Line #7 Recap/BobsBurgersS8E12TheHurtSoccer


1	Louise is called upon to join the floundering soccer team she didn't know she was a part of, with Bob enlisted as the coach. As Bob, Louise, and Tina work to score the one goal needed to prevent the game ending early, Gene and Linda turn the restaurant into a piano bar.
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3	!!The Trope Soccer:
4	* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time Creator/HJonBenjamin [[WesternAnimation/HomeMovies has served as a soccer coach]].
5	* BookEnds: The first goal of the game is achieved by the Blue Dragons when they take advantage of the Gold Dragons leaving their goal unguarded. The final goal seen onscreen is achieved by the Gold Dragons when they take advantage of the Blue Dragons leaving their goal unguarded.
6	* BrickJoke: Just before the game begins, many of the girls start asking Bob questions that have little to do with the game (i.e. Sami asking which parent she should live with, Mara needing her shoes tied, and Harley asking Bob to fix her ponytail). After the Gold Dragons score their first and only goal of the season, Bob responds to each and every one of these questions.
7	-->'''Bob:''' Oh, uh, forget about that shoelace. You're-you're gonna have to cut those off.
8	* ChekhovsGun: Midway through the episode, Linda decides to go grill Teddy a burger. She leaves it unattended throughout the rest of the B-plot, causing a minor fire at the end.
9	* ChekhovsSkill: Louise uses the steamroller maneuver from the ''Series/{{Gladiators}}''-like show she and Bob wanted to watch instead of attending soccer practice to catch the ball as a goalie, letting her teammates score their only goal while the opposition is bickering about not being able to score a goal against Louise, letting them finally play a full game by avoiding the "shutdown" rule being enacted.
10	* ContinuityNod: This isn't the [[Recap/BobsBurgersS1E9SpaghettiWesternAndMeatballs first]] or even the [[Recap/BobsBurgersS5E20HawkAndChick second]] episode to showcase Bob and Louise bonding over TV.
11	* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: After Louise successfully prevents the Blue Dragons from scoring the winning goal, the whole team, including their coach, gets into an argument with each other. This moment is what allows the Gold Dragons to score their first goal since the goalie of the Blue Dragons leaves her post to stop her teammates from arguing.
12	* CurbStompBattle: Every game that the Gold Dragons have been a part of has ended 10-0, with the Gold Dragons having 0. The last goal shown onscreen makes the score 9 to 1 in the Blue Dragons' favor, but the Blue Dragons score 12 more goals off-screen before the game ends, meaning they defeat the Gold Dragons ''21 to 1''. None of the Gold Dragons seem too upset, since they avoided being shut-out, and in fact reacted to their single goal as if they'd just won the entire thing.
13	* DoWrongRight: When two of the Blue Dragons start throwing grass at each other, their coach criticizes them for their technique rather than the fact that they were doing it.
14	* EpicFail: Once the game started, the Blue Dragons scored their first goal in three seconds because the Gold Dragons were clumped together on the field instead of spreading themselves out and no one was guarding their goal.
15	** Mara is so bad a player that Bob, who doesn't even ''care'' about the game, can only face palm in response.
16	* FailureMontage: We get a montage of the Blue Dragons scoring four more points on the Gold Dragons as the team does the terrible job at stopping Kayla and Mara doing a terrible job at guarding the goal.
17	* GivenNameReveal: Ms. Merkin's first name is revealed to be Matilda.
18	* HiddenDepths: Jodi, despite her huge fear of germs, loves soccer and says playing it "makes me feel alive". That said, she refuses to be goalie because it entails touching the ball with her hands.
19	* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Bob and Louise agree that while they both ''want'' the shut-out rule to be enacted, they shouldn't make it obvious. The very next scene shows the Blue Dragons scoring, and both Bob and Louise cheering very loudly.
20	* IronicEcho: Bob tells Louise that she "might not hate every single second of it" while pushing her to participate in the game. When they arrive and Bob is coerced into coaching the team, Louise throws his words right back at him while holding a finger under her nose as a moustache for added effect.
21	-->'''Bob''': Evil child...
22	* {{Irony}}: The Blue Dragons are absolute tryhards to the point that a goal within three seconds of the match is considered subpar. But the Gold Dragons score a goal even though they got shut-out every other game, meaning that the Blue Dragons are the team that actually did the ''worst'' against the Gold Dragons.
23	* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much every member of the Blue Dragons, including the coach.
24	* LiteralMetaphor: Walter points out that Louise attending the final game of the season is ''literally'' the least the Belchers could do for skipping the rest of it.
25	* TheLoad:
26	** Mara is... not a good goalie. It's telling that the one time the Gold Dragons can prevent a goal is when she's not the goalie. She does a worse job at playing than Louise, who not only hasn't played a single game, but outright stands around doing nothing. Speaking of which...
27	** Louise invokes it, barely doing anything to help her team and just standing around. After she and Bob hear about the shut-out rule, the two become excited about getting to go home early and watch one of their favorite shows together, causing Louise to become an even ''bigger'' load, allowing the Blue Dragons to take the ball from her and just slowly walking on the field so they can end the game sooner. But when she hears that her teammates wants to continue playing, despite losing badly since they haven't been able to finish a single game in the entire season due to the "shutdown" rule that ends the game if one team scores 10 points without the opposition being unable to score a single point, she becomes more active when Bob makes her the goalie and helps the team score their only goal.
28	* MythologyGag: Several to ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', namely [[ActorAllusion Bob becoming a soccer coach a la John [=McGuirk=]]], a background character that resembles Brendon Small, and a character that resembles (and is voiced by) Melissa.
29	* NotSoAboveItAll: When Louise points out that if the parking lot is full, they'll have to go home, Bob is actually on-board, and is just as annoyed as Louise when Tina points out a spot.
30	* ObviousRulePatch: The shut-out rule was created specifically for the Gold Dragons so that they didn't have to spend an entire day getting curbstomped.
31	* OpposingSportsTeam: The Blue Dragons are typical, ultra competitive and skilled rivals, which Louise lampshades when one of them starts trash-talking her.
32	* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Gene calls ''TSA: The Musical'' the best musical about a government agency ever written.
33	* PersonAsVerb: A game ending early due to a 10-0 score is called "getting Gold Dragoned" because it's always happened to them.
34	* RousingSpeech: Bob tries to give one to the Gold Dragons but gets sidetracked when he's not sure what to call a soccer field.
35	* SarcasmBlind: In the flashback to when Bob and Linda signed up Louise for soccer, Louise's answers were very sarcastic. Linda took them at face value, but Bob is able to point out that Louise didn't mean what she says. However, they eventually both tire of trying to figure out if she was being sarcastic or not and simply signed her up.
36	* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: Louise and her team lose 21-1. But they scored a goal and managed to play a full game without it being cut short by the "shutdown" rule described above, and they consider that good enough.
37	* SeriousBusiness: The Blue Dragons are best described as soccer tryhards. Case in point, Kayla and the Blue Dragons coach keep trash talking Louise and Bob respectively despite the fact that the Belchers clearly could not care less, and the coach describes a goal in the first ''three'' seconds of the match as "a little slow".
38	** Tina gets a little ''too'' into being the assistant coach. She responds to the Blue Dragons coach's taunts by ''threatening to key her car''.
39	** Bob and Louise take "Supreme Extreme Champions" as serious as they've taken every other thing they watch together (read: a lot). Even after a small fire, they rush into the apartment the instant they realize they're missing the marathon.
40	* ShoutOut:
41	** The title is a reference to ''Film/TheHurtLocker''.
42	** The Burger of the Day in Linda's ImagineSpot about turning the restaurant into a piano bar is [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} The Heirloom Where It Happens Burger]].
43	** The ref passes by a kid modeled after [[WesternAnimation/HomeMovies Brendon]] on his way out of the port-a-potty. In addition, Mara, the goalie for the Gold Dragons, bears a resemblance to Melissa and they share the same voice actress.
44	* SkewedPriorities: Bob and Louise rush into their apartment in the aftermath of a small restaurant fire just so they don't miss ''Supreme Extreme Champions''.
45	* TakeThat: Louise's soccer coach mentions that he listens to a lot of Creator/{{NPR}}. Louise responds with "NPU".
46	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When surveying the field, Bob notes how much more-practiced the Blue Dragons seem and says that the ensuing game is gonna go ''very'' bad.
47	* TrashTalk: Kayla talks trash to Louise throughout the game. Louise is apathetic to the insults at best.
48	** The Blue Dragons coach does the same to Bob. Much like Louise, Bob doesn't really care. Tina, however, gets pissed on Bob's behalf every time it happens, and her reactions range from angrily lashing out to threatening to key the coach's car.
49	* UnderdogsNeverLose: Surprisingly averted for a sports episode. It's made abundantly clear that the Gold Dragons are never going to beat the Blue Dragons; however, they don't ''want'' to win, they just want one goal. And sure enough, while the Gold Dragons do get that one goal by the end, they also lose horribly. Fortunately, they're too busy celebrating said goal to care.
50	* UnfortunateNames: The Blue Dragons coach outright calls the name of the [[ToiletHumor Brown Thunders]] unfortunate.
51	* TheWildcats: The teams playing are the Gold Dragons and the Blue Dragons. When Bob questions the repetition, the Blue Dragons coach tells Bob that there are even ''more'' teams called the Dragons, just with different colors. She also reveals that there are several Thunders, including the poorly-named Brown Thunders.

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