Bob's Burgers S02E04
Bob became obsessed with beating Jimmy's score on a video game machine he leased for a few days before Linda sent it away. He continued to play when he found it at a children's arcade, despite that he was getting carpal tunnel and was lying to his wife about it. I can see how Bob wouldn't want Jimmy to get away with locking "BOB SUX" into a machine forever, but I couldn't ignore the idea that Bob was working harder and not smarter. I guess Bob really does value his pride above most other things.
I don't know if Bob is just too old to realize or what, but the score Jimmy got on Burger Boss was likely to be beaten by a kid in no time, especially if it was taken to some Chuck E. Cheese knock-off. I would estimate like a week at best before someone came along and wiped that score out of existence. Also, Bob is such a terrible player, I don't know why he would want to spend time doing it himself (how satisfied could he be bragging to Jimmy a month later that he took off his score?).
I do like that a kid named Darryl came to help Bob play the game better. What was even better about him was that his voice actor was Aziz Ansari (one of my favorites). What's funny about the little geek that he played was Darryl reminded me of Kevin G from Mean Girls, a movie I happened to see like a day after this episode. I hadn't seen that movie in many, many years, so I had forgotten Kevin, but when I saw it again, I had a Darryl flashback. I wished that Darryl's training could have been a little funnier (I think the best was when he was trying to make Bob stop popping pills and questioned whether he was high). It was like the more I watched Bob train, the more I wanted him to just give up.
It wasn't until Bob had hallucinated that Darryl's bully was a video game character and his kids had ratted out his "sailing lessons" scheme that finally Bob gave up. And by giving up I mean that he gave Darryl some money to erase Jimmy's high score. Well, duh, Bob! He knew Darryl was a superstar when it came to playing video games--why not just use the kid in the first place?? I know they have to fill up the story, but I'm still gonna point it out. Maybe if I was enjoying Bob's ride down obsession and deception, I might have ignored reason.
I was disappointed the kids didn't have much of a role in this story, besides crashing other children's birthday parties. I think it would have been better if they were discovered to be uninvited guests rather than them simply getting bored with the endless birthday cakes and sneaking into a yacht club. I'm not going to get into how stupid Linda is for believing that they were all taking sailing lessons at night. It was a bit her own fault that she was embarrassed like that in the end.
Pretty disappointed that an episode with Aziz didn't turn out to be funnier. He is so hilarious, but I guess being on this show, I couldn't expect miracles. It might have been better if Darryl had somehow interacted with the kids (those crazies with him might have been a good formula for comedy). I will say that the 8-bit version of the theme song was the only time that I liked the theme (semi-video game geek myself). Wish it could always be like that.
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