I don’t know that they’ve done their best to show this, but my impression is he’s making a six-figure income now, and in a year or so he expects to double it (Jeri keeps dangling some kind of carrot like that in early episodes this season). And with his spotty history, I don’t know that it’s super easy for him to get…

Why call into the show?

I came here to read snarky comments about the worst fake instrument playing that has ever been filmed. Where my snarkers at?

Really one of the greatest episodes of JtV in a very long time. It was patently weird, deeply heartfelt, and true to everyone’s character. It was particularly funny and more-than-usual sexy. The acting was great, the Petra was off the hook. And it’s good, so good, to see Krishna happy.

I noticed. Also:

Right?  It’s been like 3,000 years and I am as well.

Not only was her voice weirdly mismatched for the script, but :

And “Orange is the New Black”

Yes, absolutely, I think it was clear that the discussion must have gone something like, “Okay, so this is the alternate universe Orville show. Obviously if the prime universe is Star Trek, this other one is Star Wars”. I think if you watch this episode with that in mind, it’s pretty much a spot on style parody/love…

I love Justina Machado, and her ability to be vividly different people in two concurrent love-based funny series that I’m watching. 

I was there with that :)

I was expecting a little “See Jane.  See Jane run.” when a scene of Jane running followed the dispassionate narration.  #missedopportunity

Theories that seem pretty much out the door now:
1. Michael is someone in a facemask, and the DNA tests were just as faked as the coroner’s report.

I recently realized I had missed this episode somehow, and went back and watched it today. Honestly this is up there with my favorite BB episodes ever. The plots were both fresh. The ideas (what the kids asked about, what Louise did with her reign) were surprising and consistent with character. I literally laughed out…

It’s okay if I read this in Gene’s voice, right?

I posted in a thread, I thought this episode was really nothing particularly new and I had seen every single beat (ha) of it before, but one very nice upside to it is, I suspect it was a tribute to the Bob Baker Marionette Theater which just recently closed down after 66 years.

Yes, and it’s so Bob’s Burgers formulaic to have the cantankerous old person who sounds identical to most of the other ones, who turns out to be a soft soul with a quiet secret, that the family helps with. There were like 3 or 50 ways to slightly modify that trope and make it fresh again, but they really didn’t do…

Came here, a bit late, to say this was by far my favorite episode in a while. Yes it’s thematically well known territory in places, but for my money the Bob burnout, the whole Patricia section, and both songs (well, all three including the closer!) were up there with classic Bob’s Burgers. The puppet episode was nice…

I assumed he had paid by credit card over the phone at some point.  I mean, that’s a big risk to not require prepayment.

I’m aboard the “the monologue was too much” boat. I noticed it was one take only a few seconds in - something about the bobbing, dipping steadicam style movements felt distracting - and then I was distracted by how much I was right. Then she ate food during it, which was like a ventriloquist showing off by drinking…