September 29, 2025

Bob's Burgers: Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening (16x01)

This was so freakin' cute!

Cons: 

I honestly have no complaints!

Pros:

This felt so old-school Bob's Burgers in this really fun meta way because obviously the kids on this show are in this perpetual state of being the ages they are, but the show itself started in 2011, 14 years ago, and then here we get this flashback episode about Bob and Linda opening the restaurant 14 years ago... so fun!

I'll confess I don't really remember what the lore has been in the show up to this point, about the origins of the restaurant, so if we've heard some of this stuff before in bits and pieces, or if this contradicts anything, I'm unaware of it. The story is basically that Linda decides to use her savings to help open the restaurant, even though she'd been saving to buy a condo, and that right around the same time they start things going, Linda also finds out she's pregnant with Tina. So despite the huge risk and all the chaos of life changing so rapidly, they decide to go ahead with opening the restaurant at the same time they're growing their family! Linda ends up going into labor on the day of their first grand opening, starting the tradition of chaos always coming for the family when they try to get the restaurant going.