"It's our bounce house now, Dahlia!"
"God this is a disaster."
—Sylvester Stieblitz about the party
Louise takes over Rudy's birthday party, and attempts to steal the bounce house from a rival party. Meanwhile, a pigeon gets into the restaurant, revealing that Bob is terrified of birds.
House of 1000 Tropes:
- Absurd Phobia: Teddy once had a fear of babies. Linda's also afraid of being sucked down the shower drain.
- Alpha Bitch: Dahlia, who refuses to share her birthday bounce house with Rudy's party.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Sasha is able to tell that Rudy's father is divorced just by looking at his outfit and teeth, even being able to tell how many days he'd been whitening them.
- The Bus Came Back:
- One of the attendees at Rudy's party is Jeremy, the kid who sold out Louise to Mr. Dinkler in "Topsy".
- Ranger Dainko returns near the end of the A-plot, and he's just as insistent about paperwork as before.
- Call-Back: Sasha references the events of "Speakeasy Rider" when greeting the Belchers, more specifically how Tina threw the King's Head Island Grand Prix at the end so that Louise and the Belchers' original team could win.
- Comically Missing the Point: Bob seriously thought that when he had to give the pigeon a bath, he had to take a bath with the pigeon, in the tub. Talking it out with Linda gets him to realize the ridiculousness of it.
- Confirm Before Reveal: When Teddy is eating at the restaurant for the last 20 minutes, he finally asks Bob and Linda if the pigeon sitting on their restaurant TV is real. When Bob and Linda are confused with Teddy's question, he reveals there's a pigeon inside their restaurant sitting on their TV, which they now just notice. Teddy was worried he was seeing things because he got pretty drunk at the lodge before coming here.
- Crying at Your Birthday Party: Rudy finally breaks down when everyone else's insistence on stealing the bounce house and ignoring the spoon puppet play that he was looking forward to doing gets them in trouble with Ranger Dainko.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: More specifically, a pigeon. Bob goes nuts when it goes near him. He gets over his fear by the end of the episode and is happily bathing together with it to get rid of the olive oil it accidently spilled on itself when it got stuck in the basement.
- Enemy Mine: Sasha helps Rudy's party steal the bounce house because he really doesn't like his cousin, although he has to help Dahlia retake the bounce house to maintain deniability.
- Face Your Fears: Bob slowly does this over the course of the episode. Finding out his phobia of pigeons is just based off an Alfred Hitchcock movie helps.
- I Regret Nothing: Once Gene accidentally outs him as a mole, Sasha admits that he conspired against Dahlia but says it was worth it. He quickly changes his tune once a park ranger gets involved.
- Jerkass Realization: It takes Rudy blowing up at her and breaking down crying for it to really hit Louise that hijacking his party and getting them all detained in the park ranger's office ruined his party more than Dahlia ever did.
- The Mole: Sasha pretends to be on Dahlia's side even when helping the Belcher kids, because he wants to maintain plausible deniability to his aunt. To this end, he has to help Dahlia reclaim her bounce house (although he doesn't really help, he just kind of follows her around). It nearly works, too, until Gene very loudly exposes his deception, which lands him in ranger jail with the kids at Rudy's party.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Nice & Sweet Rudy explodes when Louise gets him and the others in trouble and ruins his party.
- Pet the Dog: Louise decides to make amends with Rudy by offering to do his spoon puppet play.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a reference to House of 1000 Corpses.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Dahlia gets back her bounce house, but it's soggy and useless after having been pushed onto (and deflated on) the lake.
- Revenge Before Reason: Louise becomes obsessed with sticking it to Dahlia for her bratty behavior in asserting her party as taking precedent before Rudy's. Problem is, in her crusade, she essentially hijacks Rudy's party herself and gets him and all his guests in trouble for it.
- Sanity Ball: Linda and Teddy hold this together when they explain to Bob his so-called traumatic experience is a garbled memory of watching The Birds when he was younger, even as he insists he's not talking about a movie.
- Skewed Priorities: When the kids enact their plan to move the bounce house, Gene turns back to grab the birthday cake, forcing him to make a leap of faith when the bounce house makes it onto the lake without him.
- Spoiled Brat: Dahlia is so obnoxious that even her cousin Sasha can't stand her.
- Unfortunate Names: Sasha's aunt thinks he's insulting the Belchers when he refers to them by their surname. Even when they tell her that it's their actual last name, she still thinks he shouldn't be calling them that.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Although she did have her own interests in mind, Louise also wanted the bounce house for Rudy's enjoyment, spurning her to steal it from Dahlia.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Rudy reaches his breaking point when everyone gets detained at the ranger's office. He blows up at Louise for essentially hijacking his birthday party for what she thought they should do when all he wanted to do was have a puppet show.
- Whole-Plot Reference: Bob's memory of being attacked by a bunch of pigeons in a dark room is a shot-for-shot remake of Tippi Hedren getting attacked in The Birds. Linda and Teddy even explain to Bob he's remembering something from a movie.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Bob is apparently terrified of pigeons because of a traumatic experience he had as a kid. It turns out he's remembering a scene from The Birds but got confused and thought it happened to him in real life.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Whatever progress Rudy's dad was making with Sasha's aunt gets completely undone after the kids steal Dahlia's bounce house.
