Dee's acting role is in jeopardy after she gets hit by a car. Frank enlists Dennis and Dee's help to destroy incriminating documents. Meanwhile, Mac sets out to discover more about his heritage while Charlie searches for a childhood pen pal, which leads to some surprising revelations for both.
Tropes:
- Blatant Lies: In the Cold Opening, Mac tells Dee that the Gang are always there for each other and support each other, to which Dee does not buy.
- Brutal Honesty: Mac's mother does not sugarcoat that he is not Irish and actually has a Dutch heritage. The twist being, it is a lie. The Gang paid her to tell that story.
- Call-Back:
- Mac is once again compared to Ronald McDonald.
- Frank insists that Dee and Dennis have to help him shred the evidence linking Frank's Fluids to Jeffrey Epstein because their names are on the paperwork too.
- Comically Missing the Point: After Dee gets recast as a Domestic Abuse survivor, the casting director has to forcefully explain to her that it is not a comedic role.
- Contrived Coincidence: The Waitress just happens to be backpacking through Europe and in Ireland at the same time as the Gang. Additionally, she just happens to be Dee's replacement for "Obnoxious American MILF #1."
- Deceptive Legacy: Mac is rocked to the core to discover he's not actually Irish but Dutch. And that his dad's real name was Vandross. Naturally, his mother doesn't have the slightest bit of guilt over lying to Mac his entire life on his heritage.
- Driven to Suicide: Frank claims a manatee committed suicide after her human sexual partner failed to return to Epstein's sex island.
- Mac says he's going to kill himself after he finds out he isn't Irish. He changes his mind almost immediately.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Frank is quick to point out that even though he was in business with Jeffrey Epstein, he didn't know about or participate in the sexual abuse of children.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Frank mentions that things got "very sexual" with manatees on Jeffrey Epstein's island.
- Foreshadowing: Dennis's inability to smell a dead cat and a woman's hair is the first sign he has COVID-19.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Frank and Charlie complain that Mac is going to "make a thing" out of being Dutch, and both encourage Mac to go through with it when he threatens suicide as a cry for help.
- Get Out!: Dennis and Frank get kicked out of a bar for Dennis sexually harassing the barista and Mac and Charlie get kicked out of the library due to Mac causing a disruption after having a panic attack due to finding out he's not Irish.
- Insane Troll Logic: Charlie believes that since his mouth is made for English/American words, that he cannot speak the Irish he can fluently read. This is proven wrong in the next episode.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When Dee complains about the Gang crashing her trip to Ireland for a vacation, Dennis points out if it weren't for them, she wouldn't have even gotten to Ireland because she was passed out drunk from whiskey beer.
- Made of Iron: Dee gets struck full-on by a car twice, yet doesn't walk away with any serious physical injuries.
- Never My Fault: When the barista is weirded out by Dennis sniffing at her hair, Dennis in turn gets angry at her for "lying" to him about being Irish when he notes that he doesn't smell anything on her.Dennis: LIAR!
Barista: What the hell are ya doin'?
Dennis: What the hell are you doing? You're not Irish, or if you are that-that's a wig! There's no smell at all to you. Am I to believe that you're a natural redhead and yet there's no odor? No odor at all? No, I don't believe you. - Noodle Incident: Dennis apparently has experience covering up blunt-force trauma.
- Pet the Dog: While it's also to get themselves a vacation, the guys do make sure Dee gets onboard the plane after she blacked out the night before and even take the time to drive her to set. They also come back to pick her up later, though a sick Dennis ends up hitting Dee with his car as well.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Dee blames "feminists" for ruining everything because the casting director refuses to have sex with her in exchange for a part.
- Real After All: It turns out Charlie's "imaginary friend" was actually a real pen pal from Ireland and, somehow, thanks to the letters, Charlie can read Irish.
- The Reveal: The long standing joke of Charlie's illiteracy is finally addressed directly: he has learned Gaelic Irish, believing it to be a "gibberish" language made up by his childhood penpal, and was never properly taught English.
- Special Edition Title: Instead of the usual opening where it showed shots against Philadelphia, it shows shots in Dublin, Ireland.
- Spoof Aesop: Frank claims "the heart wants what it wants" is the moral of the story after relaying a story about a depressed manatee committing suicide to Dennis.
- "You!" Exclamation: Dee snarls out a truly venomous one after seeing that the Waitress has replaced her in the role of "Obnoxious American MILF #1."
