# Bob's Burgers, SERIES PREMIERE (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050 "2011-01-10T01:15:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/21 "2011-01-10T13:34:00Z")
I don’t know what the hell is wrong with you people. I thought it was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/22 "2011-01-10T13:34:21Z")
I’d put it about halfway between “Liked It” and “Meh,” so I rounded up. I really _want_ to like it. Producer/writer Loren Bouchard has done some great stuff (Dr. Katz, Home Movies) and IMO H. Jon Benjamin is the greatest voice actor there is. But the pilot tried _way_ too hard. It would have been funnier if it were more mundane, if that makes sense. If they dial back on the big bombastic plotlines and focus on the family characters they might have something here. I’ll keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/23 "2011-01-10T16:15:21Z")
I was all ready to hate on it and file it away in the Cleveland Show bin of my channel surfacing repertoire and you know what, it was kind of funny. Is anyone else watching this show? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/24 "2011-01-10T16:31:04Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > No comment on the show but the commercials for this have been very confusing for me. The actor voicing Bob is the same as the one who does Archer in _Archer_ so every time I’d hear a commercial I’d get excited that Archer was back for season 2 only to be disappointed when it was a Bob’s Burgers commercial (I’m not usually actually looking at the TV and it has been omnipresent on the radio). > > But that prompted me to check and learn that Archer really is coming back for season 2 soon so I’m happy. > > But still probably won’t watch Bob’s Burgers. Agreed. H. Jon Benjamin is 20x funnier in Archer. “No, Lana, the helium!” ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/25 "2011-01-10T16:34:41Z")
Wow. I can’t believe all these people hated one show so much: > [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/6): > > I just watched the first half and gave up. Did this meet anyone’s expectations? Was it as bad as it seemed to me? I mean. . . bad. > [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/9): > > Yeah, it was pretty weak. It felt and looked like someone trying to imitate _Family Guy_. Two or three good jokes and that was it. > [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/21): > > Extremely unoriginal and the opposite of funny. > [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/23): > > I thought it was downright horrible. I literally didn’t even crack a smile. > [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/35): > > All I could think is that the jokes would have worked on the Family Guy. I could see Stewie or Brian repeating those and having it work. This show? Not so much. I just didn’t care about the characters. They seemed even less than one dimensional. > [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/46): > > It was just a poor knockoff of Family Guy. Sort of what you’d see if Hana-Barbera decided to copy it. Really, really bad. > [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/50): > > I thought the _Simpson’s_ episode was half-baked and kinda crappy until this dreck came on. Absolutely unwatchable. By the way, these comments were actually from Feb 6, 2005 and the pilot episode of American Dad. Just the first page of comments at that. And yet, they seem so familiar. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/26 "2011-01-10T16:37:06Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I was all ready to hate on it and file it away in the Cleveland Show bin of my channel surfacing repertoire and you know what, it was kind of funny. > > Is anyone else watching this show? Yes, the people in the thread started last night. 😉 Merged duplicate threads. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/27 "2011-01-10T16:46:19Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Wow. I can’t believe all these people hated one show so much: I didn’t find _Bob’s Burgers_ at all funny and disliked the animation style. And I’ve never watched American Dad, so no familiarity there. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/28 "2011-01-10T17:11:43Z")
I was interested to see it since they advertised the hell out of this, but wow, that sucked. To be fair I thought the pilot for Cleveland sucked too, but that one has grown on me a bit, but I don’t know that I’ll ever want to see another episode of this. It was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/29 "2011-01-10T17:26:32Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I really _want_ to like it. Producer/writer Loren Bouchard has done some great stuff (Dr. Katz, Home Movies) and IMO H. Jon Benjamin is the greatest voice actor there is. This right here. It gave me a couple big laughs (“Like I don’t have chalk.”) and some decent chuckles, which ain’t half bad for a pilot episode. I’ll keep watching to see how it goes. And anything that breaks up the Seth monopoly is a good thing in my book (I enjoy his shows, but really? do we need [three-going-on-four](http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2010/02/25/fourth-seth-macfarlane-show-in-the-works/)?). ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/30 "2011-01-10T17:29:09Z")
I was torn between “didn’t like it” and “hated it”. I didn’t think I was emotionally involved enough to hate it but then I remembered I actually had to sit though it to see the shows after it and one of them was The Cleveland Show which I already dislike so I figured that pushed me into the “hated it” category since I already dislike one show in that line up. I can’t wait until I can get DVR. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/31 "2011-01-10T18:09:32Z")
A few chuckles, but too far between. There has to be a quick pace and lots of laughs to justify the lousy animation. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/32 "2011-01-10T19:13:44Z")
I actually thought it was hilarious. There were a couple of times when I couldn’t hear the next line because I was laughing so hard. I will definitely keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/33 "2011-01-10T21:42:31Z")
“Your mother and I will be downstairs grinding the meat.” How is that not funny? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/34 "2011-01-10T21:57:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > “Your mother and I will be downstairs grinding the meat.” That’s not a euphemism. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/35 "2011-01-10T22:05:19Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > “Your mother and I will be downstairs grinding the meat.” > > How is that not funny? I also liked: “What are you, the meat-falling-on-the-ground police?” “Yes. Health inspector.” “They _have_ those?” ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/36 "2011-01-10T22:05:32Z")
“I have a rash on my crotch” “Are you telling me this as my fry cook or as my daughter? Because my fry cook would never tell me that and my daughter shouldn’t be telling me that either. Talk to your mother about this.” ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/37 "2011-01-10T22:45:18Z")
Don’t taste me bro was the only funny part in the show. The rest of it was horrible. Bad animation, annoying voices, boring plot and crappy jokes. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/38 "2011-01-11T00:25:52Z")
I absolutely loved it, but I’m already partial to a lot of the people involved like Kristen Schaal and Eugene Mirman. “You’re the worst kind of autistic, you can’t even count.” ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/39 "2011-01-11T01:08:58Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I actually thought it was hilarious. There were a couple of times when I couldn’t hear the next line because I was laughing so hard. Same here. In fact, I missed the “Don’t taste me bro” line. Awesome. Today’s Special: The Child Molester ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/40 "2011-01-11T02:51:00Z")
To be fair, I still don’t like American Dad. I have upgraded it from horrible to something I just don’t watch though. This show will either turn out to be one of my all time favorites or I’ll hate it and never watch it again. I’ve finished the first episode and I still have no idea where it’ll land. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050.md?page=3)