- I'm a good person, that's my thing.
My nickname is Mother Theresa Luther King.
I'm a good person, get it straight,
And when I say good, I really mean great,
The best, hashtag humble and blessed!
Written by Michael Hitchcock, directed by Alex Hardcastle. Original airdate 11/09/2015.
"After Rebecca and Greg's disastrous date, Greg accuses her of being a terrible person in front of Josh. Rebecca takes drastic measures to prove she is a good person, which includes helping Darryl with his messy divorce. Meanwhile, Paula takes over the office as the boss for the day.
Songs:
"I Love My Daughter (But Not in a Creepy Way)" (sung by Pete Gardner)
- Affectionate Parody: Of Bob Carlisle's "Butterfly Kisses."
It takes all of the weird subtext and just says it out loud:I'm very careful where I tickle my daughter,
Never inappropriately.
I can see how that came out a little bit confusingly,
I just love my daughter,
But seriously, not in a creepy way. - Daddy's Girl: What Darryl says his daughter is.
- Parental Love Song: A parody of such songs.
- Parental Incest: The entire song is about how Darryl loves his daughter but not like that! Even as he sings about dancing with her and giving her away at her wedding, everything just tends to come out wrong. Finally, he concludes, "Having a daughter is weird."
"I'm a Good Person (Explicit)" (sung by Rachel Bloom)
- Dynamic Entry: Rebecca kicks the door open.
- Flipping the Bird: At the end of the song, Rebecca lunges over the bar and points the knife at Greg; in the explicit version, she adds one of these for good measure.
- Gutted Like a Fish:Rebecca: Say it. Say it or I'll kill your husband! I'll do it, I'll gut him like a fish!
- Hypocritical Humor: The song is Rebecca singing how she's such a good person... while behaving like a total Jerkass, scattering people's fries, dropping a mic in a cup half-full of drink, failing to help a choking person and threatening to gut people like fish if they don't agree with her.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Rebecca drops her radio mic into the beer Greg is holding and it short-circuits, the song cuts to two technicians just off the set, one of whom shouts "Hey, that mic costs three hundred dollars!" Later they are seen fishing it out and wiping it down while glaring at her.
- Pastiche: In a meta-example, it's a pastiche of 70s musical pastiches (e.g. Grease) of stereotypical 50s rock & roll songs (as evidenced by the three-chord style with a bonus II-V change in the obligatory middle eight, and the slapback echo on Rebecca's voice.)
Tropes in this episode:
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: A rare positive example. Paula makes her coworkers miserable when she's put in charge, but she makes them miserable by forcing them to actually do their jobs and be professional instead of goofing off and acting like jerks.Rebecca: Wow. This place is so quiet and tidy. What did you do?
Karen: She broke our spirit!
Rebecca: [happily] Right!
