The Gang Makes Paddys Great Again Dennis

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"Dennis is gone and he is not coming back. We accept to accept that."

— Mac

The gang attempts to motility on from Dennis's divergence under the leadership of newcomer Cindy, just fall back into their old habits when Mac buys a sex doll in Dennis'due south likeness that gets inside all of their heads.

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This episode provides examples of the following tropes:

• Accidental Allusion: Mac's caption for why he bought the sex doll.

  Mac: I was super sorry about my old roommate leaving, and you lot said I needed something Dennis-shaped to fill my pigsty.

• Ambiguously Bi: Frank and Charlie both participate in an all-male orgy, involving a male sex doll.
• Bait-and-switch: After Cindy chews out the guys for becoming convinced that the sex doll is live, we hear Dennis speak upwards, and the camera pans over to Dennis standing where the sex doll was place, his rima oris open in a similar fashion. This is actually Dennis; the sexual practice doll fell over, and he snuck in while Cindy was talking.
• Breathy Lies: Mac's repeated insistence that he isn't having sex with the doll, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.
• The Bus Came Back: The real Dennis returns at the end of the episode.
• Call-Dorsum:
  • Mac serves his famous mac and cheese.
  • Mac wears the duster without a shirt.
  • "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood plays right after the Waitress bangs the Dennis sex doll.
  • Dee stands nether a spotlight to "soften her features".
  • The gang goes to a strip club.
  • Mac calls Dennis a bounder homo.
  • The Boys Are Back In Town plays at the finish of the episode and over the credits.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Mac is back in his and Dennis's sometime apartment after having it restored in the previous season finale.
  • Charlie likens Mac'southward latest physical transformation to the time he got fatty.
  • When Mac brings a large crate into the apartment, Frank immediately guesses that it contains another rocket launcher.
• Don't Explain the Joke: The rest of the gang is exasperated by Mac over-explaining Cindy's wine/whine pun.

  Mac: It's called "Conservative Whine", just information technology'south spelled with an "h" considering information technology'due south like, "we're whining". Information technology's a pun. Information technology'due south a play on the discussion "wine".
  Cindy: Yeah! Yeah, Mac, I go it. I came up with information technology.

• Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Charlie nevertheless doesn't telephone call the Waitress by name even now that he's officially dating her.
• Foil: Cindy is this for Dennis; both are terrible people, simply Cindy is really successful in pulling off schemes and acts supportive towards the remainder of the gang, while Dennis has an over-inflated stance of his own intelligence and puts the others downwardly to make himself experience superior.
• For Doom the Bell Tolls: Used every fourth dimension there's a shut-up on the doll.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Mac outright asks the others if they like him, and the just response is an awkward silence. Dee as well claims that Dennis gave him a fake number when he left. Cindy too calls Dennis Mac's best friend is immediately corrected by anybody else.
• Friendship Moment:
  • Frank, Dee, and Mac genuinely console Charlie after his breakup with the Waitress.
  • At the very end of the episode, the residuum of the gang choose to welcome Dennis back over Cindy and they all share a beer together.

    Dee: Guys, you know what? I think nosotros just made Paddy's not bad again.

• Gone Horribly Correct: Charlie gives the doll to the Waitress to keep her company while he's working on Cindy's scheme and stop her from calling him all the fourth dimension. This goes a little as well well, as she sleeps with the doll and breaks up with him.
• Subconscious Depths: Frank proves to be surprisingly good at playing the tuba until "Dennis" gets in his head.
• Kick the Dog: Immediately after being accepted dorsum into the gang, Dennis calls Dee a bird and asks Mac if he'southward put on weight.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Subverted at starting time without Dennis the gang are much better off, nicer to each other, more focused, more confident, more successful and thriving under Cindy's leadership. Then Double Subverted when they all begin losing what little sanity they had left and talking to a Sexual practice-Doll replica of Dennis like information technology's actually him.
• Modesty Bedsheet: Both the Waitress and the doll are covered with one when Charlie walks in on them.
• Off the Wagon: The Waitress drinks a canteen of vino later Charlie leaves her lonely with the doll.
• Only Sane Man: Cindy is this relative to the rest of the gang, spending virtually of the episode utterly baffled by their insistence on treating the doll like a living person.
• Parental Incest: Frank participated in the orgy involving a sex activity doll that bears hitting resemblance to his son, along with Charlie whose probably his biological son.
• Pet the Dog: Abroad from Dennis'south influence, both Mac and Charlie are genuinely free of Dee's "sexy" outfit.
• Playing Both Sides: Cindy's plan is to incite outrage amid both liberals and conservatives in social club to become them to buy inflammatory crap to spite the other side.
• Precision F-Strike: The Waitress when Charlie catches her with the doll.

  "Oh, I fucked it."

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Cindy gives 1 to Dennis when he returns, and then to the balance of the gang when they choose him over her.
• Relationship Upgrade: Charlie and the Waitress are shown to be in a committed human relationship since the events of the previous episode, with her seemingly having moved into his apartment. It doesn't last.
• Replacement Goldfish: Both Cindy and the doll act as this for Dennis.
• Running Gag:
  • Cindy states that Frank pulled a gun on her when they outset met. Later, his first reaction when Dennis comes back is to whip the gun out again.
  • Dennis calls Dee a bird.
  • The waitress having a terrible shell on Dennis, besides as beingness a recovering alcoholic.
  • Within this episode, Mac having sex with the Dennis doll, everyone knowing, and Mac stridently insisting he's not.
• Sherlock Scan: Cindy is able to determine simply from Charlie playing the doll'due south asshole that the gang all got wasted the night before and had an orgy with information technology.
• Shout-Out: The gang becoming convinced they can hear Dennis talk when viewing the sexual practice doll is reminescent of George Costanza hearing his mom when viewing a similarly looking doll.
  • Does anything really need to exist said about the title? Cindy even pulls out a MAGA-style hat at the offset of the episode.
• Evidence Some Leg: Cindy tasks Dee with seducing the bouncer from the rival bar. Dee is somewhat surprised past this, every bit it would usually exist Dennis'due south area.

  Cindy: Dee, we need to distract Murphy'due south security guard with a pretty blonde.
  Dee: Okay, yous want me to become find ane?

• The Smurfette Principle: Dee claims that she likes being the but adult female in the grouping as information technology makes her feel special.
• Condition Quo Is God: The two biggest shake-ups from the previous season finale – Dennis leaving and Charlie getting with the Waitress – are undone by the end of the episode.
• Accept That!: To both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as symbolically personified by Cindy and Dennis.
  • Averted with Glenn Howerton. Promotions for the episode went on with the bandage proverb his presence wasn't necessary, but for all that Cindy'southward more competent than Dennis, she's not as funny.
• Token Minority: Cindy fills the part during her time with the gang, and unabashedly plays on it to win favor from the liberals she'southward scamming.

  Cindy: [Paddy'due south] has been then welcoming of this brown-skinned girl and her liberal ideals.

• Toxic Friend Influence: The episode highlights just how much Dennis acts as this towards the rest of the gang. Without him, they're more successful than they've e'er been and seemingly thriving under Cindy's leadership, but as soon every bit the sexual activity doll comes into play they begin to second judge themselves under his perceived criticism. It'south implied that they're aware of this at to the lowest degree on some level, simply they accept him back regardless.
• Uncanny Valley: In-Universe, everybody but Mac finds the doll to exist extremely unnerving.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Cindy mentions that dogs were fighting in the bar the outset time she came to Paddy's, yet no one seemed to observe.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Parodied with Mac, who keeps finding the slightest excuse to show off his new ripped physique, despite information technology having absolutely nothing to exercise with the events at hand. Not but that, merely he acts like it was everyone else'south idea.

  Cindy: Cease trying to shoehorn your shirtlessness into plans that accept no demand for information technology!

• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: It'due south not really explained what prompted Dennis to render to Philadelphia, nor is there any mention of Mandy and Brian Jr., the implications of his complete nonchalantness slightly unnerving.
• Zany Scheme: Mac got ripped because he idea the Gang's scheme could apply information technology in some manner. The Gang points out that it serves no purpose.

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