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Dennis and Dee's degenerate father Frank (played by Creator/DannyDeVito) pays the twins a visit in order to inform them that he's divorcing their mother, but decides he wants to live like the gang after getting a taste of their depraved lifestyle. Meanwhile, Charlie ends up in a wheelchair after Dennis accidentally hits him with his car, and after seeing him gain sympathy from some strippers Mac, Dennis and Dee decide to fake their own disabilities.
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Dennis and Dee's degenerate father Frank (played by Creator/DannyDeVito) pays the twins a visit in order to inform them that he's divorcing their mother, but decides he wants to live like the gang after getting a taste of their depraved lifestyle. Meanwhile, Charlie ends up in a wheelchair after Dennis accidentally hits him with his car, car due to his reaction from Frank appearing, and after seeing him gain sympathy from some strippers Mac, Dennis and Dee decide to fake their own disabilities.
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* ButtMonkey: The episode opens with Charlie getting run over by Dennis, and by the end of it he's spent a night sleeping outside his apartment, a further night sleeping in the alley outside the bar, and had the only upside to being stuck in wheelchair - that he gets attention and sympathy from girls - thoroughly ruined thanks to Frank.
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* ButtMonkey: The episode opens with Charlie getting accidentally run over by Dennis, and by the end of it he's spent a night sleeping outside his apartment, a further night sleeping in the alley outside the bar, and had the only upside to being stuck in wheelchair - that he gets attention and sympathy from girls - thoroughly ruined thanks to Frank.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Dennis's disguise includes a blanket over his legs (like UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt) and a lie about polio to hide the fact that his legs haven't atrophied at all. Mac thinks this is a good idea, so he decides he will lie about having polio too (but he doesn't get a blanket). Also, Polio was all but eradicated in the Western world in the 1950's.
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Charlie asks Frank who gets more respect than anyone (planning to answer it himself with "war heroes"). He gets a number of answers from Frank, including "actors", "athletes", "models", and "rich people".
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Charlie asks Frank who gets more respect than anyone (planning to answer it himself with "war heroes").than war heroes. He gets a number of answers from Frank, including "actors", "athletes", "models", and "rich people".
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Charlie asks Frank who gets more respect than anyone (planning to answer it himself with "war heroes"). He gets a number of answers from Frank, including "actors", "athletes", and "models".
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Charlie asks Frank who gets more respect than anyone (planning to answer it himself with "war heroes"). He gets a number of answers from Frank, including "actors", "athletes", "models", and "models"."rich people".
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Charlie asks Frank who gets more respect than anyone (planning to answer it himself with "war heroes"). He gets a number of answers from Frank, including "actors", "athletes", and "models".
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Dennis and Dee's degenerate father Frank (played by Danny [=DeVito=]) Creator/DannyDeVito) pays the twins a visit in order to inform them that he's divorcing their mother, but decides he wants to live like the gang after getting a taste of their depraved lifestyle. Meanwhile, Charlie ends up in a wheelchair after Dennis accidentally hits him with his car, and after seeing him gain sympathy from some strippers Mac, Dennis and Dee decide to fake their own disabilities.
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* UpToEleven: Dee utilizes this trope in universe to beat Dennis and Mac at their own game after they tell her that she's going to kill their scheme to attract sympathy with their wheelchairs. As they travel through the mall, they see her pretending to be completely paralyzed and needing a pair of crutches and leg braces just to get around. As such, she gains the attention and praise of a ''whole store'' and ruins their plan.
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* TheAlcoholic: Charlie is shown to keep booze under his bed and under his pillow when Frank asks if he has any.
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* ShoutOut: Dennis owns a stuffed animal named "[[Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight Mr. Tibbs]]." Dee even says "They call you Mr. Tibbs?" as she tears it up.
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* ThisIsMySide: Dee and Dennis do this to the bar when they are mad at each other.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Dee is noticeably more of a jerk and far less empathetic than in the previous season, which she will remain for the rest of the series.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Dee is now fully out of the CloserToEarth trope and is noticeably more of a jerk and far less empathetic than in the previous season, which she will remain for the rest of the series.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to reveal Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Not only does this firmly establish the tone of the show after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of Season 1, but it also solidifies ''all five'' of the Gang as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to reveal Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, sporting more severe injuries, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Not only does this firmly establish the tone of the show after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of Season 1, but it also solidifies ''all five'' of the Gang as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to reveal Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Not only does this firmly establish the tone of the show after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of Season 1, but it also solidifies ''all five'' of the Gang once and for all as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to reveal Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Not only does this firmly establish the tone of the show after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of Season 1, but it also solidifies ''all five'' of the Gang once and for all as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Not only does this firmly establish the tone of the show after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of Season 1, but it also solidifies ''all five'' of the Gang once and for all as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist UnsympatheticComedyProtagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to reveal Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Not only does this firmly establish the tone of the show after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of Season 1, but it also solidifies ''all five'' of the Gang once and for all as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist UnsympatheticComedyProtagonists]] Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Firmly establishing all five of the Gang once and for all as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist UnsympatheticComedyProtagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Firmly establishing all five Not only does this firmly establish the tone of the show after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of Season 1, but it also solidifies ''all five'' of the Gang once and for all as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist UnsympatheticComedyProtagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Now that Frank has been added to the cast, the final shot of the episode features the Gang sitting together in the hospital, crippled, before going to get ice cream together and musing that at least nobody important got hurt. The camera then pans to Dee's date on the other side of the room in a full-body cast, who mutters, "What a bunch of assholes." Firmly establishing all five of the Gang once and for all as a group of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist UnsympatheticComedyProtagonists]] with no regard for anyone but themselves.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Dee is noticeably more of a jerk and far less empathetic than in the previous season, which she will remain for the rest of the series.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After everyone but Charlie faked having disabilities, they all got injured for real after Mac and Dennis fell asleep at the wheel, causing Dennis' car to crash into Frank, Dee and her date.
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-->'''Frank:''' I wanna be pathetic and desperate and ugly and hopeless!
-->'''Charlie:''' Okay, I'm not ugly.
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'''Charlie:''' Okay, I'm not ugly.
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'''Charlie:''' Okay, I'm not ugly.
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-->'''Dennis:''' I'm a man, I'm strong. I can carry heavy things. You're a woman, you're weak, and you can't.
-->'''Dee:''' You're a woman and you're weak.
-->'''Dennis:''' That doesn't make any sense.
-->'''Dee:''' ''You'' don't make any sense.
* ObfuscatingDisability: While Charlie's disability is real - albeit temporary - after Dennis breaks his legs and lands him in a wheelchair, the rest of the gang then decide to jump on the bandwagon and fake their own disabilities in order to gain attention.
-->'''Dee:''' You're a woman and you're weak.
-->'''Dennis:''' That doesn't make any sense.
-->'''Dee:''' ''You'' don't make any sense.
* ObfuscatingDisability: While Charlie's disability is real - albeit temporary - after Dennis breaks his legs and lands him in a wheelchair, the rest of the gang then decide to jump on the bandwagon and fake their own disabilities in order to gain attention.
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-->'''Dennis:''' I'm a man, I'm strong. I can carry heavy things. You're a woman, you're weak, and you can't.
-->'''Dee:'''can't.\\
'''Dee:''' You're a woman and you'reweak.
-->'''Dennis:'''weak.\\
'''Dennis:''' That doesn't make anysense.
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'''Dee:''' ''You'' don't make any sense.
* ObfuscatingDisability: While Charlie's disability is real- -- albeit temporary - -- after Dennis breaks his legs and lands him in a wheelchair, the rest of the gang then decide to jump on the bandwagon and fake their own disabilities in order to gain attention.
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'''Dee:''' You're a woman and you're
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'''Dennis:''' That doesn't make any
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'''Dee:''' ''You'' don't make any sense.
* ObfuscatingDisability: While Charlie's disability is real
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** Later on, Dennis is drunkenly talking to Mac about somebody who he loves and considers family. It first would seem like he's talking about Frank given that this episode introduces him, but he's actually talking about his stuffed elephant Mr. Tibbs.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Frank and Charlie pass a military surplus store, Charlie points out that veterans get more attention than anyone while eyeing a full Marine uniform. He tells Frank to buy him the outfit...and one GilliganCut later, we see that he's purchased a Vietnam War outfit instead, which ends up backfiring horribly.
* BecomingTheMask: Charlie gets into the role of ShellShockedVeteran a little ''too'' much: he ends up screaming at the first stripper who sees him, and later takes on the characteristics of a stereotypical homeless vet.
* BecomingTheMask: Charlie gets into the role of ShellShockedVeteran a little ''too'' much: he ends up screaming at the first stripper who sees him, and later takes on the characteristics of a stereotypical homeless vet.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Frank uses this trick to get Charlie into agreeing to his moving in with him. He makes an offer of paying the rent for six months; Charlie demands a year, and Frank starts haggling. When Charlie won't budge, Frank suggests four months, and Charlie immediately raises the bar...to six.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Frank's first full scene has him telling Dee and Dennis that their mother is dead...and then revealing that [[ILied he lied]], claiming the idea is a "business tactic." We instantly know that he's a manipulative cheat who enjoys twisting people's emotions for his own gain (and amusement).
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Frank's first full scene has him telling Dee and Dennis that their mother is dead...and then revealing that [[ILied he lied]], claiming the idea is a "business tactic." We instantly know that he's a manipulative cheat who enjoys twisting people's emotions for his own gain (and amusement).
** Similarly, during the "stripper race" between Mac and Charlie, Mac's stripper tumbles off of his back, but he's too angry to even notice. Later, as the two are fighting, the stripper gets up and starts trying to point out what happened, which doesn't work.
* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: Frank gets Charlie out of the way by pinning his wheelchair behind a piece of the strip's club furniture; Charlie refers to this as being "boxed in." Later, Charlie's forced to spend the night sleeping outside because he can't get his wheelchair past the lip of a curb.
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* UpToEleven: Dee utilizes this trope in universe to beat Dennis and Mac at their own game after they tell her that she's going to kill their scheme to attract sympathy with their wheelchairs. As they travel through the mall, they see her pretending to be completely paralyzed and needing a pair of crutches and leg braces just to get around. As such, she gains the attention and praise of a ''whole store'' and ruins their plan.
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When the gang hears news that Dennis and Dee's degenerate father, Frank (played by Danny [=DeVito=]) is coming to visit, they try to drive away, but end up running over Charlie and putting him a wheelchair. After seeing Charlie get attention from strippers over being in a wheelchair, Dennis, Mac, Frank, and Dee decide to garner sympathy from others by pretending to be handicapped.
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Dennis and Dee's degenerate
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* BigNo: Charlie lets out three in quick succession after he returns to the strip club to find Frank in a motorized wheelchair drawing the attention of all the strippers.
* BookEnds: The episode begins and ends with Dennis hitting someone with his car.
* ButtMonkey: The episode opens with Charlie getting run over by Dennis, and by the end of it he's spent a night sleeping outside his apartment, a further night sleeping in the alley outside the bar, and had the only upside to being stuck in wheelchair - that he gets attention and sympathy from
* ComedicSociopathy: The final scene, in which Frank points out they were lucky nobody [[ExactWords important]] was seriously hurt after Dennis hit them all with his car. The gang then leave the hospital, and the camera pans over to reveal Dee's date in the bed opposite, wearing a neck brace and looking significantly worse off than any of them.
* CompetitionFreak: A RunningGag throughout the episode is that Mac insists on turning everything into a competition, despite the fact that he always loses.
* DrunkDriver: Dennis drives himself and Mac to the strip club while they're both wasted, which results in him falling asleep at the wheel and driving the car into everybody else.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: Charlie initially scorns the idea of Frank moving in with him, but he changes his mind after Frank offers to pay his rent for six months.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Frank tells one of the strippers that Charlie is his "poor crippled boy". It seems like a throwaway joke, but the season finale reveals that it's probably true.
* FriendshipMoment: Surprisingly enough, the episode ends with Frank actually getting the rest of the gang to stop fighting by offering to take them all for ice cream.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Frank opens the door to Mac and Charlie, the two strippers can be seen behind him in Charlie's apartment having a pillow fight.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Inverted with Dennis and Dee. When they're fighting about what each can "rescue" from their parents' house, Dee takes out a stuffed elephant - called Mr. Tibbs, no less - that belonged to Dennis and rips its head off, which obviously crushes a little piece of his soul.
* TheHedonist: After spending a night with the strippers, Frank claims that he wants to give up his life as a wealthy businessman in order to live in squalor like the gang.
* HypocriticalHumor: Dee calls Mac and Dennis "scumbags" for pretending to be
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne:
-->'''Frank:''' I wanna be pathetic and desperate and ugly and hopeless!
-->'''Charlie:''' Okay, I'm not ugly.
* IconicSequelCharacter: This episode marks the first appearance of Frank, who becomes a main cast member and one of the show's most iconic characters.
* NoYou: Apparently Dee's go-to strategy while arguing with Dennis:
-->'''Dennis:''' I'm a man, I'm strong. I can carry heavy things. You're a woman, you're weak, and you can't.
-->'''Dee:''' You're a woman and you're weak.
-->'''Dennis:''' That doesn't make any sense.
-->'''Dee:''' ''You'' don't make any sense.
* ObfuscatingDisability: While Charlie's disability is real - albeit temporary - after Dennis breaks his legs and lands him in a wheelchair, the rest of the gang then decide to jump on the bandwagon and fake their own disabilities in order to gain attention.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Frank points out to Charlie that while being in a wheelchair might gain the sympathy of the strippers, what really gets their attention is money, and he has tons of that.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Charlie pretends to be one of these after getting Frank to buy him an old uniform from a military surpus store.
* TeamDad: The ending makes it clear that Frank is to act as an extremely twisted version of this trope to the rest of the gang.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: After losing their wheelchair race, Mac gets so angry that he leaps out of his chair to physically attack Dennis in the middle of a shopping mall. Frank later does the same thing to Charlie after the latter gets them kicked out a strip club.
* WheelchairAntics: Mac and Charlie race each other down the hallway of Charlie's apartment building, each carrying a stripper, while Charlie is still in his wheelchair. Later on, Mac and Dennis have a wheelchair race in the shopping mall.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: After seeing how well it works for Charlie, the rest of the gang decide to fake a disability in order to gain attention and sympathy from attractive strangers.
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