Only two weeks left for the current season of Bob’s Burgers, because we just had a double bill this past week, since this is pretty much the last season, at least for a while, that we would have a 22-episode count, because starting September 28, the start of the 2025-26 Animation Domination season, we’d be down to only 15 episodes because of the four seasons renewal. It has been a long summer, and you could say that once the season is over, we go and recharge before getting into the new season at the end of this month. But, of course, you all know where this is going; we still have The Great North to deal with. And yes, go and support the show if you have to. Hell, Fantasy Football season is coming up, make it a bet if y’all have to.
In this week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers, the first of the two episodes that came out from the double bill, the Belcher kids stumble across a boat yard to spend their Saturday morning, only to be trapped inside said boat yard and being cornered by a guard dog as Teddy plays the waiting game when bringing in a butterfly kit, waiting for the butterflies to hatch in my spoilerific review of the nineteenth episode of Season 15 of Bob’s Burgers, titled “The Dead Bo-ats Society”.
With Summer starting to wind down and kids going back to school, especially with us having to imagine the time when we have to imagine ourselves, what to do, or what we should’ve done before heading back. Or at least in this episode, what to do on a Saturday that doesn’t involve sitting on your ass all day. Pretty sure that’s Gen Alpha’s doing when having to stay put and be on their iPads. But the older generations, y’all know what it's like when having to spend some time away from the house on a Saturday... well, once you eat a bowl of cereal and watch Saturday morning programming, but still, y’all know what it’s like before technology took over our lives. And we Gen Z know it, mainly the early Gen Zers who were around before the first iPhone came out.
And in this episode, well, it’s pretty much might as well be a rethread of what we saw from “The Show (and Tell) Must Go On” as if it was trying its hardest to be like something coming out of “Fort Night”, the episode, not the game. Especially when having the Belcher siblings being trapped inside a scrap boat yard this time around as their location of choice on their Saturday, only to be cornered by a guard dog. Quite the adventure we got from them that nearly got their face on a t-shirt. And that is what the main plot is going to be, as if we’re going to treat this as, well, an '80s movie that may or may not have Stephen King’s name on it, probably “Stand By Me”, only if the movie focuses on the yard scene, and that’s about it.
It’s either head out to a new location that could potentially have you become a statistic or having to play the waiting game for a couple of butterflies to hatch, like with Teddy in the subplot for the episode on a Saturday morning. We might as well get these two plots out of the way in breakdown format for each scene in the episode, the first of the two episodes that came out this past Thursday, this is “The Dead Bo-ats Society”.
The episode begins on a Saturday morning with the Belcher kids finishing up their jobs for the morning, with Gene finishing filling the bottles to the point where he plays around the tongs as if he got himself a claw from a claw machine and pretending that he’s someone with a claw for a hand or maybe a robot and coming up with a name that is a play on astronaut Neil Armstrong, while Tina and Louise are wrapping up what they’re doing with Louise wiping the menus and Tina filling the napkin dispensers before calling it a morning as they got stuff to do as part of what they call it, what they call themselves, the “Saturday Morning Action Kids”, because they shit to do on a Saturday morning before the noon hours so they can be stuck doing restaurant work for the rest of the day.
Of course, Bob and Linda have a bit of an issue with what the kids are doing on a Saturday morning. The issue being that the three siblings always return late from whatever they’re doing, thinking that the kids are turning their morning around town into a trip as if they’re never coming back in the event they were ever get kidnapped, GG’ed, or plan on skipping because they don’t want to do it. The point is that, although they should be concerned for the kids’ safety, which is logical because parents should be concerned for their kids’ safety, because you never know what the outside world might throw at you, but it’s mostly because the two adults can’t hold the fort, especially Bob, for the incoming lunch rush. In comparison to earlier seasons, where they can handle it with no problems. But needs the kids to come back early or on time so they can get the lunch rush going. Especially since the town is expecting visitors from cruise ships, and some are about to come to the restaurant once they’re docked.
However, it looks like the kids have a problem of their own when it comes to what they do on a Saturday morning before returning to the restaurant. Because, according to Louise and Gene, the stuff they’re doing is mid. Mid as fuck that, of course, Tina doesn’t mind, as if the name of the game in recent Saturday morning escapades like finding a shell on a beach or a rock as if they’re delivering pizzas for the Krusty Krab. And that, of course, upsets Louise because they never got to do anything adventurous on a Saturday morning. Wanting to do a little risk-taking. Wanting to feel the thrill to the point where they’re ready to become statistics, much to Tina’s dismay, as if she wants to keep things safe so they can make it in time. Louise pretty much says fuck that and wants to feel the thrill for at least one morning. Just one Saturday morning to enjoy the thrill. And at this point, it might as well treat it like it’s “The Show (and Tell) Must Go” regarding the type of adventure they’ll be doing going into the next scene.
This is where we get both sides to create a little bet on this Saturday morning because the kids want to continue their Saturday morning with Louise wanting to have a little thrill in their lives, much to Tina’s dismay, while Bob and Linda think that the kids won’t make it back in time and need them working for the incoming lunch rush. So the bet is simple: Louise is going all in on the bet that puts Gene and Tina on edge over what she is betting on, where if she and her siblings return on time or minutes or hours earlier, they get to keep their Saturday morning adventure. But if they return late with 11:00 AM as the deadline, they lose their Saturday morning escapades and will have to work the entire day for the rest of their childhood. You’d think I’m paraphrasing as if I’m overreacting, but that is actually the offer that was made. Either make it on time or lose their Saturday morning outside the restaurant for good. And as much as Tina and Gene, mostly Tina, do not like the idea that Louise has to create, which would put their Saturday morning at risk, they end up accepting the bet, and with that, we have ourselves a bet and a main plot going forward.
This leads us to the next scene, just moments later, with Tina, Gene, and Louise on bikes looking for a place and what to do for the morning as the clock now begins to tick. Of course, it’s a back-and-forth debate over what to do for this Saturday, with Louise wanting to get a thrill for the morning, while Tina hopes to continue the mid-adventures if it means getting back home on time so they can keep their Saturday morning intermission. And Louise will make sure that what she wants to do will abide by the rules. And it didn’t take long before the Belcher kids found the location for them to spend their Saturday morning at a nearby scrap boat yard and explore the place around. Not knowing that the place has a “beware of dog” sign posted on the front gate, and the dangers that are about to come.
And I know what you’re going to say. Oh, it’s just a short visit to the place. It’s just a place filled with rusty old boats that may serve as a hazard for them, and the place would remind you of that one scene from the movie “Stand By Me”, if the focus of movie focuses solely on the scrap yard, this can’t cause a problem for the three. Especially when having to take a tour around the place and possibly getting on a boat and doing just that before getting home on time if they want to keep their Saturday morning intermission. What’s the worst that could happen to the siblings on their Saturday morning?
Try the owner of the scrap yard being present, not knowing that three kids may have trespassed on his place. Right as he was coming out of the bathroom after minding his business inside, once again, not knowing that three kids had entered the yard without even noticing because the door covered the window when opening. Let alone the dog not even detecting any sound from the voices alone while walking around and passing around the house without any detection whatsoever. Pretty sure most dogs do that, especially when being inside the house, and have detection if someone were to make their way or just walking around. If you’re a dog owner or come across a dog while you’re out on a walk, you know what I’m talking about
Back at the restaurant, to start the subplot of the episode with Teddy enters the restaurant and has to carry a net, revealing it to be a butterfly kit, with Bob questioning why he would even bring it to the restaurant of all places for him to take it there. Because why the fuck not? It’s not like y’all have somewhere to be because of the incoming lunch rush, and also, the little bet you made with your kids at the start of the episode. Anyway, Teddy brought in the butterfly kit because, well, why not? Other than showing Bob and Linda what he was doing with the kit, which featured three caterpillars undergoing metamorphosis as they were in chrysalides, as Teddy had to correct Bob on what the three critters were doing. We have no reason why Teddy is taking care of the soon-to-be-butterflies other than telling us to shut up and just follow the script, but all we know is that is what the subplot is going to be for the episode, which is Teddy playing the waiting game because he’s waiting for the moment the caterpillars complete their evolution into butterflies the same way a husband would have the stick around and not do any plans right around the due date because he never knows when his wife is going to give birth.
And that is exactly what we’re seeing with Teddy having to wait for the butterflies to come out. Nine days that he waited for the critters to hatch to the point where he had to be muted and not do anything loud, like banging a hammer when doing his job, by doing some soft banging so it doesn’t disrupt the process. That, and also him not having to take a shower for a few days because he doesn’t want to miss out. Don’t know if sleep is also something that he should miss out because who knows if they hatch overnight, but we don’t see Teddy looking as if he’s an insomniac when waiting for the caterpillars to hatch. Once again, it’s like a husband waiting for his wife to give birth. So uh... pretty much a preview of if he and Kathleen were to get steady and want to have themselves a kid. Foreshadowing? Who knows. Then again, we had an episode of The Great North with Wolf and Honeybee trying out what kind of parenting skills they want to take as if they’re planning to have a kid of themselves when watching over Judy and Ham while Beef and Moon were away and having to house an a cappella group when their bus broke down. They’re pretty much edging at this point, even though they have no plans for that... at least for right now.
We go back to the Belcher kids at the scrap yard as they continue to check around the scrapped boats rusting away after being used that pretty much sums up a boat graveyard if you think about it, with the Belcher kids getting up and messing around with a worn-down yacht. Pretending to be in the ocean with said yacht as if they’re a couple of rich folks and hoping they don’t get hit by a couple of pissed off orcas. They stayed like this for a while until they decided to call it a morning and plan on heading back home that could be an easy win for the kids for the bet they made with their parents, which would reward them by keeping their Saturday morning break despite that it feels like, well, a bit of a dud despite that they did they trespass the scrap yard. But, right as the first act of the episode is about to wrap up, and the kids are about to make their way off the worn-out yacht, of course, the owner of the scrap yard is about to head out for the day, leaving his dog to guard the place while he’s away.
And now, ending the first act of the episode and going into the second, they’re pretty much trapped with no way to go now that the guard dog has cornered them in every direction. No kidding, when the kids tried to get out the other way, the dog, in lightning speed, ran to the other side of the boat, and thus, was cornered. Nowhere to go. So, going into the second act of the episode, the Belcher siblings are pretty much trapped from all directions, which is bad because no one is there because the owner of the place decides to leave for the day, leaving the dog to guard the place and decides to go on attack mode and could be seconds away from having the siblings to become statistics. Tina, of course, is upset with Louise because she didn’t expect that a short, simple visit to the scrap yard would turn potentially deadly because of a killer dog in the vicinity, since it was her idea. That, and also making that bet that is already making her (Louise) a dumbass that could ever prevent them from going out on a Saturday morning. And Louise already knows this upon entering the scrap yard, but reminds you that she didn’t even know that it was going to happen, but they saw some 80s movies, as mentioned from the start of the episode, so they’re in a situation like in the movies. Once again, think of “Stand By Me” if the movie solely focuses on the scrap yard.
It didn’t take long for Louise to find somewhat of a way out without having to get on the ground, so they don’t become that dog’s chew toy by turning their escape into a dangerous game of the floor is lava, if the dog is lava. Louise spots the two neighboring boats next to the one they’re standing on and decides that it should be their ticket out. It’s a risky one, but it’s their only chance if they want to make it out alive. Especially since they have nothing to throw to serve as a distraction without having to rely on what they’re going to be planning on doing, so boat jumping would have to be the way to go. Using the ladder that is showing its age to serve as the bridge, and hoping that it doesn’t break under their weight, and could pose a threat with the dog waiting for them to come crashing down. Once again, they ain’t planning on becoming a statistic on a Saturday morning. They want to get the fuck out of there and have a bet to win if they want to continue what they’re doing. Just not a repeat of what they’re doing currently.
We check up on Teddy, with him waiting for the butterflies to hatch, and seriously taking the dedication to heart when having to play the waiting game as he tries to film the hatching as if he’s running a little live stream with little battery that he has on his phone. Didn’t even bother charging and could get a charger, but much like a soccer fan wanting to go use the bathroom, but has to hold it because the moment you go, a player will score a goal, Teddy doesn’t want to miss out on the butterflies’ hatching. And he is mad focused with the phone in hand as Bob tries to give him a cup of coffee, since he’s going to need something to drink after having to wait nine days. At least he’s not an insomniac because otherwise, well, we would be seeing bags under his eyes and not the one that is a part of his design.
Of course, Mort is coming into the restaurant and sees the butterfly kit with his own eyes. Trying to make conversation with Teddy and everyone about the kit because he got a niece who owns one. Once again, trying to make conversation with Teddy, who was trying to be focused, and also hoping for him to shut the fuck up because he doesn’t need any noise that could disrupt the process. Sadly for Teddy, his phone died while he was filming, and he ended up blaming Mort just for talking about the kit and yelling out butterfly facts. Even though that’s all his fault because he didn’t charge his phone. But sure, bring on the Mort slander coming from Teddy. Seriously, what the fuck is Teddy’s problem? How the fuck did it all begin?
Going back to the main plot of the episode, with a dangerous game of floor is lava, with the kids placing the ladder onto the other boat to serve as a bridge when having trying to get to safety, so they don’t want to have their faces on a couple of t-shirts. They’re just hoping for the ladder, despite that it’s showing its age when used as a bridge. Might as well treat it as if it’s the bridge from “Sea Me Now” that was rickety and old when describing the situation. Louise goes first to cross because she’s the youngest and the lightest, as she easily crosses the ladder and makes it to the next boat. Gene also made it to the next boat, but the ladder is starting to show its age, mostly with Gene being the heaviest of the three siblings, but he made it through to the next bridge. And the same goes for Tina, and it was a close call for her when crossing the ladder bridge, as she felt the pressure of the bridge as if she were afraid that it was going to break apart upon crossing. But she made it through with no issues, and all three siblings are on the next boat, which is the good news. Everyone is unharmed, and the ladder, despite being rickety and old, is still holding up. The bad news, despite being the second boat of the three before making their escape, it’s a long ass distance from the gate than it was originally planned. And might as well get this out of the way, the boat is way too high to get on the deck, so the only entrance would be the hole to the inside. But still, a long way out before reaching their way out of the scrap yard and away from the dog.
Jumping back to the restaurant with Teddy, now feeling constipated after drinking his cup of coffee with his body was telling him to go use the bathroom. In which Teddy tries to fight the urge and wants to stay in his seat because he knows that the moment he leaves, the butterflies are going to hatch. It’s pretty much a losing battle for the guy as he continues to fight with his body to hold, before ending up being forced, especially when being told by Bob and Linda, to go use the bathroom. So, Teddy does that, hoping that it will be a quick visit before getting back to his seat. But boy, that move might as well be his biggest mistake the moment he sits on the toilet.
Because the butterflies decide to hatch. Bob and Linda watched it firsthand the moment they watched over the kit with their own eyes while Teddy was in the bathroom. Teddy pretty much made a massive mistake in leaving his seat to go use a quick bathroom, hoping for a quick trip to use it despite feeling constipated, and now, he is missing out on seeing the butterflies hatch. It almost feels as if the butterflies, formerly the caterpillars, don’t want to hatch whenever Teddy is around, and the moment he goes to use the bathroom, is when they decide to come out. You’d think that it sounds petty, but uh... yeah, I guess you could say that even though you don’t want to rush the process when it comes to the evolution from caterpillar to butterfly. But other than that, Teddy chose the wrong time to feel constipated and had to go use the bathroom for the butterflies to finally hatch.
Going back to the kids in their escape attempt, as we prepare to wrap up the first half of the episode with them using the ladder to get to the next boat, once again. Of course, the next ship is too big for them to use the ladder to get to the deck. Meaning that their only way into said boat would be to get inside through that hole. But this time around, instead of last time, where it goes from youngest sibling to oldest, it’s the opposite, with Tina going first with the ladder still showing its age as each Belcher sibling climbs their way to the next boat. And wouldn’t you guess it? The ladder hung on without having to break apart. The same goes for Gene, but some cracks are starting to form, but still held because, again, it’s an old ass ladder and its age is showing each time it’s being used as a bridge. So, Gene made it through and joined Tina on the next bridge. But once Louise climbs the ladder bridge...
One of the steps decides to break, causing Louise to latch on for dear life while holding on to one of the steps with the dog waiting for her to fall. Thinking that it’s free eats if Louise were to fall. Luckily, that didn’t happen because Louise decided to get over one of the steps and continued to climb before making it to the next ship to join her siblings inside the boat. Kind of wish she should’ve done that during PE, according to Tina, though, don’t rule out monkey bars as the source when climbing in the event you have to do something like that. Especially when there’s a blood thirsty dog waiting for one of them to fall.
The siblings safely made their way into the next boat, the last one before getting to the gate for them to escape. Taking a quick look at the place with Gene picks up a random crowbar, a tool that will be used for later, before readying to grab the ladder and about to use it for their way out once they decide to go up to the deck. But right as they get the ladder from the other boat for them to use, it looks like more problems are being thrown at the Belcher kids as we are about to close out the first half of the episode.
And that is the support that carries the boat decides to break due to the weight of each sibling, along with the ladder that they’re bringing in, along with weak support that was showing its age, which caused the damn thing to collapse. That collapse as we close out the first half of the episode and go into the second turns the episode into a “Fort Night” esque situation with them now trapped inside the boat. Not to mention, the boat being flipped upside down following the collapse of the support that carried the boat made the situation worse for them in their escape attempt. The good news is that because the boat flipped upside down, the hole that they went in landed on the fence. The bad news, the fence is blocking their exit. What? You’d think that the boat would take them to the entrance? Fat chance. And besides, the front entrance, which is pretty much the only entrance and exit for this scrap yard, is locked up since the owner has to leave for the day. They thought about going down into the hatch as their way out, as if they thought that the collapse would scare the dog away. Spoiler alert, it does not. The dog is still hightailing after the three and is now sitting ducks. Meaning that they now need to find another way to escape as they decide to give a tour of the old boat. Though with a pissed off dog waiting for them as if they’re pieces of raw meat, just putting it out there, might as well reconsider the decision of wanting a pet. At least for a while. Just putting it out there.
Back to the subplot with the butterflies freshly hatched from their cocoons. Teddy’s first time seeing the butterflies with his eyes, though he wishes he had seen them hatching with his own eyes, if it weren’t for him having to feel constipated from drinking that coffee from earlier. But alas, he finally gets to see the butterflies in his own eyes and acts like a proud father seeing his kid for the first time after his wife had given birth. And you already know this is going to be regarding Teddy’s behavior after seeing the butterflies, especially after Bob and Linda concur that the butterflies should be let out in the air from their kit, so they can fly around. Teddy is already developing a case of empty nest syndrome with the way he is now acting the moment he sees the butterflies with his own eyes after coming out of the bathroom. And the subplot is going from having to play the waiting game in the first half to now convincing Teddy to free the butterflies the same way people are asking the government to release the Epstein files.
We check back at the Belcher kids with who are continuing to find another way to escape as they tour around the boat. Entering the sleeping quarters in search of an exit, with Louise having to climb the bunk beds to see if there’s anywhere for them to escape, while Gene... being Gene, has to lie on a soggy mattress that’s been rotting for ages. Louise checks up to see if there’s a way out of here, but the only luck she can find from the boat is a hole that only fits her head, and a tiny hole that shows some sunlight shining. So, it appears they’re back at square one due to the size of the holes. Both holes, to be exact, so they’re pretty much trapped until they need to tour across the boat and find another way to escape. But it looks like that’s going to have to wait because it looks like their killer unexpected guest decides to bullshit his way into the boat.
Yep, the dog somehow made it into the boat as we prepare to close out the third act of the episode for no whatever reason for how it even got into the house, but might as well go along with it. The dog stumbled into the boat once the siblings heard growling in the background and decided to hide... by hiding in the cabinet, since they were pretty much cornered like a couple of pests when trying to escape being stomped upon while invading a house. That’s their current situation when trying to find another way to escape. Turning into a “Fort Night” type of situation, but it doesn’t really feel like the episode at all. Funny enough that I saw the episode before this episode aired this past Thursday, so that has to sum things up, describing the situation the kids are in. Only to make a regular episode and replace a truck that was about to turn them into pancakes with a killer dog ready to commit multiple child abuses, in GTA.
So, onto the fourth and final act of the episode with the kids remained trapped inside the cabinet with nowhere to go and nothing to distract the dog or nowhere to escape. Still going to leave people baffle for how the fuck the dog even got into the boat but the only way for the dog would be if y’all remember at the start of the third act when the boat was flipped upside down, there was a bit of a hole that covered the exit and the kids thought it would be their way out, only for the dog to rush his way to the door in lightning speed would be to somehow pull himself into the hole. That’s the only way I can come up with for how he got in, entering the final act of the episode.
So yeah, the kids are trapped inside the cabinets while the dog is waiting for them to come down, and boy, it didn’t take long for Tina to crash out towards Louise because of the bet that she (Louise) made at the start of the episode with their Saturday morning on the line. Hoping for something safe and mid but would have them arrive home on time, but Louise’s big mouth and having things spiral out of their hand is what's going to cost them their Saturday morning. That is, if they don’t become statistics themselves first. So, Tina already knows from the start, the moment things spiral out of control, once the bet was made, and having to follow what Louise says was a bad fucking idea, and she wishes they had done things her way, like finding a seashell. Treating the situation like it’s the cannonball issue from Season 13’s “The Show (and Tell) Must Go On”.
Luckily for the kids, following the crashout and Gene picking up the tongs, Tina found another hole from inside the cabinet, and it turns out, it might be their way out. It’s a small hole, like what Louise saw earlier, but it might be their best shot yet, since we’re now only four minutes left in the episode. They just need the right amount of tools they need to get to expand the hole for all three to make their escape. The tongs are one item that Gene picked up. So the next item up that they need for them to take to create a bigger hole would be, wouldn’t you guess it, the other item that Gene picked up earlier in the second half, and that would be the crowbar. In which Tina ends up volunteering with Louise and Gene, because Gene already found the tongs, so Tina has to go and risk her life by getting the crowbar.
Which she does, going into the next scene while Gene is distracting the dog with his sock to serve as a distraction, while Tina gets her hands on the crowbar and gives it to Louise, and prepares to get back up into the cabinet for safety. Quite the close call there from Tina after she tripped onto the floor, which caused the dog to go after her before having to go up right in the nick of time. Massive close call there from her. But it was worth it as she made it to the top and for the siblings to open the hole, making that bitch bigger, for them to make an escape. Of course, it’s a team effort, so all three have to give it their all with a crowbar and a pot that Tina finds at the last moment to serve as support to open the hole.
To no one’s surprise, they made it out alive and unscathed once they made it out of the boat and the scrap yard, as we are about to enter the two-minute warning of the episode. At least the boat didn’t collapse again like with “Fort Night”, where once everyone made their escape, the fort was crushed by the truck. They made it out unharmed, that’s all that matters. No one is getting sent packing because they all appear in the next episode. But other than that, they’re free, and now, they have to beat the clock to make their way back to the restaurant since it’s about to be 11:00 AM soon. Oh yeah, y’all already forgot about the bet, huh?
Well, Bob and Linda, going into the next scene as we enter the two-minute warning, almost forgot about that once the clock hits 60 seconds. Thinking that shit is going to be sweet for them because, again, if the kids arrive no more than 11:00 AM sharp is when they lose their Saturday morning and would have to spend their mornings working 9-to-5. Not even knowing that they could get hurt or trapped or whatever shit they would deal with while being out and about. Especially with Teddy being hesitant to release the butterflies because he treats them like it’s his own kids. Doesn’t want to deal with whatever shit the outside world would throw at them. Though Bob and Linda, especially Linda, don’t pretend that you would have sudden cases about empty nest syndrome in y’all’s systems, like what we saw in previous occurrences, in not wanting to see your kids grow up and apart. Don’t shit on it. Other than that, Teddy releases the butterflies, giving them names Tyler, Jessica, and Eduardo, as if, again, like it’s own kids. Probably a preview if things go seriously with the relationship between him and Kathleen.
The kids made back at the buzzer beater. Therefore, Bob and Linda lost the bet. Yeah, how does that feel about thinking that shit was going to be sweet. Especially right around the buzzer beater once 11:00 AM hits. So, Bob and Linda lost the bet and, of course, they had to respect it rather than challenge it because we’re only a few seconds left in the episode before the credits roll. Meaning that the kids will get to do their Saturday morning adventures the following week. Although after the shit they went through with them nearly becoming statistics when trespassing into the scrap yard, they should keep things minimal and not want to have their faces on t-shirts despite Tina wanting to do some thrills after what just happened if she had gone through a complete 180 upon returning. But that should be it for the episode once the first set of cruise visitors make their way to the restaurant, and Teddy is already regretting releasing the butterflies after what the kids had gone through. And the moral of this story: Be mindful of whatever crap the outside world may bring out because it could make you a statistic when doing an adventure of your own.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So, all and all, what do I think about this week’s first of the double episodes of Bob’s Burgers? Well, if I have to be honest, out of the two, the one that is about to be covered next, after posting, this was the weakest of the two that came out this past Thursday. I mean, it was trying to be like “Fort Night” with the kids having to be trapped inside the scrap yard and in the boat while a dog wants to pack them up and is about to send them to the upper room, but it’s more or less like “The Show (and Tell) Must Go On” because the idea was Louise’s doing and Tina having to be against it.
I know that it’s trying to be like what the movie “Stand By Me” would be if the movie only focused on the scrap yard, like with this episode, but it almost feels like a nothingburger if you ask me. I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it either. The rewatchability is there, so I guess you would have to tell me what you think in the comments after watching it. Both plots were a bit dull, and while some close calls were there with Louise nearly falling when the step breaks or Tina about to get the dog’s attention when getting the crowbar, you knew that the kids would win the bet regardless, and especially at the buzzer beater at the end of the episode.
But other than that, along with the subplot not that great as well, with Teddy having to take care of the butterflies without any given reason why other than to just follow along, it was average at best, and also forgettable. So I’ll give “The Dead Bo-ats Society”...
A 5 out of 10. But that’s my opinion, and I want to hear yours in the comments below. We got the second of the double episodes coming out later this week with “Dad-urday Kite Fever”, followed by a brand new episode this upcoming Thursday with the penultimate episode of the season, nearing the end of Season 15, with “Mr. Safebody” for August 7.
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