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"If we're gonna plough this company effectually, we're gonna offset cutting the chaff off this shit sandwich!"

— Frank

Frank returns to the world of business with Charlie as his correct-hand man when his former company runs into trouble. Meanwhile, Dennis impersonates a Canadian businessman called Brian LeFevre after the gang finds his wallet in the bar.

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This episode provides examples of the following tropes:

• Ambiguously Bi: Dennis seriously considers having sexual practice with the Asian boy he believes to exist a prostitute in order to see how far he can go in pretending to be Brian LeFevre. He besides invites both Dee and Mac to "get off with him".
• Bad Boss: Frank establishes that he's a nightmare to work for past deceptively helping to fix a paper jam that an function worker is having problems with, then callously and snidely asking, "did I merely exercise your job for you?" He then fires the guy and declares he'll exist doing more than of that.
• Body Sushi: Frank insists on eating sushi off of a naked woman during his and Charlie'south meeting with the Japanese investors.

  Frank: I want this sushi dinner to be the tits.
  Charlie: Oh, okay. So you lot desire it to be, like, actually expensive?
  Frank: No, I wanna eat sushi off of some Jap broad'due south tits!

• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Mac'south "business ideas": bodyguards... a resort... a resort for bodyguards!
• Bystander Syndrome: Mac and Charlie acknowledge that they basically stood by and watched as the existent Brian LeFevre was stabbed to death in the alley outside Paddy's.
• Telephone call-Back: Mac uses the alias "Vic Vinegar".
• Dead Person Impersonation: An unintentional example; information technology's revealed at the end of the episode that the real Brian LeFevre has been expressionless all along while Dennis has been impersonating him.
• Clarification Cutting:

  Lath member: Bring in The Warthog.
  (cutting to Frank on his hands and knees in his and Charlie'southward apartment, sweating and grunting like a warthog.)

• Didn't Remember This Through: Mac immediately claims to exist Dennis and Dee's bodyguard and then gets upset when he'south not allowed to drinkable because he'due south "on duty".

  Mac: Guys, lets get out of here. Everybody's treating me like the help.
  Dennis: Well, y'all should have thought nearly that before you blurted out "bodyguard".

• Does This Remind You of Anything?: All Dennis's talk of "getting off", culminating in this exchange at the stop of the episode:

  Dee: You said "hang in there, I'll help you get off. I'll help you get off, Dee, I'll show you how to exercise it!" And then you leave me all on my ain to try and merely get off all by myself without helping anything!
  Dennis: I did everything I could! I don't empathise why you lot couldn't become off, that's not my mistake! Some women just don't know how!
  Dee: What?!
  Dennis: I don't know what it is. You know, sometimes it's only the guy who gets off!

• Farthermost Omnivore: Charlie and Frank are harvesting crow's eggs to eat at the showtime of the episode.
• The Confront: Dennis ends up playing this role every bit he has marginally ameliorate social skills than Mac and Dee.
• Fingore: Charlie cuts a finger off Brian LeFevre'southward corpse and shows it to the oversupply when he and Mac crash Frank'due south presentation.
• For Doom the Bell Tolls: Used when Mac reminds Dennis that he isn't actually Brian LeFevre.
• Genre Savvy: Charlie and Mac knew right abroad that the investors wouldn't care to listen to their Fight Milk pitch later they revealed Brian LeFevre'due south death, so they opened with the video.

  Mac: No, um, we but didn't want to lead with the Atwater news because we figured y'all wouldn't stick around to watch the video.

• Happy Ending Massage: The investors claim that they paid for both Dennis and Dee to get one of these.
• He's Back!: Frank returns to his old "ruthless businessman" persona.
• Incest Subtext: Dennis and Dee pose as a married couple, and Dennis invites Dee to "get off with him" in a disturbingly seductive tone. They too both get "jerked off" at the massage parlor, and at the stop of the episode Dee is angry at Dennis for getting off without her.
  • In a deleted scene, Dee and Dennis have a conversation about Dee "getting off" that stops being subtext and starts being just text.

    Dennis: I'k going to go you off in ways no brother ever should.

• Innocent Innuendo: The young caddy Mac and Dennis error for a prostitute contributes to this misunderstanding past saying he can take them both, but he might be a footling sore afterwards.
• Jizzed in My Pants: Dennis claims that he "got off a bunch of times" during the presentation while he was exposed as being an impostor, and that information technology was "mostly sexual".
• Kicking the Domestic dog: Frank makes his return to the globe of business concern by helping a young intern with a jammed printer, and so firing him on the spot for not doing his chore. He eventually ends up firing Charlie as his banana too.
• Lethal Chef: Mac and Charlie, if the creation of Fight Milk is any indication: a mix of crow eggs, milk, and clear liquor. A later episode suggests information technology'south really then bad that UFC fighters utilize it to lose weight (since it causes your body to violently expel fluids).
• Mathematician's Answer: At 1 signal, Charlie tries request Frank what line of business organisation the company is actually in, only to be given vague answers such equally "We brand money".
• Mistaken for Prostitute: Mac and Dennis mistake a immature Asian human being for a prostitute hired by businessmen to service them. He'south actually a caddy.
• Money Fetish: Frank sells out his sometime company for this reason.

  Charlie: I thought y'all loved the company.
  Frank: I practise. But not more than coin. And I just fabricated a shitload of information technology.

• Never Learned to Read: Lampshaded when Frank announces that he's instruction Charlie most the world of business organization.

  Dennis: Charlie can't read.
  Frank: He'll arrange.
  Dennis: He'll adapt to reading?

• Politically Incorrect Villain: Frank comments that there's as well many women and minorities working for his erstwhile company. He as well uses the word "chinks" to refer to Asian people multiple times.
• Red Baron: Frank is known to his old business associates equally "The Warthog".
• The Reveal: Brian LeFevre, the man who Dennis has been impersonating all episode, is actually the decision-making shareholder of Atwater.
• Spiral This, I'm Outta Here!: Mac immediately bails of Dennis'southward creepy impersonation scheme when he thinks that they have to have sex with a rentboy.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Dennis lapses into this when he's talking nigh "the thrill of wearing another homo'south skin" and trying to convince Mac and Dee to "become off with him".
• Gummy Fingers: Mac and Dee immediately start rifling through drawers and stealing things when they enter the VIP box at the Phillies game.
• Stylistic Suck: Mac and Charlie'south "fight milk" video.
• What the Hell Is That Emphasis?: As she and Dennis are supposed to exist Canadian, Dee puts on an over-the-meridian accent. Dennis states that she sounds like a cartoon character.

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