It’s been an odd year for San Diego Comic-Con. This year was the second in a row that personal celebrations were canceled due to pandemic-related reasons, but while the 2020 event had the novelty and new horror of a lockdown that people hadn’t fully adjusted to, the ones from the zoom panels dictated by the quarantine from 2021 onwards and peppered with existential fear.
Refers to Bob’s burger then to tackle the problem right in the first place. After presenter (and show creator and co-showrunner) Loren Bouchard introduced the panelists – the lead vocalist and Nora Smith, writer and co-showrunner – he talked about how he wouldn’t ask anyone how they deal with the challenges of the job from home: “It’s boring to talk about recordings from home, I can’t even think of it.”
Bouchard praised the cast and crew for their efforts to keep working on the series under adverse conditions, but the overall tone of the panel was clear from the start: a relentless, borderline manic excitement for what’s to come next.
This autumn, Bob’s burger goes into season 12, a long time for any series but during Bobs may not be at the height of its power yet, but it has found a more than comfortable niche for itself and continues to reliably produce warm, funny, and character-driven episodes without falling into excessive cynicism or caricature. In addition to the talented cast, the secret could be due to a philosophy that Bouchard emphasized with regard to the coming season: “I can imagine that our mission is to make small stories seem big.”
Bouchard immediately got the elephant out of the room and asked the whole group what they were looking forward to most and least about when they went back to work in person. The answers are related to what you’d expect, with most of the cast members simply desperate to see people and find some level of normalcy again; possible complaints ranged from “Maybe the Elevator” (John Roberts, who takes on the voice of Linda Belcher), “I’m not looking forward to being persecuted by the government” (Larry Murphy, who plays Teddy), and Kristen Schaals (the voice by Louise Belcher) fear “absolutely nothing to discuss if we do not act, except for the pandemic”. H. Jon Benjamin (Bob Belcher) was the only one present who had nothing negative to say about his return. When Mintz teased him about losing his “edge,” Benjamin replied, “OK, I don’t like your hair,” which was very funny if you didn’t reduce it to text.
Most of the conversations stayed on the theme of the upcoming season, with Bouchard raving about the joys to come. The show is “ambitious as always” and titles like “Crystal Mess”, “The Pumpkining”, “Driving Big Dummy”, “Seventween Again”, “Beach Please”, “Stuck In The Kitchen With You”, “” Gene’s Christmas Vacation, “” Lost in Bedslation, “” Fomo You Don’t “and others. (Bouchard insists, “We’re not working on these titles at all.”) Bouchard then rattled down a list of upcoming guest speakers for the season and delivered a rapid-fire monologue by name, a mix of well-known cast members for the show and first-time visitors that, though not shocking big names out there, packed with the level of comic and vocal talent that fans of the show have come to expect.
As for the actual content for the upcoming season, the panel offered three short clips that focused on different character pairings. In the first, a scene from the Manic Pixie Crap Show B-story, Linda and Bob received a surprising delivery of flowers that made Linda remember her childhood. (After the clip of Linda doing a monologue about a dog being hit by a hot dog truck, Smith said, “I found out that my father saw his dog die before him after seeing this Episode. “)
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In the second, from “Driving Big Dummy,” Bob and Teddy have an awkward conversation in a truck cabin while dragging a large dummy head down the highway; and in the third (no episode identified), Gene discovers what he thinks is his first “pube,” a gray hair on his chest that turns out to be his father’s. Of the three clips, only the first is fully animated, the second and third appear in unfinished animated form, but all are what you would expect them to be Bob’s burger Clips, with familiar characters behaving in familiar ways that somehow managed to stay fun and cute even after a decade and a change.
Regarding major revelations, Bouchard and Smith spent some time talking about the two-part season finale, in which a “[s]A significant number of episodes take place in Tina’s erotic fiction, in which she explores some sort of dark blade runner fantasy. The finale apparently broke one of the show’s basic rules by showing a section that was driven more by animation and (wordless) music than dialogue, but everyone sounded excited about it. “If we do it this way, it will be the longest amount of pure music and visuals we’ve done,” explained Bouchard. It was also, as a late podium question from a fan revealed, the only episode in the season that relied heavily on the movie parody, which is a relief; some Bobs best episode riff on popular films, but such riffing can be a crutch for animated shows too, and it’s good to know they are still using it sparingly.
Bouchard addressed the long-awaited Bob’s burger A film that still happens a lot, even if Bouchard couldn’t give any specific information about it. “We’ll be in the cinemas, that’s my promise,” Bouchard assured the cast and audience, promising “I guarantee it’ll be the best film we can make” and described the project as a “musical comedy mystery adventure “. and a kind of coming-of-age story. ”
It would be easy to dismiss this as so much vaporware until it actually releases, but Bouchard’s excitement about the project is contagious, and given the persistence of the show, it’s hard not to hope that the big screen appearance will be similar to this panel was going to be a pretty good time.
Bob’s burger Season 12 premieres on September 26th.
