Line #14 Recap/BobsBurgersS9E13BedBobAndBeyond


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is the weirdest Valentine's Day ever."'']]
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4	->'''Bob:''' What was the deal with the broken bed? Why were they there?\
5	'''Tina:''' Beds break okay? It's part of life. Grow up!
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8	When a movie outing fails to end a Valentines Day argument between Bob and Linda, the kids spin their version of the movie to try and end it.
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10	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The kids' grasp of what London is like is spotty at best. The most egregious example is on Tina's version, where a ship is hit by a giant wave... on the river Thames; even Linda, who is game for everything else, isn't on board with that one.
11	** Bob does point out that London Bridge is actually Tower Bridge. Though, he does make the common mistake that Big Ben is the clock tower; it is actually the bell that chimes the hour (the tower itself is called the Elizabeth Tower).
12	* AuthorFilibuster: Each of the Belcher kids' stories have piles of dirty laundry as obstacles for the lovers (Linda and Bob's argument that morning was about Bob leaving his clothes on the floor) and have them saved by broken beds, which is followed by either the narrator or the characters talking about how great they are (in the hopes that it makes Bob and Linda forgive them for breaking Gene's bed). When Louise tells her story, Bob is already anticipating this, so [[RuleOfThree she foregoes the broken bed]] and instead has the Queen talking about how great buying a new bed is.
13	* BabiesEverAfter: Both Tina and Louise's stories end with the princess having children. The father in Tina's story is unknown[[note]]it can't be the tour guide because he's dead, and several of the kids appear to be different races, suggesting multiple fathers and/or adoption[[/note]], while in Louise's story the tour guide is the father.
14	* BittersweetEnding: Tina's story, prior to Louise retconning it into a DarkestHour. Paula lives a happy life and avoids her ArrangedMarriage, but loses the love of her life in the process.
15	* BlatantLies: Nobody is convinced when the kids claim to ''know'' what happened at the end of the movie, especially with the many factual errors and Louise's story outright retconning Tina's. At the same time, nobody is willing to call this out.
16	* BrickJoke:
17	** In Gene's story, he refers to Big Ben as a man and not the landmark, which Bob calls out. In Louise's story, she mentions that ''both'' of them were sucked up by the laundry-nado.
18	** Before seeing the movie, the kids note that Bob starts out not into rom-coms before crying at the end. Sure enough, at the end of the episode Bob is briefly seen crying.
19	* FlatCharacter: Since the kids know next to nothing about soccer or soccer hooligans, Scottjon's best friend Johnny Nottinghill who is one of the latter naturally ends up like this: he's watching soccer, sitting in a pub or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs watching soccer sitting in a pub]] in all his apperances, he assists Scottjon in Gene's story by repeatedly kicking soccer balls at the beefeater chasing them and Louise doesn't even remember his name and has Scottjon call him "Johnny Something-face" and his greeting to Princess Paula [=McCartney=] is "Ello and football".
20	* InnocentInnuendo: When a wave hits the cruise ship in Tina's story, she talks about "tons of sea men spilling all over the deck." When Linda calls her out on this, she genuinely has no idea what it sounds like.
21	* LiteralMinded: Gene's story has a Beefeater literally eating a piece of beef. It also has the bus avoiding a huge tube on the road, his misinterpretation of what [[UsefulNotes/LondonUnderground the London Tube]] is.
22	* MeaningfulEcho: Scottjon and Paula's argument in Louise's story is Bob and Linda's argument from the beginning word-for-word, with Louise playing it up as petty and stupid to drill it into her parents' heads.
23	* MeaningfulName: The name "Duke of Doucheberry" speaks for itself.
24	* MissingTheGoodStuff: The movie screening is stopped just as the princess and the tour guide were about to kiss, because of a small fire in the theater. The rest of the episode is the Belcher children making their own version of the ending for Bob and Linda.
25	* NoNameGiven: The movie that the kids' stories are based on is never given a name. Somehow, neither were the characters (even though they made it far enough into the movie for a BigDamnKiss), as the kids have to make up their own names (hence "Scottjon Dansteve" and "Princess Paula [=McCartney=]").
26	* TheOtherDarrin: In-universe; while Scottjon and Paula retain their voice actors from the in-universe movie, the other characters in the story are voiced by whoever is currently narrating.
27	* RandomEventsPlot: The kids' version of the movie is all over the place.
28	* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: The tour guide in the film the Belchers watch peppers his speech with a lot of uhs, ers and ums. Lampshaded when Tina says he "puts the glamour in stammer".
29	* {{Retcon}}: In-universe; while Tina's story is a natural continuation of Gene's, Louise's story retcons the ending of Tina's--in Tina's story the tour guide is knocked into the river and drowns, but in Louise's story he survives the same event and eventually makes his way back to the princess.
30	* ShoutOut: The kids name the princess [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paula [=McCartney=]]].
31	* WholePlotReference: Each kid's version of the ending takes its plot from another movie.
32	** Gene's version becomes a parody of ''Film/{{Speed}}'', with a double decker bus that has an exploding scone that will go off if the bus goes under 50 miles an hour.
33	--->'''Gene:''' Reminiscent of, [[BlatantLies but not plagiarizing]] ''Film/{{Speed}}''...
34	** Tina's version eventually turns into a (geologically inaccurate) retelling of ''Film/Titanic1997''.

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