Honestly. I love Bob’s Burgers but I always thought that they put more effort into the signs than anything else. And that’s saying something.
Every shop in that town has a pun name
I miss Bob’s Burgers. We finished them all last year
What?
There’s a new season right nowJust go all over again! It’s a show we watch with the whole family, we just loop it
The new season is airing on Thursdays
There’s a new season, happy days.
No, Bob’s Burgers. Happy Days finished fucking ages ago.
“sign jokes” are probably written by “the room”. Everyone tosses out 2-3, and the whoever is running the room for that episode picks one. They might even keep a backlog for these since they don’t really have to be related to the episode plots/topics. Simpsons and Futurama also have them in many episodes, but Bob’s Burger’s is the only show I know that always has one (two if you count the “Burger of the Day”).
Doesn’t the extermination van that pulls up during the intro always have a different name too? I may be mistaken.
I think you are probably right.
Here is a video of how that process works as filmed by Portlandians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc9aH3TSka8
My favorite one is Spaghetti Museum
Simpsons
Sneed.
My wife and I are always hunting for the burger of the day. It’s obufiscated in many episodes and requires desyphering at times. The intro store is like a “gimme” in this regard.
There’s a recipe book for them
This is… New information to me. Thank you!
you’re welcome
Also some of the music in this show is great. I think my favorite might be the one in the episode where Bob is stuck to the toilet.
Just amazing talent all around with that show.
Might not be my favorite music in the show but my favorite story about the music in the show.
I forget where I heard it but I listened to the creator of the show talk about making the intro song and he ended up doing something that I both admire a lot and find genuinely hilarious.
If you’re a musician you may have experienced or be familiar with the idea of chasing the demo. If not, a quick definition is trying to recapture the vibe or quality of an initial rough recording when you’re laying down final professionally recorded takes.
When the creator was trying to figure out an intro for the show he was screwing around on his ukulele just trying to find like a fun chord progression. He found one he liked and quickly recorded it on his phone. The plan was to just use that recording as a jumping off point he would take and flesh out with more “serious” instruments and recording techniques later on. The thing was, nothing they did captured how that initial phone recording felt. Now, This isn’t abnormal. It happens all the time in fact. Normally youd just suck it up and get as close as you can while maintaining the quality of your recordings. Because you just can’t use a cruddy recording on a professional production. After all, nobody outside of who made the song will know that you failed to match the exact vibes of your rough phone recording. So they did the most logical thing and used the low quality phone recording as the FOUNDATION FOR THE FINAL INTRO.
And when you listen you can totally tell. Especially if youre like me and have recorded an untold number of rough takes on your phone over the years. It’s clearly a phone recording riddled with those telltale phone recording artifacts.
But y’know what? He was right. It totally works. It’s frankly a great intro and I couldn’t imagine the show with a different one.
Edit: I figured out where I heard it. Episode 8 of The Song Exploder podcast.
Really great podcast in general if you’re at all interested in music production.
Bad things happen in the bathroom…
Yeah the music is on point, and the burger of the day and store names are great.
My favorite was the episode where Marshmallow sings to their parents. It was such a genuine and heartfelt moment, and I feel like there’s very few shows (let alone cartoons) that can evoke that kind of emotion. Downright incredible, and this show just keeps getting better and better in my opinion. The music has always been good (in an often endearingly cheesy kind of way), but this moment just felt so real.
I have to imagine that the creators base much of the show off of their real world experiences. You just can’t make some of that stuff up.
You’re correct there. My wife and I draw many parallels to the show at times. The latest episode of Linda wanting to go on a family walk, only to get blisters from her new shoes is totally something that would happen to my wife.
Spoilers!! Lol
Sorry! I would tag out the spoiler but I can’t find how to do it ATM. My Google-fu is failing me.
my fave is the one where linda is working at a grocery store:
“this is working! this is work-ingggg!”
This is unironically in my playlists.
It’s such a shame that they’ve clearly scaled back the amount of music (musical scenes) in the episodes.
The comments underneath your are clearly why too!
Yeah, I’ve always known that musical episodes are decisive, but to me the songs are part of what make the show. It’s clear the people making the show have struggled with that fact too as their “spinoff” Central Park on AppleTV was a musical TV show and the Bob’s burgers movie had three very big musical numbers.
Hard disagree, I find the song episodes tedious and painful…
Normally I’m the same way, but some of the songs on this show are good enough to justify it for me.
I dropped the show because of too much singing. The songs were great but it really dislike that kind of stuff.
Yeah the song numbers are generally a bit cringe for me too. Some of them are genuinely funny but most of them just make me want them to get on with the damn episode.
I’m also generally not a fan of musicals, but I feel like the show as a whole is still great.
They must not be very good businesses though. They change every episode!
The people that open these businesses are punners first and business people second :o
I most certainly want to go to the previous establishment
I’d have to see Chuck first.
Oh if it’s him personally, I’m not interested. I was hoping there would be a selection.
Happy cake day!
Thank you! It’ll be my last :(
Oh no! I hadn’t spotted the lemm.ee!
Are you migrating to another instance or just fading away?
I’ve yet to decide if I’ll use the same name or create a new identity entirely. But my addiction won’t let me just have nothing to scroll. I’m on lemmy because it’s less horrible than reddit or toktik.
I don’t get this one
Chuck’s Fuck & Suck maybe?
What?
Sn(eed)'s F(eed) and S(eed)
Substitute the new name and copy its suffix to the F and S words:
Ch(uck)'s F(uck) and S(uck)
Another less crude example would be
B(ill)'s F(ill) and Sw(ill) - presumably a bar and grill
If you keep the rhyming structure
Also the Burger of the day.
That first pretty crazy to reference, wno all would know that movie?
Bob always insists that his ideas for specials are perfect, and often chooses references that are too obscure, or just inappropriate for a family diner.
Sometimes a string of better ideas get quoted by various other characters, throughout the episode.
So the writers give Bob their worst (least appropriate) idea, each episode.
Sadly, many of the better ones don’t become signs for screenshots, because Bob cannot admit when he is wrong.
Pretty esoteric, for sure. Probably a couple people in the writing pool backed it and the powers that be just let it go as it’s not pushing any buttons on the surface.
Or have no clue about the movie. Pretty hot lesbian scene for sure.
Joke aside, likely ignorance on their part.
Thanks for the Mallrats gif, that’s awesome! True guess not something we should talk about in public, but I not met anyone who had seen then film.
Which one ?
I guess the first is “blue is the warmest color”
Second and third idk
Yeah I know the first the other two allude me.
“allude” haha
I think you meant elude, but the homophone makes it funnier.
I’d assume the second was a reference to the song…
The third obviously a pun on “New Beginnings.” It’s a reference to it being both the first episode of the first season but also the re-opening of the restaraunt.
Oh, I thought they were all references to movies
This is one of the few shows where I never skip the intro. Sometimes I even rewind, because I missed either the pun on the storefront or on the van.
I loved the sinkhole before the movie came out.
It’s so fast!
And that exterminator truck too.
How about the hair salon in American Dad!, called Curl Up & Dye
That’s a reference to the Blues Brothers movie
Love those, so funny!
