"Let the weekend begin!"
"Mold! Dangerous killer mold!"
—Hugo
Bob and his family are forced to live with Mort during a weekend that their restaurant is being cleaned for green mold. Meanwhile, Louise tries to scare Tina and Gene when they are left alone in the morgue.
Weekend at Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Bob takes a shot every time Mort and Samantha discuss things they found in a dead body, but is more intrigued than disgusted when Samantha mentions having found a Far Side comic.
- Bait-and-Switch: Right after Louise gives Tina the idea to sneak into the morgue, Gene can be heard screaming from outside the building, implying something there scared him. Cut to the three still in Mort's house; Gene screamed because he was hungry.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Hugo and Jimmy Pesto are revealed to be friends, and that Hugo has been brushing off things in Jimmy Pesto's restaurant that he makes a big deal of in Bob's.
- Birds of a Feather: Mort and Samantha.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Mort doesn't get Tina is afraid of the cadaver and not the wig.Mort: Tina, what's bothering you? The wig or the cadaver?
Tina: The cad...
Mort: Wigs can be scary. - When trying to convince Tina to explore the morgue, Louise tells her that she babysits from "there", and points to her heart. Tina asks if she means her boob, which an annoyed Louise just rolls with.
- Mort doesn't get Tina is afraid of the cadaver and not the wig.
- Creepy Good: Mort is a nice guy, but he is also strangely familiar about death and his house is full of things that someone died on.
- Dreadful Musician: Jimmy Pesto singing in a Jamaican accent ranges from "crappy" to "borderline offensive".
- Drinking Game: During his and Linda's double date with Mort and Samantha, Bob resolves to take a drink every time either of the latter two says something uncomfortable. He downs the entire glass when they start talking about tumors and quickly gets drunk off his ass.
- Evil Is Petty: Hugo forces Bob to close down his shop and make a full clean of the restaurant after finding green mold, but just brushes it off when the same is found at Jimmy Pesto's.
- The Exit Is That Way: When Mort shoos the Belcher kids out of the mortuary so he and Samantha can have some "private time", the kids accidentally try to leave through a door with some preserved corpses behind it.
- Extreme Omnivore: Gene eats some of the green mold, and is glad he did so.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Mort and his date Samantha pull this off quickly. Linda, a romantic herself, attempts this with Bob by saying "Already finishing each others-". Bob, finding it cheesy and annoyed at having dinner at Jimmy Pesto's, refuses to go along as she urges him to say "sentences", forcing Linda to finish her own sentence while annoyed.
- The Gadfly: Louise sets up a plot to scare her siblings.
- Hidden Depths: Bob likes making models of buses, particularly from movies.
- Hypocrite:
- Jimmy Pesto has the gall to call Bob a jerk simply because Bob isn't willing to tolerate the act Jimmy puts on for his Rastafarian night, ignoring literally everything Jimmy says and does across the series (as well as how last episode saw him literally try to put Bob on the streets). Also, for someone who mocks Bob over having no customers, the pizzeria is rather empty during the episode (only one or two other couples, as well as Hugo, can actually be seen there).
- Despite nitpicking the hell out of minor flaws in Bob's restaurant, Hugo casually brushes off the exact same issues in Jimmy's restaurant. He even gives Jimmy the exact same solution he shot down when Bob suggested he do it for his restaurant.
- Hypocritical Humor: When a customer spots the Belchers speculating about the mold on the wall and asks what they're looking at, Gene gets annoyed when the others answer and tells them to let the customer think for himself. When the customer gives his thoughts, Gene immediately yells at him.Gene: Who asked you?!
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Gene tries to get out of going into the basement by saying that he forgot who did "Funkytown" and needs to go look it up. Subverted in that he eventually remembers it was Lipps, Inc., implying that he was being serious.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Mort and his date discuss the idea of having sex on an embalming table, and shoo the kids out so they can actually do it.
- Mistaken for Undead: When a drunken Bob passes out in one of Mort's coffins, the kids think he's a zombie and nearly burn him alive in Mort's crematorium.
- Nightmare Fetishist:
- All the talk about death, tumors and gross things aren't the least bit a turn off for Mort and his date even though Bob is clearly uncomfortable with the talk.
- Tina gets interested in Louise's fake phone call when she states to be a zombie.
- Not Me This Time: Louise admits to locking her siblings in the morgue, but when Bob (currently asleep in a coffin) starts snoring loudly she's quick to point out that this isn't her.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Bob has one after realizing the kids are going to cremate him.
- Tina utters an "Uh oh." after realizing Bob isn't actually a zombie and is in danger of being burnt alive.
- Secretly Wealthy: Played with. Mort's apartment is a lot nicer and more modern than you'd picture a mortician's home to be. However he points out that he got most of his stuff cheap because it was involved in his "clients'" deaths in one way or another.
- Shout-Out:
- Bob makes a model of the bus from Speed.
- The title is a reference to Weekend at Bernie's.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Mort tells the kids to stay away from his computer, "and not because there's porn". Subverted when the kids go on there anyways and it turns out that it's not porn after all, it's just his dating profile.
- Vague Age: Mort is older than 35 (as that's the fake age on his dating profile), and Louise estimates that he's 50, but this is never confirmed.
