Bertie moves into Tuca's apartment, but spends a lot of time alone as Tuca becomes more acquainted with Kara. Meanwhile, Speckle goes on a quest for a doorknob.
Tropes:
- Are You Sure You Want to Do That?: Bertie's phone outright asks her if she wants to send a very long voicemail to Tuca.
- Big "NO!": Speckle combines one with an Eye Pop when the bear who's been following him buys the doorknob he was looking at.
- Call-Back: Bertie discovers Tuca's cups behind the toilet, first revealed in "Bird Mechanics"... and pays particular attention to the one added at that episode's end, labeled, "Bertie is keeping me alone."
- Closet Key: Played for Laughs when a fancy female background bird discovers photocopies of Kara and Tuca making out and remarks, "Oh my word! I'm gay!"
- Creative Closing Credits: This episode ends on a Medium-Shift Gag where a live-action puppet of Bertie does some skateboard tricks.
- Flashback B-Plot: The episode alternates between the present day and a flashback to Bertie first meeting Speckle, drawing parallels to how the friends dealt with one of them dating.
- Foreshadowing: Kara claims her previous girlfriend "always played the victim", during a conversation about how said girlfriend didn't like going to the Giant Hawk Rental place because her father was killed by one. This is an early sign that Kara is more selfish than she initially appears.
- Friend Versus Lover: Bertie becomes clingy when Tuca spends so much time with her new girlfriend, constantly calling Tuca hoping that Tuca will stop leaving her alone. She only concedes when she learns about Tuca's insecurity that Bertie is keeping her alone. Kara soon becomes jealous of Bertie, making passive aggressive remarks when Tuca finally does make a plan with Bertie, but it's Bertie — afraid of keeping Tuca alone and unaware of the full extent of Kara's controlling behavior — who nudges her back towards Kara.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Bertie becomes increasingly weird as she spends a prolonged amount of time without Tuca or Speckle nearby.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: Tuca and Kara are both shown to have their consciences in the form of dapper images of themselves pop up when trying to look presentable to the other.
- Hypocritical Humor: In the flashback to Bertie's first date with Speckle, Tuca and Bertie order their food in a very silly manner, referring to an earlier stoned escapade at an ice cream shop. When Speckle tries to do the same, Tuca thinks that he's weird.
- Innocently Insensitive: Upon seeing Tuca lick her plate clean, Kara snarks, "Who raised you?" Intended as a joke, this hurts Tuca's feelings, likely because, unbeknownst to Kara, Tuca was orphaned at a young age.
- It's All About Me: Kara keeps Tuca at her side for the entire weekend, believing their relationship should revolve around her work schedule. Every time Tuca attempts to leave or make plans with Bertie, Kara reels her back in. Kara admits she thinks it's fine because Tuca doesn't have a job.
- "Just Joking" Justification: Kara unintentionally insults Tuca when making fun of her table manners, and explains that she was only joking. Her conscience doubles down that she has no need to apologize when it was an "obvious" joke, but her lack of an apology only makes Tuca feel worse.
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: Bertie sweats rather profusely during her drive home during her manic milk buying/voicemail leaving on Tuca's phone.
- You Monster!: When Tuca wreaks havoc during a party in a flashback, the fish who owns the place calls her this.
