Line #7 Recap/BobsBurgersS8E4SitMeBabyOneMoreTime


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"One of them will be my regular babysitter. And one of them won't."'' ]]
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4	->''"Kick them in the tinkledink!"''
5	-->'''--Kendra'''
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7	Tina and Tammy find themselves babysitting the same creepy kid. While the other Belchers visit an upscale eatery, which Teddy is secretly dining at.
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9	!!Trope Me Baby One More Time:
10	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Louise references a time the family went out to a seafood restaurant and Linda ''really'' played this up.
11	* BerserkButton: Bob apparently acts rather poorly when it comes to burgers from other restaurants. Specifically he gets incredibly sulky if he finds out the burger might be better than the ones he makes, to the point Linda, Gene and Louise beg Teddy ''not'' to tell Bob what he actually thinks of Savory's burger. Bob genuinely didn't realize he did it until his family pointed it out... not that it stops him from doing it again. Although the last flashback shows him state one burger is pretty good and given that nobody really does give any other burger a good review, it's anyone's guess to how much it actually irks him.
12	* BrokenAesop: Semi-averted. Tina tries to teach Kendra to stop being a bully to hide her insecurities because it's a bad thing to do, only when she calls Tammy out for her own bullying as an example, Tammy blames ''Tina'' for apparently bullying her and that it hurt her feelings (even Jimmy and Zeke back ''Tammy'' on this, despite having seen plenty of bullying from Tammy towards Tina). Tina somehow believes she's also as much fault as the other girls, but at least Kendra learns the lesson by kicking her own manipulative teddy bear on its crotch. Still, Tammy is still bullying Tina and [[NeverMyFault avoiding any blame for it]] after this episode.
13	* TheBully: Kendra is a nasty preschooler who keeps making trouble for constantly kicking others in their crotches, and it creeps both Tina and Tammy out. When Tina defines Tammy as a bully, Tammy becomes so insulted and has the gal to call Tina out for bullying ''her'' (and the guys back ''Tammy'' out on this).
14	* ContinuityNod: Much like "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS6E10LiceThingsAreLice Lice Things Are Lice]]", this episode makes a reference to how [[Recap/BobsBurgersS2E8BadTina blonde isn't Tammy's natural hair color]].
15	** Zeke mentions having been the new kid in school, referencing how "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E12BroadcastWagstaffSchoolNews Broadcast Wagstaff School News]]" revealed he moved around a lot prior to the series.
16	* CreepyChild: Kendra is all kinds of creepy. With a bizarre fixation of crotch kicking, and a teddy bear she speaks through quite evilly.
17	-->'''Jimmy Jr.:''' Why does that girl talk like a gremlin?
18	* CompanionCube: Kendra's teddy bear Mr. Boom-Boom, whom she speaks for in a deep, raspy voice.
19	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When the Belchers discover Teddy having a burger at Savory, he acts like someone who got caught sleeping around. To further nail it in, he says the few times he tried a burger outside of Bob's Burgers "meant nothing" to him, then Gene guilt-trips him about walking back into Bob's Burgers every time as if nothing happened, and ''then'' Teddy sobs about betraying Bob when the truth is revealed.
20	* EnemyMine: Tina and Tammy are forced to work together to confront Kendra.
21	* EnfantTerrible: Kendra makes Louise look like an angel.
22	* EvilCounterpart: Kendra almost acts as one to Louise. Both are {{Enfant Terrible}}s who play up the CreepyChild trope for all it's worth. Both also have CompanionCube tendencies, but while Louise's tendencies are used to emphasize her ([[HiddenHeartOfGold very hidden]]) innocence and playfulness, Kendra's are used to make her even more unnerving. Both also have tendencies to engage in physical abuse, but Louise pretty much never goes past relatively-harmless {{Bitch Slap}}s while Kendra has upgraded to full-blown {{Groin Attack}}s.
23	* FemaleGroinInvincibility: Seemingly averted. When Tina and Tammy discover that Kendra's been kicking her classmates in the groin [[WoundedGazelleGambit and letting them take the blame for it]], Kendra yells that she's going to kick them in the "[[UnusualEuphemism tinkle-dink]]". Judging by their panicked reactions, they know it's still gonna be painful for them, and they even stuff leaves inside their clothing as a sort of cushion. She never does get to nail her attacks on them, though.
24	* GroinAttack: Kendra loves trying to nail people in the [[UnusualEuphemism "tinkle-dink"]]. Unlike many shows, a crotch-kick to a female is framed as just as traumatic as a crotch-kick to a male.
25	* HypeBacklash: In-universe; despite all the praise Savory's burger got, Bob found it to be too dry. Teddy also admits that he found the bun to only be "okay" (unlike the dry burger part, he admits this without being pressured to, implying he actually thinks this).
26	* {{Hypocrite}}: Tammy has the gall to call Tina out for "bullying" her.
27	* IgnoredEpiphany: Tammy stubbornly refuses to admit that she and Tina make a great team and turns down her offer to work together on future babysitting jobs.
28	* ImportantHaircut: Subverted. Tammy wears her hair down for the episode rather than in her usual side-ponytail, and plays it up as very important. Jocelyn then reveals that it's just so she can wear a headband that covers her natural hair color (her parents stopped buying dye).
29	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Tina refers to herself as the first entrepreneur in the family, and it's clear that [[TheDitz she genuinely forgot about the eponymous]] FamilyBusiness (which Bob lampshades).
30	* LargeHam: Gene really hams it up as the "hold music" for the Belchers' phone.
31	* LookBothWays: When Tina and Tammy race across the street to try and advertise their babysitting services to Kendra's parents, they briefly pause to check for incoming traffic.
32	* MistakenForServant: When Linda is taking things out of her purse at the bathroom of the restaurant, she is mistaken for a restroom attendant, and [[SureLetsGoWithThat keeps up the charade for the attention]]. In the end she has collected enough money to cover the remaining part of bill after it turns out their gift certificate wasn't enough.
33	* ShoutOut:
34	** Episode title is an allusion to the Music/BritneySpears song "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time".
35	** The Store Next Door is "[[Literature/TheHungerGames Plunger Games, Aggressive Toilet Tools]]".
36	** The Exterminator Van is "[[Music/JourneyBand Don't Stop Bugs Leavin']]".
37	** Tina's babysitter ad includes has a phrase saying "Nobody puts your baby in the corner", a shout out to ''Film/DirtyDancing''.
38	** Tina is inspired to be a babysitter after watching ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''. There's an imagine spot of her as Maria singing "Do, Re, Mi".
39	** The Burger of the Day is the "[[Film/ClearAndPresentDanger Clear and Present Ginger Burger]]".
40	** Louise calls Bob "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Incredible Sulk]]".
41	** The scene with Tina and Tammy stapling their babysitting fliers over each other on a telephone pole resembles a scene from the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'' where Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck pull "Rabbit Season" and "Duck Season" signs off a tree, arguing over what season it is.
42	* SuddenlyShouting: When Kendra talks about what she plans to do to Tina and Tammy, she remarks "Kick you in... THE TINKLE-DINK!"
43	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Kendra hides all the letters from school in a box marked "Kendra's Secret Stuff (Not Letters From School)".
44	* UnusualEuphemism: "Tinkle-dink" is used for the female crotch. Kendra's father specifies that "tinkle-dink''er''" is used for the male crotch.

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