Bob's Burgers Is Back!

Bob's Burgers, S02E01

Wow, I can't believe that FOX picked this up for another season.  This was another of my secondary shows a while ago, but it wasn't anything too amazing.  What I like most about this show is that the characters are so weird, it's made by some of the same people who did Home Movies (one of my favorites), and that H. Jon Benjamin (voice of Archer, among many other characters) does Bob.  I've liked him as a voice actor ever since he did Jason and McGuirk.  Such a funny and distinctive voice.

The heart of this show is definitely the weirdo children.  You can't really determine which of them is the worst of the group.  Louise, who is the youngest I think, is incontestably the leader of the three.  This time she gets them all to hunt for gold at a taffy factory that will be closing the next day.  Despite that the guy in the restaurant tells them that the map to find it is just a joke (he draws a butt crapping--lovely), they figure it's real anyway and sneak out.  Meanwhile, Bob and Linda are trying to get their groove on in the bed.  No need to discuss that one any further.

Tina is probably my favorite character even though she creeps me out.  She continued her pursuit of Jimmy Jr. in this episode, by using tactics from some romance novel she found on the beach.  As weird and sexually awkward as Tina is, I'd still like her to get with the person of her choosing.  She failed to get Jimmy to notice her as a girl (he was too busy dancing and acting like a moron with his friend Zeke), but she did sort of denounce him and assert her own strength as a woman.  Go, Tina!  However, she probably will be back to chasing him like a puppy due to being hypnotized by Jimmy's butt.  Geez.

I also like Louise and how forceful she is, despite her small stature and bunny ears.  In fact, she was tolerating no shit from her siblings and the other tag-alongs that came with them to the factory.  It's hard to think she is a child because even when the walls were starting to fall around her and she was trapped with "Taff," she still had enough lip to talk back to Bob and speak sarcastically to him.  I actually thought her talking to Taff was cute.  Though, it does make me think that if Bob made enough from his crappy burger stand, he might be able to afford some therapy for her.  Louise is likely to become some kind of con-artist, if they are luckily.  I could also see her as one of those homeless people that shout nonsense at people on the streets.

When everyone managed to escape from the factory before it was completely demolished, it turned out the map was real and the gold had been hidden in "Taff" all along.  I didn't expect that map to be real, but I thought the gold would be in that ugly taffy man, especially since it got stuck to Bob's erection (eww!).  But if they had found that gold, it would have interfered with Bob's sucky business and their poverty.  We can't have that.

This is isn't the best show around, but it's not too bad.  I feel like it has the potential to grow on me, if they are able to come up with more interesting stories and funnier jokes.  They have the weird characters down, so that is not a problem.  Let's just see if they can survive long enough to finish out their second season.