The low-key comedy seamlessly transfers to the cinema in a slick summer offering that avoids the potholes that have troubled other animated adaptations
Few shows know exactly what they are from the first episode and fewer still experience no drop-off from one season to the next, especially when they’re not serialized.Yet Bob’s Burgers, currently 12 seasons and over 200 episodes into its run on Fox’s Sunday animation block, has been a reliable pleasure from the start, with a charmingly low-key seaside backdrop and arguably the best voice cast on television.
The opening number establishes the lived-in chemistry between Bob , a world-weary and anxious burger flipper, and his wife Linda , whose optimism cannot be suppressed, even when someone is trying to bury her family alive. It’s 8 o’clock in the morning, and Bob is crafting a special burger for the loan officer at the bank, in the faint hope they can get an extension to keep their Ocean Avenue restaurant in business.