History Recap / AmericanDadS5E15WifeInsurance

* BehindTheBlack: Stan and Jim burst into the living room fighting while Francine is calmly sitting on the couch. Stan begs her for help, to which she says she's having some trouble of her own and the camera pulls out to show Meg sitting in a chair aiming a shotgun at her.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Jim is apparently very well endowed, The speedo Jim wears makes it very apparent he's well endowed down there, with Francine getting DistractedByTheSexy when looking at his crotch. Reginald even nicknames Jim "Prince Walnuts" due to it.

* PunchClockVillain: Downplayed. Meg offers to do a crown for Francine after kicking out one of her teeth. Considering Meg's trying to kill Francine to get Stan, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Francine bluntly points out they're obviously not going to her for dental work anymore]].

* CasualDangerDialogue: Stan and Francine calmly apologize to each other while fighting Jim and Meg.

-->'''Francine''': My tooth!
-->'''Meg''': Oh I can put a crown on for you.
-->'''Francine''' (''indignant''): I'm not going to you anymore!
-->'''Meg''': ''Good luck getting your x-rays back, bitch!''

* WhamShot: Francine is shown calmly sitting in the living room when Stan and Jim burst through the front door. Stan begs Francine for help, only for her to say she's dealing with a problem too... at which point the scene widens to reveal Meg with a shotgun aimed at Francine's head.
* {{Yandere}}: Both Jim and Meg become this to Francine and Stan by trying to kill the other's spouse to have them to themselves.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Both Stan and Francine failed to realize that their "back-up spouses" will do whatever it takes to have them both for themselves.

* VillainousRescue: Just when it looks like Meg's about to blow Francine's head off, the scene widens to reveal Meg actually shot Jim in the chest before he killed Stan.

* ProperlyParanoid: When Stan goes to Meg's office to tell her the back-up marriage plan is off, she tells him she thought he was joking with the implication Stan took her far too seriously. Then we find Meg holding Francine at gun point determined to have Stan to herself, making this one of the rare times Stan knew what he was talking about.

-->'''Meg''': No one shoots my back-up husband!

* BuddyCopShow: Steve and Roger spend the whole episode working out who gets which tropes in their Wheels and the Legman personas.
-->'''Steve:''' I'm good cop and Roger's bad cop. I get to make the puns, but Roger can be sarcastic, as long as it's not too schticky.
-->'''Roger:''' I get to have the troubled past, but Steve always gets the girl.
-->'''Steve:''' Unless she's a bad guy, in which case Roger gets her so that she can betray him, leading to a gunfight on the roof of an opera house.
-->'''Roger:''' Or a theater.

* BuddyCopShow: Steve and Roger spend the whole episode working out who gets which tropes in their duo.

'''Steve:''' [...] Klaus, you’re going to face the ''scales'' of Lady Justice!\\

'''Steve:''' Like it or not, fish, you’re ''on the hook'' for this one!\\

* ShaggyDogStory: As it turns out, Roger was the one who took Hayley's iPod shuffle all along, as he initially misunderstood what she meant by "shuffle".

* PoorCommunicationKills: Hayley tells Roger and Steve that her "shuffle" was missing, but doesn't clarify it being an ''iPod'' shuffle, which Roger actually had all along.