Rebecca goes to Las Vegas to talk Audra out of running away in order to escape choosing between her suitors. Paula (who is despairing at needing to be a sophisticated, high-powered lawyer), Valencia (who is bitter that Beth didn't propose), and Heather (who is sick of picking up after Hector) all come with her. Meanwhile, Greg, Josh, and Nathaniel find out that Rebecca is torn between the three of them.
Songs:
"Slow Motion" (sung by Donna Lynne Champlin, Vella Lovell, Rachel Bloom and Gabrielle Ruiz)
- Glasses Pull: Played for laughs. Pulling off your sunglasses looks cool in slow motion, but then you don't know what to do with them. Paula sticks the end of them in her mouth and then grimaces, because apparently it doesn't taste good."Take off the sunglasses... and just... hold them... I guess?"
- Overcrank: Parodied. Extreme slow motion is boring, and it doesn't look good when you sneeze.
- Slow Motion: A parody of the use of slow motion for Team Power Walk scenes.
"JAP Battle (Reprise)" (sung by Rachel Grate and Rachel Bloom)
- Battle Rapping: Parodied, in that Rebecca and Audra are now competing to see who's better at praising the other.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Rebecca does this to explain why it's okay for them to use the phrase "JAP Battle" and also to admit that it's maybe cultural appropriation for them to be rapping at all. Audra is a little bemused but goes along with this.Rebecca: ...Which does stand for Jewish-American Princess, a term that, on one hand, does reinforce negative, negative stereotypes about both Jews and women, but, on the other hand, is a term that we want to reclaim and own. Also, should acknowledge that me saying "dap to this JAP" is appropriative and a little problematic, if we're being honest.Audra: ...Yep.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Good god does this build up quickly at the end. Audra in particular seems to be more into Rebecca than Rebecca is to her.Audra: "Terrific self-awareness."Rebecca: "Knock it off, Audra. You never stop, do you?"Audra: "Can't and don't wanna."Rebecca: [as they move in towards each other] "You're a wonderful lady / But an insufferable baby."Audra: [so close they're almost kissing] "Should we make out?"Rebecca: "What? No! ...Maybe."
- Yiddish as a Second Language: "All of our lives, you were toxic, obnoxious / Now, though, you've brought me from nauseous to naches."
"The Math of Love Quadrangles" (sung by Rachel Bloom)
- No Reprise, Please: Rebecca herself is sick of this song, and it's a reprise of "The Math of Love Triangles" from "All Signs Point To Josh Or Is It Josh's Friend?"
Tropes in this episode:
- Call-Back: To the season 2 title song:Audra: You can't call me crazy. Cause when you call me crazy, you're just calling me in love. BLAM!
- Casino Episode: Rebecca's story is largely inside a Las Vegas casino-hotel, and they get involved in a high-stakes backroom poker game.
- Chekhov's Gun: Paula receives a ten thousand dollar bonus from her new job, which she later uses to enter and win the backroom poker game.
- Destination Defenestration: One of the people running the illegal poker games makes a not so veiled threat about giving them an express ride to the ground floor out the window. Rebecca doesn't understand what he means, and when he later makes another threat, Rebecca explains it as if no-one else in the group gets the message.
- Fire-Forged Friends: OK, "friends" may be a bit of a stretch, but Audra does make a sort of truce and stop being Rebecca's enemy, mainly because Rebecca helped her out and if it weren't for Paula's gambling skills they would have all been thrown out the window by an illegal gambling ring.
- Gender-Separated Ensemble Episode: The women of the main cast are off on a spontaneous Vegas trip. The men are left in West Covina; Darryl and White Josh bemusedly watch Josh, Greg, and Nathaniel duke it out with each other.
- Love Triangle: Quadrangle now. Rebecca now has three men to choose from, and they're all really into her.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently Paula can’t stay at the Bellagio of the MGM in Las Vegas. Why? “It’s a long story.”
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Jesse makes an extremely anti-Semitic remark about Audra's husband. Even the head of the gambling ring thinks it's too far.
- Viva Las Vegas!: The girls go to Las Vegas for this episode.
