Bobs Burgers Again With the Living Dead

It was a foreign yr for San Diego Comic-Con. This year marked the second in a row where in-person festivities were canceled for pandemic-related reasons, but while 2020's outcome had the novelty and fresh horror of a lockdown people still hadn't entirely adjusted to, 2021's quarantine-dictated Zoom panels felt simultaneously overly-familiar and laced with existential dread.

Points to Bob's Burgers then for addressing the consequence straight out of the gate. Subsequently moderator (and show creator, and co-showrunner) Loren Bouchard introduced the console's participants — the main voice cast and Nora Smith, writer and co-showrunner — he talked most how he wasn't going to ask anyone how they dealt with the challenges of working from home: "It's boring to talk about recording from home, I won't even get into it."

Bouchard fabricated it a point of praising the cast and coiffure for their efforts to keep working on the series nether adverse conditions, but the overall tone of the panel was clear from the start: an unflagging, borderline manic enthusiasm for what's coming next.

This fall, Bob's Burgers enters its 12th flavour, a long time for any series, but while Bob'south might not exist at the superlative of its powers, information technology'due south found a more comfortable niche for itself, continuing to produce reliably warm-hearted, funny, and character driven episodes without falling into excessive cynicism or caricature. The secret, in addition to the talented cast, may be due to a philosophy Bouchard stressed when talking about the flavor to come: "I imagine our mission is to keep making minor stories feel big."

Bouchard got the elephant out of the room correct away, asking the group at large what they were almost and least looking forward to most going dorsum to work in person. Answers are about what you'd await, with virtually of the cast but desperate to come across people and find some degree of normalcy again; potential complaints ranged from "Maybe the elevator," (John Roberts, who does the voice of Linda Belcher), "I'thou not looking forward to being tracked past the regime," (Larry Murphy, who plays Teddy), and Kristen Schaal'southward (the voice of Louise Belcher) fear virtually "having absolutely nothing to talk almost when we're not interim except the pandemic." H. Jon Benjamin (Bob Belcher) was the only one present who had nothing negative to say well-nigh coming back. When Mintz teased him about losing his "edge," Benjamin responded, "OK, I don't similar your hair," which was very funny when non reduced to text.

Most of the conversation stayed on topic near the flavor ahead, with Bouchard waxing rhapsodic most the pleasures to come. The prove is "ambitious as always," and the season volition feature titles like "Crystal Mess," "The Pumpkining," "Driving Big Dummy," "Seventween Again," "Beach Please," "Stuck In The Kitchen With You," "Cistron'due south Christmas Break," "Lost in Bedslation," "Fomo You lot Didn't," and others. (Bouchard stresses, "We work not at all on these titles.") Bouchard so rattled off a listing of upcoming guest voice actors for the flavour, delivering a rapid fire monologue of names, a mix of familiar performers for the show and first timers which, while defective any shockingly large names, sounds packed with the level of comic and vocal talent that fans of the bear witness take come to expect.

When it comes to actual content for the upcoming season, the console offered three curt clips focusing on different character pairings. In the first, a scene from the B-story of "Manic Pixie Crap Show," Linda and Bob got a surprise delivery of flowers that sent Linda to reminiscing about her babyhood. (After the prune, which had Linda monologuing well-nigh a dog getting hit past a hot dog truck, Smith says "I establish out that my dad witnessed his domestic dog dying in forepart of him afterward I wrote that episode.")

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In the second, from "Driving Big Dummy," Bob and Teddy take an awkward conversation in a truck cab while towing a large dummy caput downwards the highway; and in the 3rd (no episode identified), Cistron discovers what he thinks is his first "pube," a greyness pilus on his breast that turns out to be his dad's. Of the three clips, just the offset is fully animated, the second and third appearing in unfinished animatic form, but all are what yous'd await from Bob's Burgers clips, with familiar characters behaving in familiar means that have somehow managed to stay funny and sweet even after a decade and modify.

In terms of big reveals, Bouchard and Smith spent some time chatting about the two-part season finale in which a "[s]ignificant amount of episode takes place in Tina's erotic fiction in which she'south exploring a kind of Blade Runner dark fantasy." The finale manifestly broke one of the cadre rules of the show by featuring a segment driven more than by animation and (wordless) music than dialogue, but everyone sounded excited about information technology. "If nosotros practise information technology this way, it'll be the longest bridge of just music and visuals we've done to this point," Bouchard explained. It was also, every bit a tardily console question from a fan revealed, the only episode in the season to lean heavily into film parody, which is a relief; some of Bob's all-time episodes riff on popular film, only such riffing tin also exist a crutch for blithe shows, and information technology's good to know that this one is all the same using information technology sparingly.

Bouchard brought up the long awaited Bob's Burgers movie, which is still very much happening even if Bouchard was unable to give any specific information about it. "Nosotros're going to be in theaters, that's my pledge," Bouchard assured the cast and the audience, promising "I guarantee it volition be the all-time picture we could possibly make," and describing the project as a "musical comedy mystery run a risk and kind of a coming of age story."

Information technology would be like shooting fish in a barrel to dismiss this every bit and then much vaporware until it's really released, but Bouchard'southward excitement near the project is contagious, and given how consistently the prove even so is, it's hard non to promise the big screen outing will be, much similar this panel was, a pretty practiced fourth dimension.

Bob's Burgers flavour 12 premieres on Sept. 26.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2021/7/27/22595916/bobs-burger-season-12-movie-plans-comic-con-2021