We’re now only two months away from the movie being released. Less than two months to be exact and man, oh man, how time flies. April 3 is gonna be a little interesting because of what to expect from the panel over at Anaheim in hopes to get some stuff from both the cast and crew and also some exclusives from the film. Is another trailer is in sight? I don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see about everything once next Sunday hits. Though knowing that we’re off on Easter Sunday, April 17, it comes down to what to do for content. Could talk about the movie more. It’s been almost a few months since I last talked about The Great North, maybe I could talk about that. Central Park...eh...I don’t know. But movie news coming on April 3, so if anyone is attending there wanna either live stream it or record the whole thing, holla at your boy.
In this week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers...yep kiddies, it’s an anthology episode with everyone telling their story about the man of the hour, Big Bob, about his younger days with Tina being the trigger in wanting to interview her paternal grandfather for her schoolwork in my spoilerific review of the sixteenth episode of Bob’s Burgers, titled “Interview with a Pop-pop-pire”.
So...how about that episode? Quite the curveball that writers threw at us with this episode’s episode. Especially in the third act once Big Bob decides to tell what actually happened in his younger day about the tree incident. Mostly because he brought up Bob’s Mom, the person of interest who we, as fans of the show, want to know ever since it was brought up back in Season 5 (or maybe earlier, memory of a goldfish, I apologize), and even though we haven’t gotten to see her face, it almost feels like we’re having our cake but we can’t eat it just yet. I’ll get more of that once we get to Big Bob’s story later on in the review but man, oh man, we got some stuff to talk about.
But speaking of stories...yeah, it’s an anthology episode. Because of course, there has to be at one anthology episode per season in this show, with the exception of Seasons 1, 2, 3, and 8, and I know that people dread over it and wish we don’t even have to do it in this current season from not just Bob’s Burgers, but in other animated series. Most recently, The Great North with “Wanted: Delmer Alive Adventure” with the Tobins taking care of Delmer by telling stories. Central Park did it twice this season with last year in the first half of the season being what the Tillermans’ life would be if Owen accepted the job offer in Connecticut (spoiler alert, he didn’t) and now in the second half, just this weekend alone with the family cheering Cole up after a wardrobe malfunction. And now this week with Bob’s Burgers with the Belchers waiting for Big Bob to arrive so that Tina can interview him for school.
And I know that everyone is getting tired of them and think that the likes of “The Frond Files” and...well “The Frond Files” would be a one-and-done deal but knowing animated sitcoms like this one, that ain’t it and it’s pretty much the norm for the time being with Season 8 being the exception. I might as well get this breakdown going because knowing anthology episodes, it’s gonna be a long one when covering three, rather four stories with the last one being important in the lore of the show, this is “Interview with a Pop-pop-pire”.
So the episode kicks off with the Belcher kids getting ready for their grandfather’s visit with Tina writing down some stuff as she is getting ready to interview Big Bob for her class project while you have Louise setting up her Burobu card deck from the fairy tale series and Gene creating his own didgeridoo and wanting to perform for his paternal grandfather. But it looks like it’s Tina’s kind of night because she wants to interview Big Bob for her class. Hence, the synopsis for the episode where it states that she wants to interview him in hopes to get a good grade in class. Though it’s pretty much a stepping stone for what we’re about to expect in this episode while killing some time for Big Bob to make his presence. Bob and Linda come in and see what the kids are doing with Tina telling her parents about the questions that she wants to tell him a bunch of questions you have seen in various interviews as if this were an episode of 60 Minutes. One of the questions that Tina brought up is “what shaped him”, as in she wants her grandfather to answer what moment that shaped him into what he is today. In which Bob brought up the tree incident where his father had a near-death experience with a tree during his younger days. A plot device that will be floating around throughout the episode. And speaking of Big Bob...
He calls in with the Belchers with Linda picking up the phone, telling the family some not-so-good news that he’ll be running a little late because of a little issue that is going on over at his restaurant because of an issue that is going with the walk-in freezer and has to pack up the food in hopes it doesn’t spoil. So basically, an issue with the refrigeration and hoping your place doesn’t get a health violation slapped onto your place. A logical reason for him to tell the Belcher family that he has to run a little late for his dinner with his son and his family. And also set up shop for the Belchers to kill some time by telling some stories about what they thought about the so-called tree incident that almost cost him his life. Something that Tina is not 100% in agreement and it looks like some fans of the show is in agreement when it comes to anthology episodes like this one.
Also note that Big Bob has a different voice actor. And even though the voice in the episode almost sounds exactly like what Bill Hader did back in “Father of the Bob” as if he hasn’t been stuck with scheduling conflicts and also the show’s way of hoping to avoid another bitch fit from the fans kinda like with what happened earlier this season with Mickey in “Beach, Please”. That one was due to a scheduling issue at the last minute that the people who worked on the episode can’t do some minor fixings and have Bouchard to step in and voice him. And of course, with the movie coming up and one of the biggest questions hoping to be answered soon about Bob’s deceased mother, is, of course, Big Bob’s voice. Will we hear Bauza again and see his name in the credits? Or will Hader, because Mickey will be in the movie and he’ll be reprising his role as the character, reprise his role once again as Bob’s dad? Lots of questions going with the voicing regarding the movie from what to do with Jimmy Pesto to whether Darryl will keep his old voice with Aziz Ansari reprising his role or a new actor takes over the spot. Again, the movie, mostly with the voice acting, will have huge implications for what to expect for Season 13 and later. But other than that, it’s time for what anthologies to do what anthologies do best, telling stories.
And we begin with Louise’s story as the Belchers await for Big Bob’s visit by telling her version of the tree incident by having her paternal grandfather taking the role of a cop who’s is patrolling the town. Here comes Bob with the fact checks by telling Louise that his dad was never a cop to begin with during his younger days. Though you’ll never know. But this is where I guess where all originality decides to come and die because look what this story is based on? That’s right, Jack and the Beanstalk. I mean Louise did mention the fairy tale series for her Burobu card and the story of Jack and the Beanstalk is a fairy tale. So it would make sense for Louise to come up with something like that but let’s be real folks, parodying fairy tales like with other animated shows in the past has pretty much been done to death. Again, it does make sense that Louise would come up with the idea of twisting the story of Jack and the Beanstalk because of her Burobu card deck but again, it does feel like it was being done to death.
Bob is of course the Giant from the story with him baking the bread and of course, the tattoo on his back from Season 4 sticks around. Big Bob, according to Louise in her story, is about to go into a really big case that has the Giant’s name written all over it because of him baking bread that appears to be filled with the villagers’ bones and baking them into food for the other villagers to eat. This almost feels like Louise is taking a jab at the show’s original idea of the family being cannibals and her accusing the restaurant of having the meat used for the burger being made out of human remains from the crematorium as a way to one-up her show and tell back in the very first episode. Everyone fell sick to the bread and knowing that it’s the olden times and modern medicine doesn’t exist during that time period with the setting of the story, in most fairy tales, being set on European soil, you falling sick is pretty much lights out. Which might’ve explained the number of deaths during the bubonic plague. So great use of having Teddy be killed off in your story there, Louise.
So Big Bob decides to investigate what’s going on by climbing his way up to the sky where he comes across with Bob-dre the Giant if he’s responsible for the ongoing situation with the bread that may have caused a shitstorm, a literal shitstorm you may ask, and on the verge of arresting the guy even though he didn’t even carry a giant pair of handcuffs. Or rather a shit ton of rope to tie his hands up but it looks like the Giant seems to be innocent once Big Bob gets a call. And Bob does have a point, how come he has a cell phone in an era where you have to rely on carrier pigeons and a piece of paper? I get that it’s Louise’s story and she, as the storyteller, has to make some changes and all, but a cell phone before turning it into a landline with very long wires? We’re really questioning how the technology work in Louise’s version of Jack and the Beanstalk as if we’re questioning the technology being used in Naruto.
Big Bob gets a call from the lab and it looks like The Iron Bob-ant is innocent from the crime scene because of the results that came in and telling him that he’s being framed. Okay, now we’re just taking notes from the underrated and forgotten 2005 animated film Hoodwinked. Shrek does better shit than this. So Bob is in the clear and a small alliance is formed when trying to find the real culprit behind the ongoing issue. That is until for some reason out of nowhere, the two men get imprisoned by vines from the beanstalk out of fucking nowhere. Yeah, that came out of nowhere from the sky and trapped both Bob and Big Bob into a prison cage that is made out of vines. I mean looking at the cage and the gap surrounding them, knowing that Big Bob is small when comparing heights between the two men and would easily get out but knowing these stories...you either have more vines to come out and restrain Big Bob or he escapes. That’s pretty much out of those two options being thrown onto the table. Everyone might as well question the kids’ literary skills when doing these anthology episodes.
Oh yeah, and Gene and Linda, as Jack and his mother while playing some cards, are the masterminds behind the bread situation. Why? Because the actual story paints the Giant as the bad guy with Jack at the end cutting down the stalk and resulting in the Giant coming down and possibly falling to his death...or severe injury to his back, so why not flip the script and make the boy and his mother the bad guys in all of this shit. Now, all we’re missing is a goose that lay a golden egg and now we would be mimicking the story. And now because we’re owned by Disney, giving them ideas by possibly turning it into a live-action atrocity.
And the cage seems to be unlocked for some reason because those two are shit villains in the story that if there’s an award on who’s the shittiest villains in all of the media, they would be contenders. Bob and Big Bob got out of their prison and are ready to take on both Linda and Gene with Linda deciding to go all Attack on Titan, minus the ODM gear, and try to do her best Will Smith impression and pretend that Bob is Chris Rock but unable to do the slap and instead, throws Linda and later Gene down to the ground from hundreds of feet high in the air with Bob and Big Bob fallen as well and slammed on the ground. It’s impressive that they survived from that high in the sky and landed on the ground without facing severe injury or death.
But to end Louise’s story, we have Tina coming into the scene by carrying a cart filled with weed whackers and ends up cutting down the beanstalk and saving the day, though she almost killed Big Bob with the fallen beanstalk, hence the incident where Big Bob almost died at the hands of a tree, but survived and gone through the Belcher tradition of experiencing near-death experiences. The beanstalk comes down, Gene and Linda are thrown into the slammer, and thus finally ending with Bob and Big Bob becoming partners in the name of the law. Though knowing that in the original story, the Giant lives up in the clouds and the beanstalk was his only road up and down from the sky. So the motherfucker can’t get back home now. Are we not gonna pretend that’s a thing now? But that’s how Louise’s story ends and if you think that Tina will finally get her shot and play the waiting game? Nope. It's Gene’s turn to take the mantle in this storytelling episode.
And note that we’re this episode is setting up when it comes to...well, clues. Even though the next story is where we have to reference a film coming from Gene when taking the storytelling seat with Big Bob taking a hike through the forest and setting up camp at the campgrounds where he pops open a bottle of root beer and some ice cream to create a root beer float. And that was after for some reason, a random radio was placed in the middle of the woods and telling whoever walks by and warning whoever the poor sucker is planning on camping outdoors is going to deal with some fucked up shit. Big Bob is pretty much that poor sucker and set up shop for some time enjoying nature, ready to drink his float, and play his didgeridoo, the instrument that Gene made out of toilet paper rolls at the beginning of the episode, only to be spooked by a fallen pine cone. Yeah, a falling pine cone that spooked him enough to drop his float into the ground and possibly going to get a visit from an army of ants. Because that’s how you get ants. Also, a pine cone that spooked the fuck out of him? Unless it’s a bird or a squirrel that caused him to lose his grip on the cup, then it’s pretty much silly for him to have a random pine cone drop to the ground. And knowing that we’re on a verge of a possible world war, I would not be surprised that he might mistake a pine cone for a grenade.
Just as he is about to pick up the cup, Big Bob notices a pair of binoculars that is filled with a lot of glitter as if it just came out from a binoculars that just came out from an exploded glitter factory. Either that or a little girl drops her binoculars while leaving the campsite. Either one of those two. And uses it to take a look around the woods where he notices that something is unusual that is going in the woods when looking through the item that is shown black and white before looking around the area when looks up as something even more unusual when sees a face on a tree, revealing to be an alien. Yep, this is what we’re doing now. Trees that are also happened to be aliens. Though if we’re gonna be honest here, seeing the aliens as trees even though they’re invisible to everyone who doesn’t have those binoculars, is a huge invasion of privacy for everyone who camped there in the past. But then again, they’re aliens. They’re probably interested in what humans do. Well other than...you know, what people usually think of aliens other than wanting to destroy and take over the planet by abducting people.
As Big Bob gets surprised that the trees surrounding him are extraterrestrials, you have Louise coming with the same pair of binoculars that she has attached to her neck. Meaning that she too saw the trees being not what they seemed and reveals that she was the one responsible for the special binoculars because she’s a special scientist that tracks down alien lifeforms and wants to learn about their weaknesses to prevent a potential invasion. Would say that she might be working for the government but if she is, then why is she talking to a random person who may now notice that they exist...which they are. Their little conversations end up getting interrupted by random pine cones being thrown at them and here comes the squadron of tree aliens hurling toward Louise and Big Bob. Causing the two to make their way out of the campsite and flee for their lives. Guess we know what the message of the episode for this episode and that is that trees are fucking evil. Didn’t expect to have the show to promote deforestation just because of one near-death experience a long time ago.
Big Bob and Louise make their way to safety to avoid getting captured by the tree aliens. Wasn’t sure what the movie that Gene is referencing when telling the story, but thank god for Bob to shout it out loud that he’s doing a parody of the film “They Live”...which I have never even heard of that film until just now. Though I bet every Bob’s Burgers fan has to Google search the movie once the episode was done airing. So the two make their way to safety and come across with Tina as a park ranger...only for one of the silliest plot twists that I can ever come across when seeing this story from Gene.
Tina works for the tree aliens and wants them to succeed by trying to keep the people away from the woods so they can drain the resources of the forest so they grow their own or whatever for their own planet. I mean, they would’ve at least tried and...I don’t know, have Tina, who is working for them, collect some seeds and teach them how to grow as if they’re planting. But nope, let them suck up all of the resources because why not. While also have Tina threatening both Louise and Big Bob with a pointy stick that she thinks it’s a gun. It’s nothing more than a fucking stick. It's just a stick. Sure, kids could find that stick and possibly pretend that it’s a gun and I guess that’s fine to play pretend, though knowing the current climate...eh. But regardless of that, Tina is threatening to use a stick at Big Bob and Louise and is ready to hand them over to the aliens as their prisoners. And as for Tina working for them despite the aliens wanting to destroy the planet by milking the planet’s resources, it’s because she just got a promotion in keeping everyone away from the forest and a position over on their planet. Though questions about whether or not that planet is even habitable for her. Sure, trees do produce oxygen and her accepting the position of being a ranger in their developing forest would possibly benefit her when it comes to survival, but...storytelling 101, there’s a good chance that Tina, working for the enemy, could get fucked over and leave her behind as a sacrifice. Also, the stick when holding Big Bob and Louise hostage. I mean...what is Tina gonna do? Shoot a splinter? I mean the last person who got hit by a splinter...let’s just say...
Yeah, it didn’t end well. Anyway, with Big Bob and Louise now tied up by Tina, the aliens can now enact their plan to drain the Earth’s resources, and also Tina telling them for an early trip before heading off by going to Montreal with the aliens agreeing to the vacation because they might as well treat that as Tina’s last trip while on Earth. But that’s not going to stop both Big Bob and Louise because it looks like Tina didn’t even bother confiscating the didgeridoo, causing Big Bob to play a tune that causes the aliens and later Tina to bust a move enough for the trees to continue to dance that causes the satellite dish attached to the roof of the ranger station to go explodey boom and have the aliens to reveal who they are from under their skin and...yeah, good luck sleeping tonight, folks. I swear, it almost looks like a cross between a decorated skull during a Día de Los Muertos celebration and the alien design from Mars Attacks. Especially when looking at their muscle suit and veins before heading out and calling it a night to close off the story with Louise and Big Bob deciding to go in their separate ways. Tina finally breathes a sigh of relief and thinks that the storytelling is over with as the family await for Big Bob to visit...
We get Linda’s story to tell her side of the story about the tree incident and to be honest here in my own opinion, out of the three stories in the episode, about to be four later on, this was the weakest one of them. Linda’s story is the weakest one of the four. First off, the animation almost looks like something coming out of a Red Bull ad, and while I have to give some credit to what the animators are doing for the change in style as if we’re reliving “Brunchsquatch” with the different art style. Also the idea of using the story of The Giving Tree right before Linda, as the tree, to knock herself down and does her version of the tree incident, again, this was one of the weaker one of the four stories in this episode. And also serves as filler? Why is that?
It's mostly to kill some time just Big Bob finally arrives at the house and carried two gallons of milk nearing their expiration dates. This means that now that Tina can finally interview her grandfather for her school project. But it looks like the family, with the exception of Bob and Tina, wants to know about what happened when he almost died by being crushed by a tree after telling their stories about what happened and wants to know what really happened on that day. But this is where Tina decides to do what some people in the fandom have been wishing for and finally have their say on these episodes, “enough with the bullshit.” Tina channels her inner Skip Bayless and says to her family...
And finally, she has her due in interviewing her grandfather for her school project while waiting for dinner to be done and to be severed and of course, the tree incident gets brought up with Bob coming in and warning Tina that he’s not talkative when doing these types of things. Said the person who may have inherited the anti-social habits from his pops. And that’s enough for Bob and his father to get into an argument over his social skills and thus, we’re getting his side of the story. The day, rather the night of what actually happened to Big Bob with his near-death experience, and this is where things really pick up as if we just watched three quarters of a game that is nothing more than a snoozefest but once the fourth quarter hits and now we’re in business. What do I mean by that? Well, according to Big Bob when telling his side of the story on what actually happened with the so-called tree incident, it looks like he was not alone on that night when it all happened because someone else was with him when the tree came crashing down. That person? Bob’s Mom. The first time she was brought up since Season 7 in “The Last Gingerbread House on the Left” when Bob had that talk with Mr. Fischoeder about how they used to make gingerbread houses...before she...you know...dead.
So what happened on that night is that it was raining. Raining really hard and Big Bob didn’t even bother trying to postpone his camping trip with Bob’s Mom in what is supposed to be a weekend getaway. Guessing that they were dating during that time when that event unfolded. Bob’s Mom, we only got the legs portion of her and giving us the Miss Bellum treatment, you know the character from the original Powerpuff Girls where we only see her body but never her face. I get that they’re teasing us and we won’t possibly see the full reveal until sometime in the movie once it hits theaters on May 27, hopefully, that question will be brought up and answered during the panel on Sunday over at WonderCon. Mrs. Belcher, Bob’s Mom, well...knowing the time period and Big Bob did mention that this was before they got married and had Bob, Ms. Lombard since that’s her maiden name because she had a brother named Ernest, who gave Bob the storage unit in Season 3. So Ms. Lombard decided to take a quick pee break out in the pouring rain because duty calls out into the wilderness but once she got out of the tent to take a piss...
Down comes the tree and collapses onto the tent, nearly killing Big Bob while on the tent because of how stormy the weather was during that night courtesy of the gusty winds. He had a near-death experience but luckily survived when it was just him alone. But if Bob’s Mom stayed when that tree came crashing down...well, some possibilities, two or three takes. Either they both survived with no injuries, one of two individuals survived the collapse, they both survived with some injuries. Would say no survivors but if we go to that, then pretty sure the Belcher family would not have existed today. Big Bob survived the fall and came out unharmed and not a single scratch on him, just in time for Bob’s Mom to arrive back at the campsite and sees the tree crushing the tent and ready to pop the question. The question being wanting her to be in his life, which he had to wait for six years to say before she finally said yes. As if when being crushed by a tree and surviving, it almost feels like Big Bob had his life flashing before his eyes, you know how that phenomenon works? And how someone is on the verge of death, see what they could’ve done. What they could’ve said. And in this instance of answering Tina’s question of what moment shaped him to be the man he came to be since that incident was Bob’s Mom and realized that she wants him to be a part of his life. Hence, what he said about waiting six years for him to tie the knot with her.
But when noticing that moment of Big Bob surviving that tree collapse that almost cost him his life and I wanna say something regarding Bob’s Mom’s death and how her death impacted both Bob and Big Bob. We still don’t know how she died, even though we do know that she unexpectedly passed away when Bob was a kid. And knowing that Big Bob survived the tree collapse but later in his life, his wife somehow died to unknown causes till we get a clear answer come late May, that maybe, and this might be a really huge reach on this whole speculation, theory, whatever you want to call it, of how much of an impact that the death of the matriarchal Belcher to the Belcher boys and how the friction between father and son was formed since that unfaithful day. And if I were to guess, looking at what happened in between those two moments, this might be due to a little thing called survivor’s guilt. And I know everyone is going to say to me right now when making this assumption, “That’s not how survivor’s guilt work. What the hell are you even talking about?” Try to think about where I’m going with this. We know how Big Bob almost died from being crushed by a tree and he went on to marry Bob’s Mom and once they have Bob and operated the restaurant together leading up to her unexpected death that messed everything up to the point where they may never recover. They moved on, yes. But the memory of what happened does sting. A death of a loved one, next to being in a family that is divorced, hammers you hard both emotionally and mentally. I guess that Big Bob, finding out that his wife died, may have some guilt. Survivor’s guilt because he almost died at that moment when the tree crashed land on him with Bob’s Mom heading out to go pee. Not saying that Bob’s Mom died from being crushed by a tree and then gets the short end of the stick and didn’t come out alive, that’s one possibility as if we’re treating it with Family Guy/The Cleveland Show with Cleveland and his ex-wife Loretta with the falling tub.
The moment of her passing hit him like a truck much like with Bob and he tried to take the mantle in both positions in both running the restaurant and taking care of the only family member that he had left but unable to balance either one and became an authoritative figure that later caused some friction between him and Bob that lead to him having a bad childhood and to the point where he moved out and left him all alone despite keeping the newspaper of that review of his son’s restaurant. Possibly falling into a depressed state for a while and saying to the gods and thinking to himself that he kinda wish that she hadn’t died or probably thinking of that night and creating a what-if where he didn’t make it out alive from that tree. Anything that caused Big Bob to be strict towards Bob since his wife’s tragic passing had left him in an emotional state and struggles to balance his family life and his job. Hence his line in Season 5 when Bob apologizes to his father at the club next door with Big Bob saying to him that he feels sorry for being rough on him all these years and that it’s tough to take the mantle for himself without having his mom around. Quite a wordful to say about this so-called idea about a comedy show but since we have the movie coming out in May and the panel this upcoming weekend, it’s not out of the realm of possibility of survivor’s guilt playing a role in what lead to the friction between Big Bob and Bob following his wife’s passing. Guess we have to wait and see until then to find out. I know I’m gonna be wrong about all of this, but at least I came up with something that should’ve been its own post. Maybe when we get some answers from the panel, then maybe I might do a separate article about it.
Big Bob saved the episode with his own story and recalling what happened on that night when the tree came crashing down and mentioning Bob’s Mom where we switch over to the father and son having a nice talk after eating dinner and the interview by Tina with Bob being impressed and surprised about having his mom being mentioned from his mouth. Really setting things up for the movie other than the ongoing condition with the sidewalk. Though I would not be surprised if, knowing that we’re only six episodes left in the season before the movie, where Louise’s hat and some hints of its origins get brought up in those remaining episodes. But it looks like we’re sticking with the breadcrumbs from Big Bob as the episode ends with Gene and Louise calling their grandfather with the stuff they want to show to them because why not. But it was a nice talk between both father and son and hopefully, we could get more later in the show, maybe in the movie, and later on after the film. Trying to reconnect since what happened and just be grateful for that in wanting to reconnect with a parent or relative that you haven’t seen in a while and once had some friction back in the day. Let the past die, one person says, and...uh...enjoy life. That’s all I have to say. I’m not good at these things.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So all and all, what do I think about this week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers? Well, that was something of an episode. The first three stories of the episode feel bland with Linda’s story being the weakest of the four throughout the entirety of the episode. Like I said during the breakdown when getting ready to talk about Big Bob’s story that this episode feels like a game where the first three quarters are snoozefests until the fourth quarter comes in and decides to wake the fuck up until the clock hit zero or going into sudden death. That is what Big Bob did to save the episode. Tina also since all she want to do is not fall into bullshit and turn it into an anthology episode to kill some time, but they did. Became the unlikely hero that some people in the fandom really needed.
If I were to judge the four stories being thrown onto our faces, Louise’s story was alright. Though the element of using fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk, even though it was because Louise brought up the notion of wanting to show Big Bob her fairy tale Burobu card deck, it feels like it was being done to death if I got to be honest here. Gene’s story with the tree being aliens in his attempt to tie with the tree incident that almost cost Big Bob’s life, even though I didn’t even notice what movie Gene was referencing until Bob brought it up. It was alright despite the idea of Tina working for the aliens, didn’t even bother taking the didgeridoo away, and even threatening Big Bob and Louise with a stick that happened to be a gun. I thought that was a little silly. Linda’s story before Big Bob arrives at the house was rather the weakest one out of the four and pretty much serves as nothing more than just filler.
Though Big Bob’s story of how the tree incident really happened and bringing up Bob’s Mom on the night where he had a near-death experience is what saved the episode. And also setting up what we might expect for the upcoming movie. Already gave out my thoughts and possible theory/speculation on what the whole issue between Bob and Big Bob with their fractured relationship following Mama Belcher’s death and how it could possibly tie in with this event. But yeah, Big Bob coming in clutch to save the episode. The writers throwing a curveball from having the people to be turned off with the anthology episodes like this one. That and also Tina being the unsung hero in her just wanting to interview her grandfather without going into storytelling mode.
So final thoughts, it was meh for the first two acts of the episode with the three stories but the fourth story going into the third act with Big Bob stepping up, after being called out by Bob, is what saved the episode from a mediocre performance. Thinking of giving the episode a 4 out of 10 because of the stories but because of Big Bob saving the episode with his story and bringing up Bob’s Mom into the mix...
It’s a 7 out of 10 in my book. But that’s pretty much my opinion and now I wanna hear yours in the comment section below. What do you think about this week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Do you even care for anthology episodes? Which story is your favorite? And what is your theory or speculation about Bob’s Mom? All that and your mini-review in the comment section below. No new episode on April 3 and of course, all eyes are on the panel for the upcoming movie. But we have a new episode on April 10 where Louise gets a spider that she’ll keep as a pet in the seventeenth episode of Season 12 in “The Spider House Rules”.
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