"You're the most horrible people alive."
— Bruce Mathis
When Barbara dies suddenly and leaves Frank and Dee out of her will, they stoop to new lows in order to get their hands on the inheritance that she left to Bruce Mathis, her ex-lover and the twins' biological father, instead. Dennis inherits Barbara's house and, along with Mac and Charlie, decides to turn it into a "party mansion" after the three of them realize they have no male friends outside of each other.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- 24-Hour Party People: Subverted, as Dennis tries to call friends for a big party either anyone not in their immediate group were driven away or... dead. Much of that subplot is trying to recruit new buddies to hang out with, but they are too sociopathic for most anyone.
- Abusive Parents: Even from beyond the grave, Barbra manages to be abusive towards her own daughter, calling Dee a disappointment and a mistake in her will.
- All There in the Script: The fratboys are never mentioned by name, but they are credited as Phil and Jonathan.
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: Barbara's family react to her sudden passing with either complete indifference (Dennis and Dee) or outright celebration (Frank).
- Ass Shove: Mac and Dennis threaten to do this to the fratboys they lure into their "party mansion".
- Bound and Gagged: Dennis and Mac do this to the fratboys, thinking its a little prank.
- Chekhov's Gun: The episode opens with Charlie showing the rest of the gang his new throwing knives, which Mac and Dennis later use to torment a tied-up fratboy.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Frank and Dee discuss returning orphans while one is sitting between them. Even worse is Dennis, Mac, and Charlie's idea of hanging out.
- Comically Missing the Point: Frank, Dee, and Dennis absolutely refuse to understand the concept of a will being read, and alternately berate the Lawyer as if he were making Barbara's decisions, and demand he contact the (dead) woman on their behalf.
- Continuity Nod: The rest of the gang initially don't believe Frank when he announces that Barbara is dead, as he previously lied about that very thing.
- Barbara is also revealed to have died to a botched necklift, after Frank had previously mocked her "turkey neck".
- Charlie's illiteracy means he can't read Dee's old diary he found.
- Crying Wolf: Frank has to convince the gang that Barbara is dead because he's tried to claim so before.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Frank asks the Lawyer where Bruce is because he wants to "smash his face until he's dead. Killed dead. Killed dead."
- Even Evil Has Standards: Invoked by Bruce, claiming that he wanted to see how far Dee and Frank would go with their scam before deciding they should come clean to him. It doesn't work.Bruce: I was trying to push you to your limits, but apparently you have none.
- Fat Comic Relief: Lampshaded when Dennis states that they need a funny fat guy for their crew.
- Funny Background Event: When Charlie and Ernesto are reading from Dee's middle school diary, one of the fratboys can be seen falling past the window in the background after Mac and Dennis pushed him off the roof.
- Grave Robbing: After getting snubbed in Barbara's will, Dee suggests digging up her grave to recover all the jewelry she was buried in.
- Homoerotic Subtext: All over the place in the Mac/Dennis/Charlie subplot. After realizing they have no friends outside of each other, they decide to find some by making a penis-shaped flyer that specifically asks for "guys in good shape" and handing them out to random men in a sports goods shop. When that fails, Dennis lures two college guys to the house under false pretenses, and homoerotic (and non-consensual) pranking ensues.
- Karmic Death: It is rather fitting that someone as repulsively vain as Barbara would die from a botched attempt to alter her appearance.
- Killed Offscreen: Frank reveals that Barbara died from a botched necklift at the beginning of the episode.
- Knife-Throwing Act: The cold open has Charlie showing off his newly acquired throwing knives, before the guys decide to test them out on Dee. Mac and Dennis are later shown throwing them at one of the fratboys.
- Limited Social Circle: After they decide to "round up the guys" for a party, Mac, Dennis and Charlie realize that they have no friends outside of the gang. Justified, of course, in that they're all horrible people who have managed to alienate everybody they once hung out with.Mac: I have two numbers in my phone: Charlie and Dennis.
- Logic Bomb: Barbara's will both praises Dennis as her "darling son", and derides Dee as "a disappointment and a mistake". Dee points out they're twins so this doesn't make sense.Frank: "Tell that bitch it doesn't make sense!"
- Lonely Funeral:
- After realizing their Limited Social Circle, the guys worry that nobody would come to their funerals if they were to die suddenly.
- Later episodes reveal nobody attended Barbara's funeral (not even Dennis, whom she doted on).
- Made of Iron: Phil gets pushed down the roof of a house at least two stories high and still shows no injuries the next day.
- Manchild: Charlie is ecstatic to find Dee's middle school diary so he can get Mac and Dennis to read it. Mac and Dennis, as two grown men in their early thirties, couldn't care less about it.
- Mistaken for Gay: Dennis, Mac, and Charlie try to avoid this when inviting guys to their party. Each attempt makes them look worse.
- Noodle Incident: Charlie mentions that he once set one of their old friends on fire, while another apparently has a restraining order against him. Similarly, Mac admits to sleeping with the sisters of two of their previous friends.
- Not So Above It All: Bruce resorts to some very underhanded tactics in order to expose Frank and Dee's scam, including trying to get them to have sex in front of him and eventually marrying them.
- On One Condition: Barbara leaves the house to Dennis on the sole condition that he doesn't let Frank set foot in it. Naturally he ends up breaking this, and loses the house after Bruce gets it on camera.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Frank poses as Dee's "fiance" Seamus by donning hippyish clothes along with a fake goatee and ponytail. Unsurprisingly, Bruce knows who he is right away, despite never having met him before.
- Parental Favoritism: Barbra displays favoritism towards Dennis by leaving her house to him in the same will she calls Dee a mistake in.
- Parental Incest: Frank and Dee pretend to be engaged in order to con Bruce out of the inheritance, even going so far as to actually get married. True, they're Not Blood Related, but it's still undeniably squicky.
- Secret Diary: Charlie finds Dee's middle school diary in her old bedroom and gets Ernesto to read it out loud to him.
- Shoot the Messenger: Dee and Frank both verbally assault the lawyer who reveals the contents of Barbara's will, despite him repeatedly pointing out that he's just reading what's in front of him.
- Spiteful Will: While Barbara leaves Dennis with the house and Bruce with her money, she leaves Frank and Dee with nothing (even calling Dee "a mistake" despite being twins with Dennis). She also requests to be buried with her jewelry.
- Status Quo Is God: Dennis got a large house for an inheritance with the only stipulation Frank wasn't allowed on property. He allowed Frank and Dee to get married, which was a Batman Gambit from Bruce, who used video evidence Dennis took himself to get to home repossessed.
- Terrified of Germs: Dee claims that "Seamus" is this, as he freaks out when Bruce reveals he's been working with AIDS sufferers after hugging them both. It's just Frank being his usual ignorant self, though.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Bruce dishes out a pretty scathing one that sums up the gang rather well.Bruce: (to Frank) You're the little ass wipe who raised both of my children, and turned them into monsters. Into animals who lie, cheat, steal, take advantage of people, and who contribute absolutely nothing to society. You're the most horrible people alive.
- The Unfavorite: Dee was this to Barbara, to the point where she calls her a "mistake" in the will despite the fact that Dennis and Dee are twins.
- Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Despite the fact that they're not fratboys, Mac and Dennis's idea of male camaraderie is shown to consist of the very worst kinds of this.
- Warrior Poet: Played for laughs with Ernesto, the guy Charlie finds buying a crossbow in the sporting goods store. Charlie explicitly calls him a poet and he's shown to be ridiculously sensitive, openly crying at Dee's childhood diary.
