Emily becomes addicted to visiting open houses as an escape from her chaotic home life, and ends up trapped in one of them with a goofy dad looking to escape his wife and kids and a child actress taking a break from the rigors of Hollywood. Meanwhile, Josh orders a family bike.
Tropes:
- Brick Joke: When Dave recognizes the child celebrity Caitlin, he tells her that his triplets are huge fans of hers and try to sing her songs, but they are horrible at it. At the end of the episode, Dave's wife, furious at him having been gone for so long, shows up with said kids, a trio of infants who are making an incessant, droning wail.
- Censored for Comedy: When Emily goes full ham into trying to break out of the Open House sitcom by being as rude as possible, her swears are bleeped out and her Flipping the Bird gestures and bared breasts are covered by Censor Boxes as such things aren't allowed on a family-friendly sitcom, despite being perfectly normal anywhere else in the show (though her breasts would probably still be censored with pixelation or a Toplessness from the Back shot)
- I Choose to Stay: Like Emily, Dave's reason for open house browsing is that his wife and kids can be too much to handle. So at the end when faced with said wife, who's about to give him a piece of her mind for being gone for so long, and his tone-deaf infant triplets, he decides to stay in the sitcom simulation, which turns into a show called Classic Dave rather than Open House.
- Ironic Echo: In a flashback, young Josh sees a family riding a family bike while riding his normal bike; the family's youngest boy shouts at him "Where's your family, loser?" In the present, Josh struggles to pedal his family bike on his own; the same boy, now an adult, rides past on a normal bike and shouts again "Where's your family, loser?"
- Mistaken for Cheating: After Josh arrives on the set and sees Dave and Caitlin acting like her family, he accuses her of cheating on him with another family. Fortunately, Emily is able to explain herself to everyone and she and Josh are able to escape shortly after.
- Subverted Sitcom: Emily goes open house shopping to get a break from Josh's antics, and discovers a fantastic house that a goofy dad named Dave and a child actress named Caitlin are also checking out. During their tour, Dave and Caitlin begin morphing into a typical sitcom family, complete with a Laugh Track and a sitcom intro for a show called Open House, but Emily seems to be the only one aware that this house isn't really theirs. It becomes clear that the house is some sort of void that Emily can't leave, and Josh can't contact her until he also gets stuck in the house. The only way for Emily and Josh to break the spell is to be as family-inappropriate as possible. They escape, but Dave stays in the house to avoid confronting his angry wife.
- Time Skip: Emily spends three days in the open house. Josh fails to notice because he was distracted ordering his family bike and is horrified when the delivery driver points it out to him.
- Trash of the Titans: Part of what drives Emily to browse open houses in the first place is to be able to get a break from how chaotic life at home can be for her. After returning home from the open house in the cold open, she is disgusted to find Alex in his underwear taking up the whole living room with a conspiracy board (with him having apparently peed in bottles so he doesn't have to use the bathroom), Bridgette also in her underwear covering herself in paint and throwing herself on the kitchen walls with Candace joining in, and Josh accidentally knocking the ceiling light out of place. It's so much that she ducks out to browse houses again while Josh is having his Family Bike flashback.
