"What are you doing, Jimmy Poplopovich?"
"Your rent is due Friday night. And if you're late, I'm giving your lease to Jimmy Pesto."
—Mr. Fischoeder
The restaurant faces a hard time when Mr. Fischoeder states that unless they pay their rent on time, he will sell the space to Jimmy Pesto. As Bob attempts to gather customers using a special (and risky) burger recipe, Louise resorts to voodoo to help her father's business, Tina's love life, and Gene's music career.
Burger Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch: It looks like Linda is about to compare Tina and Jimmy Jr.'s romance to Romeo and Juliet, but she thinks it's closer to West Side Story.
- Blatant Lies:
- Louise states that the various potatoes, cigars and stuff she asks are for a English project, even though it makes no sense.
- She lies again to Jimmy Pesto to get his hair, stating that it's for victims of Mustache Cancer.
- Brick Joke: The Store Next Door is a raccoon sanctuary. Bob tries complaining about the noise to Fischoeder near the end of the episode.
- Combat Breakdown: The fight between Bob and Jimmy Pesto devolves into the two of them exhausted and awkwardly grappling with each other. Mr. Fischoeder calls it a draw.
- The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: Eerie as it may seem, Louise using voodoo has seemingly worked.
- Dance Party Ending: After Mr. Fischoeder extends Bob's lease, everyone (except for Jimmy Pesto) celebrates by dancing in Bob's Burgers.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Bob goes through a lot of hell throughout the episode, but Mr. Fischoeder decides to extend Bob's lease after tasting the Meat-siah, additionally forgetting about the rent entirely (well, for that month).
- Everyone Is Related: Andy and Ollie, who debuted in "Art Crawl", are revealed to be Jimmy Pesto's sons here.
- Foil: Jimmy Pesto and Bob are this for each other. Jimmy's restaurant works because he is a good business man, even if his cooking skills are awful enough to make him even cry while tasting his own hamburger; Bob is a downplayed Supreme Chef, but he is not a good business man, that's why his restaurant struggles even with the good food. Additionally, Jimmy is a jerkass who's distant from his family (which later episodes only make clearer), while Bob is a Nice Guy who doesn't always get his family but cares for them anyways.
- Feuding Families: Zigzagged with the Belchers and Pestos. Bob and Jimmy Sr. are feuding, but Tina and Jimmy Jr. are on decent enough terms. Linda also claims that Louise and Gene are friends with the Pesto twins, but this "friendship" seems rather one-sided—the twins like the Belchers just fine, but Louise only interacts with the twins when she wants them to do something for her, and Gene is just going along with the flow.
- Finger-Snapping Street Gang: Referenced. Linda mentions that the situation with their kids and Jimmy Pesto's is similar to West Side Story. She sings and snaps her fingers like the Jets.
- A God Am I: Louise proclaims this when she realizes everything she tried to accomplish with voodoo worked.Louise: "I AM A GOOOD!!"
- Godzilla Threshold: Linda considers "The Meat-siah" to be a downplayed version of this, as Bob's successfully cooked it only once according to her, and now he's not only trying it again, but trying to get it down to bite-size proportions so he can pass them out as samples at Jimmy Pesto's. Tina asks if Bob is going to die, and Linda herself doesn't even seem sure.
- Hypocritical Humor: Jimmy calls Bob's kids "freaky", but as Bob points out his twin sons are at least as weird as Bob's kids.
- Jerkass: Being a dick to Bob is one thing, but trying to run Bob out of business and put his family on the streets is about the lowest thing Jimmy Pesto could do.
- Lethal Chef: To further contrast him with Bob, Jimmy Pesto's cooking is described by the man himself as awful. He cries while eating his own burger, and it's not just him venturing out of his comfort zone—Jimmy Jr. reveals his usual Italian food has given people food poisoning, suggesting he's just not good at it.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's not clear if Louise's voodoo potatoes actually had any effect on the proceedings of this episode. At one point, she tears off a piece of the potato representing Jimmy Pesto while he and Bob are fighting to seemingly no effect—however, it's also the case that Gene and Tina both extend pretty substantially outside of their comfort zone to achieve their desires, almost to the point of being slightly out-of-character. One could also make a case for her tearing off a piece of the Pesto potato as having an actual effect—despite Jimmy being in much better shape than Bob, Bob manages to fight him to a draw.
- My Greatest Failure: Jimmy cries tasting his own hamburger out of how awful it is.
- Obviously Evil: Louise describes Mr. Fischoeder as looking like he's "one white cat away from being a super villain".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The Pesto twins really should be the Poplopovich twins, much like Jimmy Pesto should be Jimmy Poplopovich. Outside of a throwaway line from Bob, nobody uses their real surname, exclusively calling them Pesto.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Gene makes one of his usual off-color jokes (comparing the addictive qualities of Bob's food to heroin), Bob not only doesn't respond with his usual "Gene...", but outright agrees with him, showing just how off-kilter he is over wanting to defeat Jimmy.
- Opening Shout-Out: For the first time in the series, the Store Next Door is mentioned in the episode when Mr. Fischoeder mentions leasing the building to a raccoon sanctuary.
- Papa Wolf: Bob was angry enough at Jimmy Pesto throughout the episode already, but then Jimmy just had to go and insult Bob's kids.Jimmy Pesto: Hey, you know what? You should keep your freaky kids locked up in your own place!
Bob: What did you say about my kids?
Linda: HIT HIM IN HIS HANDSOME GROIN! - Pet the Dog: Mr. Fischoeder extends Bob's lease because he considers his food that good. He also calls Bob an artist, making it clear that Bob has Fischoeder's genuine respect.
- Right-Hand Cat: Louise cites Mr. Fischoeder's lack of this as the one thing keeping him from being a supervillain.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jimmy doesn't bother sticking around for the Dance Party Ending, storming out of the restaurant in a fury.
- Shout-Out:
- Linda mentions that Tina and Jimmy Jr.'s love story is similar to West Side Story, though she mentions characteristics that make it similar to Romeo and Juliet.
- One of Jimmy's ads is "Pasta La Vista, Baby".
- Gene tries to play the theme of Brave Heart with a triangle.
- Supreme Chef: Bob's "Meat-siah" is so good, Mr. Fischoeder changes his tune completely about the lease.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Louise actually tries to help Bob save his restaurant. But because she's Louise, her intended methods range from unusual to immoral.
