Hope everyone had a Happy and Safe Holidays during these trying times and back to the ol’ stepping grounds in the number seven spot in the Top 12 Countdown of 2020 and if you said to yourself back in like early in the year that we would end up in a pandemic the likes we haven’t seen in over a hundred years only for the show that you watched have created an episode poking fun of it and features something treatable as pinworms for an epidemic months before everything turned to shit with the ongoing pandemic, you would be deemed as a crazy person. Well...here we are, not so crazy now with this episode about the pinworm epidemic invading the Belcher household taking the number seven spot in the Top 12 Countdown, this is Bob’s Burgers with “Worms of In-rear-ment”.
So I may probably be going to have some flack when it comes to how in the ever-living crapola that this episode made it this high in the year? How is this higher than the 200th episode, which just came in at the number nine spot earlier in the week? Somebody didn’t read the review of the episode when I stated my thoughts of the whole damn thing back in October. Because I have my reasons when it comes to the episode as a whole.
It’s a simple episode, yes. But in my opinion, it was a very good episode and of course, feels like an apology letter from what happened with the season premiere back in September with somewhat of a weak start of the season, and of course, it has to be an episode over a health issue that we haven’t seen on the show since Season 6 with the whole lice thing, we talking pinworms. And look, say what you want about the episode, I enjoyed it. In my opinion, it feels like you’re watching an episode from the early days of the show, atmospheric wise of course when the family had to endure an ongoing epidemic of pinworms despite that Linda wants to get the family to go to the symphony because the report cards showing the Belcher kids not performing well, not knowing for a possible shitstorm is already forming that could turn a night out to a night of disaster. And that’s just any normal day in the year known as 2020.
In the result of Gene becoming pinworm patient zero when feeling an itch in his rectal area and I can’t believe I just said “rectal” but here it is, and thus scratching his butt just as the family is preparing to head out for the symphony with the family now focusing on the issue though if you’re Linda, be like that one person in the middle of the pandemic and thinking that it’s all a hoax and that it’s nothing to worry about but going to bite you right in the ass. Did you know that this episode came out the same weekend that Trump had tested positive for coronavirus? Yeah, that happened. Same weekend.
Though the pinworm issue is treatable with the work of medicine but...it’s Gene. Coming from Louise, hygiene is not in his dictionary. Not so much that it spread towards Tina, Bob, and Linda in that order as it reveals Gene doing activities that cause the spread across the house. Enough for Louise to be concerned about her wellbeing. Tina got her share of the worms from Gene high fiving after reclaiming a tater tot after being picked up by Peter Pescadero, who just came out of the bathroom. Bob got his due because Gene was playing bottomless businessman with his dress shoes that he was supposed to be worn for the event. And then Linda...well, mostly because of the mother/son interaction. Kinda forgot that later on in “Mommy Boy” where Gene became way too clingy to his mother to the point where there had to be some boundaries. Boundaries that have the mother/son relationship nearing Netflix documentary, Lifetime Network original movie level.
Now, of course, we gotta talk about the musical number. Because since the episode’s airing, I see some people, mostly on Reddit threads and Discord chats, somewhat bitch and moan over the scene. Mostly around the imagery. By that, being the chorus when Linda sang her song about how the night turned to shit and still want to make it to the symphony despite Gene having pinworms and pretty sure don’t want to make the concert into a superspreader event. And that same reaction mostly comes from the same folks who were feeling queasy over Tina’s nightmare scene in “Pig Trouble in Little Tina” with the fetal pig spewing its guts out. I don’t mind it. Sure, how a pinworm looks to the naked eye probably feels grotesque serving as the choir, but honestly, I don’t feel affected by it. By that, I mean the pinworms as the choir as Linda sings her musical number doesn’t cause me to feel disgusted. Nothing wrong with that because it’s animated but also PG. Searching it up on Google images...yeah, that’s a big no. But I do like it and it was enjoyable for being the show’s first musical number of the season. Unlike the previous with “Dream a Little Bob of Bob” where we didn’t get that because dream world and a character inside the dream for an episode was the season premiere like with “Flu-ouise”.
Of course, the hamster building serving as the plot device of the episode when it was shown in the episode that the kids built for the school but don’t want anyone to destroy it into a million pieces. Though, which reminds me...Gene. He helped out holding the building down as Louise add another piece to the thing. And we didn’t even notice that Gene had contracted pinworms until the family tried to get Tina’s arm out of the sleeve. And items...Gene touched it, just saying, would’ve been transmitted and Louise is the only Belcher who did not get hit by the pinworms. Again, just saying. Of course, it took Linda being all loosey-goosey over wanting the family to head out to the symphony despite her and the rest of the family minus Louise got infected and turn the concert into a superspreader. Chasing around Louise until she becomes exhausted and collapses over the hamster building and destroying it. All that hard work. Poof. But that hamster building did serve its purpose as a plot device because Linda overreacts over the report cards of the kids and how they’re poorly performing at school and thinks that a night out at the symphony would help them out. Well, looks like the hamster building that Linda now destroyed proves that they’re not forming poorly and doing well. Don’t worry, they decided to rebuild it rather heading out after taking the medicine. Pulling an all-nighter with recyclable items like cardboard and toilet paper and paper towel rolls to close out the episode.
So yeah, I could see people now having problems with placing episode at the number seven spot in the Top 12 Countdown and why it’s higher than the 200th episode that was placed at the number nine spot not too long ago or any episode from this season or any episode from the second half of Season 10. But it’s my list and I have a say in all of this. Thus, “Worms of In-rear-ment” takes the seventh spot because, in my opinion, the episode feels like you’re watching an episode from the early days of the show. I mean, when was the last time you watched an episode of Bob’s Burgers, after Season 4 because most people think that Seasons 3-4 see that as the show in it’s prime, hits the nostalgic button atmospheric wise? Think about it.
Don’t want to give it into details and all, that’s what the reviews are for in the archive on the right side of the blog in the October 2020 section. To cut it short and simple, I enjoyed it. I liked it. The musical number was alright with the pinworms serving as the choir doesn’t bother me unlike a few who watched the episode and felt uncomfortable over it. Didn’t bother me, that’s my opinion. Therefore, placing “Worms of In-rear-ment” of Bob’s Burgers at the number seven spot in the Top 12 Countdown of 2020.
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