I gave up feeling bad for Bob's financial situation the day he smashed a $300 knife with a hammer. That was even more pointless than burning the couch, but people always forget it happened.

It's still expensive as hell. Stranger to me was that they couldn't just chop up some potatoes and fry them in a pot for Teddy.

It was bittersweet, but I don't see that as a bad thing. Not everything has to be sunshine and rainbows (unless you're Tina's bedroom wall). Look at the goodbye to Jericho early in the episode: if you think of Jericho as part of Tina, that scene is incredibly sad and difficult to watch, with part of her actively…

I'm not understanding the interpretation of Tina as an arrogant brat in this episode.

My thought process as well. Or just chop up potatoes and fry them in a pot of oil. I make my own fries at home more often than not unless I'm getting a burger from Five Guys or something.

Restaurant camp had me in stitches. There hasn't been a good Linda plot in a while but I loved this one. I think it's awesome when the family just has fun together and that happened here.

I fucking loved restaurant camp/camp restaurant with Old Man Belcher. Best subplot in ages.

I think he's Polish or something. Wannabe Italian cuisine, wannabe Italian.

-AV Club

"Maybe the plaque got lost in the mail. That happens, right?"

Nah. Perhaps the most inconsistent since the early days, but the highs (Nice-Capades, The Hauntening, Stand By Gene, The Gene and Courtney Show, The Hormone-iums) have been through the roof. This was a great episode too.

This line got a good laugh out of me.

Part of the reason I loved the Bob/Pesto rivalry early on was that it provided a Romeo and Juliet dynamic for Tina and Jimmy Jr. However, now that the writers have increasingly pushed Zeke into the picture (I'm not complaining), there's little reason for it other than some amusing banter from time to time.

One last thing about this episode that cracked me up: the animation of Louise crawling backwards out of the fan club meeting with her mouth open. I don't know if her looking stunned was a reaction to the news or if it was an involuntary expression, but I laughed.

He can be, certainly. But it's not how I would generally describe him.

Be careful not to call things the new Family Fracas just because Bob didn't win monetarily. He took the moral high ground because it dawned on him that his adversary is pathetic, which is nothing like a television station conspiring against the family just, you know, because. Honestly, what does Bob gain from tearing…

"Just kissing the line there" was the biggest laugh for me. Boo Boo's new image, while only slightly sexier and more masculine, is still terribly ill-conceived.

This was a strong episode. I'm not a fan of scripts that rely on long-winded speeches/monologues to turn a plot, but the two in this episode were pretty strong and for good causes; namely, Tina helping her sister and Louise getting her confusion out into the open. The plot was just ridiculous enough to work in this…

Good call. I love that character, wish they'd bring him back more often.

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