The economy is in a bad state. Earl remains confident that his job as a tree pusher has never been more secured, but then all of the tree pushers get fired because there are no longer any trees in the area to push down. B.P. Richfield tells them that, according to the Chief Elder's manual on finger pointing, it's the fault of four-legged dinosaurs. The Chief Elder soon decides that four-legged dinosaurs are no longer allowed on the side of the swamp that two-legged dinosaurs are unless they get married (or learn to walk on two legs if not even get the surgery to remove the legs). Fran suggests that Monica get married so she can stay, but she doesn't like any of the guys she knows. She ends up accepting Roy's offer to marry her, on the grounds that it be a platonic marriage. Earl ends his friendship with Roy over this. Mr. Richfield soon hires back all the laid-off tree pushers because the government wants them to build a wall to keep the four-legged dinosaurs out. When Roy shows up, Richfield tells him that there's no job for him, since he married a four-legged dinosaur. Earl starts to have a change of heart and asks Richfield to let him work with them, to no avail. But when building a wall in the swamp, the dinosaurs end up having an accident and get rescued by four-legged dinosaurs. Earl becomes convinced that the four-legged dinosaurs aren't the problem anymore, and restores his friendship with Roy. The Chief Elder then announces that four-legged animals are welcome again, and now puts the blame of the economy on amphibians.
Includes examples of
- Category Traitor: Roy receives this treatment for marrying Monica.
- Citizenship Marriage: Monica marries Roy in order to stay in the country.
- Fantastic Racism: two-legged dinosaurs vs. four-legged dinosaurs.
- George Jetson Job Security: The tree pushers all get fired because they can't push anymore trees down. They eventually get rehired to build a wall. After the wall project is canceled, it's not mentioned whether they are still employed, though by the next episode they will once again be pushing trees for WESAYSO.
- Guest Star: Joe Flaherty as the Chief Elder.
- The Scapegoat: The idea behind the manual of finger-pointing. Its cover even says "Solutions are Hard. Blame is Easy". Once it's no longer good form to blame four-legged dinosaurs for society's problems, amphibians become the new scapegoats. Earl, having become smarter than this, turns off the television while muttering, "Shut up!"
- Status Quo Is God: After bigotry against four legged dinosaurs end and four-legged dinosaurs can continue living on their side of the swamp, Roy and Monica get divorced.
- Tempting Fate: Earl says his job is secure. The next scene features him and his coworkers being told they're no longer needed because all trees in the area were already pushed down.
- We Are Not Going Through That Again: At the end of the episode, WESAYSO stops blaming four-legged dinosaurs for society's problems after they risked their lives to save those of the two-legged ones despite the two-legged ones having been hired to build a wall in the swamp to keep them out. When Earl sees a news report where the Chief Elder decides to make amphibians the new scapegoats, he turns off his television set and mutters "Shut up!"
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Richfield says this word-for-word as the reason he had to fire everyone. He threatens to eat his former employees if they don't scram out of his office.
