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The Rape of Heather Willis is an upcoming seventh season four-part episode of the animated sitcom Queen of the Willis. It is scheduled to air in April 2019 in the United States.
The episode deals with Heather grappling with the effects and aftermath and being pregnant from the rape, after she was attacked and raped by one of the male employees at Craven Gifts who was a former classmate of Deanna's at Babyface High School, whom Deanna herself reveals to Ava and Angie she too was raped by another classmate and now Craven Gifts' biggeet deadbeat customer, Horatio Cruz. Forty-five years after stalking Angie for a relationship, it was revelaed that "Fat Bifoot Bobcat" brutally raped her in 1983. Ava and Heather are badly injured and must recover quickly, then go to the suspect's home to dispense justice. This episode is considered very controversial for its realistic and shocking depiction of a violent rape, which is unusual for an animated sitcom. Because of the controversial plot and voice acting, "The Rape of Heather Willis" is one of the most remembered and popular episodes of the series' revival.
The rest of the epsidoe deals with the efforts to bring not only the rapists of Heather and Deanna, but also "Fat Bigfoot Bobcat" to justice and the subsequent harassment that the Willis family receive. It also marks the final appearance of Tiffani Donovan, Anna Pamhouser, Lando Abhrams, Lilly Abhrams, and Trevelle Abhrams, of which the former two were shot and killed at the police station and the latter three were murdered.
The episode saw the introduction of Quillsville Police officers Ramona Battishill, Kymberly Millspaugh, and Elaine Reed as well as Craven Gifts employees Bobby Joe Bones, Zelda Kellie Martin, Amber Jena Irene Battishill, and Natalia Lightner, Craven North manager Ray Grissom, Craven North Assistant manager Hunter Boyd, Craven East manager Shane Kinney, Craven East assistant manager Caitlyn Sparks, Craven West manager Ben Sykes, and Craven West assistant manager Eliot Clingens.
The four-part episode's story was written and directed by series creator Ava Zinn and the teleplay was written by Nancy Boyd, Charlotte Clay, Thomas Higgins, and Dallas Barnes. It was rated TV-14 for intensely suggestive dialogue (D), strong coarse language (L), sexual situations (S) and intense violence (V). The episode was based on Zinn's experience as a three time survivor of rape and featured a live-action disclaimer and warning from Zinn herself.
It received generally mixed reviews, in addition to receiving some criticism for its portrayal of rape and sexual assault. It is mostly known for heavy use of profanity as the episode was bleep censored 212 times on the broadcast version. Ava Zinn revealed 16 of the characters used profanity as follows: fuck was said 149 times on the uncensored version.
