The Belcher kids try getting an old, explosive toy bridge over to Rudy's mom's house. Back at the restaurant, Bob tries meditation to destress.
Bridge Over Trope-led Rudy:
- Anti-Climax: The explosion of the bridge toy is extremely lackluster. Though Rudy is impressed.
- Asleep, Not Meditating: While Bob gets the hang of meditation, Linda just falls asleep on her feet, though she insists she's meditating.
- Blatant Lies: Jimmy Pesto claims to Bob that he's gotten better at meditation than him. As the subsequent meditation battle proves, not only did he not meditate better, there's no sign he meditated at all.
- Cannot Spit It Out: It's noted in this episode that Louise doesn't say "I'm sorry" if she can help it, usually finding a roundabout way of apologizing while making a point to avoid saying the actual words. So when she casually says it to Rudy, it's treated as a big deal.
- Continuity Nod: Gene says Louise just got her training wheels off, alluding to how Louise has only just recently started riding a bike.
- Creepy Monotone: While pretending to have meditated, Jimmy talks in a very calm, very strange tone. The fact that it's clearly forced makes it even weirder.
- Don't Explain the Joke: The one time Mort makes a semi-decent joke (he calls formaldehyde "five-maldehyde" because of how jacked up the price is), Linda ruins it by explaining "five is more than four".
- Insult Backfire: Bob is so calm by meditation that none of Jimmy's insults land. During the meditation battle, every insult Jimmy makes only sets him further back in points.
- Jerkass: Jimmy Pesto doesn't just mock Bob, he also goes off with Trev to mock people who supposedly park weird.
- My Little Panzer: The "Blaster Bridge", an old discontinued toy that is basically an Erector/Meccano bridge rigged with small firecrackers to simulate a controlled demolition. Louise naturally is enamored by it.
- Nitro Express: The Belcher kids try to carry Rudy's Blaster Bridge toy to his mother's house without setting off the explosives by tying it on top of their bikes with ropes. Things go fine until the last street is closed for repairs and they have to take a short cut through the rough trail in the woods behind the house, which results in the bikes rolling downhill due to Gene's misunderstanding, although they're luckily caught by a bush before they crash into a ditch.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a shoutout to "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel.
- Precision F-Strike: Rudy says "What the hell?" when he realizes that Louise brought the Blaster Bridge. Extremely tame for the show, but notable for Rudy, who pretty much never swears and has actually struggled to intentionally do so before.
- Rage Quit: Jimmy Pesto quits the meditation battle when he starts to fail so badly his points go into the negatives, especially when Bob just sits there and watches him completely self-destruct.
- Running Gag: Linda keeps falls asleep whenever she tries to meditate.
- Shout-Out:
- The Store Next Door is "Potty Like it's 1999 High Flow Toilets".
- The Exterminator Van is "We're Gnat Gonna Take It".
- The first Burger of the Day is the "Should I Sautee or Should I Mango" Burger.
- Bob's Imagine Spot while meditating has him riding a fuzzy dragon that looks like Falkor the Luckdragon from The Never Ending Story with Mort's face.
- Slow "NO!": Louise when the bike holding the bridge toy goes downhill out of control.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Jimmy compares meditation to a "totally legit massage".
- Whole-Plot Reference: The plot of the kids trying to slowly bring an unstable and explosive model bridge across town is taken from the film The Wages of Fear.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: During Bob and Jimmy's meditation battle, Bob just sits there while Jimmy rages at Bob getting points, and Jimmy's complaints and insults just cost him even more points.
