"Gentlemen... suck my dick."
— Dennis
When the gang find themselves with nothing to do for the day, Dennis and Dee face off against Charlie, Mac and Frank for a round of "Chardee MacDennis": a twisted game of wit, physical endurance and copious amounts of booze.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Animal Motifs: Dennis and Dee's team name is the Golden Geese. They repeatedly make honking noises every time they score a point.
- Anticlimax: When the timer runs out before the game has ended, something that the gang admit has never happened before. They're forced to draw the "black card", which they don't remember writing, and brace themselves for some dark shit... only to find out that the game is to be resolved by flipping a coin.Dee: Flip a goddamn coin, that's what we came up with? That's lame as shit.
- Badass Boast:Dee: I'm gonna slit throats.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Despite being exposed for their cheating, Dennis and Dee still win the game.
- Bottle Episode: The entire episode takes place in the bar and features no additional characters outside of the gang.
- Butt-Monkey: Mac and Charlie have apparently never won a single game of Chardee MacDennis. Even when it all comes down to a coin flip and they have a fifty-fifty chance, they still end up losing.
- Calvin Ball: The titular Chardee MacDennis is a truly bizarre game that the gang made up several years ago when they were bored. It's ostensibly based on several other board games, but the rule book is bigger than most phonebooks and even the gang don't seem to fully understand them. The game has three levels (mind, body and spirit), the challenges range from answering "trivia questions" that are really just opinions to having darts thrown at your hand, and the prize for winning is getting to smash your opponents' game pieces.
- Combat Sadomasochist: Dee and Dennis are sadists anyway, so they're unmatched as a Sibling Team. Also helps that they have a high tolerance for a lot of pain.
- Comically Missing the Point: Charlie would have won the "grape gobble" challenge if not for the fact that he fails to realize he's not supposed to actually eat the grapes, as there's no way of counting them.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Frank is made to get inside a dog kennel when he draws the "go to jail" card, and the only way for him to get out is to eat the separate ingredients of a cake.
- Drinking Game: Chardee MacDennis is this at its heart, as the gang freely admit.Frank: You get to drink during the game?
Dee: Uh, drinking is the game, Frank. It's the whole point of it.
Charlie: I'm not gonna play any game in which I'm not getting annihilated. - Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The gang start doing this when they advance to Level 3, as one of the rules is that they're not allowed to curse.Dennis: Fudge on crackers, alright? Mister-falconing sons of birds!
- Heads or Tails?: The ultimate outcome of the game comes down to a coin flip.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Dennis giving Frank the rule book to read while in jail results in the latter figuring out how to expose Dennis and Dee's cheating and get Mac, Charlie and himself to the same level.
- Idiot Ball: Dennis decides to throw his "beer" in Frank's face while the latter is in jail, which causes Frank to realize he and Dee have actually secretly replaced their drinks with water to give them an advantage.
- Impaled Palm: Frank throws a dart clean through the center of Dennis's palm during the physical endurance round.
- Improvised Weapon: Dee picks up her wine glass in readiness to use it as a weapon when the black card is drawn.
- Incest Subtext: Dennis and Dee's team photo consists of their faces photoshopped onto the hero and heroine from a trashy romance novel cover.
- "L" Is for "Dyslexia": Mac is instantly able to tell when the card he draws was written by Charlie, thanks to the latter's unique grasp of the English language.Mac: Question: "Dennis is asshole. Why Charlie hate?"
Charlie: ...I don't think I wrote that.
Mac: You definitely wrote this one, Charlie. Who else would have written this?! - Loads and Loads of Rules: Chardee MacDennis runs on this.
- Loophole Abuse: Frank realizes that Dennis and Dee have been cheating by drinking water when Dennis throws his "beer" in his face, and invokes an obscure rule that none of the gang remember writing in order to expose them.
- Mr. Exposition: Mac's usual role as such is lampshaded at the beginning of the episode when the rest of the gang are waiting for him to "come in hot with the news". He's also the one who ends up doing most of the explaining of the game's rules to Frank and the audience.Charlie: I've never really understood it, but the point is, if Mac's telling you what to do, listen.
- Nerves of Steel: Dennis doesn't so much as flinch when the others are throwing darts at his hand, not even when Frank succeeds in actually hitting him.
- Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: Charlie explains that cheating is tolerated and even encouraged within the game, but if you get caught at it then your opponents automatically advance to the next level.
- Playing Drunk: It's eventually revealed that Dennis and Dee have been secretly been drinking water the entire time, and only acting drunk to avoid raising suspicion.
- Playing Pictionary: One of the challenges involves one member of each team drawing a picture on their teammate's back, while the teammate tries to guess what it is from the "feel".
- Portmanteau: The gang apparently couldn't decide on what to call the game, so they eventually just went with a mash-up of all their names and thus Chardee MacDennis was born.
- Rage Quit: Dennis explains at the beginning of the episode that they always have to nail the board down because at some point Mac will inevitably get angry that he's losing and attempt to flip it. Mac cheerfully agrees that this is for the best, and sure enough, towards the end of the episode he does indeed try to flip the board.
- Real Time: The game has a fifteen minute time limit, which just so happens to be roughly the amount of time left in the episode when they start playing.
- Sophisticated as Hell:Dennis: Gentlemen, suck my dick.
- Strange-Syntax Speaker: Frank briefly does this when he's trying to ask a question without phrasing it like a question, which goes against the game's rules.Frank: Questions now I ask that clock stopped?
Dee: Okay, just 'cause you jumble up the words doesn't make it not a question. - The Watson: Frank fulfils this role as he's never played the game before, giving the gang a convenient reason to explain the rules to both him and the audience.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Mac and Charlie are given a brief Hope Spot towards the end when the game goes to a tie-break and they realize they have a fifty percent chance of winning for the first time ever. They still lose.
