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* IResembleThatRemark: Brent doesn't agree with Wanda's assertion that he and Hank are bad at geography, so Wanda asks what's the capital of Michigan. Brent smugly asks "The lake or the state?" and Hank answers "Franchise/{{Wolverine}}!" [[DeadpanSnarker Wanda notes it'll be a tight race.]]
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* IResembleThatRemark: Brent doesn't agree with Wanda's assertion that he and Hank are bad at geography, so Wanda asks what's the capital of Michigan. Brent smugly asks "The lake or the state?" and Hank answers "Franchise/{{Wolverine}}!" "ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}!" [[DeadpanSnarker Wanda notes it'll be a tight race.]]
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'''B Plot:''' The Citizens of Dog River plan a 70s party at the bar. Lacey, who is used to being in control, is perturbed by the party planning committee and their lack of direction. Davis and Karen argue about their costumes for the big event while Oscar’s sexy getup throws Emma into a tizzy.
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'''B Plot:''' The Citizens citizens of Dog River plan a 70s '70s party at the bar. Lacey, who is used to being in control, is perturbed by the party planning committee and their lack of direction. Davis and Karen argue about their costumes for the big event while Oscar’s sexy getup throws Emma into a tizzy.
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* FollowTheLeader: Karen insists that the costume she gives to Lacey is "not ComicBook/WonderWoman", but it certainly looks pretty close.
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*AmbiguousSyntax: Brent points out that Hank's shoes are on the wrong feet, but Hank counters that they're the only feet he has.
*AskAStupidQuestion: Emma, hesitant to talk to Oscar because his Creator/BurtReynolds costume turns her on too much, cautiously asks him if he's having lunch while he's eating spaghetti. Oscar responds [[SarcasmMode "Nothing gets past you."]]
*BaitAndSwitch: While thinking of possible duo costumes for himself and Karen, Davis briefly considers Music/PeterPaulAndMary, then realizes that's not going to work... because it's a '70s theme party and they're from the '60s.
*BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Hank says he'd love to take a math test in order to prove that he's smarter now than he was in high school, so Wanda agrees to get a test because it sounds like an entertaining idea. Brent uses the trope name verbatim to taunt Hank, but Hank actually does prove he's smarter than in high school (by 1%, but that's enough for him).
*CheatersNeverProsper: Wanda offers to give Brent some of the answers for the last test in order to make sure he gets a higher score than Hank. Brent says that cheating make losers of us all, but [[HypocriticalHumour he decides that it's more important for him to be less of a loser than Hank and he agrees.]] Wanda purposely gives Brent the wrong answers and bumps up Hank's score so that Hank wins and she can teach Brent a lesson about not being so high and mighty over being smarter than [[TheDitz Hank]].
*ChekhovsGag: The only thing Phil has done to fix up the bar is put up an electronic sign that tells everyone about the Christmas drink special, which isn't for another three months. When wrapping up the party, Phil takes a moment to remind everyone that it's only 85 days until the Christmas drink special.
*ComicallyMissingThePoint: Wanda heard that the party was themed around 1970, so she assumes that the theme of the party is "The Year Music/TheBeatles Broke Up," which she thinks is mean spirited.
*ControlFreak: Lacey tries to avoid her usual control freak tendencies by staying out of the party planning, but she can't help commenting on what she thinks the actual party planners are doing wrong. Oscar and Karen [[FlawExploitation take advantage of this]] by [[ObfuscatingStupidity making Lacey think they're in over their heads]] and using Lacey's subsequent rant to create a list of things they still need to prepare for the party.
*CoordinatedClothes: Karen is sick of how Davis is always insisting they go to every party with matching costumes, so she wants them to try doing separate costumes this time. Davis is reluctant because he's always wanted to win a Best Duo Costume award. They eventually compromise by going as fictional cops from different '70s TV shows, with Karen as Officer Poncharello from ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'' and Davis as Hutch from ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', although everyone keeps mistaking Davis for various female celebrities from the era.
*ExactWords: Brent can't bring himself to ruin Hank's happiness by telling him that Wanda cheated so Hank would win their competition. But Brent has no problem telling Nate the truth so that Nate can then tell Hank.
*FailureMontage: A series of flashbacks shows past events at the bar that have ended disastrously. First, Phil tries to host a rat race with untrained rats, so the rats just attack the patrons, who all run out screaming. Second, Phil hosts chicken poop bingo, but the rats ate all the food Phil left out for the chicken and proceed to attack the patrons, who all run out screaming. Third, Phil hosts a contest for who can kill the most rats, but the rats all attack Hank, who runs out screaming, followed by Brent, Phil, and Emma who try to beat the rats off him.
*FunnyBackgroundEvent: Emma walks up to Oscar at the party, but Oscar is mad at her for being aroused by his Burt Reynolds in ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' costume. Lanny, who's in the foreground and also dressed like a moustachioed trucker, overhears them and sneaks away.
*IResembleThatRemark: Brent doesn't agree with Wanda's assertion that he and Hank are bad at geography, so Wanda asks what's the capital of Michigan. Brent smugly asks "The lake or the state?" and Hank answers "Franchise/{{Wolverine}}!" [[DeadpanSnarker Wanda notes it'll be a tight race.]]
*ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Lacey spends most of the cold open insulting the bar, calling it a dump and a hovel, getting barely any reaction from Phil. When Brent remarks that Phil has very thick skin, Phil grabs Brent's collar and demands to know what he means by that.
*InUniverseFactoidFailure: A few characters have costumes that don't match the party's '70s theme:
**Brent is dressed as [[TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} the Monopoly Man]], who Wanda points out wasn't from the '70s. He was created in the '40s.
**Hank shows off his newly discovered super genius (for scoring 50% on a test he got 49% on in high school) by dressing as UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, who died in the '50s.
**Rheena is dressed as The Man with No Name from the Film/DollarsTrilogy, a film series from the '60s.
**Fitzy appears to be B.A. Baractus from ''Series/TheATeam'', an '80s TV show.
**Davis and Oscar win best duo costume because Phil thought Davis was dressed as Loni Anderson to go with Oscar's Burt Reynolds, but Anderson and Reynolds didn't work together or get married until the '80s.
*InsaneTrollLogic: Oscar is angry at Emma for being turned on by his Burt Reynolds costume. Not because she's turned on by him being dressed as another man, but because she
*InflationaryDialogue: Depressed that everyone else managed to throw a successful party without her, Lacey asks Phil to make her a drink. Then she tells him to make it a double. Then two doubles. Then two double doubles.
*LawyerFriendlyCameo: The various costumes at the party come with copious amounts of LampshadeHanging about the fact that they're just different enough to avoid copyright issues, like when Lacey complains that the Series/WonderWoman1975 costume Karen gave her doesn't look quite right and Karen denies she ever claimed it was Wonder Woman.
*{{Malaproper}}: Brent can't fathom that he might be dumber than Hank, a guy who calls the holiday "Valentime's Day."
*MixedMetaphor: Hank thinks that passing his math test puts him on the same "plane field" as Brent and Wanda instead of "playing field." Wanda notes that if they were on a plane, she'd be in first class while the two of them would be stuck in the last seat of business class. Brent says that at least he'd get the window seat. Later, when Hank proves smarter than Brent on two more tests (or so he thinks), Hank triumphantly declares himself a "business class window."
*ParentalSexualitySquick: Brent is
*PopCulturalOsmosisFailure:
**Oscar initially says that he's dressed as [[Creator/BurtReynolds "Bart" Reynolds]] from the movie [[Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit "Snookie & The Banjo"]]. He also can't think of what show Series/CharliesAngels were in.
**Brent believes Wanda when she says that the Prime Meridian is a [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Transformer]].
*ShapedLikeItself: Oscar can't think of what to compare Emma to when he describes her flying across the room at him in her [[Series/TheFlyingNun Flying Nun]] costume, so Davis suggests "like a Flying Nun."
*SternTeacher: Wanda takes this role while overseeing Brent and Hank's math contest, slapping the gas station's counter with a ruler when they act childish and threatening to make them sit in the corner through lunch if they don't behave. Brent and Hank submissively call her Ms. Dollard.
*TooMuchInformation: Wanda asks Emma what's wrong, so Emma explains that she can't handle how attractive she finds Oscar in his Burt Reynolds costume. Wanda is disgusted and says she just thought Emma was having trouble finding the ramen noodles or something.
*VerbalBackspace: Wanda's "costume" for the party is that she carries a drink glass with a toy baby in it, representing the first test-tube baby born in 1978, leading to this exchange with Brent:
-->'''Brent:''' Are you the mother?\\
'''Wanda:''' Maybe I'm the doctor, you sexist jerk.\\
'''Brent:''' But no lab coat or anything?\\
'''Wanda:''' [''{{beat}}''] Maybe I'm the mother, you feminist jerk.
*ViewersAreGoldfish: Brent finds out that Wanda gave him fake answers so that Hank would beat him on the geography test. After another scene, Brent complains to Wanda how he can't believe she gave him fake test answers so Hank would win, [[LampshadeHanging "if I may reiterate what we were saying moments ago."]]
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'''B Plot:''' The Citizens of Dog River plan a 70s party at the bar. Lacey, who is used to being in control, is perturbed by the party planning committee and their lack of direction. Davis and Karen argue about their costumes for the big event while Oscar’s sexy getup throws Emma into a tizzy.
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'''B Plot:''' The Citizens of Dog River plan a 70s party at the bar. Lacey, who is used to being in control, is perturbed by the party planning committee and their lack of direction. Davis and Karen argue about their costumes for the big event while Oscar’s sexy getup throws Emma into a tizzy.tizzy.
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* FollowTheLeader: Karen insists that the costume she gives to Lacey is "not ComicBook/WonderWoman", but it certainly looks pretty close.
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* FollowTheLeader: Karen insists that the costume she gives to Lacey is "not ComicBook/WonderWoman", but it certainly looks pretty close.
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'''A Plot:''' Wanda convinces Brent and Hank into re-taking their high school exams to see who is smarter.
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'''B Plot:''' The Citizens of Dog River plan a 70s party at the bar. Lacey, who is used to being in control, is perturbed by the party planning committee and their lack of direction. Davis and Karen argue about their costumes for the big event while Oscar’s sexy getup throws Emma into a tizzy.
'''A Plot:''' Wanda convinces Brent and Hank into re-taking their high school exams to see who is smarter.
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'''B Plot:''' The Citizens of Dog River plan a 70s party at the bar. Lacey, who is used to being in control, is perturbed by the party planning committee and their lack of direction. Davis and Karen argue about their costumes for the big event while Oscar’s sexy getup throws Emma into a tizzy.
