YMMV / HouseBroken

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Chico's overeating becomes this since "Who's A Good Therapist?" revealed he was actually pregnant. Was he really eating so much because of his feelings or because he was feeding for nine?. Though, knowin' Chico, it could have been both.
• Anvilicious:
  • In one episode, Honey warns Diablo that he shouldn't be eating chocolate, before looking directly at the camera and saying "NO DOG SHOULD."
  • "Who's a Scaredy Cat?" has Nicholas Cage look at the camera and say "DON'T GET A PET YOU CAN'T TAKE CARE OF!". The episode itself was about abandoned pets, and how there are people in Real Life who really do adopt animals purely for internet clout (or under the basis of them being "cute" or "cool", being inspired to do so from a piece of media, assuming all animal care is the same, etc.) only to abandon them.
• Ass Pull: When the group in trying to reach Honey and Chief in the wild, they come to the same street Honey and Chief crossed with Armando. As they are about to try to cross it however, Max say they should just use the pedestrian crossway that goes over the street and is only a few feet away instead.
• Awesome Art: The designs and animation of the animals are pretty good for an adult animated TV show.
• Base-Breaking Character: Chief. Some viewers either find his stupidity entertaining or annoying since he has a lot of Innocently Insensitive moments towards Honey.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • In the first episode, when Honey is saying goodbye to Big Cookie on the beach, a seagull shows up and offers Honey a cigarette to eat. When she refuses, the seagull yells at her to get off the beach and then the episode continues as normal.
  • In "Who's Afraid Of Boomsday", when Honey is telling the group about her first Boomsday (aka The 4th of July), she mentions that she and Jill came across some mutant monster while looking for Chief. She mentions it was misunderstood and then moves on.
  • There is a really bizarre one in the Season 1 finale. When Honey briefly befriends a rabbit, a kangaroo with an octopus shows up in the woods to note that they have an odder friendship. They show up twice more and are very briefly mentioned by Shel, but otherwise serve no other purpose then to point out how weird it would be for a kangaroo and a octopus to be friends/lovers (which in fairness, yes that is very very weird).
• Ho Yay: In the Season 1 finale, when Chief goes to confront Armando after Honey comes back, when he gets to him, Chief instead begins asking how Armando keeps himself so handsome. Then they go through the exact same fun times montage Honey when though with Armando.
• Moral Event Horizon: Nathan crossed it in "Who's Found Themselves In One of Those Magical Christmas Life Swap Switcheroos?" when he reacted to the possibility that Honey could be down by asking if everyone else got what they wanted for Christmas.
• Older Than They Think: George Clooney actually did own a Berkshire Pig named Max, although the real Max died 15 years before the show's premiere. This is actually acknowledged in "Who Are You?", where Max discovers that he's a replacement for the original Max.
• Popular with Furries: Furries make a large percentage of the show's small fandom, due to the above mentioned superlative animal designs.
• Seasonal Rot: Season 2 has notable less quality than the first season, due to no longer following a cohesive storyline and the characters being flanderized.
• So Okay, It's Average: More or less the general consensus on the show. It's not regarded as a terrible show but it also doesn't have a particularly vocal fanbase. It's just kind of seen as...there by many people which is probably not helped by how erratic the scheduling for this show is.
• Squick:
  • In "Who's Wild?", Raccoon (as a reminder, he when through Jill's garbage a few days ago) picks up Jill's rotisserie chicken, drop it on the floor, and then Honey makes him put it back in Jill's fridge. If that weren't enough, Honey then puts her mouth on it to rip some of it off for Chief and her. Since Jill has no way of knowing any of this, she is probably still going to eat it.
  • The fate of Lenny the rat in "Who Are You?". Nibbles manages to save Lenny from being digested, but the stomach acid of the snake that ate him already did a number on him. Not only is he missing one of his feet and one of his knees, but when he has Nibbles help him dance, both his arms fall off.
    • Also, when Lenny got out of the snake, he begins vomiting uncontrollably.
  • In "Who's A Bad Girl?", when The Grey One thinks he hurt Tabitha's feeling by accidently implying she was ugly, he shows her a couple of ugly cats from his pack. The first one, The Hideous One, is missing half his fur because he was inside a microwave for a few seconds. He then shows them that he can detach his ear from his body.
  • There's also the last cat he shows, an unnamed one who absorbed the other kittens in her litter in the womb, so now they're alive on her back under her skin. According to The Gray One in a later, they sometimes kiss each other.
  • The closeup of blood spurting from Chico from fleas sucking him dry in "Who's Obssesed?" At one point one of the fleas puts the blood in a glass and drinks it up.
  • Chico licking a corpse in "Who's A Scaredy Cat?", not to mention The Gray One getting airsick and projectile-vomiting all over Kevin with Chico's help.
• Strangled by the Red String: One of the main factors in Honey's dissatisfaction with her life is that she is essentially in an unfulfilling arranged marriage with Chief. The show never does a good job of explaining why she should stay with him, other than she loves her owner Jill and as a domesticated dog, she cannot safely leave her home.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Honey in "Who's A Good Therapist?". While she defiantly let her jealousy of the other dog couple get the better of her, it was pretty much assured given how dysfunctional her relationship with Chief is. He may have his moments, but Chief's romantic interest in Honey is very surface level and he otherwise can't relate to her mentally or (more often than not) emotionally. While it may hurt Chief's feelings, Honey's view that she is just stuck with him is a valid one.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: You could be forgiven for looking at the talking animals and the premise of animals who talk but otherwise act like actual animals and think it's a kids show. While it's hardly the raunchiest show on television, though, the sex and drug jokes, cursing here and there, and adult themes, as well as the TV-14 rating, make it clear it's not.

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