32.6k. However, among the 194 episodes that have aired so far, the cast has a few personal favorites. The Following, panned by critics like me, was one of the few mass-hit network dramas of 2013—and it is absolutely freaking dour. 1 show of the year, which will appear in my great-grancdhild’s holo-video thesaurus as the antonym to “cynicism.” I see a similar split in comedy too. The local school’s cable access-style news show gets a crazy closeup. They added season four of “Bob’s Burgers” on Netflix a couple weeks ago, so, of course, I’ve already watched it several times. My bad, Les Revenants. Here are 10 Reasons Bob Belcher Is The Best Father On TV. Tina also struggles with her schoolwork and she is more reserved than her siblings. Bob's Burgers is a production by Bento Box Entertainment and 20th Television. Rather than succeeding as a never-before-seen departure from the norm, “Bob’s Burgers” embraces the magic of the mundane in a way so many of the best sitcoms have before it. That is, they allow creators to take new approaches to genres and setup that have become cliché through macho repetition. Bob often struggles with finding success as his rival Jimmy Pesto owns a pizza restaurant across the street, which makes business slow and his life difficult. (Was there a funnier line on TV this year than “NOT GREAT, BOB!“?) Hell, the artsiest show on TV—though it didn’t air a season in 2013—is Louie, made by a comedian and full of fart jokes. Summed up, if there is a best season of Bob’s Burgers, Season 6 wouldn’t be a bad contender.However, one hopes that it won’t be able to hold onto that title for long. Bob Belcher of 'Bob's Burgers' is the best father on TV. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. So yes, I look back on 2013 as a year when—owing to its quality, social media, and people’s homebound habits—TV dominated the cultural conversation. I watch it because I just honest to God enjoy it; even in a season that was not its best, it makes me laugh harder than almost any TV comedy. The Returned, which I’ve been rewatching with my wife, is the show I found myself recommending to people most often at the last holiday party I went to. But this year has been a useful reminder that he doesn’t need to be a crooked cop, or a drug lord, or a he. What more can you ask? And it’s had a hell-on-fire year! It aired on Fox in the United States on November 30, 2014. In fact, if there’s a dichotomy between Critical Darling TV and Regular Decent People TV, it’s the opposite: Much of the popular stuff that critics disdain is much, much darker than most of the stuff on our top 10 lists. I’ll make it up to you in the next life! This site uses MediaWiki software, which allows any user to edit or create pages. She is very optimistic and positive and enjoys breaking out into musical numbers throughout all the seasons. It is not an exaggeration. Bob is the father and husband in the series who owns the restaurant with his wife Linda. You can cancel anytime. I have seen every episode at least three times, except for the ones in Season 8—those I have only seen twice. (Orange Is the New Black was ingenious for many things, among them finding ways to redefine antihero television in specifically gynocentric ways. As June wrote, we have woken up in bed with the same dead body too many times. Filthy! Bob’s Burgers is in the tradition of Fox animated family sitcoms, but with its own mix of sweet-hearted realism and surrealism.. All are welcome to contribute here, so long as edits are constructive, discussions are positive, and both are relevant to this series. Priceless. RELATED: Bob's Burgers: 10 Reasons It's The Best Animated Show On The Air. So far there have been eight complete seasons, which have 150 episodes altogether. The kids are often getting into trouble, but so do the parents, so it balances it out and makes each member of the family likeable. The antihero got stale, but the anti-hero—the protagonist we have complicated sympathies toward—doesn’t need to go away. : The Outside Toilet,” in which Gene (Eugene Mirman) bonds with a sentient electronic commode voiced by Jon Hamm. 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Videos 4 External links Bob enters a burger-tasting contest, only to discover that his distinguishing ingredient is missing! Bob Belcher, along with his wife and 3 children, try to run their last hope of holding the family together, which is running Bob's dream restaurant. By Rachel Freeman. Tina is the oldest of the children and she struggles with her relationships with girls at her school and her obsession with boys, including her love for writing zombie fan fiction. The Bob's Burgers Thanksgiving episode that best exemplifies this is Season 4's "Turkey in a Can," in which the family's Thanksgiving turkey bizarrely keeps ending up in the toilet. There’s always 1969. She also wears her signature pink bunny ears at all times, no matter what, which is very distinctive to her. Enlightened, my No. RELATED: 10 of the Best Bob's Burgers Supporting Characters, Ranked You could easily draw a … But we should probably disclose a professional conflict of interest in elevating TV’s stature, right? (Sidebar: Why do TV critics’ discussions so often use the I-was-talking-to-someone-at-a-party trope? Tina is the girl who takes charge in her own life, even if she's voiced (perfectly) by Dan Mintz, a man. "Best Burger" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and the overall 72nd episode. Need more? Best on Netflix: The Top 11 Romantic TV Dramas ... Tina, Gene, and Louise live above their burger joint, Bob’s Burgers, on the boardwalk of an undisclosed shore town. Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company.The series centers on the Belcher family – parents Bob and Linda and their children Tina, Gene and Louise – who run a hamburger restaurant. This show can be watched by people of all ages, but parent supervision may be advised due to some of the themes, like occasional strong language and adult humour. Yes, this was the year when Jon Hamm, talking toilet, beat Jon Hamm, ad executive. With Bob’s Burgers season 7 getting underway, we thought we’d present our picks for the best episodes to date. Now go and do it. With H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, John Roberts. But Tina, on Bob's Burgers, is the character everyone is talking about.Tina is the oldest child on Bob's Burgers, the one going through puberty and fantasizing about zombie boys. Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism. It’s in the tradition of Fox animated family sitcoms from The Simpsons to King of the Hill, but with its own mix of sweet-hearted realism and surrealism—plus the best musical numbers on TV in every episode. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Bob’s father owns a restaurant, so the Belcher family has always eaten well. Nobody is perfect so here's a look at his best… Whatever metal this age is made out of, I’ll take it. With H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Larry Murphy. We even have intense cinephiles (telephiles?) He is very upbeat and enthusiastic, similarly to Linda. The Belcher family adventures are an offbeat thrill that celebrates family, singing, burgers and butts. “Bob’s Burgers” is still going strong after hitting its 10th season milestone last fall. Gene is also un-athletic and struggles to keep up with the other kids due to his love of food. To prove that we actually leave the house and talk to live humans occasionally?) The Walking Dead, a bleak-to-nihilistic story of how crappily everyone around you will behave when the Apocalypse hits, is the most popular thing on cable, and sometimes on TV, period. Gene is loyal to his family, but he gets easily distracted by everything he sees, which can get the kids into a lot of trouble. All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. However, most of the humour intended for adults is subtle and young children will most likely not understand the jokes so there is no harm in them. (I don’t care if TV is “better” than movies, though, any more than I care if steak is better than lobster. We have IFC and Sundance channels finding a TV objective correlative for their movie aesthetics, as did AMC and HBO before them. Only getting bigger, in everything but the reviews. Created by Loren Bouchard, Jim Dauterive. I am a “Bob’s Burgers” fanatic. Posted by 4 days ago. You’ve run out of free articles. When Hannah Horvath stole the housekeeper’s tip in the pilot of Girls, it was Vic Mackey shooting a fellow cop in the pilot of The Shield. "Best Burger" is the fifth episode in Season 5, being the seventy-second episode overall. However, she is intelligent and has a dark sense of humour which makes her an interesting character to watch. Game of Thrones is an international hit spectacle with beheadings and boobies; it was also, this season, TV’s most insightful show about politics and leadership. She just cooks artisanal bath products instead of meth. The Thanksgiving episodes get a lot of hype but the Christmas episodes are some of the best, too. And we haven’t even yet talked daytime, or late-night, or reality shows, or news, or streaming, or Sharknado. Amy Jellicoe unnerved people not by being too aggressive but by leaning in too close. As I wrote in a Time essay back in February, “Violence is your grandma’s entertainment and your nephew’s.” Meanwhile, what brilliant-but-canceled shows were we critics mourning this year? To conclude, you need to watch this show! Linda is the loyal wife to Bob, who always wants to have fun with the family and make them all happy despite the miserable situations they find themselves in. (Low Winter Sun and Mob City both opened with characters monologuing about morality not being “black and white,” as if their writers mistakenly turned in their pitch-meeting notes instead of a script.) Directed by Don MacKinnon, Bernard Derriman. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Part of the reason for this is that it reflects modern family values in a way that few other shows do. Unlike negligent alcoholics Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson, Bob Belcher is actually a good father. List of the best Bob's Burgers episodes, as voted on by other fans of the series. I’m skeptical of the idea that there are pure unpretentious entertainments that real folks watch with genuine, authentic, unalloyed pleasure, and hoity-toity homework assignments that poseurs watch out of self-conscious, affected duty. So because Willa asked—and because I’m an enthusiast! Bob's Burgers Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Gene is the middle child of the Belcher children and loves making music on his keyboard. Piper Chapman was in prison for months before she whupped anyone’s ass, but: total antiheroine! The point being that this year I could take my list and swap it out for another 10—or the five shows on Willa’s list that weren’t on my own—and have a list I believed in just as strongly. Welcome to Bob's Burgers Wiki, an encyclopedia of all things presented in the popular TV show Bob's Burgers. All 149 Special Burgers From 'Bob's Burgers', Ranked by Their Puns. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. Louise is so five minutes ago. Bob's Burgers first premiered back in 2011, and it was seen as being a dark horse companion to more successful Fox shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy.However, over its nine seasons, Bob's Burgers has become one of the network's most popular, funny, and endearing programs. Despite the greasy c Over ten seasons, Bob's Burgers has proven itself a hearty meal of adult animation with eclectic characters, dysfunctional family antics and musical numbers. Submit it to us here! Published on 3/27/2015 at 3:03 PM. “Bob’s Burgers ” is my favorite show on TV right now. Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom that follows the everyday lives of the Belcher family, which includes the parents Bob and Linda and their children Tina, Gene and Louise, who run a burger restaurant. So before I answer Willa’s questions, and pose a couple of my own, here’s my own top 10 list (apologia for my choices and methods here): I have second thoughts already. He enjoys writing plays and composing songs for various occasions. Courtesy Fox. Mad Men, for instance, gets described as “a show that critics love,” but it is not exactly the friggin’ Seventh Seal. View Entire Discussion (7 Comments) More posts from the television community. Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom that follows the everyday lives of the Belcher family, which includes the parents Bob and Linda and their children Tina, Gene and Louise, who run a burger restaurant. Cheer up, Don Draper. Bob's Burgers: 5 Times Bob Was The Best Dad (& 5 Times He Was The Worst) Bob from Bob's Burgers is a loving, kind-hearted father. Bob’s Burgers is mainly a comedic animation sitcom, but it also includes many musical numbers in every episode, which makes it stand out from other animated TV shows. And sitcoms! However, the show was renewed for a ninth season, which premiered at the end of September 2018. If you want to watch just two episodes to convince you, make them “Topsy,” in which Louise (Kristen Schaal) uses a school assignment to expose Thomas Edison as the sumbitch who electrocuted an elephant, and “O.T. Bob does make great damn burgers according to the show and cooking is in Bob’s blood. And you'll never see this message again. Indeed. Meanwhile, we’re off picking daisies with the good-hearted, homespun folks in the Pawnee Department of Parks and Rec. In particular, Bob’s Burgers is among the best when it comes to holiday specials. hitching up their backpack straps and talking up the latest amazing French masterwork or little Scandinavian import. With more and more excellent TV comes more and more separate audiences. I have always had a passion for movies as I spend most of my days watching them and ranting about them, so why not share my opinions online? Riches of niches. To help out their dad, the kids go on a mission to find the ever-so-important black garlic. Bob is in a "best burger" competition, but is at risk of losing when an important part of the burger is nowhere to be found. Each episode runs for 21 minutes. I guess. It was written by Mike Benner and directed by Don MacKinnon. I am told by certain Gawker essays and the viral dominance of Upworthy that we live in the Age of Positivity, an era that rewards the enthusiast, the anti-hater, the person who likes things, dammit, and wants to share! Bunheads, died not because it was too brutal for the masses but too sweet. The show was conceived by Bouchard after he developed Home Movies. Louise is the youngest of the Belcher children and is a tough character who enjoys pranking people due to her manipulative and aggressive personality, which results in many issues for the family. Top 10 Funniest Bob's Burgers Moments Subscribe: http://goo.gl/Q2kKrD // Have a Top 10 idea? “Bob’s Burgers,” like the very best sitcoms, typically features two or three zany subplots heating up at or near the same time. Those CBS comedies that everyone watches and critics mainly ignore at best? But you can’t too neatly overlay the dichotomies of movies on TV, a different business, with different economics affecting the art, and a lot of cross-pollination between high and low. He is a sarcastic character who has a passion for cooking and drinking with Linda, as well as creating clever puns for his ‘Burger of the Day’. The tampon-McMuffin scene was the Ralph-Cifaretto’s-head-in-a-bowling-bag of antiheroine TV.). TV’s female protagonists can be nerve-prodding in different, refreshing ways. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. Bob's Burgers. Bento Box Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television produce and distribute this TV show after the creator Loren Bouchard developed Home Movies. Bob 2.0 spouts fatherly wisdom, complains about parenthood and drives the actual Bob to distraction. Sons of Anarchy? All rights reserved. I’ll have the surf and turf!) You note, Willa, that many of those shows are female-centric, neatly setting up me, the only male critic in the TV Club rotation, to come up with a reason that so many of 2013’s best TV characters were women. It is mainly a comedic show made to make people laugh, so people of all ages can enjoy Bob’s Burgers. No, he's not perfect. Top 10 Burgers from Bob's Burgers (Tooned Up S2 E53) - YouTube Is there, as Willa asks, TV’s own art-house crowd? "Bob's Burgers" is home to a lot of quirky, fun characters and some we love more than others, so to make things easier we've ranked them for you. not a h8r!—let me end by recommending one, which despite my yearlong stealth tweeting campaign I have not gotten onto many other critics’ year-end best lists: Bob’s Burgers. My mansplanation: Because they’re women! Bob often struggles with finding success as his rival Jimmy Pesto owns a pizza restaurant across the street, which makes business slow and his life difficult. 2 hours ago. [Raises brandy snifter] To television, world’s most important medium, and to us, its explicators! Mo, as you wrote earlier this year, those were until recently the one thing networks could still do better than cable, and now they’re having a hard time keeping a good one alive. Alicia Florrick kept us on her side while giving us just enough hints that she might be a ruthless realpolitik genius. But he loves his family and he does his best. 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