Entering the single digits now in the Top 12 countdown of the 2020 season and back to the ol’ stepping grounds we go to an episode that I reviewed not too long ago when the show hit a monumental milestone back in November of this year and as the title gave it away, yeah, it has come to this. And it’s the episode that just recently celebrated its 200th episode just in time for the show’s upcoming 10th anniversary being on the air. Coming in with the number 9 spot in the Top 12 Countdown of the 2020 season and it’s Bob’s Burgers with “Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No, Good, Very Bad Kids.”
Back at it again with this episode since the review back in November and here it is, in the Top 12 Countdown of the year and at number nine no less. Well sure, this episode is nothing like with the 100th episode, “Glued, Where’s My Bob”, because that episode had set up a bar and a league of its own. Where to this episode, the 200th, while it didn’t meet the expectations of the previous milestone episode, it did its own job, and even though it feels more of going under than over when it comes to the performance, it’s still a pretty good and enjoyable episode.
I mean, it did focus on the Belcher kids trying to do a right after all three of them admitted to burning the restaurant kitchen down in the middle of the night while trying to improve the mermaid statue that Linda made for the contest during the Ocean Avenue Business Festival that they've laid their eyes on for the prize. I mean, they did admit that they started the fire while the world keeps turning but didn't notice what caused it. By that, I mean not unplugging the straightening iron, putting up fire sparklers, having a fan to quickly dry the paint job. Of course, the thrown out greased rags courtesy of Hugo during the surprise inspection pretty much started the whole fire and at the wrong possible time for the festival. Even though the fire is pretty much Hugo’s fault because of the rags but Hugo’s mess may have Tina, Gene, and Louise all feel guilty once the morning hours of the festival begins.
I mean, at least Bob kept his cool following what happened with the kitchen badly damaged with the flattop stove being the only casualty in the fire and at the worst possible time with the event taking place and focuses on getting the show to go on, show meaning making bank for the restaurant, despite the kitchen burnt into a crisp and in dire need of a thermocouple to get the flattop stove running. I mean he did tried to get things rolling with a temporary flattop from Teddy with a gas tanker attached to heat the thing up but...apparently, a no-go for the Bobster here to get the place open for the festival.
The rest of the episode is mostly on the Belcher kids trying to correct something that they themselves would do something that, to them, feels like they just took a stoop down low when coming clean into burning the kitchen and damaging property, which luckily, isn’t classified as arson, and want to make things right by getting a replacement thermocouple for their father for the festival rush. I mean, you have to give the Belcher kids some credit on what they’re doing.
While yeah...were planning on breaking into the restaurant that has yet to open to get a replacement thermocouple after finding out who got the last piece when visiting the kitchen equipment shop and let’s face it, they were already on hot shit following the kitchen fire and breaking into the yet to be opened restaurant with no one present would make things even worse. You know they tried to steal presents from the kids waiting in line in “Yachty or Nice”, but again, they wouldn’t stoop that low. At least they didn’t commit fucking murder or a possible war crime. They were about to do it but in the end, they didn’t. Head back to the restaurant in shame. But apparently…
Tina’s little note on the pamphlet got the attention of a random woman that happened to be the owner of the soon to be open shrimp restaurant, responded to the kids’ plea over what happened, and handing the cable over to Bob for the event. But the kids still feel bad over the whole fire, something that could be stuck like glue for the rest of their lives...well until Hugo ends up being the person responsible because of the greased-up rags. But rather than accepting responsibility, he just heads out and just told Bob about the dangers of greased covered rags that started the fire. So uh, good news kids, you’re in the clear thanks in part to a salty health inspector in the show’s 200th episode.
Thus, having this episode fallen to the number nine spot of the Top 12 countdown of the 2020 season. While this episode didn’t overperform the 100th episode, being “Glued, Where’s My Bob?”, this was still a good episode. Enjoyable to say the least and it was nice for the episode to focuses on the Belcher kids doing the unthinkable even though it’s not even their fault but their conscience has a say in that for the three members of the Belcher family, you have to give some credit where credit might be due. I mean, they did their best to get to their father’s good side following the fire that destroyed the kitchen by getting another thermocouple after getting badly damaged when getting the fire put out. And the songs, well...song, four versions of it throughout the episode, was something to have the kids and later Hugo to explain their part of the crime and it was something though same that we didn’t get that in the credits. Nor does a special song for that like with the 100th episode when we have each and every character that was introduced before Season 7 but have the characters that were introduced after Season 6 to be featured with the others. That would’ve been something. But I guess the animators would spend countless, sleepless nights doing that. But all and all, other than Bob trying to get the show to go on despite the kitchen being badly damaged, you have given the kids credit for what they’re doing after coming clean with them destroying the kitchen and the day wasn’t a total loss with Tina’s plea that landed the family getting another thermocouple and of course, Hugo being the person responsible for the fire. There’s pretty much nothing else to say but to place the show’s 200th episode at the number nine spot in the Top 12 Countdown of 2020.
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