So remember from last week's episode review where I may have labeled "The Reeky Lake Show" as a possible snoozefest because of its lack of...well, everything? Yeah, uh...I think this past Thursday's Colts/Broncos might have one-upped that. That game was boring as fuck and good God...in overtime. In overtime. That game was so boring and torturous that it should be a violation of the Geneva Convention. Oh boy, I think I may have to apologize to the people who worked on last week's episode for saying things about it. And many people agonizing that the next game is Commanders going against the Bears, we have an anthology episode.
And that's where we're at in this week's episode of Bob's Burgers where the family tell their versions of stories when helping Louise on what to decide on where her future is heading. Most of the fans of saw the show for a long time or just binged watched throughout the summer would think that Louise's future might already be set in stone with her taking over the restaurant but...apparently, we could be getting ready to send it into the box of misfit ideas in my spolierific review of the third episode of Season 13, titled "What About Job?"
Yes, folks, it's an anthology episode and whether you like them or not, it's here and we got it for this week with the center of attention for this anthology episode happens to be Louise. Yeah, it's been a while since Louise has taken the center stage since May when she had to carry the movie behind her back. Mostly with her wanting to prove that she’s brave after being called a baby just for her wearing her ears and not doing the dead man jump because it would result in her ears falling right off with a single flip. This time around, it’s her questioning about her career and what the future might be in store for her...even though she’s 9 and you’d think that you would wait for that stuff until sometime around middle school going into high school. But I guess it’s never too late, rather too early to think about what the future has in store. Even though we already know that adulthood fucking sucks. It sucks hard to make things harder for this generation and into the next and you can thank your parents and grandparents, mostly the grandparents, for fucking us over with everything that they left behind for us to deal with.
But of course, it has to be an anthology episode because why the hell not? Gotta have two, or three stories tops to tell the person in the center of attention to keep themselves entertained. And much like with past anthologies, it has to be separated into three parts per story that was presented for this week's episode. And of course, have to think about which of the three stories had to be the best. Whether you like the anthology episodes or not, it looks like this is the norm now when it comes to the so-called modern version of the show. Especially right after the movie just came out earlier this year. That being said, I might as well deep dive and pray that it's better than last week's episode. This is "What About Job". And if you're wondering if a mini-review of The Great North is like with last week's episode review? It's possible. Guess we have to wait and see or scroll down to see whether that promise has been fulfilled or be disappointed much like with Mets fans all season long leading up to the postseason.
The episode begins with Bob and Linda sleeping in the middle of the night when they hear glass breaking in the background, thinking that an intruder may have broken into the place and not expecting Stone Cold Steve Austin to make an appearance on the show. Bob and Linda get up from their bed and make their way to where the sound is, which is over in the kitchen and find out that the sound was not coming from an intruder but instead, it's Louise who was trying to get a bowl of sugar but ends up getting butterfingers, which resulted in the sugar bowl to be dropped into the floor and thus, Bob and Linda seeing Louise cleaning up the mess that she caused.
Tina and Gene enter the crime scene and notice the pile of sugar that Louise is cleaning up and thought that if Louise would consume some sugar, she would get a boost in working on the poster on the table like what college students would do by taking caffeine, mostly with energy drinks or coffee, to cram for their exams. And that’s what Louise is planning on doing as she finishes cleaning up the mess and make her way to the table and explains her work to the family about the poster board that she's struggling to put on. That being the career day project for her class. Which Louise had to do some research about the different jobs that would grab her attention but ended up with nothing for her to choose to put on the board. And also worrying that she might end up either doing a dead-end job or being unemployed and being a professional stay-at-home kid. I mean, there's also the military but we're not touching on that can of worms anytime soon. The same goes for becoming a politician.
Although taking over the restaurant isn't out of the table, it's just Louise is having a hard time choosing what is even the right, cool job that she can put on her poster board. And just because she's looking for something to add to the board doesn't...well, her future would be all set and stone. Shit can change over time. Though I feel some people out there thinking that Louise trying to find a job to add to her project would be the show throwing away a little tidbit from the earlier seasons from one of the episodes. That being "Carpe Museum" where Louise flat out said via Freudian slip that she would take over the restaurant while talking to Bob over at the rainforest exhibit. As if she's thinking that if she adds "taking over the restaurant" onto the poster board would draw negative attention and would possibly label it as a dead-end job. So already, the episode is giving a nine-year-old what a high schooler in their senior year is going through and having some trouble with what to do once they enter adulthood. And thus, we get to storytelling for this episode with three jobs that are presented in front of Louise from each member of the family and we begin with Gene's story.
Where you have Louise working at a 9-to-5 office job with her working at her office space and you have Jocelyn behind her and inviting her to go and get shrimp at a chicken finger place. Yes, because where else you can get outside stuff like shrimp in a place that sells chicken fingers? You don't see a place like Raising Cane's sell some seafood or anything that isn't chicken fingers on their menu. But that's pretty much Louise's day job with her working at an office space that isn't something you would see from watching all seasons of The Office...the US version of The Office. But that changes once her shift is done later in the day and goes into the night. Because sure, she's a normal working person by day and working in a dead-end job like an office like she's Superman, going by Clark Kent and working at a newspaper company. But by night...
She's an assassin. And not just any assassin where she gets a gun or any type of weapon and goes after the bad guy or an attempt to overthrow a ruling government. Gotta keep it PG, folks. Kids are watching this show and Jesus Christ, this is one of the many reasons why the show is losing its touch, even after the release of the movie. I mean, you showed a dead body. A carnie's skeletal remains and a few pieces of teeth fallen into Louise's mouth. I get that we older folk are saying that because we grew up in a time where there are no limits on what's light and what's dark when it comes to...well, everything. And I get that the show often times does that from time to time but that's more from the earlier seasons. In the modern era of the show, not so much. You would get it but no. So back to the episode in hand, Louise is a nighttime assassin where she's not your typical assassin like being hired to murder someone with a gun in her possession, which handing a child a gun would not bode well in today's time...or any period at all. No, instead, you have her as a wedgie assassin. Where she goes after someone, possibly for hire, and goes and performs a wedgie on them. And she did that when going after someone who happened to be a mob boss and did the deed. So he's now off the list of people that Louise went after for her job.
Once the job is done, Louise returns home to her apartment that she rented and is greeted by her roommate and "platonic friend", that being Rudy, who is dressed up as a street performer covered in gold. And this is going to rattle a lot of heads when Gene brings up the "platonic friend" label. As if he and possibly Tina may or may not know about Louise and Rudy but that's a whole can of worms that needed to be opened up about. Sure, they’re friends. Good friends. Best friends. And we know that Louise isn’t too big a fan of the whole romance angle. Mostly because she thinks it’s gross but also because she’s nine. But let’s not also forget that those two kissed back in Season 7. Sure, no one but those two (Louise and Rudy) knew about the kiss on Valentine’s Day. But the way you look at it, you could say that Gene and maybe Tina might know that something is up between the two, but knowing that they won’t have to face Louise’s wrath, especially in front of Bob and Linda of all people, they have to play it safe as if they knew that something was up between the two kids. I still want an episode where that kiss gets talked about. Someone finding out like Tina or maybe either Rudy or Louise slipped about what happened. It's been over five years, guys. What are y'all doing? Though when looking at this scene and reading that line, I feel like some in the fandom might misinterpret that. Sure, Louise being aromantic or ace wouldn't be out of the table. But I know, I know that a certain group of people in the fandom from the most loathed pairing might misinterpret that line and are ready to pop out the champagne like they’re the 1972 Dolphins every year an undefeated team got their first loss.
Later in the story, Louise gets some shutout until we get to the overnight hours where she wakes up from a blood-curling scream from Rudy from the living room and makes her way there where she sees Rudy, now a victim of an apparent wedgie attack from what appears to be a break-in. Him lying down on the floor as if he got shot or stabbed but has his underwear sticking out from his back, in which Louise implies that Rudy chose the wrong day to wear underwear as if going commando is the way to go to avoid being targeted. Making her way to the window to see who's the perpetrator behind the senseless attack and of course, seeing the backplate of the car that is getting away, wouldn't you guess it? It's Millie who did the dirty deed and attacked Rudy. A wedgie strong enough for Rudy to be slipped into a coma for some reason and that's more than enough for Louise to vow revenge on Millie for harming Rudy. Also, the fact that Dr. Yap came into the room and addressed Louise as Mrs. Regular-Sized as if they're a married couple with Louise addressing that they're roommates and platonic friends, something has to be up with Gene about the whole Louise and Rudy issue as if he knows or may have not known where those two kids’ relationship is going. Somebody needs to address it and it has to be sooner rather than later.
Louise makes her way to the art shop where Edith is at by the counter but not for art supplies or in Edith's case, cranberry juice, knowing that it's almost Thanksgiving here in the states. But no, it's for Louise to get herself armed and vowing to get back at Millie for the crime that she committed and that's what she's doing once she gets the grabber and makes her way to Millie's lair, taking down a few men, and thus, finally arriving to the place like it's Kill Bill or maybe John Wick. Which I’m guessing that’s what the story is parodying for this episode. We get to Millie’s story and...
Of course, Millie’s Lair has to resemble her room, which happens to be Louise’s room but with a few touches. Mostly with the second floor of the lair happens to resemble the loft bed that Louise just had last season. I mean of course that the moment Millie sees the bed, she would end up getting it because it's Millie. Though does she even need the loft bed? Her room is already bigger than Louise's. And Louise's room is literally a closet. Oh yeah, and the reason why Millie did the attack on Rudy earlier in the night while Louise was asleep? Knowing her, she did it because Rudy was Louise's roommate and she got jealous that she didn't get to move in with her. And thus, she went after him and did the deed that resulted in Rudy's butt crack being badly injured and have him in a coma. We’re talking about the same person who almost choked Abby to death with her braid after Louise found a flaw in Millie’s proposed campaign promise with the buddy system and her scheme to be with her. This would explain why some people are surprised when "Ancient Misbehavin'" came out earlier this year when having Rudy and Millie in the same room with Louise when creating the counterfeit coins. Especially with Millie’s...I guess, dangerous nature whenever someone who is not her is around Louise. She is yandere and yandere hard when it comes to her. So in this story, she had to give Rudy a wedgie in a surprise attack because she got jealous that she didn't fill out the proper forms for her becoming Louise's roommate.
Louise and Millie fight it out to the death but the fight lasted shorter even before thinking about microwaving a bag of popcorn and watching two fourth graders beating the shit out of each other. Louise wins the fight against Millie and comes up with two options for Millie to choose from, which is to do the easy way by having Millie stay away from everyone that she loved, that being friends and family, and also leaving her the fuck alone and quit on her night job of being the wedgie assassin. Or take the forever wedgie and have her butt feeling as hurt as Rudy's but drastic and would ultimately hurt so much that it would be labeled as a human rights violation. Mille chooses to get the forever wedgie from Louise for no reason whatsoever that I can't explain other than...why? But instead bowed out on her first option and decides to get the easy way out. Leaving her and everyone that she loved alone and ready to give up on the wedgie assassin business. But at least Rudy is finally out of a coma after Louise is done with her revenge tour and back to the 9-to-5 job she goes to close out the story with Jocelyn coming to her office space and telling about her weekend. Reminding Louise that her job as an office worker isn't all that cracked up to be. The story that Gene told almost got Louise's attention of her being a wedgie assassin...if there isn't any connections but she would get her hands on a grabber. But of course, to no avail. Bob would tell everyone to go back to bed for the night, but of course, we need to sit our asses down for the second story with Tina taking the mantle on the storytelling chair.
And enter story number two with Louise, now rocking in her Indiana Jones cosplay, coming out of a building in a university. Having her being a professor and teaching students about treasure hunting, questioning how is that not even a subject because that would've paid off a lot of debt. Mostly student debt and that will haunt until the day you die and it will even follow you into the afterlife #CancelStudentDebt. Just as Louise leaves for the day in her Indy costume, she gets a visit from Tina and Gene as her butler from a helicopter to ask for her assistance. Oh, I'm sorry, the butler's name is Gene and he looks like him but he's not and he speaks in a British accent. Still reeling that Liz is gone and Chuckie is now in charge of the throne. Though not officially just yet. He needs to be coronated, which will take place sometime next year. So Tina and British Gene ask Louise for their help because a Boyz4Now CD that was never released to the public has been stolen from the museum and want her to retrieve it before bad things happen. What's so worrisome about the CD that is now in the hands of the perpetrator behind the theft? Going through the background of the CD, it was never released because while recording, the record executive pooped himself, pissed himself, and barfed until he explodes. So the song is pretty much a biological digestive and excretory bomb to the point where you're automatically a suicide bomber if listening to the song. Wow, it must be that bad, huh? Also, if the person who took the CD uses it on the entire world, without having something to cover their ears from the sound, it would automatically erase the entire human population. This is mass genocide right here, folks. And that's enough for Louise to get into the helicopter and would get to where the CD is at. But they don't know where the item is or where the perpetrator is even located.
This leads Louise, Tina, and British Gene to make a small pit stop at a smoothie place, operated by Rudy, and decides to make a small visit to her friend. The three enter the smoothie shop and you have Rudy meeting eye-to-eye with Louise, who in this story, is upset over Louise not accepting the offer to be platonic roommates. Okay, what is up with the whole "platonic roommates" language that is being used by Gene and Tina? At this rate, you might as well just come out and say that they know that something is up with Louise and Rudy as if they think that might end up getting together. Again, they might as well address it. Just address it. Going back to it, Louise wants answers from Rudy with some information regarding the missing CD. Rudy refuses because he is still upset over not moving in with Louise, platonically. Leading to the two having a smoothie drinking contest, which of course, Louise wins. Resulting in Rudy spilling the tea about what is happening. Telling the three that a disco cave from the Cold War has opened up in Siberia and it appears that this might be tied to the missing CD. And that is all that the three needed as they make their way out to Siberia, but not before bringing Rudy along for the ride. Hey, you gotta need extra pair of hands to help out. So why not bring Rudy to help save the world?
The four make their way crossing border to border as they finally make their way to Siberia, without any winter gear on in the buttfuck cold when landing near the cave. Especially where you have Tina wearing a dress and she, along with the others, is not built for this kind of cold unless you're an athlete who is built for this type of stuff, so mostly a member of the Green Bay Packers. Though from a historical standpoint, going into a nation where it's buttfuck cold and unable to deal with that kind of temperature, you're most likely going to have your asses handed. So the four kids arrive in Siberia by the cave where Louise hears a muffled sound as she listens through the ground and noticed that it's from the inside. But noticed that there was no door for them to enter. Leave it to British Gene to find the entranceway for them to get them inside the lair...cave...thing. Though if going inside the place, I get that he’s a butler, but he doesn’t have to take the tray with the teapot with him to show that he’s a butler.
Sure, once they enter the cave and noticed the booby traps is where Louise uses the tray as a sled as if they're training for the next Winter Olympics but that's pretty much its only use for Gene to carry around the tray. But why the teapot? Does it even have an importance to the story? Will the teapot be useful in like...I dunno, pour it onto the machine and cause some massive malfunction. But it looks like we didn’t. Other than leaving it behind once escaping the cave. Louise, Rudy, Gene, and Tina make their way down through the hall, avoiding a rainstorm of icicles, and make their way to the lair where you have...
Jimmy Jr and Zeke as the villains of Tina’s story. Normally with Tina’s story, you would have Jimmy Jr either being her date or trying to play hard to get. You know, wanting to get his attention and whatnot. You take a look at "The Gayle Tales" as the only example because the other times are just not focused on that. So why does Tina have Jimmy Jr to be the villain? Apparently, Tina is mad at Jimmy Jr at the time of her telling the story. Why? Because the guy didn’t share his gum. You could think of two things even though there’s only one logical reason that should make sense. Maybe she needed some gum and asks Jimmy Jr if she can have a stick of gum, which he denies the offer, and knowing Tina, she would overreact to the point where she ends up making him the bad guy in the story. That’s one way to put it. Because otherwise, your other option would be that Tina wants the gum in Jimmy Jr’s mouth for her to share. That would be creepy and also disgusting to even think about.
So Jimmy Jr and Zeke are preparing to have the world turn into disgusting suicide bombers once they hear the first note of the song on speaker and all of this is because Jimmy Jr is jealous over the whole museum thing and once he presses the button, there won't be a museum...or a population. And he is only doing this because according to him, in Tina's story, he'll take out the entire world's population until it's just them...and also Zeke. Yeah, you almost forgot about that part, huh dude? Oh, sweet Christ, it's gonna be Jimmy Jr and Zeke fighting over Tina's affection if the plan goes through, huh? So as Jimmy Jr and Zeke are about to put on their headphones, as well as give Tina her own and leave the others to be fucked with urine, shit, and vomit, Louise asks Tina to distract as she must find a way to at least fuck around with the machine so it would be reversed or at least take the CD out and would say pull a switcheroo with the discs.
Luckily, Louise did something by flipping the switch where the headphone users, being Jimmy Jr and Zeke, are the ones who will be going through torture by having their digestive and urinary systems turn into bombs and thus, the day is saved with Louise and the others making it out to the cave from the explosion and the smell. This pretty much states that Louise would grow up to save the world and also commit murder on Jimmy Jr because of Tina's petty aggression towards him for not sharing his gum. Tina, you might as well just move the fuck on from him. You might as well just do the world a favor. I mean, you knew. We knew that the moment the movie ends that we'd be going back to the "will they/won't they" shtick regarding Tina and Jimmy Jr. And I think we may have our answer. Back to square one. Sure, there's an episode coming up titled "So You Stink You Can Dance", but...yeah, this pretty much solidifies the issue. Oh yeah, and it looks like Tina's story didn't do dick on Louise for her to put on the poster board, and is ready to throw in the towel and pretty much accepts that her life is gonna be shit. Again, there's the military option. And also the title of social media influencer. Mostly doing videos on YouTube. But before we get to the final story of the anthology, I might as well get this out of the way. Will this in-between segment be a permanent thing for this season? Eh...we'll see once we get to I guess November.
The Great North this week has undergone a Love Actually type of episode with various plots for each member of the family leading up to the Fall Frenzy Dance, as being told by Judy retelling the events leading up to the big night to her imaginary friend Alanis. And from Beef having three women to share the dancefloor to a relationship-ending scare from Ham to even Judy kissing Gill in a way where I bet some of y'all have that in your Season 3 bingo card.
Might as well get the Judy plot out of the way first. I already did a little rambling over at Tumblr if you wanna check that out. Finding out that Gill is planning on kissing Judy on the night of the dance because of a note that Amelia found that was fallen off from his bag. Yes, Judy sees Gill as a friend and friend only. Yes, it's blatantly obvious that Gill has a crush on Judy as shown multiple times throughout the show. I did state that what happened in this episode leading up to the moment where Judy told Gill about the list, thinking that it was a list to impress her at the dance in an attempt to be his girlfriend at first, but instead it happened to be a bucket list, almost reminds me of Louise and Rudy...mostly because that's the only comparison that I can find. This now sort of feels like...I dunno, maybe Lisa and Milhouse? Jesus H. Christ, I need to get my references in check. I thought it was a bit sweet coming from Judy in a week leading up to the big night when being in panic mode about what is about to expect and uh...yeah, looks like we might have ourselves a new ship. Even though we're only three episodes into the new season.
Beef’s dilemma with him needing to find a date when asking three dates by accident to the Fall dance. Well, he said yes to Dell when she came back to her life after she thought that she may have found her guy during a salmon trip but knowing Dell's history regarding men who dated her ends up meeting their deaths but that's more than enough for Beef to say yes to be her date to the dance...until he accidentally yes to Greta, the poetry lady that he met once back last season. And also to Alyson right after telling Judy some advice about the Gill thing. Thought that we would be going through the ol' sitcom trope of one person, two choices, and only one has to be chosen. Like something you see in sitcoms from the 80s or 90s. Thought it would be like that but instead, all three come to an agreement and noticed that something was up, and rather than leaving Beef in the dark, they agree to at least share the dancefloor with him. Quite the post-marriage harem we got there, huh Beef? Sure, it won't be long until Beef finds the right person to fill in the empty spot that was left by Kathleen but it's gonna take a while for it to happen. At least the night isn't a total disaster. At this rate, someone might need to call the higher-ups over at ABC to give that man to be the next host of The Bachelor.
Ham and Crispin...quite a scare there leading up to the dance. Find out that the ring that Ham bought wasn't an engagement ring and noting the fact that they're only 16-17 years old and still in high school with the age of marriage is of course, 18 years old. But it mostly boils down to Ham wanting to give a good gift to Crispin with the ring with the magic 8-ball but can't handle the pressure of what if he thinks that it's him proposing. People can often misread that. I mean, there's also the fear of what would happen if the partner doesn't like the gift but Crispin likes the ring and Ham bought it for a cheap price of $19 which come with anxiety to the point where he had some issue over which advice is the right one to have his anxiety to be lowered. Again, quite the scare there in thinking that the relationship is done. Though we knew that their relationship isn't good as dead. We knew that they would patch things up. Thank God for that because otherwise, it would a different story. Not a lot to say about Moon's story other than he and his friends planning a heist to steal a dessert table on the night of the dance without one of the students, Quinn, noticing...spoiler alert, she did. She knew that the heist would be pulled off. And rather than calling them out and getting into trouble, she and Moon agree to have them and Moon's friends to have the table. And then we get to Wolf and Honeybee...
Yeah, so this is a thing. This is really a thing. Wolf and Honeybee getting it on to do the down and dirty because of him seeing the corn truck. Because of...corn. Corn. So this episode pretty much solidifies that Wolf may have a corn fetish. Hell, the couple almost had intercourse inside the vehicle before accidentally setting off the car alarm like they're a couple of people being drunk after having one too many drinks. Yeah, this has to be pretty much the weakest out of the four plots of the episode and an odd one to question why is corn fetish a thing. How does one get turned on by corn? How? Why? Let's get back to our regularly scheduled program and it looks like Bob who is batting up to the plate in the storytelling chair for Louise to listen to get something to be installed into her mind for her project.
Bob's story has Louise going into his 20s, note that Louise's design is kept the same. Just have different clothing on and not have her what she looks like in her early adulthood years. Donning her best Eren Jaeger look, Bob imagines Louise going to college instead of...oh, I don't know, taking over the restaurant as she stated in earlier seasons. Sure, she would have to go to business school which would add some leverage for the business to go boom or bust under her, but instead, she's going to college and have her go for a major in science, primarily as a biochemist. So she has a good degree and a good job to pay the bills with her salary. Except that she had to work her way up to get a promotion and the montage of her working and living in a cruddy apartment, having to rely on frozen food to survive...yeah, way too realistic to present there, Bob. Showing what "fun" adulthood can bring once you exit college. Showing her working hard on the job, only to showcase her in a cruddy apartment and having to rely on frozen food to consume. A small apartment with no roommate. All those things and also having to pay student loan debt would make you wonder where you are now or if you have a kid and have their future set...you might as well give them a reality check. What Bob is showing in a reality check on what adulthood is like and yeah, it's not fun. Do you think that's bad? Wait till you're in your 50s or 60s when you become an AARP recipient and your mind starts to deteriorate.
So once Louise gets the promotion to manager of the lab, her focus is solely on the ongoing cow shortage that was shown earlier in the story when Louise sees a news story about it while eating her dinner. You would think that climate change would be the primary idea of why there’s a lack of cows. That would have been the easy answer knowing how dry and hot the planet is getting. But there's no answer to why there's been a lack of cows. A lack of cows giving birth. A lack of cows means no dairy, no meat, nothing. So uh...good news if you're either a vegan or you're from the plant-based industry. I mean, it bad because cows in Bob's story are becoming an endangered species but at least no one can be able to eat beef. So there has to be a silver lining. Hearing the news about the missing cows with one of the cows, named Trudy, is the sole cow left on the planet after an attempted kidnapping. Causing Louise to have a light bulb shine over her head and begin to do the impossible. That is cloning a cow. Or at least create a surrogate calf to keep the cow population alive and going by messing around with some cells. But she gotta needs some help for her to do her part in the experiment and lo and behold...
She pays a visit to Tina at her horse farm which has a horse majority and a minority being other animals, one of which is a few cows. Enough for Louise to do the job and fix the ongoing cow crisis. Also for some reason in Bob's story, you have Jimmy Jr with him in the barn and wearing just his overalls. Already having Tina to not be mad at Jimmy Jr anymore over the gum issue. Yeah, this is really gonna be a long season. And this is only episode three. Louise got the cow preggers and she awaits for the animal to give birth and that's more than enough for the government to step in and surround the barn. Oh yeah, there's no villain in this story. Yeah, no antagonist behind the whole cow shortage other than...well, the human race for the whole cow shortage and why they keep disappearing in a blink of an eye. As for who snitched on them? We have no answer. You'd probably think either Tina tipped to the government. Or Jimmy Jr. Or hell, maybe Louise was followed because big brother, being big brother, loves to spy on folks and is not happy with what Louise is planning on doing, and here we are with the government, primarily the FBI, to surround the barn.
Causing the three to get them and the cow to go on the run. Although, love the callback to Season 1 where you have Jimmy Jr telling Tina and Louise that cows can’t go down the stairs and Louise telling him that they learned it from Linda a long time ago. Her pushing Moolisa down the stairs with some pillows after Bob brought the cow in after Randy and his crew left it in the dark in the middle of the rain. All of this is because Randy is making a documentary about labeling burger places as bad places and that meat is murder. It's been a while since we last saw Randy, huh? Three years. But even if the three get the cow down the stairs of the barn, they would still need to get away from the government's range. Luckily for Louise and Tina, they have connections.
And that’s where Gene comes in with his tour bus to serve as their escort to where the fishing boat is, which is of course, by the Wharf. Getting the cow and themselves into the bus as they make their way into city limits without having to be seen by the government. Though you have Gene going toe-to-toe against the cow while playing a round of foosball while being on the road. Because why not. Can’t just do nothing while making your way to your destination other than checking around to see if there’s a government car chasing after them.
The Belcher kids and Jimmy Jr finally arrive at the Wharf with the fishing boat led by Zeke, waiting for them by the docks and I gotta give some pointers for this episode besides the callback from Season 1. Because if you take a look at the Wharf, you'd think that once the movie comes out because anytime you have a movie based on an animated program like this one, you would have to go out all, guns-blazing on the animation and background that is tailored for the big screen. And rather than going back to the standard and having the Wharf presented to the pre-movie era with certain rides being missing, you instead have the rides that are present throughout the series and now, the rides that were shown during the film. One of which for example is the Mole Hill ride where deep inside the ride is the secret hideout for the Fischoeders is located. So that was a nice touch and hopefully not a reuse footage or artwork that is being added to the show. So a nice touch to usher in the post-movie era of the show. Just now kinda wish the writing and direction can do the same.
All four kids make their way to the Wharf and decide to hide in one of the booths, which is enough for them to give birth to the surrogate clone calf, experiencing the miracle of life. And just in time too...for the federal agents to go full holy hell on the booth by shooting and make sure what is happening inside doesn't get exposed to the public. Until the most anime-centric type of trope where they have to stop what they're doing and let the moment take its place. That being the calf has entered the world and the kids making their way to the fishing boat. And that's more than enough for the agents to stop firing as if...imagine if this happened during an actual battle in a war where you have bystanders being trapped in the middle of the action and one of them has to give birth during the battle. They had to go to the hospital and that birth would have both sides to take a time out and let the miracle of birth to take its place. Like one of the sides saying, "Oh...we gotta stop. We gotta stop firing. There's a bystander giving birth. Take five, guys. Take five." And they did as Louise carries the calf towards the boat and she, the calf, the cow, Tina, Gene, Jimmy Jr, and Zeke make their way overseas to ease the crisis, resulting in the kids getting Nobel prices, and thus...you have Louise taking over the restaurant of course. But you also have Tina and Gene doing the same. As if after they stopped the crisis and may have "solved" world hunger with the lack of cows, is where the two were to ditch their jobs and go with Louise to work at the restaurant. As if they agree to quit their day jobs and decide to do Bob proudly and work at the restaurant and thus, ending the story.
Is it enough for Louise to get her priorities straight? Knowing that it's the end of the episode, it has to be more than enough for her to get her stuff to do the poster board knowing how late it is. It must be around three in the morning by now if you look at the clock that doesn't exist. But not before asking Linda to do her work for her, only for Bob to step in and tell her to not do their daughter’s work. They already learned their lesson about what happened. But of course, leave it to Bob to try and at least come up with a decent story to help his daughter, so that's that to close out this anthology episode until next season when we get another one of these episodes. Might as well grab a drink, folks. We're gonna be here for a while.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So all and all, what do I think about this week's episode of Bob's Burgers? Well for once, it's better than last week's episode because "The Reeky Lake Show" was in complete cluster shambles when it comes to...well, everything. This week's episode, despite being an anthology episode, it's not that bad but it's not that great as well. We're talking average if we're gonna play it safe with this episode.
Out of the three stories that were presented in the episode, Bob's story has to be the highlight for this week. You have him highlighting Louise not taking over the restaurant for a short while, solving a crisis with her years of experience as a biochemist to help surrogated a cow to give birth to a cloned calf as if she's one of the scientists who once cloned a sheep back in the 1990s. Yeah, that happened. Look it up. Dolly the Sheep. No villains in the story other than the human race itself because we're all bastards at this point when it comes to the disappearance of cows as if we're committing a mass cleansing of the animal, just for...whatever reason other than helping the meat and dairy industry. Having Tina and Gene's help with Louise's research. The callback to Season 1 regarding pushing the cow down the stairs. The rides in the Wharf from the film are being added to the show. It was a decent story and out of the three that were presented for this week's episode, this was pretty much the highlight.
The first two stories from Gene and Tina...yeah...no. Not that I hate them but it felt bland. And I get that they're kids and let the kids be themselves when it comes to coming up with their own stories that are often based on various movies of years past. Even if it means having Millie go full yandere and attack Rudy enough to give him a wedgie because he got the roommate role and she didn't. And also Tina being mad at Jimmy Jr for not sharing a stick of gum. Yes, I hate it and the girl really needs to get her facts straight and do some people a favor. Other than that, out of the three stories, Bob's story has to be the highlight of the episode. Was it enough to help Louise with her poster board? Well, just pray that the whole "Louise planning on taking over the restaurant in the future" sentence from earlier seasons doesn't get thrown away. Because otherwise, we might be looking at a different story.
So final thoughts, it's not that bad but it's also not great. I enjoyed Bob's story because of him comforting his daughter and trying his best to tell a story. Both stories from Tina and Gene felt flat. It’s not that but we know that it’s not even that great either. Would say mixed feelings but we know that the rewatch factor is there for this episode. So I’ll give “What About Job”...
A 5 out of 10...yeah, that seems about right. A 5 out of 10 is the score for this week's episode and that's all I have to say regarding my opinions of this episode, and now I wanna hear yours. What do you think about this week's episode of Bob's Burgers? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Which of the three stories do you like from this episode? Comment below. Tune in this Sunday for another episode of Bob's Burgers where the Belchers and Teddy are going stargazing and make a wish that hopefully, this episode would be a turnaround regarding the direction this season is heading so far and we're only three episodes in. Onto the fourth episode of Season 13 we go with "Comet-y of Errors".
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