The Best Bob and Linda Belcher Episodes from Bob's Burgers

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[center] Image Source [/center]"Lin, I got to tell you, I learned some new things about you today. Stuff I didn't know. Stuff I respect, kind of, and I'm glad to say, after all these years, I'm still finding little surprises. Also, I wrote all of that in your birthday card.See? "

Bob shares his feelings to Linda, %%"Eat, Spray, Linda", Bob's Burgers
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Bob and Linda Belcher from the animated sitcom Bob's Burgers are my favourite couple on television. For over twelve seasons, the two of them have raised three children, while running a burger restaurant together. What makes them a great couple is they avoid a lot of marriage tropes, they are best friends who genuinely enjoy each other's company, they support each other, and like to spend time together and make each other happy. Here are some of my favourite Bob and Linda's episodes.

1. Zero Larp Thirty


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Episode Details: Season 7, Episode 17

Air Date: 23 April 2017

Written by: Rich Rinaldi

Directed by: Tyree Dillihay

Best Quote:

%%Linda: (gasps) "Look, Bobby, there it is. Winthorpe Manor. "

Bob: "That is wow. "

Linda: "I'm telling you, Bobby, this is the life I was supposed to have. I was born a hundred years too late. God's done some good work, but he screwed up my birthday. "%%

Linda is excited to visit Winthorpe Manor, "Zero Larp Thirty", Bob's Burgers

In "Zero Larp Thirty" Linda is excited when she wins a contest to spend a weekend doing a LARP (live-action role play) at the house where her favourite TV show, Winthorpe Manor, is filmed. Bob has never seen the TV show and doesn't even know what a LARP is, but agrees to come along with Linda because she's excited and wants to share it with him. When they arrive at the house, Bob and Linda get chosen to be servants, which disappoints Linda, who had been hoping to spend her LARP pretending to be one of the upper-class characters. Linda has a miserable time role-playing as a servant, but Bob really gets into the role, and begins enjoying himself. He becomes popular with the upper-class characters and even gets invited to share cigars and brandy with them. After Linda gets fired as a maid, she convinces Bob to join her in a servant uprising. Together, they lock out the upper-class LARPers and eat their dinner and dessert. Her rebellion causes all of the LARPers to be thrown out of Winthorpe Manor early for breaking character and not following the rules. Later in the episode, after they get back home, Linda tells Bob that didn't have a good time at the LARP and is glad that she wasn't born in the past. Bob tells her that he had a great time and is now a big fan of Winthorpe Manor. The episode ends with Bob and Linda sitting back on the couch to watch an episode of Winthrope Manor together. My favourite part of this episode is the ending credits. Bob and Linda singing along to the Winthorpe Manor theme song is total couples goals.


2. Eggs for Days


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Episode Details: Season 7, Episode 16

Air Date: 2 April 2017

Written by: Lizzie Molyneux & Wendy Molyneux

Directed by: Brian LoSchiavo

Best Quote:

%%Linda: "Look what I found on sale at Food World! Jellybean schnapps. Isn't it fun? Theme drink. "

Bob: "Oh, God. Oh, good. This is amazing. It's like all the flavors at once. "

Linda: "Right? It doesn't even taste like it has alcohol in it. "

Bob: "How much does it have? 100 proof? Is that even legal? "

Linda: "I think. I mean the label's got a lot of misspelled words and it looks like it's just taped on. "

Bob: (chuckles) "Did you buy it at a store? Or did you just get it from a guy? "

Linda: "I got it in the parking lot. "%%

Bob and Linda share a drink together, %%"Eggs for Days", Bob's Burgers
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In "Eggs for Days" the annual Belcher Family Easter Egg Hunt brings out the competitive sides of Bob and Linda, much to the frustration of their children. The episode begins with Bob and Linda making their kids dye a bunch of eggs different colours and mark them "D" for Dad and M for "Mom". After the kids go to bed, Linda gets out a bottle of jellybean flavoured schnapps for the two of them to share. Bob and Linda get drunk and have too much fun hiding the Easter Eggs. Every year Bob and Linda compete against each other to win the hunt and find the best hiding spots. The next morning, Bob and Linda wake up hung-over, and realise that they can't remember where they hid the Easter Eggs. After the kids spend hours tearing the house apart looking for the eggs, they think the hunt is finally over when Louise finds the last one hidden in some flour. But then they smell something funky. It's a rotten egg somewhere in the house. Bob and Linda realise that the kids must've missed an egg, which worries them because they still can't remember where they hid them. Eventually, Linda remembers that she hid the egg in an air vent. Bob climbs into the crawl space behind the wall to try and get it and discovers that a racoon with a litter of babies has stolen the egg and won't give it back. "Eggs for Days" is such a great Bob and Linda episode. I love how competitive they get over the Easter Egg hunt, the bad jokes they share with each other, and how childish they can be towards each other like when Bob writes "Linda is a fart" on a map of the house.

3. A River Runs Through Bob


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Episode Details: Season 4, Episode

Air Date: 29 September 2013

Written by: Dan Fybel & Rich Rinaldi

Directed by: Jennifer Coyle

Best Quote:

%%Linda: "Come on. Get up. Come on. Hmm? I'm leading us. Let's go. "

Bob: "What are you talking about? Ow. Ow. "

Linda: "You're sick! "

Bob: "I'm not sick. "

Linda: "Then what the hell is that? Wh-What? I'll tell you what that is: It's diarrhea and throw-up. You're firing from both ends. I studied the ballistics. It checks out. "

Bob: "That was probably a bobcat. "

Linda: "Oh, okay. You didn't eat a raw trout that didn't make you poop and barf your way through the forest like some kind of disgusting Hansel and Gretel. I'm taking charge here! We're gonna go! "%%

Bob and Linda arguing, "A River Runs Through Bob", Bob's Burgers

After Tina misses her Thunder Girl camping trip, Bob drags the entire family on a camping trip in the woods, much to the frustration of Linda. Bob has always dreamed of becoming an outdoorsman, so he decides to use the camping trip as an opportunity to demonstrate his outdoor survival skills. Once they arrive at the camping site, Bob reveals that he packed little supplies because intends for them to live off the land. Unimpressed, Linda and the kids go and borrow supplies off a survivalist couple. This angers Bob who insists on eating and cooking a trout that he fished for himself. Later that night, Bob and Linda go skinny dipping in the river, and accidentally end up getting swept away by the strong flow. After being swept down the fast-flowing river, they eventually manage to wash ashore, naked and lost. When Bob becomes violently ill from the trout that he caught and ate earlier, Linda is forced to take charge, demonstrating excellent wilderness survival skills. This infuriates Bob, who stubbornly ignores her, and insists that he is a "Nature Master" who is better at surviving in the wilderness than she is. This angers Linda, who tells him he is sick, and demands he stick with her as they follow the river back to the campsite. After much bickering, Bob and Linda eventually make their way back to the campsite and their kids. Afterwards, Bob apologises to Linda and praises her for her survival skills, and dubs her the "Nature Master". "A River Runs Through Bob" is one of my favourite Bob's Burgers episodes ever. There are so many great lines in it. I love Linda's sarcastic line about Bob "firing from both ends" and how she "studied the ballistics" and it checks out. I love Bob's refusal to admit he is sick and telling Linda that it isn't diarrhea and throw-up she's smelling, it's the smell of a man, a nature man. And the kids stuck back at the campsite have so many great lines as well, like when they discover their parents are missing and their clothes have been left behind on the riverbank. Gene shouts "Oh no, Mum and Dad melted!" It makes me laugh every time.

4. Fort Night

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Episode Details: Season 4, Episode 2

Air Date: 6 October 2013

Written by: Mike Olsen

Directed by: Boohwan Lim & Kyounghee Lim

Best Quote:

%%Bob: " (sighs) Why do we even have to do this? "

Linda: "Come on, is it so hard to glue things? "

Bob: "And run a restaurant? Yeah, it is. "

Linda: "Well, this is what parents do. They glue crap on stuff for their kids... so glue! We got a lot of stuff. "

Bob: "I'm gluing. "

Linda: "Glue, glue, glue! "

Bob: "I said... "

Linda: "Glue! "

Bob: "Please don't chant glue. "

Linda: "And glue and glue and glue! "%%

Bob and Linda make a Halloween costume for their kids, %%"Fort Night", Bob's Burgers
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It's Halloween and Tina, Gene, and Louise have big plans. They want to go dressed up as a Chinese Dragon with their friends Andy and Ollie Pesto. Back at the restaurant, Bob and Linda are working on making the costume, at the request of their kids. Bob is frustrated with the task and thinks it's taking too much time, but Linda is insistent that they try their best to finish it, because good parents glue crap on stuff for their kids. Later in the episode, after much bickering, Bob and Linda finish the costume and head out to find their kids who never came home to pick it up. After being told that their kids ditched them, Bob and Linda decide if their kids aren't going to use the costume they made, then they will. They dress up as the dragon and go treat-or-treating themselves. This leads to the best scene in the episode, where they knock on a man's door dressed as a dragon, pretending to be kids.



I love the bad impression of a kid's voice that Bob puts on and how brutal Linda is with her insults. The best part of the scene is when the man figures out it's them and starts laughing, thinking it's a prank, which embarrasses Bob and Linda. At the end of the episode, there's another great scene when the Belcher kids return home and find their parents sitting on the couch together and eating a big pile of Halloween candy that they managed to get themselves dressed up as the dragon. "Fort Night" is a great Bob and Linda episode because it shows what great parents they are and the efforts they will go to make their kids happy. It also shows that the two of them are best friends and can be childish and get up to mischief together.

5. Larger Brother, Where Fart Thou?

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Episode Details: Season 7, Episode 5

Air Date: 20 November 2016

Written by: Lizzie Molyneux & Wendy Molyneux

Directed by: Chris Song

Best Quote:

Linda: "I feel like I'm peeing. Am I peeing right now? Bob, can you check? "

Linda tripping out on weed, "Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?", Bob's Burgers

In the episode "Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?" Bob and Linda have left it to the last possible moment on the last possible day to do their taxes. When Tina gets detention after school, they are forced to leave Gene and Louise home alone, while they visit their accountant, Gerald. While meeting with Bob and Linda, Gerald gets a phone call from a friend, who tells him that there has been a mix-up and that Gerald accidentally took the pot cookies that he baked for his mother into work and gave them to Bob and Linda. Bob and Linda panic at this news, and tell Gerald that they cannot get high, because they're old and have kids. "Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?" features some of my favourite Bob and Linda moments. I love how nervous and guilty the two of them get while strung out on the pot cookies. They wanted to feel like responsible adults lodging their taxes and instead ate too many pot cookies and then spent the day hiding with their accountant in a fort made out of couch pillows. It's a lot of fun watching them come down from the high and get back home to their kids.

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