What's your favorite Bob's Burgers Christmas episode?
With Christmas being a week away, might as well do these polls once more, mostly because the Tumblr polls go up to 12 choices than the 10 when it first came out, though they should expand that to...I dunno, 20? 30 maybe? Might as well take a poll on which of these Christmas episodes are y'all's favorite for Bob's Burgers.
still pissed that disney told them not to do bob's burgers holiday episodes because they dont run well in syndication. like this show is thirteen fucking years old don't tell them how to do their jobs?? you dont give a fuck about the show either way?
This is not a surprise, I literally made a post back then in September-October when I first saw this episode. So I'm not going to elaborate as much as with others, also the thing that make this episode so special not something that I myself fully get, words elude me with this one. So let’s say I love it just because.
I think whe all know and love this scene, this moment when Tina reach to Louise when no one else could cause this is their big sister, and many can say that she don’t get most things but she get her siblings and she’s gonna be with them even if Louise said is not necessary even if they don't mention it, cause she wants to be there with them cause is important. All this while the most beautiful song interpreted by Genie Beanie plays in the back, wrapping everything together, cause yeah even if is mostly Tina and Louise, Gene is there, always there. They are the Belcher kids, the best siblings in the world.
And by the way I want a standing ovation for mah baby bean, cause they save that night for everyone in that auditorium. He is a real musical genius, he can think outside the box and find solutions and his heart is full of music, music that they know and understand despite what everyone says. when Bob look at Gene while they play, like he’s the most amazing person he has ever seen, is cause he is.
This episode is full of quite moments, silent and intimate moments that convey such strong warming and familiar emotions. Is a hug for the heart, like the serie itself.
And I don't want to forget Bob and Linda, they're just the greatest parents in the world, no one is doing it like them.
I truly love this episode deeply. This is the one that got me crying every time.
...Okay, no, you know what, I’m still crying about that “Plight Before Christmas” Bob’s Burgers episode and I need to selfishly ramble more. Spoilers incoming.
This show aces family and has always aced family and it’s no secret by now that they’re... Yeah I won’t even say “amongst”, they’re THE best at doing it. But god it’d been a while since they struck a chord in me as hard as they did this week. I don’t know if it’s emotion speaking but it might be the strongest it’s ever struck a chord actually.
I’m the oldest of 3 siblings and Tina’s journey through that episode is... So damn real, man. As the eldest, you just think about your little siblings extra hard even when nobody else will, and you’ll try your hardest to do right by them, ‘cause you’re the eldest, and you love them. At least in my family it was like that, and in Bob’s as well definitely. Doesn’t help matters that my youngest sibling is also, and always had been, some sort of genius with a troublemaker reputation and the attitude to match it, who shrugged off shit with the biggest poker face when it got hard (and I mean god, sometimes it got really hard, and that kid could shrug BIG TIME).
As the eldest, I’ve always felt in my bones, stronger than anything in my interpersonal relationships for the longest time, that it was my job to try extra hard for them, shield them if needed, and get upset for them when no one else would, when our parents couldn’t, or wouldn’t, either for reasons beyond their control or... Yeah, or not, ‘cause our parents aren’t Bob and Linda. They’re... Not at that level. Anyway, I tried my hardest. I didn’t always succeed the best, but sometimes I did, and I always came back to try more.
But they’re not kids anymore, we’re all in our 20s, I’m moving on to my 30s myself, and it’s getting harder. They’re becoming so smart and great and with their life so together that there isn’t shit I can do for them that could make their life better. Aside from that petty aspect of the thing, life is just... Harder. They’re being hit hard by the bullshit left over by older generations (I am too, but I do believe the younger you are, the harder you’re hit, at that point), they’re upset because of all sorts of bullshit thrown at them, and there’s a lot they won’t even talk about because they’re being strong, the way they know how to, with poker face if they need to. And I’m still out there, still trying, because of course I’ll always try, but less and less confident that I can do anything for them as an older sibling.
But I guess it doesn’t even matter. I guess it comes down to that feeling of what it means to be an older sibling, year after year and decade after decade. This episode made me nostalgic for a time where it was simpler to do the right thing. But that feeling will never go away. It still hits just as strong. Else I wouldn’t be still crying my eyes out now.
Stop everything you’re doing and watch the newest Christmas Bob’s Burgers. I CRIED ON THE SUBWAY, it’s so good. Christ. I’m trying to decide if it was the general Christmasy vibe that I loved, all the siblings-caring-about-siblings thing or if the music at the end is so Philip Glass-y that I never stood a chance at NOT sobbing. Love, love, love. Take twenty minutes and watch.
And if you’re in the mood for more after this episodes…
BOB AND LINDA TRY TO ATTEND ALL THREE KIDS' HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES ON AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF BOB'S BURGERS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, ON FOX
Bob and Linda try to attend all three kids' holiday performances at the same time on the all-new "The Plight Before Christmas" episode of Bob's Burgers airing Sunday, Dec. 11 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (BOB-1210) (TV-PG L)
i would love to title one specific fanfic im working on after a pun of a phrase/media reference like actual episodes do but my problem is i have NO pop culture knowledge and im incapable of coming up with any puns whatsoever but if anyone is good at either of those two things. hmu
Rewatching the Xmas episode again and hearing Frond say "I'm available" is really sending me. Starting to get a bit too keen on shipping him and Rachel. Like I want him to replicate her sweater.