When the Stoolbend drive-in is planned to shut down, Cleveland protests to preserve it.
Tropes:
- Alternate History: The Battle of Stoolbend in the American Civil War, a battle where the south won.
- Double subverted as Cleveland threw a monkey wrench into the civil war reenactment to make the north win.
- The American Civil War: The Battle of Stoolbend was one of the most embarrassing losses for the Union and one of the greatest victories for the Confederacy. This is an important part of Stoolbend's history.
Cleveland: I can't believe my small southern town has a dark history of racial injustice!
- Boomerang Bigot: Cleveland is tricked into preserving the statue of slave-owning Confederate soldier Colonel Plunkett.
- Brick Joke: In the cold opening, Cleveland throws Rallo's phone out of the car on the side of the road, in the following scene Lester pulls out said iPhone and says that he found it on the side of the road.
- Daddy Issues: Holt clearly has some of these, as he repeated "Die Daddy! Die Daddy! Die Daddy!" as he cried and pretend shot a Confederate soldier to death.
Holt: Die Daddy! Die Daddy! Die Daddy! [cries] Die Daddy! Die Daddy! Die Daddy!
Tim: Eh, good job Holt. Not eh-Not creeping me out at all.
- "Dear John" Letter: The Guys all write letters home to their spouses, when they go to war. Except for Holt, who writes a letter to Penthouse magazine.
- Drives Like Crazy: Cleveland cries while driving and wets his eyes so he can't see and wrecks everything.
- Heel–Face Turn: Lester was originally fighting for the south but then changed his ways and saved the life of his Union friend, Cleveland.
- Insistent Terminology: Lester refers to Cleveland as "poor" but Cleveland corrects him, insisting that he's "comfortably middle class."
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Aaron from work.
- Noble Confederate Soldier: Lester Krinklesac and B. Emerson Plunkett V.
- Overly Long Gag: Tim sending a letter to Jay Leno.
- Cleveland looking up The Battle of Stoolbend on Wikipedia.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: B. Emerson Plunkett V and of course his great-great-grandfather.
- Protest by Obstruction: Cleveland chains himself to a statue to protect it from getting torn down. He later regrets it when he finds out that the statue is of a slave owner and general in the Confederate States of America.
- Racist Grandma: The rich old white people of Stoolbend.
- Small Towns: The smallness of Stoolbend is explored through Cleveland's musical number "Small Ass Town, Big Ass Heart".
- Taking the Bullet: Lester takes a fake bullet for Cleveland.
Cleveland: Lester! You took a pretend bullet for me!
Lester: Yes, the blood I'm not shedding is in the name of loyalty and friendship, which are more important to me than any fake war!
- Token Evil Teammate: Lester is the only member of The Guys who fights for the south.
- Toppled Statue: The Statue of Colonel Plunkett is planned to be torn down due to its racist history but Cleveland is tricked into protecting it, not knowing it's implications. In the end, Cleveland tears down the statue himself and gets in trouble with the mayor for desecrating town property and is forced to pay a thousand dollar fine and reassemble the statue, which still stands to this day.
- War Reenactors: The reenactors of The Battle of Stoolbend.
