"This is Working, This is Working!"
Linda takes a job at a new supermarket to bring some extra money in, with Bob struggling to manage the restaurant without her. Meanwhile, Tina meets a boy while behind a dairy fridge.
Tropes:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Linda starts working at the supermarket full-time because they make her feel more appreciated than Bob does. However, the employees take advantage of her, leaving Linda as the only employee left in the store.
- Big Eater: Gene uses the serving size of a bag of egg rolls as his logic for taking four free samples at Fresh Feed. Later, he doesn't bother with an excuse as he wolfs down samples straight from the plate.
- Both Sides Have a Point: While Linda was right to be mad at Bob for not appreciating her, Bob's reasons for rating her as low as he does make a lot of sense. For instance, he docks her points for not wearing a hairnet.
- Brick Joke: In an early scene, Louise ties a bunch of shrimp to helium balloons and lets them float up to the rafters of the supermarket. Near the end of the episode, the balloons have deflated enough to make it "rain shrimp", as Louise puts it.Louise: I made it rain shrimp! What did you ever do?!
- Brutal Honesty: Bob rates Linda's work in the restaurant as a 7.5 (later amending it to an 8) and gives quite a few reasons why. Linda doesn't take it well.
- Burger Fool: Linda eventually realizes the job at Fresh Feed is just that; a job, which other employees will be eager to get away from and which leaves her overwhelmed and trodded on.
- Dark Reprise: Not quite dark, but Linda sings "This is Working" much more frantically as Fresh Feed begins to devolve into anarchy.
- Distant Duet: Bob and Linda sing "This is Working" at their respective places of employment.
- Double Meaning: When Bob and Linda sing "This is Working", their uses of the title line take on two different meanings for each of them.
- Meaning #1: "This is working" as in "this is going well". Linda means it, but Bob is just trying to convince himself.
- Meaning #2: "This is working" as in "this is what a job feels like". Linda uses the line to represent her excitement to be working at Fresh Feed, while Bob uses the line to represent his realization that working at the restaurant isn't nearly as enjoyable without Linda.
- During the Dark Reprise, Linda is now suffering under Bob's Meaning #1, worriedly singing the song as she tries to keep the store going by herself.
- Foot Popping: Tina when she kisses Josh at the end of the episode, made easier by the fact that her lower half is hanging off a shelf in the milk fridge.
- The Girl Who Fits This Slipper: Gender inverted. The only thing Tina has to identify the boy she met was the band-aid he left behind.
- Innocently Insensitive: When Linda comments that she sleeps with her old boss and he still didn't give her a good rating, one of the employees is unaware that she's talking about her husband and comments that she must be bad at sex.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Even after things start to go south at the restaurant, Bob tells Linda to keep working at Fresh Feed if it makes her happy.
- Karma Houdini: Linda, although this time around it's not a bad thing; everyone takes the day off, leaving Linda to run the store all by herself, which she attempts to the best of her ability. By the time someone returns, people have effectively started looting the store, and fed-up Linda leaves the job before she can suffer any consequences. On the other hand, those who left her alone are likely to come back to a wrecked and ruined workplace, with their own jobs thus on the line.
- Lazy Bum: All the employees at the Fresh Freed use any type of excuse to avoid work or go home early and dump their responsibilities all on Linda's lap.
- New Job Episode: Linda gets a job at a grocery store, at first to help the Belchers make ends meet, and then when she starts to feel Bob doesn't appreciate her.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bob's poor rating of Linda's skills drives her to take on a full time job at the supermarket, only to immediately realize without her the restaurant goes to hell.
- Oh, Crap!: Linda, when she realizes she's the only one still working at Fresh Feed.
- Playing Sick: One of the employees is implied to be doing this the next day when she mentions to Linda that she might be sick tomorrow.
- Race for Your Love: Bob and Linda do this at the end.
- Scatting: When the power goes out at the restaurant, Bob tells Teddy to "scat" as in leave, but Teddy misunderstands and starts scat singing instead.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Teddy greets Mike the mailman by asking him to talk about his testicles. Mike immediately leaves.
- Sex Sells: Discussed; Louise mentions this trope verbatim when brainstorming ways to make extra money. Except she thinks the process works by finding sex and selling it, as if it were a physical item.
- Status Quo Is God: Linda's new job at Fresh Feed goes south, and she quits to rejoin Bob at the restaurant.
- Too Dumb to Live: Bob honestly thinking Linda wouldn't take it the wrong way when he grades her a "7.5" on her work around the restaurant.
- Verbal Backspace: Bob quickly bumps up Linda's score from a 7.5 to an 8 after seeing how pissed off she is. It doesn't work.
