the Gang Makes Paddys Great Again

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"Dennis is gone and he is non coming dorsum. We have to accept that."

— Mac

The gang attempts to motion on from Dennis's departure under the leadership of newcomer Cindy, but fall back into their onetime habits when Mac buys a sex doll in Dennis's likeness that gets inside all of their heads.

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This episode provides examples of the following tropes:

• Accidental Innuendo: Mac'due south explanation for why he bought the sexual practice doll.

  Mac: I was super deplorable about my erstwhile roommate leaving, and you said I needed something Dennis-shaped to fill my hole.

• Ambiguously Bi: Frank and Charlie both participate in an all-male person orgy, involving a male sex doll.
• Bait-and-switch: After Cindy chews out the guys for becoming convinced that the sex doll is live, nosotros hear Dennis speak up, and the camera pans over to Dennis standing where the sex doll was place, his mouth open up in a similar mode. This is actually Dennis; the sex doll fell over, and he snuck in while Cindy was talking.
• Blatant Lies: Mac's repeated insistence that he isn't having sex with the doll, despite all evidence pointing to the reverse.
• The Bus Came Back: The real Dennis returns at the end of the episode.
• Call-Back:
  • Mac serves his famous mac and cheese.
  • Mac wears the duster without a shirt.
  • "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood plays correct afterward the Waitress bangs the Dennis sex doll.
  • Dee stands under a spotlight to "soften her features".
  • The gang goes to a strip club.
  • Mac calls Dennis a bastard man.
  • The Boys Are Back In Town plays at the end of the episode and over the credits.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Mac is back in his and Dennis's old apartment afterward having information technology restored in the previous season finale.
  • Charlie likens Mac'southward latest physical transformation to the time he got fat.
  • When Mac brings a big crate into the apartment, Frank immediately guesses that it contains some other rocket launcher.
• Don't Explain the Joke: The balance of the gang is exasperated past Mac over-explaining Cindy's wine/whine pun.

  Mac: Information technology'southward chosen "Conservative Whine", only it's spelled with an "h" because it'due south like, "we're whining". It'southward a pun. It's a play on the give-and-take "wine".
  Cindy: Yeah! Yeah, Mac, I get it. I came upward with it.

• Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Charlie however doesn't call the Waitress by proper noun even at present that he's officially dating her.
• Foil: Cindy is this for Dennis; both are terrible people, merely Cindy is actually successful in pulling off schemes and acts supportive towards the residue of the gang, while Dennis has an over-inflated opinion of his own intelligence and puts the others down to make himself feel superior.
• For Doom the Bong Tolls: Used every time there'due south a close-up on the doll.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Mac outright asks the others if they like him, and the only response is an awkward silence. Dee also claims that Dennis gave him a simulated number when he left. Cindy also calls Dennis Mac'south best friend is immediately corrected by everyone else.
• Friendship Moment:
  • Frank, Dee, and Mac genuinely console Charlie subsequently his breakdown with the Waitress.
  • At the very terminate of the episode, the rest of the gang choose to welcome Dennis back over Cindy and they all share a beer together.

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

• Gone Horribly Right: Charlie gives the doll to the Waitress to keep her company while he's working on Cindy'south scheme and finish her from calling him all the time. This goes a little too well, every bit she sleeps with the doll and breaks upwards with him.
• Hidden Depths: Frank proves to be surprisingly good at playing the tuba until "Dennis" gets in his head.
• Kick the Dog: Immediately afterwards being accepted back into the gang, Dennis calls Dee a bird and asks Mac if he's put on weight.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Subverted at first without Dennis the gang are much better off, nicer to each other, more focused, more confident, more successful and thriving under Cindy's leadership. And then Double Subverted when they all begin losing what little sanity they had left and talking to a Sex-Doll replica of Dennis like it'southward really 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 bottle of wine subsequently Charlie leaves her lone with the doll.
• Only Sane Man: Cindy is this relative to the rest of the gang, spending nearly of the episode utterly baffled past their insistence on treating the doll like a living person.
• Parental Incest: Frank participated in the orgy involving a sex activity doll that bears hit resemblance to his son, along with Charlie whose probably his biological son.
• Pet the Dog: Away from Dennis's influence, both Mac and Charlie are genuinely complimentary of Dee'southward "sexy" outfit.
• Playing Both Sides: Cindy's programme is to incite outrage amongst both liberals and conservatives in order to get 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" Spoken language: Cindy gives one to Dennis when he returns, then to the rest of the gang when they choose him over her.
• Relationship Upgrade: Charlie and the Waitress are shown to be in a committed relationship since the events of the previous episode, with her seemingly having moved into his flat. It doesn't last.
• Replacement Goldfish: Both Cindy and the doll human activity as this for Dennis.
• Running Gag:
  • Cindy states that Frank pulled a gun on her when they beginning met. Later, his first reaction when Dennis comes dorsum is to whip the gun out again.
  • Dennis calls Dee a bird.
  • The waitress having a terrible crush 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'due south non.
• Sherlock Scan: Cindy is able to determine just from Charlie playing the doll'south asshole that the gang all got wasted the night before and had an orgy with it.
• Shout-Out: The gang becoming convinced they tin can hear Dennis talk when viewing the sex doll is reminescent of George Costanza hearing his mom when viewing a similarly looking doll.
  • Does annihilation actually need to exist said about the championship? Cindy even pulls out a MAGA-style hat at the first of the episode.
• Testify Some Leg: Cindy tasks Dee with seducing the bouncer from the rival bar. Dee is somewhat surprised by this, as it would ordinarily exist Dennis's area.

  Cindy: Dee, we need to distract Potato'south security guard with a pretty blonde.
  Dee: Okay, you desire me to get find one?

• The Smurfette Principle: Dee claims that she likes being the only woman in the group as it makes her feel special.
• Status Quo Is God: The 2 biggest shake-ups from the previous season finale – Dennis leaving and Charlie getting with the Waitress – are undone past the cease of the episode.
• Have That!: To both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, equally symbolically personified by Cindy and Dennis.
  • Averted with Glenn Howerton. Promotions for the episode went on with the bandage saying his presence wasn't necessary, just for all that Cindy's more competent than Dennis, she's not as funny.
• Token Minority: Cindy fills the role during her time with the gang, and unabashedly plays on information technology to win favor from the liberals she'south scamming.

  Cindy: [Paddy'southward] has been then welcoming of this brown-skinned daughter and her liberal ethics.

• Toxic Friend Influence: The episode highlights just how much Dennis acts as this towards the remainder of the gang. Without him, they're more successful than they've ever been and seemingly thriving under Cindy'due south leadership, merely as before long as the sex doll comes into play they begin to second guess themselves under his perceived criticism. It's implied that they're aware of this at least on some level, only they accept him back regardless.
• Uncanny Valley: In-Universe, everybody but Mac finds the doll to be extremely unnerving.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Cindy mentions that dogs were fighting in the bar the first fourth dimension she came to Paddy'due south, yet no i seemed to notice.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Parodied with Mac, who keeps finding the slightest alibi to show off his new ripped physique, despite it having absolutely null to do with the events at hand. Non only that, but he acts similar it was everyone else's thought.

  Cindy: Stop trying to shoehorn your shirtlessness into plans that have no need for it!

• Whatsoever Happened to the Mouse?: It's not really explained what prompted Dennis to return to Philadelphia, nor is at that place whatsoever mention of Mandy and Brian Jr., the implications of his complete nonchalantness slightly unnerving.
• Zany Scheme: Mac got ripped because he thought the Gang'due south scheme could utilize information technology in some mode. The Gang points out that it serves no purpose.

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