History Recap / BobsBurgersS1E12Lobsterfest

* ImprovisedWeapon: Louise's fantasy about eating lobster for the first time involves her being a death-row inmate having it as her last meal. She chose it specifically so she could use the claws to attack the guards and escape.

** Louise treats Lobsterfest as a religious fest, and uses a similar excuse to try to get out of a class about Lobsterfest.

* PlotAllergy: Turns out Bob's animosity towards Lobsterfest is because he's allergic to lobster. It also turns out Gene inherited his allergy, as he swells up after eating it.

* AmbiguouslyBi: when he learns that Gretchen is into authority figures, including mailmen, "if they have an important route," he says that he is too. When Bob asks him if he really likes "mailmen," he only repeats "if they have an important route." He's also clearly interested in Gretchen.

* RedLiveLobster: Averted. Gene, Tina, and Louise come across a escaped lobster, which is the greenish-brown of an uncooked lobster. They plan to cook it because their father, who finds lobsters disgusting due to his allergies, has never let them try any.

* RedLiveLobster: Gene, Tina, and Louise come across a wild and very red lobster. They plan to cook because their father, who finds lobsters disgusting due to his allergies, has never let them try any.

When the city's annual Lobster Festival gets cancelled due to a storm, Bob takes advantage of it in order to create his own festival out of spite to Lobsterfest.

Meanwhile, the kids attempt to taste lobster against their father's wishes.

-->'''Louise:''' "My family doesn't observe Lobsterfest."
** The act of eating lobster is pretty much compared to having sex by the kids, primarily Gene and Tina. Gene wants his first time to be in a hot tub, and Tina even wants it to be only at her wedding. Louise is the exception--being [[EnfantTerrible Louise]], she doesn't use her first time eating lobster as a metaphor for sex but rather outlines her plan to use lobster to escape prison under the guise of it being her last meal on death row.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: As it turns out, Bob was right to forbid his kids from eating lobster, but not because of anything Lobsterfest-related--rather, it turns out that Gene is allergic (just like Bob himself is).

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: When Bob wakes up from a night of drunken partying, he initially thinks the damage to the restaurant caused by the party-goers was caused by the storm.

* BaitAndSwitch: Gretchen mentions that she was involved in a groping accident in her last job... ''as'' the groper.

-->'''Gene:''' "Gay, gay, mythical creature, gay mythical creature."

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first speaking part for Ms. [=LaBonz=], who lacks the smoking induced raspy voice she would later use.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: The meteorologist on the TV at the start of the episode is depicted with teeth, which other characters on this series are rarely if ever drawn with.
* TheOneThatGotAway: How Louise refers to the lobster they decide not to cook, but ultimately subverted when they drop it in the boiling water and eat it anyway.

* AdamAndEvePlot: Linda almost insinuates that the kids will have to do this once the hurricane is over in Lobsterfest, until she clarifies that they will have to mate with ''other'' children in basements. [[HormoneAddledTeenager Tina is suddenly interested.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Gretchen mentions there was a groping accident in her last job, but as it turns out ''she'' was the groper.

** The act of eating lobster is pretty much compared to having sex by the kids. They all mention wanting their first time to be special, and Tina even wants it to be only at her wedding.

!Tropes

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: In-universe, Louise's teacher says that since everyone is participating in Lobsterfest, she should too.