Everybody’s favourite goofy, greasy animated sitcom Bob’s Burgers is celebrating 300 flipping episodes on Fox this fall, and TV Insider has your first look into that mega second for the sequence.
The upcoming Season 16 premiere, a flashback episode titled “Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening,” will discover the hilarious and candy origins of Bob and Linda Belcher’s (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin and John Roberts, respectively) patty-flipping partnership. “We all know Bob has this dream to start out a restaurant, however we actually needed to unpack simply how a lot he couldn’t have executed it with out Linda, and simply how a lot she was driving it,” says creator Loren Bouchard. “It was her optimism that was the engine behind the man with the dream. After which on prime of it, [they’re] having a child.”
That’s proper, their eldest daughter Tina (Dan Mintz) is on the way in which quicker than you possibly can say, “I’ll have fries with that.” As you possibly can think about, it makes for some hilarious moments throughout the episode.
Forward of the three hundredth, we caught up with Bouchard, in addition to the remainder of the solid. Above, try TV Insider’s unique video interview from the three hundredth episode celebration to see the solid reply questions in regards to the Burger of the Day, their favourite episodes, and extra. And under, Bouchard breaks down the milestone.
First, how did you strategy penning this three hundredth episode? You’ve had a number of huge episodes now, is there one thing that’s at all times in your thoughts when writing them?
Loren Bouchard: I at all times attempt to take a look at these milestone episodes and say, “Wouldn’t it be a very good pilot?” In a method, I invite folks to look at it in that method, too. For me, it’s much less about having a present that appears again at itself and talks in regards to the length of the present — I’d quite begin from scratch and picture [it as a pilot]. Wouldn’t it be an introduction to the present? So, if anybody on the market hasn’t seen Bob’s and so they watch the three hundredth first, I need them to get in contact with me and inform me what they thought. [Laughs]
Who’re we going to get to see Bob and Linda meet within the episode’s flashbacks?
What I don’t love to do in a flashback is simply congratulate your self for placing characters in and being like, “See? That is once they first met,” as a result of it may well get a bit of treasured, however in fact we did do a few of that as a result of that’s how it could’ve gone down. You’ve received to rent a handyman that will help you put your cubicles collectively, so that is how they met Teddy [voiced by Larry Murphy]. And also you’re going to fulfill your neighbors, so that you’re going to fulfill Mort the mortician [Andy Kindler].
One of many issues we like to do with the present is discuss how this little restaurant, they could be struggling, however they have an effect. All of us have an effect. All of us contact different lives. And Bob and Linda contact all these different lives, and generally they comprehend it, and generally they don’t. And generally they’re in want of a reminder of that. A personality can have their complete origin story due to a burger they ate. These moments exist in actual life, and so they definitely are enjoyable to seek out in our world. In order that’s a part of what we had been doing, drawing strains between these characters you may need seen passing by.
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Is it secure to imagine this episode shall be emotional then?
I at all times suppose any comedy that dips its toe into something that you simply may name dramatic storytelling has received to do it very fastidiously, and you must earn it. I, personally, attempt not to think about them as dramatic moments, or heavy moments, as a lot as, “Did we earn the spot the place you possibly can take a breath and also you don’t want a joke?” In the event you step exterior of that rhythm of delivering jokes, you’d higher earn it. You higher have one thing to say, one thing to point out, and hopefully, some first rate music.
And this episode has a number of musical moments, in fact. The youngsters try to make their very own music, within the present-day storyline. Was there something explicit to the manufacturing of this episode that’s distinctive that you’d need to discuss?
There have been a number of issues. We liked this concept that the youngsters make music with some seriousness [in the 300th episode]. And it’s at all times enjoyable for us to counsel that perhaps they play the issues they discover within the restaurant. So we’ve had this concept kicking round, like, within the film, Gene [Eugene Mirman] performs the serviette holder with a spoon rubber-banded onto it. And beforehand, we had the ladies utilizing to-go cups and making a squeaky sound with the straw. Right here, what we thought we might do is have metallic mixing bowls be this “sound of despair,” which it may be, you recognize, if you happen to’ve ever hit the underside of a mixing bowl when it’s received water.
Did you truly document that with mixing bowls?
Oh, very a lot so, sure. I’ll say, being concerned in that effort, it is vitally laborious to make music with metallic mixing bowls. The water’s sloshing in every single place and the pitch is simply in all places. It was a novel problem. However I prefer to suppose we did the youngsters justice. [Laughs]
Bob’s Burgers Season Premiere, Sunday, September 28, 9:30/8:30c, Fox