After a drunken one-night stand with the British spy Rafe Masters, Reagan starts struggling with how overly clingy he is. To avoid him, she uses Cognito Inc.'s resources to fake her own death. Unfortunately, Masters isn't the type to take his "girlfriend"'s death lying down.
Tropes:
- Above the Influence: Subverted. The first sign that Rafe is not a good guy is that he took advantage of Reagan being into him when she was drunk. If he were a gentleman, he would have put her to bed until she was sobered up and able to give consent. As Reagan says later when trying to break up with him gently, she wouldn't have slept with a British spy if she were sober. Granted, it's implied he was also inebriated by the time karaoke happened, but Rafe clearly handles it better than Reagan the next morning.
- An Aesop: If you break up with someone, have the courage to do directly and face-to-face instead of trying to ghost them. You might avoid being the bad guy in the short term, but the fallout generated by an ex who can't take a hint can be even worse.
- All for Nothing: Reagan's entire quest in the episode was to break up with Rafe without being, as she puts it, "the bad guy". By the end, she is pointing a memory-erasing laser at him while wearing an eyepatch and a coat with skulls on it, forcing her to break up with him as she had originally planned to.
- Beat Without a "But": Reagan fakes her own death and gives Glenn a eulogy to read, which ends on a "but" with no follow-up.Glenn: "Reagan was an American hero. We didn't agree politically, but..." Hmmm, it just ends there.
- Bedmate Reveal: Reagan is initially only mildly surprised when she wakes up in a hotel room with a guy and convinces herself that she's earned a drunken one-night stand with a caterer. She is more shocked after doing a Sherlock Scan on the room and realizing she's actually slept with an MI6 agent.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: J.R. insists that diverting the employee pension fund is not embezzlement, it's a sure-fire investment. He's "invezzeling".
- Brutal Honesty: Gigi mentions that Reagan made Glenn cry at his own birthday party ("I was dancing too confidently, and I needed to hear it!"), and she brutally dumped a coworker in the past for being boring. The fact that this results in hurt feelings cause Reagan to attempt to ignore the issue until that's no longer an option.
- Call-Back: Reagan's reaction hologram from "Blue Bloods" pops up after her failed attempt to dump Rafe at the restaurant.
- Cardboard Prison: Dr. Skullfinger reveals he could have broken out of prison any time. His consideration for his emotional well-being and getting out of a toxic relationship was real. After talking with Reagan, he realizes that while it is toxic, Rafe is his guy.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Dr. Skullfinger is a parody of James Bond villains, with an overly elaborate volcano lair, a doomsday device, lots of skulls and a name like Skullfinger.
- Cartwright Curse: Parodied. Reagan fakes her death by pretending to be shot at by Noel before falling into an exploding garbage boat in the most over-the-top way imaginable.
- Disposable Woman: This trope dogs Reagan when she attempts to fake her death. Because she didn't realize she was in a James Bond parody, she thinks she just needs to lie low until Rafe goes back to Britain. Instead, he vows to track down whoever conspired to "kill" her.
- Do Wrong, Right: Gigi chides Reagan for how she's been handling things with Rafe. She then makes a suggestion: if Reagan wants to ghost him, she should fake her death.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Reagan gets offended when J.R. credits Rafe for stopping the pirates and saving her mother's wedding. She points out that it was all her.
- Euphemistic Names: Being a Tuxedo and Martini spy, Rafe Masters has a history of dating women with euphemistic names, including Chesty McThong, Boussums Naturale and Nora Gagreflex.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The evil real estate agent has been serving villains for over a decade and even she thinks J.R. is a psycho with his real estate scam that involves stealing employee pensions and flipping the lair as an Airbnb.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Reagan's co-workers, despite being pretty bad people, are appalled when Rafe reveals that he put a tracker in Reagan's phone. Even Brett turns against him for this.
- Ultimately, Reagan can't go through with wiping Rafe's mind. She says it would be a cruel thing to do, even compared to breaking up with him. So she breaks up with him instead. Reagan was even prepared to free him, but Dr. Skullfinger asked politely if he could take over the Distressed Dude moment.
- Evil Makeover: After Skullfinger's Right-Hand Cat scratches her eye and urinates on her shirt Reagan raids the imprisoned supervillain's closet and comes out wearing an eyepatch and a black coat covered with skulls.
- Foe Romance Subtext: British spy Rafe Masters and his nemesis Dr. Skullfinger take this to the extreme (to the point that it might not count as subtext). If Rafe and Skullfinger's loaded, innuendo-filled dialogue when they fight wasn't enough, at the end of the episode when Rafe is strapped to a table and Skullfinger talks about lasering his balls off, Rafe's response is an enthusiastic "And then?" It is at that point the gang sans Andre leave out of fear for what Rafe and Skullfinger are about to start doing.
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Reagan's fake funeral is hilariously over the top, though the gang's off-script antics lead Rafe to believe one of them is behind her assassination.
- Funny Background Event: As J.R. is chatting with the real estate agent, the head falls off of a corpse that the janitor is carrying.
- Hard Truth Aesop: Reagan first tries to break up with Rafe gently, only for him to cause a scene and for her to backtrack. She doesn't want to hurt his feelings because she doesn't want to be the bad guy by being honest. In the end, however, Reagan concludes that her brutal honesty would have been better for everyone in the long run.
- Heel Realization: After Reagan sees herself dressed Obviously Evil (with an eyepatch and awful outfit courtesy of Dr. Skullfinger and his cat), she stops herself from erasing Rafe's memory, calls him a sexist dick and breaks up with him. Gigi and the others decide to confront their issues as well.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Discussed. Reagan questions why it matters if a supervillain builds a huge memory-erasing ray since they do that all the time. J.R. clarifies that it's Pragmatic Villainy to stop the ray: Project Gaslight can wipe an entire mind and erase a person's life. Skullfinger convinces Reagan to restart Project Gaslight and erase Rafe's memories because it would ensure he doesn't go after her coworkers. Ultimately, however, Reagan can't go through with it; she looks at herself in Skullfinger's getup and realizes she's on the verge of becoming a supervillain. Reagan says she doesn't want to be that person and gives Rafe an honest breakup.
- Hypocrite: The Ghost Protocol goes poorly, and Rafe goes after Reagan's friends, they tell her to confront him directly. She reminds them they are all hypocrites because they used the protocol to escape their own problems instead of confronting them.
- Homoerotic Subtext: Everybody lampshades how sexually charged Rafe's banter with his rival Skullfinger sounds, and the episode ends with Rafe being delighted that Skullfinger is threatening to laser off his balls.
- Hypocritical Humor: The multi-mouthed abomination calling Reagan a "monster" for brutally dumping Steve.
- Immediate Sequel: The episode picks up the morning after the previous one, with Reagan waking up in bed with the secret agent she hooked up with at the end of "My Big Flat Earth Wedding".
- Jerkass Has a Point: A minor case, when Reagan opts to rebuild Project Gaslight to erase Rafe's memories, Myc suggests just "milking him" instead. While Reagan is quick to dismiss this by stating that that's Myc's solution to all problems. However, given that he's the source of Cognito's mind control substances, that isn't necessarily a bad approach.
- Kinky Role-Playing: Glenn reveals that he once ghosted Ann Coulter because "She made me role-play as a liberal just so she could drink my tears."
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: After Reagan has a drunken one-night stand with Rafe Master everyone seems to be expected she'd be impressed, but she just describes it as forgettable sex and thinks of him as a Handsome Lech. And after he gets clingy and starts stalking her, she fakes her death just to avoid him. At the end of the episode, she gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech where she explicitly points out he has no clue on how to please a woman in bed.
- Modesty Bedsheet: Reagan and Rafe and sleeping naked under one after their one night stand.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Whatever Dr. Skullfinger got his doctorate in, it's not ethics.
- The Most Wanted: We get a brief look at Dr. Skullfinger's profile, which lists him as wanted in 21 countries, including North Korea.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Skullfinger bears a noticeable resemblance to musician Marilyn Manson.
- Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: After Rafe teams up with Cognito Inc., he shows up in Reagan's lab, buck naked and lying on a bearskin rug.Rafe: I guess I couldn't bear to leave.
Reagan: What the hell? Did you... Did you bring that from home?
Rafe: What do you mean?
Reagan: You literally dragged an entire bearskin rug in here...
Rafe: Yes?
Reagan: Just so you could make that pun.
Rafe: Yes.
Reagan: You got that rug—
Rafe: Right.
Reagan: —put it in your car—
Rafe: Drove over here, correct.
Reagan: So you could say, "I couldn't bear to leave."
Rafe: [simultaneously] "Bear to leave," right. I'm... confused. Is sex happening?
[Reagan presses a button that slams multiple automatic doors shut] - Pet the Dog: Cat rather. Dr. Skullfinger asks Reagan to feed his cat since someone forgot about the poor dear. Reagan to her credit tries but the cat pees on her and slashes her eye.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Dr. Skullfinger incorporates a lot of skull motifs in his outfits. Goes for Reagan too after she raids his closet.
- Spotting the Thread: Rafe realises that Reagan's coworkers have something to do with her "death" due to their unfazed behaviour at her funeral.
- Stalker with a Crush: Rafe Masters develops this kind of relationship with Reagan. While at first, it could come across as just being clingy, he crosses straight into stalker territory when he reveals that he tagged Reagan's phone (and more when he reveals he does this to all of his love interests).
- Status Quo Is God: Double Subverted. Some time in prison has allowed Dr. Skullfinger to realize his rivalry with Rafe Masters is actually pretty toxic, declining Reagan breaking him out. He later breaks out himself after admitting that said rivalry gave him purpose, allowing him to face Rafe again and keep the spy out of Reagan's life forever.
- Stereotype Flip: Reagan's attempted breakup with Rafe at the diner is a gender flip of the usual scenario. Here, it's Reagan ending things and Rafe breaking into hysterics, with the crowd chastising Reagan for her apparent lack of tact.
- Take That!:
- When explaining his embezzlement plan, J.R. insists "This is America. This is barely illegal!"
- Not to the Tuxedo and Martini in general, but to James Bond specifically. Emphasized at the end when Reagan gives Rafe "The Reason You Suck" Speech, calling him a misogynistic asshole who is not funny or charming and only liked by "dads or people who didn't have dads".Brett: Damn, that is accurate.
- Tasty Tears: Glenn reveals that Ann Coulter made him role-play as a liberal so she could drink his tears.
- Title Drop:
- The episode title refers to taking measures to completely disappear off the grid. Gigi suggests that Reagan do this so Rafe will leave her alone. The rest of the gang, save Brett, have done this for their own personal reasons.
- Rafe drops the series title, saying that Reagan's death was an "inside job", believing one of her co-workers planned her assassination.
- Villains Out Shopping: Dr. Skullfinger is spending his time in prison doing yoga and catching up on The Great British Bake Off, which he bonds with Reagan over.
- Whole-Plot Reference: This whole episode is the R-rated homage of "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel" in Gravity Falls where Mabel, like Reagan, had a hard time breaking up with an Entitled Bastard that won public sympathy. She ultimately does break up with him when he goes after her loved ones, mistakenly thinking they were responsible for the breakup.
