Who's A Good Girl?

**Episode Information**
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Script

"Who's A Good Girl?"

Characters

Featuring
Honey

Also
Chief, Shel, Tabitha, Diablo, Chico, Max, The Gray One, Elsa, Nibbles, Bubbles, Tchotchke, Big Cookie, Jill, Coyote

Crew

Written by
Jennifer Crittenden & Gabrielle Allan & Clea DuVall

Directed by
Mark Kirkland

Broadcast Details

Premiered
May 31, 2021

"**Who's A Good Girl?**" is the premiere episode of *HouseBroken*, which premiered on May 31, 2021.

Synopsis
Honey is thrown into a dog mid-life crisis after the death of her friend and the sudden appearance of a hot, mysterious coyote in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Shel finds love from an unlikely source.

Plot
Honey begins a group session with an open discussion, whom all are mourning the loss of their friend and fellow group member, Big Cookie, while Chief is in the backyard hunting for two taunting squirrels. Shel tries to tell his story until Chief interrupts the discussion by stepping around everyone. He spots the squirrels sitting in front of the house in front of a window, Chief charges at the window and falls to the ground. While laying on the ground, Honey allows Shel to continue his story.
In a dream sequence, Honey is running on the beach with Big Cookie playing with a ball. Big Cookie tosses the ball into water for Honey to catch it, she catches the ball in her mouth before its revealed it was a jellyfish, who scolds her and swims away, Honey takes the real ball to the surface. Upon going to the surface, she sees Big Cookie walking away into the sky, leaving Honey distraught. Honey wakes up from her dream and tells Chief about what she saw.
While Honey and Chief are off to the park he saw a dog that he was excited but Honey has time to introduce a new member of the group. Cause when they get to the park they ran free but Chief pees into a lot of things, so Honey has to benefit for some therapy so she will not Scoot on Jill's rug so Elsa was talking about her best friend Big Cookie died and she still got her vest friend but she's free and she wants to dig into the trauma, but she wasn't ready. Diablo was hiding under the bench tired of having complicated emotions and not knowing how to process them so he was scared of the Toaster.

Trivia* The first four episodes, including this one, were provided to critics for review.
* Diablo officially takes Big Cookie's slot in the group in this episode.
* In India, this episode is titled "Finding Love Again".
* The plot of this episode was originally going to be about the animals arguing about who's the best.

Deleted Scenes
Nibbles talks about her rough week and Elsa commenting wishing she too could have a carefree life.

Cultural references* One of the objects in the sea that Chief swallows resembles, the titular character from Nickelodeon's *SpongeBob SquarePants*.
* When vaguely describing George Clooney, Max references his films, *Ocean's Eleven*, *Ocean's Twelve*, *Ocean's Thirteen*, and the spin-off film *Ocean's 8*.

Behind The Scenes
Storyboards: https://vimeo.com/801882126
https://vimeo.com/861471560

References
Early storyboards https://vimeo.com/861471560
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GabPlm4wS2g

1. ↑ https://www.indiewire.com/2021/05/housebroken-review-fox-animated-pets-comedy-1234641210/

External Links* "Who's A Good Girl?" press release via The Futon Critic
* "Who's A Good Girl?" on IMDb