With all of the terribly cliche british rip off shows and faux-reality business sitcoms flooding our televisions Bob's Burgers comes to the rescue with a surprising secret weapon: animation. We've got to face it, TV sucks unless your down for poisoning your brain with mind numbing reality shows about douche bags or watching horribly over dramatic adults with amazing sex lives. I personally don't enjoy either but I am in love with Bob's Burgers and its cast of amazing comedians.
Bob's Burgers follows the life and times of Bob and his dysfunctional family as they manage their neighborhood burger joint. Every character brings together some unique element and watching them all interact is hilarious. Bob is played by H Jon Benjamin and soothes the soul with his buttery voice, while his wife Linda and her nasally-New-Jersey-Fran-Drescher esque accent provide for an equilibrium of voices. Eugene Mirman plays Gene the creepy younger brother who's fascinated by everything while Dan Mintz plays Tina, the raging hormonal eldest sister. But the secret star of the show is the crazy, manipulative, and conniving Louise, the youngest sibling voiced by Kristen Schaal. Mostly known for her role as the creepy obsessed stalker fan from Flight of the Conchords, but Bob's Burgers really takes her out of her shell and explores her acting talents. Louise is simply crazy and far too intelligent for her age, kind of like Macaulay Culkin but not as douchey.
Bob's Burgers is hard to fit in a nutshell, you'll just have to watch it. It's like a watching a real family interact each with their own strong overbearing personalities, except none of them are real, they're animated. Bob's Burgers is a brilliant show and comes at a perfect time to save TV from kicking out the stool and leaving its fate up to the makeshift noose of terrible reality and mockumentary television shows.
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