Surviving the weather station's destruction by the skin of her teeth, Hilda is now lost in the wilderness and has to find a way back to Trolberg with the Wood Man's (questionable) help. Along the way, the two encounter a house that's far more than meets the eye, while Twig and Alfur embark on a daring search and rescue.
Tropes:
- Alien Geometries: The house starts adopting these in order to keep it’s prisoners captive, like forming rooms with stairs going in all directions (and a door in the floor), and an attic door that lead straight back to the living room downstairs.
- The Bus Came Back: The Wood Man makes a return appearance after having last been seen in episode 2.
- Badass Bureaucrat: That Elves are notorious bureaucrats was already known, but this episode reveals they also run a highly efficient postal system. It allows Hilda to send a message to her mom in Trolberg to let her know she’s fine.
- Behind the Black: Somehow, Hilda fails to notice the forest giant until the Wood Man admits he just lost her to said giant in card game. Lampshaded by the giant himself, who is annoyed humans always overlook him (which he blames on the fact that he's not as big as other giants).
- Big Damn Heroes: The Great Raven shows up just in time to rescue Alfur and Twig from the forest giant.
- Bittersweet Ending: While she's unable to keep the copy of Frida's book, Hilda comes out of the ordeal with the realization that through all the ups and downs, Trolberg has indeed become her home. The Wood Man also admits that he considers her a friend, but not before giving her some food for thought in how you never truly leave your old homes behind.
- Breather Episode: Compared to the hefty drama and turmoil of the prior two episodes. The threat of the house itself is less of an overt life-or-death situation, and ultimately serves to bring Hilda's adjustment process full circle. This episode can also be seen as a brief warm-up before the final two episodes of the season, which wrap up the other lingering narrative threads.
- The Cameo: The troll and her baby from episode 5 are briefly seen.
- City Slicker: The Woodman calls Hilda a City Girl upon meeting her again, and claims the old Hilda never would have gotten lost. Hilda objects these claims, stating the wilderness will always be her home. At the end of the episode, she decides Trolberg really is her home now, but the Woodman encourages her that she was right about the wilderness always being a part of her.
- Exploding Closet: When Hilda’s mom opens up the house's portal door, all the stuff the protagonists asked for promptly buries her.
- Gilded Cage: The house Hilda and Woodman end up in gives them everything they desire, but actively prevents them from leaving. Woodman doesn’t mind.
- Lost Him in a Card Game: When Hilda finds the Woodman, he is playing poker with some elves and, as we eventually learn, a forest giant. He bets Hilda without her knowing, and loses her to the giant, who takes her back to his lair. However, he did so on purpose since he hoped Hilda would thus be able to help him get back some other items he lost to the giant.
- Multi-Part Episode: Takes place after "The Storm", shortly after Hilda has her Oh, Crap! moment.
- No Ontological Inertia: Once the protagonists trick the House into setting them free, all the things they wished for disappear. Unfortunately, that includes a new copy of the book Frida lost, and that Hilda wished for so she could give it to her.
- Not Now, Kiddo: Alfur is ignored repeatedly by Hilda’s mom as he tries to tell her he’s got a message from Hilda. It takes him falling into her cup of coffee to finally be noticed.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: The forest giant that takes Hilda is notably smaller than the giants she met in episode 2. He is well aware of this, and even seems to be suffering from an inferiority complex because of it, complaining how humans never notice him since he's not as tall as other giants.
- Phlebotinum Overload: The protagonists eventually overload the house by asking for dozens of things at once, then Hilda ends it with a request for a portal home.
- Post-Stress Overeating: At one point before finding out that Hilda's okay, Johanna is seen scarfing down a pack of Jorts.
- Running Gag: Woodman still just barges into other people’s homes when he feels like it, without even knocking first.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: When the others have trouble thinking of what to ask the house for, Hilda suggests a diamond monocle. Cue to the Woodman revealing he already wished for one.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: In the House, the Wood Man sees a portrait of an unnamed female wood person. She looks exactly like him, except for her long hair.
- What Is This Feeling?: Since this is her first time getting lost in the wilderness, Hilda is unfamiliar with what it feels like.
- "You!" Exclamation: Done by the forest giant when he finds the Woodman in the tree where he stores all of his stuff.
