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* ScoldedByAStranger: The entire episode is about the ang finding the man who shushed them at a bar.
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* ScoldedByAStranger: The entire episode is about the ang finding the man who shushed them at a bar.
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* BehindTheBlack: The old lady behind the Dylan Toback account has her comatose husband in a bed next to her computer, and Mac and Dee don't notice him until the camera pans over him.
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* EvilIsPetty: The gang is actively hunting down a man, searching all over Philadelphia, going through any means possible to find him for…shushing them. Can’t really get any more petty than that.
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* {{Catfishing}}: Mac and Dee trace "Dylan Toback" all the way to an older woman who has created multiple online profiles and has pulled romance scams on many women, including Dee. Appropriately, she reveals that her own name is Catfish.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Dennis and Charlie lamenting how rude people are while shooing away the bartender.

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Dennis and Charlie lamenting how rude people are while shooing away the bartender.


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** Mac and Dee are both creeped out about Sally mailing her hair to a "boyfriend" she'd never even met before. When they're leaving Catfish lady's apartment, she stops them to ask if Dee wants her box of hair back.
--->'''Dee:''' "...''You're'' Carl Lundegard?"
--->'''Catfish Lady:''' "Yeah."

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* IHaveManyNames: The old woman behind "Dylan Toback" claims that she has thousands of online names.

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* IHaveManyNames: The old woman behind "Dylan Toback" claims that she has thousands dozens of online names.


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* ItAmusedMe: The old woman behind "Dylan Toback" reveals that she's made dozens of fake identities for herself online because she had nothing but free time on her hands, as well as due to feeling lonely after her husband was put on life support.
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* RantInducingSlight: The gang minus Frank spend the entire episode seeking revenge on a man who shushed them for talking too loudly in a bar.

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* RantInducingSlight: RageBreakingPoint: The gang minus Frank spend the entire episode seeking revenge on a man who shushed them for talking too loudly in a bar.
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* LoveableSexManiac: Mac covertly tries to get one of "Dylan"'s online girlfriends to tell him which website "Dylan" has been posting revenge porn of her to. She later creeps him out, causing him to say that he won't look her porn up, before admitting that he might anyway.

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* LoveableSexManiac: LovableSexManiac: Mac covertly tries to get one of "Dylan"'s online girlfriends to tell him which website "Dylan" has been posting revenge porn of her to. She later creeps him out, causing him to say that he won't look her porn up, before admitting that he might anyway.
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* LoveableSexManiac: Mac covertly tries to get one of "Dylan"'s online girlfriends to tell him which website "Dylan" has been posting revenge porn of her to. She later creeps him out, causing him to say that he won't look her porn up, before admitting that he might anyway.
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* ViralMarketing: In-Universe. The Gang wants to try this but gets sidetracked.
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* TeenyWeenie: While filing a FalseRapeAccusation, Dennis claims this of his "rapist."
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* LiteralMinded: Frank assumes a viral video is a video about viruses.
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* InstantWebHit: The Gang tries to create a viral video to promote Paddy's.
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** Throughout the episode the Gang shush a lot of people -- including each other -- both on purpose and without noticing.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Frank's mistakenly ends his online ad for Paddy's by declaring that it is a computer virus. When the Gang takes him to task, he protests that he made the "virus video," just like they asked--but Mac said ''viral'' video.
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* NothingIsScarier: After the shusher and his friends mistakenly show up in Paddy's Pub at the end of the episode, Dennis quietly requests that Charlie lock the doors. End of episode.
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** The Gang had planned on making a viral video, which Frank follows through on... by making a video that implies that Paddy's Pub is the ''other'' kind of "viral".


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* SkewedPriorities: The original plan was to make a viral video to promote the bar, but only Frank stays on that plan due to everyone else being hung up on trying to find the guy who shushed them the previous night, and even then, Frank messed it up due to his mistaken interpretation of the term "viral video".

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Mac and Dee use the Internet to cyber-stalk a man who shushed them at a trendy bar, but Dennis and Charlie try to show the two that offline stalking is better. Meanwhile, Frank creates a viral video to advertise Paddy's Pub.

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Mac and Dee use ->''"Is anybody online the Internet to cyber-stalk a man person who they say that they are?!"''
->'''-- Dee'''

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shushed them by a man at a trendy bar, Mac and Dee attempt to use the internet to track him down but end up getting sucked into a virtual web of lies and intrigue. Meanwhile, Dennis and Charlie try to show stalk their culprit the two that offline stalking is better. Meanwhile, old-fashioned way, and Frank creates a viral video to advertise help promote Paddy's Pub.Pub online.
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!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:

* BlatantLies: Frank's video promoting the bar is full of these, since "everybody lies on the internet".
* BreadMilkEggsSquick: When Mac and Dee run into the shusher's ex-girlfriend.
-->'''Sally:''' He was always like, "Sally, send me money! Sally, mail me hair!"
-->'''Mac:''' Mail him ''hair?''
* BrickJoke: Towards the beginning of the episode, the gang have a conversation about what kind of douchebag would go to a bar just because it doesn't have a sign. At the very end, the shusher walks into Paddy's specifically ''because'' they've taken the sign down.
* CallBack: Frank uses the name [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS05E10TheDENNISSystem Dr. Mantis Toboggan]] in his viral video.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Charlie becomes fixated on wondering whether a person could blow a sign off a building after Mac says that the owners of the gin bar probably took their sign down on purpose.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Frank misinterprets the meaning of "viral video" and ends up making a video informing all of the bar's Facebook friends that they have a computer virus.
* DeadpanSnarker: The bartender at the gin joint mostly responds to Dennis and Charlie's insanity with snark.
-->'''Bartender:''' Sorry, guys. I've never seen a cartoon character in here shushing people before.
* ExactWords: Dennis and Charlie make a wanted poster with the words "rude man who shushes, please call" and Dennis's phone number. Predictably, this just leads to scores of people calling Dennis purely to shush him over the phone.
* FalseRapeAccusation: When the detective at the police station points out that shushing somebody doesn't actually count as assault, Charlie claims that the shusher also raped Dennis.
* {{Hipster}}: The shusher gives off this impression, being the kind of guy who goes to bars just because they don't have a sign outside.
* HypocriticalHumor: Dennis and Charlie lamenting how rude people are while shooing away the bartender.
* IHaveManyNames: The old woman behind "Dylan Toback" claims that she has thousands of online names.
* InadvertentEntranceCue:
-->'''Mac:''' I like Paddy's sign, so it stays up!
-->'''Charlie:''' ''(entering)'' I got the sign down!
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Mac and Dee mistake a short-haired woman for the shusher from behind.
-->'''Dee:''' It's the hair, and it's the cardigan and it's the build...
-->'''Mac:''' ...And it's the way you stand, the broad shoulders...
-->'''Dee:''' ...But that's okay! That's okay.
-->'''Mac:''' There's nothing you can do about that.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Mac and Dee initially can't understand why Dennis and Charlie are so intent on getting revenge against the shusher, but they quickly get sucked in when they think they've found his Facebook profile.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Mac goes on a whole rant about how Facebook is a Jewish plot to take over the world.
* RantInducingSlight: The gang minus Frank spend the entire episode seeking revenge on a man who shushed them for talking too loudly in a bar.
* TheScapegoat: Poor Dee.
-->'''Dennis:''' People are showing up to a bar that doesn't even have a sign and serves only one old-timey disgusting drink that nobody likes. Goddamn, I hate gin. Dee, you bitch!
* ShoutOut: The old woman pretending to be Dylan Toback claims that her real name is {{Film/Catfish}}.
* TheSociopath: Discussed by Dennis and Charlie, who comment that for all the shusher knows they could be the kind of men with "a fistful of hammers and a trunk full of zipties and duct tape".
* StylisticSuck: Frank's viral video.
* SuperIdentikit: The police sketch artist mocks up a perfect likeness of the shusher, made even more impressive by the fact that Dennis and Charlie describe him in vague terms such as having an "annoying nose that you want to punch".
* UncertainDoom: The episode ends with Dennis telling Charlie to lock the doors as the shusher and his friends enter the bar, followed by giving a very creepy laugh as he welcomes them inside. Cut to black.
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