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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Linda attempts to defuse her husband and father-in-law's competition to see who made the better meal for Henry by encouraging the restaurant to sing to bring them together. Instead, all of the patrons just stare at her in disbelief. It doesn't help that she's just repeating the word "peace" over and over again in the tune of "O Come, All Ye Faithful".
** Gene empties a dozen cans of beans in a cardboard box and lies in it. The box eventually gets soggy and collapses.
** Linda attempts to defuse her husband and father-in-law's competition to see who made the better meal for Henry by encouraging the restaurant to sing to bring them together. Instead, all of the patrons just stare at her in disbelief. It doesn't help that she's just repeating the word "peace" over and over again in the tune of "O Come, All Ye Faithful".
** Gene empties a dozen cans of beans in a cardboard box and lies in it. The box eventually gets soggy and collapses.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Praying to Santa isn't that unusual. After all, he is Saint Nicholas. But you probably shouldn't pray for presents. Well, for yourself.
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* AluminumChristmasTree: Praying to Santa isn't that unusual. After all, he is Saint Nicholas. But you probably shouldn't pray for presents. Well, for yourself.
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* AluminumChristmasTree: AluminumChristmasTrees: Praying to Santa isn't that unusual. After all, he is Saint Nicholas. But you probably shouldn't pray for presents. Well, for yourself.
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* AluminumChristmasTree: Praying to Santa isn't that unusual. After all, he is Saint Nicholas. But you probably shouldn't pray for presents. Well, for yourself.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Bob and Big Bob do patch things up. While dancing at a gay bar.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Bob and Big Bob do patch have a touching moment where they end up patching things up. While up after their big fight...while line dancing at a gay bar.bar.
* BerserkButton: Henry ordering “the usual” flashes Bob back to when he was 14 and tried to serve Henry one of his specialty burgers but Big Bob threw it in the trash before he could try it. This sets Bob off on a tirade and he becomes determined to remake the burger for Henry to finally try after all these years in an attempt to prove himself to his father.
* BerserkButton: Henry ordering “the usual” flashes Bob back to when he was 14 and tried to serve Henry one of his specialty burgers but Big Bob threw it in the trash before he could try it. This sets Bob off on a tirade and he becomes determined to remake the burger for Henry to finally try after all these years in an attempt to prove himself to his father.
* ChekhovsGun: The newspaper the kids use to wrap their Christmas present for Bob has the first review for Bob’s Burgers on it and makes him realize how much his dad really does care about him.
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* ControlFreak: Big Bob likes things done a very specific way at his diner. It's part of why Bob ended up opening his own restaurant.
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* ControlFreak: Big Bob likes things done a very specific way at his diner. It's diner, which is part of the reason why Bob ended up opening his own restaurant.
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* FantasyForbiddingFather: Big Bob has aspects of this, as he discards the specialty burger Bob came up with (even though the customer himself was willing to try it).
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-->'''Tina:''' One man’s trash is another person’s present for their father.
* DelayedReaction: When Bob turns down his father’s offer to be partners and run Big Bob & Son’s Diner, it takes a second for Big Bob to realize what he said.
-->'''Big Bob:''' You’re welcome! I thi - wait, what’d you just say?
* DirtyKid:
-->'''Tina:''' Dear Lord Santa, this year please bless me with a calendar of Australian firefighters holding puppies in casual settings.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Big Bob has aspects of this, as he refuses to let Bob get creative with the recipes and even discards the specialty burger Bob came up with (even though the customer himself was willing to try it).
* DelayedReaction: When Bob turns down his father’s offer to be partners and run Big Bob & Son’s Diner, it takes a second for Big Bob to realize what he said.
-->'''Big Bob:''' You’re welcome! I thi - wait, what’d you just say?
* DirtyKid:
-->'''Tina:''' Dear Lord Santa, this year please bless me with a calendar of Australian firefighters holding puppies in casual settings.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Big Bob has aspects of this, as he refuses to let Bob get creative with the recipes and even discards the specialty burger Bob came up with (even though the customer himself was willing to try it).
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* FreezeFrameBonus: The flower shop next to Big Bob’s Diner is called “[[Film/ForrestGump Florist Gump]]”.
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* KidsPreferBoxes: When Bob takes more interest in the newspaper it was wrapped in than his snow globe gift itself, Gene remarks that he’s “like a baby, playing with the wrapping paper”.
* KissingCousins: Implied. Teddy is trying to comfort Bob by telling him he has father issues too, as well as mother issues...and “beautiful, blonde cousin issues”.
-->'''Tina:''' Awww!
-->'''Bob:''' Ew.
* KissingCousins: Implied. Teddy is trying to comfort Bob by telling him he has father issues too, as well as mother issues...and “beautiful, blonde cousin issues”.
-->'''Tina:''' Awww!
-->'''Bob:''' Ew.
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* LiteralMetaphor: When the box Gene filled with canned beans to soak in breaks, he and the ''beans'' go ''spilling'' out onto the floor. This is lampshaded by Gene:
-->'''Gene:''' Oh no, I spilled my beans!
-->'''Gene:''' Oh no, I spilled my beans!
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* MouseTrap: Louise makes a “super trap” out of a bunch of mouse traps for her dad’s Christmas gift. Meanwhile, Tina tapes various items from around her grandpa’s basement to an office chair for Bob’s gift. When Tina’s chair gets too top heavy, it crashes into Louise’s tower of mouse traps and sends them snapping all over the place.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Bob’s reaction to Linda telling him that his dad saving the first review for Bob’s Burgers proves that he really does love him and that he drove him out of his own restaurant on Christmas.
-->'''Bob:''' Oh my god, what did I do?
-->'''Linda:''' I just told you!
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Bob’s reaction to Linda telling him that his dad saving the first review for Bob’s Burgers proves that he really does love him and that he drove him out of his own restaurant on Christmas.
-->'''Bob:''' Oh my god, what did I do?
-->'''Linda:''' I just told you!
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* ParrotExpoWhat: When Little Bob introduces his “Baby You Can Chive My Car” Burger to his dad.
-->'''Big Bob:''' A what you can what my what burger?
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: A reference to ''[[Film/FatherOfTheBride1991 Father of the Bride]]''.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In a {{Flashback}} to 20 years ago, Bob gives one to his father. It’s horrible timing though, as it’s Christmas and a crowd of the restaurant’s regulars are gathered to celebrate Big Bob asking Little Bob to be his partner for Big Bob & Son’s Diner.
-->'''Big Bob:''' A what you can what my what burger?
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: A reference to ''[[Film/FatherOfTheBride1991 Father of the Bride]]''.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In a {{Flashback}} to 20 years ago, Bob gives one to his father. It’s horrible timing though, as it’s Christmas and a crowd of the restaurant’s regulars are gathered to celebrate Big Bob asking Little Bob to be his partner for Big Bob & Son’s Diner.
