The Open House

***The Open House*** is the sixth episode of *Tuca & Bertie*. It aired along with the rest of **Season 1** on Netflix on May 3rd, 2019.

## Episode Synopsis

Bertie and Speckle consider buying a house, a big commitment that throws Bertie into a tailspin. Tuca brings home a forever friend.

## Plot

Tuca is blowing bubbles with chewing gum, kicking the back of Speckle’s car seat, and clapping to the beat. When he gets annoyed, she throws the gum out the window, and a pigeon man steps in it and gets stuck, leaving him to step and clap in rhythm to the beat.

The three go to open houses, just for fun and to act like they’re rich and for Speckle to admire the architecture. They also take advantage of all the realtors tolerance of shenanigans, due to just wanting to make a sale.

However, Bertie and Speckle end up touring a house that they genuinely like. Speckle suggests making an offer, and Bertie says why not.

An alarmed Tuca questions how they could afford a house and what will happen to the apartment. Speckle and Bertie reveal they’ve been saving up for a while and they never planned on living in the apartment forever - at some point they had to grow up and move on.

Tuca, feeling like a third wheel, excuses herself out, while claiming it’s not because she doesn’t have her shit together.

Feeling left behind and self conscious about not having her life together/moving forward in adulthood like Bertie and Speckle, Tuca buys a jaguar from the pet store as her own high commitment purchase.

At the bank, Bertie and Speckle are given paper work for their home loan that goes over their co-ownership. All the possibilities about what could happen in the future regarding her and Speckle and the property, the commitment of the house, and the fact it’s a thirty year fixed mortgage, makes Bertie anxious. Speckle assures the bank lady they’re committed, and Bertie nervously lies and agrees.

She shares her anxieties with Speckle but Speckle assures her it’s just a starter house, and the have years to explore the possibilities, like upgrading of building their dream home, but Bertie hates possibilities

Tuca is shown riding her new jaguar through town.

Bertie has an erotic dream where Pastry Pete puts pastries in her nude body and eats them, and her nipples turn into Speckle and start talking, and she jolts awake because of the health code violations that would cause. Speckle shows her blueprints he sketched for their house. Bertie is initially into it but her anxiety kicks in as she notes it’s far from the city and she’d have to ride the train with creepy people, the kitchen looks small, and she doesn’t want to abandon Tuca. Speckle addresses all her concerns and assures Tuca can visit anytime and that she’ll be fine on her own, and he says he excited at living with her. He answers a call from the realtor calls him, and Bertie goes to the bakery.

At the bank, Tuca and her jaguar start a joint checking account, with the jaguar as the owner.

At the bakery, Bertie is trying to ignore her sexual feelings for Pastry Pete. She also ignores a phone call from Speckle. When Pastry Pete tells her buying a house with his ex wife was a disaster, she internally freaks out. Speckle leaves a voice mail saying another offer came in and they need to come in fast and make a counter offer. Bertie freaks out at everything moving too fast and hides her phone in a dough ball and throws it in the oven, and sets the dial to ignore. As she tries to distract herself my making pastries, she tells herself she’s normal, her dreams aren’t weird and she doesn’t have fears of commitment.

Pastry Pete gives her vibrating phone from inside the pastry, which shows multiple missed calls and voicemails from speckle.

His voicemails are heard, as Bertie is shown working and leaving the bakery, one saying to get back to him because he can’t make the offer without her, most of them about unrelated things but to call him back. His last voicemail reveals they lost the house, he says to call him back because he’s worried about her.

An ashamed Bertie goes to Tuca’s apartment after work, not wanting to see Speckle just yet, and her Jaguar has trashed her place and is acting feral. Tuca explains she wanted to make a one time commitment just like her and speckle, but Bertie reveals they lost the house. She admits she wasn’t ready, and she has a weird crush on Pastry Pete. Tuca assures her it’s fine and she has weird crushes on lots of people, and as long as she doesn’t actually act on it it’s fine. The jaguar keeps wrecking her place, and even mauls the food delivery guy.

Speckle arrives looking for Bertie but the Jaguar listens to his commands to stop. Draca opens her front door and orders the Jaguar to come in, and he obeys. Tuca says she can keep her.

The three go to Bertie and Speckle’s apartment. Bertie asks Speckle how he tamed the Jaguar, he says he didn’t want it to hurt them, but he’s still kind of mad at her. Bertie apologizes and reveals the commitment freaked her out, and asks how Speckle can be sure it would work out. Speckle says he doesn’t and says he just knows he wants her now and that’s enough. Bertie says she feels like a new opportunity closes a door, Speckle says it’s ok and they can slow down and take it step by step.

She apologizes for losing the house, but Speckle assures her there will be more, but he did really like that one. Bertie then describes their current apartment as a cool open house and describing all its features.

However, Tuca flushes the eggs she was making down the toilet and it starts over flowing. She says the pipes in the building are bad and tells Bertie and Speckle they should consider moving. They all laugh as the apartment and street floods.

The delivery guy who got mauled gets a role as someone with a mush face.

## Post Credits Scenes

The guy who stepped in and got stuck to the sidewalk on Tuca's gum earlier is shown performing on stage with a cheering a crowd, with the announcer introducing him as “guy who stepped in gum, he doesn’t seem to be enjoying it that much however .

## Voice Cast

* Tiffany Haddish as Tuca Toucan
* Ali Wong as Bertie Songthrush
* Steven Yeun as Speckle
* Reggie Watts as Pastry Pete
* Emily Oxford as The Realator
* Shamir Bailey as Draca (no lines)
* Raphael Bob-Waksberg
* Nicole Byer
* Jermaine Fowler
* Karen Graci
* Sheila Vand

## Trivia

* Bertie and Speckle’s apartment is 629 Beat St, E Flockaway, Bird Town, it’s a 1 bed 1 bath apartment and is 6r0 sq ft
* Tuca has "weird crushes" on multiple people, including Speckle, although she does say she would never act on any of them.
* The first paragraph of the co-ownership agreement Bertie reads is shown as:
	+ "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."
		- The second to last sentence foreshadows Bertie's erotic dream with and crush on Pastry Pete showcased later in the episode.
* Bertie orders napkins from restaurants when there’s too many possibilities.
* 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.