I liked this one a lot. Having the children of Wagstaff get into misadventures is often a recipe for my enjoyment on Bob's Burgers. Even minor characters like Jocelyn are sketched out well enough by this point that all it takes is a couple of fun lines per person and letting the myriad weird-but-delightful personalities of the students bounce of one another to keep the comedy humming.
The Nurse's endeavor to have something exciting happen in her job, Tina's rulebound attempt to follow orders, and Louise's chaotic, anti-authority bent coming to the fore were a recipe for a success. And the premise of a fake lice outbreak was just right to wrangle the other characters and keep the story escalating.
There weren't nearly the same kind of stakes with Bob, Linda, and Teddy and the case of the great farting stools, but the lack of stakes is a big part of what made it so funny. I'll admit, fart jokes with seats is easy territory, but it was so much damn fun how seriously the three of them took it, each in ways that felt true to their characters, and the idea of a funeral group booking the restaurant was the perfect motivator for the story.
Overall, the A-story featured the denizens of Wagstaff Middle School firing on all cyllnders, and the B-story was the perfect weird little lark that makes this show so quirky and likable. Great stuff.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-03-17T03:29:34Z
I liked this one a lot. Having the children of Wagstaff get into misadventures is often a recipe for my enjoyment on Bob's Burgers. Even minor characters like Jocelyn are sketched out well enough by this point that all it takes is a couple of fun lines per person and letting the myriad weird-but-delightful personalities of the students bounce of one another to keep the comedy humming.
The Nurse's endeavor to have something exciting happen in her job, Tina's rulebound attempt to follow orders, and Louise's chaotic, anti-authority bent coming to the fore were a recipe for a success. And the premise of a fake lice outbreak was just right to wrangle the other characters and keep the story escalating.
There weren't nearly the same kind of stakes with Bob, Linda, and Teddy and the case of the great farting stools, but the lack of stakes is a big part of what made it so funny. I'll admit, fart jokes with seats is easy territory, but it was so much damn fun how seriously the three of them took it, each in ways that felt true to their characters, and the idea of a funeral group booking the restaurant was the perfect motivator for the story.
Overall, the A-story featured the denizens of Wagstaff Middle School firing on all cyllnders, and the B-story was the perfect weird little lark that makes this show so quirky and likable. Great stuff.