Housetrap
| "Housetrap" | |
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| Bob's Burgers episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Series 86 Episode 19 |
| Directed by | Jennifer Coyle Bernard Derriman |
| Written by | Dan Fybel |
| Production code | 5ASA07 |
| Original air date | May 10, 2015 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Kaitlin Olson as Helen |
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Kaitlin Olson as Helen
"Housetrap" is the 19th episode of the fifth season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and the overall 86th episode, and is written by Dan Fybel and directed by Jennifer Coyle and Bernard Derriman. It aired on Fox in the United States on May 10, 2015.
Teddy reveals that for extra income he sometimes aids in the maintenance of a beach house in Craggy Neck owned by a widow named Helen. To help him out Linda offers to drive over to move the patio furniture inside so it will not be ruined in the upcoming storm. Bob and the kids join her.
Once there the family is impressed by the view and leave Bob to drag in the furniture alone. Meanwhile Louise and Linda enter the unlocked house and soon the entire family is exploring. Through pictures Linda and Louise begin to snoop around the house, discovering that the owner of the house was a man named Larry Goodwin by reading the mail in the home office. They open the drawers at the desk and discover that all the pictures in the house are of the second wife when they find a wedding picture depicting a younger Larry with a different woman.
Teddy arrives to check up on the Belchers and is shocked to see them inside the home. When Linda accuses Larry of dumping his first wife for a younger, prettier model Teddy reveals that Larry died before he started working there by falling off of the widow's walk onto the decorative boulders below. When Linda makes the connection that the boulders were picked by the second wife, Helen, and that she had murdered Larry for his clock fortune, Teddy defends her saying that her husband fell off the widow's walk on the roof and that, though the railing was loose, it was impossible that Helen loosened it as she has no tools and thus has hired Teddy. Teddy also believes that Helen may have hired him because she was lonely. Helen becomes a possible love interest for Teddy. Linda decides to do a reenactment of what she thinks happened, Helen pushing Larry off the widow's walk. With Bob in Larry's place and Linda in Helen's she pushed Bob onto the floor, injuring his back in the process.
A storm begins and Helen unexpectedly arrives at the beach house. Helen has a strange way of joking saying cruel or acerbic things and then laughing it off. Bob finds her charming, especially after she gives him pain relievers to aid his bad back. With the knowledge that Teddy has a crush on Helen, he asks Linda to stop interfering between them saying that Linda's going to ruin his chances. Later, drugged on pain relievers, Bob tells Helen she is nice and reveals to her that Linda thinks she is a murderer.
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