Review: Bob’s Burgers “Eggs for Days”

You kids ready for Easter?

Spoilers Below

The Belchers have an Easter tradition. The kids dye 72 eggs, half with an M on it and half with a D on it. Bob and Linda hide their half of the eggs and whoever’s egg is found last wins. This year was a little different.

First, Gene ate one of the eggs, leaving only 71 eggs. Linda told him to eat another egg so it would be even but he didn’t.

Second, Bob and Linda got drunk on jelly bean schnapps. It wasn’t exactly legal schnapps, meaning they couldn’t remember where they hid the eggs and neither of them bothered to note the egg locations on their map.

Assuming there were only 70 eggs left to find, the family thought they found them all. The kids got their candy baskets and all was well. Until the next morning when they woke to a nasty smell. Gene confessed that he only ate one egg, meaning there was another egg left to find. The family scoured the apartment but they eventually had to go open the store. After all, it was Beef Boom time now that Lent ended. Since the smell in the apartment was so bad, the family ended up sleeping in the restaurant that night.

The next day, Linda remembered that she hid an egg in the vent. Teddy came over to save the day but something attacked him when he reached in to grab the egg. Again, Bob had to go open the restaurant so the egg-straction was put on hold. Except, this time, a customer noticed the smell. Since the egg was in the vent, it was infecting the store as well. So Bob and Teddy went into the crawl space to get rid of the offending egg.

Inside the wall, Bob finds that the animal that attacked Teddy was a female raccoon with babies. Linda and the kids tried to find the best way to get the raccoons out when Linda remembered that this particular raccoon likes pudding. She tore up some floor boards in the apartment and the kids dropped pudding cups in. The raccoon and her babies ran out, allowing Bob to remove the smelly egg for good.

This is another episode that wasn’t particularly funny. There weren’t any big jokes and no one did anything too outrageous…unless you count dyeing and hiding 72 eggs every year. Actually, there was a sweet moment when the kids admitted to their parents that they hate the big egg hunt and they only do it for them. But the lack of humor didn’t make this a terrible episode. I actually quite liked it. It showed the family acting like a real family and not a cartoon family. They did things for each other that a normal family would do. It’s an interesting change of pace for the show and I wonder if this is where it will continue to go. Also, great shout-out to Lin-Manual Miranda in the opening. That part made me laugh out loud.