"Where's my car, man? Where's my Range Rover? I'm sure you guys, like, stashed it somewhere safely, you know, in my absence. And that's cool, I get it. But now I want it back, so where is it?"
— Dennis
Dennis tries hanging out with other people his age after discovering that his Range Rover has been destroyed and he's forced to drive a normal, middle-class car. Meanwhile, Frank enlists the help of a teenager to pass a driver's license exam, Dee makes new friends using her new Range Rover (which Frank was supposed to buy for himself, but couldn't because of an expired driver's license), and Mac and Charlie remember their childhood by buying bikes.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Actor Allusion: Fittingly for an episode about Frank taking a driving test, the picture of him on his expired license is from the early 1980s, when DeVito would have been on Taxi. Indeed, the 1984 expiration date is a year after Taxi was cancelled.
- Asian Drivers: Frank complains that the driver’s ed class he’s forced to attend doesn’t say anything about “the Asians”. Becomes a Brick Joke at the end of the episode when he has an offscreen collision with an Asian woman; however, he admits that he was totally at fault for the accident and she did everything right.
- Bait-and-Switch: When Mac and Charlie head back for some payback, it's seems like, based on their conversation, that they're finally going to stand up against Shawn Dumont, their old bully. Instead, they decide to beat up his preteen son and his friends.
- Call-Back:
- While channeling Dennis, Dee calls herself a golden goddess and rants that her new friends are “savages” and “idiots”.
- Mac asks Charlie if he’s been drinking fight milk.
- Dennis calls John a “soy boy beta cuck”.
- Dennis plays “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley in his new Range Rover at the end of the episode.
- The Car Makes The Maniac: Apparently, a lot of Dennis's ego comes from the type of car he drives, rather than the other way around. When Dee drives a Range Rover, she claims the elevation makes her feel like she is special and looking down on all the little peons. Over the course of the episode, she begins acting more unhinged and Dennis-like, while Dennis, under the influence of his new Prius, becomes more mild and inoffensive.
- Continuity Nod: Dennis invites the rest of the gang to question him about what happened in North Dakota. He also sees what’s left of his car after Mac blew it up.
- Contrived Coincidence: One of Dee’s new friends just happens to be the mother of Frank’s teenage study buddy.
- Cringe Comedy: The entire sequence involving Dennis trying to prove he still has his mojo by hitting on Tara.
- Disappeared Dad: Dennis begins to address that he technically still is this to the child he fathered in North Dakota. He stops when he realizes nobody is interested.
- Drives Like Crazy: Frank fails to get his license renewed and gives out some very dubious driving advice.Frank: What you wanna do, is you wanna lurch into the intersection. It’s kinda like a game of chicken: you lurch, and then you lurch, you lurch some more, and whoever doesn’t flinch gets to go first.
- Everyone Has Standards: Aiden is your typical unpleasant "DudeBro" douche who thinks that everything is lame and doesn't hold back on his negative opinions of Frank and Dennis, but after he sees Dennis' pathetically awkward attempt to hit on Tara, he's too disturbed by the tragic display to mock Dennis for it.
- Foreshadowing: Aidan mentions to Frank that he looks old enough to not get carded when buying alcohol. Dee later mistakes him for Karen's 20-something husband and sleeps with him.
- Generation Xerox: One of the kids stole Mac's bike like his father did thirty years ago.
- Girl Posse: Dee gets herself one while driving Frank’s new Range Rover.
- He's Back!: Dennis returns to his old self once he’s reunited with a car that’s practically identical to his old one.
- History Repeats: Mac and Charlie get their bikes stolen by the son of their childhood bully, who did the same thing when they were kids.
- Improvised Weapon: Mac uses a trashcan lid to beat up one of the kids.
- Insult Backfire:
- Mac doesn't consider being called gay an insult anymore, since he's out and proud now.
Bully: Do you have the same bike as your boyfriend? Gay!Mac: Uh well I am gay, but he's not my boyfriend. 'Cause I can do much better than him.- Insulting their age doesn't work either, since Mac and Charlie are adults.
Bully: You guys look like you're 40!Charlie: Well, we are 40. - Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The entire cold open where Dennis tries addressing the gang's "questions" may as well have been him addressing the audience's.
- Mistaken Identity: Dee plans to get revenge on Karen by sleeping with her much younger husband, but accidentally winds up having sex with her son instead.
- Neck Lift: Mac does this to one of the kids who stole his bike.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Mac and Charlie go to town on the young bullies at the end of the episode, possibly killing one of them.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- Frank goes on several rants about Asian Drivers.
- Dennis assumes that an Asian valet who ignores him doesn’t speak English. Later, Dee does the same to an Asian pedicurist who doesn’t laugh at her joke.
- Charlie tells Mac not to push his gay agenda on the kids.
- Porn Stash: For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Frank hides pornographic magazines in the woods.
- Precision F-Strike:Karen: You don’t have to worry about these things ‘cause you’ve never been married.Dee: ... the fuck is that supposed to mean?!
- Running Gag: Dee mentions the gang destroying her various shitty cars.
- Sanity Slippage: Dee starts acting more and more like Dennis throughout the episode due to the influence of the Range Rover, culminating in her going off on an unhinged rant and sleeping with a high schooler (although she does believe the high schooler to be Karen's 20-something boy toy husband).Dee: (while getting a massage) Oooh, Karen you bitch! Yooou dumb IDIOT! You stupid SAVAGE! You're not the alpha here, you crusty-ass fool! Oh, I'm gonna cuck you so hard! Your boy toy? He's mine! I will DESTROY you! I AM A 2018 RANGE ROVER WOMAN! I AM A GOLDEN GODDESS!! WHO ARE YOOOOU?!! IDIOT!! SAVAGE!!! IDIOT!!!!
- Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: When he first shows up, Shawn Dumont has clearly not matured much beyond behaving like the same bully who intimidated Mac and Charlie 30 years ago, despite having a child of his own now. He doesn't even seem concerned that said son is a bully himself, rather he almost actively encourages it.
- The Scrooge: Frank refuses to give Dennis more than the Blue Book value (approximately $473) of his old Range Rover, leaving Dennis unable to afford a new Range Rover.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Mac is offended when the kids assume that Charlie is his boyfriend, as he believes he could do much better.Charlie: Really? Then why don’t you, Mac?
- Shout-Out: Mac corners one of the kids between the wrought-iron fence and steps of the brownstone and begins whaling on him with a trash can lid, Sonny Corleone-style.
- The Smurfette Principle: Frank points out there's only one girl among Dennis' new friends.
- Status Quo Is God: The episode ends with Dennis getting another Range Rover that’s almost identical to his old one and driving the rest of the gang around again.
- Suddenly Shouting: When John refuses to leave Dennis alone with his new Range Rover even after the latter twice told him to "be gone from [him]", Dennis shouts...Dennis: BE GOOOONNNENUH!!!
- Technology Marches On: In-Universe example; Frank attempts to bribe Aidan into helping him pass his driver’s test by offering to get him porn, only for Aidan to point out that he’s been looking at porn since he was about ten years old thanks to the wonders of modern technology.
- That Came Out Wrong:Aidan: This dude sucks.Dennis: What are you doing, man? I don’t suck. I’ll suck you!
- Totally Radical: Some of Frank and Dennis’s attempts at being down with the kids slip into this.Frank: Moms are so not lit.
- The Unreveal: Dennis’s time in North Dakota is directly referenced for the first time since the season premiere, but he still doesn’t reveal exactly what happened or whether he plans to go back. Mostly because the gang doesn't really care.
- Would Hurt a Child: At the end of the episode, Mac and Charlie beat up the kids who stole their bikes. Charlie may have even killed one of them. This is all Played for Laughs.
