History Recap / FamilyGuyS16E14VeteranGuy

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The guys are exposed not because of their behavior, but because an attentive bystander notices that the ship they are claiming to have served on is from ''Series/TheLastShip''. Failure to pay attention to such details is what often trips up Stolen Valor perpetrators.

-->''Quagmire'': Hydraulic Grapple Winch!
-->''Cleveland'': Oh yeah!
-->''Joe'': From earlier!

* ChekovsGun: Quagmire keeps bringing up the the hydraulic winch to his friends and later uses it to save Peter's life.

* BrickJoke:The Hydraulic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even lampshades this by saying he has said that [[RuleOfThree three times]] and asks {{Foreshadowing if it's going to be important later.}}

-->'''Cleveland:''' I'm not going back to that restaurant!
* RuleOfThree:The Hydralic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even lampshades this by saying he has said that three times and wonder [[ForeShadowing if it's going to be important later.]]

* RunningGag: Peter, Joe and Cleveland eat at The Olive Garden when one of them is about to mention family. [[RunningGagged At the end, Cleveland stops Quagmire before he can mention it]].

* TakeThat: Namor the Sub-Mariner of Marvel Comics makes an appearance where the guys are unimpressed and instead prefer the newly arriving Aquaman.

--> "I'm not going back to that restaurant!"

* RuleOfThree:The Hydralic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even lampshades trope by saying he has said that three times and wonder [[ForeShadowing if it's going to be important later.]]

* RuleOfThree:The Hydralic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even [[Lampshades]] this trope by saying he has said that three times and wonder [[ForeShadowing if it's going to be important later.]]

* RuleOfThree:The Hydralic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even [[Lampshades]] this trope by saying he has said that three times and wonder {{ForeShadowing if it's going to be important later.}}

* RuleOfThree:The Hydralic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even [[Lampshades]] this trope by saying he has said that three times and wonder Foreshadowing if it's going to be important later.

* RuleOfThree:The Hydralic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech]] to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even [[Lampshades]] this trope by saying he has said that three times and wonder [[Foreshadowing if it's going to be important later]].

* RuleOfThree:The Hydralic Grapple Winch, First, Quagmire lists it off during the Coast Guard inspection. Second, When they are out on patrol. Third, during Quagmire's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech]] to the guys about not knowing how to operate it. Joe even [[Lampshades]] this trope by saying he has said that three times and wonder {{Foreshadowing if it's going to be important later}}.

* GlobalIgnorace: Peter thinks that Fort Lauderdale is in Iraq, and pronounces it, "Fort El-Aud-er-D-Ali".

* PhonyVeteran: What lands Peter and friends in trouble. They pretend to be veterans to get assorted perks before finally getting caught. Since he is an actual veteran, Quagmire is spared any of the legal ramifications, but Ida demands he join the others in the Coast Guard to atone for participating in their antics.

* OnlySaneMan: Quagmire is the only one in Peter's group who is offended about pretending to be a veteran, since he himself is an ''actual'' veteran. In fact, he gets fed up with his friends' shenanigans that he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walks out on them]].

* RunningGag: Peter, Joe and Cleveland eat at The Olive Garden when one of them is about to mention family.
** RunningGagged: At the end, Cleveland stops Quagmire before he can mention it.

* TakeThat: Namor the Sub-Mariner of Marvel Comics makes an appearance where the guys are unimpressed and instead prefer the newly arriving Aquaman. Yeah, ''Family Guy'' complimented Aquaman, in contrast to earlier lampoonings of him.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After having had enough of his friends not taking the Coast Guard seriously, Quagmire leaves the hotel.

* RunningGag: Peter, Joe and Cleveland eat at an Italian restaurant when one of them is about to mention family.

* BiTheWay: Peter mentions he's this at the end of the episode.

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