Christmas, everyone! And welcome to Fandom Shmandom,
the fandom podcast that covers everything you
love and more. I'm Sierra Obermark. And I am
Sam Williams. And today, we have a giant welcome
shmalkum to Max and Skylar from the hit Bob's
Burger podcast. Bob's credit. Welcome, welcome,
welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having us.
That's the most enthusiastic welcome we've ever
had. I'm here for it. Fantastic. I will take
flowers and a trophy, please. You got it. So
tell us a little bit about your podcast yourselves.
And then we've got a couple of questions here,
which I'll get to after you do your own little
introduction. Sure. As you mentioned, we host
a podcast called Bob's Credits, where we go episode
by episode through Bob's Burgers and with an
emphasis on the incredible end credit sequences.
But we talk about each episode, too. And we are
currently in season 11 of it. Yep. And Bob's
is clearly not ending anytime soon, so I guess
that's the rest of our lives, potentially. Hopefully.
Hopefully. Maybe. If they're The Simpsons, what,
you got another 22 seasons? We will be in the
grave. Yeah. Yes. My goodness, hopefully not.
That's incredible. So tell me, when you guys
read that Jack Black was going to get a whole
animated credit sequence, did you just freak
out? We... We, it's funny because we saw that
it was going to be like an animated credit sequence,
but then we saw that it was going to be like
a special thing. Like you had to go seek it out
to actually see it. And then it was just going
to be really brief in the end credits. So we
were excited. We posted about it. And then everyone
was confused about when they were supposed to
see it. And then it got political. Yeah, very
quickly. Which I had no idea about any of the
drama. And so the sails were flying and I was
so joyous. And then it became a thing pretty
fast. That being said, it was fantastic. And
I love how they animated him. The song was great.
Did we see him the other day when we were driving?
We did. Did we? Or maybe that was a TikTok I
saw of someone just... Like, people just see
him walking around LA a lot because he takes
the bus. Oh, yeah. It was like him. It's just
like he's always got his backpack on and he's
walking around. Okay, so you assumed that TikTok
is our lives because we spend too much time on
there. The universes are falling in on themselves.
I do fear at some point that I'm going to...
Look at my phone. Look up. And I'm going to be
in the exact same place. Wow, this TikTok happened
right here. And I'm going to look down at my
phone. And I'm going to be like, my phone's not
even on. And it's just going to be my eyes. And
I'm going to be like, what? I think that my phone
is my eyes. Now what's happening? Yeah, they'd
like it that way. That sounds like a Black Mirror
episode. It really does. Yes. Well, they almost
did that one with a memory circuit that was into
your eyes that you could filter back onto all
your different memories. It was with the Jodie
Foster, Jodie Whittaker episode. Oh, that's right.
Is that the funeral one? Yeah, that's a really
good one. Is that the funeral one? It's the cheating
scandal one where this husband thinks that Jodie
Whittaker is cheating on him. And so he keeps
playing his memories back and then he finds her
memory. Yeah, it was like the first season. Yeah,
it's very early on in the show. But we're not
here to talk about Black Mirror, another show
that has a B in it. Tell us a little bit about,
number one, how did you two get into Bob's Burgers?
And then what is your favorite Bob's Burgers
non -Christmas episode? Who is your favorite
Bob's Burger character? And if you could work
anywhere in the Bob's Burger world, where would
you work? Great question. So I actually was introduced
to Bob's Burgers in film school. You were required
to take a TV spec writing class because spec
scripts, doing an example of an already created
show, was what you did 10 years ago. And my friend
was writing a Bob's Burgers spec script. And
I didn't watch the show, but I was always cast
as Louise for our table reads. And her premise
was so funny that I kind of got into it. Forgot
about it. And then. Well, I had always, like,
known about Boss Burgers. And I was just kind
of, like, put it on the back burner. Like, I'll
watch it eventually. And just, I think it was
2020. In the height of the pandemic. Yes, exactly.
And we just needed something kind of feel good
that we knew we could put on and we had a lot
of episodes of that we could kind of just like
melt into. And we found the right thing. We finally
said we should give Bosberg's a try and we fell
in love with it and obviously started the podcast
shortly after and things took off from there.
And it was just it was just yeah, it was so exciting
to get into it and see what was so special about
it. We were blown away by what it was. Yeah.
And we didn't fall in love immediately. It did.
But we stuck with it. Yeah. We started from the
beginning. Of course. Yeah. And I think maybe
around season three or season four, it really,
I mean, we just, you love it. You want to be
part of the family. And then, okay, favorite
episode. That's non -Christmas. Non -Christmas.
This is a new realization for me. But I finally
realized that it is V for Valentine. Oh, my gosh.
I love that episode. It's such a good episode
for those of you who may not remember. This is
when Nat Kinkle and her pink limo is introduced.
And Tina is distraught because. Jimmy Jr. has
done something horrible, and all the ladies of
Bob's Burgers try and cheer her up, and it's
a perfect episode. It's such a good episode.
It really is. I'd say my favorite... Can Halloween
ones count? For some reason, I'm like, the holiday
ones are their own thing. It does feel that way,
yes. You can have a favorite holiday episode,
but you have to have a favorite non -holiday
episode in some way, shape, or form. Exactly.
As far as the holiday episodes go, The Haunting
is one of my all -time favorites. I just think
it's one that... We have a question on our –
we have a YouTube podcast called My Favorite
Episode. And one of the questions, like, to see
if that episode is a top -tier episode is, is
this an episode you would recommend to a friend
who had never seen the show before as, like,
an introduction? And that one is, like – I feel
like you can send that to anyone. And it's just
perfect bobs. Like, every character is exactly
what that character – supposed to be it's so
funny it's so entertaining the story's great
so yeah it's really it's really up there for
me if i had to do non holiday i have to say the
new um the more recent one like a candle in the
gym where they're all on like a family walk oh
yeah i like that episode it's it's up there i
have to watch it another like Two or three or
four times. You just like the Mrs. Doubtfire
joke. Yeah. But it's a great Mrs. Doubtfire joke.
And not enough people make Mrs. Doubtfire jokes.
Yeah, and the fact that it's Bob doing it. It's
so good. I mean, that would lead into my favorite
character. Perfect segue. Which is, it's Bob.
He, like. It bounces around. You always kind
of like relate to different characters. But man,
as a man in his 40s now, I have just like I relate
to Bob so much constantly. And I just love everything
about him. He is very Bob. This one. You are.
A little curmudgeon -y at times, but then certain
things will just light you up like you're a 10
-year -old all over again. A little monotone,
even when I'm excited about things. It's true.
Sometimes I say to Max, I cannot read your face.
Are you excited? Are you mad? Like, just give
me a little something else. Okay. I think our
first favorite character in that first watch,
the first couple of seasons, was Jean. Yeah.
And that feels really special because he doesn't
get enough episodes. He doesn't get enough credit.
He's an underrated character. So I just had to
shout that out. But Tina is my girl. Fabulous.
Fabulous. I'm so glad that the network note was
make Tina a girl from the pilot. I couldn't imagine
if it was two boys and Louise. No way. Yeah,
they nailed it. It's perfection. A lot of people
commented. We did TikTok about that very topic.
And a lot of people commented, what? Like, Tina
is the heart of the show. And I was like, oh,
that's a really. bold statement but it's true
she's such a linchpin between her parents and
her siblings like there's so much that circles
around you could have tina be part of any central
theme no matter if it's bob linda louise a fish
odor episode tina can be present because it's
like there's that one thanksgiving episode, Turkey
in a Can, where Tina is in this weird vortex
of, am I an adult or am I a child? And I think
they play that really well, where you can have
her anywhere. So I can see why people are like,
Tina's the heart of this show. Yep. That's a
good point. She is the conduit or the glue between
the siblings and the parents. I love that. Certainly.
That's awesome. What's up next? Where would you
work? Like, This might not be the most creative
answer, but it is the right answer. And it's
Bob's Burgers. Yeah, I mean, I don't want to
say Bob's Burgers because it's so obvious. But
like I just said with how much I love Bob, I
just want to stand next to him, next to that
grill. Show me how you work, sir. Just let me
take it all in. The only other place I would
say outside of Bob's Burgers is... If I could
just choose Wonder Wharf as a whole, I think
it'd be fun to work anywhere. Work under Calvin
as the general manager of Wonder Wharf? Well,
I mean, you talk about favorite characters. He
loves fish odor. He's like... Constantly up.
You'll see in this episode, I will shout out
the Fish Odors quite a bit. Calvin Fish Odor,
who, if nobody knows, if you've ever seen the
movie Road to El Dorado, which is an animated
movie with Kenneth Brenna, it's a fabulous late
90s dream work animated movie that is underrated.
It's so amazing. He's the main character, Calvin
Fish Odor's voice actor, and it's trippy to go
back and listen to that because it's, yeah. That's
so funny. He's not the blonde one. He's the taller
brunette who falls in love with Chell, I think
is her name. Yeah. Anyways, he's fabulous in
that movie. And it was so weird to, to years
later, watch the road to Eldorado and be like,
I felt like Leo in, uh, in, uh, Hollywood movie,
whatever that movie is called. Once upon a time.
Anyways. Uh, yeah, I love the fish odors. They're,
they're also great. Well, we also haven't done
this for our viewers, so we're going to quickly,
if you don't mind, do quick hits between Sierra
and I answering those questions as well. Oh,
yeah, definitely. Oh, great. Okay, but I have
to know, how did you two get into Bob's Burgers?
Sierra, why don't you go first? Mine will take
a bit of crying. Crying, oh. So, how I got into
Bob's Burgers was actually through Archer. Oh,
amazing. I watched Archer, and there's a crossover
episode where Archer becomes Bob, because it's
the same H. John Benjamin. John H. Benjamin?
H. John Benjamin. H. John Benjamin, voice actor.
Do that every day. Brain, yep, yep. And so I
watched that, and I was like, oh, you know, I
have seen things about Bob's Burgers. Maybe I
should watch it so I understand this episode.
And then immediately got hooked. Watched the
first... I can't remember how many seasons were
out at the time, but watched the first few seasons.
And then I kind of fell off of it for a while.
And then my husband and I were looking for, yeah,
another kind of binge -worthy TV show to have
on the background. And I went, you know, we should
try Bob's Burgers. I think you'd like it. And
then we started watching. And now, yeah, it's
one of our feel -good shows that we... Put on
and we'll cycle. We have, you know, about 10
shows that we'll cycle in and out of and rotate
around watching. And so that's that's been my
journey. I love it. It's such a fun show to watch
with someone to, you know. Oh, yeah. I am. I
got into Bob's Burgers very similarly through
Archer. I'd fallen in love with Archer and seen
that episode. Fascinatingly enough, that. is
the episode that reveals that they're in New
Jersey. Oh, okay. That Archer episode is the
only time where Mallory is like, he's in that
shop down the shore or whatever from New York.
Now, did the voice actor situation throw you
off just like the Fish Odor voice actor and the
Eldorado voice actor with H. John Benjamin? Yeah,
certainly. Especially because Archer's a deeper
resonance than Bob's. He plays Bob's much higher.
And so... And then when going back to the episode
after watching Bob's, I probably watched Bob's
Burgers like 28 times all the way through. Wow.
It was that sort of show for me. And so to go
back to watch Archer and then see that and he's
doing his Archer voice, not the Bob voice. And
all these fan theories around like all of the
many explosions that have happened in Archer
is what kills off Bob in the Archer universe.
And that's why Linda's. single and able to get
remarried, et cetera, et cetera, I think is hilarious.
But I got into Boss Burgers around 2017 when
I was living in Sacramento. And then we moved
down to San Francisco and I was just kind of
watching it all the time routinely. And I struggled
with the first two seasons, much like with my
sort of Parks and Rec journey, which is my other
top show. Those are my top two all -time favorite
shows. And then season three comes around and
it changes its tune. It becomes a little gentler.
less intense in the quandaries that everyone
is facing. And it starts to morph into this family
first, gentle family first television show. And
that's when Lauren Bouchard starts giving the
note to H. John Benjamin, less mean, constantly.
And H. John Drenneman is very good at being mean.
So, apparently, he was quoted at one point, I
forget where, in saying, like, that was the hardest
note for me in my entire career. His gentler.
Oh, I haven't heard that. I mean, I love that
note. And the animation of his face also matches
that note as well. He just looks angry in those
first two seasons. Certainly. So Bob's Burgers
just kind of became my back pocket show. And
during COVID, I was watching it quite a bit.
And I actually wrote an article about it becoming
sort of a comfort show that was retweeted by
Lauren Bouchard, who'd read it right before the
Bob's Burgers movie came out. And he said, this
is very sweet. And it was sort of this personal
narrative about a family member who's going through
psychosis during COVID. And so I wrote about
what this show meant to me when I would be stressed
and I would wake up and start watching just to
help calm myself down or get myself through panics
attacks or any of that sort of stuff. And so
then I, in this article, I wrote a whole thing
about like sibling treatment and, and what the
show means to me as, as a sibling and, and what
I can learn from it and what I can do better.
And, and then I wrote about this episode that
I was, I was writing a spec script just for fun
during COVID. And I wrote an episode where Louise
and Tina had this sibling disagreement that was
mirrored in the B story between Felix and Calvin.
And about a year and a bit later is when they
did the Hamlet episode where that exact situation
happens where Tina and Louise are having this
disagreement over who can use the knives. And
Calvin and Felix are trying to figure out who
stole. Or did Felix steal this statue given from
Papa or not? So it's been a very magical show
for me in that case. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. It's great.
I think I stumbled across your article a couple
days ago. Oh, really? Yes, and I haven't read
it, but the headline was so moving that I put
it in me and Max's favorite resources doc. So
it's living in there, I'm pretty sure. If anyone
is interested in reading it, you can go to meowmeowpowpowlit
.com. That's again, meowmeowpowpowlit .com. It's
a literary journal I've been a contributing editor
to for many years. And that was the last article
I wrote for them, I think. I can't wait to read
it. Yeah, I can't either. So that came out right
when the Bob's Burger movie was coming out, which
I think is one of the reasons why Twitter was
active with Bob's Burger stuff. Because they
were in the middle of promotion. So a fun little
tidbit there. My second most favorite person
I've ever been retweeted by. Mark Hamill was
first. Amazing. That was just a soup that we
made, though. This was like actual writing that
I'd done. So, Sierra, what is your favorite Bob's
Burgers episode, but not Christmas? Oh, gosh.
This is so difficult for me. As soon as I saw
this question, I went, I don't know how to answer.
Because there's a couple that immediately popped
into my head. One of them is the Valentine's
episode with Nat and her pink limo. And one of
them is the Thanksgiving episode where Calvin
borrows the belchers and Bob just gets drunk
by himself. I mean... First Thanksgiving episode.
Yep. Iconic Bob's Burgers. I just realized we're
three for three holiday episodes. Valentine's,
Thanksgiving, and Halloween. That's super funny,
actually. I wonder if that's just because they
stick out a little bit more because of the theme.
Yes. That's what I think it is. Yeah, definitely.
Because there's definitely more that I would
probably put way up. Actually, now that I'm thinking
about it, one that I really, really like that
is not holiday is when Tina's trying to be a
reporter at school. That was on my list. Wagstaff
News. Wagstaff News. I love that so much. And
I think it's really just because Zeke cracks
me up so much. Is that when she's looking for
the pooper? Yes, the mad pooper. I did it for
you, girl. But isn't that also the one that's
so funny? But isn't that also the one where Gene
is little Bob? Because that is. Oh, yes. Exactly.
That's an iconic episode all around. Yeah. Amazing.
Bob, Lynn. Yeah. It's so good. No. Oh, pocket
-sized Bob. He's good. He's good. No, he's not.
He's not good. I love that moment. That's a big
TikTok, Bob's Burger. It's like that. Oh, yeah.
And then the, like, she's autistic. No, she's
not autistic. Like, really live rent -free on
TikTok. Yeah, certainly. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my
gosh. I'm going to make it four for four on holiday.
Love. Dawn of the Peck is probably my favorite
non -Christmas episode. I find everything about
that episode extremely fascinating. The A story,
the B story, the run. the mickey being in it
when it's bill hater is just always so funny
i just love his line reading on when he's like
hold on to your head so you don't break your
neck it's just so your neck doesn't break off
or something like that um i love uh anytime rudy
is is in regular size rudy is in an episode and
and louise is like You probably won't make it.
I guffaw. And he also has one of the great asthma
lines where he goes, Rudy won asthma class. Yes,
classic Rudy. There's also this amazing, probably
my favorite Andy and Ollie line is when they're
talking about needing to vomit up their first
Thanksgiving because their parents are divorced.
I mean, it's brilliant writing. I love that.
I also love when, when they try and turn off
the thing and they enter a different egg and
Sarah Silverstein goes, we traveled through time.
So good. It's a great episode. I love that episode.
Especially just the end to classic zombie movie
scene where Felix Fischota goes to the window
and is like. Wait, something's out there. And
then Calvin breaks the wishbone and the turkey
flies through the window. And that's where the
episode stops. It's incredible. But if I'm not
doing a holiday episode, I think it's tied. I
used to when I when I redesigned curriculum at
my old school, I brought in a couple of Bob's
Burger episodes to teach theme because these
freshmen would come in having. Not read a ton,
especially right after COVID. Oh. And so we would
translate from identifying theme in a video to
identifying theme in a poem, then a short story,
then a novel. Wow. So you would take their great
video analytical skills, because they're constantly
working with video technology, and you try and
get them to focus on that. So we do time writes
based off of Bob Burgers. We did three episodes.
Two of them are my all -time favorite. One of
them is The Outside Toilet, which is my favorite
Gene episode. And I'll talk about that. Episode
a little later why it's my favorite. But I love
that episode where he's taking care of the toilet.
And it's just an E .T. parody. And then I love
with all of my heart the Edison science fair.
Topsy. Topsy. With Spice Rack and Spice Eps and
the music that Gene creates. And then at the
very end or in the midst of that, you know, operatic.
music that's going on bob's like gene wrote this
and then at the very end gene's like did i put
enough fart sounds in i forgot to put fart sounds
in oh my god you do a great gene i appreciate
it it's so good and the music is like actually
really good yeah it's great yeah and i i mean
i love that they put that on their low fry uh
on their first one there's top season there it's
just um i love that episode to pieces so good
Oh, I just, I, sorry. I just remembered another
one of my favorites that I just wanted to mention,
which is the Hawk and Chick episode where they
do, where they do this screening and then they
get the father and the daughter back together.
And it's the, the Bob and Louise getting back
together, but you were always. You know, you
were always my chick, and you were always my
hawk, and they're doing the narration behind
the movies. So sweet. So sweet. It is. Sierra,
who is your favorite Bob's Burgers character?
Oh, well, that perfectly relates to what I just
was talking about, because I flip -flop between
Bob and Louise. I think Bob is just... so relatable,
as you were saying before. And there's just so
many times when I'm watching and I go, man, you
know, Bob just never really being able to catch
a break or having these really, really odd talents
that he can't use anywhere else is probably the
most real life adulting I've ever seen portrayed.
Because I feel that so much. Yeah, he's an artist
trapped as a grill cook, you know? It's lovely.
He owns a restaurant, thank you very much. He's
a restaurateur. Man, and then Louise, I just,
I feel she just, the chaotic energy, and I will
almost always, for a favorite character, pick
a character with the most sass. And so that very
much she very much speaks to me. Plus, there
are so many episodes and I will talk about this
later. But there are so many episodes where she,
you know, is doing things very selfishly because
she's a kid and she wants things a certain way.
And she knows how to get them because she's way
too smart. And then she does end up almost always
doing the right thing in the end. And it's very.
Yeah, it's just very lovely how much she grows
every episode as well. Yeah, and I think it's
interesting you paired those two together because
their relationship is one of, like, the most
special. It's so sweet. I, too, really admire
Louise. She's, I think, would be hands down my
favorite character through any rewatch. I admire
Louise in the way that I think... Bob admires
Louise, where Bob sees this capable. extremely
smart, extremely talented, not that worried about
her Louise. And also they have this sort of mutual
respect for one another. And Bob's mutual respect
is for like the future that he sees in her. And
she has this mutual respect for him because he
believes in her so much and is, and doesn't see
this. You know, Linda, Linda and her have a great
relationship, but Linda often is, is sort of
being the one that's like, you can't do this.
You can't do this. You can't do this. We got
to move on. We got to move on. And Bob is like,
Hey, he's off versus it's the opposite with Jean.
Yes. And Bob and Linda and Jean. It's the opposite
there. But I really love Louise. The Fish Odors,
I have a blast every time they're there, especially
as a duo. That moment in Dawn of the Peck where
they're like, oh, the microphone's still on.
Oh, no, it happened again. It makes me laugh
every time. And I'll also say I've grown a big
respect for Teddy in this year's rewatch. Where
I just, he's so funny so much. It's incredibly
annoying, really frustrating at times. That episode
where Bob is in the car as they drive out to
drop off this clown head so that Bob can pick
up a part. He's like my worst nightmare as far
as the social interaction. Right, right. But
I do love Teddy, especially how much Teddy hates
doing patty cake with Bob. One of the hardest
I've laughed at Bob's Burgers. Ted, you love
Teddy so much. I love Teddy so much, but you
go ahead. I do love Teddy. It's so funny. It
took us a while to love Teddy, and I think that
makes sense. But I think Teddy has become so
crucial to the show because he is the one character
who can kind of carry a - side story or like
a B story or a C story when the whole family
is off on an adventure or something like that
they always call in Teddy you know to do something
and he's so he's just such a great character
he's so funny and he's the only one that can
do that I would lay my life down for Teddy I
deeply care about him he would probably let you
yeah would he do it for me would he do that for
you yeah I don't know. I want him to like me.
Would you be trying to move it on his stool?
True. The thing he sits on, not like. I just
want to be clear. Not fecal matter. We're talking
about the actual red stool. This is a Bob's Burgers.
We got to be clear. Exactly. You never know.
I got to say, Teddy seems like the type of guy
that would take off your coat to put down on
the ground in order for you to walk across mud.
I was going to say in order for Bob to walk across
mud. Yeah, that's also true. Bob first. Awesome.
Okay. If you could work anywhere in the Bob's
Burgers world, where would you work? Oh, goodness.
I had a funny idea, which would just to be to
work in the fish odor household somewhere. Yes.
Inga. And just be able to wander the grounds.
And yeah, exactly. Boopity, boopity, boopity,
boopity, boopity. She works with the Olive Garden.
Such a great detail. Or not the Olive Garden.
Maybe it was the Olive Garden. I think it was
the Olive Garden. Yeah. Yeah. And he'd probably
forget you work there, so you could have free
run of the house. Yeah, it would be great. And
Felix's treehouse and all the grounds and all
the broken down carnival rides. All yours. I
know. It'd be pretty cush. That's a pretty great
pick, Sierra. It really is. I had not thought
of that as a possibility. Thank you. Okay, so
it's not Bob's Burgers, which would be fun. I
love cooking a lot and baking. I do a lot of
that in my spare time. I'm making eclairs after
we're done with this podcast. What time is it
where you are? Yeah, I know. Oh, okay. Same time.
But this might be a little boring given the fact
that I am a teacher. I would want to work at
the high school, but I'd want to work at the
middle school, and I'd want to work. in a way
where I was in charge of classroom curriculum,
where I could make it the creative space that
Rudy, Jean, Louise, Tina, where they need this.
Because you can see in episodes where they're
doing like Big Fish, where the kids are down
with the activities. It's just when they're sitting
in these rather rigid old school, sit at your
desks, do math sort of stuff, that things become...
uh that the outlets for jeans adhd for louise's
like constant need for stimulation um play up
and you can see them not engaging with school
but as soon as they're passionate about it they
they um they really get into it so i'd want to
bring in a project -based learning solutions
to that to that school i'd really want that i
love it and You say all these great things and
what is going on is the opposite. And Mr. Frond
is fiddling around helping no one. Helping nobody.
Yeah. He's the most frustrating character for
me because I sit there going, this is unethical.
This is really bad. I believe it. This is the
best practices. You are the opposite side, my
good sir. Exactly. But if I couldn't choose that,
if I couldn't do Bob's Burgers, I'd want to work
at that jazz club that Felix Fischerter set up
for one evening. Oh, yes. Yeah. Oh, yes. I'd
want to be their piano player, which would just
be so much fun. So much fun. And Mickey is there.
He is, yes. So it's like, it's perfection. He's
a terrible bartender, but he's there. Yeah, his
drinks are... Not great. Not great. Yeah. All
right. Excellent. Well, welcome to the show.
That's the end of our introduction, folks. We're
now going to move into the real episode. Woohoo!
And for today's episode, we will be caringly
caroling about Bob's Burgers, the Christmas episodes
edition. Happy holidays, everyone. Happy holidays.
And without further ado. Wait, hold on. There's
some breaking news. Creator Lauren Bouchard finally
answered the question about why the Belchers
eat tacos sideways. The answer will disappoint
you because he says they shouldn't be. I found
that fascinating. He comes in and, you know,
there's been this famous thing on the internet
why they eat tacos sideways. And Logan Burchard
instantly goes, I had no idea. They shouldn't
be doing that. It's not cool. Skylar and I had
like a map in our home that was like Charlie
Kelly in that Always Sunny meme. Yeah, yeah.
And we were trying to figure it out. And then
he comes out here and is just like, it's not
supposed to be like that. It's an accident. Yeah.
How many years have we wasted on that, Skylar?
Wasted. Oh, not wasted. I think the internet
needed all the information they could get. Yeah.
It was the most unsatisfying answer that we could
have gotten. I thought it was very endearing
that he had no clue it was a thing, though. That
was so endearing. But then again, I find everything
that man does endearing. That's true. That's
very true. Well, now, without further ado, we
will, as Roger Smith says, dive on in. So, an
explanation of how we're doing this. Our Christmas
episodes. So there are 13 that we're going over
today. There is a 14th, but we're not discussing
the new one. You guys can watch that without
our judgment or opinions. So the way that this
works is if we gave first place to a show, it
would get 13 points. It would get the full 13
because there's 13 episodes. And then vice versa.
So if you were in... Last place, you only earned
one point. And I could have just made this like
golf, where the smallest score gets it and made
this much easier on myself. But instead, I made
it difficult. So there you go. The episode with
the most points wins, which to no one's surprise
was a unanimous decision. But we will be going
in ascending order, starting with last place.
So, Sierra, take it away. All right. In last
place, with... A measly nine points. Season 12,
episode 10, Jean's Christmas Break. Jean breaks
an extremely rare Christmas record from the 70s,
so he and his sisters search for another copy.
Teddy tries to do a neighborhood secret Santa
with Bob and Linda. It's from IMDB description.
So, why I ranked it... In this position. The
saving grace for me in this episode is Louise
coming up with the idea to save the day and record
their own version of this Christmas record. I
wish that the plot of them trying to find the
record was a little bit more of an adventure
with some more twists and some turns. Kind of
like when Bob is trying to find the love testometer
for Linda. And he keeps having to beat the health
inspectors and find out where they're going.
It's a whole big adventure. Plus the whole weird
70s hallucination where he goes, it's okay, Gene.
And then Gene just goes, okay. It seems it doesn't
convince me that Gene would turn around on this
because he's very committed to his music. And
if it was something. Again, like another episode
where, you know, Louise has her Coochie Copey
fever dream and then decides to forgive her family.
But that's an entire episode of getting over
this event. Yeah, it doesn't quite convince me
that Gene would turn around this quick, especially
since we know that he's very dramatic. We know
that he loves his music. We also, though, have
never seen him Christmas DJ. Which, they're like,
he does this every year. And I was like, well,
the only time I can quite remember it is when
he's obsessed with Jingle in the Jungle and is
on hold for hours trying to get it to play. A
Christmas classic, though. More vaga than I imagined.
But definitely my favorite part of the episode,
though, is the sequence of them horribly recording
this album and just really trying and all the
off -key singing. All these random sections of
songs with the teacup kittens and all these really
odd things. And you kind of go, I want to hear
more of these songs. That's what saves the episode
for me, honestly. Because I am not a fan of the
Percy McKinselbud character and the whole world.
It just doesn't hit for me. And it's probably
why this is the most skippable Christmas episode.
In my opinion. Yeah, I think one saving grace
also that I like in this episode is I have a
little soft spot for when Mort gets Teddy the
little plaque for Secret Santa. That is the moment
of the episode for me. Yeah. When Teddy, who's
the entire time has been like... Mort sucks.
I hate Mort. I don't want Mort here. What's Mort
doing? And then he's like, this is the nicest
thing anyone's ever done for me. Yeah. And not
just in the entire episode. He's always like,
yeah. And Mort's just like the nicest, like laid
back guy. And he's like, here, I just got you
this thing that's going to melt your heart. It's
so sweet. And I like what you were saying, Sierra,
that. You know, the emotional turns didn't feel
earned to you, which makes me a little bit sad.
What did not work for this episode for me. I
loved the family coming together at the end.
I'm like a pretty like sound sensitive person.
This was just too much for me. I was like, it
was so loud and uncomfortable for me. I was like,
no, thank you. That was my wife's problem as
well. She's also fairly sound sensitive. And
watching this episode, she was just like, I'm
just uncomfortable the entire watch. Where there's
just all of the stimulation constantly, which
is like Gene's whole thing at the beginning is
that he needs the stimulation. He needs constantly
doing that. And that was me as a kid, certainly.
And so at the beginning of this episode, I found
I was like, oh, wow, I relate to this quite a
bit. And then it feels a little bit like a George
Lucas film where you're like, I don't know that
I love all of the different plot points before
we get to the end, but I liked the end. Yes.
Exactly. And the thing for this episode that
why it didn't hit for me is that. Jean episodes
that slap that are super excellent are ones where
he grapples with his carelessness, his mindlessness,
his focus, and he works through it. I'm thinking
about like the black garlic episode with Kumail
Nanjiani as the chef where Bob and him sort of
have a, a, a heart to heart or the, the outside
toilet episode where he drops the flower sack
like three times. He doesn't, therefore he'll
be a terrible parent. And then he takes care
of this toilet. Really? Like, loyally. And he
has such empathy. Or even most recently, the
lizard episode that just came out. Which was
an excellent Gene episode. Although I don't always
love Courtney episodes. But I really loved this
one. And the amount of, you know, emphasis that
he puts on research for the lizard and all of
that stuff. It's just so sweet and endearing.
This episode, they use his carelessness. as the
inciting incident and then don't readdress it.
It becomes an adventure episode. And I just,
I don't love using his fault as the plot push
and then never returning back to it. Yeah, because
if I had, if I could only have one criticism
of the show, it's that I don't know that they...
give gene the the plot points that he deserves
all the time yeah so they've done that before
where it's like is this really a character arc
for him it doesn't have to be huge but um i remember
there's like a plankton episode or something
and i was like yeah i guess this is an okay gene
episode but not really anyway yeah when they're
it's the first um marina episode Where they're
trying to save that. And it ends up being more
of like a Tina episode, kind of. Yeah. It's like
a Halsey episode where you're like, isn't this
about Jean? Not really. Yes. Yes. Exactly. In
12th place, with 10 points, which is only one
more than the previous episode, is Season 15,
Episode 9. Dog Christmas Day After Afternoon,
which is my favorite title that anyone's ever
said ever. No one said that. Said no one. Said
no one ever. Leave some words for the rest of
us. Absolutely. IMDb describes this episode as
the Belcher's family trip to see Christmas lights
becomes a rescue mission in more ways than one.
So, I am severely disappointed with a lot of
you. This is by far the worst Christmas episode,
and it has nothing to do with the fact that literally
two days after I watched this Christmas, he's
alive, my dog's fine, but we had a big chocolate
scare two days later, where our door had been
broken to our bedroom, and we thought we'd waited
it, and he walked in and took off a... a whatever
they're called a stocking above our bed and we
got home in time we took him he was fine it all
ended up being good but it was like these two
this episode is too linked with my actual like
trauma in life Oh, yeah. That's how I feel. When
I rewatched this episode, I was like, I hate
this. I hate everything about this. It's so funny
you say that. It's not funny. I'm with you. I
understand. It's ironic that you say that because
we just recorded an episode for our Patreon where
we do, we call it Not My Favorite Episode, which
is a play on our My Favorite Episode on YouTube.
And we wanted to do a Christmas one because it's
Christmas time. And so we chose this one because
the first time Skylar and I watched it, last
year when it was on, we just had – we were –
the minute Gene feeds that puppy chocolate, we
both shut down. Yeah. We could not enjoy this
episode. No. I had a dog die as a kid for getting
into chocolate. And we were talking about it
today when we were recording. It was like immediately
I felt that in my body and I could not enjoy
anything else about the episode. I'm anxious
right now. Yeah. Yeah. I will – first of all
– Sometimes we live in a bubble because we record
these Patreon episodes and we don't see a broad
reaction to episodes. So I feel very validated
right now, I have to say. Absolutely. However,
I will say great first five minutes of an episode.
Absolutely. I wish I felt that way the whole
time. Yes. As I do in those five minutes. It
reminds me a little bit about. uh season 11's
opener with uh rubber ball uh where where he's
bob falls asleep and it's like the first five
minutes of the episode rock and then the rest
of the episodes like okay with this one it's
like the first five episode rocks and then i'm
like legitimately like unhappy watching it yeah
you know those two episodes are it's so funny
to bring those two up because I feel like in
that episode where it loses me is that there
are no stakes because Bob is dreaming the whole
time. In this one, the stakes are way too high.
They're too real. And it's interesting because
I would think the Venn diagram of pet owners
and Bob's Burger fans are quite almost circular.
And so it just seems almost out of touch with
your audience to have Gene make such. An awful
mistake. Again, giving Jean this moment of carelessness
that just propels plot and doesn't actually address
anything. Because it becomes more of a Louise
episode as it progresses into the dog story.
And Jean kind of never gets his... Jean's not
even the one who, like, squeezes... the the turkey
baster they give that to bob because he's yes
because he's mr turkey baster so he doesn't even
really get to undo his harm he just has that
line right before where they're asking for the
turkey baster and the hydrogen peroxide from
that family where bob's like hey we poisoned
this dog and he's like would you stop telling
everyone it's gene what the are you talking about
you have to tell everybody you need this i i
the fact when He says we're going to need a smaller
hearse in front of Jean or a smaller coffin.
And Jean realizes how this evening could end.
I'm like, what? I need to turn this off. Yeah.
It's not a funny joke either. I just bummed out
when Bob says that. Like, what? Honestly, I think
this. Again, proves how kind of traumatic this
episode is because some of these jokes that you
guys are saying, I think I blocked them out because
I straight up do not remember some of these comments
because I think I legitimately blocked it out.
All I was so focused on is Louise. One day she'll
get her puppy. It's really sweet. Yeah. Yes.
And we get to see her. You know what? I think
it goes back to what you're talking about in
the Jean episode. We have this great cathartic
moment with Louise, but this isn't her episode.
And it's not like she earned that moment in that
finale somehow. And what I do like about it is
she turns into a little nine -year -old girl
and we don't get to see her like that very often.
And it is very sweet. You know, it's interesting.
It's one of the rare instances in Bob's Burgers
where you have this dichotomy of an unearned
moment within the episode, and yet a weirdly
earned moment for the show overall. Because we've
had a couple of touch points of Louise really
wanting a dog. What's that, the oils one, where
she kidnaps the dog under her jacket? Oh, so
cute! And Linda's like, ah, we'll bring it back
in an hour. And that's another part where we're
like, wait, hold on, no. Mom! Linda, no! I would
not like you if you did that to me. And so it's,
like, weirdly earned right then, but you have
to, like, grasp onto a history of Bob's Burgers
in your head in order to kind of have any enjoyment
of that moment. Yes. So, yeah. I'm glad we all
agree that I'm feeling things. I'm coming down.
Yeah, it's a rough one. R -U -F -F? R -U -F -F?
A rough? Rough. A dog bark? Oh, I thought you
were doing like Gen Z lingo. I was like, oh God.
Regional utilitarian formation of formats. No?
Bad. I'm strictly doing Gen Z lingo from now
on, by the way. skibbity ohio toilets here we
go no cap yikes people still say that right bet
that's not no actually they're pretty much out
on on it's now all about eight nine because of
the grinch on tiktok six seven no that's eight
nine now yeah well yeah as a quick aside have
you followed the the grinch character at universal
On TikTok? I heard it's a must follow, but we
haven't yet. Oh, okay. Max is so into this. I
love that Grinch in Universal. He's so funny.
But one of the things that he did is this kid
comes up and goes, six, seven. And he goes, eight,
nine. And now it's like a big thing. He, this
one actor at Universal literally shifted the
cultural dynamic. For real. 20 -25. Thankfully
shifted. I will take 8 -9 for over 6 -7 any day.
The last three weeks of 20 -25, everything has
changed. Thank God. In 11th place with 10 points,
Sam made us put it higher than Chocolate Dog
Rick. Season 3, Episode 9. Bob, rest ye merry
gentle mannequins. They were tied with 10 points.
That's why I put that. Oh. Sorry. I should have
preloaded you. By the way, they're tied, but
I made it go higher. No, this was the right choice.
It was the right choice. Synopsis from IMDb is,
wow, this is a great synopsis. Tis the season
for strange holiday mannequins. Very early Bob's
Burgers to have really terrible recap or synopsis.
Yes. Yeah. You know what? It doesn't deserve
that much more of a description than that, to
be honest, if you ask me. It's kind of a meh
episode. The one thing it has going for it is
we have early Zach Galifianakis. Yes, precisely.
His guest character, Chet. And I believe it was
before he even did Felix. Maybe this is what
brought him into the world, thankfully, to play
Felix eventually. But I think what my issue with
this one is, and I tell Skylar about this on
our podcast all the time, is Bosberg is both
the best at introducing a new character and having
a story focus on them. And then sometimes...
they're not like they have this character and
they're the center of the story pretty much and
i don't get attached to them and i don't love
them and then the story loses me and the episode
loses me and that's how i feel about chet i don't
know how everyone else feels about chet but he's
not my favorite I think I like Chet from the
standpoint of his line readings by Zach Galifianakis,
where it's like, you know, he's like, she did
modeling in London, Paris, Milan. And I'm like,
Zach Galifianakis is a god. This is incredible.
But I'm actually not that into, especially because
it's still in this weird liminal space where
Bob's Burgers is like, are we fully family friendly
or not? Like this episode is, it gets pretty
risque very quickly. And this episode where they
turn up at the, thanks to Marshmallow, which
I noticed for the first time, Marshmallow is
the one that has seen the mannequin, Nadine,
and points them out to the sex shop, which is
great for Marshmallow. But when the kids start
messing around with sex toys and lube and everything,
it kind of, I go, hmm, I don't know about this.
I don't know that I'm comfortable. I just get
a weird feeling when I think about it, the episode.
I'm like, I don't really want to put it on. And
when I see it in my head, I also see like really
dated animation. And it just makes me feel like,
oh, this is Bob's Burgers before it became my
Bob's Burgers. And there will be people who will
fight me on the Internet about this, that if
only they could just go back to. Season one through
three. But I'm not one of those people. Right.
But they want Bob to have his boner for the for
the Laffy Taffy man that has gold inside him.
I we recently did an episode on that. And I was
like, excuse me, what is happening right now?
I am uncomfortable. Extremely. And also there's
gold in that man. There's no way. I gotta tell
you, there's no way. I mean, Linda gave him a
lot of pills, I think. That's true. Literally
drugged her husband. Weird meddling Linda in
an inappropriate facet. Super strange episode.
Although I do like Louise in that episode quite
a bit. Yes. Yeah, I think that episode just makes
me feel a little strange constantly. Although
I will say the fact that Bob's mom's maiden name
was Lombard, which is hearkening back to the
original show supposed to be set in San Francisco.
They use San Francisco artists to help set the
show. Like Ceron Norris, who's this great artist
up in San Francisco, does a bunch of the background
art for the pilot episode and stuff like that.
I do love the fact that we get a little bit of
a San Francisco shout out. But overall, strange
episode for me. Yeah, it feels kind of like another
fever dream episode where, and not the good kind
like Louise's fever dream, but a, what did I
just watch? Because it is, you know, in that
world, not only is it kind of a, is this adult
or is this family friendly, but it's also kind
of, is this real life or is this a little fantasy
-esque? Are you quoting Queen? I mean, where
are you going with this? Yeah, I know. I realized
it halfway through my sentence. But I think the
difficulty that I have is this is not only a
character who gets introduced and the whole episode
revolves around him and I don't quite latch on
to him, but also then he never shows up again.
And I feel like usually the characters who get
introduced, you have a whole episode about them.
And then maybe they don't show up for a while.
They still will eventually pop back up and we'll
touch on the fact that they existed again. But
we never hear about this guy who has this whole
fantasy of having been a mannequin and falling
in love with a mannequin and then becoming a
human somehow living in a storage unit. And then
the very, very, very end. Oh, yeah, we're just
probably going to go back to my high rise in
New York. It was being renovated or something.
We had to have bathrooms removed. By the way,
I'm a multi -millionaire, if not a billionaire.
Yeah. And you just go, wait, wait, what? And
you can also tell how tight of a budget that
they are still in season three, because at the
end of that episode, they don't shift to Bob
when he says what. They don't animate the last
line. It's still a still on Chet when H. John
Drennan goes. What? And that's it. Oh, that's
so interesting. I'm going to have to go back
and watch that. Yeah. It's fascinating. The only
thing I love about this episode is I do like
the reveals of the Christmas vignettes. Yeah.
I will say, I'm a big Edith fan. And we get a
choice, like, two -word line from Edith. Well,
not two words. I'm an idiot. But it's fine. She
goes. Burn in hell, Belchers. And I just love
it. I constantly quote at home when she, there's
one episode where she just goes, garbage. She's
so good. Yeah, she's great. Is it Larry Murphy
who voices her? Yes. So good. I think so. So
excellent. All right. In 10th place with 18 points,
Season 10, Episode 10, Have Yourself a Maily
Linda Christmas. The IMDb synopsis, Linda works
a temp job at the post office to make extra money
for the holidays. Bob and Tina get stuck at home
with Linda's family. Gene and Louise try to find
the perfect gift for Tina. This, too, has been
an episode that Max and I have been hard on in
the past. And now that we have talked about those
previous three episodes, there's actually a lot
I like about this. What I do not like about it
is I do not want to be at the post office on
Christmas Day. It is stressful to me. I want
to be at home with hot cocoa. Boy, do I feel
bad for Bob having to be with those in -laws
because my personal preference, if I never saw
Gloria, is that her name? Yeah. Gloria again,
I would be fine. Absolutely fine. That being
said, I don't, what do Jean and Louise end up?
Getting Tina? Because they spy Tina's gift for
the Belcher children only Christmas thing, they
realize that their gifts, which is a beret and
Tina's beret, Jean just takes it out of her drawer
and Louise grabs one. They go with Linda to drop
off this package in order to see if they can
go to the store. And then it takes so long that
Louise just spends like 20 screen seconds begging
the boy that they deliver this to just give them
one of his random presents. But he doesn't, and
Mike the mailman makes them little origami cranes
out of mail we missed you notices, and they give
her those. And then they give her a hug. Oh,
and she really does like the hug. And she checks
their pockets as she's hugging them. Oh, look,
a beret! I do remember liking the hug moment,
but yeah, I don't want to be running around in
Christmas traffic. Yeah. We also talk about there's
Linda has a certain line when it comes to meddling
that once she crosses that line in an episode,
it just drives me crazy. And this is one of those
episodes where it's like, Linda, you got to let
this one go, please. And she's sacrificing. This
sounds way too dramatic, but she's sacrificing
her marriage with Bob for this. Honestly, though,
I mean, with those in -laws. I like that interpretation
of it, though. Yeah. I mean, if I explicitly
said to Max, listen, I will be here alone with
your parents, but I can't do it the whole evening.
I really need this from you. And you freaking
split. I mean, we'd have words. It's true. The
gauntlet of conversation would be thrown down.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Go for it, Sarah. It's a, I
feel the exact same way about Linda's meddling.
I have a threshold for the meddling. And once
it has reached that, yes, same thing. I become
very uncomfortable. I don't like it. It's probably
because those types of people in real life really
bug me where I just go, you know, this is kind
of not your business. This is not about you.
Can we please move on and let people live their
lives? Okay, thanks. So I, it really does bother
me. That's honestly, I will say it again later
because there's another episode where she meddles
and it bugs the heck out of me. It is probably
my least favorite part of Bob's Burgers as a
whole, is when her meddling gets too much. Wow.
Yeah, so you hated... It just hits a certain
nerve with me that I can't stand, which is a
bummer because she's a main character. Right.
It's also a bummer, which I'm sure we'll get
into when we get to the episode you're talking
about, in Christmas episode because I see it
as Bob is the one who... who puts family second
during Thanksgiving, and it's all about the meal.
And Linda is the one who puts family second on
Christmas, and it's all about the decorations
and the celebration. And the tree. Yeah. Really,
they're hammering the tree quite a bit. Yes.
Especially with this last Christmas episode.
Oh, yes. Which they introduced her as Phoebe
Buffay's cousin, essentially. That's exactly
what I thought of. So, I think... I, too, am
uncomfortable about the meddlesomeness of her
and the fact that she's, like, committing a felony
the entire time she took someone's mail out of
the post office. I will say, we don't get much
Mike the Mailman after the first couple of seasons.
And this is a great Mike the Mailman episode.
We get to see his partner for the first time,
I believe. Wow. And we get to see him, like,
try out cool lines. I think that's my favorite
motif in the entire thing is he's constantly
like, did that sound cool? Yeah. Did that sound
cool? And the fact that he's like, we have male
to male carrier confidentiality. And she's like,
great. Then yes, I did. And he's like, that's
a lie. I just made that up. He's awesome. And
so I really like him in this episode. Yeah, and
that's a great point, too, because when they
cut to him at home, we've never seen him at home,
it looks like the most lovely evening he's having.
That place is immaculately decorated. It seems
so perfect. And Linda's meddling is ruining his
Christmas tree. It's not cool. Absolutely. Thank
you. Justice for Mike. I will, however, give
a lot of credit to Bob for figuring out how to
get out of the in -law situation by smoothing
it over. Ingenious. Because I love how he goes,
oh, yeah, I just, you know, got them to talk
it out. Really? No, I went in the other room
and pretended to be from the bank and said she
had too much money. It's really good. He knows
them. Another day, another moment enabling. gail
but that's a whole another podcast that really
is a completely different i will say i do love
the moment where tina goes to the bathroom goes
dad are you in here just to avoid talking to
them he's like no okay yes and then tina gives
this really great speech about like you know
mom always helps them avoid this but why don't
you help them um actually work it out which is
an awesome lesson and then Bob's like, okay,
but if I come out, you're not just going to switch
with me, right? And she's like, no, I promise.
And then he comes out and she immediately runs
in and closes the door. And he's like, you promised.
And she's like, right, got it. Sorry, got to
stay strong. So good. That is the best part.
The epitome of Tina. Great Tina moment. Yeah.
Amazing. In ninth place with 24 points. Season
nine, episode 10, Better Off Sled. The description,
the Belcher kids get into a turf war with teenagers
who take their usual sledding territory. Bob
tries to help Linda knit three scarves before
Christmas. So any episode where Bob can do something
really well, it just makes me very happy. Absolutely.
I think it would have been pretty cute if he
just kept knitting and like sold scarves on the
side because he's clearly so good at them that
the kids think that they could be store -bought.
And he has all these other like little random
talents that he could totally monetize and yet
decides not to, which is kind of noble of him
to really stick with his pursuit and not always
be driven by money, which he's definitely not.
Otherwise, he definitely could be making a lot
more money. Yeah, I don't think their relationship
would last if he started a scarf Etsy. Linda
would probably murder him. With his own scarves.
Yes. He just drowned in his own scarves. I really
like the competition between them. I think it's
a great callback to early Bob's Burgers where
they have Linda's spit. What's it where she flies
up the napkins? That was fun. She's super good
and everybody tries to beat her. But in that
episode, Bob has this great... revelation. It
was like, why am I rooting so hard against Linda?
And he has this wonderful, like, the eyes glow
over and they even have somebody singing in the
background, Linda! And that's great. And Linda
doesn't have that at all. She just finds much
triumph when they're like, yeah, this is a great
scarf. And Linda's like, it's not from Grandma,
it's from me! She takes it there, you know? I
will say, as we're moving through this list,
this is the first time where I went, Oh. Yeah,
same. Absolutely. I'm in the same plot. If this
were playing right now, I would watch it. And
is her name, is it Rudy's cousin, Mandy? Mandy.
Mandatory napkin. Yes. Rude. Max has been called
Maxipad 2 in his life, so. Yeah, I have. But
her ha -ha is something we quote frequently.
Yeah, we say it, I'd say it, we have to say that
at least twice a week. Yeah, sure. I do say it
quite a bit when I throw stuff to people. Exactly.
Like, if we ever go bowling, we'll be kicked
out. We'll just be like, the whole time. I love
that. I gotta say, we talked a little bit about
how Louise getting to see her inner nine -year
-old is so important and really touching as a
character. And the thing that makes this episode
so like so impactful for me and a part of me
that i i like literally i legitimately start
like tearing up during is right at the end when
they are finally victorious and they get the
hill for sledding and she raises her sled above
her head and she goes let's sled and she it's
just her inner child pouring out in this way
that we just very rarely see with Louise. And
it just makes me go, Oh, I wish I had a childhood.
Exactly. But that, and that's why we watch Bob's
burgers. And that's why those elements in these
Christmas episodes, how much they like hot cocoa,
how much they unabashedly want presents. It,
it, it makes you feel like a kid again, whether
you had that experience or not. Yeah. Yeah. It's
really sweet. I also, What's Teddy doing in this
episode? Because I just remember that I love
it. He and Louise are conspiring to plow the
hill. So Teddy is in charge of snow plowing the
streets and is very not great at it, as Bob points
out, because he's on the news and he's just skidding
out. Fishtailing a lot there. It's hard, Bob.
Don't you just... Drive straight. Do you even
know how to snowplow, Bob? Don't you just drive
and move the snow? Well, yeah, but... But then
Louise totally convinces him to plow the hill
so that there's no snow for the snowball fight.
And Teddy's just freaking out about it. I'm not
supposed to be plowing in the park. Getting all
upset about it and he's calling Louise late at
night and he's like, I did it, but I was never
here. I was never here. Because he does it because
he had a bully, too, that would throw snowballs
at him. And there's that great flashback of him
being like, ha ha, that's really funny, whatever
his bully's name is. That's enough! And it's
very like, that's enough slices. But it's Teddy
in his little kid voice. Yeah, it's very sweet.
See, I love Teddy. He's great. Yeah, the reason
why I think this is still kind of ranked low,
at least in my opinion, is that it's... doesn't
feel like as Christmassy as all the other episodes.
Like it is, it's more of a winter episode. Yeah,
totally. It's like, and also because the other
episodes coming up are so darn great. So I am
like, that's just kind of why this is sitting
here, even though it's such a good episode, I
think. I agree. I, in all honesty, when I think
of this episode, I think it happens after Christmas
and I completely forget about the knitting before
Christmas happens. Right. Exactly. Yeah. It also
doesn't help that when you go to watch the Christmas
episode playlist on Hulu, this episode is not
in that playlist. Hulu, get it together. I know.
Because that's how I was going, oh, they probably
have a playlist. It's close to Christmas. They
almost always have a playlist of all the Christmas
episodes or the holiday episodes when it's close
to the holiday. And so I'm watching them all
and I'm going, oh, yeah, this is great. And then
I look in the dock and I go, Better Off Sled?
I don't remember a sledding episode. And I go,
dang it! All Hulu's fault. Operator, get me the
number of this intern that put this together.
Yes. I think Better Off Sled is to Bob's Burgers
Christmas episodes as Putzgiving is to Bob's
Burgers Thanksgiving episodes. 100%. 100 % agree.
Oh, yeah. The Gen Z snapping? Gen Z thing. The
clapping? Do your kids do this? Yeah. What? Yeah.
What is what? That's clapping about it. Yeah.
Yeah. It's the new. If I see this, I'm just thinking
like world's tiniest violin. Right. That's how
old we are. Exactly. Yeah. You know, great audio
content when we're all miming. People love that.
Either that or I just think of like. You'll never
know what we were doing. Pincers. Yeah. Crab
pincing, basically. Harry Potter. Incredible.
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. we say that at least twice
a week too we do say that all the time yeah especially
because sierra and i uh started potting on a
harry potter podcast so we know we know yeah
yes that is one of his best line deliveries of
the entire series not like that is when you know
like i i pinpoint Anybody who's shocked at where
his career went after Harry Potter, I'm like,
just look at this. Just him on Felix Felicis.
I'm like, that, it makes the rest of his filmography
make complete sense. Daniel Radcliffe's drugged
out spider scene leads directly to horns, which
leads directly to Merrily We Roll Along, which
leads directly to a Tony. No, you forgot Swiss
Army Man. Oh, I did. You're right. I'm sorry.
The farting corpse. That is Daniel Radcliffe.
Immediately adds to list. What was the TV show
he was on for a few seasons? Sierra's got the
name, I'm sure. Miracle Workers? Miracle Workers,
yeah. Well done. I never saw it, but it looked
like it had that vibe to it. The absurdity. Incredible.
I'm a fan. I'm a fan of him as a human, too.
I just adore him. We adore him. Did you watch
the documentary about his stunt double? Yes!
I haven't seen all of it. Have you listened to
their podcast? Oh, they have a podcast? So, his
stunt double started a podcast to talk about
stunts, and he got Daniel Radcliffe to be his
partner. It's really interesting. That makes
me so happy. That's fantastic. They're like best
friends. I know. All those photos of them. So
sweet. Plug for them. Not that Daniel Radcliffe
needs it, but free plug. Let us... Return back
to Bob's Burgers, where we shall fall upon Sierra's
least favorite Christmas episode and the rest
of ours. Good. What? Middleest episode. We'll
get into it. We'll get there. In eighth place
with 26 points. I find it very interesting, too,
that these like four episodes right here are
all divided by about four points. So we have
the in ninth, eighth, seventh and sixth. They're
all like just a couple points apart. In 8th place
with 26 points, Season 5, Episode 6, Father of
the Bob. I'll start off with what I feel is the
good stuff after the IMDB description. At Bob's
father's Christmas party, Bob and Big Bob rehash
an old argument and try to outdo each other in
the kitchen. Meanwhile, the kids compete to find
the best gift for their dad. So... I have it
ranked just a little bit above where it happened.
I have it ranked seventh in my personal list.
It ends up eighth here, mainly because Sierra's
a putz. But I will say, I think the reason why
I love this episode so much is twofold. I think
it really captures a Christmas feeling where...
It feels very like awkward family gatherings.
Like we have driven in the snow 25 minutes. It's
cold. I don't know that we really want to be
here, but there's like these sort of old family
things that we're used to. I know I'm getting
$5. I want to go and do this thing. Like it's,
it's, it really captures a Christmassy feel in
the way that I feel like all the other. episodes
that we've talked about has not but also i am
such a sucker for bob's backstory so a little
bit about me um i wasn't as young as bob was
when he lost his mom but i lost my mom when she
was 18 and so i had 18 when i was yes yeah not
when she was 18 that would be insane um yeah
when i was 18 years old my mom passed and she'd
been sick for a long time so i i had this um
growing up experience of like my dad and i kind
of running the household and i was running a
lot of the stuff while trying to nurse my mom
and stuff and so whenever bob's backstory comes
up i like feel such affinity with it and i'm
laser focused in which is rare for me as i have
adhd so i whenever we get to bob like being like
hey i you know uh Chive my car burger or I've
got all these other specials and all of this
stuff with Big Bob from years past. I am just
I just love all that stuff so much. And so that's
why that it was ranked above what Sierra has.
You know, Lauren Bouchard, I lost my dad when
I was 11. So, first of all, I'm very sorry about,
you know, your mom and also. being parentified
in a sense and um there's people who when they
lose a parent earlier in life when you see other
people like you you go oh you're you're one of
me it's this club and when i learned that lauren
bouchard lost his mother uh 14 yeah i think i
was like Oh, that's why this show is so good,
because it will one of the reasons he comes into
it. He understands family in a different way
because of the loss in his life. And I, too,
love Bob's backstory and and watching him make
the chive my car burger. I know it really is
that deep, though, you know. Oh. But that is
how special Bob's Burgers is. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, I think it's the Bob backstory for me,
too. Obviously, both of you have such a connection
to Bob in those terms. But just the relationship
Bob has with his father, I can really relate
to because my relationship with my father is
not the best. I just get it. And it's like, I
think it's special because it kind of this specific
episode changes the trajectory of their relationship
moving forward. Not that they're like best friends
moving forward by any means. They still butt
heads. But it is like a special moment where
they have this conversation, this heart to heart,
this talk that they haven't. that they they've
been needing to have for a very long time yeah
even though it's while they're line dancing it's
maybe better to have these conversations yeah
ron swanson's bar yeah right um it's probably
it's probably the best way to do it but um yeah
it's just like it it's it makes me enjoy anytime
um big bob comes on the series moving forward
because it's not as toxic as it is here and it's
very cool to see that growth um so i guess that's
why it it has a place in my heart that being
said i love what the kids get into down in the
basement in this episode and bean boy has my
heart too bean boy has my heart uh when he is
running One of Tina's best lines is in this where
she goes, and I can use this rag to wipe the
floor with you. And I'm just like, what did Sassy
Tina came out of nowhere? Where has this been?
Yeah, and also that changed the trajectory of
her because she's sassy from then on. No, Bean
Boy running through that restaurant at the very
end, leaving his little footprints. Just so funny.
Why is no one trying to catch me? You truly have
fantastic gene cadence. Yeah. It's because he
and I were the exact same child. I love that.
We talk about Gene's ADHD a lot and, like, too
muchness and how he's misunderstood a lot on
the podcast. All that to say is I will defend
my Gene to the death. Yeah. Same. Absolutely.
So, Sierra, now that you've heard all these wonderful
things about this episode, what would you like
to contribute? Oh, gosh. I'm really sorry for
everybody's personal heartfelt stories for me
tanking this episode with my vote. Because...
Grinch, Grinch, Grinch. I do not like this episode
until they are line dancing. Wow, that's late.
So... I very much enjoy the conversation that
they have, the fact that Bob is so lost during
the line dance and is so confused that his dad
even knows how to line dance, and just the chaos
of trying to have a very serious conversation
while doing something that is not supposed to
be very chaotic, but Bob is making it chaotic.
I do enjoy that, and I do like the very end with
Bean Boy and everything. However, all the way
up until that moment, I am very, very, very uncomfortable.
Both because of Big Bob and because of Linda.
So Big Bob is a, as you were saying, toxic relationship.
And I've had... those types of people in my life
who you can only be around them for a short period
of time before you go, I'm done now. I would
like to leave. I am out. I will see you later.
I can handle you in a very small dose. And then
things just do not go well from here. And so
having Bob repeatedly draw his boundary with
Linda of this is where I'm comfortable and I
am comfortable for 15 minutes. And we see. multiple
flashback examples of him hitting the 15 minute
mark and then his dad saying something terrible
you're a lot fatter at this age than i was at
yours yes so i have a very hard time both with
big bob not being able to say a nice thing for
more than 15 minutes and even those during those
15 minutes they're like not really talking at
all and so the fact that he can't say anything
nice about his son who's The one connection that
he has to his family and all of that really bothers
me and gives me a very ick feeling. And then
Linda with her meddling. And this is where this
is probably the episode I feel like she crosses
the line the most because Bob gives very clear
boundaries. I am comfortable for 15 minutes.
We are leaving after 15 minutes. I do not want
to be involved in this. I don't even want to
be here. I am coming because you have convinced
me to be here. This is my boundary. And she not
only ignores his boundary, but then forces him
into a close encounter situation with his dad,
forces them to speak, like really puts Bob in
a very terrible position where Bob is just going,
I'm not being respected. And that also makes
me feel very, very uncomfortable. So it isn't
until we get the dressed as Santa who owns the
bar. I can't remember his character's name, but
who is like, okay, you guys need to speak. I
was going to say Nick Offerman, but it isn't
until he is the one. I think it's Pete as well.
Yeah, it is Pete. Is it Pete? Okay, yeah. Yeah,
I think so. So it isn't until Pete is the one
to say, you guys need to have a conversation,
that I'm on board with this. Because Pete is
coming at this from a... Third party observation.
He has seen a little bit. He has seen bits and
pieces of their relationship over the years.
He knows just enough to know that this needs
to be fixed, but he's not really meddling in
the situation. He's just having basically a wake
up call for Bob of like, this is the moment to
fix this. And from that moment on, I'm on board
with the rest of the episode. But up until that
point, I am just so uncomfortable that. Yeah.
It actually makes it difficult for me to even
enjoy what the kids are up to because I'm so
distracted by what's happening upstairs and the
fact that if they're down there, that means Bob
is still stuck in this situation. I mean, it
is interesting that it elicited, like, personal
feelings from all four of us. And I hope this
makes you feel seen. We do have a fan that...
listens to our podcast, she skips this episode.
She feels exactly how you do. It just, it reminds
her too much of her dad. Yeah. Okay. In seventh
place with 27 points, we have a season four episode
eight Christmas in the car. IMDB synopsis is
after spending Christmas Eve out running a candy
cane truck with their last minute tree. The Belchers
find that Bob's friend gets caught in the kid
Santa trap. Who is Bob's friend? We're about
to find out. First of all, maybe the best Teddy
episode, segment, side story of all time. It
might be the best B -story of Bob's Burgers ever.
I think a lot of people would agree with that.
Yeah. It's a disco. It's a disco. Oh, it's crisp.
Must be near the crisper. It's a disco. That's
a dumb place to keep bowls. That's my favorite
part. That's a dumb place to keep bowls. Flashback
immediately. It's just peak right in my humor
that I love. is is that that whole teddy sequence
yeah a part of me wonders if this is what won
me over with teddy and like larry murphy voicing
him as well it's just like i was like this guy
is funny yeah this is this is not easy to do
as a single character in a single scene and he's
just so funny and honestly it's a very action
-packed episode and he steals it for me he does
Even more than like, and the character that they
have driving the candy cane truck is hilarious.
Like he comes out and he's like, I'm going to
bang your butt. And you're like, what? But it's
still, he's still upstaged. This little man who
punches Bob in the gut by Teddy. And Teddy's
intro line to the house, right? Yes. Is anyone
home? I know there isn't, but I have manners.
Like, oh my gosh. He's perfection. Yeah, it's
great. I will. Also say that the sequence of
Linda killing three Christmas trees before we
actually get to Christmas Eve. Another just brilliant
first five minutes of an episode. That's the
way I want to go out. Dehydrated and covered
in tinsel. It's a great gene line. So good. Like
a pride parade. I do love, too, that they really
hammer the need to get that tree out of there.
Because I think most people would be like, come
on, it's one more day. What's it going to do?
But the fact that Bob's like, it set fire three
times. We have to get it out of here. It's like,
oh, okay. There is an emergency. So good. And
we also get... the dutch baby sequence which
is iconic oh he's a preemie just like jesus so
good or even the cop who's amazing right just
that that lean back in his chair where he puts
his head back and he goes are you hurt in any
way was there any damage done to the vehicle
what a truck driver's It was mean to you, truck
driver. And then Bob hits that waitress. He's
like, sorry, it was an accident. This guy wasn't
listening to me. Well, maybe if he'd hit more
waitresses. This is probably the Christmas episode
that I watched the most for a long time because
it was just so quotable to me. It's quotable.
I feel like I can quote tons of, like, even Louise
when she's like, we got Santa! Daddy is Santa!
It's just like... It's just incredible. So sweet.
So sweet. Yeah, and then Teddy wants him to read
the card while the fridge is still on him. Yes.
No, go ahead, read the card. Read the card and
then pick up the fridge. It says, it says, Meowie
Christmas. See, this is why Teddy is the best.
Yeah. It's making me want to bump this episode
up in my ranking. I had a lot of trouble with
these last... seven certainly um we'll get to
nightmare two two nightmares before christmas
or something like that but um that one i had
a lot of trouble with this and that one i had
it just it was like rolling dice basically like
where am i gonna put any of this stuff yeah yeah
it kind of is rolling dice yeah sexy dice Oh,
sorry. We can't. Is that okay? Yeah, you're fine.
You're fine on that joke. That's a Bob's Burgers
reference. It would be easy to explain. We can
hug on the chair. Zip it before you get us in
trouble. Linda did it. That's a great scene,
though. I do love that scene in Bob's Burgers.
But it's all rated 13 or 14 and up, so I'm fine.
Quotes from the show were good. Yeah. I also,
not to continue on the Teddy, but to continue
with Teddy. uh him being on the phone and having
to write down the instruction off bugs me so
much because that's just a level of incompetence
that i could not handle in real life but then
he immediately makes up for it with everything
that happens in the apartment and especially
the animation of him actually getting stuck in
the trap. It's Disney. It's Disney -esque in
how they do it. Yeah. Amazing. And flopping around
and flailing and his shoes flying off and all
the dramatic noises. The gator roll. The gator
roll is so good. He does the alligator death
roll during that to try and get out of the trap.
He... And I feel like we don't get that level
of movement animation until the Bob's Burger
movie comes out. It's like that moment sticks
out so much because they take such care in the
absolute ridiculousness. I will also say, I do
love, he takes forever on the phone being like,
hold on, I need a pen. Oh, you know, whatever.
You never have a pen when you need one. Okay,
I write O -F -F. And then he gets to the oven
and he's like, oh, it's off. Why did Bob make
such a big deal about it? I find it very funny.
He steals the episode. He does. He absolutely
does. Oh, man. You're right. We probably should
have had this higher, but it's okay. It's the
way the world works. Well, let's talk about the
other ones because they're going to become our
favorites, too, you know? Speaking of which,
in sixth place with 28 points, season 11, episode
10, Yachty or Nice. IMDB's description, Bob wonders
if there's a catch to the Belchers being invited
to cater the Glencrest Yacht Club's holiday boat
parade. Louise has her eye on the Santa schooner.
All the kids do. Thank you very much. This is
one of those. Where I just went with my heart
on ranking it. There's something that I just
feel warm and fuzzy when I think about it. First
of all, we have to talk about Teddy as Santa.
Him, like, vomiting in his beard is so good.
And I really like to see Bob do two things in
this show. I love when he has a win that is attached
to his self -esteem. So him being invited to
this and we made the I'm brieing of a white Christmas
burger and it was delicious. It's really good.
Yeah. It's so good. Really good. And I love the
kids and their winter coats. And the other thing
that I love is when Bob loses it. I love unhinged
Bob. So you like the dichotomy of Bob's positions.
You love he's doing super well or he's doing
real bad. Exactly. Lift him up or smack him down.
Yeah, that was my first line of why I like this
episode. Bob gets good recognition and he's also
obsessed with Jimmy. Exactly. Because Jimmy just
makes him so insane that he completely cannot
handle reality. And he's like, well, there has
to be a reason. Why are we here? Oh, it's not
going to be Jimmy. It's going to be Trev. A conspiracy
theory, Bob. Doesn't he bungee cord his pants
together? Yes, he does. He sure does. Yes. It's
so funny. I have such a meh reaction to this
episode. It just, for whatever reason, doesn't
float the boat to me. I think that's because...
The Teddy storyline makes me uncomfortable with
the kids and the vomiting into his beard and
then stealing presents. And I love – his name's
Gus, right? Yes. The marine guy. Yeah. I love
having him there. He's very Seamus -coded to
me from Family Guy. He's the wood plank dude
that has wood planks for arms and legs. And so
I really like seeing Gus. For whatever reason,
I just feel mad. But then I rewatched this episode
today and I was like, I forget how funny this
episode is. I've made a mistake in ranking it
so low. And one of the reasons was, is I love
all Linda and Mayer stuff that comes up. Yes.
The Mayer. The Mayer. It's so good. And the Mayer
tries one of the burgers. The way that they deliver
that. So it fell on the ground, but the Mayer
used the five second rule. And like the dead
delivery. of this five seconds i'm sorry you're
outside on a marina that everyone's been walking
in that five seconds doesn't exist bird poop
seagull poop you know it's there for sure potential
uh terrible chemicals to get rid of uh not acne
my goodness what is it what is the marina thing
called that gene tries to save Algae. Thank you.
Algae acne, the same thing, for sure. Yeah, there
could be dangerous chemicals to get rid of algae.
Like, it is not a safe place, Mayor. But it's
like, quickly, Bob, give me some fries. I'm going
to drop them on the deck to see if he'll eat
them then. Yeah, I think I ranked this pretty
low, too, just because I, like you, I probably
should have watched it before because I... don't
remember it that well and i was just gonna like
i gotta put this somewhere but it is a good episode
it's it's a lot better than i remember and um
i just love the lights too like i think they
did such a good job animating those lights and
if you've ever been to like one of those marina
shows they're so amazing and they did such a
good job of animating them and and um like bob's
like animation when it comes to you know Any
kind of lights like sunsets and sunrises and
the Christmas lights. And they're just phenomenal.
Yeah, it really is. That's a fabulous point.
Yeah. Plus, we see this is kind of another theme
of Christmas episodes is Louise is very self
-centered and then turns it around and decides
to do the right thing. And we see this a lot
of times in these episodes where she just ends
up sacrificing. gets nothing out of it and kind
of the reward is that she did the right thing
like in uh the mannequin episode she you know
gives up her apartment but the money for her
um christmas presents to be able to buy the mannequin
and and do the right thing for somebody else
but here they actually get rewarded for doing
the right thing by uncle father santa teddy who
Who knows that they're going to do the right
thing and put the presents back and has saved
them presents. And I think that that's really
sweet because, yeah, usually when Louise does
decide to do the right thing, she doesn't really
get an additional reinforcement other than just
knowing that she did the right thing. So it's
kind of nice to see her get rewarded every now
and then for being less self -centered. I got
to say. Kristen Schaal's line reading of, so,
Uncle, Father, Santa, Teddy. It does live in
my head rent -free, and I will say randomly in
the middle of nowhere, just it'll pop into my
head and I'll go, Uncle, Father, Santa, Teddy.
I love it. Top five alert. In fifth place, with
35 points, Season 6, Episode 5. Nicecapades.
I did so many nice things I can hardly count.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. IMDb description. A
grumpy mall Santa threatens to put Jean, Tina,
and Louise on the naughty list, inspiring them
to arrange a musical performance in hopes of
changing Santa's mind before Christmas. Another
Louise learning and growing and doing the right
thing. Because as much as I love... All of her
shenanigans and what she gets up to and all of
her snarkiness. It is always very nice when she
does find her morals. And so when she does admit,
no, I didn't actually create world peace. Really?
It's great. Also, we get to see Linda being the
stage mom that she's clearly born to be. Yes.
I love her. You see those costumes? I made them
this morning. And it's not just pickles. Not
just pickles. I mean, Teddy as the crab, perfection,
and that costume is perfection. No notes. Yeah.
My tie of favorite moment of this episode is
a tie between Bob getting Santa's nephew calendars.
What is he into? Like, you know, toys? Games?
Calendars? Did you just say calendars? No one's
into calendars. And then the shop closes? It's
not calendars. But if it is, they're really,
really good ones. Bob. Poor Bob. I just love
that moment of the shop closing. He's like, no,
you're closing early. And then the camera pans,
animates to the right. And it's just... Aw, crap.
When he looks at the calendar shop, that's still
open next to him. So good. Yeah. And then tie
with Teddy as a horseshoe crab and as world peace.
Teddy is showing up for this episode. You know
who else is showing up for this episode? I do
know who is showing up for this episode, Skylar.
Thank you for looking at me because this is,
it deserves top five status alone for, oh, bourbon.
That fish odor song is probably one of my favorite
Boz Burger songs of all time. Yeah. The Spirits
of Christmas, especially the full version. One
Christmas, Max and I were taking our evening
walk and we were just playing it from one of
our cell phones, just walking down the street.
Oh, bourbon. It's so good. And Felix is ice skating.
I love his costume. Felix, no. It's so good.
Kevin Kline singing that song, just every time
I listen to it, it's just, you can hear him having
an absolute blast singing about it. And it's
just like thinking about this man who's this,
he's an Oscar winner and he's a Tony Award winner
and he's just having fun. Singing for this stupid
cartoon character on a cartoon, you know, it
just makes me so happy. I love their crowd work.
It's my favorite scene of the entire episode
is when they're like, what does she mean? Oh,
stretch. Okay, okay. Tell me, where are you from?
Say someplace cool. Oh, Calvin, you've never
been good at crowd work. And then they do that
where Calvin is lying on the ice and Felix jumps
over him. And he goes, see, look at that. He,
anyone can make it look easy, but he makes it
look hard. So good. And it's not that this episode
needed. These two sideshow people. Yeah. But,
oh, my God, it made the episode. But also one
of my favorite lines from Calvin Fishotter is,
oh, yeah, the rinky dink. I know it. I named
it after my rink. It's very dinky. He's such
a good part of Bob's Burgers. Yeah, he really
is. Yeah. But this episode is strong without
them in it. That's why it's just a good episode.
I love that we get Henry Winkler in this episode
too. Just like you hear that man's voice or see
him in anything and it's almost like unfair because
he's so lovable. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, Henry
Winkler being in it is excellent. The fact that
Louise gets ushered off. By the elf. And she's
like, I'm going to go to the back of the line.
I'll see you in 45 minutes. And I like the, when
they get back up to the front of the line, it's
like a cookies and milk bed. I love it. Jean,
once again, strikes. Suck up the milk with the
cookies. It's incredible. And yet somehow we're
moving into even stronger episodes in fourth
place with 38 points. Season 14, episode 10's
The Nightmare Two Days Before Christmas, which
I got to say, I regret having ranked it fifth.
I wish that I'd ranked it higher. And Max, I
think you ranked it second, right? Oh, good for
you, Max. Oh, did I? I think so. I assume I did.
Yes, I did. I'm kind of jealous that I didn't
put it that high. even though I love the episodes
that are coming up because I, I, there's something
about this episode with the like completely different
animation for the death bunny scene for Linda's
hole. Um, arc of trying to get the Christmas
tree to Louise, trying to make sure that Santa
knows that they've moved to a lodge, to them
being in this enormous area that Bob's like,
I kind of like this kitchen. But even at the
same time when they're like, we forgot flour,
does Mr. Fish over have any? And Bob's like,
well, it's either going to be really old or it's
cocaine. There's just something about it that
feels so, and even though they're not home, homey,
cozy. Yes. Thank you for saying that. That is,
I don't know why I ranked it so low. I ranked
it seventh. But when we were having our discussion
earlier today about why we didn't like the dog
day after whatever. I was just talking about
how this makes me feel like home and Christmas
and the family feels and I'm glad that to hear
other people say that because I'm like, oh, yeah,
that is the magic of this episode. And also this
is and Sierra, I'm sure you love this because
of where you chose where you'd want to work.
In the Boss Burgers world. But anytime we get
to kind of explore a new fish odor owned property,
it's so funny and entertaining. Yeah. They have
the weirdest stuff. And I just like, I want to
go stay at that lodge. With a really great family
that you love. That too. Yeah, sure. Helpful.
Very helpful. I really want. to return to this
location for like an hour long special where
they do a non -canon murder mystery. Oh my God.
I need tickets. Can I get tickets to that? Can
Helen come? Exactly. They came out with Bob's
burger clue. I have that in my closet, literally
behind us. And I would just really like to see
them do a murder mystery where nothing really
actually impacts the universe, but. We have Louise
doing something crazy and all this mystery of
the stuff where we see people actually licking
pipes, not just Bob brushing the teeth of the
bear. Yes. It's like the caretaker of the lodge
is killed somehow in a murder mystery, and all
of these crazy things that he's supposed to do
don't happen, and so the lodge starts to fall
apart and morph. That's the plot that I want
to see here. Yes. Yes, or becomes haunted. Right.
I need this to be a video game. I don't even
play video games. I need to do some LARPing in
this situation. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely.
I'll come as Felix, for sure. I'm the right height
and size. I love that. Dye my hair blonde, shave
my beard, and just show up as Zach Galifianakis.
I just love this episode so much. Something that
I love the most about it is just that each character
is very, very much who they are. Bob's complete
obsession with, oh, yeah, that's a really nice
kitchen. But at the same time, I desperately
need to cover this horrifying painting. And he's
so focused on it that he has like no idea where
anybody else is. And then Linda being so. laser
focused on getting that tree and dragging it
up the hill and then falling back down and then
dragging it back up the hill and then falling
back down. And the kids only focused on presents.
Santa, we need the tree because otherwise where
is Santa going to put our presents? How is Santa
going to know that we moved? Oh, look, there's
a chimney. Well, we got that going for us. And
so I just love how each of them is just very
much them. And I also just think this is a tiny
little thing, but when they're all looking at
the rooms that they're going to stay in and all
these kids, all the kids have these amazing glorious
rooms with these giant beds and all this stuff.
And then Bob and Linda are looking at clearly
like a servant's room or like a kid, a kid's
room or something with these tiny little twin
beds in it. And they're like, do you guys have
really big beds? And Tina just goes, uh, No.
Cake night. Is anybody else's bed the size of
our living room? No, these beds are tiny. Did
you say yours was big? Uh, no. I love Tina so
much. Not very usual for Tina to be that selfish,
but I kind of love it for her because she really
takes the brunt of a lot of selflessness back
home. Yes. It reminds me of the bathroom moment.
Yeah. What episode were we talking about? Millie,
Linda Christmas. Yeah, I love that version of
Tina. Yeah, and I also like that this is a great
episode where the too muchness of Linda, she
realizes that she's being too much, finally.
Yeah. And especially when it comes to Christmas,
and it's something we've seen. For so many seasons
leading up to this, we've seen Linda just, like,
sacrifice this time with her family because she's
so obsessed with this perfect holiday. Yeah.
And it all comes to a head here. And I just –
I love that storyline. And I like that her, like,
sort of meddlingness, her control isn't harming
anybody else. It's literally just – like, obviously
she's missing Christmas with her family, which
she legitimately – says out loud to the tree
but also she then realizes it's kind of like
with these Jean episodes when we have Linda's
meddlesomeness and we actually deal with it I'm
really down for those type of episodes and so
I love the little monologue that she gives the
tree I like that they animate her with that very
pink hot cold flesh i think that's such a great
animation you can feel that i grew up i live
in california now but i grew up in new hampshire
where you know you'd be it'd be negative 25 sometimes
and so i like just can feel that weird ice cold
hot as she's driving back up in the car with
bob as they both survived yes and and then on
top of that the lighting as as night falls is
so beautiful if i'm remembering it yeah Absolutely.
And then they make the tree out of the skis,
which is so sweet. So sweet. And then they put
the cookies in the oven in the credits. It really
is like a perfect family Christmas. And you get
Teddy singing as Santa when he's doing the gluten
song. Yeah, we are soon going to talk about Teddy.
In an inflatable Santa, which I am very excited
about. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay. Excellent.
On the podium. We are on the podium now. In third
place with 42 points, Season 7, Episode 7, Last
Gingerbread House on the left. IMDB description,
Bob gets involved in a gingerbread house competition
with Mr. Fish Odor and his friends, while Linda,
Teddy, and the kids spread Christmas cheer through
caroling. It's to no one's surprise that we all
like this episode, considering how much fish
odor is in it. I also feel like we've reached
almost a different tier. Yes. Of, of Christmas
episodes where we have now all been, we all consistently
rank these next three in the top three. It's
a little, it's a little moved about, but we are
in a, I feel a completely different tier of like
primo Christmas episodes. Wait, this is so nerdy,
but like, that's so exciting. I know. Yeah. That's
really fun. Except for Mark. Oh, yeah. I was
just looking at that. Why did I rank that? See,
this is one of those things where it's like,
why did I even do that? Did you not rank it?
Did I make that mistake? No, no, I did. I have
it at seven, which is wild to me. We did not
all rank it at the top. You love this episode.
I know. You love Fish Over. I don't know what
happened here. Sometimes we panic. Sometimes
we panic. Sometimes our brains break. No, I love
this episode. Again, getting to go into the fish
odors world, the bedpan on Mr. Fish Odor's head,
which you know he can't stand. This is the worst
day of his life, and he has to wear this thing.
It's so funny to me. It's very shameful. I think
there's something so beautiful in this episode,
and we don't always see Bob do it. But he stands
up for the little man in this episode. And the
impetus, talking about moms and how much we love
them and miss them, he has this great memory
of his mom. And he's like, this is what we used
to do together. And he walks into this episode
not being able to afford the Christmas he wants
to give his children. And that's got to be really
painful. As a parent, it's probably one of the
reasons we're not having kids. But money. Yes.
Not Bob's Burger episodes. That make you sad.
Yeah. But and he says, no, I am not going to
be used in your game. I am going to win this
and I am winning this for my children. And I
love it. Am I making you feel bad for ranking
it low? No, I already feel bad for it. So thank
you very much. Again, I do not know what happened.
One of my favorite – this episode is one of my
favorite details where you have to like watch
it multiple times or just see it pointed out
to you. But Bob's gingerbread house, he makes
little versions of his family members if you
look close enough. That's just like – One of
my favorite all -time Bosberger's details, both
as a character, like Bob is like, he's not with
his family, but he's doing this for his family
and he's thinking of them and he's putting them
in his little creative piece that he's making.
But also as the, just like the attention to detail
for the animators and the creators who decided
that Bob would do this. And this would be a great
little detail to have in there without pointing
it out. Right. Yeah, it's... I... There's so
much that I... love about this episode. The introduction
to what's going on and Bob's going to get sacrificed
and then he walks down and Teddy's like, oh,
Bob would be great for being sacrificed. He's
got the body for it, is what Teddy says. And
even them warming up in the car when Linda's
like, well, while we wait for your father, let's
warm up. And then they all follow suit. It makes
me laugh every time. I refer to anybody who's
hogging something as a hoggy -oggy. That is,
I think, the most quoted thing from Bob's burgers
that I do you're a hoggy oggy um uh when when
Bob comes back after standing up for himself
and and being like that would be a great present
the like cuddling an albino polar bear uh and
he comes back and he goes uh I forget who who
he says but he goes Pass me the gumdrops. Okay,
you don't have to shout. It's a great exit line.
The bee story, because they don't do a runner
in this episode, the bee story of the caroling
and not getting enough hot cocoa or... Apple
cider and nobody joining them. And they're all
avoiding this murder house, which that sequence
of being like, this is a tale unsuitable for
children. And Luis is like, okay, what is it?
He's like, okay, I'll tell you. And then he's
like, what happened to them? Murder. Where are
his parents now? Florida? No murder. And then
they get there and he's a super nice guy. And
then that sequence of the, this murder dude that
they visit as his house singing in, in Latin.
With the guns being drawn at the table and everything
being shot up is one of my all -time favorite
Bob's Burger sequences. Especially the animation
of Bob, his eyes looking at the camera over his
shoulder as he flees away from the gunshots.
And you've got Felix shooting Calvin's house
and all. It's just so funny. Everything's great
about this episode. There's not a single part
where I'm not entertained. Yes. Or guess what's
going on. And it doesn't take place on Christmas,
but the caroling, the light up, necklaces, so
many mentions of hot cocoa. It really feels Christmassy.
Oh, sugar plums, Linda says as her necklace goes
out. Yeah. And I think the last episode or the
credits happen on Christmas Day. Oh, cute. When
they're cuddling the albino polar bear. Oh, that's
right. That is on Christmas Day. Precious. That's
a good way to end it. You have a nice eye. Sounds
like a line, Bob. See, this is why we love him.
Yeah, absolutely. In second place with 45 points,
Season 8, Episodes 6 and 7, The Bleakening, Part
1 and Part 2, IMDb Synopsis. Linda wants to add
some extra cheer to the holidays by throwing
a holiday party. After her ornaments are stolen,
Linda interrogates her guests. The children think
it was the bleakin'. Here's the thing about this
episode. That was supposed to be you. I'm sorry.
That's okay. We're pretty much the same person
at this point. But this will go down in Bob's
Burgers history as one of the most iconic episodes.
I believe, I might be wrong, it's their first
two -parter? Yeah, it is. I think maybe their
only? Yeah. I think the Worf one is a two -parter.
Oh, you're right. The Worf one is a two -parter.
Yeah. But – and when we had one of the script
supervisors on our podcast, he said, like, this
was really – he didn't say this was, like, a
test for a movie, but this was really a test
for them to see if they could take up this much
airtime. And they did it with such amazing spectacle.
You have Linda's Christmas of My Dreams song.
You have twinkly lights. You have the bleak in
is coming or whatever it is. Oh, at the opening
of part two where Tina into it with the metronome
of her, of her stressed out. Oh my gosh. And
we have. You know, kind of this lesson that becomes
timelier every year about acceptance and safe
spaces. And I honestly think it's one of the
great episodes of television. Agreed. 100%. If
this last episode that we all ranked first wasn't
on this list, I'd be talking about it as the
best episode of television. This is the second
best episode of television in my personal opinion.
The moment of twinkly lights being sung when
they turn the lights on and Linda's eyes. Light
up with the reflection. And she gasps. And then
it expands out to the whole club. Is just a phenomenal
Christmas moment. I just got chills. I know.
It's fabulous. I don't remember if we talked
about Muppets Christmas Carol on the pod or not.
So I'm going to mention it here. I'm a big Muppets
Christmas Carol watcher. I watch it every year
during Christmas Eve. And this feels. The same
way that at the very end when Michael Caine starts
singing and we get the love is found feels to
me. I just absolutely adore the ending of this
two -parter. Also, we get Bosco, who I love,
and he just flicks water at all the children
and he owns too many lamps. And it's just, there's
an Adam Driver. Kylo Ren is in this as the artist,
and he sings a song about being nude and opens
his legs when he says, I clearly have nothing
to hide. It's just amazing. It's so fantastic.
I also love the detective angle. I like the darker
aspects of it. You know, the lore of the Bleak
Inn. And then we get... Freaking Bob in a bleak
outfit running around town saving the day. I
will say one more thing and then zip it. The
ruler bit. Tina hitting her father. Hilarious.
Someone hit me with a ruler? That really hurt.
Oh, okay. No, that was Jean. It really hurt.
Oh, good. I mean, sorry. Oh, sorry. I gotta say,
the... The moment where Teddy is inside the inflatable
Santa and he sings his song as they're descending
down into the club and they don't know. There's
this hidden stair doorway and they're in these
spooky lights. And he goes, there's a grown man
dressed in disguise. I still laugh every time.
I know it's coming. I know what the joke is and
I can't help because he just, the voice acting
is delivered so well in this minor key as he
gives a lot of gravitas and suspicion into a
grown man dressed in disguise. Yeah, this is
another example of Teddy carrying a story when
the Belchers are all off on their adventure.
Like he's, we, every time we're not with them,
once they're all kind of like on this mission.
Yeah. We're cutting back to Teddy and he's just
so entertaining and funny the whole time. And
all he's doing is sitting in a Santa, an inflatable
Santa. I say all he's doing like that isn't the
best thing ever. The craziest thing ever. And
then when he's so excited because Bob and him
are like in it together. Couldn't we just go
inside your house? It's right there. I have something
to say. Yeah, what is it? So good. That is a
perfect ending. I just, I remember watching that
for the first time being like, how are they going
to top, how are they going to end this episode
with twinkly lights? And then Bob decides to
become the bleak end and Bosco's like, ooh, hit
him with the car. This'll be fun. It's so funny.
And it's like, ha, wait, that's actually terrible.
Oh my gosh, but he's with Teddy now. Santa? Bob?
Teddy? Wait, I've got the perfect place to hide.
Oh, it's in his house, right? No, no, no. He's
inside. These two very large men are inside an
inflatable Santa together. You're right. Like,
they do, like, you could say that the twinkly
lights bit is, like, it's very cool, but it's
also very earnest. We're in, like, ah, but then
Bob always knows how to make something really
funny at the end. Yeah. Absolutely. I loved the
episode. Finally, a song about light bulbs. It's
a great gene line. I also love when Bob is climbing
up and Louise is like, by the way, your butt
crack's not totally out. He's like, I know it.
I can feel the breeze. So good. It's just so
good. Hi, Marshmallow. Oh, I thought you were
just dumb kids. I'm 23. I'm 23. Just like hidden
marshmallow lore. Which we all need. More hidden
marshmallow lore. Constantly. Y 'all, are we
ready? Yeah. So ready. Okay. To no one's surprise,
in first place with 52 points, season 13, episode
10, The Plight Before Christmas, Bob and Linda,
according to IMDb, try to attend all the kids'
holiday performances at the same time. Aww. Oh
my god, her gagging when she finds out. jump
right to that just jump right to that that's
it this was such a surprise when it first aired
um i i don't like i had i had gotten to know
that bobs can be very heartwarming obviously
but this is one of the most heartwarming episodes
of television of all time. It's so amazing that
they were kind of able to surprise me, even though
the show had done it before, but surprise me
with how heartwarming it was. But like we talked
about, they don't make it cheesy. It's so real.
I don't know. It's like it's such a funny episode,
too, and has one of my favorite moments on the
entire show when Bob is running all over town
trying to find this library. And he says to Linda
on the phone, he says, I hate the holidays, Linda.
And she goes, no. No. No, no, Bobby, no. Oh,
thank you for bringing that up. Yeah, it's just
I. If we were doing a completely different podcast,
which was ranking perfect episodes of television,
this is one of them. This might even be in my
top five. I don't know. And we watch a ton of
TV. Yeah. I'm going to kick it to all of you
because I know we all have so much to say about
it. Listen to our upcoming podcast, Perfect TV
Shows, coming out in 2026. We'll be there. I'm
subscribed. I love it. I, this episode is, is
hard to describe. I, you know, there's this,
there's the Midnight Boys on the podcast network,
The Ringer, which they do a bunch of different
content, mainly big, big fandom stuff as well.
And I came across one of their, their TikTok
clips trying to describe, there's two of them
who've watched Bob Burgers and they try to describe
this episode to a guy who hasn't watched it.
And you're just watching them kind of flounder
the explanation. And it's, and then I, Was trying
to do it inside my head myself, being like, how
do I describe this episode to somebody who's
never seen it? And I don't think you can. I think
you have to play the xylophone music and just
say, the episode is this feeling that's elicited
in you. It's this mode of music coupled in this
key with a muted xylophone sound. And they happen
to elicit the perfect emotional response from
you in this moment. Because... The synopsis doesn't
do it justice, right? They try and attend all
three. But they create authentic stakes here,
right? Not way too high stakes with the dog.
Not way too low stakes with the dream sequence.
We're in a perfect, super relatable family moment
that they have not yet really created. We need
to go to all three kids events. And it's done
with such justice to this struggle of parenting
and family support. In a way where Linda gets
caught up in being her theater mom self and she
can't leave because this other adult is relying
on her to be in the show. And Tina's saying,
go, you've seen my thing, go. And Linda's like,
I'm too responsible for my role here to be able
to leave in the midst of all this chaos. And
for Tina to then make this switch with this little
tiny storyline where this other girl wanted to
be Tina's part that Tina doesn't really care
about. Only Linda cares about Tina playing the
star. That switched to occur. And when you hit
that moment where Gene's whole band that's been
struggling to play with the substitute simplifies,
plays a little bit of music, because Gene knows
a little bit of music. They start playing this.
Tina then leaves, but you don't know. And then
Louise is about to read her joke poem, which
is so wonderful because this theme of... louise
constantly taking the sort of selfish the sort
of self -centered the not so serious the i can't
be vulnerable her about to read this poop poem
instead of this actual poem about her family
is and then the switch where tina comes in giving
louise that justification and feeling of self
-satisfaction with her family to be brave and
read this is just it's a phenomenal whirlwind
and i I read an article about how this was one
of Lauren Bouchard's kind of first ventures back
into being the head writer on an episode. And
his return to this and taking such great care.
It's my favorite TV episode of all time, hands
down. Wow. I also have to point out, I think,
well, you both said such wonderful things. One
thing I would add is. you will never ever get
that feeling of watching it for the first time
because I was surprised by the reveal that it
was Tina who showed up for her sister. So that
was very, very special and plays into why this
was such a special watch. And then I have to
just point to Max's point again. This is a funny
episode. This does not just... rely on earnestness.
Yeah. Which I think it, I think, yeah, it's wonderful.
But it's also these, the characters, what we
see with these characters, what we see happen
with Louise, what we see happen with Tina, it's
because of this series and what they've built
with their fan base. And it's their earned character
moments. And it's, it makes it all that. all
that more special. Like it's just, we've earned
seeing like Louise because Louise have this moment
because we're so used to Louise being mischievous.
So then we get to, but we know she has a big
heart because we've seen it so many times. So
to get to see her now finally, she actually wrote
a lovely poem. Yeah. And then we've seen Tina
time and time again. she is ride or die for her
siblings she will do anything and everything
even if it's getting in trouble and so of course
she's going to be the one that makes it to see
her to make sure her sister has someone there
for this moment oh we watch it every christmas
morning that's that's what we do as well now
we started that as soon as that came out we started
doing that as a tradition It's so special. I
will say, too, it's an interesting juxtaposition
from what we ranked as lower down the line with
the afternoon dog after thing. Where we talked
about, okay, Louise gets this moment. It's earned
overall, but it's not earned within the episode.
And here's a moment where it's earned within
the episode and it's earned overall. Oh, and
you know what? I think probably all of us. can
point to a time in our life where we're parentified
or we're the child that needs to be strong. And
for Louise at the beginning of the episode to
go, I'm fine. I don't need anyone at my stuff.
Everyone needs someone at their stuff. And she
deserves that. She didn't have to be that strong.
And maybe she learned that in the end. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. We also get, Tina basically being
parentified as well because Linda has become
sucked into this role and can't be a mom in this
moment because she's being a helpful person.
And, you know, this other grown woman, don't
leave me, Linda. And then. Bob, he's tried to
make it, but now nobody's at Gene's performance
and he needs to get something of Gene's performance
on there. And so he's really stuck as well. And
Tina has to step up and be the parent to witness
Louise's helpful moment. And also Tina is the
one who realizes that this is actually probably
important for Louise. She has written a real
serious poem and not a joke, as she has previously
stated. And Tina is the one who has kind of pieced
this together and then realizes that in order
for Louise to grow and to feel validated in writing
something serious, she's going to need a witness
to it. Yes. So then she sacrifices, I mean, something
that she doesn't care about at this point. You
know, she doesn't care about who she is in this
play. And even though she does technically have
one of the more important parts, all of her speaking
lines are over. And so she's doesn't feel responsible
for being there anymore. And so she's like, well,
if nobody else is going to go, then I need to
be there. And I think it's very sweet. And yeah,
the ending montage of. Jean playing and Louise
reading her poem, seeing Tina and then reading
her poem and Bob recording and then Linda appearing
as well to see the poem. It honestly makes me
tear up. And I think part of it is just because
of how heartfelt everything is, but also because
as a parent, I dread this day where I will miss
something. Because there's too many things happening
at once. And I'll have to choose to go to one
or to go to another. And the fact that all three
kids get to have a parent there and get to have
it witnessed and be able to feel special each
individually is really wonderful. And also how
much effort Bob really puts in to trying to make
it. You know, he just, of course, is stuck in
a nightmare as he often is. Poor Bob. Getting
boosted up by the guy with the dog to break into
the library's fenced off area. It's so funny.
Getting essentially a deaf taxi driver who is
just driving him to the refinery instead of the
library. And then not realizing that there's
a local branch of the library that is opened
up. There should only be one. There's too many
libraries. There should only be one. It's good.
Bob's running through the streets is just amazing.
I'm running. I hate running. That's it. I hate
the holidays. No, Bobby. You're right. I hate
running. No, Bobby, no. I love that moment. And
then he falls and he skins his knees. The wrap
-up of this episode does something really cool,
because they don't do much resolution in Bob's
Burgers, right? It's pretty much you have the
final moment, and then we go straight to the
credits. But they allow the climax to run into
a bit of resolution before you hit the credits.
And when Jean goes and shows the video with Bob
to Miss Merkin in the hospital, it's such...
a touching moment where it just really hammers
this. They, they just stretch out the emotional
resonance in a way that you don't get a lot of
time with for television. And I really loved
it. Yeah. And I, and I will end on this note
for at least what I have to say about this episode.
I think if I had to show you a picture of what
love is in a, in a relationship, it is Bob. in
his underwear, reading. And that's it. I'm trying
to do something nice here. That's it for me.
That's it for you. And he's in his underwear
and Linda is putting hydrogen peroxide on his
skin knees with her glass of wine as Bob is getting
to experience reading Louise's poem. I love that
image so much. Yeah. See? He didn't make a joke.
It's true. He is more comfortable in his emotions
than I am. Well, everybody, there is another
Christmas episode out right now. You can go and
watch A Stunterful Life at your own leisure.
It's a fantastic little episode, but please go
and enjoy it and be thinking of us as you watch.
And with that, we'll now wrap up. A huge, giant
thanks. to both of you, Max and Skylar, for being
here with us today. This was so fun. Thank you
so much. We had so much fun. Good. This was so
great. Yay. We really loved having you. It's
always nice to have people who are complete experts
in their field on the pod, and you guys are so
well -researched. Yay. It comes with a job description,
I think. Yeah. What is the job description? Researching
Bob. Researching Bob. Bob's Burgers Researchers.
Yep. Got it. Try putting that on a tax form.
Incredible. Is there anything you guys would
like to plug while you're here? You know, social
media channels, website, podcast. What should
the people know? How can they find you? We are
so easy to find. It were just Bob's credits all
across the board. But we do content. We do too
much content, don't you think? We're so tired.
Don't let the tiredness speak to us proud. No,
we are on TikTok. We're on Instagram. We are
on YouTube where we... But if you like this kind
of chatting, deep dives into Bob's Burgers episode,
check out our podcast, Bob's Credits, wherever
you listen. To your podcast. And you can watch
it on YouTube now, too. You can. And we have
some special things in the works that we can't
talk about just yet, but we'll as soon as we
can. Excellent. And you guys have some fabulous
sweaters that you put out in the world as well.
We do. We have an au bourbon one. Do you? Oh,
I knew about the turkey farm one, but not the
au bourbon one. The au bourbon one is such a
fun design. It's so cool. It's a French artist
made it. That's Bob's Credits slash shop. Bob's
Credits dot com slash shop. That's why we need
the two of us. Yep. One has the address, one
has the dot com. Exactly. Yeah, we're like Andy
and Ollie. Can't get it right unless it's the
two of us. Excellent. I often feel that way.
My wife and I form a brain cell together. Yes.
It happens. Yeah. Fantastic. Well, awesome. Thank
you guys so much. We'll make sure to put that
in the podcast notes. Thank you. We appreciate
it. Today's public service announcement. Christmas
is a time for beautifully decorated trees doing
the right thing no matter the sacrifice. Being
out wandering with your small children after
midnight into Christmas morning and causing problems
for everyone around you in a one -mile vicinity.
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Alves. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The hills
are alive. With the sound of Sweeney's butchering.
As he murders the men on all these London hills.
Tis the season to be jolly and joyous. Fa la
la. My all -time favorite Christmas movie. Which
IMDB describes as the Belchers family. Hold on,
I'm sorry. Yeah, no, go for it. I'm sorry to
interrupt you again. We just recorded an episode
about this, and this title is impossible. It
is, if I remember correctly, Dog Christmas Day
After Afternoon. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. You're
so right. It does say that. Or is it Christmas
Dog Day After? Hold on. I got it. I got it. It's
a really hard one. It's mean. Yeah. It's mean.
We did a whole episode today about it. Okay.
Dog Christmas Day After Afternoon. Okay. Britt,
I'm sorry. I love you muchly. I'm going to read
you that line read. Also, I dropped the I'm disappointed
in us all and then immediately had to read. I'm
kidding. You'll see. We'll see. We'll all get
there. I'm not disappointed in anybody, actually.
The upcoming episodes we're going to talk about
are so damn good. Max, watch your mouth. Are
so damn great. Which... Sorry. Which then killed
Sierra. She's so overwhelmed. Yes. She was put
to death by her own emotions.