Review: Bob’s Burgers “It’s a Stunter-ful Life”

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets a burger.
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Bob, Linda, and the kids do separate things at a local Christmas Tree farm, with Bob getting way too into cookie decorating, Linda trying to save less desirable trees from being mulched, and Louise competing with Logan to do increasingly challenging stunts while they ride a slow train. Tina and Gene are also there.

OUR TAKE

It’s that time of year again that everyone looks forward to! That’s right, it’s time for the annual Bob’s Burgers Christmas episode! As the title implies, the focus is mainly on Louise’s plot and her never ending beef with Logan, and her inferiority complex cannot let a challenge to do cool things on a train stand, so she ends up doing a whole bunch of dangerous stuff to keep up with him and ends up getting a kid’s cherished stuffed animal stuck in a tree, and then works WITH Logan despite their differences in order to get the stuffed animal back, showing that spirit of the holiday of making sure children are happy (or at least not emotionally scarred for life at the tender age of four and a half) flows through them. And as mentioned, Gene and Tina are also there, mainly to provide moral support, or rather whatever kind of moral support tells your sister to not do the dangerous thing that would get them all in trouble if she got hurt or killed. If you have seen even one episode of this show, you should know how ineffective that often is with Louise. So yeah, not a big involvement from those two this week.

As for the parents, Linda and her, let’s say, overly enthusiastic reverence for Christmas trees leads to her trying to keep clearly not good looking ones from being turned into wood chips, despite that probably being the most logical thing to do. This isn’t just her obsession for these trees during the holidays, but also odd sense of empathy for things that are seen as disposable or ugly, like random street animals she picks up from time to time (Big Baby Pudding Snatcher comes to mind here), and she gets some closure on that when Logan’s parents end up taking one of the trees she saved. And then there’s Bob who, true to his culinary skills, gets INCREDIBLY into designing cookies meant to be left out for Santa, even ending up teaching a sort of class on personalizing cookies for other families. Kinda makes me wish he would get into baking and have really neat looking pastries as dessert options at the restaurant. So yeah, this episode is probably not in the Top Five of this show’s Christmas specials, but I’d handily put it in the Top Ten. Anyway, Happy Second Night of Hanukkah, and to all a good night!