REVIEW: BOB’S BURGERS “FOOD TRUCKIN”

Guest Cast Megan Mullally: Tabitha Johnson David Herman: Bill Larry Murphy: LarryPaul F. Tompkins: Randy

Spoilers Below

All of the food trucks are in Bob’s neighborhood and he can’t stand it as they are taking away his business with one of those trucks being occupied by documentarian Randy. To fight back, Bob buys a shitty looking food truck of his own and parks it right in front of his god damn store because that’s what guys do…they mark their territories like wolves!! At first Bob turns the truck into an ice cream stand but after blowing it up he just turns it into a burger truck and the whole family falls in love with it, even to the point where Tina takes on a new alter-ego named Dina while the rest opt to sleep in the truck instead of living in their house.

Eventually, Randy tells Bob of a food festival where they can win top prize is a $1000.  Of course this means the restaurant has to remain closed down while the whole family is off to claim their prize in order to garner some sort of profit on running two businesses. To help, the kids take part in a bunch of different marketing tactics, like ‘Dina” working her face-to-face sales and Louise starts a Twitter-like campaign discrediting all of the other businesses thereby making  Bob the winner but eventually the whole family gets a bunch of heat from the crowd as a result of their unfair tactics. Randy tries to come to the Belchers’ aid but the crowd becomes unruly and flips the truck while burning down the festival. Five hours later the family plus Randy attempt to make a break for it while everyone is asleep but when they try to get the truck right side up they wake up the crowd in an attempt to speed off. However, Randy touches a red button on the grill which blows the truck up which means everyone’s gotta walk home!

Weird..last week I did a review for Regular Show called “Best Burger in the World” in regards to doing a burger truck…welp turns out he does just that this week and boy was I wrong! Obviously, this means a ton of funny moments in what is surely the best Bob’s  episode of the season by a mile and of course this pisses me off because now we gotta wait two friggin’ weeks for new episodes. With that said the writers of this show did this week’s episode so much justice for a few reasons. I believe the most important of these reasons was that there was no real B-plot which I think made for a great story with an awesome A-plot that yes had some branches with the kids but not enough to interrupt the story. Linda’s road rage was funny as hell, and Louise tweeting about all the other food trucks had me in stitches. And alas, I felt Bob definitely showed he is once and for THE burger king!

(9.0 out of 10)