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1[[WMG:The show is a pyramid scheme.]]
2We all know about those years that Fox had several upon several good shows and [[SoOkayItsAverage unneeded efforts]] [[FridayNightDeathSlot that came around at the wrong time.]] This is the final step in that scheme.
3* What is their devious plan again?
4** The total domination of Creator/SethMacFarlane!
5*** Why else would it be called "Animation Domination"?
6
7[[WMG:The show will end after the ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' crossover.]]
8Since the crossover will be Archer, as Bob, being attacked by thugs while making burgers and killing them with little effort, and then having to find out why he's so good at it. If Bob was really Archer the whole time, that would mean ''Bob's Burgers'' was never a continuity on its own.
9* No, Mr. Archer was simply the latest in a long line of Bobs. Soon another wretch will stumble into the shop, get whacked in the back of the head by Linda's frying pan, and told his name is Bob.
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11[[WMG:All of Bob and Linda's children have some form of Mental Handicap.]]
12It explains so much after all.
13* Louise seems pretty smart
14** Tina could be possibly autistic.
15* None of them really seem handicapped. It's more like they each have an ambiguous disorder; Tina is autistic, Gene sometimes behaves like a child with ADD, and Louise is just a psycho.
16
17[[WMG:The show takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'']]
18Look at the character designs, they're virtually identical.
19* Alternatively, Sanjay and Craig is set in the future in Louise's marriage where she has a legal name change and moved to Lundgren because of some wacky and illegal reason that fits in in both canons.
20** Contrary to popular belief, ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' did not rip off this show's art style. Jay Howell was the character designer for both, so a rivalry between shows seems unlikely. Plus, this isn't the kind of show that would "pick a fight" with rival shows, so to speak.
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22[[WMG:The show will do a TakeThat, an homage, [[AffectionateParody both]] or just a ShoutOut in general (subtle or not) to ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' in a future episode.]]
23
24[[WMG:Bob's parents are dead]]
25It doesn't seem to bother him too much as he never mentioned him before even relating to the topic of Linda's parents, likely one of his parents died when he was very young and the other parent died a few years after college or so (or even during and Bob dropped out to deal with grief).
26* Jossed as we've seen his father recently very much not in a coffin, but in fact alive and still having Christmas Parties and even voiced by Bill Hader. He does mention that Bob's mother has been dead for a while.
27
28[[WMG:Tina is the author, writing of her childhood]]
29Evidence in favor of the thesis:
30* Most episodes are framed by events specific to Tina: Her last Halloween, her last Fireside Girl event, her various crushes, etc.
31* Tina is the character who gives voice to observations that go unheard, because she is only thinking these things years later.
32* The characters of Tina's siblings are especially distorted because she is projecting back onto their childhoods attributes they will only really have years later.
33
34[[WMG:The ''Bob's Burgers'' series was just a figment of Archer's imagination]]
35* If Archer had only known Linda and the kids, married Linda and worked at the restaurant long enough to have grown tired of the 18-hour shifts, then odds are all the crazy stuff that's happened in ''Bob's Burgers'' might just be a mix of sleep deprivation and PTSD all occurring in Archer's head.
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37
38[[WMG:Louise, without her hat, would look virtually identical to a younger Linda.]]
39Just like Gene looks like his dad at his age, Louise probably takes after her mother as far as her physical appearance is concerned. There are really only so many ways that her hair can meet under her hat, after all, and it looks like it probably comes together in the same way as Linda's. Other than Louise having a hat and pigtails, they're pretty similar looking.
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41[[WMG:Piggybacking off of the above, Louise wears the bunny ears ''because'' she looks like her mother.]]
42Louise [[SmallNameBigEgo thinks]] ''[[SmallNameBigEgo very]]'' [[SmallNameBigEgo highly of herself]] and it's clear that the bunny ears are her way of drastically standing out. She's afraid of looking like her mother because it will rob her of her identity, making her just a member of the Belcher family and not her own person (that, and [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents she thinks her mother is a loser]]).
43** Seems unlikely, as we can see pictures of baby Louise wearing her ears in the background of many home scenes.
44*** It's possible she began wearing them as a baby and then just refused to stop.
45
46[[WMG:Louise has a bald spot just like her father]]
47It's that obvious folks! This has got to be the reason why she refuses to be seen without her bunny ears!
48
49[[WMG:The Archer crossover is canon]]
50Sterling is actually Bob's distant cousin, whom he decided to visit to get away from his troubles. But when he visited the restaurant, he was told that Teddy forced Bob to help him take care of his senile grandmother which (Because of a series of wacky incidents) ended up with Bob and Teddy stuck there for months with no way to contact home (An episode for another day). Archer a few days later after leaving Bob's city, ran into the KGB in which he won the fight but suffered a head wound, he then thought he literally was Bob, returned to the restaurant and took over his life, with [[TheDitz Linda]] none the wiser. The kids knew he wasn't their father which scared them (Louise not so much) this made Gene and Tina very uncomfortable and nervous, thinking that this doppleganger most likely killed their father, that they refused to talk. Louise joined in too but just to creep people out. Once Archer!Bob left, Linda finally realized he wasn't really Bob, but she couldn't accept the fact that the real Bob was most likely dead, and in her grief refused to admit that to the police. So she made up a story about Bob being a step-dad marrying her around the same time Archer!Bob arrived.
51
52[[WMG:Gene is trans]]
53Maybe a trans girl, maybe genderfluid, with the constant references to femininity to the point of sometimes talking about women's bodies and beauty with a sense of envy.
54* [[FridgeBrilliance This is where Tina's diary entry about "duderuses" came from]]: Gene mentioned his plausible genderqueerness to Tina in passing, then Tina's overactive imagination wandered on the subject until she realized that a trans-male person would be a boy with a uterus. This + the show being a WorldOfPun = "duderuses."
55** [[WordOfDante Eugene Mirman]] says that he thinks Gene is gender nonconforming, describing him as "a fluid person who doesn't care about gender roles."
56** While it's likely just PlayedForLaughs, Gene also crossdresses very frequently, with most of his Halloween costumes being based off of women. He also has shown to not care at all when people refer to him with feminine pronouns and, in some cases, seems to insist on it, and there are plenty of times where Gene groups himself up with his sisters as if to imply that all of the Belcher Children are female.
57** This could also be part of why Gene prefers Linda's company to his father's (not that he and Bob don't love each other, of course). While Bob is quite accepting of his kids, and is all but stated to be bisexual himself, he's also more likely to point out when he finds something bizarre and is a lot less patient with Gene in general, and sometimes criticizes what he does in a concerned, disapproving way (not because he wants Gene to be more masculine, necessarily, since that's never really been something Bob cares about too much, but that Gene might be doing something Bob sees as inappropriate for his age, or he fears Gene embarrassing himself or being put in harm's way). Linda, by contrast, not only accepts Gene's antics, but sometimes even ''encourages'' them or finds them cute. Gene could be more comfortable around her because she's a lot less critical of his expression.
58[[WMG:Tina is trans]]
59She is voiced by a male actor, and in the pilot, there was a son named Daniel in her place. If this were true, the pilot would be considered canon.
60
61[[WMG: Louise is trans or non-binary]]
62She has a strong dislike of femininity, up to and including dressing up as male characters in every Halloween episode and choosing horror makeup when getting a makeover. She also prefers the company of boys and men while rarely relating to her mother and sister. However, she also refers to herself as a girl several times throughout the show so this may point towards being gender non-conforming than to be being trans.
63
64[[WMG:Horny Dave and Mudflap were in an open relationship]]
65They were lovers but occasionally slept with other people, which is why Horny Dave was cool with Mudflap sleeping with Critter but may have been secretly not pleased with her pregnancy as he didn't want kids. Critter also has stated that Mudflap was Horny Dave's before he died and doesn't recall them breaking up.
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67[[WMG:Hugo is Boo Boo's father]]
68Both are very short, arrogant and have massive inferiority complexes. There is also a certain physical resemblance, particularly their big blond hair. Since Boo Boo is apparently younger than Tina the timeline also works out. Boo Boo's mother was presumably a rebound fling after Linda dumped him.
69* Wonder Wharf is an unusually second-rate venue for a major star like Boo-Boo to perform at on his first solo tour unless there was another reason like visiting his father Hugo.
70
71[[WMG:Jen and Millie are related in some way]]
72They have similar features. They could be sisters or cousins.
73
74[[WMG:The Belchers are related to the Tortellis]]
75Louise is so much like a young Carla Tortelli that it makes sense they could be related somehow.
76
77[[WMG:Louise and Tina are Bipolar.]]
78Louise is Bipolar I with primarily Manic and Hypomanic episodes. Tina is Bipolar II and as such is primarily Depressed with occasional Hypomanic episodes.
79
80[[WMG:Mort is actually Morty or a Morty from Rick and Morty]]
81Considering the multiple dimensions in Rick and Morty, it is not hard to believe that Mort could be a Morty from the Bob's Burgers dimension or another.
82
83[[WMG:In an alternative dimension, Hugo's Hotdogs is a hit show on the Wolf Network.]]
84Funny enough, Fox56 is called WOLF
85
86[[WMG:Jimmy Jr. is destined to become like Bob, in the future.]]
87Think about it, they are both Juniors of fathers who are both restaurant owners. Also Jimmy Pesto and Big Bob refused to only their sons creative freedom, whether it be dancing or burger making, and are rather harsh diceplincers. Though Big Bob deep down cares for his son while Jimmy Pesto only really cares for himself. It is possible for Jimmy Jr. to feel the need to start his own business as an adult like Bob did to distance himself from his father, whether it be a pizzeria, a dance studio, or some weird mix of both. Bonus, they are both played by H. Jon Benjamin.
88* Well, [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freud]] [[FreudWasRight did say]] girls marry their fathers. It can't be coincidence Tina is crushing on a boy who sounds like her dad.
89
90[[WMG:The events in the opening sequence are Bob's current recollections of those events, which explains the {{Couch Gag}}s.]]
91* The shop on the opposite side of the restaurant from the funeral parlor is different every time because Bob [[{{Doublethink}} stubbornly pretends it has always been there.]] As evidenced by the 'For Rent' sign that is usually there during the actual episodes, the storefront is a 'death shop' - a seemingly cursed storefront where businesses and other organizations never last long.
92* By season two, Bob has forgotten the name of the extermination company he hired to get rid of the rat infestation, which bugs him to no end as he constantly dreads having another infestation. Every alternate name that shows up is his latest failed attempt to remember it.
93
94[[WMG:Barbara, Bob's former girlfriend from the episode "My Fuzzy Valentine" will return in a future episode.]]
95Since Hugo used to date Linda, Bob's future wife, maybe Bob would try to get Barbara together with Hugo to make his life happier, and therefore, being a less strict health inspector.
96
97[[WMG:The series finale with feature a TimeSkip to the Belcher family reuniting for Bob's funeral]]
98Bob's MeaningfulFuneral will feature, alongside the usual [[TheFunInFuneral sitcom funeral hijinks]] (and maybe an AntagonistInMourning moment from Jimmy Pesto and/or Hugo), grown-up versions of Tina, Gene, and Louise eulogizing their father with stories of inspirational moments with their father (in the style of the {{Vignette Episode}}s featuring the kids' stories, like "The Frond Files" and "The Gayle Tales"). Possible titles for the episode include "Whatever Happened to Bobby Belcher?" or "Bob Is Dead".
99
100[[WMG:Guesses at upcoming episodes]]
101* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Just_the_Trip Just the Trip]]: A RoadTripEpisode featuring the return of Nat from "V for Valentine-detta", who ends up chauffeuring the Belcher family for some reason.
102** A customer at Jimmy Pesto's trips and breaks their nose after something is left on the floor, leading to them threatening to sue Jimmy. Bob and most of the others egg the person on, but Tina, concerned about Jimmy Jr, begins to stalk the person, convinced that they're faking their injury. The twist is that, no, they aren't faking it. Tina's antics somehow lead to the customer not suing Jimmy Pesto.
103* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Yurty_Rotten_Scoundrels Yurty Rotten Scoundrels]]: Gayle drags Tina and Linda into [[NewJobsAsThePlotDemands her newest money-making venture]] involving custom yurts.
104** Louise, Gene, and Tina find a yurt abandoned in the woods and decide to hang out there, even holding a sleepover there with some of the other kids. All seems well, but the owner comes back and the kids refuse to leave. The episode then focuses of the naturally very crazy yurt owner trying to smoke them all out.
105** A group of Russian travelers (who are from one of the several places in Russia called Yurty) come to Bob's Burgers and give Bob a hard time over his burger of the day.
106* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ring_(But_Not_Scary) The Ring (But Not Scary)]]: Bob dealing with [[LostWeddingRing losing his wedding ring]] somehow.
107** Confirmed! The episode will be the season 10 premiere, and the synopsis (based on the Bob's Burgers panel at San Diego Comic Con 2019) reads "Bob finally gets Linda an engagement ring, but he loses it."
108* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Have_Yourself_a_Maily_Linda_Christmas Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas]]: Linda tries to deliver a Christmas gift to her parents in person, with Louise and Gene tagging along, while Bob and Tina do a B-plot involving Gayle
109** Linda accidentally mails all of the family's Christmas cards to a very obscure, out of the way location and has to drive there to get them back in time to mail them before Christmas (since the owner has no phone and the photo developer is closed for the holidays). Naturally, her trip goes off the rails. Back home, the rest of the Belchers try and make homemade Christmas cards.
110* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Girls_and_a_Little_Wharfy Three Girls and a Little Wharfy]]: A CryptidEpisode featuring Louise, Jessica from "Slumber Party", and a new character.
111* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Pig_Trouble_in_Little_Tina Pig Trouble in Little Tina]]: Tina taking a field trip to a farm (and possibly facing a fear of pigs developed/discovered from having to dissect one in class).
112* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Legends_of_the_Mall Legends of the Mall]]: An episode taking place at OMG Mall, with each of the Belchers getting a sub-plot.
113** The kids all tell comedic horror stories in order to explain why the mall is temporarily closed for a day, while hanging out in the parking lot one stormy afternoon.
114* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hawkening:_Look_Who%27s_Hawking_Now! The Hawkening: Look Who's Hawking Now!]]: Another episode featuring Shinji Kojima from "Hawk & Chick", also involving Regular-Sized Rudy turning out to be (or becoming) a fan of the Hawk & Chick movies.
115** The reason Koji wants to shop the Belcher's showing is that he considers the movie they want to watch [[OldShame the weakest in the series.]]
116* [[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Handyman_Can The Handyman Can]]: A DayInTheLimelight episode for Teddy.
117** It'll be a MusicalEpisode focusing on Teddy having to win back the Belchers', um, I guess we can call it respect, after screwing up royally.
118
119[[WMG:A future season will have an episode where the kids get interested in TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons.]]
120Possibly as part of a team-building exercise that gets out of hand. Mr. Frond is certainly going to be involved somehow.
121
122[[WMG:The Larp was a scam.]]
123It's rather suspicious that in an event advertised as "roleplay as characters from this show" that the majority of the players were assigned the roles of no-name characters whose exclusive rules were as servants... And that said characters were treated as servants as soon as they got to the property, before the game began and before anyone was in character. Not to mention the historically in-accurately harsh way that the "servant characters" were treated.
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125Obviously, the company running the Larp didn't want to(or couldn't) shell out the cash to hire actual servants—I don't think it's even 'legal' to treat employees like that—and so chose to handwave the issue by having drastically more seats for the game than they intended to actually play in the hopes of duping most of the people coming in into acting as slave labor to keep the party rolling.
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127[[WMG:The show is a disguised ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' spin-off.]]
128Bob is the protagonist, Tina is the Law representative, Louise is Chaos and Gene is Neutrality. Bob uses the Demon Summoning Program to make a deal with Lucifer to make really good burgers, and the end of the world is going to come about because of it.
129
130[[WMG:Hugo quietly resents the Belcher kids for being a reminder that he lost Linda to Bob, and a later episode will address this.]]
131If there's one set of characters that hardly ever interacts, it's Hugo and the Belcher kids. The Belcher kids don't seem to like Hugo (especially in later seasons), but Hugo rarely if ever addresses the kids directly (he only really shares one or two lines with them during each health inspection). Hugo already treats Bob like crap for "stealing" Linda from him (ignoring that Linda wasn't happy with him anyways), and the logical conclusion would be that he hates the kids as well for being a result of Bob and Linda's union (in his eyes, they should've been ''his'' kids, not Bob's). A later episode will have the kids and Hugo interact more directly, and in said episode Hugo's resentment will come to light. The episode could even result in CharacterDevelopment for Hugo, leading him to realize that not only should he not resent the kids, but he shouldn't do the same to Bob given his hate for both stems from similar places.
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133[[WMG:The show will eventually get a full ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' crossover episode]]
134Like the CouchGag from the latter show's "My Way or the Highway to Heaven", only now it's a full episode. In search of the perfect burger, Homer drags the Simpson family to Seymour's Bay where they meet and befriend the Belchers. Homer and Bob hang out as fathers, Marge and Linda do mom stuff with Maggie, Lisa and Tina bond over their mutual awkwardness, and Bart performs pranks with Gene and Louise.
135
136[[WMG:Bob's Burgers will eventually get a world in Kingdom Hearts]]
137* Or a bag that says the restaurant's name will appear as an EasterEgg.
138
139[[WMG: Jimmy Pesto will be written out of the show entirely]]
140* He had already been [[DemotedToExtra appearing less and less in the show]] for years anyway, and a later episode will explain his absence by [[RealitySubtext saying outright that Jimmy got arrested at the 2021 Capitol Riot]].
141** Jossed. The summary for an upcoming episode mentions Bob resuming his feud with Jimmy.
142
143[[WMG: The next time we see Helen. The entire episode will be about Bob trying to remember where she hid the evidence for the murder of her husband. She will finally be put in jail. This will eventually lead to another episode where she escaped from jail and tries to get revenge on the Belcher.]].
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145[[WMG: The abandoned dog food factory from the movie will be featured in an episode of the show]]
146There's bound to be some wacky reason the carnie manning the ticket booth kept telling the Belcher kids to not go inside. Or at least, that's what Louise will assume, prompting her to drag Gene, Tina, and some of the recurring kids from school there to check it out.
147
148[[WMG: Wagstaff School is a school for neuro-atypical children.]]
149This is the reason they have classes ranging from grades 3-8, and nobody is ever disciplined for their hijinks besides some light detention.
150
151[[WMG: Ginger is the Pesto children's aunt.]]
152She has the same hair color and side profile. They also canonically have an aunt. She is either Jimmy's sister and moved after she met Tony, or her sister met Jimmy when her and Ginger visited for Linda's wedding, consequently getting married and divorced.
153
154[[WMG: The Bush's will take over Jimmy Pesto's restaurant.]]
155Since Louise isn't best friends with the twins anymore, with Rudy having taken their place, Tina being mostly over her crush on Jimmy Jr., and Jimmy's voice actors firing, it would make sense they put somebody new in the restaurant. With Cynthia being a horticulturist, her husband having the means to invest into something as a doctor, and Logan's general popularity with the fandom, it wouldn't be too weird if it were the Bushs owning the restaurant and antagonizing the Belchers from now on.
156
157[[WMG: Dillon from "The Grand Mama-Pest Hotel" had/has a crush on Tina.]]
158Dillon didn't seem interested in hanging out with any other kids and particularly wanted to hang out with Tina in her room, on her bed.
159
160[[WMG: There will be a Doordash episode.]]
161Business will pick up, but Linda will be confused about the concept and that nobody wants to come in to eat anymore.
162
163[[WMG: Gayle has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Schizotypal Personality Disorder.]]
164Gayle is considered eccentric in her appearance and speech, has trouble maintaining connections with people outside of her close family, is gullible to the point of almost being a danger to herself, and sees the world as being far more fantastical than it actually is: All indicative of SPD. She also reveals in “The Cook, The Steve, The Gayle, And Her Lover,” that she makes up “rules” that she has to follow or else she thinks she’ll die: An example of OCD-based obsessions and compulsions.
165
166[[WMG: Tammy is high-masking autistic.]]
167Tammy seems to always have it out for Tina in a way that’s less like picking on the vulnerable (since Tina is far from the most vulnerable kid at Wagstaff) and more like she’s trying to psych out a rival. Could this be because Tammy is envious of Tina’s ability to not mask her autism while still being a fairly confident person who’s accepted by their friend group? Tammy comes off as a typical preteen mean girl for the most part, but she also has a few autistic-coded quirks. She breaks down emotionally over little things, she talks in puns more than anyone else on an already pun-heavy show, and she has a very small friend group despite being supposedly “popular.” This indicates an autistic child who masks heavily and isn’t any happier for it, causing her to resent Tina for her ability to be herself.

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