Review: Bob’s Burgers – “House of 1000 Bounces”

Spoilers Below

The Belcher kids have been invited to Rudy’s birthday party in the park. Of course, they are extremely excited about the bounce house. However, once they get there, they find out that there was a mix-up and Rudy doesn’t have a bounce house. The company thought there was a double booking because another party at the park also ordered a bounce house. But Louise doesn’t let disappointment happen to her. She quickly comes up with a plan to steal the bounce house. With the help of Sasha, who happens to be the cousin of Dahlia the party girl, the kids push the bounce house into the lake. Since no one from Dahlia’s party will go into the lake, the kids get to bounce to their hearts’ delight. Until Dahlia and her friends find boats to row out to the floating bounce house. Shortly after they let all of the air out of the inflatable, the park ranger comes by and “arrests” everyone at Rudy’s party. At the ranger station, Rudy starts crying because this isn’t what he wanted for his party. He just wanted to make spoon puppets and act out his script. Louise, realizing that she screwed up his party, gets everyone together to use items from the ranger station to put on Rudy’s play.

At the restaurant, though, Bob, Linda and Teddy aren’t having as much fun. A pigeon managed to get into the store and Bob is freaking out. It seems that he has a fear of birds. At least until Linda and Teddy point out that his traumatic memory is nothing more than a scene from the movie The Birds. Bob quickly gets over his fear and tries to get the bird out of the store himself. Sadly, the bird got himself covered in olive oil, leaving him unable to fly. The local animal rescue tells them to bathe the pigeon. For some reason, Bob thinks this means he has to get into the tub with the oily animal. Well, at least he isn’t afraid anymore.

I love these episodes where they show that Louise isn’t as awful as she pretends. Sure, she wants to have fun and she will do whatever she can to have fun but she also knows when she upsets someone else and she will do whatever she can to fix it. The minute she knew Rudy was upset, she got everything together to make his ideal day come true. That’s probably why she’s my favorite character.