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Recap / Bob's Burgers S9E16 "Roamin' Bob-Iday"

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"Had to make sure you weren't weird."

"Thanks, Bob, you're alright for a bread perv."
—Patricia

Bob hits his annual burnout, forcing the family to lock him out of the restaurant for a much-needed day off. While he's away, Mudflap commandeers the place for a surprise baby shower.


  • Accidental Pervert: Bob goes inside the bread delivery truck to check on his shipment of buns and is locked inside. When he's let out, Patricia mistakes him for a "bread pervert".
  • Amoral Attorney: Calvin and Felix Fischoeder have a cousin named Grover, who's their personal lawyer. On the one hand, he's not seen or mentioned doing anything illicit. On the other hand, he's the personal lawyer of Calvin Fischoeder, so the implications are there.
  • Bait-and-Switch: At the end of the episode, Linda and the kids come out of the restaurant and appear to be waving at Bob to welcome him back. They were waving for the ambulance that was coming due to Goldie suddenly giving birth to her baby.
  • Big "NEVER!": When Linda suggests Bob should go out and do something fun and relaxing on his day off, he responds with this.
  • Big "NO!": Bob lets out an agonized "NO!" when Linda and the kids lock him out of the restaurant.
  • Busman's Holiday: The Belchers lock Bob out of the restaurant to try and defy this, but Bob finds his way to a sandwich shop and spends most of his day off working anyway.
  • Call-Back: Throughout the baby shower plot, the Belchers point out how Mudflap gave birth in their restaurant, which threatens to happen again - and eventually does - with Goldie.
  • Cutaway Gag: We get a brief flashback to the last time Bob got burned out, which Teddy says got weird. Bob wound up cooking burgers wearing nothing but an apron and his underwear while muttering "It's fine, I'm fine..." in a silly voice, and calling Linda "Leslie".
  • A Day in the Limelight: Of a sort; this is the first (and so far only) episode Mudflap appears in without Critter.
  • Enmity with an Object: Bob's burnout reaches its peak when he starts arguing with a hamburger about what goes in it and then pours mustard on it.
    Bob: I invented you!
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Take a wild guess as to why it's called Patricia's 77 Sandwiches.
    Bob: Do you really make all 77 sandwiches?
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: There are descriptions for each of Patricia's 77 sandwiches on the wall behind her.
  • History Repeats: Once again, a biker gives birth in Bob's Burgers. It's lampshaded, of course.
  • Incredibly Lame Fun: Mr. Fischoeder is such a busy guy, sometimes he likes to enjoy himself with mindless activities like rolling oranges down a hill into traffic, or underground snail wrestling.
  • LOL, 69: In the closing credits the Belchers call out numbers for Patricia so she can list the contents of all the 77 sandwiches available in her restaurant. For number 69, instead of listing the contents, she just comments it's "nice".
  • Maternity Crisis: Like Mudflap, Goldie also ends up giving birth to a baby in Bob's restaurant, except she does it while standing up while leaning on the counter instead of in a booth like Mudflap (also, unlike in Mudflap's case, there wasn't any medical expert on-hand until after it was over). The end result initially seems pretty clean, but Bob seems to find several things wrong with it:
    Louise: If you want some afterbirth, I think there's still a bunch on the floor. No-one's called dibs.
    Bob: Did you guys use buns to clean up the blood?
    Gene: They're fine, don't be a princess!
    Bob: (sighing) You're all fired.
    All the other family members: Yayy!
  • Misspelling Out Loud:
    Gene: We had a spelling test today, and I think I did B-A-D-D.
  • Race for Your Love: Bob convinces Patricia and her boyfriend to do it. They lampshade that this is a very common trope in movies.
  • Sanity Slippage: Bob really starts to lose it at the beginning of the episode, and it's shown his previous burnout episodes were just as bad. Linda recalls one incident where Bob was found grilling in his underwear saying "It's fine" over and over again before he screamed at Linda and called her "Leslie."
  • Shout-Out:
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: One of the biker women is in the restaurant bathroom definitely not doing drugs.

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