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Bob and his family of five (5) are trying their best to keep their burger joint up and running but the movie starts out with the bank rejecting their loan proposal and giving them only a few days until they owe all this money. This is very overwhelming for parents Bob and Linda who are trying to see the bright side of things when a giant sinkhole opens right in front of their restaurant. The kids, Tina, Gene, and Louise, are each having their own problems which will be addressed throughout the movie but Louise is having problems with a classmate calling her a baby due to her always wearing a pink, bunny-eared hat. To prove she is brave Louise decides to go down into the sinkhole because, “babies come out of holes, they don’t go into them.” But what she finds is the skeletal remains of a body! Yikes! Even some of the teeth fall into her mouth! Yuck! This is how she is able to pocket a weird looking tooth from our victim who we later learn was a carny named Cotton Candy Dan. 

We find out in this movie that Louise was given her ears in preschool to help her be brave and she has been wearing them since. Tina is afraid of asking her love interest Jimmy Jr. to be her summer boyfriend and Gene is nervous about his music never taking off. All this is going on while the body is being examined and Bob and Linda ask their landlord, Mr. Fishoeder, for an extension on the rent. Mr. Fishoeder is there with his brother, Felix, and cousin, Grover, and Mr. Fishoeder says maybe to the rent extension but later that night it turns out Mr. Calvin Fishoeder is the prime suspect for this murder! Dun dun dun! Linda tries to give Bob a pep talk but she just punches him in the nuts twice. Louise comes up with a plan to skip school and figure out how Mr. Fishoeder is innocent so their folks can get the rent extension and therefore save the restaurant.

First they go to Carny-oppolis which is where the carnies live, it is kind of scary for three (3) kids to go all alone! But they meet up with their adult friend Mickey who sings them a song and then a scary carny gives them some tips about the night of the murder. They kids have to go to the police who they know personally to try and get the heat taken off of Mr. Fishoeder which only works to give them more reason to go try and figure out the case for themselves so next they go to Felix’s treehouse home to try and find a cufflink that is linked to the murder. While there, Felix comes home and the kids are almost caught! Ah! But they find out that Felix and his old girlfriend, Fanny, are back together and are going to flee the country. Scandalous! The kids follow Felix to Wonder Wharf to try and figure out where all of this is going to go down.

They follow Felix to a secret clubhouse underneath one of the rides at Wonder Wharf and Mr. Fishoeder meets him there, they want to tell him (Mr. Fishoeder) that his brother is a killer! Grover also shows up so Louise tries to talk to him since he is the lawyer but the boys are adamant on fleeing the country in a converted ride submarine (ha). Louise sees a picture of Grover wearing the cufflink that is linked to the murder and also sees a bite on his arm with the tooth mark of the guy whose tooth Louise still has. Grover realizes that Louise knows he killed Cotton Candy Dan, grabs a spear gun and points it at them all which is very scary! He takes away Felix and Mr. Fishoeders phones (the kids don’t have phones) then holds them all hostage!

Bob and Linda were doing a side plot where they were trying to sell burgers on the Wharf and weren’t having a very successful time at doing it, they even had Teddy helping but it wasn’t working! This somehow leads them to the kids, they find them but cannot actually help them, they become hostages too. With a clever move, Tina is able to get the family out of immediate danger but only for a moment, they are able to get to the under pier where Grover crawls to chase them (after he sinks his cousins) and this is one of the most terrifying things I think I’ve seen animated in a comedy, Grover crawling. He spiders his way into the under pier with the Belcher family and they get into separate carts respectively and begin racing throughout the maze of stored things in the under pier.

After a nice chase sequence they make it to the beach which messes up the Belcher family’s cart and makes it so it won’t open back up for them. Grover shoves them into the sinkhole in front of their restaurant! This is when things get really scary because Grover starts to push the pile of loose dirt onto the Belchers cart and soon they are completely covered. This is pretty horrifying to behold! They are beginning to pant as they speak, they are running out of air in there. There is a chance that our beloved Belchers could actually die! They are talking to each other like it might be their last time to speak to each other. We learn that Louise was actually gifted her pink hat in preschool for being so brave and it reminds Bob of his Mother because she used to wear a pink hat. This makes Louise feel better other than the part where they are going to die maybe. Luckily Grover shot out one of the tires so the metal was exposed and they were able to break into the waterline because it was made out of plastic so it burst and lifted them out of the hole!

Once they are out of the hole, Teddy helps get them out of their cart with a piece of the burger cart from the side plot. But oh, no! They have to hurry to save the Fishoeders and stop Grover from burning down the Mole Hill ride!  They run to the ride and when they get there Grover has filled it with highly flammable stuffed animals and there is a long fuse that is burning. Louise and Bob both take different paths to try and get to the lit fuse the quickest. Time is running out but just in time Louise gets to the fuse! They are able to save the Fishoeders and have the cops arrest Grover. All's well that ends well. Gene has his concert and is feeling good about his music, Louise feels confident with or without her ears, and Tina kisses Jimmy Jr. The family has a grand re-re-re-re-opening of the shop because the Fishoeder’s gave them enough cash to cover their bills and the street is finally put back together.