Cookies help us deliver our Services. This is all detailed in the episode-sending song "Taffy Butt," a perfect parody of Cyndi Lauper's Goonies theme song "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough." They play the theme song for the show a few times during the episode and the end credits. None of the films or actors in the series are known.
Banjo, in turn takes its influence from the similar-sounding Django, a 1966 film (starring Franco Nero as the titular, nonverbal gunfighter) which came first in a series of real-life, Italian-made Westerns. Bobs kill the turkey.

Co-creator Loren Bouchard told Entertainment Weekly that he thinks his show takes place "somewhere in the outer boroughs" of New York City "or on the northern Jersey shore.". After seeing Tina make a new friend, Linda begins invading her space at a heroine conference.
It was about a kid named Brendon (Brendon Small) who makes ambitious films in his basement with best friends Melissa (Melissa Bardin Galsky) and Jason (Bob's Burgers' H. Jon Benjamin) when he's not listlessly playing soccer. Linda, however, ropes Bob into making a spaghetti dinner for the school for free. Original songs are almost as common on Bob's Burgers as are "burger of the day" puns and teen Tina bluntly discussing the body parts of a member of the opposite sex. Lolla-Pa-Foods-A offers entertainment in addition to food, and its headliner is Tabitha Johansson, a well-known singer and "sexy pianist."

It was more grueling banjo, than dueling banjo. Meanwhile, Tina takes care of Bob's restaurant eraser, in an attempt to get her own cell phone. I know the writers have done a tribute for another Tarantino movie when they did the Reservoir Dogs scene with the wet wily scene later in the series. It ran for just a few episodes on the now-defunct UPN before jumping to Adult Swim for four seasons, where it became a cult hit. Bob understands her better. For example, the E.T. When Bob finds out that Linda has secured a pet agent to fund the showbiz career of Gayle's cat, Mr. Business, he attempts to help the cat in getting his big break. That's a shout out to the profession and catchphrase of King of the Hill main character Hank Hill, who sells "propane and propane accessories. The Belchers find themselves in a full-blown investigation when Bob secures a new meat provider who claims to save clients money on their orders. Meanwhile, Bob tries to figure out who is stealing his pumpkins. The main protagonist is a sometimes hapless regular guy named Bob, not unlike Gilligan, who was portrayed by Bob Denver. Gene comes into the room to watch, and Louise feels left out of daddy-offspring bonding time, particularly in the coming days when Bob acquires a massive DVD box set of the entire 18-movie Banjo franchise for him and Gene to binge-watch. He introduces Gene and Louise to the series while doing "burnt unit" with Louise. These names come not from geography or local historical figures, but from the classic 1932 Marx Brothers comedy film Horse Feathers. Who did Bob's Burgers producers enlist to sing "Taffy Butt?" Louise befriends this episode's Sloth stand-in, a man made of taffy named Taff, who turns out to be full of gold. Then there's Styx's Kilroy Was Here from 1983, about a fascistic future government led by the evil Dr. Righteous who imprisons a freedom-fighting rocker named Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (or R.O.C.K.). Good to know, I didn't realize there was an original, I thought it was more of a play on the mariachi with the whole "he doesn't play it for fun, he's just hiding his gun". A suite of songs on Rush's 1976 album 2112 are about the totalitarian priests of the Temples of Syrinx, who by the year 2112 control all parts of life, but they're eventually challenged by a guy with a guitar. In the episode "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal," while the rest of the family is occupied at the home of landlord Mr. Fischoeder, posing as his relatives, Bob is left all by his lonesome to prepare Turkey Day dinner, and he liberally drinks from a bottle of absinthe, a strong alcoholic spirit said to have hallucinogenic properties. These also occasionally reference movies from the '80s, which isn't hard to do considering that era gave the world many films about kids having crazy adventures free of adults.

Is it a dumb question because it's so obvious? And the short-lived business next door to the restaurant is "Pro-Pain Accessories: Dominatrix Supplies." Teddy tries to impress his ex-wife, Denise, when the Belchers accompany him for a ride on his newly restored boat. Meanwhile, Bob finds himself alone when Teddy decides to help a bunch of cyclists. : the Outside Toilet," finds Gene becoming best friends with a high-tech talking toilet he discovers in the woods. ", © 2020 Looper.com. The seventh season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers began airing on Fox in the United States on September 25, 2016, and concluded on June 11, 2017.

Groucho Marx stars in the movie as Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the newly appointed president of Huxley College. The pest control truck belongs to "Dale's Dead Bug," the one-man extermination company operated by King of the Hill conspiracy theorist Dale Gribble. Welcome To Banjo Bobs. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BobsBurgersS1E9SpaghettiWesternAndMeatballs. Sometimes it's a longer, orchestrated version of a snippet explored earlier in the installment, and sometimes it's a fully written and recorded original composition. The films influence Gene, who learns lessons about conflict resolution from Banjo, which he uses to take down a joke-stealing bully. Django, Django Shoots First, and Return of Django. Audiences felt bad when Gene took away her spotlight and her friend.

Reality slips away for Bob as he descends into a hallucinatory fantasy sequence. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

For example, Tina, Louise, and Gene Belcher all attend the simply but seemingly arbitrarily named Wagstaff School.

Cell: 505-350-2815. It's a silly series, what with Linda Belcher's impromptu songs and Tina's obsession with sexy zombies, but it's also a warm, feel-good show about a strong family unit. Bobs Burgers Topsy. The family gets called to cater to Tina's conflict resolution dinner, where Linda intends to one up the last year's dinner. Since 2011, the animated sitcom has told the tale of the Belcher family, operators of a struggling burgers-only restaurant located just below their apartment. Bob's Burgers is far and away the biggest success in the career of co-creator Loren Bouchard, running for the better part of ten years and generating a feature film. Bobs Burgers Banjo. For example, the pest control truck parked in front of Bob's Burgers always bears a different, pun-oriented name — e.g. Gene butts heads with Choo-choo, a kid at school who always interrupts Gene's attempts to tell a joke by blurting out the punchline. There was a problem playing this track. However, the 2018 episode "The Hurt Soccer" is loaded with subtle Home Movies homages.