When the owner of the Ocean Avenue Hi-Fi Emporium bans Gene from playing with the merchandise, Louise takes it upon herself to get revenge on her brother's behalf. Meanwhile, things get awkward between Bob and Teddy when Teddy takes a job at Jimmy Pesto's.
Tropeforgiven:
- Accidental Public Confession / Becoming the Mask: Bob finds himself forced to pretend he's actually mad about Teddy taking a job at Jimmy Pesto's in order to keep Teddy from acting particularly insane about it. At first, he does some Bad "Bad Acting" (that Teddy nonetheless buys wholesale). But once Jimmy starts mocking him, Bob seems to get genuinely heated for a second when he yells at him that Teddy only eats at Jimmy's cause he's doing a job while he actually LIKES being at Bob's, and even calls him a friend. Linda lampshades it.Linda: That last part sounded kind of real.Bob: No, no. It was all for show, Lin.Linda: You love Teddy~!Bob: Let's just go back inside.Linda: You're gonna have all his babies~!
- Big "NO!": Gene when Dino bans children from playing instruments in his store.
- Bittersweet Ending: Gene doesn't get to play the drum machine whenever he wants again, but he gets a better deal than being banned from it outright.
- Butt-Monkey: Mort ends up the target of Teddy's misdirected wrath several times, from getting yelled at and pushed around to getting fettuccine dumped on his lap.
- Chekhov's Gun: When Zeke asks to demo a guitar, Dino reveals his hatred of glitter. The final act sees Louise prepare a glitter bomb to use against him, having gleaned this information from Zeke.
- Cooking Duel: Gene and Dino settle their differences in a drum-machine battle. Gene loses, but Dino is impressed by his enthusiasm and budding musical skills enough to let Gene demo the drum machine once a month until someone buys it, assuming he washes his hands beforehand.
- Cringe Comedy: The entirety of Teddy's subplot is almost painful to watch as he tries to stir up drama with Bob simply because he thinks Bob's hiding how unhappy he is about the contracting job at Jimmy Pesto's. The thing is, Bob genuinely isn't bothered by it, and is more frustrated by how over the top and ridiculous Teddy's being about the whole thing, including smuggling a cup of pasta from there, dumping it on Mort's lap to make it look like he had been eating there too and then yelling about it to Linda and Bob in a sad attempt to somehow make Mort into a more deceitful party. Linda eventually convinces Bob the only way to stop Teddy's antics is to give Teddy what he wants and pretend Teddy was right all along so they can "clear the air". Bob concedes, but only because it's that pathetic.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Gene didn't stand a chance against Dino in the drum machine battle and everyone, including a bitter Louise, admits that Dino's skills were amazing.
- Foreshadowing: When Dino points out to Gene that he can't leave the Hi-Fi Emporium because he works there, Gene claims it wouldn't be work if he loved what he did. As he later finds out, Dino is quite passionate about music, and is not only an active musician but has been for decades.
- Glitter Litter: Louise prepares a glitter bomb for Dino as revenge for Gene; she had heard from Zeke that he hates having to clean up glitter. She has to then retrieve it when Gene goes to Dino to settle things. She succeeds, only for Gene to set it off thinking it was a present for him.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Invoked. Teddy believes Bob has this role just because Teddy wants Bob to feel jealous about Teddy working on a contracting job with Jimmy Pesto.
- Insane Troll Logic: Linda concludes from absolutely nothing that Teddy's hostility to Bob is because Teddy had an erotic dream about her. Even after it's made clear Teddy is overreacting to the idea of Bob being angry he took a job for Jimmy Pesto, Linda still clings to idea it was possibly also because of a sexy dream he had about her.
- Insult Backfire:Dino: Every time you come in, it's the same thing: you get your sticky little fingers all over the drum machine.
Gene: Little? Thank you. - It's All About Me: Linda concludes from nothing that Teddy is acting strangely because he had an Erotic Dream about her, and shoots down Bob pointing out that it's probably as simple as it seems. When asked, he says he didn't have one recently.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Louise was planning on giving a glitter bomb package to Dino despite Gene's protest that he'll handle it himself. At the end of the episode, after Gene successfully handles Dino his own way, Louise takes back the package but Gene mistakes it for a gift to him and opens the package in front of Louise's face.
- Little Sister Instinct: Deconstructed. Louise working to destroy anyone who hurts Gene just makes him feel belittled and patronized, as if he's unable to fight his own battles, and she ultimately agrees to step back and let him solve his problems himself. To be fair, the fact she's his little sister might not help.
- Mobile Shrubbery: Teddy makes a very poor attempt to hide the fact he's got a gig at Jimmy Pesto's by hiding behind one of the tall shrubs.
- Moving the Goalposts: After Louise's revenge, Dino bans anyone under 12 years old from playing the instruments. When Zeke triumphantly declares that he's 13, Dino moves the age restriction to 14.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Just as Gene is about to talk to Dino about letting him play the drum machine in his shop again, Louise's revenge on Dino only makes it worse when he makes a new policy for his shop that forbids anyone under 14 to demo the instruments.
- Noodle Incident:
- When Linda asks Teddy if he had a sexy dream about her, he says "no, not recently..."
- According to Bob, Teddy once accidentally ate paint.
- Operation: Jealousy: Platonic example; Teddy tries to make Bob jealous by emphasizing his new job at Jimmy Pesto's, and it's later revealed Jimmy hired Teddy for that reason. The twist is that Bob genuinely doesn't mind and is honestly more annoyed that Teddy won't accept that he doesn't mind.
- Poor Communication Kills: The reason Teddy is so worked-up about taking the job at Jimmy Pesto's is because he's convinced Bob is trying to hide the fact that he's upset about it, when Bob doesn't really care one way or the other but can't convince Teddy otherwise. He resolves the situation by going over to Jimmy's and pretending that he's angry at Teddy for working there, but once Jimmy shows up to mock him for it, he seems to get genuinely angry at him, as described below.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Bob gives a brief but heated one to Jimmy Pesto, exclaiming he can only get Teddy to eat in his restaurant because Jimmy was paying Teddy to be there, whereas Teddy eats at Bob's place because he likes going there. Bob also tells Jimmy that he'll never have a genuine friendship in his life like Bob has with Teddy. Jimmy brushes it off, but Trev actually seems inspired by Bob and Teddy.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode title is a shoutout to Unforgiven, which is more apparent when seeing the script cover
◊ that parodies the movie's poster. - The Exterminator Van is Flea Willy Pest Control.
- Louise compares herself to John Wick when she swears revenge on Dino. She's only seen the trailer, but feels she gets the gist of what happens.
- Dino is in a band that covers Bell Biv DeVoe and Devo songs, called Bell Biv Devo.
- The episode title is a shoutout to Unforgiven, which is more apparent when seeing the script cover
- Sustained Misunderstanding: Linda is convinced Teddy is acting strangely because he had an Erotic Dream about her.
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Gene insists on dealing with Dino his way, not because he doesn't appreciate Louise's well-intentioned revenge schemes, but because they make him feel like Louise thinks he can't fight his own battles.
- Troll: Jimmy Pesto gladly admits to hiring Bob's best customer Teddy just to try and get at Bob. Unlike 90% of everything else Jimmy Pesto does, though, Bob doesn't even care that much, and is moreso annoyed that both Teddy and Jimmy are acting like it's such a big deal.
