The Tolera-beet-lity Index Bob's Burgers thread

You told me to keep my love of Tina in check, but you said nothing about my love for Dina!

There's a lot of butts out there that need ogling.

You're all horrible people, I don't know why I have such crummy friends.

So where should I start with this show?

Okay folks, any thoughts on "Easy Com-mercial, Easy Go-mercial"? I did like this one as attention wasn't drawn to any one character and though it was primarily Bob vs. Jimmy again, there's still a lot of comedy to be gained there. Bob was a lot lot less unlikable than the family made him out to be in this episode for cutting them out of the ad, to me he really wanted to get one over on Jimmy and he thought like a businessman, a businessman driven by a rivalry but aren't all the best businessfolk stories driven by rivals?

Anyway, people back in the Old Country seem to dislike whenever Bob and/or the Belchers "lose" (which can mean anything but mostly they didn't come out on top) but like "Family Fracas", a lot of that was driven by Bob or the family themselves so I just find it difficult to think they should be thrown a bone when they legitimately fail by their own hand, victories aren't just given to jerks even if they're your jerks.

To conclude, we got a pretty good episode, everyone got to make one good joke between them and we got to see the ad they wanted to show at the end which though kinda twee was a bad ad.

Keep my love for Tina in check?




Eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I liked this episode a lot. And they didn't lose. They got three customers away from Pesto's!

I laughed pretty much throughout, with Frye being surprisingly funny, and my favorite line being Gene's, "He sits to pee. Facing the toilet!"

Throwing back to older stuff, I just listened to The National's covers of Bob's Thanksgiving songs and cracked up all over again.  I'm already looking forward to Thanksgiving this year so that I have a legitimate excuse to play them for everyone I know.

Even as close as they are, you can't pretend they don't have any conflict within their own family which they do, pretty often actually. Not a huge amount but usually you'll have the kids against the parents (or just Bob, Linda remains easily led) or something similar. What makes this one worse in some people's eyes is that it's part of Bob's sole thing to want to promote the restaurant before it gets tied up into his usual pissing match with Jimmy Pesto. Sadly, cutting the kids out of the commercial I still can't see as a bad thing, he does have to make an ad that's actually appealing to potential customers and his ad though pretty cutesy when the family is involved makes no sense unless you know them. Bob might be a horrible businessman but he has to make an attempt to gain customers during something huge like the Superbowl so I can't fault him for using that $3,000 to buy that ad slot and using a  celebrity to help with that. I dare say the family may have even been a little unreasonable so no, my sympathies for once aren't with the family.

I really liked it honestly. But I am a Tina fan.

No, it's just beets, it's not blood.

Mazel-Tina gets a B-, Tina feels oversaturated now and I want her on the sidelines more, the bits where she's not the focus were good but it just got a bit dull listening to her. It's a bit sad but she's ungracefully making her way to becoming the Andy and Ollie of the main cast because she's very one note and yes, it's a flat uhhhh. Next week brings another highly Tina focused episode but also involves Teddy, another character who's inexplicably popular for no grounded reason so should be fun, right?

I did, I assumed @satelliteskynet did too... I really hope she did.

"Uncle Teddy" wasn't the best episode and I can't say that it's Tina's fault this time though Tina did her focus stealing thing and yeah, without her doing that it'd be a far thinner episode than it is so I dunno, C? C seems about right, just didn't work and kinda limped to the end. Nice dovetailing of each story at the top and tail of the episode but they fell flat alone and that A- over at the Old Country? Clear character bias bullshit!

This week, far better than the last two week's horrible Tina-oriented episodes as it happens to use all the kids and a pleasant return of Regular Sized Rudy in a chocolate heist on a train. Also great stuff going on with Bob and Linda but just enough not to distance from the A plot.