History Recap / BobsBurgersS3E23TheUnnatural

* SpitTake: The last scene is of Tina gulping down [[BadToTheLastDrop the cheap coffee in the seedy motel lobby]]. The owner reports it's a week old, Tina spits it out... and goes back to drinking it. ''Then'' he informs Tina he ''put his cigarettes out in that coffee''. Tina spits it out again... and goes right back to drinking it. The owner asks if she'd like cream and sugar.

* TakeTheThirdOption: Bob and Linda argue that they would be able to get either the espresso machine back or a good baseball player. Louise though, mentions that there's a chance neither will get the things they want. Turns out she is right: the Deuce flees with the money and Gene hasn't actually become better.

* AbusiveParent: Jimmy Pesto apparently tells his twins regularly that they only have one chance to win his love.

* BlatantLies: The Deuce Of Diamonds's advertising video is clearly poorly edited [[ManipulativeEditing to make it seems like people who go there got better]], but both Bob and Louise point out how obviously fake it is. Linda still falls for it.
* BookEnds: The beginning of the episode has Louise hitting Gene's cup with a baseball bat. She also does this during the credits.

** Tina remembers the Deuce of Diamonds from when he acted as the Prince of Persuasia in [[Recap/BobsBurgersS2E6DrYap "Dr. Yap"]].

--> '''Linda:''' "Stealing and pawning, I feel so dirty."
--> '''Louise:''' "Told you you'd like crime, mom."
--> '''Linda:''' "Ahhh... Yes I do."

* GroinAttack: Defied by Gene who smacks his own protective cup and has Louise do the same. [[NoSell He is unaffected by each blow.]]

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Deuce Of Diamonds doesn't know the first thing about baseball and tries to make a bunch of speeches about the power of the mind over the body, none of what makes sense when training baseball. He carries this over from his last appearance as the Prince of Persuasia.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Bob tells that there's a quiet dignity in giving up when Gene decides to quit baseball.

** Tina suggests [[Film/AFewGoodMen "A Few Gouda Men"]] and [[Film/AsGoodAsItGets "As Gouda As It Gets"]] as names for a gouda-themed Burger of the Day.

-->'''Gene''' (''to the pitcher''): Okay, just roll it at me as slowly as you feel like.
-->'''Bob''': ''Oh God''.

* GroinAttack: Defied by Gene who smacks his own protective cup and has Louise do the same. He is unaffected by each blow.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Bob tells that there's a quiet dignity in giving up when Gene decides to do it.

* SpeechImpediment: Tina, frustrated by her caffeine withdrawal, quickly gets tired of Jimmy Jr.'s speech impediment. She goes as far as to order him to fix it.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Linda and Louise never thought that Bob would actually sell a espresso, and that's how he finds out the epresso machine is gone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Espresso seems to work for Tina like cocaine or heroin. It puts her in a constant state of boost and she needs it all the time, even having a sort of abstinence attack when she can't have it anymore.
* DownerEnding: Gene doesn't actually improve at baseball, the Deuce of Diamonds gets away with scamming everyone, Bob never gets the espresso machine back, Linda never gets punished for stealing the machine, and Tina's still addicted to caffeine.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she goes into caffeine withdrawal, Tina becomes aggressive, easily annoyed and even somewhat violent, breaking Linda's porcelain babies when she refuses to say what happened to the espresso machine.

* WhatTheHellHero: Bob and Tina are both pissed off when they learn what happened to the espresso machine, Tina because of her caffeine addiction, Bob because Linda pawned an expensive piece of equipment to pay a scam artist.

!!Tropes

* InstantTasteAddiction: Bob buys an espresso machine for the restaurant, Tina tries out the espresso when Teddy refuses to try it. She didn't like the taste at first but she immediately acquires the taste of it and enjoys the energy it gives her and she becomes addicted to it and basically anything with caffeine in it.

Linda tries to help Gene to become a better baseball player by putting him in a shady baseball class.

Tina becomes addicted to coffee when Bob buys an espresso machine.

!!Tropes
* BlatantLies: The Deuce Of Diamonds' advertising video is clearly poorly edited [[ManipulativeEditing to make it seems like people who go there got better]], but even Bob can see that it's fake.

** Tina remembers the Deuce of Diamonds from when he acted as the Prince of Persuasia in [[Recap/BobsBurgersS2E6DrYap "Dr.Yap"]]
** Linda's love for porcelain babies has also been mentioned before.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Note that everything Gene said he loved about baseball didn't include playing the sport. When it came time to come up to plate he showed zero skill and zero interest in the game.
* GRatedDrug: An espresso works for Tina like it's a drug.

** Tina suggests [[Film/AFewGoodMen "A Few Gouda Men"]] and [[Film/AsGoodAsItGets "As Gouda as it gets"]] for Bob's Gouda hamburger.

* SpeechImpediment: Tina, frustrated by her caffeine withdrawal, quickly gets tired of Jimmy Jr.'s speech impediment. She goes as far to order him to fix it.

--> '''Louise:''' "Tould you you'd like crime, mom."

* EpicFail: Gene is ''really'' not good at baseball. During his first turn at bat in his first game, he got so freaked out when someone pitched the ball towards him he purposefully struck himself out. It only got worse from there, to the point the mom of one Gene's teammates flat out said it was his fault the team lost.

* TakeTheThirdOption: Bob and Linda argue that they would be able to get either the espresso machine back or a good baseball player. Louise though, mentions that there's a chance neither will get the things they want. Turns out she is right: The Deuce flees with the money and Gene hasn't actually become better.

* CallBack:

* SpeechImpediment: Tina, frustrated by her caffeine withdrawal, quickly gets tired of Jimmy Jr.'s speech impediment.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Note that everything Gene said he loved about Baseball didn't include playing the sport. When it came time to come up to plate he showed zero skill and zero interest in the game.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Deuce Of Diamonds doesn't know the first thing about baseball and tries to make a bunch of speeches about the power of the mind over the body, none of what makes sense when training baseball. he carries this over from his last appearance as the Prince of Persuasia.

* BlatantLies: The Deuce Of Diamonds' advertising video is clearly poorly edited to make it seems like people who go there got better, but even Bob can see that it's fake.

** Tina remembers the Deuce of Diamonds from when he acted as the Prince of Persuasia in [[Recap/BobsBurgerS2E6DrYap "Dr.Yap"]]