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When your show hits 200 episodes, you can be forgiven for wanting to make a big deal out of it. Your syndication…
Les Chappell
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Les Chappell is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon. He drinks good whiskey and owns too many hats.
May 18
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Bob’s Burgers is always in a weird place when it comes to its season finales. Because of its occasionally scattered…
May 7
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The mightier the villain does not always mean the mightier the hero. Here are 26 fictional characters who met their…
Apr 27
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“The Handyman Can” marks the return of a beloved episodic structure for Bob’s Burgers, a semi-recurring segment that…
Apr 20
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If there’s one advantage to all this COVID-19 craziness overlapping with a month-long hiatus for Bob’s Burgers, it…
Mar 23
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If there could be a Bob’s Burgers spinoff series focusing on one of the many misfits and oddballs that populate…
Mar 16
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The static nature of a cartoon universe means that Bob’s Burgers will always be on the brink of disaster. If Bob’s…
Mar 9
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In a season that’s seen Bob’s Burgers make impressive strides in building episodes around trickier primary…
Feb 2
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“Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? Life’s a bitch and then you die, right?”
Feb 2
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“You ready for the headliner? Please welcome to the stage... the star of Horsin’ Around and The BoJack Horseman Show!…
Feb 1
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“You can live your whole life like it’s a puzzle, put together from the pieces of different sets. Your whole life…
Feb 1
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“They will see you as a rude dude saying all the things polite society is too limp-dicked to say. This is your way…
Feb 1
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“Okay, when you put it all together, it looks bad.”
Jan 31
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“BoJack, tell us every bad thing you ever did.”
Jan 31
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In a show full of complicated characters, Diane Nguyen is the prime candidate for BoJack Horseman’s most…
Jan 31
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“What is acting? Anyone? Acting is about leaving everything behind and becoming something completely new.”
Dec 9 2019
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Follow the sound of the pipe, follow this song
Dec 1 2019
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In its six years on the air, Silicon Valley has operated under a guiding rule that we’ll call the Hendricks…
Nov 24 2019
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“I actually don’t know what to do when things are going well,” Richard says breathlessly to Monica early in…
Nov 17 2019
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After “Hooli Smokes!” set such a high-water mark for the final season last week, it was a safe bet that “Maximizing…