Let’s do a short TV show blog (because it’s hot outside).
If you don’t know, Bob’s Burgers is a delightful adult cartoon about a man named Bob who runs a struggling burger restaurant with his family in a seaside town full of eccentrics.
I want to live in the small town where this animated television show takes place. Why is this not a real place? This is one of the great tragedies of my life. But this episode isn’t.
The owners of the little burger serving diner get an unexpected customer when her car breaks down. Linda greets the lady and asks who is. The woman pulls a manuscript out of her bag (held together with a binder clip - a piece of reality in cartoon form) and realized the customer calling herself Bea Cromwell is the author of a children’s chapter book Linda and Bob read repeatedly to their kids years early.
Linda is instantly sucked back into a perfect nostalgia cloud where her three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise, are still small enough to be snuggled between her and Bob in bed. This throws Linda in a full psychotic break and demands to know why Bea no longer writes “Snail and Newt” books for children anymore. Although Bea calmly tries to explain that she stopped writing for kids when her own kids got older, switching to crime thrillers for adult readers, Linda becomes obsessed. She convinces herself that children can never grow up and leave if their favorite childhood things keep going.
Spoiler Alert:
So . . . Linda hassles, badgers, and full on attacks Bea with suggestions for new Snail and Newt book. I mean, really scary stuff. She actually causes the author’s tow-truck to leave and makes the woman feel unsafe. Really unsafe. Wants the cops called and runs-into-the-mortuary-next-door-to-hide- unsafe. Nevertheless, I think the writer is missing a good point. Yes, Linda goes overboard and becomes a frightening stalker. BUT she did it out of love of the book Bea wrote and how that book was beloved of her entire family. And Bea doesn’t even offer to sign it!
