Bertie and Speckle want to find a new house to live in together. Bertie becomes anxious, while Tuca gets bored and wanders off to buy a pet jaguar.
This episode provides examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Bertie and Speckle use this to fool a realtor into thinking that they are rich:Speckle: Good day! We are Beauregard and Blenda Bartholomew...Bertie: Of the Birdtown Bartholomews.(later)Bertie: Be so kind as to beguile us with this bungalow's bewitching baths, brilliant boudoirs...
- Bait-and-Switch: As Bertie leaves for the evening, Speckle, who is on the phone with the realtor, looks over his shoulder to make sure she's gone. At first he looks like he's going to do something shifty. Then he smiles and lets out the little fart he was politely holding in until she left.
- Creepy Doll: When examining her potential crafts room, Tuca fantasizes about making these. That come to life to take their revenge.
- Doorstopper: The co-ownership agreement papers that Bertie and Speckle are given to cosign for the loan they're taking out to put a down payment on their house. They're four times larger than those given to married couples and span 14 entries.
- Erotic Dream: Bertie has one about Pete. One where he covers her naked body in pastries and then her nipples turn into Speckle and start talking.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Parodied. Tuca accidentally clogs Bertie and Speckle's toilet, then delivers a punchline which gets them all to start laughing as the apartment slowly floods with toilet water.
- Extreme Omnivore: Tuca is told that realtors often offer free cookies, which the realtor reveals is actually just a can of cookie-scented air freshener. Tuca grabs the can and starts spraying it straight into her beak... and then keeps doing it even though she says it tastes terrible. When the realtor asks for the can back, Tuca tosses it up into the air, catches it in her beak, and swallows it whole. Later, she dumps the contents of a styrofoam takeout container into her beak, swallows it all at once, then shoves the container in and swallows that too.
- Foreshadowing: The co-ownership agreement that Bertie reads mentions that having crushes or weird sex dreams about anyone other than the co-signer will nullify approval for a loan. Not long after, she has a weird sex dream about Pastry Pete.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus
- Among Tuca's imaginary harem of weird crushes is Speckle.
- The first paragraph of the co-ownership agreement Bertie reads reads as follows before being obscured by the bottom half of the screen."30 YEARS FIXED; Article 1, Part 1, Section 1, Entry 1 of 14; Signing up for a thirty-year fixed "quicksand" mortgage has never been easier! After reviewing this 386-step starter package, proceed to the 543-page principal document, which provides indepth coverage of all the information you need for signing away your soul for the next three decades. We'll check your credit, job history, permanent high school records, blood type, social media, childhood psychiatry records, old diaries, deleted blogs, past sexual partners (including fingerbanging), dreams, and any gossip your estranged friends and least favorite co-workers are willing to provide. This will ascertain if you are indeed the qualified, responsible, stable adult you present yourself as, or if all this is merely a facade for the insecure, broken-down, dirty-diaper baby inside you. Any crushes or sex dreams involving individuals not included in this application will nullify any approval. It's a normal bank thing."
- Growing Up Sucks: Bertie is terrified at the thought of commitment and planning for the future.
- "I hate possibilities! If a restaurant has too many possibilities, I end up ordering napkins!"
- Identical Stranger: Tuca sees two more versions of herself, Speckle, and Bertie at their dream house.
- Shout-Out: A poster for a book-signing of series creator Lisa Hanawalt's comic Coyote Doggirl is visible in the window of a book store that Speckle and Bertie pass in one scene.
- Sophisticated as Hell: The co-signing agreement, as seen above.
- Unusual Pets for Unusual People: Tuca's is a Jaguar. The equally unusual Draca ends up taking it in at the end.
