Bob's Burgers: Like a Candle in the Gym (15x12)

A cute episode! Not sure I'll have a ton to say...

Cons:

I feel like I say this every once in a while with this show, and we're just getting back after such a long hiatus, but I miss the school characters. We get this one sorta-friend of Louise's here, but I kept thinking of how fun it would be of the rest of the gang got pulled into the shenanigans and conspiracies. I hope we have an episode soon that's set during school.

Pros:

Linda and Bob are a good couple. The joke of Bob's character is that he's a bit of a sad sack but what I love about this show is that he's genuinely a goofy dad, too. I loved the bit at the beginning when the kids are like "wtf" about Bob consenting to the walk, and he's apologizing to his children for betraying them by going along with Linda's plan. And then when they're on the walk, when Linda is in pain because of her new shoes, he problem-solves at the expense of his own back, and then finds a cart and does a Mrs. Doubtfire impression to make Linda laugh. Their little banter about Bob leaving Linda for a new wife with better feet was so sweet too.

 Louise is my favorite of the kids on this show, which I have to imagine is a pretty popular opinion - there's a certain "type" of Louise episode that I notice they dip back to a lot, where despite the fact that she's a chaos agent, she actually decides to be the responsible and reasonable one to stop harm from coming to someone. This episode, when she sees her friend about to risk suspension because of a conspiracy theory that's based off of a rumor that Louise and Gene accidentally started, she spends the episode trying to talk her friend off the ledge of doing something crazy. It's fun when Louise leans into the chaos, but it's also fun when she is the unrealistically adult one who takes charge of a situation for the good of all. Gene and Tina become her backup in these scenarios, which is often a fun time.

I think I've probably talked about this before too lol but I do find it harder to write these reviews for comedies because then we get to the part where I just say... yeah, and also the episode was funny, and I list out some jokes from it? But yeah, I got some chuckles out of this one, I liked the pretentious muffin shop customer ahead of the gang in line, I liked Bob reacting with horror to the idea of grabbing napkins from a coffee shop without buying anything: "like a criminal?" 

That's all for this one! A nice cozy episode to watch on a Friday morning with breakfast.

8/10