# Bob's Burgers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249 "2013-01-24T19:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/21 "2013-01-28T00:06:12Z")
The show is a guilty pleasure. I find it amusing even as I sometimes want to smack the characters around a little. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/22 "2013-01-28T01:16:48Z")
Yes, the first season was pretty bad but the series has turned into a classic! ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/23 "2013-01-28T01:37:20Z")
> [@alfonzos](#): > > Yes, the first season was pretty bad but the series has turned into a classic! No, I liked the first season, but thought the second was terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/24 "2013-01-28T02:19:30Z")
Between Bob’s Burgers and Archer, my husband has accepted and approved of my enormous crush on H. Jon Benjamin. Tina and Louise are the daughters of my ridiculous and silly heart. The combination of the two of them mirror my stepdaughters, and I think they are both wonderful. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/25 "2013-01-28T05:37:04Z")
> [@alfonzos](#): > > Yes, the first season was pretty bad but the series has turned into a classic! > [@sparky\_1](#): > > No, I liked the first season, but thought the second was terrible. I’m completely baffled by statements like these! If you mixed up all the episodes and showed them in random order I’d have absolutely no sense of which was what season. The show started out great, and has consistently remained so. > [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > Between Bob’s Burgers and Archer, my husband has accepted and approved of my enormous crush on H. Jon Benjamin. Hate to burst your bubble but H. Jon Benjamin doesn’t so much [resemble this,](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljcicqorxB1qgs4hjo1_r1_400.jpg) or [even this,](http://www.zap2it.com/media/alternatethumbnails/photo/2011-01/58622380-06080110.jpg) but rather [this…](http://www.comedycentral.com/press/images/jon-benjamin-has-a-van/jon-benjamin-has-a-van_logo.jpg) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/26 "2013-01-28T14:13:15Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > … > > Hate to burst your bubble but H. Jon Benjamin doesn’t so much [resemble this,](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljcicqorxB1qgs4hjo1_r1_400.jpg) or [even this,](http://www.zap2it.com/media/alternatethumbnails/photo/2011-01/58622380-06080110.jpg) but rather [this…](http://www.comedycentral.com/press/images/jon-benjamin-has-a-van/jon-benjamin-has-a-van_logo.jpg) 😃 I always thought Archer would make a great live action show, like a modern Get Smart, and everyone who does the voices could play themselves in real life…except for Benjamin. Put me in the “starting to warm up to it” category. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/27 "2013-01-29T21:27:34Z")
I originally tagged it as ‘meh’, but gave it another shot (I think b/c of comments on The Dope.) It’s become one of my don’t miss/destination tv shows ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/28 "2013-01-29T22:46:41Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > Between Bob’s Burgers and Archer, my husband has accepted and approved of my enormous crush on H. Jon Benjamin. I’ve been a fan of his ever since Coach McGuirk. I was another who was meh about the show but now embrace it weekly. I find _Archer_ funnier, perhaps because HJB is the comic role there and more the straight man here (second banana to the kids, all of whom are a riot)–or perhaps because there are so few characters named Sterling\*; either way, the show is still terrific. \*my name ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/29 "2013-01-30T00:39:15Z")
Hate to burst your bubble but H. Jon Benjamin doesn’t so much [resemble this,](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljcicqorxB1qgs4hjo1_r1_400.jpg) or [even this,](http://www.zap2it.com/media/alternatethumbnails/photo/2011-01/58622380-06080110.jpg) but rather [this…](http://www.comedycentral.com/press/images/jon-benjamin-has-a-van/jon-benjamin-has-a-van_logo.jpg) 😃 Oh, I knew what he looks like. But a (seemingly) good sense of humor automatically adds 100 Cute Points. I _do_ like the guys that make me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/30 "2013-01-30T01:03:25Z")
I’m kinda lukewarm on Bob’s Burgers (it’s funny, but a little too formulaic for my current tastes). I was just stopping by to mention that the actor who plays Tina, Dan Mintz, is a pretty darn funny deadpan standup. If you like Bob’s Burgers, I’d highly recommend digging up his Comedy Central Presents act. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/31 "2013-01-30T01:20:38Z")
It is the best show on Sunday night. It is very funny, and I consider it to be a great replacement for King of the Hill. I think it will grow the way King of the Hill did. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/32 "2013-01-30T03:57:48Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > Oh, I knew what he looks like. But a (seemingly) good sense of humor automatically adds 100 Cute Points. I _do_ like the guys that make me laugh. Ya know it’s weird, because I feel exactly the same way about **Kristen Schaal**. Although she is the very definition of ‘funny looking’ (or even ‘fugly’) and her normal speaking voice sounds like a cartoon mouse, her fearlessness and razor wit makes her sexy! (Not to mention a smokin’ bod too!) ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/33 "2013-01-30T17:07:07Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Here’s some trivia: in the opening credits, there’s always a different store to the right of Bob’s Burgers (on the other side from Mort’s), but in the series itself, it is always an empty storefront. Do you one better: after the rats scurry in, the exterminator van is always a different, punny, company. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/34 "2013-01-30T19:13:12Z")
Love the puns, even if some are pretty far reaches. My favorite scene thus far was when they tried to stop the animatronic skark and the fallout after. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/35 "2013-01-30T19:34:11Z")
> [@thinksnow](#): > > Do you one better: after the rats scurry in, the exterminator van is always a different, punny, company. Actually, in the first season, I think it was always “Rat’s All, Folks”. The different pest control companies didn’t start until later. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/36 "2013-01-31T06:09:28Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Actually, in the first season, I think it was always “Rat’s All, Folks”. The different pest control companies didn’t start until later. Yeah. Also in the first season the end credits always played over the same animation. With the second season the animation is modified to reference something from the episode. ---
**Author:** ![AlohaBear32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@AlohaBear32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlohaBear32)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249/37 "2013-01-31T11:35:38Z")
Guess I’m odd man out…not a fan and I watch half of season 1…coundnt stomach the rest (especially with them making fun of my beloved Martial Art of Capoeira,however a slight kudos is in order I suppose for the fact they even know what it was…) However an odd thing is Louise is like a kid version of my wife personality wise (minus the bunny ears) Perhaps this is why I don’t dig it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers/648249.md?page=1)