One plot point that has always confused me

Maybe he didn't know. It was an invented story to add a little adventure and mystery to those weird neighbours and to instigate Ray to start spying around. Later on, the made-up story began to turn real. Coincidence.

I once had the brisk idea of the Klopeks asking Walter to take care of his mail but that somehow doesn't make sense as well. I thought of Werner suspecting the other neighbours to starting to believe that the Klopeks are weird. "Damn, they watched you banging the hell out of the trash with your stick, we have to do something!" So Werner, being the eloquent man that he is, offers Walter to take care of his mail in order to make everyone believe: "Hey, the Klopeks are normal people just like you and me!"

Nonetheless, how should they have known that it was the appropriate moment to ask Walter for taking care of his mail?

Maybe when Walter was being carried out of his house in the middle of the night Werner was asking him with a compassionate look in his eyes if he should take care of something while he's away and amidst this hurry Walter's daughter replied "Thanks, can you take care of his mail?" It wasn't really important for her and she didn't ask the Klopek's because as Art said, that's the least thing that goes into your mind if your dad is supposed to have a heart attack. But if she was being asked on her way to the ambulance, she just needed to reply with "Yes, the mail!"

Does that make a little sense?
 
I personally think the whole 'Klopeks looking after the mail' thing is A-grade baloney.

Walter is going to HOSPITAL in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Who (including his daughter) thinks of making sure something as trivial as the mail is being collected at such a time (especially for such a short duration)? As Rummy most validly points out, "Walter left this house... in a big hurry." The only thing that makes that story plausible is the fact that Walter does not have many (if any) friends in the neighborhood due to his snobbishness and 'trains his dog to crap in my yard' animal, and saw no alternative other than to have outcasts like the Klopeks do him a favor.

As a side point, I wondered if anyone noticed - when Ray asks Art, "Do you wanna not steal that from Walter's house, please?", Art is wearing two watches? I would presume one of these surely belongs to Walter. Quite amusing.
 
One other thing, why would the Klopeks call the police to come investigate a break in at a house that they didn't even own. Assuming that they did murder the knapps, move in and that Art fabricated the story about the real estate broad.
 
Also how did Ray and Carol know that the new neighbors had the last name Klopek if they had never seen them before?? 1st scene "Is that a Slovak name"?
 
Well, why did the Klopeks call the cops with a trunk full of skulls????
That doesn't add up either.
 
Why would calling the cops with a trunk full of skulls be a problem?? The Klopeks are calling about a break in, why would the cops inspect their trunk??
 
You're serious, right?
You DID watch the end?
RISK.

So, you have dead bodies in your car. You get home and find your house is being burgled. Hmmmmmm you'd call the police eh HCT?

The cops would love you. Especially the sniffer dogs!

"Forget burglary, Fido just sniffed out some interesting stuff here Sarge...we got us a multiple murder case!"

Excellent reasoning.

Oh, oh good plan HCT
 
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One other thing, why would the Klopeks call the police to come investigate a break in at a house that they didn't even own. Assuming that they did murder the knapps, move in and that Art fabricated the story about the real estate broad.<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

But we aren't 'assuming' they murdered the Knapps are we. Werner actually admitted they took the house from the Knapps!
 
Dr. Werner Klopek: You saw one of my skulls, didn't you? Oh yes, I know you did. It belonged to a neighbor of yours. The name was Knapp. We took the house from them. I offered to buy it but you know how old people are, they grow so attached to things.

Yeah I don't know, I guess Art had to be lying about the real estate broad. Unless..... "I offered to buy it but you know how old people are, they grow so attached to things." means the actual skull. :D A few plot holes here and there.
 
Plot holes, shmlot holes...The Burbs is still the best movie ever!!
 
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