History Recap / BobsBurgersS5E21TheOederGames

* GenreSavvy: Bob doesn't even get through his speech before Fischoeder reveals he's well aware of the rent strike plan.

* ProperlyParanoid: Edith raises issue with the Belcher kids being allowed to participate because it'd give the family a numbers-based advantage. While Mr. Fischoeder dismisses it, Edith is proven right as the Belchers' sheer numbers allow them to survive setbacks that would otherwise completely eliminate another team.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. Fischoeder states that the Belcher Kids aren't actually advantages to Bob and Linda. This is proven wrong when Gene and Louise use Linda's bra to become snipers and get the secret extra balloons.

* HumanShield: Literally. Jimmy Pesto has Andy and Ollie serve as body armor. It works in his favor when Gene and Louise fire balloons from the top of Fischoeder's estate, as the balloons hit the twins while Pesto stays dry.
* InTheBack: Tina gets pelted in the back by Jimmy Pesto.

* JerkassBall: Teddy and Mort are among the crowd trying to pelt Bob at the end, showing just how badly Mr. Fischoeder's game has twisted them. Though, to his credit, Teddy is first to stand down after Linda's ShamingTheMob speech, and both of them actually sided with Bob until this point[[note]]Teddy got himself eliminated by sniping Reggie to save Bob; Mort tried to propose an alliance, but got eliminated because Bob was too paranoid to accept after Sal betrayed his last alliance and too pissed off at Linda's elimination to simply say no to the offer[[note]].

* BoringButPractical: The Belchers don't add any extra skills to the table (until they find the secret balloon stash), and unlike Jimmy Pesto (who uses his twin sons as ImprovisedArmor) they don't have any unique tactics for the game, but they ''do'' have one simple advantage that is apparent from the very beginning--numbers. Most of the other teams only have one (such as Teddy) or two members (such as the Cranwinkles) to their name, with the only large team besides the Belchers being the four-member Pesto family. For a vast majority of the tenants, one slip-up means they have to deal with the rent hike. But the five-member Belcher family has four additional mistakes they can make before the rent hike rears its ugly head. Indeed, they lose two members over the course of the game--something that would have completely eliminated most of the other teams--but the Belchers are able to move past these setbacks and survive to the end simply because there's just so many of them to hit.

* DivideAndConquer: Mr. Fischoeder does this, and apparently, isn't the first one. He offers to the people the opportunity to have their rent cut in half, in exchange for them to fight each other and the rest of the town having to pay the rent hike. The less altruistic members of the group accept it without a second thought, making the more altruistic ones fear to become victims and accept the game.

* JerkassBall: Teddy and Mort are among the crowd trying to pelt Bob at the end, showing just how badly Mr. Fischoeder's game has twisted them. Though, to his credit, Teddy is the first to stand down after Linda's ShamingTheMob speech, and he actually sided with Bob until this point (he got himself eliminated by sniping Reggie to save Bob).

* JerkassBall: Teddy and Mort are among the crowd trying to pelt Bob at the end, showing just how badly Mr. Fischoeder's game has twisted them. Though, to his credit, Teddy is the first to stand down after Linda's ShamingTheMob speech.

** Notably, Jimmy Pesto only has two balloons at the end, and he has to hit ''three'' Belchers (Bob, Louise, and Gene). Even if the twins hadn't caused him to drop his balloons, there was no scenario where he won the game.

* BoringButPractical: The Belchers don't add any extra skills to the table (until they find the secret balloon stash), and unlike Jimmy Pesto (who uses his twin sons as ImprovisedArmor) they don't have any unique tactics for the game, but they ''do'' have one simple advantage that is apparent from the very beginning--numbers. Most of the other teams only have one (such as Teddy) or two members (such as the Cranwinkles) to their name, with the only large team besides the Belchers being the four-member Pesto family. For a vast majority of the tenants, one slip-up means they have to deal with the rent hike. But the five-member Belcher family has four additional mistakes they can make before the rent hike rears its ugly head. Indeed, they lose two members over the course of the game--something that would have completely eliminated most of the other teams--but the Belchers are able to move past these setbacks and survive to the end simply because there's just so many of them to hit. Notably, Jimmy Pesto only has two balloons at the end, and he has to hit ''three'' Belchers (Bob, Louise, and Gene), showing that the one advantage everyone completely dismissed was arguably the one advantage they should've prepared for.

* CallBack: Sal and his sex shop previously appeared in "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E9GodRestYeMerryGentleMannequins God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins]]."
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Linda tells the town that if they go bankrupt, the kids will have to work in factories, Gene says he wants to work in C+C's Music Factory.

* TakingTheBullet: Linda takes a water balloon to protect Bob.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Though he doesn't get the 50% rent cut, Bob successfully accomplishes his original goal of getting Mr. Fischoeder to postpone the rent hike. As a bonus, Bob also [[ThrowTheDogABone makes it through the entire episode without being splashed once]].

* PrisonersDilemma: Mr. Fischoeder weaponizes this when his tenants go on rent strike. He offers them a water balloon throwing game where the last man dry will get 50% off their rent, but everyone else will have their rent raised, which benefits the winner greatly, but will make everyone else get screwed over by the rent they say they can't pay, instead of Bob's strike plan, which could result in nobody having their rents raised at all. Bob can see right through it, but everyone else joins the game, including his own family, pretty quickly.

* MusicalSlapstickMontage: The end credits feature a montage of characters getting hit with water balloons while the cast sings an off-key version of Nena's "99 Red Balloons".

->''"If we play this game, there are many losers and only one winner"''

* HumanShield: Literally. Jimmy Pesto has Andy and Ollie serve as body armor.

-->"Well at least it was fair and square. In my back, when I wasn't looking."

* PrisonersDilemma : Mr. Fischoeder weaponizes this when his tenants go on rent strike. He offers them a water balloon throwing game where the last man dry will get 50% off their rent, but everyone else will have their rent raised, which benefits the winner greatly, but will make everyone else get screwed over by the rent they say they can't pay, instead of Bob's strike plan, which could result in nobody having their rents raised at all. Bob can see right through it, but everyone else joins the game, including his own family, pretty quickly.

* WholePlotReference: The title and plot resembles that of ''Film/TheHungerGames''. Zeke directly references the film by comparing him and Jimmy Jr. to Katniss and Peeta.