"Let's not worry or panic. This is a lot of drugs, but like, what's the worst that could happen?"
— Charlie
The gang find themselves in debt to The Mafia after selling a bag of cocaine they found inside a pair of stolen speakers. In an attempt to raise the money they owe, Mac, Dee and Charlie try to sell oxycontin at a country club, while Frank pressures Dennis into becoming a male escort. (Part 1 of 2)
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Accidental Innuendo: The gang constantly used the term "whacked off" to refer to being killed by the Mafia.
- Cloudcuckoolander: After bonding with a horse in the country club, Charlie comes to the conclusion that he was a centaur in a past life.
- Confusing Multiple Negatives: The mobsters speak like this, much to the confusion of Mac and Dennis. Later when Mac tries emulate them, they end up having just as much trouble following along.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Mac has this reaction after the rest of the gang abandon him at the country club for being too bossy, and attempts to join the Mafia in revenge.
- Eskimos Aren't Real: Charlie has apparently been under the impression that jockeys aren't real, and when he actually meets one he's surprised to learn that they can talk.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Frank apparently considers selling drugs to be the lowest of the low.
- Faux Affably Evil: The mobsters are outwardly pleasant and friendly, but promise the gang an unpleasant death if they don't pay off their debt by Friday.
- Fell Off the Back of a Truck: Dee and Charlie enter the bar with speakers that they claim fell off the back of a truck at the beginning of the episode.
- Fish out of Water: The gang stick out like sore thumbs at the country club, especially Mac and Dee pretending to be wealthy businesspeople.
- Friend in the Black Market: Frank's "guy", Bingo. Though "friend" might be stretching it a bit, considering that he threatens to wear Frank's skin as a mask.
- Funny Background Event: While playing pool with himself, Frank uses a striped ball to sink the cue ball into a pocket.
- Gilligan Cut:Frank: Just do not mention my name!
Charlie: Relax, dude. No-one's gonna mention your name.
(cut to Charlie and Dee meeting with Bingo)
Charlie: Hey, Bingo. Frank sent us. - Hero-Worshipper: Mac has a fair amount of this going on towards the Mafia, and practically begs to join them at the end of the episode.
- Honor Before Reason: A humorous example. Mac plans to pose as a businessman at the club, with Dee as his secretary; she suggests that she play his business partner instead, but he insists that men won't accept the idea of a woman with a high-paying corporate job. Thus, when Mac is trying to impress the country club patrons by bluffing about the deals he's making, Dee repeatedly undercuts him by passively-aggressively asking for details—even though they both need the scam to work to raise the mob's money.
- Insistent Terminology: Dennis isn't a prostitute, he's a "handsome companion".
- Mistaken for Gay: Buster the jockey apparently thinks Charlie is or at least willing to experiment with other men.
- Mistaken for Prostitute: Played with. Dennis is approached by an attractive man in the country club bar who mistakes him for a gigolo and then proceeds to tell him how great the job is, but it turns out he's actually a busboy who was paid by Frank in order to convince Dennis to sell himself.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: The "gigolo" who talks to Dennis is really a busboy in the country club kitchen, wearing nothing but Frank's suit jacket over his usual outfit. Particular points because Dennis saw Frank wearing that jacket earlier (although his complete narcissism may have made him miss it).
- The Scrooge: Despite being loaded, Frank won't use any of his money to get the lights fixed in the bar, and later refuses to bail out the gang when they get into trouble with the Mafia, claiming that they need to learn how to fend for themselves.
- Shout-Out: Mac references Tango & Cash at the beginning of the episode.
- STD Immunity: Averted; Frank tells Mac that he's too low-class to be a prostitute and that the women will be scared of catching something from him, to which Mac simply replies "they will."
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Mac and Frank think that you can avoid being electrocuted while touching a live current if your feet are off the ground.
- Unusual Euphemism: Charlie uses "nose clams" to refer to the cocaine, much to the confusion of everybody else.
