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Bob's Burgers Thanksgiving Specials Ranked (So far)

(Because screw it, if I did Halloween, might as well do Thanksgiving)

11. Putts-Giving--A pretty decent episode about the bond between the Belcher children. Unfortunately, Thanksgiving is more of an after thought with this one, making it more of an episode that can happen at ANY time, not just Thanksgiving. So, for this particular ranking, it's dead last, even though it's not even that bad of an episode.

10. An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal--The show's first special and I love that it quickly establishes that Thanksgiving is Bob's favorite holiday. Bob's love for cooking is a neat aspect of his character and it makes sense that a day all about great food is the day he loves the most. It's just too bad that the first Thanksgiving special includes the family being careless towards Bob's desire to still have a family Thanksgiving despite the plan Mr. Fischoeder convinced them into. It's genuinely sweet, and it hurts that the family dismisses it. They all have their reasons and the ending ALMOST saves it, but it doesn't entirely succeed as this episode feels a bit mean spirited, even for an early season episode.

(Also, what was up with that My Neighbor Totoro reference? That came and went out of nowhere)

9. Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid--Now would be a good time to mention that I'm not a fan of the "kids tell stories" episodes. There's SOME good jokes, but they're always kind of meh to me. This one's no different, though it does get points for a warm ending and the brief bonding moments between Gene and Bob. Their relationship is always cute when they're on the same side and it's no different here. Wish we could have had it in a stronger episode, but that's what "Boys Just Want to Have Fungus" and "The Laser-inth" is for.

8. Gayle Makin' Bob Sled--Quite possibly the most irritating Gayle's ever been in the show. You actually FEEL Bob's anger and annoyance with her, with every bit of it being justified as Gayle's not at top form here. There's SOME good jokes, but not enough. Thankfully the subplot of Linda and the kids struggling to cook a turkey is entertaining enough to save it...barely.

7. Stuck in the Kitchen with You--I love Bob and Louise's father/daughter relationship. It's always adorable, even if they're at odds with each other like this because it results in a sweeter ending. And I love that Bob wanted Louise in the kitchen with him, wanting to depart some wisdom. What holds the episode down is a pretty weak subplot of the other kids doing a fake parade for the retiring home, which is more awkward than funny. But there's also a subplot featuring Linda that's carried by Sargent Basco's hilarity. So, I guess it balances out to a decent episode.

6. The Quirk-Ducers--Not particularly funny, even with Linda thinking that a potato looks like her grandpa, but the ending REALLY makes this one strong. Bob bringing the potato to support Linda's quirk of the week was sweet, I love that Louise learned for herself that she went too far (even if it was too late), and Tina bringing it all home with a pretty uplifting message SHE wanted, ending the play HER way. The journey was a bit of a mess, but the destination made it worth it in the end.

5. I Bob Your Pardon--A lot of this adventure feels forced, not just with its resolution but also with its conception. Tina convincing the family to save a turkey reminds me of an episode of Steven Universe where Steven makes a big deal out of a small thing and the Crystal Gems go, "Why should we care?" Thankfully, Bob's Burgers does things better by having the characters slowly care more about the adventure and having some great lines and interactions with these entertaining characters. Bob especially killed it as the straight man (per usual), and Linda cracking me up with how serious she took things. So while the story definitely takes some leaps, it proves that even a weak plot can work perfectly with entertaining characters driving it.

4. Turkey in a Can--The chaos in this one is TOO GOOD, with Bob freaking out over who dunked the turkey, Louise trying to catch the culprit, and, of course, the turkey counter guy who hints that Bob might be a little bisexual. It's all good stuff with a pretty warm ending that came as a decent enough twist.

3. Now We're Not Cooking with Gas--Knowing that Thanksgiving is Bob's favorite holiday is what helps sympathize with him here. He's desperate to make the perfect turkey, and with one he's been waiting to have for five years, so you can't blame him for going a little nuts. I mean, you CAN blame him a little bit, but you can understand why he acts so insane about a turkey. At least he learns his lesson on his own without anyone telling him to not go too far and the resolution feels a lot more genuine than in "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal." I DO wish the episode ends with Bob NOT getting what he wants for some Thanksgiving miracle, but it also ends in a perfectly messy Thanksgiving dinner that works best for this family. So...I'll take it.

2. Dawn of the Peck--A pretty intense situation for the characters to be in, but still featuring some funny moments like everyone giving the birds the bird and Linda getting to the top of the pecking order. But the funniest bits come from Bob not realizing there was a city-wide catastrophe because he was inside the house getting drunk. It presents a pretty great contrast between great danger and laid-back humor, something I could only accept through a show like this.

1. Thanks-Hoarding--A great character study of Teddy that pretty much solidifies WHY he's the sixth member of the family. The Belchers all care about him and wants him to feel good, even if his quirks tend to drive them up a wall (especially Bob). Also, this is the first time Bob made the perfect dinner (twice) with little to no problems. Oh, there's stress, and this episode definitely nails the stress that comes with making the perfect dinner on this holiday, but it also nails the calming love that comes when you eat with family and friends that are family. It's a solid special that happens to be a solid episode, can't get much better.

And that's it. Weirdly enough, no Thanksgiving special this year either. Which feels especially wrong considering how it's Bob's favorite holiday. Bet HE'S salty about it. Still, there's probably SOME reason the writers have this year. Not that I'll ever find it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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hunne-writes · 1 year

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🧡 Thanksgiving Episode Guide 💛

Bob's Burgers (Hulu): S3 E5 - "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" S4 E5 - "Turkey in a Can" S5 E4 - "Dawn of the Peck" S6 E4 - "Gayle Makin’ Bob Sled" S7 E6 - "The Quirk-ducers" S8 E5 - "Thanks-hoarding" S9 E7 - "I Bob Your Pardon" S10 E8 - "Now We’re Not Cooking with Gas" S11 E7 - "Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid"

How I Met Your Mother (Hulu): S1 E9 - "Belly Full of Turkey" S3 E9 - "Slapsgiving" S5 E9 - "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap" S6 E10 - "Blitzgiving" S7 E11 - "The Rebound Girl"

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Hulu): S9 E10 - "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs"

Modern Family (Hulu): S3 E9 - "Punkin Chunkin" S6 E8 - "Three Turkeys" S7 E7 - "Phil’s Sexy, Sexy House" S8 E7 - "Thanksgiving Jamboree" S9 E7 - "Winner Winner Turkey Dinner" S10 E7 - "Did the Chicken Cross the Road?" S11 E7 - "The Last Thanksgiving"

Rick and Morty (Hulu): S5 E6 - "Rick and Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular" S6 E3 - "Bethic Twinstinct"

Schitt's Creek (Hulu): S1 E7 - "Turkey Shoot"

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Hulu): S1 E12 - "Talking Turkey" S6 E9 - "here's the Rub (Part 1)" S6 E10 - "There's the Rub (Part 2)"

This is Us (Hulu): S1 E8 - "Pilgrim Rick" S2 E10 - "Number Three" S3 E8 - "Six Thanksgivings" S4 E9 - "So Long, Marianne" S6 E7 - "Taboo"

Friends (HBO Max): S1 E9 - "The One Where Underdog Gets Away" S2 E8 - "The One With the List" S3 E9 - "The One with the Football" S4 E8 - "The One With Chandler in a Box" S5 E8 - "The One With All the Thanksgivings" S6 E9 - "The One Where Ross Got High" S7 E8 - "The One Where Chandler Doesn’t Like Dogs" S8 E9 - "The One With the Rumor" S9 E8 - "The One With Rachel’s Other Sister" S10 E8 - "The One With the Late Thanksgiving"

Gossip Girl (HBO Max): S1 E9 - "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" S2 E11 - "The Magnificent Archibalds" S3 E11 - "The Treasure of Serena Madre" S4 E10 - "Gaslit" S6 E8 - "It’s Really Complicated"

Succession (HBO Max): S1 E5 - "I Went to Market"

Friday Night Lights (Netflix): S4 E13 - "Thanksgiving"

Gilmore Girls (Netflix): S3 E9 - "A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving" S6 E10 - "He's Slippin 'em Bread...Dig"

New Girl (Netflix): S1 E6 - "Thanksgiving" S2 E8 - "Parents" S3 E10 - "Thanksgiving III" S4 E9 - "Thanksgiving IV" S6 E7 - "Last Thanksgiving"

That 70's Show (Peacock): S1 E9 - "Thanksgiving" S5 E8 - "Thank You"

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ooiilllllllspiiilllllll · 3 years

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Favorite Thanksgiving Episodes

Hey I love BB holiday episodes so here is another random list of my fav thanksgiving episodes! My top three change order every few hours. Some of my fav episodes of all time are thanksgiving episodes.

From bottom to top.

9: Now we're not cooking with gas

This episode is last on my list because it is just too stressful for me to watch. I watch BB's to unwind and i just want things to work out for the belcher's. Even though the turkey was good in the end. it's just too much for me to handle.

8: Gayle makin' bob sled

I also don't like this episode. I like Gayle for the most part but she was so frustrating this time. As with no. 9 on the list, this episode stresses me out which makes me not like it. I also hate when Mr. Business escapes that's my biggest fear with my cat. Also This episode is not super thanksgivingish ya know. I forgot it was a thanksgiving episode until I looked it up for this list.

7: Diarrhea of a poopy kid

I like this episode but there are some things that keep it toward the bottom of the list. For example I don't love the stories in this episode. I usually enjoy the three story format of BB episodes but these ones were just eh for me. I also don't like how recently the writers have been intensifying the dependent relationship between Gene and Linda. I feel like in earlier episodes, they've shown how close they are but i feel like recently it's been weirder. Idk if i'm explaining this right. I do like the whole premise of the episode and I liked all the cool food Bob cooks this time. It sounds really good. I also like Bob and Gene's dynamic in this episode.

6: I bob your pardon

I really don’t have any cons for this episode I thought it was cute, but I like the others on the list more. Actually this switches places with the no. 5 all the time, but for now I’ll leave it at no.6. I love the premise of this episode. It was very fun. Bob is so cute in the berry bog I love when he gets a win. I also like the return of the two-butted goat.

5: Thanks hoarding

As mentioned before, this episodes switches places on my list a lot, But as of now it's No.5. A few cons is just that Linda is a bit pushy in forcing teddy into something he is uncomfortable to do. It's not like a bad thing in terms of story structure but it is not that enjoyable to watch. I also didn't love the ending song. I love BB musical numbers, end credits, background music, but this wasn't my favorite. Things i do like! bob and his cooking and his enthusiasm for spatchcocking. I also love teddy in episodes and I’m glad he got to spend some time with the Belchers.

4: Indecent thanksgiving proposal

As the first thanksgiving episode it has a special place in my heart. I love Linda’s thanksgiving song, love the premise, the my neighbor totoro reference, Lance. Just an overall fun classic Bob’s episode.

3: Turkey in a can

The last three on my list are basically tied they are so close in rank they switch orders all the time. This is one of my all time favorite BB episodes. Bi Bob that's the main reason i love this. I love the Deli guy interactions! I think it's No.3 rn because i wish we got a full acknowledgement. It's def not subtext but this was in season 4 and we are on season 11. I just want them to say bisexual ya know. anyway i love Gene's song and Bob freaking out over tina growing up is very cute and touching.

2: Dawn of the Peck

Great Thanksgiving vibes. The Donna Summer song is amazing it fits so well and I love Bob's dancing. I love when regular size rudy is in episodes and i love how he is embraced by the Belcher's so cute. Also Bob's dramatic monologue when he sees turkey baster is the best. Just an overall amazing episode! Ok this has nothing to do with it's ranking but one of the reasons i always thought the Pesto's live above their restaurant is this episode. When they drop Andy and Ollie off they go back to the restaurant! I guess maybe Jimmy Pesto's is open but i feel like there are other instances where it seems that they live above their restaurant. oh also this ep has a great end credits scene. Love Donna Summers.

1: The Quirk-ducers

amazing musical number, great thanksgiving vibes, and grandpa potato. the song is so catchy i sing it all the time. I love Tina's erotic friend fiction and i think it's so funny how Louise reads it aloud to the family. I like how tina works through her insecurity with her writing. I also like when Tina has nice moments with J ju even though i prefer zeke. My absolute favorite part about this episode is the reprise of the songs put all together in higher quality at the end of the episode. It's just such a good song! “We’re going to dinner!”

Thanks for reading! If someone reads this let me know if you agree or disagree!

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Day in Fandom History: November 8…

It's a snowy Thanksgiving Day and Bob must get a broken leg Gayle to the Belcher residence following her breakup with Mr. Frond, only to deal with a boatload of problems along the way there. The fourth Thanksgiving-themed episode of Bob’s Burgers, “Gayle Makin’ Bob Sled”, premiered on this day, 8 Years Ago.

#Day in Fandom History #8 Years Ago #Bob's Burgers #Bobs Burgers #Bob’s Burgers #Season 6 #Episode 4 #Gayle Makin' Bob Sled #Cartoon #Animation #Thanksgiving Themed

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curious-minx · 3 years

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Bob’s Burgers most reliable holiday provides another lowkey enjoyable, but messy episode. Whereas the latest Simpsons strikes a really sore vocal node.

The second holiday episode of Bob’s Burgers’ 11th season, much like the previous Halloween episode, this one also fails to live up to the series’ even higher Thanksgiving standard

That’s not to say “Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid” is not a good episode, but it does fall into the category of Bob’s Burgers episode I typically respond to the least: Character-based storytelling vignettes. The writing on these segment driven episodes tend to be looser and playful bending the show’s reality, but much like every time the other Fox family leaves the Springfield plane of reality into a pastiche styled playground for the writers to plug the characters into.

The overall animation and visual-based gags on this episode offers some of the best moments of the season and series in general. Having the Belcher stories revolve around action movie pastiches of 90’s action movie schlock like Air Force Once, Armageddon, and late 80’s Predator are extremely punny and really grasping hard for satire. The walk to Louise’s Breadator is succinct and makes total sense for Louise’s character to tell this kind of story, whereas Tina drawing inspiration from Air Force One for her story sags the episode down. This episode also has the gall to bring in Gayle, a character that usually elevates all of her episodes nothing much to do until the third and best segment told by Bob. Teddie is also frustratingly nowhere to be seen and Teddie is one of those characters that really only needs a small scene explaining away his absence like in the episode “Gayle Makin’ Bob Sled,” which Variety and I consider to be among the best of Bob’s Thanksgiving episodes.

Nitpicks and reminiscing on past glories aside, what’s most impressive about an episode as conceptual and overstuffed as this one, an episode that’s also poopy and gross-out from the very beginning, still manages to pack undeniable heart. Seeing a character as relatable and sad sack-y as Bob Belcher be passionate about his one favorite holiday reminds me of the everlasting and evergreen Ray Bradbury remark about how everyone is capable of writing poetry as long as you ask them to talk about something they are truly passionate about. Seeing how this episode climax revolves around Gene and Bob’s love of food and proves a powerful sentimental moment. Bob’s Burgers sentimentality works because the show’s core is silly absurdism, light and fluffy gross out gags and quirky twee-ness. Introducing the action movie element feels like the series trying to branch out its audience and try to catch some eyeballs of viewers looking for something more like Archer, American Dad, Rick and Morty, or even Treehouse of Horror style genre exercises. Bob’s Burgers and action comedy feels like putting garlic pesto on cinnamon toast, but Ryan Reynolds doesn’t think so.

Yes, that’s right. The biggest news out of the Bob’s Burgers camp…probably ever…is that the Molyneux sisters, the writers of this very action packed episode, have been hand selected by Mr. Detective “VanWilder” Pickachu himself to be head writers on the upcoming third Deadpool movie. Seeing that we live in a post Russo brothers world and how Dan Harmon was conscripted to punch up Doctor Strange scripts none of this should really surprise me, but I am still very much surprised by this development. The Deadpool 3 creative team and Reynolds is still promising to deliver an R-Rated Comedy, a rating and promise that is very much why Deadpool is the sensation that it is.

In the current media landscape the only way a big budget R-Rated comedy can get made is if it’s attached to something like a mega superhero sized brand. At this point in time Deadpool is the closest thing kids have to a Mel or Al Brooks and it is what it is. If anything Ryan Reynolds personally choosing the Molyneux sisters for a project like this makes me like Ryan Reynolds a little bit more. And he’s a man I previously had no real feelings or opinions about. The only other thing about Deadpool I know about is that the franchise has developed a particularly shitty reputation in terms of its treatment of main female characters and literally freezing them out of the plot. The future of comedy is being driven by the significant increase of women gaining these kind of writing gigs and it’s a beautiful thing to finally see witness. Especially when a company like Netflix has been really shitty to both of its own female driven comedies: Glow and Tucca and Bertie.

Sigh. I am thankful for all the sad little boys and girls wearing too much or maybe the right amount of eye shadow that will inherit this flaming Earth.

Three and half pear shaped pals out of an Oedipus Rex Complex.

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Nerds! Nothing but a lousy rotten sniveling dweeb! You dorkus-rex! You body pillow huffing geek get over here and let the Simpsons set some things straight for you: A Comic Book Guy driven episode of the Simpsons is often where the show goes off the rails. The Comic Book Guy marriage episode is was one of those late day Simpsons that feel like a bad piece of dreamed up fan fiction that you found on the cutting room floor. Is the show interested at all with the fact that comics and being nerdy have become as mainstream as the Bible? No? They’re still treating geek culture as some sort of low hanging piñata fruit lousy with cheap references in place of actual jokes? Good! I don’t know why I would ever allow myself to think for a second that the Simpsons would challenge its own status quo 32 seasons in, but I keep coming back.

What I should really do is back up. The title of this episode is “Three Dreams Denied.” Ah, Dream Denial! That’s exactly what anyone watching an animated sitcom hopes for: dreams being crushed. This isn’t some kiddy Davy and Goliath feel good wholesome fable, this is the Simpsons where characters are given dreams, and those dreams get denied. The next part of the title I want to break down is the fact that there are specifically three dreams that being denied. Three! That’s a comedy number! As long as you have three of anything you’re doing comedy. Plain and simple.

During the Robert Zemeicks arc of the Blank Check podcast Griffin Newman, co-host and comedian extraordinaire and someone I generally admire a lot, has been bringing up the fact that he’s been spending a lot of his Quarantine rewatching the entirety of the Simpsons. By the episode of Used Cars Newman has already gotten past the Movie era and is in the 20th seasons. One observation he made about later day Simpsons is that these episodes have a tendency to end abruptly on a pile of unusable and reality bending plots still in the process of tying themselves up. And there’s no better/worse example of this than this episode.

Comic Book Guy goes to a comic book convention. Bart becomes a voice actor after befriending the comic book guy’s temporary replacement. Lisa feuds over her saxophone chair in the school orchestra with a new pretty boy voiced by the underwhelming Ben Platt. One of these plots is not like the other. This used to be the signature of a quality Simpsons episode that managed to tweak and divert expectations from the typical A & B sitcom storylines. This episode fundamentally fails to deliver on any of the three storylines and what makes it worse is that it’s an intentional choice.

Now I know I have spent this review harping on Comic Book Guy, but he’s not even why this episode for me is such an abomination. And it’s not because the cutesy, flimsy Lisa subplot either (although I do find it noxiously amusing that a week after an Yeardely Smith took issue with the Queer Interpretation of Lisa would feature her going moony eyed over a boy voiced by a defiantly queer actor), no, what tips this episode into the territory of the truly terrible for me is the Bart becomes a voice actor subplot.

The only defining quality of season 32 that I can discern is that the flagrant trolling on behalf of the writers. Can you believe we had three vignette driven episodes of the Simpsons in a row? Can you believe we would have meta reality breaking voice actor related moments back to back? When Lisa Simpson’s voice actor Yeardley Smith voiced the real world character of herself in the previous Podcast based episode it was clumsy and awkward as hell. Having Bart become a voice actor that ends up voicing a character of the opposite gender is the sort of kind of a funny thing that resembles a joke that the latter day Simpsons revel in. The characterization of voice acting work in this episode is downright insulting and explains exactly why this show suffers.

The character of Phil that serves as the Comic Book Guy’s replacement is a working voice actor. He let’s Bart know this by doing a series of completely basic, broad and unremarkable impersonations that Bart is seemingly impressed by. All you have to do to become a successful voice actor is do a silly voice and you’re golden. Maybe from the perspective of a series as lazy and indulgent as the Simpsons is when it comes to voice acting. The complete denial of Julie Kavner’s deteriorating voice that at this point sounds like gentle elder abuse. There are times when Kavner is downright incomprehensible at times. The other oldest member of the Simpsons voice talent, Harry Shearer was wrongheadedly trying to defend his right to voice Characters of Colors because in his words, “the job of the voice actor is to play someone who they’re not.” Obviously these words were not spoken by someone that thinks very highly of acting either. There is no one job an actor has to do, because the job of an actor is always changing from job to job. The character of Phil is not even attributed to anyone! I have spent over thirty minutes getting testy with IMDB search engines and reading another website’s recap and no one can tell me who did the voice of the Voice Acting Character on Simpsons. Lovely.

Much like the Comic Book Guy the Simpsons heart is in bad shape. This is a show whose entire existence seems to be made out of spite. Or to garner enough funds for Matt Groening to prevent him from ever having to serve any prison time for his exploits on the Lolita express. Great, see I’m bringing up the Lolita Express at the end of a Simpsons review. This episode really left me in a bad mood, but thankfully that’s what Bob’s Burgers is for.

SKIP. The only people that should watch this are people teaching a screenwriting class that need examples of what happens when you break your episode by haphazardly shoving three plots into one episode. If you can’t tie up one story in a satisfying manner then you really shouldn’t be telling a story at all. There’s also one really magnificent visual joke involving Homer and beer tea that is absolutely wasted on this episode.

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