Dogs. (2)

"**Dogs. (2)**" is the second episode of season 3.

## Plot

In a post-owner world, dog Phil struggles to adapt, fighting to steer away from human dependency.

## Characters

* Phil (Dog)
* Mike (Dog)
* Private Matarese
* Private Luciano
* Fluffy
* Ringo
* Sammy
* Chi Chi
* McManus
* Nurse Deb
* Tim
* Frisbee
* Angela
* Princess
* Phil Dog Owner
* Charles
* Sugar
* Hollie
* Ruber Driver
* Plonky
* Fleshlight
* Baseball

## Trivia

* It's revealed that Phil's owner's name is Meredith. This is the second time where a human's/owner's name is revealed, with Reporter Lady being the first in "Dog.".
	+ Coincidentally, both the titles and plot revolve around dogs.
* The fourth wall was broken numerous times:
	+ When Private Luciano feels that he and Matarese are being watch possibly suggested the audience and how they are watching the animals.
	+ When Phil finishes his statement about his life and getting into H.O.D.A. Mike stated "I feel like I saw the whole thing." meaning he saw Phil's flashback.
	+ When Fluffy mentions his owner, Steve Buscemi, having a star role in HBO's *Boardwalk Empire*, which may be an indirect reference to the channel HBO that the show is also on.
	+ When Phil and Mike hear about Fluffy in the hospital, Mike turns to the audience and shouts, "To the hospital!", a transition occurs to where the scene cuts to the hospital.
	+ After Phil gets "high" of sniffing his owner's clothes, he turns to the audience and yells "Cue the montage!".
	+ When Phil is doing math equations in his head, Frisbee wonders what he is doing until he realizes upon "seeing" what he is doing than tells him to carrying the two.
	+ When Mike talks about denying their trip Vermont, Phil claims it was a different time while stating it was "two seasons" ago, which "Dogs." did take place in season one.
	+ When Phil fills out a form of Meredith's TV habits, he puts "Animals on HBO".
* Private Luciano mentions he found the girl dog in *A Goofy Movie* pretty, referring to Roxanne, where Private Matarese calls up she was a teenager. In the credits, Private Matarese even mentions Pauly Shore, as he voiced Bobby, and also mentions Goofy and Pluto.
* Private Luciano feeling him and Matarese are being watch would foreshadow as they spy on the animals for three years.
* The dogs playing poker is a reference to *Dogs Playing Poker*, a 1894 painting created by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
* The acronym for Human Owner Dependents Anonymous is H.O.D.A. which references American broadcast journalist, television personality and author, Hoda Kotb. The tag that Mike gave to Phil even has a picture of Hoda's face on it.
* Fluffy's owner was an American actor, filmmaker and former firefighter, Steven Vincent Buscemi. Fluffy also mentions Steven's starring role in HBO's *Boardwalk Empire*, and being in one of Adam Sandler's films, one of them Fluffy mentioned is *Airheads*.
* Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler are mentioned again. As Fluffy mentions Steve being in one of Adam's films, which is *Airheads*, he also references to Adam's output with the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, and rejecting Quentin Tarantino's request to be in the latter's film, *Inglourious Basterds*. Phil is seen watching a movie while commenting that Jim never got out of character while in that film about Andy Kaufman, referring to the 1999 biographical comedy-drama film, *Man on the Moon*, while Phil also claiming that was proof that Jim was not held enough as a baby. When Phil remarks the password to *Ace Ventura*, Frisbee stated he's an Adam Sandler's fan and also has a wrist watch of him with *The Cobbler* labeled on it.
* Ringo makes a joke about Sammy getting "cartoon wolf eyes" of having their eyes briefly bulged out upon when a wolf becomes infatuated at a woman like in one of the Tex Avery cartoons.
* One of the posters in Phil's classroom has a dog dressed as Uncle Sam.
* Ringo mentions wanting to go to the M&M store in Time Square, he was referring to M&M'S World.
* When Frisbee makes a comment about Phil liking to be choked, he retorted of talking about a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk.
* When Phil discusses his belief in second chances, he mentions Miles Teller.
* Bob Balaban's restaurant, Balaban's, Simon Burch's DVD, and God being referred to as a She are seen and mentioned again.
* When Phil and Mike came to the hospital to visit Fluffy, a fleshlight and a baseball are seen roaming around the hall.
* Nurse Deb, Phil, Mike, and Tim mentions the characters and the shows *Dr. Phil*, *Doctor Who*, and *Luther*.
* In Quack Market, there is a duck with a top hat that references Scrooge McDuck and three ducks with each wearing a red, a blue, and a green cap that references Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Disney, one duck is seen wearing a Donal Duck's hat, another one hammering a blockbuster bomb resembles Daffy Duck from *Looney Tunes*, and a two-headed conjoined twin duck that resembles Charles and Mambo from *Duckman*.
* While being beaten by ducks with newspapers, Phil mentions "Don't step on a quack or you'll break your mother's back", referencing the superstition of where someone steps on a crack they will break their mother's back.
* Phil mentions Daffy Duck and Donald Duck when he was being thrown out of Quack Market.
* Phil has mug with Vermont on it, and Mike has photo of the two of them in Vermont from "Dogs."
* When Phil demanded more than collars from Frisbee, he compares them to be tee-ball and he himself is full-on Air Bud.
* When Frisbee gives of being New England Clam Chowder followed guessing with white, Phil remarks being related to *Ace Ventura*.
* The Ruber Driver can be seen cleaning his car he got from the first episode.
* A snake can be seen in the sewer grid with a sign that shows "Free *It* bootleg DVD's" and is wearing makeup resembling Pennywise the Clown.
* Phil calls out McManus of not being a Spice Girl. McManus mentions Emma's and Geri's stage names, Baby and Giner, respectively. McManus even informed the students of Sporty Spice being the Beyoncé of the Spice Girls.
* In Mike's office, there's a poster of a dog with a Minions plush.
* When Mike is struggling to take Phil's turtleneck sweater off, he happens to wear a collar. When look closely, when the sweater is pulled above his head there is no collar, and when the sweater was pulled off the collar is visibly shown.
* Phil stated Mike saluted Tim on 9/11.
* Mike is looking up food reviews on Yalp, which is based off on Yelp, business directory service and crowd-sourced review forum.