Stan's mother Betty comes to the Smith house after being dumped again, and Francine decides to set out to find a man for her. However, she soon learns the truth about why men leave Betty.
Tropes:
- Brick Joke: After being revealed to be the one who was trying to abduct Hercules, Stan says he doesn't kill his mother's boyfriends but leaves them on a deserted island. At the end of the episode, Stan, Francine, Hercules, and Betty are sailing through the Aegean Sea, and Stan steers the boat away from the island where all of Betty's past boyfriends are calling out for her.
- Desert Island: Stan has spent the last several years kidnapping his mother's boyfriends and depositing them on an uncharted island.
- Didn't Think This Through: During the race to the airport, Francine takes the freeway while Stan takes the surface road. He finds himself stuck in traffic.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Roger's a certifiable piece of shit who goes well beyond his race's biological need to vent their nastiness so it doesn't poison them, but he's left gaping in mute horror at Stan and Betty's incestuous relationship as he watches Stan sing about scrubbing his mother's vagina clean.Francine: I told you it was complicated.Roger: No. No. No. Changing planes at O'Hare is complicated. This is, th-this is just... Frannie, what is this?
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Hercules and Betty go on two dates before the kidnapping attempt, at which point he decides life's too short and takes her to Greece. He then proposes to her while on the plane.
- Gorgeous Greek: Francine's butcher friend Hercules is Greek, tall, muscular, and handsome.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Betty demanding all of Stan's attention and support when he was a kid warped him into believing all her potential boyfriends would just hurt her, so he spent decades kidnapping them and thus robbing her of the love she desperately craves. She's never called on it, with all the blame placed on Stan for not letting go sooner.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Roger has been trying to keep himself off of alcohol, only to go back to drinking when he sees
Stan giving his mother a scrubbing in the bathtub. - Karma Houdini: Stan never faces any consequences for kidnapping and marooning all of his mother's boyfriends.
- Karmic STD: Klaus infects Steve with Ich, telling him there's no cure so that Steve can hang out with him. After Steve finds there's an easily available cure, he learns of Klaus's deception and leaves. Klaus then tries to pull it again with Hayley, at which point she wonders aloud if fish can get herpes.
- Literal Metaphor: When Stan's father abandoned his wife and son, he left a pair of his shoes behind. Young Stan then promised to take care of Betty in his absence, and then literally stepped into his father's shoes.
- Love at First Sight: Hercules and Betty instantly hit it off after admitting she's right about the quality of his lamb.
- Momma's Boy: Taken to an extremely disturbing degree. Stan is so obsessed with being the most important man in Betty's life that he's spent decades kidnapping her boyfriends and trapping them on a desert island.Stan: Francine, I have a perfectly logical explanation for this. SHE'S MY MOMMY!
- My Beloved Smother: Betty greedily suffocated Stan with her need for attention after Jack ran out on them, making him think from a young age that he had to take care of her as "her little Stan the Man."
- Parent with New Paramour: Stan is not happy when his mother begins dating Hercules. He originally plans to dispose of him, but once he gets to know him he changes his mind.
- The Reveal: Roger convinces Francine that Betty murders the men she dates, since they all disappear after three dates. She saves Hercules from being dragged out of a bathroom and chases his assailant to a van...only to find that Stan was trying to kidnap him.
- Riddle for the Ages: Where and how did Stan get the resources as a kid to dump Betty's lovers on a deserted island?
- Shout-Out: Hercules tells Betty about an episode of Deal or No Deal he watched, in which a woman refused an offer of $70,000 and instead received only a penny in her briefcase.
- Time-Passage Beard: Betty's former boyfriends have all grown thick, bushy beards in their new lives as castaways.
- Visual Innuendo: Roger tells Francine that they'll teach Betty how to please a man, before swallowing a banana whole.Roger: Oh, I'm not making a point. I'm just low on potassium.
