#Thelma and Louise (Except Thelma is Linda)

[golden--doodler]

"No, they're for Gene's project. I'm making eggs. I'll never make you eat vegetables for breakfast, sweetie."

"I love you, mom :)"

Linda and Louise's relationship is so underrated

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: April 30…

After Louise gets in trouble for something she didn't even do, resulting in her getting an in-school suspension, Linda decides to break her out for the day without anyone noticing, and while Linda is out, Teddy fills in to help Bob out with the restaurant. ��Thelma and Louise (Except Thelma is Linda)” premiered on this day, 7 Years Ago.

[waytoomanyhobbies]

Louigan Week Day 1 - Favorite Interaction

My favorite Louigan interaction is at the ending of Better Off Sled.

For anyone tired of hearing me flail about this moment, someday I might not gush about it, but today is not that day. Also, ten pictures isn't nearly enough because if I had my way, we'd have at least twice that and a full video presentation.

Anyhow, we start the episode with the very established rivalry dynamic between Louise and Logan in full swing. If there is a place or object they both want, the two of them will compete for it with escalating amounts of force and/or underhandedness.

Right from the beginning, they're off to their usual childish start with Logan calling her Smellcher and Louise condescendingly offering to explain the sledding hill since his "tiny, little brain doesn't understand things." It quickly erupts into them bickering over who has the crappest face like a pair of five year olds.

Then the escalation begins. Louise brings in a softball player to pitch snowballs at Logan and his friends with lots of speed and force. Logan is temporarily driven away, until he finds a basketball player to use in his retaliation.

Once Logan and his friends retake the hill, Louise opts for the nuclear option. She manipulates Teddy into plowing the hill illegally because it's more important to her to ruin Logan's fun than it is for her to have fun herself at that point.

The rivalry has taken over as the most important thing. We have previously seen Logan get into this same exact headspace in Ear-sy Rider when he would rather pretend he had thrown away Louise's ears than give them back.

After Teddy caves in under the pressure from Louise, karma comes along and covers the hill with another blanket of snow by the next morning. So Louise decides to try strapping on some armor before heading back to the hill and telling Logan that she's going to sled even if he throws snowballs at her. Things go wrong, and she loses most of her armor upon arrival.

Even after Louise pulled the nuclear option, the fight is still escalating. With a voice full of suspicion, Logan confronts her about the snow having been mysteriously plowed overnight, leaving all the old snow in icy and their snowballs hard enough to leave marks. He and his friends are still using it rather than admit defeat. They prepare to throw snowballs at the Belcher siblings, while Tina and Gene guard Louise with their armor.

Before a single snowball is thrown, Mandy arrives with the girls from various sports teams, who all want to throw snowballs at Logan.

Faced with the prospect of multiple sports teams worth of women hurling icy snowballs at him, Logan grabs Louise to use as a human shield. This is where we hit the turning point and the interaction I love so much.

Logan could have gone for the nuclear option here. For example, after Logan pretended to throw away her ears, Louise responded with a second nuclear option of sending the One Eyed Snakes after him. He could have continued to use Louise as a shield so that she would also get pelted with ice and snow for his revenge. She is the reason the snow is all icy and able to leave painful marks, afterall.

Instead, Logan pushes her away and prepares to face the punishment of the mob alone. He isn't expecting any mercy or begging for any. He's just covering his groin and bracing for all the snow and ice despite being scared.

Louise sees the mob she's inadvertently raised all gleeful to hit Logan like it's their Christmas present, and Louise isn't happy about it.

By letting her go, even knowing it would bite him in the ass, Logan has broken the pattern of escalation this time. He's also lived up to the lesson that Linda was trying to teach Louise in Thelma and Louise Except Thelma Is Linda. At the crucial moment, Logan broke the rivalry to do what was right.

Often, when Louise decides to do the right thing, it's because another character makes her feel guilty, ashamed, or afraid of damaging a friendship or family bond. We see that in situations like when she accidentally glued Bob to the toilet, when Tina guilted Louise just by staring at her silently, or when Rudy blew up at her about the bounce house on his birthday.

Logan didn't do any of those things, and there is no friendship there to lose. He broke the cycle by doing the right thing, and that led Louise to repay the gesture. In the spirit of Christmas, Louise pushes him onto her sled and rides down the hill with him while she's shouting and laughing.

True to form, Logan initially interprets the gesture as a full chance to reconcile. On previous occasions, he's been emotionally responsive to both Louise's fake offer to give him her ears and to the message of the film Freaky Friday. In that case, he cried, went on about the power of seeing things from another person's perspective, and he even called the film a beautiful story of love and acceptance... even though his emotions earned a punch in the stomach.

This time, there is progress and a partial olive branch, though. Louise might not have saved him, but she did get him out of the circling mob and give him a head start. By the time they reconnect in their thirties, this could be the step that sets them on the path of finally seeing things from each other's perspective.

[babsvibes]

I used my episode ranking spreadsheet to figure out which episodes of Bob’s Burgers were my favorite by season, and here are the results! Favorite episodes are bolded but you knooow those could change day to day 😪

My favorites are not objectively the best, so I’d love if other people wanted to share their lists or (if they took on the absolutely ridiculous task of individually ranking each episode) share their spreadsheet!

Season 1: Crawl Space, Sexy Dance Fighting, Sheesh! Cab Bob, Art Crawl, Spaghetti Western and Meatballs

Season 2: The Belchies, Bob Day Afternoon, Burgerboss, Food Truckin’, Bad Tina

Season 3: Ear-sy Rider, Full Bars, Bob Fires the Kids, Mother Daughter Laser Razor, Topsy

Season 4: Seaplane!, Bob and Deliver, The Kids Run Away, Wharf Horse, Wonder Wharf II

Season 5: Dawn of the Peck, Best Burger, Midday Run, Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise, The Oeder Games

Season 6: The Land Ship, The Hauntening, Sexy Dance Healing, Stand by Gene, Glued Where’s My Bob?

Season 7: Flu-ouise, Ex Mach Tina, Eggs For Days, The Laserinth, Thelma and Louise Except Thelma is Linda

Season 8: The Wolf of Wharf Street, Sit Me Baby One More Time, Thanks-hoarding, V for Valentine-detta, Mission Imposs-slug-ble

Season 9: The Taking of Funtime 1 2 3, Better Off Sled, The Fresh Princ-ipal, Roamin’ Bob-iday, The Gene Mile

Season 10: Now We’re Not Cooking With Gas, Three Girls and a Little Wharfy, The Handyman Can, Poops I Didn’t Do It Again, Prank You For Being A Friend

Season 11: Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid, Romancing the Beef, Fingers-loose, Bridge Over Troubled Rudy, Die Card or Card Trying

Season 12: Manic Pixie Crap Show, Ancient Misbehavin’, Clear and Present Ginger, Eighth Grade Runner, Judge-bot Day

Season 13: To Bob or Not to Bob, What About Job?, Comet-y of Errors, So You Stink You Can Dance, Apple Gore-chard*

Season 14: The Pickleorette*

*I stopped keeping up with new episodes after The Plight Before Christmas, so this is an incomplete data set

[silkyvampire]

The episode of Amelia is so cute I really love it, it shows so much emotion and Louise and Linda in the end credits is just so wholesome. The episode really shows Linda and Louise bonding, as in earlier episodes its clear that Lousie prefers Bob. I love the wholesome moments between Linda and Louise, same for the episode Thelma & Louise Except Thelma is Linda.

[schnanko]

i love bob/teddy's dynamic so so much <3

favorite plot line of theirs is in "thelma and louise except thelma is linda" when the restaurant gets packed and bob's own his own, causing him to ask teddy for help.

chaos, support, bob being patient with teddy's enthusiasm...10/10 love these men

[cozyrosykay]

What's your all-time favorite Bob's Burgers episode? Like this is YOUR episode? (You can list multiple if you want!)

I have thought long and hard about this lol cause there are so many but I’ve finally narrowed it down 😆 these 4 are episodes I find myself going back to again and again

Thelma and Louise Except Thelma is Linda

Late Afternoon in the Garden with Bob and Louise

I Bob Your Pardon

They Serve Horses, Don’t They?

honorable mention: The Plight Before Christmas

[br1ghtestlight]

mother daughter laser razor, thelma and louise (except thelma is linda) and amelia would probably be great episodes to watch together if you wanted to cry

[tinabbelcher]

As I was watching this episode, I couldn't help but notice how he raised his ass towards Tina.

Jimmy Jr. didn't have to dramatically raise his ass up like that, but for her, he will.

[tinarannosaurus]

[golden--doodler]

Okay, as much as I adore Bob and Gene’s father/son relationship, I adore Linda and Louise’s mother/daughter relationship just as much. I think I fell in love with it after Mother Daughter Laser Razor and especially after Thelma and Louise except Thelma is Linda.

People like to say for some reason that they don’t like each other. Which is proven completely incorrect if you actually watch the episode. Linda did actually mistakenly think that Louise didn’t like her, but Louise makes sure to set the record straight. Not to mention how much their relationship has developed as the show has gone on.

These two are so similar it’s kind of insane. When Linda was younger, she was exactly like Louise. Maybe even a rowdier, crazier version of Louise, which I didn’t even think was possible. Linda always talks about how she used to walk on the wild side as a kid. She didn’t like authority, she loved pulling pranks, and she loved getting revenge on people who wronged her (though she definitely went way too far with it). I still can’t believe she kept calling someone’s house, pretending to be a serial killer. I love you, Linda, but oh my god 😭

Louise has also been shown to admire Linda’s actions on occasion. Like the time Linda was bored and alone in the restaurant for awhile and rearranged the menu letters to spell something inappropriate (I can’t remember what it was, but Louise loved it). Plus, Louise was actually quite impressed with Linda’s track record of pranking when she was young. And of course, Linda is super supportive of everything Louise does. She even gave Louise brass knuckles for Christmas!!

I just adore these two. They love each other so much if you actually watch the show, and they actually seem to admire each other. Sure, Louise can get annoyed by how upbeat Linda and can be, and how Linda always loves traditionally girly things like throwing sleepovers. But these two definitely have a sweet bond. They definitely have the potential to be chaotic partners in crime.

I still love how Linda busted Louise out of detention once because she wanted Louise to know that helping people is worth it, and she wanted to reward her daughter for doing a good thing. How sweet is that??

After watching this scene, you cannot look me in the eye and say that Linda doesn’t love Louise so much:

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: April 30…

After Louise gets in trouble for something she didn't even do, resulting in her getting an in-school suspension, Linda decides to break her out for the day without anyone noticing, and while Linda is out, Teddy fills in to help Bob out with the restaurant. “Thelma and Louise (Except Thelma is Linda)” premiered on this day, 6 Years Ago.

[eroticfriendfictions]

Did he really need to stick it up that high?

[small-tragedies]

Bob: Bob Actually/Bobby Driver 

Linda: Thelma & Louise Except Thelma is Linda/Eat, Spray, Linda

Tina: Bad Tina/The Horse Rider-er

Gene: Stand by Gene/Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?

Louise: Flu-ouise/The Silence of the Louise

Favorite [character]-centric episode?

Copy and paste the below then fill in your favorite episode focusing on that character. Feel free to add more characters or ships to your list!

Bob: Linda: Tina: Gene: Louise:

[olliepestos]

Happy Mother’s Day!

[bloggingboutburgers]

Super-late token of appreciation for the beautiful parent-child bonding moments we’ve had in the past two eps :3