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The 200th Bob's Burgers episode was a very special event for Bob's Burgers, and that is why I wanted to talk about it. Bob's Burgers caught fire the night before a very important day, Oceanfest! Linda enters a bad mermaid sculpture in the Oceanfest sculpture contest, and the Belcher kids want to make it look better, but it seems as if they started the fire. The Belcher kids feel bad about how horrible they were for causing the fire, and when they can not hand out fliers and learn the last thermal couple was sold to a shrimp restaurant which had not open yet, they question if they should rationalize another horrible thing to undo the first horrible thing that they did. Tina writes a note on one of the flyers for when Louise and Gene break the window with a brick and steal the thermal couple, but they do not have the heart to do it after all. Tina, Gene and Louise come back to Bob's Burgers with no other fliers given out and ask Linda to back their things, but Pam Shrimple returns with the note Tina wrote her and gives them the thermal couple since her restaurant does not open for another month. Ron and Hugo, who inspected Bob's Burgers the day before Oceanfest, visit again because Ron needs Hugo to apologize to Bob for throwing around the greasy rags, which combusted and started the fire. How ironic that the health inspector unintentionally started a restaurant fire! The Belcher kids are happy to learn they did not start the fire and decide to not move out. Linda rewards Teddy and Pam with a free burger on the house for helping to fix their restaurant, and she is happy to see her freaky mermaid get a chance to win the sculpture contest after all. I think it is unlikely that the people who took a picture by the mermaid were the actual sculpture judges taking pictures for the paper, but it was nice to give Linda hope regardless.

Pam Shrimple had a very familiar-sounding voice to me, and I was happy to learn it was Stephanie Beatriz, who still sounds like Conelly from Twelve Forever. A year after Twelve Forever was cancelled, it was a very special treat to hear Conelly's voice again at the end of Bob's Burgers' 200th episode. Even if you have never heard of Twelve Forever, the 200th Bob's Burgers episode is still an important episode worth watching because it emphasizes focus on Bob's relationship with his kids, and how much they care about helping Bob Belcher serve his Burgers when the chips are down. He was happy that they did the right thing by not stealing Pam's thermal coupler, yet he was also happy that they would almost commit theft to rescue their burger family business. The title of this episode was about Tina, Gene and Louise being bad kids, but the point of the title and the plot was that they had to face the error of their ways and become better kids. In Family Guy, Brian's a Bad Father would have more of a point as a title if that episode was less shallow and had Brian care about trying to be a better father for Dylan instead of using his position as an actor to get hired as a writer on Parent Boppers. It was nice to hear Conelly tell Bob Belcher that he had great kids who did not steal from her, but still wrote a note just in case because they wanted her thermal coupler. If Conelly knew how Reggie Abbott changed her ways to fix Todd's 13th birthday, she could also tell Todd that Reggie is a great friend and win Reggie's heart in the process. In most Bob's Burgers episodes, Louise, Gene and Tina have one plot at school and Bob, Linda and Teddy have another plot at their restaurant, so it is nice to see episodes like this and Best Burger that incorporate the whole family into a single plot where the kids are challenged to rescue the business.