Bob’s Burgers 10 Best Pop Culture References Made In The Show

Bob’s Burgers: 10 Best Pop Culture References Made In The Show

Bob’s Burgers is not a show that shies away from pop culture references, and all of its seasons are littered with great throwbacks to movies and TV!

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Some animated shows on television like to meld a fake world with reality. It’s often done by including references to current events, politics, and a favorite, pop culture. The Simpsons became well-known for including elections, real-life actors, and personas in their episodes.

Bob’s Burgers isn’t new to making pop culture references in their show. Some are done subtly like the name for the “Burger of the Day.” In other cases, it’s blatantly obvious by the episode title. For die-hard fans of the show, they may have noticed the show’s homage to many famous television shows, actors, and even well-renowned scenes from movies.

10 Bob’s “Speed” Model

Fans of the show now that besides the often changing next-door business to Bob’s, there’s a mortuary on the other side of it. In the first season, in “Weekend at Mort’s”, the restaurant is getting fumigated. Instead of staying at a shabby motel, Mort offers the Belcher’s his apartment above the mortuary.

The pop-culture reference occurs in Linda and Bob’s bedroom. Linda wants this time away to become the honeymoon they never had. But Bob wants none of it. All he wants to do is build a replica model of the bus from Speed. The 1994 action movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. The replica even comes with a miniature Keanu.

9 Linda’s “West Side Story”

In episode 10 of the first season, Bob butts heads with Jimmy Pesto. Fans know that Pesto is Bob’s sworn enemy who gives him a hard time. In the episode, Mr.Fischoder tells Bob that Pesto put in an offer for his restaurant if they can’t make their lease. Bob wants to give Pesto a piece of his mind.

Riled up he plans to go over. Linda is behind him and refers to the popular musical, West Side Story. She thinks of the rivalry like the one in the storyline. She snaps her fingers to the beat, and sings “We’re going to a rumble.” She even makes a remark about Tom Selleck.

8 Gene’s Adventures With A Talking Toilet

Just by the episode title alone, fans already know what pop culture reference it’s about. In “O.T.: The Outside Toilet,” Gene stumbles upon a state of the art toilet in the forest. He befriends the talking toilet. The episode is meant to mimic the storyline of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Just how there were people after E.T., there’s a man after the toilet because it costs thousands of dollars. One of the movie’s most famous scenes is when Elliot (Henry Thomas) bikes across the sky in front of the moon with E.T. in the basket. A similar scene occurs with Gene and the toilet, except it’s not because of magic.

7 The Deepening

The title of this episode sounds a bit familiar. The whole episode a mock-up version of Jaws. Much like the famous cult classic horror film, a shark terrorizes the local citizens. The show version is a bit different. Instead of a real shark, it’s a mechanical one from a lesser-known movie that was filmed in the town called “The Deepening.”

The shark runs amok as the Belcher children accidentally set it loose. It destroys several stores and burrows its way into Bob’s basement. This is when the movie and show intersect. Teddy is being devoured by the shark and the scene resembles that of the movie.

6 The “Aliens” Inspired School Play

In “Mom, Lies, and Videotape,” Linda is distraught over not being able to attend her children’s Mother’s Day play. This isn’t the first time the show uses a holiday as the premise for an episode. Bob was unable to record each of the children’s plays which only further upsets Linda.

The children have a solution. They retell each of their plays but better seeing as the real ones were tragic. Tina’s retelling is where the pop culture reference comes in. She uses the characters and story elements from the Alien franchise. To add even more, she throws in Freaky Friday. The alien and Tina’s Lt. Ripley character switch bodies.

5 Frond As The Terminator

The Belcher children are yet again in trouble. The school has an exhibition of stories written by the students on why they love Wagstaff. But Tina’s, Louise’s, and Gene’s aren’t displayed because Mr.Frond thinks their inappropriate. Louise’s story shows her dislike for Mr.Frond.

She writes a story inspired by the 1984 movie, The Terminator. A robot from the future is sent back in time to destroy Louise. That terminator resembles Mr.Frond. It even has Darryl whose older version travels back to warn Louise. Many details of the popular movie have been referenced in other on-screen works.

4 Every One Of Louise’s Halloween Costumes

Louise isn’t the average kid. She has a wide knowledge of movies that aren’t considered suitable for children her age. For Halloween, Louise shines in her handmade costumes depicting movie characters. One of them was the killer Anton Chigurh from the movie No Country For Old Men.

Lousie even flips the script on the thriller movie, A Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Louise isn’t the only one who makes pop culture references in her costumes. Gene even dressed up as Queen Latifah during her rapper career.

3 Gayle Of Thrones

This pop culture reference is blatantly obvious. The hit television show Game of Thrones was a worldwide phenomenon. It would have been ill-advised to not had referenced it in Bob’s Burgers. In “The Gayle Tales,” the children are grounded and are given a free pass on one condition.

One of them has to impress Gayle with their imaginative story. Leave it to Louise to come up with a story similar to Game of Thrones. She sets her story in “Catsteros”, a parody of Westeros. Her story is so in tune with the show that even Bob asks her if she’s seen it. Louise suspiciously denies it knowing she probably isn’t meant to watch it.

2 The Crawl Space and The Shining

The show made a famous pop culture reference early on in the first season. In “The Crawl Space,” Bob discovers a crawl space between the walls after repairing a roof leak. Bob becomes trapped but then uses it as an excuse to avoid Linda’s parents who are visiting.

So much time in the crawl space, Bob starts to hallucinate. There’re two references to The Shining. With so many memorable scenes it’s hard to pick. The episode shows Bob talking to Louise’s night light in a setting similar to the bar in the movie. Later, Bob’s scene in the restroom resembles the one in the movie as well.

1 The “Die Hard” & “Working Girl” Play

There’s nothing like some riveting theater drama to make things interesting. Wagstaff is going to perform a musical and ask the students to submit their ideas. Gene proposes a musical inspired by the famous action movie, Die Hard. The one with Bruce Willis’s character making, “Yippee-Ki-Yay” one of the action’s most recognized lines.

While Gene’s play is rejected, Courtney’s Working Girl musical is approved. Working Girl was a 1988 romantic-comedy about love, rivalry, and drama. The episode certainly played on the drama when Gene performs his rival musical in the basement. By the end, Gene and Courtney combine their musicals to create, “Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl”.

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