History Recap / ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS13E02TheGangEscapes

** [[Film/JurassicPark Dee trying to shut down Dennis' twisted sex game is met with taunts of, "Ah ah ah, you didn't say the safe word." Dennis also later calls Dee a "clever girl" when she figures out how to escape from his room.]]

* GilliganCut: Dee warns Amanda that if the guys are left alone, they'll immediately start breaking everything in the room to find clues (even though the game runners specifically tell people ''not'' to do this). The scene immediately cuts to the guys doing just that.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Dee finally gets the approval she's been craving for so long.

-->'''Amanda:''' Can you think of any reason why [[TheSociopath your brother]] would soundproof his door?\\
'''Dee:''' ...Oh. Oh no. Oh god. ''(disgustedly)'' Yeah, ''yeah.'' There is. Dennis, you psychopath.

* RunningGag: Dennis's status as a sexual predator is once again brought to the fore, as it's revealed that his room is soundproofed, locks from the outside and has an automated recorded message from Dennis.

* HypocriticalHumor: Dee scorns Amanda’s British accent as terrible before letting loose with an even worse one of her own.

'''Mac:''' Aren’t all cows female?\\

'''Dee:''' ...Oh. Oh no. Oh god. ''Yeah, yeah. There is.'' Dennis, you psychopath.

'''Dee:''' ...''Shit.''

* EpicFail: The Gang's usual dynamics causes so much needless conflict, not only do they do everything in their power to prevent everyone else from doing anything constructive (like locking Dee in the other room because she wanted to be the maverick), by by the time they even read the very first clue, they only have a few minutes left.

* LockedInARoom: The basic premise of the episode involves the gang being locked inside Mac and Dennis’s apartment and having to solve various puzzles in order to escape. This being the Gang, they don't even get to the actual start before they only have two minutes left.

* RealityEnsues: After spending fifty-eight minutes debating who exactly gets to insert a key into a lock, the men finally do it... only to find it was the ''first puzzle'' in a room absolutely full of them. They immediately panic and lose.

** Mac's [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS12E06HeroOrHateCrime dildo bike]] makes another appearance.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The guys' reaction to Dee's "British" accent.

* RealityEnsues: After spending fifty-eight minutes debating who exactly gets to insert a key into a lock, the men finally do it...only to find it was the ''first puzzle'' in a room absolutely full of them. They immediately panic and lose.
* RunningGag: Dennis’s status as a sexual predator is once again brought to the fore, as it’s revealed that his room is soundproofed and locks from the outside.
-->'''Dennis:''' Remember, if you’re having too much fun, it ruins it for me.

* TheSociopath: Dee calls Dennis a psychopath when she accidentally triggers a disturbing sex game that involves locking his conquests inside his bedroom. Later, Dennis enforces the trope by violently stressing that she is the ''only'' woman to ever get out.
* TakeThat:
** The Gang keep chanting "[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Art of the Deal]]" as a way to reaffirm their machismo-based negotiation tactics, which only succeed in making an otherwise simple problem worse.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The guys’ reaction to Dee's "British" accent.

->-- '''Dee'''

->''”Why does there have to be a prize? Why does it have to be sexual? Why can’t men just do something for the challenge of it, ‘cause it’s fun?”''
->'''--Dee'''

!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:

-->'''Amanda''': Can you think of any reason why [[TheSociopath your brother]] would soundproof his door?
-->'''Dee''': ...''Shit.''

-->'''Dennis:''' You see by constantly chewing very loudly, he’s sending a very clear message that he is the head cow. And as we all know, the head cow’s always grazing.
-->'''Mac:''' Aren’t all cows female?
-->'''Dennis:''' Well, that was a metaphor.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both Dennis and Frank apparently believe that herds of cattle have a “head cow” which is constantly grazing.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The guys’ reaction to Dee’s “British” accent.

** [[Film/JurassicPark Dee trying to shut down Dennis' twisted sex game is met with taunts of, "Ah ah ah, you didn't say the safe word." Dennis later calls Dee a "clever girl" when she figures out how to escape from his room.]]

** They're also genuinely concerned when Dee is out on the ledge of the apartment and warn her to be careful since it's so high up.

** Dennis calls Dee [[Film/JurassicPark “clever girl”]] when she figures out how to escape from his room.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Dee at the end.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After Dee's been sealed inside Dennis's room, she chats with Amanda via walkie-talkie:

-->'''Dee''': ''(Realizing why Dennis would do that)'' ...''Shit.''

* TheSociopath: Dee calls Dennis a psychopath when she accidentally triggers a disturbing sex game that involves locking his conquests inside his bedroom.

* DividedWeFall: Not only do the gang quickly split into factions in a game about cooperation but they lock Dee (who having played through this exact scenario before knows the answers) in a soundproofed room. They tend proceed to waste time trying to outdo each other in power plays and negotiations to the point that they only officially start the game with two minutes left on the clock.

* LockedInARoom: The basic premise of the episode involves the gang being locked inside Mac and Dennis’s apartment and having to solve various puzzles in order to escape.