Bob’s Burgers is an animated sitcom set in a fictional seaside community and surrounds the Belcher family who run the local burger restaurant. The Belchers are Bob and Linda- the parents- and their children Tina (obsessed with butts and ponies), Gene (the goofball and musical fart machine), and Louise (possibly a psychotic evil genius).
The family restaurant, Bob’s Burgers, is run by the whole family and everyone helps where they can from refilling napkin dispensers to repeatedly sitting on new chairs to release the squeaky fart noises before customers can use them.
Bob’s passion is in the burger and his creativity comes from producing some of the more innovative burger recipes and a pun-filled name to go along with them.
We have scoured seasons 1 to 5 of the show to find the literary-themed burger puns created by Bob and his family… We hope you enjoy them!
Season 1:
Hamburger Dinner Theatre
Last of the Mo-Jicama Burger – Comes with Jicama
A pun on The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.
Sheesh! Cab, Bob?
Olive And Let Die Burger
A reference to the James Bond novel Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming.
Spaghetti Western & Meatballs
Shoot out at the Okra Corral Burger
A reference to the events of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a 1957 Western based on the book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
Burger War
The Sound & The Curry Burger
A reference to the novel The Sound & the Fury by William Faulkner.
Weekend at Mort’s
I’ve Created a Muenster Burger
A reference to a Frankenstein quote, a novel by Mary Shelley.
Lobsterfest
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Hamburger
A reference to the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.
Season 2:
Food Truckin’
Chorizo Your Own Adventure Burger
In reference to “Choose Your Own Adventure” books where the readers choose between various scenarios within a story.
Season 3:
Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks
Open Sesame Burger (Served open-faced on a sesame seed bun)
From the story of Ali Baba & the Forty from the Arabian Nights stories.
Broadcast Wagstaff School News
Mushroom With A View Burger – (Porcini on a double decker)
Inspired by A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster.
Topsy
I Know Why the Cajun Burger Sings
In reference to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
Season 4:
Bob and Deliver
I’m OK, You’re Ok-ra Burger
A play on the self-help book I’m OK, You’re OK by Thomas A. Harris.
I Get Psy-chic Out of You
Beets of the Southern Wild Burger
Named after the collection of short stories Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories by Doris Betts.
Ambergris
To Err Is Cumin Burger
Inspired by the phrase often attributed to Alexander Pope, a 17th century English poet: “To err is human; to forgive, divine”.
Season 5:
Tina and the Real Ghost
Kales From the Crypt Burger
In reference to Tales From the Crypt, the title of a series of 1950s horror comic books.
Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise
A Good Manchego is Hard to Find Burger
Inspired by the title A Good Man is Hard to Find, a short story by Flannery O’Connor.
Look out for our next instalment of book-themed burgers from Bob’s Burgers Season 6 and 7 in the future…
Happy reading, Addicts!
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