Line #46 Recap/BobsBurgersS1E3SacredCow


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bbs01e03.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Dead cow on live cow. Gross."'']]
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4	->''"[[LetsMeetTheMeat Meet your meat, Moolissa!]]"''
5	-->'''--Randy'''
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7	Bob faces a strange documentarist called Randy who is making a documentary about how he is a cow murderer as a chef. Meanwhile, Louise manipulates Tina into believing the cow is communicating with her through its poop.
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10	!!Sacred Tropes:
11	* AmbiguouslyBi: Bob has a dream of making out with Moolissa, who is earlier revealed to be a steer.
12	* BestialityIsDepraved:
13	** Randy attempted to milk Moolissa. Keep in mind that Moolissa is male, and it becomes disgustingly clear what Randy ''actually'' did to the cow.
14	** Bob himself has a vivid dream about making out with Moolissa after the cow's death. Unlike Randy, though, this doesn't actually end up happening in reality.
15	* BunnyEarsLawyer: While she doesn't technically qualify for the trope (given she's not at all ''good'' at it), Louise deserves mention for being a ''literal'' bunny-ears lawyer during Bob's nightmare.
16	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Bob and Linda's motivations are completely reversed from what they would normally be, with Bob being the one who impulsively brings Moolissa the cow into their house with no plan to get him back out and Linda playing the OnlySaneMan who wants him gone. If this episode came out later in the series' run, it's likely Linda would have brought the cow in over Bob's objections instead.
17	* ChekhovsGunman: The animal control officer who verifies that Moolissa can remain on the sidewalk is the driver who causes Moolissa's fatal heart attack.
18	* CompanionCube: Bob winds up talking to a burger he's cooking.
19	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
20	** Randy is seen with a film crew. All later episodes have him working alone, performing all the roles his crew did on his own.
21	** Teddy's appearance in the episode hints that he's never been in a movie before. [[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E6TheDeepening Later in the series]], it's revealed that he had a minor role in a semi-popular B-movie that was filmed in town.
22	* EnemyMine: Randy and Bob, who've spent the entire episode bickering, team up to save Moolissa from a couple who kidnapped it for their nightmarish petting zoo (though Randy is quick to drop the niceties once they save her and the timer runs out).
23	* EpicFail: While Randy's filming does get a few people on his side, for the most part all he does is give Bob a ton of business (the opposite of what he intended to accomplish).
24	* EveryoneHasStandards: Not even Randy can bring himself to say something positive about the petting zoo.
25	* EvilOldFolks: The couple who steal Moolissa run a nightmarish petting zoo with nursery rhyme-themed exhibits. It's cheap, poorly constructed, and the poor animals are stuck in humiliating and cruel displays like two mice tied up inside a grandfather clock.
26	* GenderBlenderName: Moolissa ([[DontExplainTheJoke a play on Melissa]]) happens to be male.
27	* {{Hypocrite}}:
28	** Randy accuses Bob of being this when he saves Moolissa from freezing to death in the rain by bringing him into the apartment.
29	** However much of a hypocrite Bob may or may not be, Randy's even worse. He accuses Bob of mistreating animals because he's okay with eating and selling meat, but he doesn't treat Moolissa nicely and left him stuck in the rain to begin with.
30	** The old couple are appalled with humans using animals for food, but they run an atrocious petting zoo that mistreats animals and they kidnap Moolissa to be a part of it.
31	* KilledOffForReal: Moolissa is one of the only established characters (if not the only established character ''period'') to die over the course of the entire ''series'' (not counting characters who died before being introduced), and the only character to ever die onscreen.
32	* LastRequest: In Bob's dream of the recently-dead Moolissa, he asks Bob to make burgers out of him so his death wouldn't be in vain.
33	--> '''Moolisa:''' You turn me into something amazing.
34	* LetsMeetTheMeat: Randy attempts to do this to guilt-trip Bob. Despite rousing some complicated feelings, it doesn't have the effect he wants.
35	* LookBothWays: Double-subverted. A car stops just short of hitting Moolissa while Bob and Randy are arguing, seemingly sparing him... and then Moolissa dies of a heart attack.
36	* NoDeadBodyPoops: After Moolissa dies, it leaves one last poop in the shape of a heart.
37	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: InUniverse. The documentary about Bob being a cow murderer actually helps out the restaurant's popularity; Linda even cites this trope verbatim while claiming that it's the best free advertising the restaurant ever got.
38	* OverlyLongGag: Gene's drumroll goes on a bit too long.
39	* PartingWordsRegret: Tina has them after Moolissa gets kidnapped. It doesn't help that Moolissa dies soon after.
40	* RunningGag: Louise randomly calling Bob a murderer.
41	* SmallNameBigEgo:
42	** Randy believes himself to be far more well-known than he actually is.
43	** Similarly, Teddy briefly believes that the documentary will be about him and make him famous.
44	* TheSociopath: Louise talks of her father as one, stating that killing cows give him a rush.
45	* StrawVegetarian: Randy condemns Bob for selling hamburgers and is completely full of himself.
46	* TakeAThirdOption: Bob eventually settles on a common ground between both his and Randy's viewpoints--cows can be both beautiful creatures ''and'' food. [[StrawVegetarian Randy himself]] is ''not'' pleased to be filming Bob summarizing this point.
47	* ToiletHumor: Moolissa poops and pisses everywhere throughout the episode. Tina even believes he's communicating with her through his poop.
48	* ViewerGenderConfusion: In-universe, Randy didn't know Moolissa is a male steer, not a cow.

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