Episode Grade: B “Your kids drove an ice cream truck to a strip club, and now we’re all here together.” In a lot of ways, tonight’s episode of Bob’s Burgers is pretty emblematic of where the show is at this point in … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S10E07: “Land Of The Loft”
Episode Grade: B- While it’s not entirely accurate to say that Bob’s Burgers doesn’t do one-off characters, it does feel like any character prominent enough to make an impression in an episode is fair game to make a return appearance down … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S10E06: “The Hawkening: Look Who’s Hawking Now”
Episode Grade: B+ “I keep going back to the purple corduroy, am I crazy?” They had some success with the format in the past, but Bob’s Burgers has generally avoided splitting up the Belchers for an entire episode, preferring instead to … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S10E05: “Legends Of The Mall”
Episode Grade: B+ It’s probably been a few seasons since we got an outright classic, but Halloween is probably Bob’s Burgers most consistent holiday, give or take Valentines Day. On one hand, this level of quality should be the envy of … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S10E04: “Pig Trouble In Little Tina”
Episode Grade: B+ Compared to most other children in animated sit-coms, the characterization of the Belcher kids is heavily tied to their ages. Where the children of The Simpsons, South Park, or any of the MacFarlane shows could probably be aged up or down … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S10E03: “Motor, She Boat”
Episode Grade: A- “I think I’d do really well in the apocalypse, don’t ya think? Ah, who am I kidding? I’d probably get eaten immediately, and not just because my thighs are perfect.” “You’d be ok, though I am picturing … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S10E02: “Boys Just Wanna Have Fungus”
Episode Grade: B+/A- “Do you want us to go live somewhere else? We can go live in an orphanage for a while.” Entering its tenth season, there’s a bit of a sense that there’s not a whole lot of unexplored … Continue reading Bob’s Burger’s S10E01: “The Ring (But Not Scary)”
Well, we’ve been talking about this, in both the Day and Night Threads. I’m not putting some fun image or pithy comment in the header. Some of us caught this as developing adults (me), some of us are too young to really remember 9/11/2001, and some of us saw this as just another horrible instance in a life full of them. I should have something profound to say about all this, but I don’t. I’m mostly just setting this up so anyone who wants to say something about September 11 can do so. Continue reading September 11, 2001
Hey everyone, trying something a little different for the finale this week, and posting this thread with the Season 9 Summation as soon as the episode finishes, Eastern Time. I’ll add in my review once I finish it, probably around … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S09E22: “Yes Without My Zeke” (Updated with review)
Episode Grade: B- Linda-centric episodes of Bob’s Burgers can be tricky, primarily because Linda is usually the craziest person in whatever room she happens to be in, and this can get overbearing if she gets too much focus. The better … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S09E21: “P.T.A. It Ain’t So”
Episode Grade: A I know I’ve said this before. but the best episodes of Bob’s Burgers in recent seasons tend to be the ones that make good use of the show’s deep bench of great supporting players, most often the … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S09E20: “The Gene Mile”
Episode Grade: B “Wait until the scary man leaves.” At heart, Bob Belcher is not just a restaurateur, he’s an artist. As such, he takes his methods of food preparation extremely seriously, and any deviation from what he considers the … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S09E19: “Long Time Listener, First Time Bob”
Episode Grade: B- “Ms. Labonz? Would you say all grown-ups give up and just become awful?” There was a lot of promise here. The idea of Louise being confronted with an adult who represents a possible, frankly pretty miserable future … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S09E18 “If You Love It So Much, Why Don’t You Marionette?”
Episode Grade: A A lot of Bob’s Burger’s best Gene episodes follow a pretty recognizable formula, in that Gene will find something odd that he suddenly, deeply … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E17 “What About Blob?”
Disclaimer: WordPress appears to have changed up its format and, as a rapidly aging white man, change confuses and frightens me. So if this review comes up looking funny, that’s why. Episode Grade: B+ Bob Belcher is not a complicated guy. At his core, he’s just a dude who loves his wife, his kids, and his work, in some order. The problem is that all three of those things are extremely exhausting, and this episode is probably the clearest acknowledgment the series has made yet that Bob could use a break. As a small business owner supporting a family of … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E16 “Roman’ Bob-iday”
Episode Grade: B+ I talked a few weeks back, during my review of this year’s Valentine’s episode, about the weight of expectations. In that case, going in I expected a great episode, given Bob’s track record with both that holiday … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E15 “The Fresh Princ-ipal”
Episode Grade: B Going to start with a bit of a digression, but I promise I’m going somewhere with it. He’s got some competition, but Jimmy Pesto Jr. might be the trickiest character on Bob’s Burgers in that his most irritating … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E14 “Every Which Way But Goose”
Episode Grade: B Without going back and regrading every episode, I would venture to say the Valentine’s Day is the holiday that most consistently produces classic Bob’s Burgers episodes (Halloween being a close second). Something about a day dedicated to … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E13 “Bed, Bob and Beyond”
Episode Grade: B+ I think it was Anton Chekov who once said “If you introduce a broken elevator in act one, a character must be hanging onto it for dear life by the third.” I might be paraphrasing. Put another … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E12 “The Helen Hunt”
Episode Grade: B It’s a testament to how in-the-pocket Bob’s Burgers is at this point in it’s run that a Linda-centric episode goes off this smoothly. Not just a Linda episode even: a Linda episode that heavily features Gayle. Linda … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E11 “Lorenzo’s Oil? No, Linda’s”
Episode Grade: B+/A- Remember a few weeks back when I said Bob’s Burgers doesn’t really do traditional antagonists? How even the meanest and pettiest characters are ultimately drawn sympathetically and given at least somewhat understandable motivations (well, apart from Jimmy … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E10 “Better Off Sled”
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