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The Rape of Heather Willis is an upcoming seventh season 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.

The rest of the epsidoe deals with the efforts to bring the rapists of Heather and Deanna to justice and the subsequent harassment that the Willis family receive.

The episode's story was written by Nancy Boyd and teleplay was written and directed by series creator Ava Zinn. 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 158 times on the broadcast version. Ava Zinn revealed 16 of the characters used profanity and fuck was said 118 times on the uncensored version, surpassing a 2004 episode of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.