The Belchers try to arrange an exclusive showing of a Hawk & Chick movie at the restaurant, until Shinji Kojima himself tries to put a stop to it.
Tropes:
- Ambiguously Bi: When Tina expresses her theory that Kojima had a torrid love affair with the woman in the Cephalopod Monster costume, Koji reveals that it was a guy in the costume, but his only objection to the love affair part that he was "not my type".
- Babies Ever After: Yuki has had a baby since her last appearance.
- Bad Liar: Bob panics during a phone call with the collector who loaned Dominic a rare movie and tells the collector they sound nervous because he and Dominic are covered in bees.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The Pesto twins think the movie they’re at Bob’s Burgers to watch is Star Trek, Shrek, or “Star Shrek.”
- Brown Note: Linda's guess on why Kojima doesn't want the missing scene shown is because there was a death on the set. The scene features the ghost of the dead crew member and viewing it lets her escape the movie to haunt people.
- The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Gene's idea about the deleted scene ends up being closest to the mark — it was in fact an actor whose role got completely cut, but for the opposite reason Gene suspected (Gene suspected he was a horrible actor, when in fact it was the opposite). He's also right about Koji owing money (confirmed in Koji's debut episode), though the cause of that remains unconfirmed.
- Continuity Nod: “The Hawkening” continues the show’s streak of episodes with “The Blank-ening” titles.
- Coordinated Clothes: A couple from the Hawk and Chick fanclub are both wearing striped shirts, which Gene lampshades during his ‘standup routine.’
- Deleted Scene: In-universe. While watching the original movie, the Belchers notice a very obvious skip in the film, which was presumably restored in the copy of the film Kojima stole. Linda, Gene, and Tina speculate on what the scene was before The Reveal at the end – a One-Scene Wonder who acted circles around Kojima and who Kojima used his clout to have removed from the final cut.
- Failed a Spot Check: Despite being huge fans of the series, Bob and Louise never really paid much attention to the obviously cut scene in the VHS copy of the movie that they've assumedly watched multiple times, even though the angle changes for no reason and the previously intact gate Hawk and Chick pass through now has some obvious damage to it, attributing it to it being either intentional or thinking they had a bad copy of the movie.
- Green-Eyed Monster:
- Louise forges an insurance check for the rare print for their movie screening because she’s jealous of the attention Regular-Sized Rudy has been getting at school due to his cast.
- The reason Kojima steals the second reel is that it features the debut of a then-unknown actor, Itsuke Sugimoto, and Kojima had the scene cut because he was afraid Sugimoto's acting prowess would overshadow Koji.
- It's All About Me: Louise is concerned about making herself look cool by making sure the screening party goes off without a hitch, to the point of overshadowing Rudy's hopes of having a party for getting his cast off.
- Literal-Minded: Louise seems to think Nobel Prize winners receive bells.
- Malaproper: Linda gets “forge” and “forage” confused.
- My Greatest Failure: Koji has always regretted having Sugimoto cut from the movie.
- The Atoner: He finally makes up for it by allowing a Director's Cut to be released, with Sugimoto's scene restored.
- Noodle Incident: Rudy says he got more attention with his cast than he did when his backpack caught fire at an Olive Garden.
- One-Scene Wonder: In-Universe. Kojima was very worried about the one scene actor Sugimoto was playing would overshadow his fame despite being just one scene.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Kojima worried this would happen if people saw the original cut of the film. Bob and Dominic gushing over the extra while watching his one scene seem to prove Kojima’s fear wasn’t unfounded.
- Romance on the Set: In-universe; Tina's guess on the contents of the cut scene is that Kojima fell in love with the actress inside the octopus suit and kissed her in the middle of a fight scene while they both were in their costumes, which somehow made its way into the final cut.
- Sequel Episode: This episode features the return of Shinji and Yuki Kojima from "Hawk & Chick".
- Ship Tease: Louise and Rudy share a moment near the end where she invites Rudy for frozen yogurt to make up for driving away the attention of his cast (though she makes him pay for it).
- Shout-Out:
- The title is one to Look Who's Talking.
- The Exterminator Van in the opening is Bohemian Rat-Squishy.
- Skewed Priorities: Linda is both more invested in making nachos than investigating what caused Kojima to take off with the movie AND more interested in asking Yuki about her baby than asking why Kojima and Louise are at her house when Yuki calls.
- Something Only They Would Say: Louise realizes that Kojima is at Yuki's house and that it was him who had texted Bob with Yuki's phone because the text ended with the very formal, "Thank you for your concern."
- Spooky Photographs: Linda's guess as to why Kojima stole the second reel of the movie is that it's haunted by the ghost of a dead extra.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: Not seen but given a mention—Bob’s first Burger of the Day is the "Thousand Chard Stare Burger".
- Work Off the Debt: Gene's guess on the reason why the scene was cut is that Kojima used to be a huge party animal and racked up tons of debts he couldn't pay in an expensive club, so he agreed to cast the club owner's nephew as an extra for the movie as compensation, but since he was a horrible actor who couldn't remember his lines and kept annoying the rest of the cast in a variety of ways, his scene got cut.
