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*ItsAllAboutMe: Invoked; Linda's plan for this Mother's Day is that the rest of the Belchers can't refuse any of her requests, no matter what.
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* ParentsDayEpisode: Mother's day in this case.
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* ParentsDayEpisode: Mother's day in this case.
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*DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Spencer asks if the Belchers are lying to get free food, Bob attempts to word it in a way that avoids calling it lying but is basically the same thing. He gives up and bluntly admits that yes, they're lying.

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* SayingTooMuch: While talking to Julia, Linda accidentally implies that she doesn't live on King's Head Island like she's been saying, nearly exposing the plan to get free snacks. She ''barely'' salvages it.

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* SayingTooMuch: While SayingTooMuch:
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talking to Julia, Linda accidentally implies that she doesn't live on King's Head Island like she's been saying, nearly exposing the plan to get free snacks. She ''barely'' salvages it.
**Ethel's squirrel blood shenanigans and Linda confessing the Belchers' lie about being potential buyers already makes Kyle and Claire reconsider buying the house, but it was potentially salvageable. Then Spencer proceeds to mention several other issues with the house (such as exposed wiring being a potential fire hazard) that makes them demand a significant price drop in order for them to consider buying
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* AbsenteeActor: Much like last episode, Teddy doesn't appear. This case in particular deserves mention because it's the first time since Season 4 (specifically "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E12TheFrondFiles The Frond Files]]" and "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E13MazelTina Mazel-Tina]]") where Teddy was absent for two consecutive episodes.

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On her "Momnipotent" Mother's Day, Linda and the others get wrapped up in a bizarre real estate situation.

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On her "Momnipotent" Mother's Day, Linda and the others rest of the Belchers get wrapped up in a bizarre real estate situation.



*OrgasmicallyDelicious: Linda makes some interesting noises while eating shrimp at the first open house, which Bob points out and is clearly uncomfortable with.



* TemptingFate: At the old house, Bob thinks they can keep pretending to be house buyers since no one there knows who they are. The owner turns out to be Spencer, the guy Bob told about their scheme over at the ferry. Fortunately, he decides to play along in order to get a higher bid from the real buyers.

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* TemptingFate: At the old house, Bob thinks they can keep pretending to be house buyers since no one there knows who they are. The owner turns out to be Spencer, the guy Bob told about their scheme over at the ferry. Fortunately, he decides to play along in order to get a higher bid from the real buyers.buyers.
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On her "Momnipotent" mother's day, Linda and the others get wrapped up in a bizarre real estate situation.

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On her "Momnipotent" mother's day, Mother's Day, Linda and the others get wrapped up in a bizarre real estate situation.



!!Mo Mommy, Mo Tropes:



*BigEater: Linda has a ''lot'' to eat during the trips to each house.



* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: During their tour of the houses the family is pretending to buy so that Linda can gorge herself on free food and pretend to be rich, she tells the kids to run upstairs to check out the rooms so that they seem more believeable. When they get to Spencer's house, the kids have the following to comment on the rooms they picked:

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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: During their tour of the houses the family is pretending to buy so that Linda can gorge herself on free food and pretend to be rich, she tells the kids to run upstairs to check out the rooms so that they seem more believeable.believable. When they get to Spencer's house, the kids have the following to comment on the rooms they picked:


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*SayingTooMuch: While talking to Julia, Linda accidentally implies that she doesn't live on King's Head Island like she's been saying, nearly exposing the plan to get free snacks. She ''barely'' salvages it.
*ShaggyDogStory: Spencer's plan to get the Belchers to increase the house's selling price fails when the buyers demand a price reduction of ''$100,000'' if they're going to buy it after the hijinks of the episode.
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* AbsenteeActor: Much like last episode, Teddy doesn't appear. This case in particular deserves mention because it's the first time since Season 4 (specifically "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E12TheFrondFiles The Frond Files]]" and "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E13MazelTina Mazel-Tina]]") since Teddy was absent for two consecutive episodes.

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* AbsenteeActor: Much like last episode, Teddy doesn't appear. This case in particular deserves mention because it's the first time since Season 4 (specifically "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E12TheFrondFiles The Frond Files]]" and "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E13MazelTina Mazel-Tina]]") since where Teddy was absent for two consecutive episodes.

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*AbsenteeActor: Much like last episode, Teddy doesn't appear. This case in particular deserves mention because it's the first time since Season 4 (specifically "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E12TheFrondFiles The Frond Files]]" and "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E13MazelTina Mazel-Tina]]") since Teddy was absent for two consecutive episodes.



*HolidayEpisode: The second Mother's Day episode of the series.



* JustHereForTheFreeSnacks: Linda's wish for Mothers Day is to go to the open houses and pretend to be a prospective buyer, then gorge on the free food spreads.

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* JustHereForTheFreeSnacks: Linda's wish for Mothers Mother's Day is to go to the open houses and pretend to be a prospective buyer, then gorge on the free food spreads.spreads. Things do not go according to plan.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When the kids learn that Ethel stuffs squirrels that infest her home, they ask her if she really found so many dead squirrels in her house. Ethel awkwardly confirms it, saying they all died of natural causes.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: During their tour of the houses the family is pretending to buy so that Linda can gorge herself on free food and pretend to be rich, she tells the kids to run upstairs to check out the rooms so that they seem more believeable. When they get to Spencer's house, the kids have the following to comment on the rooms they picked:
-->'''Tina:''' There's a bathtub in my room!
-->'''Louise:''' There's a swing in mine!
-->'''Gene:''' There's a swing OVER a bathtub in this one! I don't know if it's a sex thing or a handicapped thing, but it works either way!
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* ActorAllusion: Bob makes up a fib about [[WesternAnimation/HomeMovies once owning a sword collection.]]
* BloodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs. Ethel has collected a bucket of squirrel blood from her taxidermy specimens, planning to use it someday. She douses herself with it in an attempt to scare away buyers. Unfortunately, they are more grossed out than scared.

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* ActorAllusion: When the other buyer says he has a sword collection, Bob makes up a fib about [[WesternAnimation/HomeMovies once owning a sword collection.]]
how he used to collect swords too]] before moving onto collecting spears.
* BloodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs. Ethel has collected a bucket of squirrel blood from her taxidermy specimens, planning to use it someday. She douses herself with it and pours most of it down the stairs in an attempt to scare away buyers. Unfortunately, they are more grossed out than scared.
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* JustHereForTheFreeSnacks: Linda's wish for Mothers Day is to go to the open houses and pretend to be a prospective buyer, then gorge on the free food spreads.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Spencer is a bit of a tool. But he's also legitimately concerned about his elderly mom living in a house with so many stairs.

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* BloodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs. Ethel has collected a bucket of squirrel blood from her taxidermy specimens, planning to use it someday. She douses herself with it in an attempt to scare away buyers. Unfortunately, they are more grossed out than scared.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Spencer is a bit of a tool. But he's also legitimately concerned about his elderly mom living in a house with so many stairs.stairs.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Spencer warns the Belchers not to go into the third floor, and then the kids hear someone say "Leave!" from there. They go inside and discover Spencer's mom Ethel. She is not locked in, however; she just doesn't want the house being sold and is trying to scare away buyers.
* ASimplePlan: All Linda wanted was to go to open houses for the food spreads, but she gets too involved with one of the realtors and it all goes downhill from there.
* TaxidermyTerror: Ethel has made dioramas out of stuffed squirrels, using as specimens the ones that infest the house. Gene and Louise find them fascinating, but Tina is disgusted, especially when she sees Ethel skin one "like a Fruit Roll-up".
* TemptingFate: At the old house, Bob thinks they can keep pretending to be house buyers since no one there knows who they are. The owner turns out to be Spencer, the guy Bob told about their scheme over at the ferry. Fortunately, he decides to play along in order to get a higher bid from the real buyers.
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* ActorAllusion: Bob makes up a fib about [[WesternAnimation/HomeMovies once owning a sword collection.]]
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On her "Momnipotent" mother's day, Linda and the others get wrapped up in a bizarre real estate situation.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Spencer is a bit of a tool. But he's also legitimately concerned about his elderly mom living in a house with so many stairs.

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