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Time Cowboy: Nov 4, 2007; But Tarzan... The strangest thing has happened! I'm as bare... as the day I was born!

It didn't pack in the belly laughs, but I thought that was a really sweet and well-done episode.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 19:50

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# ? Nov 16, 2025 12:04

swickles: Aug 21, 2006; I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just some QB that I used to know

FlamingLiberal posted:

The stuff with Bob was good this week, but everything with Gene and Courtney was bordering on painful

Yeah, in fact the one episode I have never rewatched, or will skip on reruns, is the Unbearable Like Likeness of Gene.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 19:57

Time Cowboy: Nov 4, 2007; But Tarzan... The strangest thing has happened! I'm as bare... as the day I was born!

Why are you skipping one of the best episodes of the series?

# ? Feb 15, 2016 20:00

JD: Jan 11, 2003

I have two words for you: bra vo

# ? Feb 16, 2016 01:22

twistedmentat: Nov 21, 2003; Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Hot! Ham and cheese! Hot! Ham and cheese!

# ? Feb 16, 2016 02:02

MrSlam: Apr 25, 2014; And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.

I liked it. Gene episodes are always kind of weird unless there's a big dramatic musical number, and the B-Plots were kind of underwhelming but I still enjoyed it.

Mr. Unlucky posted:

this show doesn't really do it for me anymore, just feels repetitive and more annoying than funny at this point. it was decent for a while though.

I think that since it's a Gene episode (and he's hit or miss with a lot of people) and that we've had near consecutive holiday episodes since the season premiere is starting to turn a lot of people off . When it comes to regular episodes it shakes things up, but with holiday episodes it comes down to "how is Thanksgiving going to get almost ruined" "how is Christmas going to get almost ruined" "how is Valentine's going to get almost ruined."

The good news is that there should be no more holiday episodes this season so come back in a few months to see if it floats your boat again.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 19:05

PassTheRemote: Mar 15, 2007; Number 6 holds The Village record in Duck Hunt.

The first one to kill wins.

MrSlam posted:

I liked it. Gene episodes are always kind of weird unless there's a big dramatic musical number, and the B-Plots were kind of underwhelming but I still enjoyed it.

I think that since it's a Gene episode (and he's hit or miss with a lot of people) and that we've had near consecutive holiday episodes since the season premiere is starting to turn a lot of people off . When it comes to regular episodes it shakes things up, but with holiday episodes it comes down to "how is Thanksgiving going to get almost ruined" "how is Christmas going to get almost ruined" "how is Valentine's going to get almost ruined."

The good news is that there should be no more holiday episodes this season so come back in a few months to see if it floats your boat again.

Also, I've only liked one Gene and Courtney episode. Courtney just does not work with me as a character.

Sexy Dance healing looks interesting.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 19:33

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

It was a good episode, could have used a bit more jokes.
Teddy was great again.
I really feel fox is forcing them to make a lot of 'holiday special' episodes.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 21:02

Ditocoaf: Jun 1, 2011

Huh yeah, right following the pilot it's actually been Basically Columbus Day episode, Halloween episode, Thanksgiving episode, Christmas episode, one exception (with the dinner party ep that seemed like it belonged at the beginning of the season), Valentine's Day episode.

I guess this must have been a purposeful "theme" for the season. Weird choice, but it's mostly been good.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 21:12

MrSlam: Apr 25, 2014; And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.

Ditocoaf posted:

I guess this must have been a purposeful "theme" for the season. Weird choice, but it's mostly been good.

I can't be sure but I think it's not so much a theme as Fox's horrible scheduling. You'll remember that they mention Gale is going steady with Mr Frond before the episode with the dinner party.

Fox does this a lot. You can head over to the Lucifer thread right now and read about how Fox moved a few end of the season episodes closer to the premiere so more people will start watching it and how it screwed up the storyline. From the gist of what I've read Bob's Burgers has lower ratings but a more loyal following than the big hitters Family Guy and the Simpsons, which translates to "The viewers are less likely to care that we change the timeslot and preempt the episodes for Grease Live and Football." It also has a very high rental rate on On-Demand type services so they probably think the episode premieres don't really matter all that much in the long run.

What this means is that they wanted to put the bulk of the season after a time when there won't be any schedule interruptions so they can attempt to maximize viewership. And they have to show the holiday episodes when they did because it's weird showing a Thanksgiving episode in January and a Christmas episode in February. So now that Football's out of the way they'll most likely move everything back to regular production order.

MrSlam fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Feb 16, 2016

# ? Feb 16, 2016 21:28

Party Plane Jones: Jul 1, 2007; by Reene; Fun Shoe

PassTheRemote posted:

Courtney just does not work with me as a character.

Same. The necklace sucking is super annoying to me.

Plus, seriously, please stop giving H. Jon Benjamin additional voice roles on the show. He's terrible at it and already does like 5 of them, 3 of which are just his normal speaking voice with a lisp. Seth McFarlane he is not.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 22:11

Whiz Palace: Dec 8, 2013

I've accepted that putting up with the weird, nasally voices is a sort of entry fee for enjoying the show.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 22:15

Kwyndig: Sep 23, 2006; Heeeeeey

Party Plane Jones posted:

Same. The necklace sucking is super annoying to me.

Plus, seriously, please stop giving H. Jon Benjamin additional voice roles on the show. He's terrible at it and already does like 5 of them, 3 of which are just his normal speaking voice with a lisp. Seth McFarlane he is not.

Look at this wrong opinion. Everybody except for the Belcher family and Teddy should be voiced by H Jon Benjamin, he's a national treasure.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 22:17

Mike_V: Jul 31, 2004; 3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks

Yeah that seems like a weird criticism. I guess you should avoid Home Movies like the plague.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 23:24

counterfeitsaint: Feb 26, 2010; I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

Party Plane Jones posted:

Seth McFarlane he is not.

Thank loving god for that, the world already has at least one too many of those.

Speaking of H Jon Benjamin, during the absurd hiatus I finally watched Archer. I wouldn't really call it binging since it took almost three months, but I still watched the entire show inbetween episodes of Bob's Burgers, and now it sounds so odd listening to Bob speak without insulting or shooting anyone, usually.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 02:09

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Bob's Burgers is best when they end up on some sort of crazy adventure, which is actually a lot of the episodes, so by comparison, the more down to earth ones like this one feel a little uninspired. It was still pretty good though.

Kwyndig posted:

Look at this wrong opinion. Everybody except for the Belcher family and Teddy should be voiced by H Jon Benjamin, he's a national treasure.

See but he has almost the exact same delivery in every character he voices. It's annoying to have not one or two, but several characters in the show sound obviously like the main character. Like imagine if in The Simpsons, several supporting characters were obviously Homer's voice?

# ? Feb 17, 2016 05:42

get that OUT of my face: Feb 10, 2007

Party Plane Jones posted:

Same. The necklace sucking is super annoying to me.

Plus, seriously, please stop giving H. Jon Benjamin additional voice roles on the show. He's terrible at it and already does like 5 of them, 3 of which are just his normal speaking voice with a lisp. Seth McFarlane he is not.

A lot of 11-year-olds have really annoying habits. And at least we got to hear the Jason from Home Movies voice again this season, so hearing Jon Benjamin's voice all the time isn't a total loss.

counterfeitsaint posted:

Speaking of H Jon Benjamin, during the absurd hiatus I finally watched Archer. I wouldn't really call it binging since it took almost three months, but I still watched the entire show inbetween episodes of Bob's Burgers, and now it sounds so odd listening to Bob speak without insulting or shooting anyone, usually.

I watched Archer ever since it first aired, and it took me a while into Season 2 to hear Jon's voice as anything other than Coach McGuirk, also from Home Movies. I've also noticed that in terms of character, McGuirk occupies the middle ground between Bob Belcher's family man who will do anything for his kids (albeit reluctantly at times) and Sterling Archer's womanizing, constantly drunk rear end in a top hat.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 06:33

Illinois Smith: Nov 15, 2003; Ninety-one? There are ninety other "Tiger Drivers"? Do any involve actual tigers, or driving?

Party Plane Jones posted:

Seth McFarlane he is not.

lol get out

# ? Feb 17, 2016 10:55

MokBa: Jun 8, 2006; If you see something suspicious, bomb it!

Seth MacFarlane is a much more talented voice actor than he is a writer. Don't fault the man his best talent.

I don't mind all the HJB voices though. It's part of Bob's Burgers charm. The voices (especially Linda's) were something of a roadblock for me at first. "Why do this woman and her teenage daughter have male voices?" Now it's "Why does this standup comic have a teenage girl's voice?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvHZBlHbN3c

MokBa fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Feb 17, 2016

# ? Feb 17, 2016 14:28

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

Yeah I think one of my favourite parts of the show was finding out Tina is just Dans normal speaking voice.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 18:09

Mike_V: Jul 31, 2004; 3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks

sweetmercifulcrap posted:

Bob's Burgers is best when they end up on some sort of crazy adventure, which is actually a lot of the episodes, so by comparison, the more down to earth ones like this one feel a little uninspired. It was still pretty good though.

I am the complete opposite for the most part. I think the show is at its best when it's dealing with quotidian stuff and it really brings out the strengths of the writers. I enjoy most of the episodes where they end up going on some weird adventure thing, but I think once it strays into the realm of the fantastical (like the talking toilet or whatever), the show suffers.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 18:24

MrSlam: Apr 25, 2014; And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.

Mike_V posted:

I am the complete opposite for the most part. I think the show is at its best when it's dealing with quotidian stuff and it really brings out the strengths of the writers.

I learned a new word today.
I mostly agree. The best moments from the show are when they take mostly regular problems and it balloons into something bizarre.
Tina wants an amazing birthday party? Okay, Bob has to be a graveyard cab driver to pay for it.
By the end of the episode Bob had to shave his mustache to give to his diaper-fetishist rival and ends up becoming friends and possibly a pimp to the town's transexual hookers.
And also he may have done cocaine.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 18:41

counterfeitsaint: Feb 26, 2010; I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

When I first started watching Bob's Burgers, Linda's voice/character was my least favorite part of the show. After seeing the videos that got John Roberts the job it's the complete opposite ...like a bunch of assholes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4c38Q7sYc

EL BROMANCE posted:

Yeah I think one of my favourite parts of the show was finding out Tina is just Dans normal speaking voice.

Another hilarious thing about the show. In the pilot she's a boy, and the studio wanted her to be a girl instead, so they made her a girl, but changed literally nothing else about the character, including the VA, and nearly all the dialog in the pilot.

MrSlam posted:

And also he may have done cocaine.

I'm not saying he did, but if he did, he liked it.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 18:52

Mike_V: Jul 31, 2004; 3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks

Even better, it was crack

# ? Feb 17, 2016 19:01

Kwyndig: Sep 23, 2006; Heeeeeey

counterfeitsaint posted:

When I first started watching Bob's Burgers, Linda's voice/character was my least favorite part of the show. After seeing the videos that got John Roberts the job it's the complete opposite ...like a bunch of assholes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4c38Q7sYc

Another hilarious thing about the show. In the pilot she's a boy, and the studio wanted her to be a girl instead, so they made her a girl, but changed literally nothing else about the character, including the VA, and nearly all the dialog in the pilot.

I'm not saying he did, but if he did, he liked it.

oh my god that video is like Linda came to life as a hairy man and it is insane and perfect.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 20:02

photo kiosk of life: Aug 31, 2004; Not the best role model.

Hey for those of you in LA, they're doing another Bob's Burgers live on April 29 at The Wiltern. Tickets go on sale Feb 19 at 10AM. http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/bobs-burgers-live-returns-to-l-a-april-29/

# ? Feb 18, 2016 01:44

PassTheRemote: Mar 15, 2007; Number 6 holds The Village record in Duck Hunt.

The first one to kill wins.

photo kiosk of life posted:

Hey for those of you in LA, they're doing another Bob's Burgers live on April 29 at The Wiltern. Tickets go on sale Feb 19 at 10AM. http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/bobs-burgers-live-returns-to-l-a-april-29/

I'd recommend going to LA goons, I had a lot of fun when they came to DC. Also, ask about the soundtrack. They do take fan questions.

EDIT - That April 29th show sold out, so apparently they are doing another show at the same place on the 30th.

PassTheRemote fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Feb 20, 2016

# ? Feb 19, 2016 20:25

text editor: Jan 8, 2007

new episode tonight marks the return of Jairo, the character that actually got me to watch the show (i was talked into attending a capoeira club recruiting thing in college and the bob's burgers parody was far too loving spot-on, which was my first episode and introduction to the show)

# ? Feb 21, 2016 07:30

smashpro1: Mar 1, 2009; Shirley, these things happen in video games. We can't get hung up on real-world morality.

Sexy Dance Healing
Following Bob's fall on the sidewalk, he ends up being taken care of by Jairo, who says that he can help Bob recover without the assistance of a doctor.

# ? Feb 21, 2016 16:45

get that OUT of my face: Feb 10, 2007

I think that the original Jairo episode was the first truly good episode of Bob's Burgers, and one of the only ones I watch again from Season 1. Granted, I'm biased towards Tina-centric episodes.

# ? Feb 21, 2016 19:46

PassTheRemote: Mar 15, 2007; Number 6 holds The Village record in Duck Hunt.

The first one to kill wins.

Bra-Zil!

# ? Feb 21, 2016 20:56

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Bob's got punblock.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 00:32

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

And if that doesn't work, just take peyote like in the old days!

# ? Feb 22, 2016 00:32

smashpro1: Mar 1, 2009; Shirley, these things happen in video games. We can't get hung up on real-world morality.

Capoeria Center for Capoeria.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 00:33

PassTheRemote: Mar 15, 2007; Number 6 holds The Village record in Duck Hunt.

The first one to kill wins.

Maxwell Lord posted:

And if that doesn't work, just take peyote like in the old days!

Maybe Coyote Johnny Cash will give you burger puns.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 00:35

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer