Line #16 Recap/BobsBurgersS7E19ThelmaAndLouiseExceptThelmaIsLinda


1	When Louise breaks a rule sticking up for another student, Linda sneaks her out for a reward ice-cream. Back at the restaurant, a short-staffed Bob enlists Teddy for help.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Frond punishes Louise for pantsing a bully, even though Louise was sticking up for Pocket-Sized Rudy, [[SelectiveEnforcement and the two brothers bullying him are apparently let off the hook]]. Mr. Frond even acknowledges that Louise is probably ''right'' about defending a kid, but maintains that he has to keep a "zero-tolerance policy".
5	* BodyHorror: Frond's mother needs an operation to remove six ingrown toenails. '''On one foot'''. Linda appropriately gags.
6	* BystanderSyndrome: Part of why Louise stepped in to help Pocket-Sized Rudy was because nobody else would.
7	* CallBack: Linda is still mortal enemies with [[Recap/BobsBurgersS1E9SpaghettiWesternAndMeatballs Colleen Caviello]].
8	* CharacterDevelopment: While Bob and Tina have largely seen Louise as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold (due to both being able to appeal to her good side), and Gene sees Louise as his partner-in-crime, Linda has mostly seen Louise as a delinquent and troublemaker who constantly undermines her authority, emphasized at the start of the episode when she remarks about Louise getting in trouble with an annoyed tone. Throughout the episode, she comes to terms with the fact that Louise is capable of doing good in her own vigilante-like way.
9	* ChekhovsGag: Gene and Tina's notes come in handy when Louise bullshits that they're part of her "essay", saying Gene's drawings of an angry hot dog are who she is, while Tina's failed attempt at a haiku represents the kind of person she wants to be (poetic and more open to others). A frazzled Mr. Frond decides to accept it and lets Louise go.
10	* ContinuityNod: Within the episode -- Bob takes several orders from the bike riders meeting at his restaurant before Teddy takes over. One customer asks for the special without cheese and another customer asks for more fries. The next time we see Bob at the grill, he has four orders plated. One burger doesn't have cheese and one plate has noticeably more fries than the other three.
11	* DescriptionCut: Linda says that Bob probably doesn't need her help back at the restaurant. Cut to Bob swamped with orders as cyclists come to eat after a big race.
12	* DetentionEpisode: Louise is given an in-school suspension after standing up for Pocket-Sized Rudy. Linda thinks it's unfair and breaks her out and takes her for ice cream, then has to sneak her back in before Frond finds out.
13	* EveryoneHasStandards:
14	** Louise may be a troublemaker, but she draws the line at bullies, pantsing one in defense of Pocket-Sized Rudy.
15	** Even Frond's mom is exasperated by her son's attitude to the point of asking if he's joyless.
16	* EyeScream: Teddy gets jalapeno in his eyes after touching the burgers despite Bob's warnings.
17	* FemaleGaze: Tina stares at Jimmy Jr.'s butt while he passes a note under the ISS door.
18	* GettingSuspendedIsAwesome: Defied, as Mr. Frond admits that kids see getting sent home as a reward, so the punishment for pantsing is an '''''in'''''-school suspension.
19	* TheGhost: Pocket-Sized Rudy is mentioned again. This time, we get to briefly see the top of his head, which gives a better sense of his size.
20	* IRejectYourReality: By the end of the day, Teddy keeps talking about how he pulled through as a server and he and Bob make a fantastic team. This despite Bob repeatedly interrupting Teddy to inform him no, they didn't, and Teddy's a really bad server.
21	* IronicName: The podiatrist Mr. Frond and his mother go to is named Dr. ''Hand''. Frond lampshades how unfitting the name is.
22	* KarmaHoudini: Timmy and Scott apparently get away with bullying Pocket-Sized Rudy. One of them getting pantsed is nothing compared to Louise getting an in-school suspension, when they should have received it instead.
23	* KeepAway: The two O'Brien brothers do this with Pocket-Sized Rudy's lunch.
24	* MetaGuy: Mr. Frond's mother speaks for the audience when asking her son point-blank if he's joyless.
25	-->'''Mr. Frond''': ''Don't'' [[NoodleIncident start that again, Mother!]]
26	* TheMillstone: Bob is understaffed enough to request Teddy for help. Teddy proceeds to do such a horrible job that Bob might as well have done the lunch rush himself.
27	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Sticking up for Pocket-Sized Rudy is what lands Louise in trouble. Linda agrees that it's unfair, and decides to sneak Louise out of school for some ice cream in an effort to teach her that doing the right thing and standing up for others ''is'' worth it.
28	* OddFriendship: Zeke and Ms. Schnur, of all people, get along.
29	* PantsPullingPrank: Louise is put in detention for pantsing one of the O'Brien brothers as payback for playing keep-away with Pocket-Sized Rudy's lunch. Later, Linda admits to Louise that she pantsed a boy when she was a kid, though in her case she also pulled down the boy's underwear as well.
30	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr. Branca lets Gene and Tina slip their notes under the ISS door because they're not entering the room themselves.
31	* TheReveal: After being TheGhost in [[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E22CarpeMuseum his debut appearance]], we finally learn what Pocket-Sized Rudy looks like--namely, he has brown hair in a hairstyle that resembles Bob's hairstyle as a young kid.
32	* SelectiveEnforcement: Two brothers team up to relentlessly bully Pocket-Sized Rudy? Frond turns a blind eye. Louise bullies them back to defend Rudy? Frond immediately punishes her.
33	* ShoutOut:
34	** While Linda and Louise sit and eat ice cream, the stores behind them are [[Film/SomeLikeItHot Some Like It Pop]] Old Timey Soda Shop and [[Music/MichaelJackson Smoothie Criminal]].
35	** The end credits sequence spoofs ''Film/DirtyDancing'', with Bob and Teddy singing "I've Had the Time of My Life", then doing the famous lift at the end.
36	* TemptingFate: Linda decides she can take the day off, remarking that it's not like the restaurant will be too busy for Bob to handle. Cut to Bob having to deal with an insane amount of customers by himself.
37	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Bob's reaction to asking Teddy to help.
38	-->'''Bob:''' Oh, God help me.
39	* ThrowTheDogABone: As awful as Teddy's service was, Bob ended up getting a ''lot'' of customers, with most of them being implied to have ordered more than a single burger, resulting in a day of very good business.
40	* ToBeLawfulOrGood: This episode firmly takes the side of good. Linda breaks Louise out of ISS to reward her for doing the morally right thing.
41	* TookALevelInJerkass: Last we saw of Colleen Caviello, she was just annoyingly smug about her baked ziti. Since then, she's apparently graduated to full-on sabotaging other cooks by tricking everyone into making the same thing at Linda's bake sale.
42	* VagueAge: Teddy remarks that he has to start working out after meeting a 49 year-old guy in decent shape, implying he's that age or a little older, but it's never made clear.
43	* WholePlotReference: As per the episode title, the first half spoofs ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', with someone named Louise going on the run after having committed a questionable act for understandable reasons and being accompanied by someone close to them. The second half has more in line with ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', as both Louise and Ferris have skipped school for a fun day out and are trying to make it back to where they're expected to be before a suspicious faculty member can find them missing and prove that they ditched.

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