"Cause I'm all over you!"
"It's dumb, it's a dumb game! But I'm realizing the kids I hang out with are kind of my only shot at a peer group, so I'm just making the best of it. I mean, I wish I had a group of friends that were all really close and shared our deepest hopes and desires and we all got each other, but it doesn't look like things are going that way, so these kids are my best option."
—Tina
After Tina and Bob plan a father-daughter date to see Bob's favorite vampire movie, Tina decides to invite her group of friends along; Linda opens a restaurant for the raccoons in their alley.
Tropes:
- All There in the Manual: The credits reveal Kevin's father is named Farmer Keith, which is never outright stated in the clips of the movie we see.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: A variant; Tina doesn't find Bob embarrassing and enjoys her time with him before the other eighth-graders ruin the experience. However, the other eighth-graders definitely find Bob a bit on the quirky side.
- Call-Back: Linda is still obsessed with the raccoons living in the back alley, first brought up in "Slumber Party".
- Continuity Nod: This isn't the first time Bob has been compared to Burt Reynolds.
- Everyone Has Standards: Tina is just as hostile to Jimmy Jr. as she is to the other eighth-graders, showing even she can't excuse his nonsense.
- Expy: The musical horror B-movie, and the fact that people yell back at the screen, is very reminiscent of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The character of "Vamp von Tramp" is clearly supposed to be Dr. Frankenfurter.
- Hope Spot: Tina convinces her friends to watch the movie, and Zeke even notes that it sounds fun... only for them to pretty much continue their obnoxious behavior in the theater.
- Hypocrite: When Tina calls out the eighth-graders on their crap, they have the gall to call her out on being loud in the theater.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Tina is desperate to bond with her classmates, which is why she tolerates their Jerkass behavior for so long before finally exploding.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Tina's friends have made up a game called "Drinking or Not Drinking", in which you put a straw on your drink and your mouth on the straw and people have to guess whether you're drinking through the straw or not. It's as mundane and bland as it sounds. Even Tina calls it dumb, but since they're the only friends she has, she goes along with it. Part of her dislike is that her "pretending-to-drink" face is particularly disturbing.Linda: Do they know any fun games?
- Jerkass Ball: While Tammy and Jocelyn's behavior during the movie is par for the course, and Jimmy Jr. has done worse things, Zeke joining in on obnoxiously disrupting the movie is a bit jarring. He's been loud and disruptive before, but not to the extent that he was here.
- Just Here for Godzilla: In-universe. Louise displays interest in the titular film solely because of its R rating. When Bob clarifies that the rating isn't because of violence, however, she immediately loses interest.
- Negative Continuity: In a sense. Both Gene and Louise have been shown to enjoy old films with Bob (Banjo for the former; Hawk and Chick for the latter), but here they're completely uninterested in the film Bob and Tina plan to see precisely because it's oldnote .
- Noodle Incident: Linda once peed in the alley to try and assert dominance. It didn't work.
- Not So Above It All: Bob mentions how fun it'd be to just ditch the eighth-graders at the theater and leave with Tina, only refusing because he doesn't think he's legally allowed to do that.
- One-Scene Wonder: In-universe; Bob is cosplaying as "Nightclub Guy #3", whose sole scene involves him dying and yelling "Dis-go to hell, vampires!" (which is also his one line in the movie). However, the scene is apparently so memorable that the audience collectively yells his line as he says it.
- Pet the Dog: It's extremely minor, but Tina's friends do begrudgingly admit that the movie wasn't bad.
- Poke the Poodle: Jocelyn rolls down Bob's car window and yells very innocuous things at other cars.Jocelyn: Your car is blue! (To Bob) DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE!
- Punny Name: Of a sort; Destiny seems to have been named such solely so the titular movie could make a "dance with Destiny" joke.
- Really Gets Around: In-universe; Destiny (the character Tina is cosplaying as) mentions having had a thousand lovers.
- Red Herring: It initially seems like the episode is building up to Bob having a problem with Tina's friends joining (and ruining) the father-daughter movie night, but he's relatively passive towards the kids if mildly annoyed. It's Tina who ends up having a problem with them.
- Shout-Out:
- The Exterminator Van is Gnatty by Nature.
- Burger of the Day: Stilton Crazy After All These Gruyeres Burger
- Vampire Disco Death Dance is a clear stand-in for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, complete with Audience Participation, with a bit of Footloose thrown in for good measure. The final dance is very clearly reminiscent of the Time Warp dance.
- Show Within a Show: The titular movie Vampire Disco Death Dance, a campy horror musical that Bob saw as a teenager and wants to share the experience with Tina.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Tina gets fed up with her classmates' rudeness ruining the movie (and the bonding experience she's trying to share with both them and her father), she really lets them have it.Tina: Stop it! You guys are being so annoying! I shouldn’t have invited you! I thought you actually wanted to do this!... I’m such an idiot for thinking we could do something interesting together and remember it and bond over it and be a krew, with a K!
- True Companions: Tina wants to be this with her classmates, but it's not going so well. At the end, Bob revisits this concept and tells Tina that even if she doesn't find any friends in Wagstaff, she'll eventually find people who will want to hang out with her and go on adventures.Bob: You know, the first time I came to Vampire Disco Death Dance, I came by myself.
Tina: Really? You came alone?
Bob: I didn’t think anybody I was hanging out with would like it. But I remember sitting there, looking around the theater at all these people in costume, all of us singing together, and I thought, "Wow, I’m-I’m not alone. I’m with people who, you know, kind of get me. Th-They exist."
Tina: So you found them? People that got you?
Bob: Yeah. Eventually. You know... some. Basically, your mother.
Tina: Anyone else? People you keep in touch with? Groups of old friends you go on adventures with?
Bob: (chuckles) Oh. Oh, no, I-I don’t do that. I mean, I just kind of go to bed. But Tina, you’ll meet people like that. Y-You’ll go on adventures. You’ll stay in touch. I know you will.
Tina: You really think so?
Bob: I know it, because I would want to be one of those people if I met you.
Tina: Thanks, Dad. - Unabashed B-Movie Fan: Bob is a big fan of Vampire Disco Death Dance. He knows all the lines and dance routines, and even picks a minor bit character to dress as. Of course, given Bob's history with Banjo and Hawk and Chick, this seems almost par for the course.
- Unseen No More: Little King Trashmouth's husband Gary makes his onscreen debut.
- With Friends Like These...: Tina's group of friends are easily distracted, have boring interests (and a lack of interest in anything actually interesting for Tina), and are obnoxiously loud. She blows up at them before the end of the episode because of this.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Tina wants to give the group of school friends she hopes to join a group name. One of the nominees is Kids Krew, with a K.
