Dennis: Guess what, pal? Paddy's Pub can't be bought.
Corporate rep: Okay, well... if you would just please take a look at our offer.
Dennis: We'll take a look at it, but... (looks at the figure written down) ...SOLD!
Corporate rep: Okay, well... if you would just please take a look at our offer.
Dennis: We'll take a look at it, but... (looks at the figure written down) ...SOLD!
When a restaurant chain offers to buy Paddy's Pub, Dennis, Mac and Frank try to make the deal go through by attempting to show the rep a good time. As non-shareholders in the bar, Dee and Charlie are left in the lurch and pressure The Waitress into getting them job at the TGIFriday's-style restaurant where she's now assistant manager.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Ambiguously Bi: Dennis seems to think that he knows absolutely everything there is to know about gay subculture.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: Charlie asking the Waitress if she works at the Oldies Rock Cafe when she's standing in front of him in the uniform.Waitress: Wow, look at you. You cracked the case.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment:Waitress: A Starbucks moved in right across the street and they're stealing all our business.
Dee: Right across the street?! ...Well, that is good to know. I love Starbucks! - Call-Back: Dennis, Mac and Frank take the corporate rep to the same strip club they visited in "Charlie Gets Crippled".
- Comically Missing the Point: When Frank tells the guys that they need to "get wooed" by the rep, Charlie thinks he's saying "get wood".
- Cool Old Guy: Utterly subverted with the Yellowjackets, Frank's old "gang" from the fifties that he gathers together to intimidate the corporate rep. Rather than doing anything remotely like their glory days, they get mistaken for a doo-wop group, and the oldest member ends up dying of a heart attack on the rep's doorstep.
- Derailed for Details: The gang repeatedly do this while trying to negotiate the sale of the bar, getting sidetracked into arguments about everything from helicopters to Hiroshima to gay culture.
- Entitled Bastard: Dee thinks she's entitled to some of the sale profits even though she doesn't own any shares in the bar.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The Waitress asks if Dee went to high school. Later episodes establish that Everyone Went to School Together, and the Waitress remembers this. It's the others who don't remember her.
- Every Man Has His Price: The guys initially claim that they'll never sell the bar, but quickly change their minds once they see how much is being offered.
- Finger-Snapping Street Gang: After Frank gets back together his childhood gang to try to dissuade a restaurant chain from buying a rival property, they are shown snapping their fingers in unison a few times. Rather than making them look intimidating, it's done to highlight how out-of-touch and old the gang members have become, to the point that families mistake them for performers and give them cash.
- Funny Background Event: While Mac is staring in bewilderment at the Yellowjackets' singing, a random pedestrian thinks they're all busking and stuffs money in Mac's coffee cup.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Dennis, Mac, and Charlie insist they won't sell the bar under any circumstances until they find out how much is being offered and immediately change their minds. Frank later does the exact same thing.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While they were jerks about it, the men weren't wrong when they pointed out that Dee doesn't own equity in the bar and, thus, won't get any of the money they'll make by selling it.
- Manipulative Bitch: Dee manipulates the Waitress into turning a blind eye to her stealing from the restaurant by implying that Dennis has feelings for her.
- Never My Fault: Dennis, Mac, and Frank blame Charlie and his helicopter request for the rep pulling out of the offer to buy Paddy's. While it certainly didn't help, the behavior of the gang as well as their prior demands such as wanting to blow up the bar already put the rep off on it.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Against her better judgment, the Waitress hires Dee, Charlie, and Dennis to work at the restaurant where she's assistant manager. It ends up getting her fired. Though, she blames it all on Charlie.
- Nothing Personal: Mac claims this about the guys selling the bar and leaving Dee "jobless and broke".
- Offscreen Teleportation: The rep disappears while Dennis, Mac, and Frank are lost in their discussion of gay culture at the strip club, despite the fact that they're facing him the entire time.
- Only Sane Employee: Charlie demonstrates that he's the only member of the gang who is actually competent at his job when he, Dennis, and Dee end up working at the Oldies Rock Cafe, though it's implied he's doing it at least in part to impress the Waitress.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder:Frank: What kind of man doesn't like to watch a naked woman swing round on poles?
Corporate rep: A gay man, for one. - Status Quo Is God: The gang are all back to working at Paddy's by the end of the episode.
- Straight Gay: The rep doesn't have any stereotypical gay mannerisms, which is immediately commented on by the gang.Mac: You're so big and tough! You do not come across as gay.
Frank: You don't look like a gay guy.
Dennis: That's 'cause he's a bear.
