[8.6/10] Another great episode of Bob’s Burgers, whose quality I’m pretty sure I take for granted. I love so much of Bob and Linda at the Downton Abbey-esque LARP. There’s great comic reversals there, with the super excited Linda feeling downtrodden after being assigned to a “downstairs” role when she envisioned herself as Mrs. Winthrop and the reluctant Bob actually getting into the faux-aristocratic scene.
There’s also some quick but potent pathos there too! Linda can be a little overly exuberant or out there about things, but this is supposed to be a great escape for her and instead she’s serving people the same way she serves them in the restaurant. Her little worker’s revolt is a great little turn in the narrative. I have to admit, I got pretty annoyed at how the upstairs LARPers were treating the downstairs LARPers, so good on the show for managing to push my buttons and get me to fistpump and Linda’s miniature revolution.
The shtick of locking the upstairs LARPers out of the house and eating their seven-course meal was an amusing form of rebellion, and the ending conflict, with Linda trying to share and be nice and then getting into a confrontation based on the seven-layer parfait that gets them all kicked out was an appropriately wild and wooly Bob’s Burgers ending to a ridiculous situation.
The B-story, with Teddy watching the kids in Bob and Linda’s absence and then throwing his back out was a lot of fun too. The way the kids took advantage of Teddy being indisposed was a little mean, but Teddy is just too sweet and oblivious for it to sting too much. And their adventure getting him onto a makeshift gurney and wheeling him down to his chiropractor’s niece’s quincinera was some irreverent fun. Teddy and the kids are always a great combo, and this was no exception.
Overall, another well set up, very funny episode of the show!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-04-26T02:15:50Z
[8.6/10] Another great episode of Bob’s Burgers, whose quality I’m pretty sure I take for granted. I love so much of Bob and Linda at the Downton Abbey-esque LARP. There’s great comic reversals there, with the super excited Linda feeling downtrodden after being assigned to a “downstairs” role when she envisioned herself as Mrs. Winthrop and the reluctant Bob actually getting into the faux-aristocratic scene.
There’s also some quick but potent pathos there too! Linda can be a little overly exuberant or out there about things, but this is supposed to be a great escape for her and instead she’s serving people the same way she serves them in the restaurant. Her little worker’s revolt is a great little turn in the narrative. I have to admit, I got pretty annoyed at how the upstairs LARPers were treating the downstairs LARPers, so good on the show for managing to push my buttons and get me to fistpump and Linda’s miniature revolution.
The shtick of locking the upstairs LARPers out of the house and eating their seven-course meal was an amusing form of rebellion, and the ending conflict, with Linda trying to share and be nice and then getting into a confrontation based on the seven-layer parfait that gets them all kicked out was an appropriately wild and wooly Bob’s Burgers ending to a ridiculous situation.
The B-story, with Teddy watching the kids in Bob and Linda’s absence and then throwing his back out was a lot of fun too. The way the kids took advantage of Teddy being indisposed was a little mean, but Teddy is just too sweet and oblivious for it to sting too much. And their adventure getting him onto a makeshift gurney and wheeling him down to his chiropractor’s niece’s quincinera was some irreverent fun. Teddy and the kids are always a great combo, and this was no exception.
Overall, another well set up, very funny episode of the show!