scapegoat: Malloy gives Woody's car away and Denzel gets blamed.
- Secret Diary: Connie steals Ethel's secret diary and reads everything about her.
- Slipping a Mickey: Steve spikes Ethel's coffee with vodka to get her drunk.
- Standard Snippet: At the very beginning of the episode, Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" plays at the beginning of the episode, while all the animals are fucking.
- Title Drop: The first line of dialogue in the show is Steve doing this to the episode title.Steve: Take it all in, kids. This is nature in all its majesty. Welcome to Brickleberry.
