Review: HouseBroken “Who’s The Birthday Girl?” ; “Who Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts?”

On her birthday, Honey is forced to deal with her resentful siblings and delusional mother; The Gray One helps Raccoon romance a koala at the zoo, but The Gray One harbors a dark secret.

When Honey discovers she is a conduit between the living and the dead, she ends up tormented by the ghosts of dead pets who want her to deliver messages to members of the group; Diablo accidentally kills a squirrel and ends up falling for his mate.

Our Take

Ah yes, in what could be the final run of HouseBroken on FOX, we get the first set of the final six episodes slated to premiere on the network and, I gotta tell ya, these episodes are still more than a solid replacement for what are typically Sunday reruns. This week, we get two episodes that have a bunch of fun in temporarily expanding the cast with Fred Armisen (“Oliver”) and Natasha Lyonne (“DJ”) as members of Honey’s family, and then another episode where we get to see ghosts of dead pets that are more-or-less the same as the current roster of pets, just a lot DEADER.

Both episodes were not only hilarious, but also featured love stories, with my personal favorite being Raccoon trying to woo a Koala Bear and The Gray One’s addiction to eating poop. In fact, I thought “Who’s This Birthday Girl?” featured a lot of Family Guy in its pathos. From close ups of everyone’s diseased face, to Honey messing with the FOX bugs, and even a few cutaways, fans looking for some sort of semblance of FOX’s Sunday night mainstay may be happy to stick around for this one.