Review: Bob’s Burgers  “Wild Steal-ions”

Overview

Tina’s lost book lands in the hands of a mysterious stranger with nefarious intentions.

Our Take

Tina finds herself at the wrong end of an unknown terrorist who steals her book and holds it for ransom. The Brian Wylie-written episode is a largely Tina-starring affair with the rest of the family largely playing supporting roles which is just fine with them because Dan Mintz has more than enough experience running this thing on his own.

Right away special kudos needs to go out to director Ian Hamilton who had the unenviable task of directing different aesthetics with all of the fan-fic, flashbacks, flash-forwards, and whatever else was going on this week to really set up the gravity of the situation that Tina found herself in. The actual back-and-forth with our hostage-taker featured compelling writing, edge-of-your-seat dramatic elements, and the classic silliness that conveys Bob’s Burgers. 

In typical Bob’s Burgers fashion, when Tina is the star of the show, Louise and Gene aren’t too far behind which, in this case, was a large part of the plot and the crux of Tina’s strife as she was dealing with her book hostage situation. The youngest of the three siblings are our investigators and actually do find the bitch behind all of this and help in the confrontation that nearly goes sour.

An overall hilariously written episode of Bob’s Burgers this week, now time to go write some show fan-fic of my own (not really).