#big bob belcher

[laz-kay]

Merry Christmas, Belchies🎄🎅❄️

[unclefathersantateddy]

Fresh Meat: Big 'Bert Belcher (Big Bob)

I really enjoy imagining the toxic parallels between Fresh Meat and canon Bob's but I do worry about how it may come across online. I don't want FM to come off as needlessly toxic and abusive - that's cheap. I enjoy the complex nuance of what "toxicity" truly is (and how it ties into the fallacy of morality). Like,, fm!Bob still loves and adores his family exactly like canon, but he's a shithouse to "foodie" trend followers/hipsters (whatever term is used these days).

But Big Bob. Robert. Rob. Bert. Is a WHOLE other concept. I've really been enjoying mapping fm!Rob (thinking of calling Big Rob or Big 'Bert - to further highlight that Bob does not want to be like his dad) as a Traditionally Toxic™ kinda guy. Similar to canon, but more realistic/extreme and actually unpacking that grim shit and not just glossing over it as a "different time".

Big Bob canonically comes from a generation where the only emotions men were allowed to express were arousal or anger. He also strikes me as a man that isn't ready for therapy. So, with that, Big Bert's anger transferred into everything he did - including every interaction he had with his son. Like canon, Teen Bob worked in Big Rob's / Big Bert's diner. Thus, also like canon, fm!Bob faced endless scrutiny from his father, but not just for his creativity. For everything. Incessantly drumming into his son that you need the very best meat, and that you must cook it perfectly, but also showing his son reckless disregard for herbs, spices, and anything flavourful.

So like canon, Bob's father heavily influences Bob's career path, but because Bob wants to be nothing like his dad. So Bob journeys to reconceptualize food and people's relationship with it. It's not just a flavourless Farm Meat purely for energy and sustenance. It's an experience; a story to be told, heard, and honoured.

Unfortunately, like Real Life trauma, which implements itself in the least expected corners of your mind (whether we consent to it or not). It becomes a part of us, who we are. Bob ironically, and subconsciously, becomes more like his father than he could possibly imagine. Big Bert's ways are ingrained into Bob whether he's aware of it or not. And it is this which causes fm!Bob to lash out at novice customers, rookie foodies or just general trend followers (similar to his canon sweet potato fries meltdown). But it is this very neuroticism that makes his burgers what they are.

But unlike Big Bert, fm!Bob has never, and will never, be abusive/toxic to his family or loved ones (except teddy, but that's a whole other dynamic analysis for another time - but dw, it's partly healthy/consensual).

If the layout of my sentences is a bit scrambled/ non-linear my apologies, I'm not a writer I'm an abstract notes jotter👉😎👉 but I tried my best to make it readable to someone who doesn't live in my brain.

[pelorsdyke]

are you normal or does bob’s burgers make you cry anytime they resolve a storyline with big bob

[babybluebanshee]

Why I love the Calvin and Big Bob ship: that whole “you remind me of my father” thing of Calvin’s would be ratcheted up to 1000 the minute he laid eyes on that absolute silver fox; Calvin seems very lonely with no real friends, so Big Bob would be a breath of fresh air for him; at first Big Bob would feel like Calvin only saw him as a novelty, to “slum it” among the lower classes, but it would quickly come to light that Calvin has caught serious feelings and has never met someone who makes him feel as good and cared for as Big Bob does; the kids would take to calling Calvin grandpa so easily that it would honestly be scary but still really cute; there could be a heartwarming little plot about Bob being aggravated that his dad is “cheating” on his mom (with his insane landlord no less), but when he realizes that Calvin legitimately makes his father happy in a way he hasn’t seen in years, he softens up and gives them his blessing; Big Bob would think Calvin wants a big, fancy wedding so he nearly goes crazy pulling out all the stops, worried that Calvin will think he’s a loser if he can’t give him all the luxury he’s accustomed to, but Calvin tells him he doesn’t care about any of that - he’s an old man who never thought he’d find someone who wanted to spend their life with him, so he’s happy as long the day ends with Big Bob’s name next to his on a marriage certificate; widowers moving on and getting happy endings has always been cute to me also.

Why I love the Felix and Gayle ship:

[pbj913]

Bob's Burgers Thought

I feel like out of the Belcher kids' grandparents, Big Bob would be the only one to find out about the events of the Bob's Burgers movie. Although it would probably be one of the kids accidentally spilling the beans at some point.

[yahoo201027]

Only 64 days left to go until Season 14 of Bob's Burgers on October 1st. The next character up on the graphic is the father of Bob and the husband/widower of Lily, that being "Big Bob" Belcher Sr.

Character featured for the day: "Big Bob" Belcher Voiced by: Bill Hader (2014); Eric Bauza (2022) Debut: "Father of the Bob" (2014) Latest Appearance: "Interview with a Pop-pop-pire" (2022)

[unclefathersantateddy]

I feel this in my soul, but it is such an accurate portrayal of the generational shift between Boomers and Gen X. Boomers (i.e. Big Bob, Rob) seem to have this life-or-death inability to apologise. Nothing is ever their fault, they are the 'best generation'. We see this behaviour constantly from Boomers, they have zero self-awareness or accountability.

Whereas Gen X (i.e. Bob) started the wave of generational cycle-breaking. This generation started treating their kids like people, not possessions. The same generation started apologising to their children instead of making them cope (poorly).

It infuriates my skin seeing little Bob apologise to his dad, when his dad was the authoritative role that held the power of the dynamic. The one that singlehandedly chose for their relationship to turn to shit. But it is the perfect representation of these two generations. The generation that pioneered Arrested Development™ and their children, the generation that pioneered going to fkn GD therapy.

I hate it but I also want more of it all the time kawjsjdkskdkvov

Love "Father of the Bob" as a whole but especially appreciate that line "I wanted to say I'm sorry. Not for leaving. And not for starting my own restaurant. But just for how I handled things on the day we broke up"

He shouldn't have to apologize for not being what his dad wanted him to be and he didn't

[ltwharfy]

I love the fact that in Linda's raccoon restaurant fantasy, Little King Trashmouth's husband Gary is wearing a top hat.

[lupinealpineipa]

I am aware that canonically the show has never confirmed their actual ethnicity but I remember that Loren Bouchard has stated that in a perfect world the belchers would have been polyglots but I also find it interesting how that would mean that they would have lost their languages.

 I grew up first generation Mexican-American and I honestly would judge a lot of kids, my age, if they didn’t speak Spanish. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I comprehended that there were reasons why parents didn’t teach their kids Spanish. One of my previous coworkers who were older than me, would tell me about a time back in the 60s, where they were deathly afraid to even speak with an accent in American schools.

[girlsnap]

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[pbj913]

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY BIG BOB AND LILY FANFIC FOR @seemoreseymoursbay <3 she's beautiful even if she's like uhh five days late? maybe??

[laz-kay]

“I’m not always worried about the future, and that’s because of my grandkids. They might actually figure stuff out, and - y’know - Fix stuff”.

Bob's Burgers, Wharf, Me Worry? (S14: E8)

[unclefathersantateddy]

Bob Belcher hyping up his own strip tease with "you won't even want it, you- you'll wanna leave" is on my mind tonight fellas

[gloubermutt]

[babybluebanshee]

I think end game of Bob’s Burgers is that Mr. Fischoeder is going to leave the Belchers all his money in his will. He clearly cares a lot about them, especially Bob, and it’s actually a developed caring. Like, he’s always had a soft spot for Bob because he reminds Calvin of his father, but over the years he’s gotten even closer to the family. He constantly comes to them with problems and offers them rent breaks. He censors himself around Bob’s kids. He finds the Belchers fun to be around - pranking Bob, singing with Linda, his and Louise just absolutely vibing every time they interact. And Calvin has very little family of his own. He’s not married. Any children he has, he probably has no relationship with them if he’s even aware of them at all. His parents are dead. His cousin tried to frame him for murder and then kill him. All he has is Felix, who has also tried to kill him, poked out his eye when they were children, and is generally an unpleasant manchild Calvin more often than not feels burdened by. His only friends are other rich, insulated weirdos that Calvin only seems to sort of get along with. As Calvin puts it in the April fools episode, Bob makes him “feel something”. And while yeah, that episode is also super gay (“my dear Bob!” anyone?), I think that something Calvin feels is just good, old platonic connection to a family he wishes he had. Calvin Fischoeder is a corrupt, greedy freak who has committed the unforgivable sin of being a landlord and also a whole lot of other things he should probably be in jail for, but I wouldn’t be surprised if, one day, he reveals that his will leaves his fortune to the only true family he’s ever known - his favorite burgermongers, Bob and Linda Belcher, aka M’Lady Bob, along with trusts for their three burgerlings.

[pbj913]

Bob’s Burgers Headcanon

Louise and Big Bob dance to “Lily Belle” at Louise and Rudy’s wedding