Recap / Bobs Burgers S 10 E 16 Flat Top O The Morning To Ya

Bob and the kids help out a fellow restaurant owner, while Linda and Teddy's preparations for St. Patrick's Day get out of hand.

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Flat-Trope O' the Morning to Ya:

• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Linda and Teddy get drunk on green beer and proceed to make some questionable business decisions.
• All for Nothing: Bob only went to the auction to buy cheap plates, which becomes meaningless when the plates get auctioned off while he, the kids, and Jules are hiding in a hidden recipe room.
• Auction: Bob and the kids attend a liquidation auction of a failed restaurant for some cheap supplies. There, they get involved with the former owner's desperate attempt to steal back the flattop grill.
• Bad Liar: After the auctioneer catches them trying to steal the grill, Bob tries to deny helping him:
  Bob: Uh, hi. I-I know it looks like I'm helping Jules steal this. I'm not. I-I was falling, and my hands landed on it.
• Blatant Lies: When the auctioneer tries to get people to bid on more bust tubs for $10, he asks them saying "pretty please" and claims that's an auctioning term.
• Captain Obvious:
  • When the Belchers arrive at the Beachum BBQ, Tina believes the restaurant used to be a BBQ restaurant.
    Louise: You cracked it, Tina.
  • Tina when she says "You can't steal the flattop grill. That's stealing."
• Cooldown Hug: When Bob starts to worry about the mere thought of his restaurant meeting the same fate as Beachum BBQ, Gene offers a hug. Bob accepts, and Gene runs over to give it to him.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Jules' plan to steal the flat top grill was not well thought out, to say the least: not only did he not have any way to get it out of the building without being seen beyond "the auctioneer is busy doing something else, gogogo", but his car is also a small two-seater with no plausible way to either fit the grill inside it or strap it on the ridiculously small roof.
    Bob: Remember when I said you had a bad plan? This is what bad plans looks like.
  • It never occurs to Teddy or Linda how unappetizing a hamburger patty dyed green would be.
• The Ditz: Jules wants to keep his family's flat top grill, but as the other tropes on this page show, he's too incompetent to make that happen. He has no plan to actually get the grill out of the building without being stopped and even when he manages that his car is completely unprepared to take it anywhere. He presumes honey is made by crushing bees, which Louise lampshades as a dumb assumption. One of his last lines reveals he spent the whole episode under the assumption that Bob's kids weren't related to him and were just his friends, even though they've been calling him "Dad" the entire time.
• Don't Explain the Joke: After the Belchers return to the restaurant and sees that Linda went crazy on dying the food green.
  Bob: Oh, my God. Your mother went rogue.
  Tina: No, she went brogue. Irish? Brogue? Get it?
  Louise: Nice one, T.
• Everybody Knew Already: Bob tells his kids, in the form of a song, that he has a fear of his restaurant failing, but they already know and have heard him say it several times. Louise points out that it's not a very inspiring message, causing Bob to immediately retract everything he said about his restaurant failing.
• Fakeout Escape: Trapped in the kitchen, Jules and the Belchers hide in Jules' secret recipe room. Before hiding, Louise opens a window to make the auctioneer and movers think they escaped through it, despite Bob pointing out the grill can't fit through the window. After they break in and can't find them, one of the movers think they escape through the window, and the auctioneer points out the grill can't fit through the window. The mover thinks maybe they folded the grill, the auctioneer points out that doesn't make sense but they decide to deal with it later.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Jules felt obligated to keep Beachum BBQ up and running after his father retired, but he just couldn't do it. Over the course of the episode, it's indicated that running a restaurant was never Jules's passion.
• Got Volunteered: After Jules reveals to the Belchers he plans on stealing his family grill, he tells them they're a part of his plan now since they know what he's doing. Bob is against the idea, but Louise really wants to get involved.
• The Illegible: Jules has trouble reading his father's spice recipe for his meat because his father's handwriting is difficult to read.
• Mooning: As a crowd of drunken St. Patrick's Day revelers pass by the Belcher's car, one of them drops his pants at them. Bob is mortified; Tina... not so much.
  Tina: I think this is my new favorite holiday.
• Never My Fault: Gene and Louise, who were the ones pushing Bob into helping steal the flat top, later call him out for supposedly being a bad influence.
  Bob: I don't like any of you. Except maybe Tina.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Jules wears a very obvious fake moustache as a disguise. He didn't even take the price tag off.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Store Next Door is Let’s Talk About Ex, Baby Divorce Counseling, and the Exterminator Van belongs to Bugshead Re-Squisheted Pest Control.
  • When brainstorming what other holidays they could make green hamburgers for, Teddy suggests Green Day Day.
  • When Bob and the kids return to the restaurant and find the kitchen splattered in green dye, Gene says "it looks like a Shrek exploded in here."
• Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot: Bob only lets Linda dye the beer green for St. Patrick's Day. While he's away, she and Teddy (after having some of the beer) decide to try dying the mustard, then the fries, and that leads to them dying some of the hamburger meat. In trying to even the color out, however, Linda ends up turning all the meat green, and naturally, no one wants to eat a green hamburger. As a last resort, they go to the St. Patrick's parade and hand out free samples; everyone is too drunk to care, and they all go to Bob's Burgers to eat, narrowly averting a complete disaster.
• St. Patrick's Day Episode: The first (and so far only) St. Patrick's Day-themed episode in the show's run.
• That Reminds Me of a Song: Bob suddenly breaks out into song singing about his fear of his restaurant failing.
• Too Dumb to Live: Jules apparently thought that people made honey by mashing bees together, and only recently learned otherwise.
  Jules: Nobody tells you that.
  Louise: Nobody should have to.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: Linda and Teddy goes to the St. Patrick Day festival to give away slider burgers of their green meat and one of the people there vomits from drinking.

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