As a result of Bob’s Burgers modified through the years from a collection nearer in tone to Family Guy than The Simpsons, it’s been capable of get higher with age. Fashionable seasons have leaned into musical numbers, one thing the present does extremely effectively, constructing off the tip credit score gag of a small musical quantity to work them into the plot. The turning level, and the one which I nonetheless assume could be the perfect as a result of I now want this was actual, got here in “Work Exhausting or Die Making an attempt, Woman,” the primary episode of Season 5, which has the youngsters in competing musicals, Die Hard and Working Woman.
Die Exhausting: The Musical is a superb idea and it must occur. That episode can be when the tonal shift goes into full drive, and from then on, episodes are extra healthful, normally with Bob imparting some kind of lesson on the youngsters, however there’s nonetheless that undercurrent of depraved humor.
