Bob's Burgers: Children of the Carn (16x12)

This was a really cute main plot!

Cons:

I wasn't really that invested in the subplot, about Teddy seeing his therapist at the restaurant and having a crisis about her being a weird eater. There just wasn't a lot of meat here. I feel like I'm split straight down the middle when it comes to Teddy plots, sometimes they're extra fun and sometimes they don't really offer me anything.

Pros:

There was one joke I liked, which was Teddy saying that the therapist was his closest friend that he paid in order to talk to, and Bob was like... "well..." lol. That made me chuckle.

The main plot involved Gene, Louise, Tina, Jimmy Jr., and Zeke playing in their band at a retirement home for Zeke's grandma's birthday. They then get pulled into the schemes of another man who works there, a retired carny who wants to pull a prank and hide a teddy bear for his old carny pals to find. We then go back and forth and learn the whole story, that this man kind of abandoned his old friend group when he got some money and settled down, but he wants to reconnect with them after so many years. The kids are torn about whose side to be on, but ultimately work to try and facilitate this friendship reconnecting. They succeed, more in spite of their efforts than because of them.

So many funny scenarios here: I loved the kids having the slowly dawning realization that there were real hurt feelings and serious things going on here, when they were just in it for the money they thought they were going to make. When they accuse the guy in the nursing home of not visiting his friend after a heart attack, he tells them that he paid for all of his friend's medical bills, and they are quite stymied by that one.

My favorite joke in the episode was definitely when Jimmy Jr. and Zeke are tasked with distracting the old guy so they can put the cold spaghetti teddy bear in his room. Jimmy Jr: "Maybe I'll ask him if things are different now than they used to be." Zeke: "I'd be curious about that!" lol.

I also liked how Mort had all these rules about fake funerals, having had to deal with them before, and then those rules get immediately broken. It was also oddly sweet to me that Linda and Bob and Teddy went to the fake funeral to fill some seats; it always amuses me when the adults support the kids' shenanigans in that way. 

8/10