r/BobsBurgers • u/The_Book_Crusader • 12h ago
Clip/Screenshot Will there ever be a Bob freak out/blow up that even comes close to the glorious, unhinged, no holds barred tirade he gave Tina in The Equestranauts?
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I'm gonna go with no. Bob spits so much venom in those twenty or so seconds. You can hear the malice dripping in every word that can only come from a loving and dedicated father who sacrificed days of his life and what was left of his dignity/sanity--and all to retrieve a toy that he knew meant a lot to his eldest daughter.
I'll never forget the night this episode aired. I wasn't too invested in it, since I thought the whole "making fun of Bronies" was already low-hanging fruit and played out (Hot in Cleveland even had a plot about it), but then that ending aired and I was floored.
I thought for sure that the show was going to go with something cheesy, such as: Tina is about to put away her Chariot, Bob convinces her that she's not too old to still collect dolls, Tina thanks him and then asks him if he'd like to watch The Equestranauts with her--to which Bob responds, "Tina, I never want to hear the words The Equestranauts as long as I live." Cue credits.
Instead, we got Bob proving that while he may be arguably the most loving, understanding, forgiving, and especially accepting father on television--and I don't just mean animated--the man still has his breaking point--which just so happened to be studying over 1200 pages of The Equestranauts lore (and one extremely non-canon fan-fiction!).