History Recap / BobsBurgersS11E17FingersLoose

* FemmeFatale: Essential for an affectionate parody of noir cinema. Mavis Middlefinger, Gene’s manual alter ego, plays the trope straight. She is alluring, beautiful, mysterious, and dangerous but still sympathetic.

* PyrrhicVictory: Linda's idea for smuggling a burger ''technically'' works better than Bob's, but only on account of Bob's ingredients being placed out-of-order--pretty much everyone else agrees that Linda's idea is absolutely disgusting.

* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Frond notices something's obviously going on at Wagstaff and wants it shut down. Not because anyone is actually doing anything ''wrong'', but because kids seem more relaxed and are mingling outside their social circles. Even when Tina finds out it's because of the hand-prancing revue, she still has to hide it from Frond even though nobody's breaking any rules. It says a lot that at the end, the school superintendent actually liked the show Tina and the kids put on and told Frond it was the most creative and original thing he's supposedly ever done. He steals the credit for it.

* NoirEpisode: An affectionate parody of one anyway.
* NoEnding: For the B-Plot. Bob and Linda's competitiveness on how to solve Teddy's sneaking dinner into the movie theater dilemma scares him away and we never hear what he ended up doing. Somewhat subverted in that Bob and Linda try out their ideas at the presentation and Linda's idea works better, although everyone still thinks it's gross, including Mr. Frond when she offers him some french fries from her other armpit hairnet.

* PimpDuds: Louise, who runs the underground hand-prancing revue, wears a large top hat that she also stores her money in.

* RenamedTheSame: Regular-Sized Rudy's hand-prancing name is Regular-Sized Randolph.

* SlaveToPR: After Tina and some of the other handy prancers hijack the school open house presentation with a handy-prancing performance, Frond doesn't punish any of them for it because the school superintendent loved it.

* FourFingeredHands: Lampshaded via close-ups. The hand-prancing figures have a thumb and pinky for arms, two fingers between for legs, and nothing else.

* BareHandedPuppetry: Gene and Louise start a "hand prancing" revue in the school basement, where Gene and other kids put clothes on their hands and finger-walk on a stage. Tina is supposed to report it to Frond, but she becomes enthralled by the show and starts performing as "Holly Monitors" (since she is the Hall Monitor).
* CallBack: Linda breaks out her [[Recap/BobsBurgersS5E17IttyBittyDittyCommittee armpit hairnets]] to try and assist Teddy with his food sneaking.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Hand-prancing" is presented as a kid-friendly version of performing in drag, with Tina's obsession with it and feeling free while performing having all the trappings of a ComingOutStory. Playing up the similarities further is that Gene (who has a history of [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]] in previous episodes) is the main performer at the hand-prancing revue.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Louise is willing to entertain all the other kids' ideas for the hand-prancing, but is very disturbed by Millie's idea ("Fing-lise Belcher", basically just a hand-version of Louise) and point-blank tells her that she doesn't like it.
* FemmeFatale: Essential for an affectionate parody of noir cinema. Mavis, Gene’s manual alter ego, plays the trope straight. She is alluring, beautiful, mysterious, and dangerous but still sympathetic.
* FlippingTheBird: When Mr. Frond breaks up the hand-prancing show, he says 'Here's a finger for you" and points to the door with his thumb. Millie argues with him that a thumb is not a finger, and then says "''This'' is a finger!", her hand covered up by Louise's head. Mr. Frond reacts with understandable horror.
* FourFingeredHands: Lampshaded via close-ups. The "hand-prancing" figures have a thumb and pinky for arms, two fingers between for legs, and nothing else.

* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Frond notices something's obviously going on at Wagstaff and wants it shut down because kids seem more relaxed and are mingling outside their social circles. Even when Tina finds out it's because of the "hand prancing" revue, she still has to hide it from Frond despite that no one's technically doing anything ''wrong''. It says a lot that at the end, the school superintendent actually liked the show Tina and the kids put on and told Frond it was the most creative and original thing he's supposedly ever done. He steals the credit for it.

* PunnyName: Most of the hand-prancing names, like "Tom Shoes" or "Holly Monitors".

* RenamedTheSame: Regular-Sized Rudy's hand-prancing name is "Regular-Sized Randolph".
* TheReveal: The person who betrays Mavis’ show to Mr. Frond is…Mavis herself. ''Gene'' sold out the hand-prancing revue to Mr. Frond, not Tina, because he wanted to have his normal lunch routine back.

** The store next door in the opening is [[Music/BillieEilish Billy’s Eyelash]] Accessories.

* NoirEpisode: A full on parody of one anyway.

* TheReveal: ''Gene'' sold out the hand-prancing revue to Mr. Frond, not Tina, because he wanted to have his normal lunch routine back.

* BareHandedPuppetry: Gene and Louise start a "hand prancing" revue in the school basement, where Gene and other kids put clothes on their hands and finger-walk on a stage. Tina is supposed to report it to Frond, but she becomes enthralled by the show and starts performing as "Holly Monitor" (since she is the Hall Monitor).

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Hand prancing" is presented as a kid-friendly version of performing in drag, with Tina's obsession with it and feeling free while performing having all the trappings of a ComingOutStory.

* FourFingeredHands: Lampshaded via close-ups. The "hand prancing" figures have thumb and pinkie for arms, two fingers between for legs, and nothing else.

* FlippingTheBird: When Mr. Frond breaks up the hand-prancing show, he says 'Here's a finger for you" and points to the door with his thumb. Millie argues with him that a thumb is not a finger, and then says "''This'' is a finger!", her hand covered up by Louise's head.

* HowWeGotHere: The episode begins at the assembly, which Tina disrupts by projecting her hand prancing instead of the intro video Frond prepared. She then recounts the events that led to this moment.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Linda somehow thinks the armpits are the cleanest part of the body.

* NoEnding: For the B-Plot. Bob and Linda's competitiveness on how to solve Teddy's sneaking dinner into the movie theater dilemma scares him away and we never hear what he ended up doing. Somewhat subverted in that Bob and Linda try out their ideas at the presentation and Linda's idea works better.
* NoodleIncident: When Teddy comes into the restaurant saying he has a problem, Bob says if it's that his underwear are too tight, Bob isn't helping him again.

* {{Snacksploitation}}: The B-plot is Bob and Linda trying to help Teddy sneak a burger at the movies. Linda suggests using her armpit hairnets, which everyone else agrees is gross; while Bob comes up with a way of hiding each ingredient separately under a vest to assemble inside, but he keeps getting them out of order and the bags keep falling off.

* YellowSashOfPower: Tina's job as hall monitor is the focus of the episode. She is shown to be strict but fair to the students (confiscating Zeke's gum, but giving him another piece for after class, for example), which is why she is appointed by Mr. Frond to find out whatever is distracting the students lately. When she discovers the secret hand prancing show in the basement, she is torn between telling Frond and participating in it.

* FlippingTheBird: When Mr. Frond breaks up the hand-prancing show, he says 'Here's a finger for you" and points to the door with his thumb. Millie argues with him that a thumb is not a finger, and then says "''This'' is a finger!", her hand covered up by the head of one of the students.

* ShoutOut: The store next door in the opening is [[Music/BillieEilish Billy’s Eyelash]] Accessories.

* SneakingSnacks: The B-plot is Bob and Linda trying to help Teddy sneak a burger at the movies. Linda suggests using her armpit hairnets, which everyone else agrees is gross; while Bob comes up with a way of hiding each ingredient separately under a vest to assemble inside, but he keeps getting them out of order and the bags keep falling off.

* BareHandedPuppetry: Gene and Louise start a "hand prancing" revue in the school basement, where Gene and other kids put clothes on their hands and finger-walk on a stage. Tina is supposed to report it to Frond, but she becomes enthralled by the show and starts performing as "Hayley Monitor".

* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is a play on ''{{Film/Footloose}}''.

* NoirEpisode: A full on parody of one anyway.