"Linda, these people are swingers!"
"This place is kind of... special. The seniors are 'active'. I mean, like, adventurous."
—Gloria
The Belchers head to Florida to visit Al and Gloria and are shocked to find the two are living in a community of swingers. Meanwhile, the kids hunt for a dog-eating snake.
It Tropes a Village:
- Almost Famous Name: The woman who asks the Belcher kids to find her dog is named Helen Kellerman.
- Apathetic Pet: Helen loves her chihuahua Bitsy, but it's implied the feeling isn't mutual. When she says she's going to put him in a little suit, the first thing he does is run back into the forest. Then it's shown that he's gained a friendship with a snake.
- Artistic License – Biology: Snakes don't have eyelids, so the python couldn't close its eyes to blink or sleep as shown in the episode.
- Artistic License – Geography: On the map of the U.S., Long Island is depicted as a part of New Jersey (though this doesn't affect which state the Belchers are from, since they start their trip in New Jersey proper).
- Awkward Kiss: According to Bob, it really shows that Al and Gloria haven't kissed in 20 years.
- Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: Linda's parents moved to the swingers retirement community because all the nursing homes and communities they checked out were just full of people waiting to die. While Gloria and Al were put off by the swinging to start with, they figured that at least these people stayed active and alive.
- Big "NO!":
- Louise's reaction to seeing an empty pool.
- Bob lets one out when Linda offers to let her parents stay with them if they get kicked out. It's loud enough for the kids to hear all the way near the woods.
- Brain Bleach: Linda is beyond horrified when she finds out the truth about the retirement village and almost vomits several times at the mere thought of it.
- Brutal Honesty:
- Bob reveals his opinion of Gayle in one line when he protests Linda's parents possibly staying with his family.Bob: Why can't they live with your sister? Her life is already ruined.
- Gene gets one when Tina tells him that she owes him her life.Gene: No, thanks. I've seen it, and I'm not impressed.
- Bob reveals his opinion of Gayle in one line when he protests Linda's parents possibly staying with his family.
- Casual Kink: Turns out all the elders at the retirement community are this, to the point where they sit around on each other's laps in the rec rooms and even have a sex swing out on one resident's porch. Al and Gloria become this when Bob convinces Al to be open about his balloon fetish.
- Children Are Innocent: Subverted with Tina, who knows the seniors were having a sex party, but Louise and Gene still seem oblivious to it and just complained about the balloons popping.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Bob tells Linda that the residents of the retirement home are swingers, Linda first thinks he means dancers, then changes her guess to golfers. It's not until Bob and Gloria shoot both of those down that she realizes what Bob actually meant.
- Dramatic Drop: Linda drops a glass of wine when her parents and Bob explain to her about the swingers.
- Driven to Suicide: Jokingly discussed as the Belchers prepare to go to Florida:Bob: Well I'm glad you kids are excited, because I am going to kill myself.
- Epic Fail: If one looks carefully at the map to Florida, the Belchers somehow get turned around after entering Florida and end up in Alabama before looping back around through Georgia.
- Fear Song: Gene has one, in which he explains that snakes are the only thing he's afraid of:Gene: I'm not afraid of ghosts/I'm not afraid of sharks/I'm not afraid of cancer/I'm just afraid of snakes!/ They really creep me out/Where are their arms and legs?/It's not okay!
- Fetish: Al has a super specific interest in a woman sitting on a balloon till it pops.
- Foreshadowing: Bob shutting the trunk is loud enough to scare Gloria, hinting at the reason Al doesn't reveal his balloon fetish to her.
- Gag Penis: Played with. Gene mentions that Florida is "the penis state" and he learned geography from Professor Ding Dong.
- Harmful to Minors: Bob is unable to find a way to explain to Gene why he wouldn't like the potluck without talking about the whole swinger aspect.
- Hollywood Hacking: Gene decides to stay at the base camp to avoid going into the woods, and claims this will be his job. He spends the next few seconds hitting random keys and yelling out random computer terms.Gene: Activate spellcheck!
- I Need a Freaking Drink: When Bob learns there's a wine tasting at the senior community, he asks if they can do that first. As in, now. Given his aversion to visiting the seniors in the first place, this is clearly his motive.
- Interspecies Romance: Implied at the end with between Bitsy and the snake.
- In the Blood: It seems that Al's strange balloon fetish was somehow inherited by Linda as she gets turned on by Bob sitting on a balloon. Bob actually did so specifically to see if this trope was in action.
- I Owe You My Life:Tina: Gene, you saved me, I owe you my life.Gene: No thanks, I've seen it, and I am not impressed.
- Jerkass: Helen isn't too pleasant to the kids, especially Louise. They only help her out for the clear monetary gain.
- Joisey: A Freeze-Frame Bonus of the map implies the Belchers live somewhere in New Jersey.
- Noodle Incident: Gene once licked a slug for a bite of a granola bar.
- Old People are Nonsexual: The A-plot of the episode is driven by Linda's belief in this trope, which results in her disgust upon realizing her parents live in a community that averts it hard. On his end, Bob is surprised but largely finds it funny instead of disgusting.
- Only One Finds It Fun: Linda's the only one enthused about visiting her parents. Bob makes no attempt to hide his disdain, while the kids lose interest once they realize the pool is empty and spend the rest of the trip doing their own thing.
- Overly Long Name: The website where Al discovered his odd fetish.Al: www.WomanInflatesABalloonAndSitsOnItAndPopsIt.com
- Parental Sexuality Squick: Zigzagged; Linda is fine with her parents having sex. She's not fine with them involving other people, which is why she's so opposed to them living with the swinger community.
- Polyamory: Gloria and Al are implied to have engaged in more than just their balloon fetish at the potluck.
- Quicksand Sucks: Tina and Louise get stuck in quicksand when trying to find the python. This forces Gene to rush into the forest with a golf cart to save them.
- Real After All: It turns out there is a python living in the woods, but Bitsy and the snake are friends.
- The Reveal: While Linda's accent hinted at the general location the Belchers lived in, this episode finally gives solid confirmation as to the show's setting—New Jersey.
- Secretly Selfish: Zigzagged. While Bob is genuinely trying to help his in-laws participate in the swinger community so they don't get evicted, he also had the ulterior motive of not wanting Gloria and Al to move into the family's apartment since they wouldn't be able to afford to live anywhere else if they got kicked out. However, Gloria and Al (Gloria especially) have proven themselves to be as insufferable and exploitative of Linda's hospitality as Gayle, so it's not like Bob doesn't have a good reason for that.
- Sex Is Good: The elderly swinger community is presented as just a group of sexually adventurous senior citizens, and while Linda is disgusted and Bob finds it funny, the individuals involved aren't presented as sexual deviants or freaks. Gloria even states they chose to live here because she and Al wanted to be with older people who weren't waiting around to die like in other senior communities, and eventually they begin to participate once they get around Gloria's problem with loud noises.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: After all that the kids went through, there's nothing that indicates Helen actually paid them the $100.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When Linda finds out Bob convinced her parents to attend one of the swinger parties, she almost tears his head off... until she sees her parents actually kiss for the first time in decades and realizes Bob was right.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: As it turns out, New Jersey.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
- A literal case; Gene turns out to be petrified of snakes. He even sings a song about it (twice; once in the woods and once during the end credits).
♫I'm... not afraid of ghosts♫♫I'm not afraid of sharks♫♫I'm not afraid of cancer♫♫I'm just afraid of snakes!♫♫They really creep me out!♫♫Where are their arms and legs?!♫♫It's not okay!♫- Tina seems to be afraid of both scorpions and feathers.
- Would Rather Suffer: Bob would rather get poison sprayed into his mouth by a fumigator than visit Gloria and Al. When he's finally convinced to enter the car, he proclaims his desire to commit suicide.
- You Do Not Want To Know: While Bob is asking if Gloria and Al's neighbors really are into the whole swinging thing, Gloria at one point comments on a specific couple with "You don't want to know how into it they are."
