Yeah...so...if you think that Halloween is pretty much canned thanks in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, at least there’s an upside for the holiday with Halloween films and TV episodes and one of them being on the list is a good ol’ fashion Halloween episode of Bob’s Burgers...if you live in Canada and got it first while we here in the United States had to fucking wait until just this week thanks in part to the freaking idiots in both the Braves and Dodgers organizations. Mostly MLB as a whole. Well at least at the time, it looks like it pretty much saving me the trouble for the possible election night coverage that pretty much like won’t damage my computer...or thinking about boarding up my apartment in case of civil unrest on November 4. 2020, ladies and gentlemen! Pray to god that FOX doesn’t pull that stunt in having Game 7 on a Sunday ever again.
In this week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers, the Belcher kids’ plan to take on a couple from past Halloween nights for candy hits the pause button as they deliver an order to a hotel down the street on Halloween night, in costume, as Bob and Linda donate blood at a blood bank. Though knowing Bob...yeah, that’s gonna take a while for a guy who usually blacks out when seeing blood in my spoilerific review for the fourth episode of Season 11, the ninth Halloween episode of the show, titled “Heartbreak Hotel-oween”.
Okay, despite the two-week wait for the episode to air and of course, with this now being leaked thanks in part to Canada having the goodies in their bag, it’s pretty much a head start for yours truly and trying to understand the episode’s premise for this year’s Halloween theme and I gotta say...almost pretty much getting déjà vu with this episode, most importantly, during the whole Tina trying to prove the innocence of a dead man to the lover who tried calling him from beyond the grave. At least it’s somewhat decent than “Tina and the Real Ghost” cause that one was a sloppy and overly predictable and waste of time mess. Where this one, the main plot felt pretty empty with the final minutes, in Dolores’ own words, the woman who tried to conjure up the spirits, a waste of time for Louise to pretty much not having anything her way to get back at the couple who pretty much ran out of candy. Yeah, pretty much a hollow empty shell of a main plot. I mean, it was somewhat straight forward but it feels like once the middle of the episode with Tina calling everyone in the hotel up pretty much gone downhill that pretty much become pretty much predictable that everyone know that it was going to the old woman.
But at least the subplot was rather decent and was somewhat enjoyable with Bob trying to donate his blood despite his hemophilia (his fear of blood) and trying not to black out from donating on the blood truck and that was after Teddy and Linda did theirs. I mean, it was decent but somewhat enjoyable and maybe relatable from someone who...let’s face it, pretty much not a big fan of needles. I’m a very sensitive person. What the fuck is your excuse? That being said, let’s get this somewhat train wreck of a Halloween episode of 2020 out of the way, this is “Heartbreak Hotel-oween”.
Setting up the subplot that will be later touched on in the review with Bob and Linda waiting for the kids to come out from the bathroom to showcase their costume for the year, we have Linda asking Teddy on what to do for Halloween night this year and thinking that he’s probably going to hand out candy, and not consume...and already demonetized, but Teddy decided to do something different this time around with him donating blood for the greater good and asking Bob and Linda to do all that. Ah the good ol’ fashion time of donating blood...never done that. Even before Corona-chan decided to fuck everything up, never done it. I mean, the only time I would have a needle attached to my arm for the blood to check if there’s any issue. Oh no, I’m not diabetic, but it’s something else that I don’t want to bring up cause that’s private and I never, ever talk anything private with my life. Don’t ever tell you guys what y’all did in private to the classroom.
Linda agrees to the invitation but for Bob, knowing history, not a big fan of seeing blood or even mentioning blood because he has a fear of the red liquid that pretty much going to cause him to black out with the first time being when the crotch of his fingers got accidentally chopped open in “The Kids Run the Restaurant”, first time at the start and second at the end when battling Fischoeder in the underground casino. So him and blood...not in good friendly terms because of his hemophilia that causes him to black out. Also revealed in the episode are the blood types for Bob, Linda, and Teddy with Teddy revealing that he’s an AB type. Linda revealing that she’s an A-positive type with Bob revealing that he’s an O-negative, which surprises and intrigues Teddy and thinks that his blood type is the universal donor type, which go to like the American Red Cross’ website to find out why that is. Think it may have something to do with the plasma or something like that. But regardless, Teddy pretty much begs Bob to donate for once in his life and it looks like since the kids are heading out for the night, might as well jump aboard, mostly to get it out of the way. Talking like a true person who is pretty much not a fan of blood or needles out there, Bob. Respect.
The Belcher kids finally got out of the bathroom and showcasing their Halloween costume for the year known as a group costume this time around with them dressing up as a snail with Tina as the eyes, leading them to each house on their candy trail with Louise in the middle and Gene as the caboose with Tina rocking the now snail head hairstyle with the three kids coming out from the snail with the whole wide enough for two things: getting candy and also something extra this year alone in the form of oh, let’s say...her getting back at a couple at the house where she almost got the candy but ultimately failed. And found out, it’s not the first time that happened for the Belcher kids, especially Louise, cause that shit happened two times. Two fucking times Louise was unable to get candy from that couple and think that this year is pretty much a put up or shut up year for her to get her due.
Of course, before doing that, gotta state the whole costume issue when it comes to the two flashbacks with the Belcher kids at the house that they paid a visit within the past two Halloweens that was just brought up. We get Louise’s costumes for the past two years with one being beetle juice, a play with Beetlejuice, and the other in Gene’s burger suit with knives attached as Blade Runner. Though Gene and Tina’s costumes are the ones that people most have most difficulty. Mostly Gene’s in the first flashback and Tina’s in the second. With Gene’s, most people may go with the idea of him dressing up as a combination of both a baby and Lady Gaga though some see as Baby Jessica Biel or Baby Red Riding Hood though if Baby Gaga were to be the likely answer, then I’m surprised that Gene didn’t like go all out cause knowing Lady Gaga and her outfits, I’m surprised Gene didn’t go all out with the meat dress...though doing that would make Gene’s Halloween a living hell if there’s dogs out in the open though we know that Gene in the next Halloween dressed up as Cat Stevens with him in a cat costume with a guitar attached to him.
Whereas Tina here, we know that in the first flashback, she dressed up as a ghostbuster with a toaster during the first encounter and no, don’t think it may or may not have something to do with the Ghostbusters reboot from 2016, you know? The one where it garnered massive amounts of controversy...yeah that. Well in the second flashback, like with Gene’s first costume, people are pretty much stumped. Most fans think that it’s “Too Much to Handle” cause Tina’s idea for a costume is pretty much wordplay like with her Season 9 costume with her as Nun of Your Business for example but some think it’s 16 Handles, a play in the movie 16 Candles. So that’s pretty much a pick your poison when it comes to what kind of costumes that Gene wore in the first flashback and Tina in the second in the comment section down below.
First trip to the house, the kids got their candy from the couple living inside the house...well if your names are Tina and Gene because they got the last two candy with Louise going empty handed. And she was not happy over the fact that she didn’t get the candy but rather than like going after the two in the good ol’ fashion of trick when not getting treats, Louise went all, “Nah, you right. You right. I should wait for next year to get my chance to get some candy from you two. Hahaha...quick question, what are you two’s insurance policy? Cause it looks like you guys may gonna need it.” And then come next Halloween in different costumes, Louise finally got her candy that should’ve gotten last year and if you think that once she finally got it, she heads off and let bygones be bygones? Well...knowing Louise...that is not the case. I mean, let’s not forget that she badmouthed Millie when everyone but her was begging to get out of the fort even though Millie pretty much left them all to die and miss Halloween night inside the fort. And not to mention, when she took on the food truck lady enough to have her old bike pretty much being run over that was also a close for comfort if god forbid if Louise ended up being run over. Causing her candy to be taken away from her bag and...of course, had to add the attack leopards to chase after them, which...okay...I know they’re kids and they, rather Louise, have to make something up like having the unnamed couple to bring out the leopards to go after them like it’s Mr. Burns releasing the hounds but it may seem a little overdramatic coming from the Belcher kids to come up with what happened for the past two years.
Though Louise does somewhat forget about what trick-or-treating is all about. What the point of the whole thing every Halloween night? Yeah, no treats, get to tricking. TP the damn house. Lit a bag full of turd onto the porch. Hell, lit the house on fire, fake fire, and call it what it is (we here over at yahoo201027 HQ condone anyone to commit arson, even if it’s a little, innocent prank for not getting you candy for one year and badmouth in the following). But regardless, this doesn’t feel like Belcher kids problem when it comes to what happened as it feels more like a Louise problem with her dragging Tina and Gene into the mix with Tina thinking that it’s probably for the best to not go after the house and want to do a fun and clean Halloween without having any vengeance tour whatsoever. But Louise slides her way to convince Tina to do so when it comes to the snail costume and what the use of the costume is for. Showing the little diagram of them at the house, have Tina distract the couple, and have Louise to go for the kill and take the bowl and go and once that’s done, it’s pretty much business as usual for them to trick or treat. Though you think that the plan there would pretty much have an abrupt end once the couple noticed what Louise is doing. Just saying. Cause unless Louise have the power to...I don’t know...stop time to do all of that...again, just saying. Putting it out there.
However, it looks like the kids’ Halloween night for Louise to exact vengeance on the couple may have to hit the pause button when Bob got into a call and have them to deliver a burger to the hotel down the street. And yes, there is a hotel near the wharf, down the street. Y’all didn’t even noticed because we were too busy sniffing glue while listening to whatever pops up on Spotify that you now regret adding it onto your playlist. And with the kids heading out, it looks like it’s going to be them who will be delivering the food to there and not either Bob or Linda, who had to head out to donate blood in the subplot. Louise don’t want to because it would interfere with her plan to get back at the couple in that house but it’s pretty much a drop it off at the manager’s desk and have the manager to take it to the room where the person living there can take their order, and for the kids to head out and enjoy their night. So it’s pretty much settled for them to do all of that.
Tina, Gene, and Louise enter the hotel, all empty with the manager not present, and now have to take the order to the room upstairs themselves even though the whole ordering thing is pretty much a manager’s job for him or her to take it to the room where the order was placed. Pretty sure that’s the whole thing for the kids to pretty much not waste their time and on Halloween of all nights. Imagine doing that on Christmas. There’s your Christmas episode for the year. But no, rather than waiting for the manager to show up, Tina, Gene, and Louise decided to get to the third floor themselves from the elevator with the hallway now darken like if the light bulbs from each wall lamp pretty much didn’t even have the dead bulbs replaced and have a handyman, who may or may not be named Teddy, and arrive at Room 313, their destination for the order, and enter the room for them to see a dark room with an elderly woman on the table with a book open and papers spread out on the table like she’s about to conjure up a spirit and the burger she ordered and have the kids deliver it is pretty much used as bait. Unless you’re the Belcher kids and misheard that they’re the bait and not the food, causing them to exit out from the hotel, probably screaming while in the elevator and ran down the stairs from the third floor to the lobby and then head out the door across the street. All without probably breaking out a single sweat...or a drip of pee from the fear that caused it cause to them, that’s pretty much a pissing your pants type of scenario.
Well despite the scare and dropping off the burger, Louise is ready to head off to get some candy and exact her Halloween Vengeance Tour 2k20, #HalloweenVengeanceTour2k21, trend that shit, only to find out that the shell part of the snail costume that Gene was carrying was left behind during the whole scare and now have to go back to get it without getting themselves killed and turn Halloween night into an episode of CSI: Wagstaff. Hansel and Gretel pretty much have nothing on the Belcher kids.
They head back to the hotel and finally got to the manager, now present at his desk, and tell them about the whole delivery and reveals that the woman who rented out the room for the night was named Dolores and her reason for using the room all to herself every Halloween night is because one Halloween night, 50 years ago, yeah, her boy toy pretty much died out of the blue in this exact hotel and ever since then, she’s been calling on his spirit to come down to the living world and her doing all of that for the past 49 years is making business boom for the hotel. Not for people staying for the night, but more of pretty much making it into a Halloween attraction and thinking that there would be an actual ghost coming down to the hotel. Oh Derek Acorah, if only you were there, you probably thinking that Mary loves Dick, mostly because it’s a ghost episode and that’s pretty much the only use for that to come up with. May your soul rest in peace.
And also, Gus is there because why not. And also Gus is there because since the lover of Dolores has been dead for over five decades, he may have a shot to tap that. I mean, it’s been over 50 years, it’s time for you to just fucking move on for your life. Plus, Gus is single, so it’s time to mingle. Rather than wasting your whatever time you have left in on Earth for your dead lover’s spirit to come diving right in.
The Belcher kids make their way back to the room where they first visit up the third floor and enter where they encounter Dolores at the table, with the burger now on it in the middle of the furniture as they picked up what they needed, which is the shell portion of the snail costume, and planning on heading on out...until they decided to just stay here for a bit, mostly to hear the background of the whole Dolores trying to conjuring the whole dead lover thing that she been doing it for the past 49 years. Revealing what happened that one Halloween night 50 years ago when both Dolores and Roger, back when they were young, having a night of their life on their date in their costumes and uses the nuts from a bowl nearby and trying to catch it into his mouth in an attempt to impress her, which...dude could’ve at least done somewhat better but since it’s a different time, I guess. Left to get some drinks at the nearby bar only to end up just disappear out of the blue with Dolores asking the party attendees where he is by stating his costume as Spartacus, which some don’t even know what the movie is even though this was over 50 years, in the 1960s, and the movie...
Is released in 1960. How do you pretty much not know that it was released?! Yeah, forgot that the internet wasn’t a thing back in the 60s...well, wasn’t brought up until the late 1960s but think that was mostly use for like security reasons. Plus, it is the 1960s, so I guess the protests over the Vietnam War was still a thing at the time. Roger is gone, causing Dolores to be massively concerned until someone at the party tells her that someone dressed up as I Dream of Jeannie, go ask your grandparents about the show, and took him back to his room. Only for her to find out the next day that he died. Died from cardiac arrest and that was after eating a bowl of nuts and heading over to the bar to get some drinks. That seems rather suspect, don’t you think? Someone eating a bowl of nuts, only to suffer a health issue pretty much for someone to come in and take him to another room but later died. But nope, coming from Dolores’ point of view, Roger is pretty much a cheating slut. That could explain the burger that she ordered earlier in the episode, for Roger’s spirit to come on down to the hotel room and pretty much sends his soul, through the powers of bullshit, to drag his spirit into hell for being a cheating bitch, via accusation. It’s like imagine if you’re in their shoes and attended a Halloween party, back when everyone aren’t socially distant and no worrying for a pandemic, you and your bae are out and about and pretty much having the night of your life, only for your special someone to just disappear with no text message or phone call or whatever...DM’ing you, and now suspecting that person of cheating. We’re now in that day of age where no matter what you did or didn’t, you’re going to end up thinking that you’re pretty much sus and going to get cancelled, even if you’re innocent.
Louise thinks it’s best for her and her siblings to leave Dolores alone for her to drag her dead cheating ex-lover from the shadow realm as she now wants to head out and go after the couple who always run out of candy for Louise to have. But Tina won’t let that slide and thinks that something is off about all of this with what happened 50 years ago and what Dolores describes what happened from the dance to the moment of Roger’s passing and want to put the pieces of this little Halloween crime scene puzzle and begins to think that Roger was not cheating on her leading up to his apparent death, even though Louise objects it. Think that it’s pretty much a waste of time. Accept that it is what it is and accept that Roger is a dirty cheater, proving Dolores’ point, and go after the couple that didn’t give Louise candy for the past two years. Causing Tina to create a bet with her little sister that if Tina is right about Roger not being a cheater, then they’ll go trick or treating with a clean slate. No revenge, no vengeance, no vendetta whatsoever. But if Tina is wrong about Roger and proving that Dolores is right about Roger being a cheater, then Louise will have her way and go after the couple down the street. And so begins in what could be...pretty much a waste of time that may or may not, mostly may, downplayed the episode.
Tina calls in everyone, and yes, that is everyone, present with Dolores absent, who may be busy conjuring her dead boyfriend but was somewhat nice enough for her to lend some of the photos and letters for Tina to investigate the whole mess that was open for over half a century and looking through each note and photo present at the table with Louise being impatient with the clock ticking cause the night is still young and if Daylight Savings were to end in October and not November, then you would have a long night for the girl but that’s not the case for this episode. But Tina could have the first clue already popped up but in more of the line in the form of a blur. Like glass fogging up while driving in the middle of the night during a rainstorm and not knowing where you’re going in the middle of the forest in like...I don’t know...New Hampshire? With the photo taken long ago with both Dolores and Roger and the person who dressed up as Jeannie present. Which is pretty much going to be used as a plot device for the main plot of the episode as everyone is now present along with the manager, the photographer...pretty much everyone who only came here because Dolores plus ghost summoning plus serving the whole thing as a Halloween attraction equals big dinero.
Tina continues to look through the written notes to find at least a single clue to prove Roger’s dead spirit is innocent enough to get past the pearly gates as Gene comes in and eating a bowl of nuts that he just found and takes with Louise continuing to be impatient during the whole investigation when we finally got out first clue after...looking at the time stamp of the episode...two minutes since the investigation case opened up. In the form of the nuts that Gene is eating and mentioning drinks. Nuts, being the food that Roger ate to impress Dolores. And drinks, as in the thing that Roger was supposed to get, only to disappear and later died. In which Tina thinks that she may have solved one piece of the puzzle for the whole autopsy...only for the photos and letters to straight up disappear out the blue just like the Jets’ chances to get rid of Adam Gase. Forcing Tina to not let everyone out to do their business until the investigation is over with. Meaning that Louise’s little getting back at the couple who didn’t give her candy back to back Halloween nights may now have to wait a little longer.
Thus, beginning the good ol’ fashion tradition when it comes to investigating stuff in the form of making everyone but the investigator the suspect. Pretty much turning it into a simple game of Among Us where Tina making everyone but her, Louise, Gene, and Dolores being sus of taking the evidence away. Going from Gus to the manager all the way to the guest and beekeeper because no one suspect the beekeeper. Gus named the suspect first because of his tiny crush on Dolores. Then come the beekeeper, or rather, guy dressed up as a beekeeper who apparently found out that he’s truly allergic to bees and only wearing the costume for a Halloween party to attend. I don’t know if I want to call it irony or probably doing it for the lols? I don’t know. The manager also being named as sus because he is using what Dolores is doing to conjuring up Roger’s spirit into the hotel as a bold business boom for the place to make some buck and her not doing that would pretty much hurt business on Halloween night.
But it looks like nobody is getting out of the hotel until the person responsible for taking the evidence away is found and Roger being proved innocent...except for the beekeeper guy who has to attend a Halloween party. Pretty much getting a free pass that going to have everyone in the room to hate him. But the rest not named the Belcher kids and Dolores are pretty much sus. Cause naming Louise as the suspect, just to wrap up the investigation early so she can get her candy justice is going to be a massive cop out from the writers when doing the episode. So at least we’re not doing that.
No, but instead, it looks like we may have found our crook in somewhere around the room and it happened to be the most likely person that is the most predictable outcome known to man that everyone and their mother already know the answer to this whole “who is the suspect” question. But first, Tina breaks it down on what happened on the night Roger attended the party and the events leading up to his apparent death. Impressing Dolores with the peanuts, out getting some drinks, went with someone who dressed up as Jeannie, and then die. Earlier, it stated that Roger died of cardiac arrest and when the beekeeper guy mentions allergies since he is allergic to bee stings, we all think that what he said could be a clue to all of this but said earlier that it’s pretty much a blur in a foggy night out in the open road. Well...looks like the fog is now lifting and found out that the events leading up to Roger’s death...anaphylactic shock. Fucker died of an allergic reaction to peanuts since surprise, surprise, he’s allergic to peanuts. Their date was at a Thai restaurant and Thai food is mostly known for having peanuts onto their food. And why he grabbed a bowl of nuts despite having a peanut allergy and just ate at a Thai restaurant, which has a chuck full of nuts in its ingredients, is mostly to impress Dolores before heading off to get some drinks. But once he upon reaching the bar, he begins to feel woozy, a bit of fatigue once sitting down, thus causing to have the attention of the person who dressed up as Jeannie to check up and takes him back to his room where he later died from an allergic reaction. Though unknown, at the moment, why the Jeannie person brings Roger back to his room without Dolores noticing.
Oh yeah, and Dolores took the photos and notes while no one was looking...plot twist of the decade right here, folks! Mostly because Tina noticed the items in the most recognizable place to hide the evidence during the whole investigation...at the waist. Like...give the lady an award for the Dum-Dum to Hide the Evidence award for the year. The main plot of the episode pretty much fell apart once the investigation scene begins anyway and I think that downplayed the whole episode. Predictable? Yes. But is it in the same terms as Tina and the Real Ghost? God, no. Because that was a complete and utter mess where to this one, it’s pretty much straight forward but compare the story of the episode like a motorcycle and something in the middle of the road sums up the duration leading up to the final minutes, derailed. The person who dressed up as Jeannie appears to be a guy with Tina looking one last look at the photo and noticed an Adam’s apple and a pager, revealing that the guy who took Roger to his room was a doctor, noticed the symptoms, and took him there where he later died. So uh...in Lament’s terms, Roger is not a cheater. He was doing what he loved and that resulted in his apparent death. Thus, wrapping up the investigation and autopsy for what happened over 50 years with the case now closed.
But why did Dolores took the photos and notes away out of the blue with no one noticing? Well according to her, she overheard the whole thing as she was taking a little drink at the bar and thinks to herself what if the whole conjuring thing that she did for the past 49 years is nothing more than a time-waster and...much like with this main plot of the episode as a whole, it’s pretty much a waste of time. Her words, not mine. Thus apologizing to Roger before finally deciding that it’s time to move on with whatever time she has left on this planet and for Roger’s soul to rest in peace. Oh yeah, and remember that little bet that Tina and Louise made before starting off the investigation? Yeah, because of Roger now innocent from the accusation of being a cheater and Tina solving the case, it looks like Louise will NOT do her take in getting back at the couple who didn’t give her candy. So uh, that whole thing, the entire thing with Louise planning on getting back at the two...pointless. Pretty much pointless to main plot and episode as a whole. But the subplot can’t be that bad to prevent it from being at the same levels as Tina and the Real Ghost? Right? Might as well take a look and see about all of that.
So while the kids are staying behind over at Hotel Horror-fornia down the street by the wharf, Bob, Linda, and Teddy make their way to the mobile blood bank transformed into a rundown haunted house on wheels like you see at a trailer park with Bob looking at the thing and the two people who will be performing the blood donation and causing him to chickening out from donating his own blood. Don’t really blame him for that being afraid of seeing his own blood or any blood in general and having a needle injecting into his arm. Not a big fan of having a needle onto my arm. And no, me not liking needling touching my skin and entering my bloodstream doesn’t make me an anti-vaxxer. Don’t lump me in with those suicidal, idiotic cultists wasting time on Facebook and caught into the misinformation that is pretty much written by an eleven-year-old who had to repeat English classes one too many times using the powers of PowerPoint 2003 while listening to 009 Sound System on a loop.
Just as Bob is about to exit out to stage left from the subplot, Teddy had to pull out the Bob’s O-negative blood type card to get the attention of the two people in the mobile blood donation vehicle and that got them surprised. Like it’s their own October, well now November surprise when finding out about Bob’s blood type like he won the golden ticket for the chocolate factory tour and trying to convince him to donate. But Bob doesn’t want to because of his hemophilia and him seeing the sight or even a mention of the word “blood” would cause him to blackout. Calling him a “needle weenie”, which pretty much sums up the minority of the people who don’t like needles because of fears. Which, think we found a new nickname for the anti-vaxxers out there, needle weenies. Punk ass needle weenies. And using the guilt trip card to get Bob to donate his blood with the rainforest and how bad deforestation is, thus having Bob to have no choice but to donate thanks in part to guilt-tripping. Just because of him being O-negative.
As Linda and Teddy do their parts in donating blood to their IV bags, Bob is having some issues when it comes to injecting a needle onto his arm. I mean, it’s not even the first minute of the injection and already, Bob seems like he doesn’t want to be a part of when feeling the cold pointy metal touching the skin and have the blood from the bloodstream to exit out. Not even the costume distraction, either if it’s someone dressed up as Big Bird or any character from the Star Wars franchise can help get the needle into Bob. I mean hell, at least close your eyes when doing the whole thing. If not, a fucking blindfold would be necessary to get through the whole thing. Sure, the feel of the needle is still there but at least pretend it’s not and think of something else. Hell, maybe a song that been stuck in your head would’ve been something to get through the whole thing. Mostly in between 30 seconds to maybe a minute. This is going to be a long night ahead for Bob, huh?
Apparently, it is because while the doctors, along with Teddy and Linda, and celebrating after having their blood donated, Bob is all alone inside the mobile blood bus with the needle now injected into his arm and feeling woozy like it’s a night out in Vegas following a hangover with his blood now filling up the IV bag as he tries not to blackout over the fact that his red fluid is now being drained away and trying to get the staff, who are outside with Teddy and Linda, who are enjoying their juice and cookie, cause you gonna need a juice and a cookie to avoid being nauseous from losing a pint of blood from your bloodstream. Bob tries to take things into his own hands with him getting up from the chair and carrying the blood with the needle remaining on his arm for the doctors to take it off, only for the wire to be stuck and then get ripped into two, causing the blood to be splattered around and for Bob...to be knocked out while everyone is enjoying their night outside. That and also Bob might die from potential blood loss. Don’t worry, he’ll be back next week, so don’t be alarmed and plan your funeral arrangements just yet.
Wasn’t long until they now noticed Bob is done with his blood donation, with the tube now broken between his arm and bag, blood splattered across the floor, and Bob pretty much out cold from seeing the blood on his shirt and the floor. Been on the floor for like minutes since the mishap happened and he been lying on the floor like it’s a hard day at gym class following a harsh exercise routine like the fitnessgram pacer test...think I may have given some people some PTSD over that, with Bob now picked up and being sat down on the chair outside the bus with the blood now cleaned up from his shirt and face, not to mention having that arm patched up, and rewarded a cookie and maybe juice for donating blood for the first time. I mean, you have to give the guy some credit where credit is due, for someone who is afraid of blood, looking at blood, hearing the word in a single sentence that causes him to collapse like his name is the Atlanta Falcons at the fourth quarter and after donating a pint of his own O-negative blood into the bag, which ended up being splattered thanks to a mishap and almost lost consciousness due to blood loss, he finally did the impossible and did his first donation. So for Bob, it wasn’t a total loss for him, well despite losing quite a pint and a quarter worth’s of blood out of his system, on Halloween night. Finally got through the whole tunnel, see the light at the end, and make it out with no problems despite a broken wire with a needle stuck on his arm. At least you’re not Louise, who now have to go trick-or-treating with a clean slate and have to forget the whole revenge tour that is now nothing more than a fun-size version of pointless for the episode.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So all and all, what do I think about this week’s Halloween that aired the day after Halloween episode of Bob’s Burgers? Yeah, I think this year’s Halloween episode...may need some improvements at best. I mean, the rewatchability factor is there once you get through watching it for the first time. I mean, I did, and it looks like this episode felt average at best. I don’t hate it but there were some amounts of problems going through the whole thing from top to bottom. Mostly around the main plot as a whole with the hotel ghost thing that wasn’t actually a ghost and mostly proving a dead lover’s innocence of not being a cheater where the answer to the whole “crime scene” is nothing more than predictable and coming from the horse’s mouth, being Dolores, a waste of time. Even though she’s talking about the whole conjuring thing that she been doing for the past 49 years since Roger’s apparent death.
Like I said, I don’t hate it but there were some problems. Mostly with how predictable the outcome was for the whole main plot on the whole investigation that Tina put up when checking on Roger’s notes and photos leading up to the Halloween party and his apparent death that have Dolores to believe that he cheated on her. There has to be some bits that are decent but apparently not enough to make it a good main story of the whole damn thing from the midway point to the end of the episode. Sure, the whole thing with the attack leopards seems a bit overboard but it was something, to say the least, but what do you expect coming from a nine-year-old telling what happened for the past two years of not getting candy. Though that is now nothing more than pointless when it comes to the point of the episode. I mean, it was bound to happen that Louise ain’t going to win this bet with Tina proving Roger’s innocence but that almost means that it was deemed rather pointless, to say the least, that now the Belcher kids have to go trick-or-treating with a clean slate.
While the whole main plot has some, if not, have somewhat of the most issues with some holes that needed to be patched up, the subplot apparently did not disappoint. I mean, it was decent. It wasn’t time-consuming despite being that short but what do you expect coming from a subplot from any episode on the show? But you can feel somewhat relatable to Bob with the whole blood donation, being the first time to do all of that, and not to mention, having the feel of a cold, thin, sharp, metal inserted into your arm like a wired controller onto an old console back in the 1990s into early 2000s. Even I can somewhat relate to that when it comes to having a needle onto my arm. Again, just close your eyes and pretend that it’s not there. Pretty sure that would do the trick the next time you decided to go to the doctor or planning on donating blood. But the subplot is somewhat decent in my taste and obviously the better of the two in this very episode for Halloween of 2020.
So final thoughts, the episode has a lot of holes that needed to be patched up. Mostly coming from the main plot itself during the whole investigation scene that wasn’t really an investigation and more of pretty much too damn predictable on the outcome and who took the evidence to have Tina to hold the guests hostage until she finds the answer. Coming from the horse’s mouth, being Dolores, pretty much a waste of time. Both coming from the investigation being predictable and not seeing the whole Louise getting back at the couple who refused to give her candy that it was not going to happen anyway. The subplot, of course, being decent and pretty much the highlight of the episode. I mean, if I were to put it in the rankings for each of the Bob’s Burgers Halloween episode, this would be number seven. So I’ll give “Heartbreak Hotel-oween”...
A 6.5 out of 10. But that’s my opinion and I wanna hear yours and tell me what you think about the episode. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Would you partake in Louise’s revenge tour to do “candy justice”? Or visit a “haunted” hotel on Halloween night? Are you afraid of needles? Are you bummed that the pandemic ruined your Halloween plans? All that and your mini-review down below in the comments and tune in this upcoming Sunday, no disruptions thanks in part to that the baseball season is over with until next year. The next episode being time capsules and of course, it’s a Tina vs Tammy bitch at each other episode. I swear, the writers are pretty much using the ol’ rivals turn friends trope cause if that is, then it’s not working. In the fifth episode of Season 11, “Fast Time Capsules at Wagstaff School”.
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