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* DefeatByModesty: Bianca attempts to pull this on Liz, pulling down the top of her dress and her bra so that she's topless. Liz pulls it up again, and is philosophical about it later.

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* AirVentPassage: Kenneth and Tracy use these to communicate with Pete in the bathroom before his hook-up.


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* AnnoyingLaugh: When Prince Gerhardt laughs, it comes out more as a loud scream.


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* DrivenToSuicide: It's implied that Prince Gerhardt drank champagne knowing that it would kill him (not through alcohol, which is technically poison, but through the ''grapes'' his body can't metabolize.)
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* AirVentPassage: Kenneth and Tracy use these to communicate with Pete in the bathroom before his hook-up.
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* FakeRelationship: Jack and Liz pretend to be a couple in front of Bianca, Jack's ex-wife.

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* AmicableExes: Subverted with Jack and his ex-wife, Bianca. They can act friendly towards each other, but they're both clearly not over each other and devoted to making the other unhappy. When Bianca's led to believe that Jack proposed to Liz, she went into a frenzy and attacked her.

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* AmicableExes: Subverted with Jack and his ex-wife, Bianca. They can act friendly towards each other, but they're both clearly not over each other and devoted to making the other unhappy. When Bianca's led to believe that Jack proposed to Liz, she went goes into a frenzy and attacked attacks her.


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-->'''Kenneth''': Remember the vows you and your wife took!...you promised fidelity--
-->'''Tracy''': Lick! Her! Face!


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* TranslationYes: A long German sentence is translated by the subtitles to "yeah".

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* BilingualBonus: Both Liz and Jack speak fluent German.



* RootingForTheEmpire: The pious Kenneth apparently thinks that the dance-loving teenagers of ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' are the bad guys.

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* RootingForTheEmpire: The InUniverse, the pious Kenneth apparently thinks that the dance-loving teenagers of ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' are the bad guys.
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Jack takes Liz to a high society party in honor of an Austrian prince, while Jenna tags along. Meanwhile, Tracy tries to get Pete to cheat on his wife, while Kenneth tries to convince him otherwise.

!!The episode uses the following tropes:

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Prince Gerhardt is smitten with Jenna. Jenna...doesn't quite reciprocate.
* AmicableExes: Subverted with Jack and his ex-wife, Bianca. They can act friendly towards each other, but they're both clearly not over each other and devoted to making the other unhappy. When Bianca's led to believe that Jack proposed to Liz, she went into a frenzy and attacked her.
* TheConscience and TheCorrupter: Kenneth and Tracy take these roles, respectively, when it comes to Pete. To make the subtext clearer, when they [[ItMakesSenseInContext poke their heads into the men's bathroom through the vents]], Kenneth's is lit blue, while Tracy's is lit red.
* TheCasanova: Jack has apparently slept with almost every woman at the party, and he lists many other former paramours, including Elizabeth Hurley, Beyonce, and Martha Stewart.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Jenna downs her glass of champagne as she puts up with Prince Gerhardt.
* RootingForTheEmpire: The pious Kenneth apparently thinks that the dance-loving teenagers of ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' are the bad guys.
* RoyalInbreeding: Prince Gerhardt, as part of the Habsburg dynasty, is grotesquely inbred, and it's taken a physical toll on him: he has floppy puppet legs, horrible teeth, clawed hands, and is unable to metabolize grapes, resulting in his death.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: To Jenna's shock, Prince Gerhardt is only ''twenty-five''.

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