The next comprises spoilers for Bob’s Burgers Season 16, Episode 1, “Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening,” now streaming on Hulu.
Fourteen years and 16 seasons later, there’s nonetheless one thing new to study in regards to the beef-flipping Belcher household of Bob’s Burgers. To commemorate the show’s 300th episode, Bob’s Burgers seems to be again on the times that began all of it, whereas present-day Bob struggles to make an enormous change within the restaurant. Followers lastly get a have a look at how the restaurant started within the first place, together with why it is had so many grand openings (therefore the working joke within the title sequence) and the story of Tina Belcher’s delivery.
Bob’s Burgers has sprinkled tidbits in regards to the restaurant’s origins all through the sequence, nevertheless it by no means gave followers the complete image. Due to the Season 5 episode, “Father of the Bob,” followers know that Bob’s love for the kitchen was inherited by his father, however their disagreements about inventive burgers led to Bob pursuing his personal restaurant as a substitute of co-running his father’s diner. Bob’s ardour is what saved the floundering restaurant alive in spite of everything these years, however little is de facto recognized in regards to the position Linda performed in its upbringing, apart from that she was clearly an enormous a part of it. The Bob’s Burgers restaurant with out Linda, being the nice and cozy and welcoming presence that she is, is not any restaurant in any respect. Increasing on the transient flashbacks proven in The Bob’s Burgers Film, the Season 16 premiere takes a transferring deep dive into the animated household that everybody is aware of and loves, and the way they constructed their little group alongside the best way.
How Did the Precise Bob’s Burgers Restaurant Come to Be?
In a uncommon look, flashbacks show Bob and Linda earlier than they have been the homeowners of the restaurant. Like many younger {couples} with humble beginnings, they have been residing in a small studio condominium, discouraged by the boring day-to-day jobs of American capitalism. Although he had a full head of hair, Bob had practically given up on his desires, working as a line cook dinner making surf and turf day by day. Linda could not take being the receptionist for an insurance coverage firm the place her variety greetings weren’t reciprocated.
On a facet mission to the Surprise Wharf to spice up her temper, Linda noticed a vacant house (in response to creator Loren Bouchard, the format relies on his personal condominium in San Francisco) and inspired Bob to place a down fee on it together with her apartment cash. He rejected her supply out of concern of losing her cash and shedding a struggle to her dad and mom, however Linda remarked that this restaurant was not simply Bob’s dream. Linda wished to create one thing together with her life and her husband, and make folks completely happy on the identical time.
Whereas the restaurant couldn’t have been doable with out Linda, as Bob identified, it was her thought to name it “Bob’s Burgers.” The restaurant was born out of their mixed love for group, meals, and luxury. However that wasn’t the one factor born throughout that point. Boy-crazy teeny Tina occurred to return into the world on the opening day of the restaurant, and was the encouragement Bob wanted to maintain the restaurant open. The grand opening would possibly’ve been an enormous flop, however Bob and Linda gained a lot extra out of it that day, except for the delivery of their firstborn youngster.
Teddy helped construct the restaurant from the bottom up (regardless of going via a messy divorce), Mort and Edith have been two of the primary clients, and Bob’s groundbreaking cooking impressed Speedo Man to ditch the swimsuit and his profession as a trial lawyer for a liberating lifetime of rollerblading in his underwear. Bob and Linda did precisely what they aimed to do: convey pleasure to folks’s lives and their very own, one burger at a time.
The Restaurant’s Origin Story Celebrates the Coronary heart of Bob’s Burgers
The Season 16 premiere is not only one large flashback. The episode really begins with the household within the current day as Bob hesitates to boost the costs of his burgers by $1. Linda justifies the worth improve as a method to maintain the restaurant open and pay the payments, however Bob believes it is too large a change.
Within the meantime, the youngsters create a musical album impressed by their upbringing within the restaurant that bums Bob out much more. Bob’s indecision within the current day clearly displays the vomit-inducing state opening the restaurant put him via in flashbacks, in addition to the youngsters’ skepticism over the standard of their musical album.
A storyline about chasing one’s desires and accepting change is surreal for a sequence that is simply hit 300 episodes. In any case this time, Bob’s Burgers nonetheless has the identical appeal to it that made it soar within the first place. Solely now, the sequence options many extra episodes that tug on the coronary heart. From “The Superb Rudy” to “They Slug Horses, Do not They?,” Bob’s Burgers has become known because the animated sequence that has transitioned from unhinged comedy to character-driven slice of life tales. The present continues to be so humorous, however now it serves as an instrument of optimism, enjoying a tune that resonates with audiences even after the episode finishes.
The sequence continues to work as a result of at its core is a household who’ve at all times deeply liked one another and would not use hate and bigotry as a supply of their comedy. Characters fall down, make errors, and undergo downward spirals. However they at all times discover a strategy to get themselves again up due to the folks round them. Followers would not have Bob’s Burgers another means, so here is to 300 extra episodes of the Belchers.
New episodes of Bob’s Burgers air each Sunday at 9:30 PM ET on Fox.
- Launch Date
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January 9, 2011
- Community
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FOX
- Showrunner
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Loren Bouchard
- Administrators
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Tyree Dillihay, Anthony Chun, Jennifer Coyle, Wes Archer, Ian Hamilton, Tom Riggin, Bernard Derriman, Don MacKinnon, Kevin Wotton, John Rice, Simon Chong
- Writers
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Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, Wendy Molyneux, Kelvin Yu, Scott Jacobson, Greg Thompson, Katie Crown, Aron Abrams
- Franchise(s)
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Bob’s Burgers
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H. Jon Benjamin
Bob Belcher (voice)
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John Roberts
Linda Belcher (voice)
