Lobanov's patient somehow manages to stuck his... "little friend" inside a vacuum cleaner. Now he must be released, without damaging the vacuum cleaner itself — and quickly, since his wife is already here. Lobanov manages to fool her, but then Bykov finds out. This time, Bykov decides to not punish Semyon (since he actually had a smart idea for once), but he helps Lobanov's patient himself... and while Lobanov convinced the patient to give him a discount for a hair dryer, Bykov would receive big plasma TV instead.
Gleb tries to invite Varya to a night club, but she refuses without explaining why; he tries to get answers from Lyuba, but she rudely tells him that Varya needs a "normal" man, serious and responsible, and Gleb... doesn't exactly match the description. Gleb then meets his friend Max in one of the wards, and learns that he's hiding some drugs in a bottle from metamizole
painkiller; he also learns that he's Varya's patient. In return for hiding the drugs, Gleb recruits him to harass Varya, so Gleb can "save" her and earn some points. Unfortunately, the drug gets taken by Levin, who's suffering from headache, causing him heavy hallucinations and forcing Gleb to run for him across the hospital to cure him (only for Levin to get busted by Bykov anyway when he mistakes a patient for another hallucination), while Varya gets "saved" by Lobanov, who injures Max; angry at Gleb, he unintentionally spills the plan in front of Varya, ruining everything.
This episode provides examples of:
- All for Nothing: Gleb's plan — let Max harass Varya, so Gleb can "heroically" save her fails, because, while he was busy with intoxicated Levin, Lobanov finds Max first, and beats him up, making Max spill the plan when he sees them together, thinking that Gleb has betrayed him. Now, Varya is even less likely to date Gleb than before.
- Bait-and-Switch: When in the end Max asks for metamizole, Gleb yells at him (since Gleb had tons of problems due to Levin accidentally taking Max's drugs that he disguises as painkillers)... but guy needs real metamizole, as he was injured by Lobanov.
- Blatant Lies: Lobanov's attempt to cover for his patient before his wife involves "sudden urolithiasis" and "high-tech machine"... based on a vacuum cleaner. The wife falls for; Bykov does not.
- Brick Joke:
- That Nightmare Sequence from the beginning of the episode (with Levin being pursued by an imp)? It would happen again later, with Gleb as an "imp" (as part of Levin's drug-induced delusion).
- When Max gets injured by Lobanov due to Gleb's plan going badly, he asks for metamizole (a painkiller). Gleb yells at him (since it was said friend's attempt to hide drugs in metamizole's bottle which led to Gleb's problems with Levin), but this time the guy needs actual painkillers: his head hurts after what Semyon did to him.
- Brutal Honesty: Gleb complains that Varya refuses him wherever her tries to invite her, and asks just what she needs. Lyuba rudely tells him that she needs a "normal" man. Gleb gets offended and asks whether he's the man. Lyuba, with clear disdain in voice, says that no.
- Didn't Think This Through: Lobanov's patient tried to masturbate with a vacuum cleaner (his friend has told him that it would make his "little friend" grow bigger). Now, his "little friend" is stuck inside, and he must somehow release it without destroying the vacuum cleaner (it costs like two his salaries) or being caught by his wife. He offers a big discount in his store for anything on Lobanov's choice in return for assistance.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Gleb tests whether his cure worked by jokingly saying to Levin that he would steal his soul; when Levin replies with angry "screw you" instead of another panic attack, he takes it as success.
- Engineered Heroics: Gleb hires his friend Max to pretend to harass Varya, so Gleb can "defend" her and win her respect. It backfires, as Semyon finds them first and decides to "protect" Varya through brute force; after being beaten up, Max spills the plan in front of Varya.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Gleb's plan to win Varya's respect involves his friend Max pretending to harass Varya, and Gleb "protecting her". But Semyon witnesses Varya being harassed, and "saves" her, by hitting Max in the face. When Gleb finally shows up, Max is too angry to bother with maintaining the cover story, and Varya learns that all of this was Gleb's plan all along, which makes her understandably angry at Gleb.
- Intoxication Ensues: Levin takes away Gleb's friend's "painkillers", and takes them... only to learn that those pills were actually hallucinogens. Then he sees Vladimir Lenin in the mirror, who starts talking to him. Things only goes downhill from here.
- I Resemble That Remark!: Lyuba states that Gleb has no chances with Varya, as he's too immature. Prior to it, he tried to ram her on a toy car while saying that he's "an officer" and she's "rules violator"; and later, instead of showing that he is responsible, he uses Engineered Heroics plan which he doesn't even prepare properly, resulting in him looking like a jerk, and his friend being injured.
- Manchild: Lyuba, in no uncertain terms, states that Varya keeps rejecting Gleb's advances because he's immature. His actions in this episode only proves her right.
- Moment Killer: Bykov makes another Lenin-related joke at Levin's expense, but Lobanov's (even if approving) lame reaction to it ruins his mood, and he angrily leaves.
- Mushroom Samba: When Levin accidentally takes the drugs he confiscated from his patient (disguised for metamizole, a painkiller), he suffers from a drug trip, starting from him becoming Vladimir Lenin for real, and ending in him mistaking Gleb for an imp and trying to run away.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Gleb trying to hide Max's drugs results in Levin find them and taking, believing that it's indeed painkillers. Then, when Gleb finds him in the middle of a tripe, Gleb panics and says "oh hell" repeatedly, which makes Levin hallucinate him as an imp, and just run away, forcing to hunt for him across the hospital.
- Nightmare Sequence: Episode starts with Levin seeing a nightmare where he tries to run from an imp.
- Not What It Looks L Ike: Bykov finds Semyon's patient trying to get the vacuum cleaner off. It looks like him doing something else instead, which makes Bykov immediately leave in disgust, before he decides to check after all.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Semyon's patient receives a phone call, and immediately says with "well, I'm dead" tone that his wife is here, in the hospital.The patient: If she'd see me like this, she wouldn't understand!
Lobanov: Of course she wouldn't, you cheated on her with a vacuum cleaner! Even I can't understand you! - Gleb finds panicking Levin trying to "hold the falling ceiling". He checks the bottle of "painkillers", and asks him how much did he take. When told that Levin took two pills, he can only say "oh hell!" (repeatedly)... which triggers another hallucination.
- Semyon's patient receives a phone call, and immediately says with "well, I'm dead" tone that his wife is here, in the hospital.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: When Levin sees a patient who looks like Joseph Stalin in the elevator (unaware that it's an actor, who arrived like this), and mistakes this for another hallucination, instead of pretending that everything is right and escape at the first convenience, he panics and starts screaming that he would not take any drugs ever again — right in front of Bykov, who can't even get angry due to sheer idiocy of the situation.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Even though Bykov busts Semyon, he decides to not punish him this time: he approves Lobanov using his brain for once. Semyon also gets a discount for fan he promised to Olga. The life still adds a bit of tar into honey keg, by letting Bykov get a lot bigger reward and proudly telling so to Lobanov, making him realise that he sold himself cheap.
- Toilet Humour: Semyon's patient got his "little friend" stuck in a vacuum cleaner. And now he wants to pee. With Semyon's help, he manages to do that, but Lobanov then jokes that he's gonna sell that vacuum cleaner like this.
