"Are you sure there aren't any other available rooms?"
"Don't worry Bob. It's gonna be money and online reviews and when I die and I get to heaven, God is gonna say 'Hey, aren't you that lady that ran that B&B I heard about?' and I'm gonna say 'Yes, God. What can I get ya?'"
—Linda
Linda sets up a B&B during a busy weekend for the city, but none of the guests are interested on making her B&B dreams come true, so she starts losing it. As Tina develops a strange friendship with the entomologist staying in her room, Louise plots payback when Linda rents out her room to Teddy.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: Linda can never get Javed's name right. Some of her many names for him include Javeed and Yavee.
- Berserk Button:
- Louise snaps when Linda goes behind her back and rents her room to Teddy. Her room in general is a very sensitive topic for her, considering she wouldn't talk to her mom when she cleaned there without Louise's permission. It's acknowledged that Bob at the very least knows to avoid pushing this button, but Linda doesn't seem to get the hint until after Teddy suffers for it.
- Teddy has this reaction when he sees costume characters, due to his wife cheating on him with one.
- Brick Joke: Linda covers up the Samuels' BDSM session by claiming they're escape artists. When the Belchers find the Samuels trying to escape their room at the end, Gene takes it to mean that they really are escape artists.
- Brutal Honesty: During a party game where everyone has to tell their most embarrassing moment, with the Belchers instead picking on Bob, Linda tries to make the Samuels admit what theirs was. Their response? This.
- Butt-Monkey: The poor Samuels get the worst treatment from Linda, being dragged into her embarrassing games, getting walked in on while in their bondage gear, being locked in their rooms to make them stay, and then ultimately being forced to beg for help when they get stuck trying to escape and ordered to give Linda a good review in exchange for assistance.
- Cassandra Truth: Bob warns Linda that she's not a good hostess and she always loses it whenever people don't act appreciative enough; she ignores him. By the end of the episode Bob has to talk Linda into letting their guests go after she's locked them in their rooms.
- Children Are Innocent: Gene. He does not understand what a threesome is, and he doesn't understand the mask he found is used for BDSM, believing Linda when she claims they're escape artists.
- Control Freak: Linda forces the guests to attend her planned events and eventually locks them in their rooms to stop them from leaving before her ice cream social.
- Crazy-Prepared: Gene brought a second chicken leg to the bed in case someone (in this case, Linda) steals the first.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: This episode reveals that Teddy is a victim of emotional Domestic Abuse, but it's largely Played for Laughs, between Teddy nonchalantly mentioning it in the first place as well as Teddy's traumatic flashbacks inspiring a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the Fuzzy Buddies (to the point that he's huddled up crying at the end of it).
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: As she bids him goodnight, Linda tells Teddy not to let the bedbugs bite. Two minutes later, Louise makes sure they do.
- Hidden Depths: This episode reveals that Louise is a skilled lock picker and even has a toolkit for it.
- Humiliation Conga: Bob's family tells a lot of embarrassing stories about him.
- Hypocritical Humour: Javed calls Linda crazy, but he is not much better while talking with his insects.Javed: She's completely bonkers, isn't she? (Beat) Look at me when I'm talking to you!
- I'm Standing Right Here: The Samuels and Javed whisper to each other during Linda's forced attempt at a party game if there are any other rooms available in town, with Linda herself standing right in front of them.
- It's All About Me: Linda spends the whole episode obsessing over proving she's a good hostess and hosting the perfect bed and breakfast, no matter how uncomfortable she makes everyone else and how unhinged she gets in the process.
- Karma Houdini:
- Even though Louise was wronged when Linda gave Teddy her room, Louise doesn't get properly punished for triggering poor Teddy's fear of costumed characters and making him beat up several paid actors plus maxing out Linda's credit card.
- Linda humiliates the Samuels and then locks them in their room to stop them from leaving. When it's revealed Edward and Nora get stuck attempting to climb out the window, Linda refuses to help unless they give her a good online review.
- Mistaken for Racist: Bob complains about Javed bringing bugs into the Belcher home. Linda tells him to stop being racist.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Linda realizes she went too far with her B&B madness when Bob calls her out on it.
- Naked People Are Funny: Gene randomly walks into the meet-and-greet in his underwear. While it takes all the attention away from the retelling of poor Bob's most embarrassing moment, it just makes the Samuels feel even more embarrassed overall.
- Nerves of Steel: Teddy is pretty much unfazed even when there's bugs all over his face. He only loses it when Louise invites furry mascots into the restaurant, triggering a bad memory for Teddy.
- Never My Fault: Linda orders Bob to stay and be the one to discipline Louise for attracting bugs to Teddy's face, even though Bob was the one who warned her against invoking Louise's wrath by renting her room out in the first place.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Teddy works out his fear of costumed characters in this manner.
- Noodle Incident: When Bob tried to jog. The family bursts out in laughter at the memory of it.
- Odd Friendship: Tina and Javed have a surprisingly nice relationship talking about insect sex.
- Only Sane Man: Bob attempts to just go to the restaurant after the B&B goes haywire, wanting no part of the chaos. He also points out that the easiest way to get Louise to back off is to just return her bedroom to her.
- Sanity Slippage: Linda goes off the deep end trying to make their B&B something picturesque and friendly, when the guests aren't actually interested in interacting with each other. Linda even reaches the point of locking everybody in their rooms so they wouldn't run away from her ice cream social. By the time Bob calls her out on her behavior, the ice cream is clearly melting all over the platter.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Inverted; Linda is so obsessed with proving she's a good hostess she won't let her guests leave.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Unlike Linda, Bob respects Louise's boundaries when it comes to her room, and he's the only one of the two who seems to recognize that Linda renting it out to Teddy is not going to end well. When Linda makes it clear she's not backing down, Bob refuses to help break the news to Louise and tells Linda to wear a helmet.
- A Threesome Is Hot: Teddy's ex-wife wanted one with him and Ray, but it devolved into Teddy just watching the two have sex. Teddy doesn't seem to realize his ex-wife cheated on him in front of him.
- Gene believes that he made this when he made a trio in science class.
- Tranquil Fury: Linda does not appreciate Nora and Edward's honesty about their most embarrassing moment.Linda: Okay Samuels, what's your most embarrassing moment?Nora: I-I dunno, this?(Linda's smile turns into a displeased frown)Edward: Yeah, this.Linda: ...hmm.Nora: Are we done?Linda: Yes, I guess we are done Nora.
- Ungrateful Bastard: How Linda views Javed and the Samuels when they refuse to participate in her activities and when they voice how uncomfortable she's making them.
- Unishment: Linda at first punishes Louise by ordering her to go to her room, only for Louise to reply that that's all she wanted anyway. She then grounds Louise in their bedroom instead, which only gives Louise the opportunity to overhear Teddy's worst fear, and access to a phone and her mom's credit card to carry that fear out. Plus, it's revealed that she's a master lockpicker and can escape whatever locked room she's placed in regardless (Bob even expected her to do it).
- Viewer Gender Confusion: In-universe, Teddy goes out with one of the costume characters believing that they're female, but Bob points out that it's a guy under the costume. There was a girl, but she already left.
- You Were Trying Too Hard: Bob points out that Linda has a bad habit of this. This not only defines Linda's actions throughout the episode, but for the entire series.
