Hollywood actress Rona Thorne spends a week shadowing the agents at ISIS for an upcoming movie role.
This episode provides examples of:
- The Bad Guy Wins: The episode ends with Soviet premier assassinated by Rona because she was...
- Evil All Along: Rona Thorne turns out to be a Russian sleeper agent who just happens to become a famous young movie star. She actually weighs in between throwing away her stardom to support the KGB and abandoning her mission and keeping her fame. She ultimately chooses the former because she was promised the chance to direct a future movie in the Soviet Cinema.
- Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Malory uses the opportunity of having Rona around to make some "improvements" to her next movie's script. The story is supposed to be a "taut, sexy spy thriller" about a spy who has to take on the CIA and KGB. Mallory rewrites the CIA director into a Mary Sue version of herself who is having a love affair with a young Black agent named Cassius. Everyone who hears the basis of the script mocks Malory for it, either confusing it for a comedy or expressing disbelief that Malory thinks she can pass herself off for a woman in her 50s.
- Obfuscating Insanity: After Cheryl, Pam and Ray are caught breaking into Rona's apartment, Cheryl tells the others they can "say the right stuff and they'll just send you to a mental hospital for ten months."Ray: I just this second realized why you do macrame instead of knitting.Cheryl: Yeah, no sharp objects on the ward. They were super strict about that.
- Race Fetish: Malory is really insistent about the character her self-insert gets it on with is a black man. One of the producers from the studio calls the script "granny gets jungle fever", but ultimately work out by turning the script into a Mandingo Dolled-Up Installment.
- Renegade Russian: Rona Thorne is working for a group of hardliners in the KGB who object to the new Soviet premier's position in favor of disarmament.
- Running Gag: "...And?"
- Stalker with a Crush: When Cheryl was in college she had a crush on a football player nicknamed "Dick Sledge." She was so obsessed with him she at one point broke her arm so he'd sign her cast, and later broke into his room to find out what he was interested in. Cheryl then mentions he caught her by surprise and she stabbed him with a pair of scissors by accident, severing his tendon and ending his football career.
- Stylistic Suck: Malory's rewrites a standard spy thriller script into an incredibly cliched and borderline racist screenplay.
- Tagalong Actor: Rona's cover for hanging around ISIS is that she's researching for an upcoming role as a spy.
- Too Much Information: Pam regales Cheryl and Ray with a tale of how she once left porn in her VCR by accident, and then her parents later showed up to tell her that her mom was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease.Ray: Why would you think it's okay to share that?
