![]() The wrestling match the Gang is watching at the beginning of the episode shows Nikolai Volkoff, who played an "evil Russian" character during the Cold War. Rickety Cricket's wresting character references the Taliban, of course, but it also references a long tradition in wrestling of having "heels" representing a nation or group the US is in conflict with.The slashed neck Rickety Cricket suffers will lead to his voice being greatly altered, and leave a wound that dogs find quite interesting, as we will see in the episode " Mac's Big Break."."Da' Maniac", the wrestler played by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in this episode, is a reference to the 2008 movie The Wrestler - like the character Randy "The Ram" Robinson from that movie, "Da Maniac" is a wrestler who has fallen on hard times and is wrestling in very small-time events, and who also appears to be living out of his car.Mac and Charlie used to wrestle as kids and called themselves the " Pigeon Boys".Soldier Ben’s combat badge is of the 4th Infantry Division that at the time was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.DeVito's opinion from this episode commentaries, the first appearance of Ben Smith on the show (in a wheelchair) looks a lot like the scene from James Cameron's " Avatar", which premiered later the same year on December 10th. Dee's nickname " Desert Rose" is a reference to the 1999 Sting song by the same name." Real American" by Rick Derringer plays during the closing credits (which was Hulk Hogan's theme in the WWF). ![]() " Kiss from a Rose" by Seal starts playing at 06:50.This episode parodies WWE's Tribute to the Troops special.As Cricket bleeds profusely from the neck, the audience is initially shocked but then cheers for Frank (who raises his arms in triumph as "Real American" plays). Frank enters the ring as "The Trashman" and hits Cricket with a trashcan. Dennis and Charlie try to wrestle Cricket but he just throws sand in their faces. Dee sings Seals' "Kiss from a Rose" and it hit with a chair by Cricket, who is dressed as a terrorist ("The Talibum"). The boys decide to wrestle Cricket themselves. The night of the wrestling match, Da' Maniac is arrested for unpaid parking tickets. Dee becomes jealous and tells Artemis that she plans on stealing him away. Later, Dee convinces Artemis to pose as Desert Rose and Ben stands up to hug her. Frank gives him a pair of jean shorts and invites him to the wrestling match. When Dee finds out that he is in a wheelchair she claims to not be Desert Rose, her online alias, and runs away. ![]() Meanwhile, Dee and Frank meet Ben, the soldier Dee has been chatting with, at a bus stop. The track down Rickety Cricket and convince him to wrestle in the match. When the realize Da'Maniac might be a real maniac, the decide to find someone else to fight him. The boys decide to be his opponent under the characters "The Birds of War". ![]() Frank wants to join as the eponymous "Trashman", but the guys don't approve.ĭennis, Mac, and Charlie attend a local amateur wrestling show and hire the star of the show, Da'Maniac, to be in their own show. Charlie amps up the rest of the Gang and convinces them to throw a wrestling match to show support for the troops. Meanwhile, the soldier Dee has been chatting with online is not what she expected.Īs the Gang watches Hulk Hogan face off against Nikolai Volkoff on Dee's laptop, she receives a message from a solider she has been flirting with online. That's why the gang has decided to put on a wrestling show for the returning troops. There's nothing more American than wrestling. ![]()
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