The house trap
| Episode of the Bob's Burgers series | |||
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| title | The house trap | ||
| Original title | Housetrap | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| classification | Season 5, episode 19 86th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | May 10, 2015 on Fox | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
August 28, 2016 on Comedy Central | ||
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| Director | Jennifer Coyle and Bernard Derriman | ||
| script | Dan Fybel | ||
| Guest appearance (s) | |||
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Kaitlin Olson as Helen | |||
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The house trap (original title Housetrap ) is the 19th episode of the fifth season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and the 86th overall. It was written by Dan Fybel and directed by Jennifer Coyle and Bernard Derriman. The first broadcast took place in the USA on May 10, 2015 on the Fox Network , the German-language first broadcast was on August 28, 2016 on Comedy Central . The original guest speaker is Kaitlin Olson Helen. Fybel received a Writers Guild of America Award for this episode . In this episode, the Belcher family goes to Helen's weekend home , but Linda and Louise fear that Helen killed their husband.
action
Teddy reveals that he's making extra money by helping a widow named Helen maintain her beach house in Craggy Neck. Bob offers his help and goes there with his family to bring the garden furniture into the house so that it is protected from the impending storm. Linda and Louise enter the unlocked house, after which the entire family explores it. From looking at photos, Linda realizes that Helen was a second wife, and they believe she killed her husband.
When Teddy arrives at the weekend house, he is shocked to see the Belchers in the house. Linda accuses Helen of murder, but Teddy defends her, saying that her husband fell off the rooftop porch because the railing wasn't tight. Helen couldn't have loosened it up herself, as she didn't have any tools, so Teddy helped her. The family re-enacts the possible murder, with Bob injuring his back and lying on the couch. After the storm starts, Helen arrives there. She gives Bob pain pills , he notices that Teddy has fallen in love with Helen and asks Linda not to blame her any further. Under the influence of the painkiller, he tells Helen that his wife thinks she is a murderer.
Helen takes Linda out onto the rooftop porch and tells her that she didn't kill her husband. Linda backs away from her, slips and falls over the railing, but Helen catches her. The rest of the family arrive there and Louise attacks Helen to save her mother. Linda now no longer believes that Helen is a murderer, meanwhile Teddy falls from the veranda and ends up in the mud instead of on the rocks that were there when Helen's husband died. While the rest of the family are tending to Teddy, Bob, who is still on medication, finds a box in the mud with a hammer and pulled nails. Bob claims Helen hid the box to make Teddy think she had no tools, and thus help her maintain the house. He promises Helen that he will keep this secret to himself.
reception
Caroline Framke from the AV Club rated the episode with an "A−" and wrote:
'Housetrap' is a solid episode that manages to balance some more surreal material with grounded punchlines. This is especially noteworthy if only because it's a destination episode that takes place entirely outside the restaurant, which has either made for some of the strongest episodes or the most uncontrollably zany ones.
“'Housetrap' is a solid episode that keeps the balance between a bit more surreal material and simple punch lines. This is particularly worth mentioning because it is a destination episode that takes place completely outside the restaurant, which has either led to some of the strongest episodes or the most uncontrolled, weirdest. "
The episode scored 1.2 when it first aired and was seen by 2.47 million viewers. This makes it the fourth most watched show on Fox that evening after Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Family Guy and the Simpsons .
Dan Fybel got one for his screenplay for the episode Award of the Writers Guild of America in the category Best Television Writing in Animation .
Web links
The house trap in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caroline Framke: Review: Bob's Burgers: “Housetrap” . Avclub.com. May 11, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
- ^ Sara Bible: Sunday Final Ratings: 'Once Upon A Time' & 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Adjusted Up . In: TV by the Numbers . May 12, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
- ↑ 'The Martian,' 'Straight Outta Compton' Country Writers Guild Nominations (English) . In: Variety , January 6, 2016.