u/Thebowlerhatfroggo

Just thinking about those “worst thing X character has done“ posts you see a lot on Reddit. What’s the worst thing that Adam, Jonny, Jackie, Martin & Jim have done?

Adam - Getting Jonny in trouble with his boss

Jonny - Getting married at his friend’s stag

Jackie - Physically hurting Martin after his dream with Lady Di

Martin - everything with The Caravan

Jim - Being a creep with Jackie in the earlier episodes

What do you think? Anything I missed? Any characters I should add?

First of all - I love Friday Night Dinner. It’s really funny, the characters bounce off one another super well and it just really works as a show. However, there’s one aspect of the show that really bugs me.

Why does Jackie never get punished when she‘s clearly in the wrong? There have been many instances where Adam or Jonny or Martin gets punished for their wrongdoings, why not Jackie?

A few examples of Jackie clearly being in the wrong are in “The Loft” and “The Plastic Bag”. In The Plastic Bag she’s upset at Adam for not making his paper interview entirely about her and lords that over his head, and then proceeds to gang up on Jonny and put his coat in the tree for seemingly no reason other than to be cruel?? The Loft is even worse, where we learn she’s been physically hurting Martin for a week over a dream. That’s not addressed at all in the episode.

I like Jackie as a character, but she does some really awful things sometimes that go unpunished. That really annoys me.

I’m bored. Basically, describe an episode of South Park in the most vague way possible and I’ll try and guess what it is. If you’re not familiar with this sort of game, go search up “people describing movies badly”, and you’ll know what to do. Have fun and be creative with your descriptions!!

What would you say the best and worst title for an episode of Bob‘s Burgers is? For me, the best title is probably Season 4’s “Bob and Deliver” or “The Kids Rob a Train”, simply because I love how up front they are.

As for worst? Those really long ones are quite bad, but if an episode has a title that’s a pun on “Oh No You Didn’t“ then I’m fairly certain I’m going to like it less for that reason alone.

What do you think?

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My question to you is: what kind of phones do the characters carry? What do they do on them?

My headcanons are shown above, what do you think?

I was watching the show with a friend the other day and he pointed out something interesting - the show seems to be lacking in masculine male characters. And even at that, the ones that are ”masculine“ tend to be less than agreeable people - e.g. Jimmy Pesto, Sgt. Bosco, etc.

I want to prove him wrong and say that there are characters on the show that fit the titular description, but I’m drawing a blank. Any ideas?

If you’ve been following my posts, you know I love background characters. I love the fact that we, as fans, effectively have free rein to build upon these background characters. This time, I’ve elected to write an episode based around Jen the Babysitter. Now, admittedly, I’m playing with fire with here, as Jen’s whole bit is that she’s really mysterious, and giving the audience any sort of idea of what Jen’s actually like kind of messes with her characterisation, so I had to write around that.

The episode opens with Bob and Linda returning home, incredibly drunk after an after party of either a restauranteering seminar, a concert or a funeral. They’re both collectively too smashed to recall. They come home to find an exhausted Jen struggling to get the kids to calm down and go to bed. Upon seeing Bob and Linda return home, Jen elects to leave as she has to do something very “im-pór-tunt” tomorrow and needs to sleep. As Jen leaves, Bob and Linda drunkenly sit down on the couch, whilst the kids speculate about what Jen‘s “im-pór-tunt” errand could be, with Tina claiming that it’s probably just babysitting since “she’s just Jen the Babysitter.” Gene and Louise press on... it’s a “kids tell a story” episode.

Gene proposes that Jen‘s “im-pór-tunt” job centres around her double life as a size-changing superhero called Jennifer Ant-iston. Jen‘s job is to crash an unveiling ceremony hosted by her old technology company, where… um… Tammy Cross, the company head, is planning to unveil a copycat version of Jen’s shrinking suit. Jen attacks the dinner with a swarm of insects, leading to Tammy donning the shrinking suit herself and fighting Jen. Jen eventually comes out on top and leaves Tammy trapped at six inches tall. Gene then goes onto explain that Jen’s police officer cousin helped cover up the event and that Tammy was kept as a class pet for the rest of her life. While Louise and Tina both enjoy the story, Bob and Linda ultimately realise something - they don’t know what Jen‘s last name is.

Louise goes next. Louise proposes that Jen‘s important job involves a factory and crap ton of traps. As explained by Louise, a couple of years ago, Jen gave up a job as a government employed assassin to go into babysitting, and only recently kicked Felix Fischoeder’s ass on a bus for being annoying. Furious that he no longer has anyone around to torment, Calvin Fischoeder has put a hit out on Jen. Jen leads Fischoeder‘s “men” - Louise, Fischoeder doesn’t have “men” - into the aformentioned foundry and successfully incapacitates most of the assassins, but almost dies to Fischoeder himself before being saved by… who else? The Belcher kids. Cut back to the real world, where Gene and Tina are perturbed by the idea of getting involved in crime (or crimes that aren’t fashion crimes, in Gene’s case), whilst Linda keeps checking Jen’s socials for a last name. She finds nothing other than a bunch of identical selfies in different locations.

Bob, still drunk, asks the kids to go to bed. The kids want to stay up, so Bob agrees to offer his take on the Jen situation if the kids go to bed. In Bob’s story, Jen’s “im-pór-tunt” job is… babysitting the Belcher kids during a zombie infestation!! “Well, why’s Jen doing that when we’re your kids?” Asks Louise. “Be quiet, I wanna see where this goes!” hushes Tina. Jen elects to take the kids down to her cousin‘s club Pickles as it‘s definitely safe down there, and gets the kids to fight off zombies with a cricket bat. Upon entering the club, Tina accidentally neglects to lock the door and lets the zombies in, so Jen fights them off, and burns the club down to save the kids and kill the zombies.

At this point in time, Jen has returned, having forgotten her purse. And phone. And wallet… and uh… everything else she left. The kids pry at her to tell them what her job tomorrow is, and Jen says that she’s going to helping out at Ladies’ Night at Pickles. Wait…

Anyways, on her way out, Bob and Linda ask Jen what her last name is. Cut to outro before Jen can reveal to the audience.

MOVIE PARODIES: Ant-Man (2015, dir. Peyton Reed), Nobody (2020, dir. Ilya Naishuller) and Shaun of the Dead (2004, dir. Edgar Wright).

What do you guys think? Do you like it?

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There’s something about this joke I absolutely love. The fact that it doesn’t administer more than a dissatisfied “oh nooo…” from Linda, the fact that there are six versions of her, the way the muffins just kind of hop around… everything about this bit is perfect.

OKay, here’s something fun to do. All you have to do is take five characters who you would probably never see in an episode together… and make a plot for an episode out of them.

I think this is just a fun idea, mainly because it gives us access to a multitude of character interactions that could be fun!

Need help with characters? I’ve got you covered. As a prompt for anyone who needs it - Bob, Trev, Courtney, Nat, Fifth Grade Megan. My idea for an episode of these five sees Trev hire a limo for Jimmy Pesto to celebrate a new high in restaurant sale, and the day before Nat is to drive them around, Trev and Bob accidentally let it slip that Jimmy’s an asshole. Meanwhile Megan attracts Courtney’s attention while trying to solve a musical mystery involving a redacted name from a record for a film.

Show me what you’ve got, Reddit!

I’ve always wondered - after Jeff snuffs a castaway’s torch, what does the walk of shame that follows look like? How long is it? Where does it lead to?

Anyone that knows, please tell me! I’m in need of an answer!

This episode is based on a comment from u/themadterran on one of my posts from a few weeks ago!

Wagstaff is officially holding its annual “work experience“ week for the eighth graders, which entails them being sent to different establishments around town to learn business skills and to understand the world of work. The week officially begins on Tuesday as Monday is spent briefing, then spans Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, business owners and students are required to present what their week was like at an assembly at Wagstaff. Bob is nervous about this as he is supposed to be serving a party on Thursday, while Jimmy Jr. is in bad shape due to Jimmy Pesto keeping him up all night complaining about his IBS.

TUESDAY
Jocelyn is ultimately sent to work Bob’s Burgers after failing to fill out a questionnaire, whereas Tammy & Tina are sent to work at Reflections as they both wanted to ”work with models and creative design”. Bob begins to take a disliking to Jocelyn as she ignores customers, fails to say basic greetings to customers, and frequently slacks off on her phone. Meanwhile, Tina and Tammy bear the brunt of Edith‘s hate, with Tammy in part being the victim of many roasts. That evening, Bob worries that Jocelyn’s bad work ethic has something to do with him, and over dinner with his family that evening, is persuaded to give Jocelyn another go tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY

In an attempt to interest Jocelyn, Bob brings her into the kitchen and shows her how to make burgers, but he falls short in piquing Jocelyn’s intrest, and is further saddened when Jocelyn creates the ”Jocelyn Burger“ - a burger with uncooked meat placed atop of the empty buns. At this point, Hugo and Ron walk in, and Hugo demands to see Jocelyn make prepare food to declare if Bob‘s Burgers is safe for children, as they can shut it down if it isn’t. Jocelyn bombs the evaluation due to lacking knowledge in kitchen safety (e.g. holding a knife incorrectly, chewing gum whilst preparing food, not washing her hands), and Hugo nearly shuts the restaurant down until Bob and Linda point out A) Jocelyn’s only been in the kitchen a few hours and B) Hugo ripped up their poster on safe food handling last week and the new poster they ordered hasn’t arrived yet. Hugo and Ron leave, and Bob tells Jocelyn that maybe it’d be better if she didn’t come back tomorrow, which Jocelyn seems fine with as she “doesn’t like working anyway“, but she begins to have other thoughts on her way out. Meanwhile, Tina and Tammy grow tired of Edith and Harold unfairly labouring them and plan to stage a strike until they hear of a live model drawing class on Thursday night, and the two are motivated to put up with Edith and Harold for one more day so they can go.

THURSDAY

It’s the day of Bob’s party, and Luke (the client) and his party are especially hungry, which leaves Bob and Linda swamped. Jocelyn ends up showing up just before it gets too much for Bob, claiming that she’s had a think about it, and that she really does need to start working and thinking harder. Overjoyed that he has finally connected with Jocelyn, Bob accepts her help and Jocelyn successfully helps Linda wait tables, with Jocelyn going as far as to call Bob “a burger superhero“. Meanwhile, Tina and Tammy manage to push through just long enough to get to go to the model drawing class.

FRIDAY

Friday, and subsequently the assembly, arrive, and the eight graders regroup before they have to present. Everyone collectively agrees it was a crappy week, bar Jocelyn, who “like, really learned something this week. Uh, or somethiiiiiing.” Tammy is perturbed by the fact that Jocelyn isn’t blindly agreeing with everything she says. During the talk, Edith and Harold claim that Tammy and Tina were “pretty annoying, but they pulled their weight”, and Jocelyn accidentally embarrasses a heckling Jimmy Pesto by asking him about his IBS, much to Bob’s delight.

ENDING CREDITS: A superhero-esque montage of Burgerman and Anton-Jocelyn. (Read below).

As a bonus treat, here are a few bits of dialogue me and my friend wrote for this episode!!

JOCELYN: Uh, is this like, Bob‘s Burgers?

BOB: Uh, yeah, hi. Welcome to my restaurant…

JOCELYN: So, like… what do you sell here?

BOB: Oh my god….

[…]

TINA: Tammy, do these pipe cleaners look magenta or fuschia to you?

[Tammy, playing on her phone behind the counter, isn’t listening.]

TINA: Tammy!

TAMMY: Oh, sorry I can’t be totally attentive to you, Tina! Jocelyn keeps sending me Snapchats of her at your dad’s gross-ass restaurant…

[CUT TO an image of Jocelyn on Tammy‘s phone. Jocelyn is in the front with a wink, a kissy face and a peace sign. There’s a sparkly-pink-glitter-hearts filter on the photo. Bob, Mort and Teddy are in the back. Bob and Mort are confused, Teddy has a big doofy smile on his face.]

[…]

LINDA: And how was my little entrepreneur’s first day?

TINA: Not too bad. Edith let me sell a clothes peg…

LOUISE: One clothes peg?

GENE: There’s only one good Pegg in this world, and his name is Simon!!

[…]

JOCELYN: You’re like, a burger superhero!!

BOB: Oh, well, yeah. I guess that would make you my sidekick in this case?

JOCELYN: Ooh, wait, do I get a superpower? I wanna be able to fit into any type of clothing!

BOB: So… so, size changing? Like Ant Man?

JOCELYN: Who’s Anton?

Thank you so much if you read all of this. I’ve been working on this for a few weeks and I think it came out really well. Tell me what you think of this below!! :D

Alright, let‘s settle this - who’s the most vain/prideful/narcissistic/egotistical character on Bob‘s Burgers? I have a couple of leads:

Louise seems to have a notion that she’s perfect and that nothing is ever her fault, and even when it is, all she wants is for the world around her to praise her for it.

Tammy’s quite vain. I mean, just watch her Bat Mitzvah episode…

Chuck & Pam are a pair of narcissists who can’t accept responsibility for their actions and believe that the rest of the world is at fault.

Jimmy Pesto Sr. obviously likes to flount his success in Bob’s face any chance he gets.

What do you think, Reddit? Who has the biggest ego in Bob’s Burgers?