Desperate to replace their worn out sofa, Louise sabotages it. Sending the family on a hunt for a replacement.
- Comically Missing the Point: The Couch Burners keep closing their eyes to look more dramatic, but Bob wants to take a picture of them with their eyes open. Even worse, they keep saying it "Feels" like their eyes are open like they're genuinely too dumb to realize when their eyes are closed.
- Companion Cube: Linda is really attached to the couch, noting all the firsts the kids had on it. Bob and Louise later realize she's right.
- Despair Event Horizon: Linda, when she finds out the couch was sabotaged, is inconsolable, crying harder than she ever had in the series before.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Linda ends up crying and running through the store when she realizes Louise tricked her into getting a new couch.
- Kitschy Local Commercial: The plot is kicked off by Bob and Louise watching an ad for "the Sofa Queen" and thinking that the couch needs to be replaced.
- Pyromaniac: The members of the Couch Burners insist on living up to their name.
- Rhetorical Request Blunder: Bob ponders out loud about getting a new couch if something finally happens to the old one. He really shouldn't have said that where Louise could hear him, as she takes it as a sign to deliberately sabotage the couch.
