History Recap / BobsBurgersS9E19LongTimeListenerFirstTimeBob

* AnAesop: Trends come and go, but if you're really passionate about something and stick to your guns, eventually you'll find a loyal customer or fanbase who love what you have to offer and who will stick with you through the changing times.

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Virtual DJ's and synthetic computer song shuffles are not portrayed kindly this episode. The authenticity of ''real'' radio DJ's is highly glorified.

* ShoutOut: The song Bob sings at the end of the episode is a parody of Music/NickLowe's "CruelToBeKind".

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Bob is able to run his business how he wants to without any significant consequences because he's self-employed. Clem Clements is exhibit A of what happens what someone who ''isn't'' self-employed tries to do the same -- he gets fired and replaced for failing to follow his employers' expectations.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Bob is able to run his business how he wants to because he's self-employed. Clem Clements is exhibit A of what happens what someone who ''isn't'' self-employed tries to do the same -- he gets fired and replaced for failing to follow his employers' expectations.

!!Tropes:

* BerserkButton: Bob ''hates'' sweet potato fries, especially since all the restaurants on the "Best Burgers on the Beach" list (which he failed to make) serve them.

* LethalChef: Linda isn't very good at making sweet potato pie, mainly because she was missing a few ingredients and tried to improvise. She also didn't add any sweetener because she overestimated how sweet sweet potatoes actually are, and as a bonus, instead of just making a single pie to try and see if the end result is any good, she made 10, all without taste testing any of them or causing her and Teddy to spend the rest of the episode trying to figure out how to get rid of them before Bob finds out.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Making ''one'' sweet potato pie without a core ingredient is one thing. Making ''ten'' is something else entirely.

* LethalChef: Linda isn't very good at making sweet potato pie, mainly because she was missing a few ingredients and tried to improvise. She also didn't add any sweetener because she overestimated how sweet sweet potatoes actually are, and as a bonus, instead of just making a single pie to try and see if the end result is any good, she made 10, causing her and Teddy to spend the rest of the episode trying to figure out how to get rid of them before Bob finds out.

* TheDreaded: Angry Bob is so terrifying that even Louise (who has mentioned things that set off Linda just to get a rise out of her) remains quiet to avoid setting him off.

* PottyFailure: Related to the above, Louise can't find the bathroom in time, so she resorts to going in a nearby paper cup. Well, she tries.

* TheLastDJ: Clem Clements is a literal example. He lost his old job because he talked too much, played music he liked instead of what he was told to play, and was generally too [[{{Pride}} proud]] to compromise with his bosses; as a result, he's now stuck being a worker at the local bowling alley and the closest thing involving a mike he gets to do in that job is to announce peoples' lanes. In the end, he takes the job at a rival radio station that he turned down earlier on the condition that they hire his old, now-jobless effects guy as well.

* TheLastDJ: Clem Clements is a literal example. He lost his old job because he talked too much, played music he liked instead of what he was told to play, and was generally too [[{{Pride}} proud]] to compromise with his bosses: as a result, he's now stuck being a worker at the local bowling alley and the closest thing involving a mike he gets to do in that job is to announce peoples' lanes. In the end, he takes the job at a rival radio station that he turned down earlier on the condition that they hire his old, now-jobless effects guy as well.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Bob is able to run his business how he wants to because he's self-employed. Clem Clements is exhibit A of what happens what someone who ''isn't'' self-employed tries to do the same--he gets fired and replaced for failing to follow his employers' expectations.

* VirtualCelebrity: Clem Clemens has been replaced by a fake DumbassDJ known as Eddie 'Tude.

* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Bob resenting trendy restaurants being expected to serve sweet potato fries, for no other reason than [[BerserkButton he doesn't like them]] and feels he shouldn't ''have'' to compromise on his business model to get on a trendy list. When he meets his old radio hero Clem Clements, he learns Clements got fired from the station for refusing to compromise on genuinely unpopular DJ choices. When Clements ropes Bob into hijacking the studio to go on the air ''[[{{Pride}} his]]'' way, Bob understandably freaks out. Based on this, you'd expect the Aesop to be that sometimes a ''little'' compromise wouldn't hurt, and stubbornly clinging to dying business practices results in you [[PrideBeforeAFall martyring yourself for nothing]]. However, the episode ends with Bob realizing trends aren't worth chasing, and Clements gets hired by another radio station who loves his moxxy.

* TheLastDJ: Clem Clements is a literal example. He lost his old job because he talked too much, played music he liked instead of what he was told to play, and was generally too [[{{Pride}} proud]] to compromise with his bosses.
* LethalChef: Linda isn't very good at sweet potato pie, mainly because she was missing a few ingredients and tried to improvise. She also didn't add any sweetener because she overestimated how sweet sweet potatoes actually are.
* PottyEmergency: Louise needs to use the bathroom, but Clem's booth doesn't have one.

* TheLastDJ: Clem Clements lost his old job because he talked too much and refused to compromise with his bosses.

* ShoutOut: The song Bob sings at the end of the episode is a parody of Nick Lowe's "Cruel to be Kind".

* WhatAreRecords: Gene has apparently never heard of ''radio''.

-->'''Gene'''

* LethalChef: Linda isn't very good at sweet potato pie, mainly because she was missing a few ingredients and tried to improvise.

* VirtualCelebrity: Clem Clemens has been replaced by a fake DumbassDJ known as Eddie 'Tude.

* BerserkButton: Bob ''hates'' sweet potato fries, especially since all the restaurants on the "Best Burgers on the Beach" list serve them.