Mertle's house, also known as the Edmonds residence, is where Mertle Edmonds and her mother live in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, appearing in several episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. Lilo and Stitch often visit Mertle to ask her to do stuff with them, but Mertle usually just declines their offer and insults them instead.
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In Stitch! The Movie, Lilo and Stitch sneak into Mertle's backyard and accidently disturb her slumber party, which she didn't invite Lilo to, while trying to catch Experiment 221 (Sparky).
In the series episode "Clip", Lilo and Stitch sneak in and plant the episode's titular experiment in Mertle's bedroom in hopes of having Clip eat Mertle's hair. It backfires when Gantu tried to grab the experiment by sticking his arm through the bedroom window, causing her to flee. When Mertle's mother notices the racket in her daughter's room, she screamed at the sight of Gantu before Clip ate her hair, causing the woman to faint in shock. Not to mention, Mertle wasn't even at her home the whole time; she was at a sleepover at Teresa's home.
In "Finder", Mertle mistakes Hämsterviel (who escaped from prison) for a talking gerbil, takes him home as a pet, and keeps him in a cage in hopes of having him beat Lilo in their show-and-tell hula class. Both Mertle and Hämsterviel later get captured by Gantu, who was summoned by the Grand Councilwoman to recapture Hämsterviel with an offer to reinstate him as Captain of the Galactic Alliance if he succeeded, but was later denied the position due to kidnapping Mertle.
In "Holio", Lilo and Stitch crash Mertle's birthday party in her backyard after she denied Lilo an invitation. When Mertle activates Experiment 606 (Holio) in her bedroom, the experiment turns into a black hole that sucks up all the dolls in her room, then later sucks up the whole house except for the foundation and an oblivious Mrs. Edmonds. After Lilo and Stitch destroy the black hole, the house falls back into its place, and Holio returns all of Mertle's dolls to her.
In "Bonnie & Clyde", Lilo and Stitch TP Mertle's house, while their naughty behavior posed as a distraction for Bonnie and Clyde, enabling them to steal a trash can and a TV. However, Lilo and Stitch eventually do the right thing by handing Bonnie and Clyde over to the police and then cleaning up the toilet paper around Mertle's house.
In "Slick", Lilo and Stitch visit Mertle's house in an attempt to recapture Experiment 020 (Slick) who was snatched by Mertle, only to discover that she had sold him to Reuben who had taken him to Gantu.
In "Heckler", Lilo and Stitch visit Mertle's house twice. First in an attempt to get her and her family to participate in Nani's charity dinner, only to be aggressively heckled, insulted, and turned away by Mertle. Later, Lilo and Stitch revisit Mertle's house to pay her back by getting Experiment 322 (Heckler) to insult her in a similar way.
In Leroy & Stitch, Mertle is seen praying in her room, just as Leroy crash-lands in her backyard in his quest to capture all the experiments and frightens her.
