We have finally made it, folks. Another season has come and passed. We’re into the off-season... Well, y’all are in the off-season. For yours truly, on the other hand, a three-week break, or rather, a two-week break, because having to do the recent Great North episode... doing The Great North. So, no off-season for yours truly, and I hope to God I get one going into the end of next season. Especially because the World Cup is next year, but it all comes down to where the 2025-26 AniDom season will take place. Especially when going through the 15-episode order for Seasons 16-19, thanks in part to the four-season renewal.
In this week’s season finale episode of Bob’s Burgers, Bob decides to take up countless nights of not getting any sleep that results in him having his creative ideas come to life as the kids decide to fling old pickles onto the wall of the alleyway in my spoilerific review of the twenty-second episode of Season 15 of Bob’s Burgers, titled “Insomni-Bob”.
We all experience that feeling in our adult life, where we question everything. Questioning how we ended up here. How is everything spiraling out of control? Why is time slipping away? Am I wasting my life away? It’s the many questions whenever you’re in a state where you feel like you want to do something in your life, but have never had the time to do so, because we were tied down to do important stuff like keeping a roof over our heads and putting food on the table. Wanting to do something fun and innovative, as well as creative and outgoing, but instead, feel like you may have possibly hit a dead end as your adult life progresses... or until you’re at the point where you’re dealing with a mid-life crisis.
It’s more or less wanting to do something that we never actually have the chance to do. We live in a 24-hour time cycle as the planet rotates, and during those 24 hours, it’s 8 hours of sleep as the recommended time to get a full, good night’s sleep, followed by 16 hours of whatever the fuck you want to do that should’ve spend it on other things, but instead, it’s getting up, getting ready, get something to eat, work from 9-to-5 or whatever your work hours are, and you get the idea. You get the feeling that your life is slipping away as time passes by. And that was when the daylight was out and about, but no one says anything about the night while everyone is asleep, unless you’re a nighttime security guard or a manager of a motel.
That is exactly what is going on with Bob in this week’s episode to close out Season 15. Having to pull all-nighters just to get the creative juices flowing because he never got the chance to do so when reading a book that was created by an old face that we haven’t seen since the end of the Obama presidency, which led to what I’m going to break down. Him becoming a night owl just because he wants to get things done, which was all fun and games at first, after reading a book, turns into a massive concern for the family regarding his well-being. This might as well be a heads-up regarding the moral of the story, well, one of them, being that sleep is important because it can cause some problems. I mean, take a look at how I do when doing these and keeping the page I run as a one-man band. Dead and cooked. So, one last time for the season for Bob’s Burgers until Season 16 and the 300th episode on September 28, might as well break this sucker down piece-by-piece, and yes, like Bob, I would have to pull an all-nighter if I have to that would turn it into a cry for help, this is “Insomni-Bob”.
The episode begins with another busy day at the restaurant, as per usual, with Bob going at it with the grill as he scrubs it clean before closing up shop for the night. The Belcher kids enter the kitchen, and right away, Bob asks the three to take the trash out, which includes the jar of mushy pickles that have seen better days. So, the kids do that without wanting to say that they don’t want to do the job, but end up doing it anyway. But other than that, Bob seems to be worn out while scrubbing the grill, and he wishes to get some rest after he is done cleaning things up.
We transitioned to outside the restaurant in the alleyway, with the kids doing their job in throwing away the various trash bags, and were planning on doing the same with the mushy pickles, before deciding to do something with the mushy vegetable once the pickles are picked out from the jar. Right after Gene ate the pickle, which is uh... why other than it’s Gene being Gene. The kids decide to flick it like it’s a game of paper football, if y’all remember that back in the day, while being in a classroom waiting for the bell to ring, and turn it into a competition between the three before Linda spots them, and tries to hide what they’re doing. Already setting up the subplot for the episode that will, of course, be likely to be overshadowed by the main plot with Bob. And speaking of Bob...
He reads a book before planning on going to sleep, as we skip over to later in the night. The book he’s reading is from an old face that we haven’t seen since the end of the Obama administration, that being Skip Marooch. He reads a book made by him, probably picked it up from a bookstore, grasping at straws if it was Skip himself who mailed Bob said book, but he reads the book and sees the various recipes he cooked up from his adventures across the world and added into his book. Adding the success that he already had, aside from being a world-renowned chef who knows ball about cooking. Bob, on the other hand, when reading the book, feels like the opposite because Skip has all the time in the world to bring out his creative juices and the success he’s garnering, while Bob, on the other hand, feels like he barely has time to let his creative juices flow through him when making the Burger of the Day. Ideas that he wrote in his notebook that he never had a chance to do aside from that one time, all the way back to Season 1, when making the Meat-siah as an all-in push to save the restaurant. And wishes that he could do more if he ever had the time, as if he were aiming to make his magnum opus when doing what he does best.
He rests up to go to sleep as we enter a montage in what is easily summed up as the “What the fuck am I doing with my life” phase. Having to lie awake after a quick nap that was supposed to be a full eight hours, when reading the alarm clock that reads 3:02 in the morning. Trying to get back to sleep, but can’t close his eyes until the moment the alarm rings to start the new day. It’s been like that to bypass the first act of the episode, but it does paint Bob’s little dilemma of time slipping away from him as night turns to day, that turns to night, with him starting to feel depleted after countless nights of not having to go to sleep.
To the point where Linda is showing some concern with Bob lately after noticing the state he is about to go through when undergoing sleepless nights. She’s worried about Bob going down a path where it could mess him up in the head because insomnia is no joke. Being sleep deprived can be a problem because, as much as he wants to do things, given how much time is slipping away from him when having to operate the restaurant and take care of the family, it can pose a risk to both the mind and the body and if he continues to do just that as we’re about to see as the episode progresses, especially his mental state, there’s some instants where it might be GGs. Bob decides to follow what Linda says by putting away the book and attempts to go to sleep, but here we go again with him lying awake once the clock this time reads 3:04 in the morning and stays awake until his body gives out until the morning hour and becomes, well, depleted. Drained after countless nights, two nights to be exact, thinking about what is wrong with his life as he embraces his time just wasting away, that he should’ve at least had time to focus on creating new stuff. Trying to find the time to make room for the stuff he wants to do, but never has the time because he has to operate the restaurant and having to take care of his family. That is, until we get to night three of Sleepless in Bob-attle...
Because at 3:01 in the morning, he decides to get off the bed and the house in general. On his way to the kitchen of the restaurant late at night, with him opening Skip’s book and trying to make something out of the book. Opening the book to a page for a Marooch Mint Sauce that he wants to add to the Burger of the Day to make it his own, and so begins his having to let his creative juices flow through his body, but as a result, he has to endure night after night of not being able to sleep. Having to wake up super early in the morning, or in Bob’s case, not sleep at all, the same way as if, say, you’re back in school, whether being regular school or college, and you’re struggling to find the perfect idea for a project that holds about... let’s say half your grade for the semester, and can’t think of anything throughout the day to the point where you lie awake and having to worry about the consequences that would come until one night, probably by the last minute, or on the final few days, to pull some sort of miracle that would woo the crowd.
And for Bob, with this, it’s him wanting to get down to business and wanting to get the creative juices flowing when coming up with new recipes to come up with... through Skip’s book, when creating a burger of the day, the same way a BBQ pitmaster has to wake up and smoke the meat slowly, just for the meat to be sensational, pause, once it gets served on the plate. And if it means having to pull multiple all-nighters just to get to work, so be it. Besides, it’s not the first time Bob has had to pull all-nighters when having to do work. So, Bob continues to pull an all-nighter in the kitchen as the montage continues to once again, night turns to day, and turns to night when entering a tired state. Looking like your boy when doing these things this past Summer: dead and cooked. No, seriously.
Going into the next scene, once the montage ends with Bob letting his body collapse and ends up waking up on the couch in the living room, courtesy of the kids, to sit up because they, along with Linda, want to watch TV. And look at him. Dead and cooked because he looks like someone who has been working nonstop, who knows his body wants to tap out, but his mind wants to continue as if it was going into overdrive, because he was in the zone when going through the recipe book. Getting the time he was supposed to have by creating new recipes for him to try out for the burger of the day. Of course, Linda is already showing concern for Bob and his well-being after noticing him missing at the dinner table and gives him his plate after waking up, because, as much as she wants to support what he is doing when trying to be innovative to get creative with his cooking, it’s unhealthy for him to slowly develop insomniac behavior and could pose a threat to his mind and body. Especially with someone his age, it could be GGs if this continues. So, Linda tells Bob that while it was fun for him to get his creativity going, he needs to rest, and he tries that by going into the next scene as we are about to wrap up the first act of the episode.
Only for Bob to say “Fuck no” once he once again decides to lie awake around the 3:00 hour and decides to go against Linda’s suggestion to get some rest, and makes his way to the kitchen, opening another page of Skip’s book, and cooks the night away as he is now embracing insomniac mode. And if you’re someone who is creative, like a chef or a content creator, and I had to type this out at 4:00 AM on a Saturday because procrastination mixed with a hint of ADHD... it almost feels like the episode is asking me to go get help. You fuckers robbed me of a summer vacation. Not to the cast and crew, but the schedule heads over at the network. Then again, the same would go for the Fall to Spring timeline; you see, the summer was the perfect way to recharge, but here we are.
Onto the second act of the episode, and the lack of sleep from Bob speaks for itself. Especially when he calls Teddy not by his actual name, but a condensed one by calling him Ted when serving him a burger. It’s a direct result of Bob having to feel insomniac, and it’s something that Linda and the kids would have to start getting used to, despite calls from Linda to put aside his late-night escapades because the state he is in currently is already causing concerns. Hoping for things to be over with, or until his body decides to wear itself out, and if it means tying him up just to keep him busy during the night that involves sleep, so be it. Though drastic measures shouldn’t be taken, and that won’t happen until we get to later in the second act as the Belcher kids enter the restaurant after school and notice the shape Bob is in, before heading to the back to continue what they’re doing that hasn’t been touched upon aside from what we saw during the montage. Speaking of...
We go to the alleyway with the kids, continuing to flick mushy pickles onto the wall of the restaurant as they were preparing to continue to mess around with the pickled vegetables, before checking on the shape of things that were stuck on the wall, that it feels like it was rotting away and quickly becoming dry as if the wall is absorbing, but not really. The Belchers’ next-door neighbor from across the alleyway, Mr. Huggins, makes an appearance and sees what the kids are doing, along with what they did to the wall of the restaurant. Talking about his experience when he once flung pickles into the walls, and one time into the ceiling of his high school.
But that’s not important because Huggins noticed what the kids did with the flung pickles that went from who could throw it the highest to a form of art. Making some sort of mural that resembles Bob, that it feels like it was intentional when doing this after getting the pickle jar. Almost feels as if they appreciate their father, but at the same time, some are worried about his mental state going downhill. As downhill as... well, pretty much everything in the world that the jokes write for itself, and it is getting depressing by the day. So, instead of wanting to continue playing the game of mushy pickle football, they decide to put on their invisible berets and continue to flick the mushy pickles, not for the competition, but to make a mural of their father as a way to show a little appreciation for the patriarchal member of the Belcher family.
Back to the main plot, going into the overnight hours, and here we go again for Bob, going into night four, staying up after midnight when trying to cook something up from behind the stove, and learning the step-by-step from the book. So far, it’s starting to work for Bob despite the loss of sleep he’s experiencing, but it’s a risk that he is willing to take if it means getting things done with the time he should’ve had throughout the day. One of those risks is hallucination, as he now envisions the man behind the book, Skip Marooch, voiced by Kumail Nanjiani, seeing the progress Bob is making despite the loss of sleep that he is going through. Once again, it’s not actually Skip being present in person because it’s Bob hallucinating due to a loss of sleep, and in comparison to getting high and having to go through hallucination that your mind is playing games with you. Especially when having to compare to... let’s say taking edible gummies that are laced with THC and having to go through a joy ride across town with your best friend and having to hallucinate your idol, a historical figure, telling you around that would serve into a life lesson, which is to tell a racist politician to go fuck themselves. And no, Bob’s thing is not the same as Kima’s (and Judy’s) because that’s all loss of sleep that doesn’t involve getting a permanent tattoo as a result of it. Even though Bob does have one, but that was after his cover was blown. Back to the topic at hand with the episode.
Onto the musical number we go with Bob and Skip, with the scenery switching from the kitchen to an imaginary world all within Bob’s head as the number progresses. All tied in with what Bob is doing and what he is cooking up, despite the lack of sleep that he is going through night after night. Finally getting the time he was supposed to have after having to spend most of his daylight operating the restaurant, struggling to make ends meet, and having to take care of the family that he never got the chance to do the things he wanted: which is to perfect the burger of the day with recipes that he never used to create when going through his notebook and now, he finally got the chance to do so. We adults can somewhat relate to do that because it feels like time is slipping away because you want to do something as if it were coming out of a bucket list that needed to be checked out, but has never gotten to do that because you’ve been slumped with work and other personal stuff that’s preventing you from wanting to do the activities you want to do. And it means losing countless nights of sleep to the point where it makes you hallucinate and could pose harm to your physical body, like your heart, for example. It might as well be the way to do it because life is short and you’re not getting any younger to do the things you want to do.
The closest I can think of to this situation, what Bob is going through, would be that one American Dad episode where Stan wants to have some me time, but never gets the chance because most of his time is spent on his family after a long day at work. And like Bob, he decides to pull all-nighters just to get his alone time, though that was with sleepless pills that the CIA conducted, and Francine would have to get involved by taking the pill, which led her to do her alone time by taking up marine research to find a giant squid. That’s the only comparison that I can think of when talking about Bob’s situation that he is in. At least the visuals are nice for the musical number, as always, as this is... well, we’re already past the beginning of Bob’s insomnia arc for this episode, more of trying to adjust as the episode progresses.
And that is exactly what the rest of the Belchers are trying to do, going into the next day with Linda serving Teddy a burger. Thought that this would blow over, but didn’t, and having to deal with him in an extremely tired state, like he’s a vampire minus the whole not seeing their reflection. And it’s already having family, especially Linda, becoming extremely concerned for Bob’s well-being, that it’s going to end up killing him if he doesn’t take a rest. To the point where drastic measures may have to be put on the table to get Bob to drop what he is doing and put him to rest... an 8-hour sleep to be exact, not putting him in a permanent one, or at least, a coma. So, drugging him would be the way to go, no Bill Cosby. Teddy suggests that Linda should have Bob take a piece of melatonin, a pill that should help a person sleep to get a full eight hours, despite Linda having to say the name wrong, but plans on taking Teddy’s suggestion as she plans on closing up shop early just so she can make it to the drug store. Again, no Bill Cosby when having to help Bob get to sleep by having a drug that should knock the daylights out of him for at least eight hours.
But not before she checked up on the kids and is now noticing that they were doing with the pickles that they were supposed to throw out, but instead, they were throwing the pickles onto the wall as if they had nothing better to do but to mess around and turn it into a game. Linda was supposed to scold her kids for not doing their job before seeing what they were actually doing on the wall of the back of the restaurant. Seeing the mural of Bob’s face through the pickles. Thinking that it’s the kids’ way of saying how much they miss him because of the state that he is going through of not having to go to sleep, but probably more of wanting to show their appreciation towards their father, no matter how much they want to hide it. So, Linda decides to join the fun in helping the kids throw pickles, putting aside the trip to the pharmacy for a bit. Which she did off-screen and went into the next scene.
At the end of the first half of the episode with Linda takes some drastic measures by taking up Teddy’s suggestion to have Bob swallow the melatonin to help him sleep. Bob doesn’t want to take the pill, acting like a child who refuses to take their medicine after getting a cold or flu, because he knows that if he takes the pill, he goes to sleep, and that would disrupt what he was doing right as we is in the zone when trying to perfect the recipes from Skip’s book and onto the burger for the Burger of the Day. That’s not going to stop Linda from forcing Bob to take the pill for him to swallow because what he is doing is harmful for him and is drawing major concerns for her and the kids, like it’s an addiction. Bob ends up swallowing his pride and decides to let Linda have this one by having to “swallow” the pill to get a good night’s rest. And y’all can already guess where this is going as we wrap up the first half of the episode. Especially when putting the quotation marks on the word “swallow” for Bob once he takes the pill and glass of water.
Because he didn’t take the pill. He instead decides to hide the pill that he was supposed to go to sleep per Linda’s suggestion, he decides to remove the pill from his mouth and onto the pillow once the clock reads 11:00 PM, before having to play the waiting game until 3:01 in the morning, and heads downstairs again to the restaurant. That’s somewhat schizophrenic behavior for Bob to believe that Linda is conspiring against him for not wanting his alone time cooking up new recipes for the Burger of the Day and wanting things to be successful. Even though Bob is not schizophrenic, he’s just sleep-deprived and can’t control his urges to cook at 3:00 in the morning, like it’s that scene from Rugrats, the original Rugrats, with Stu, looking like a zombie, cooking Angelica pudding. Bob’s mind and soon his body are about to turn into pudding if he doesn’t get the sleep he needs. The life and times of being an adult, I’ll tell you what.
Onto the second half of the episode, Bob has remained sleep-deprived after what Linda thought the melatonin would work, not knowing that Bob may have outsmarted her by hiding the pill rather than... I dunno, throw it away into the trash bin before heading downstairs, just to dispose of the evidence that would’ve made him innocent. But it’s something that Linda and the kids will have to get used to until Linda finds another way to get Bob to go to sleep. Probably need to start thinking of ways to knock him out before his body does that, and about to prescribe him with permanently laced Ambien by the universe like he’s a test subject for MKUltra. The guy is already losing it as if he’s going through a crashout. At least his body decides to tap out for him to fall asleep after having to stay up one too many nights. And this isn’t the first because this has happened a few times throughout the week, with him waking up when sleeping on the couch and missing dinner as one example. But yeah, drastic measures would have to be the way to go. Other than roofieing him or hoping for one of them to learn any move that could knock him out, like a pinch to the neck.
Checking back at the status of the pickle art that the kids are in the midst of making the mural of Bob, and it looks like things are starting to fall apart. The pickles are falling to the ground piece by piece as the juices that were absorbed after being picked from the jar are drying up that resulting in the pieces falling to the ground. The art looks deformed to the point where it looks like a frowny face. The kids see it. Mr. Huggins sees it. To the point where they want to continue doing what they’re doing, or at least, patch the art by adding more pickles, but decide to call it a day and let the mural fall apart to the ground. The pickles are now the raccoons, ants, rats, and cockroaches’ problems. It’s free eats for them.
Onto the next scene with Bob sleeping on the bed after having to be carried by Linda. And boy, it didn’t take long for Linda to expose Bob regarding the melatonin incident, and yes, we might as well call it an incident, with Linda spotting the melatonin that Bob didn’t swallow his pill that would knock him out. Meaning that Bob has been avoiding taking the damn thing after what Linda thought that medicine didn’t work, but in actuality, he decided to hide the pill, having to outsmart her, as if he knew that Linda was out to conspire against him and not want him to perfect his craft. But rather than having to force him to take the pill, Linda decides to mix things up a bit to get Bob to take the sleep medicine and get him the sleep he deserves once and for all.
By treating him like how you would treat a dog when giving it medicine, without having to be attacked. No need to wrap the pill with a slice of cheese, or up deep in the ass, pause, but instead, it’s crushing the pill, probably with a mallet, and blending it into a smoothie for Bob to drink, once again, no Bill Cosby. This is not a Bill Cosby scenario when it comes to lacing people’s drinks. Linda tries to play innocent when giving Bob the special smoothie for Bob to drink and has to make it’s just Bob and Bob only to drink it because the pill is mixed in it. One sip and it’s lights out. But knowing that we’re nearing the end of the third act of the episode, Bob knows what Linda is doing. Becoming paranoid, like he’s developing schizophrenic behavior, for him to know what Linda is planning on doing to him. Thinking that his food is laced with the pill to the point where he plans on giving his food to any of his kids, except that it’s on the drink because otherwise, it would turn a hoping to get back to normal family dinner night into a would-be crime scene. The insomnia is really taking a toll on Bob, and a lack of sleep like what we’re seeing is no freaking joke.
It has gotten to the point where Bob is about to make his escape with Linda chasing after him to take the laced drink, once again, no Bill Cosby, and ending up turning this into... well, a potential domestic case waiting to happen. Turning this into a game of tag when going into various rooms, from the bedroom to the living room, and back again to the kitchen. It’s times like these for them to hope to tie him down with a couple of ropes to make sure he doesn’t make his escape, or at least try a move that would’ve made him knock out, and then tie him up. I mean, they’re dealing with someone who developed schizophrenic behavior just for having to commit to the most dangerous game of try not to sleep challenge. But I guess it doesn’t even matter now because ending the third act of the episode and going into the fourth and final act of the episode...
We have a Bob on the loose, with him climbing down the ladders of the fire escape as he is preparing to make himself go to the ground. The man has pretty much lost his marbles. And the rain falling pretty much captures the mood of things, as Bob has to isolate from his family just to perfect his craft, because he never got any alone time, as all of his time went towards operating the restaurant and being around the family. He got his alone time for a few nights, but as a result, making him lose his sanity to the point where he’s starting to isolate himself from the family, despite that they’re worried about his well-being. But to Bob, his downward mental state is playing games with him as if they’re out to get him. And this is the result of the dangers of not having to go to sleep for a couple of days, which doesn’t involve having to travel cross-country. And you don’t need to ask a psychiatrist or read a psychology textbook, though you probably should, to know the consequences of insomnia. So, Bob makes his way inside through the back, but not before seeing the mural that the kids made, though already in the middle of being peeled off due to the juices that were in the midst of drying, which scared the shit out of him.
Bob plans on hiding from underneath the stairs once Linda spots him from the kitchen and goes into the basement after being spooked by the kids’ artwork. Hoping for Bob to come on out and confront her with the laced smoothie that has his name on it. But at this point, it has gotten to the point where Linda decides to give Bob what he wants, which is to leave him alone and mind his own business, while the insomnia is currently kicking him in the head. It’s amazing that the insomnia that Bob is going through didn’t pose a threat to him physically, aside from having to wait for his body to tap out, like a heart attack, and yet, his mental state is what is taking a toll from all of this. Especially for someone his age to deal with something like this.
Bob once again heads to the kitchen and continues to cook the night away. Going all out on making something for the burger going into the next day, and you can already tell that Bob has lost it, going to sound like a broken record, but he has indeed lost it when giving the book version of Skip a taste test of something he is cooking. Not knowing that he is pretty much staining the cover like how a five-year-old would go and mess around with something they’re not supposed to touch, treating it as a toy. A priceless toy that cost hundreds of dollars plus tax. Once again, it’s amazing how Bob is still standing despite his mind being excessively cooked. Fried. Crisped. Burnt like a leftover chicken nugget.
And it has gotten to the point where, as we are about to hit the two-minute warning of the episode and the current season, it’s Skip himself through Bob’s burnt mind who decides to give Bob a little talk regarding everything he is doing. Deciding to slap some sense into him when asking him if he is getting some alone time to get into the zone when making new recipes for the burger of the day worth it? Is it really worth it to do what he is doing, but as a result, putting his mental state to rot, putting his physical health in harm’s way, and having to isolate from his family, just because he didn’t have the time to perfect what he does best? That is what Bob is doing because Skip has a lot of free time. Becoming a successful chef, having to travel around the world, even if it’s for a work vacation, and having to meet someone like Chaka Khan. Whereas Bob, on the other hand, it’s the opposite because he can barely balance his time between running the restaurant, while also having to struggle to make ends meet, and having to be around his family.
This, of course, gets Skip to tell Bob that even though he (Bob) wants to explore new things and get the alone time he wanted because he can’t balance for shit when it comes to timing, it wouldn’t be right to leave his family hanging and it’s not because he heard what was going on earlier with the chase. Especially with Bob yelling “obstacle” when trying to avoid getting apprehended by Linda. But that’s not what Skip is referring to when it comes to everything that is going on. That goes to his restaurant. As much as he wants to go all out in making new recipes with all the time he wants to spend alone at the expense of his sleep and mental state, he should be proud with what he got because they should know how much of a hard worker Bob is and making people happy as if he became a part of the community. That, and also the fact that he didn’t do it alone and has his family on his side, shows that he doesn’t need to lose sleep just to perfect what he is doing, just to up the ante on his creativity. And as much as he wants to have some alone time just to cook things up, yeah, losing sleep shouldn’t be the way to go because you might end up as Bob in his current state. Looking like shit and probably smelling like shit. So, Bob decides to follow Skip’s suggestion and put aside what he is doing and head to sleep. But not before giving him one more taste test, before his mind sends him into oblivion. Signaling that this little experiment is finally coming to a close.
Back to the 3:00 hour with Bob not up on his feet this time around, and instead, he took a drink of the laced smoothie and finally decided to get a good night’s rest. Which is, of course, good for Linda that Bob is finally getting the rest he needs after four consecutive nights of not having to go to sleep. Count 'em, four consecutive nights of not getting sleep. Just be thankful that this shit is over with, because otherwise... well, again, it’s surprising that his body didn’t negatively respond to his insomniac episode during those four days. But at least things are starting to get back to normal, as always.
Leading us to the final scene of the episode and the season with the Belcher family, and a fully refreshed Bob, looking at... well, the aftermath of the mural that came crashing down, with Bob questioning what happened to the would-be mural when seeing the juices from the vegetable staining the wall of the building. Not knowing that he may have already seen the thing first hand when he went loco in the moco last night, that spooked him inside the back of the restaurant. So, at least we got that out of the way, and other than that, the pickles are pretty much the pests’ problem since they’re pretty much free eats for them to consume. And the moral of this story: Try to find a way to balance your time without having to resort to losing sleep if you want your brain to be turned to mush as a result.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So, all and all, what do I think about this week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers? Well, what a way to close out Season 15, and like Bob in this episode... we’re all tired after having to deal with what is pretty much a long ass season. But other than that, it’s a good episode to close out the season with Bob having to go all out in wanting to perfect his craft despite putting his mental health, and possibly his physical health, but it’s mostly his mental health taking a massive deep that it should be considered Olympic medal worthy throughout the four days he gone through without sleep. Especially when wanting to get some alone time when struggling to balance his time of day, wishing for the free time that he has.
It’s nice to see Skip Marooch back after nearly ten years, despite not being there in person, but in book form once Bob’s mental state decides to take a nose dive, once hallucinating. The musical number was nice. The visuals were lovely, as you expect from a musical number. And I guess you could say that this episode pretty much talked about the importance of mental health, as what I guess touched on previously, before regarding Bob when he suffered through burnout and the yips, both from Season 9, and shows that not getting sleep is no laughing matter. Should probably get on that before the new season, or for yours truly, the two weeks before the week of September 7, right after getting ready to work on the newest Great North episode. The point is, try to balance your timing, but also, don’t lose sleep.
But other than that, it’s a good episode, and what a way to close out the show’s fifteenth season. Preparing to enter a new season in less than six weeks with the show’s 300th episode, and oh boy, that’s going to be a doozy to cover. So, I’ll give “Insomni-Bob”...
An 8 out of 10. Adding the total number of the past twenty-two episodes that I’ve reviewed, including this one, it’s a 7 out of 10 for Season 15. Had to make some last-minute adjustments to a few episodes’ ratings to get the score going. But other than that, it’s an 8 out of 10 for this episode. Tell me what you think in the comments below. The review for “Anchor-Ham Adventure” for The Great North should be out this week, so be on the lookout for that. The next episode, the season premiere of Bob’s Burgers' 16th season set for September 28, with the 300th episode. Yes, at episode 299. We might as well just follow along once we get to the big night.
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