I have no way to explain it, but the episode felt off to me? I didn't hate it, I'll definitely watch it when I do my rewatches but it didn't feel like that whimsical holiday sort of episode. At least at the end of The Hauntening we got a Boys 4 Now song, this one just kinda...ended.

Couple notes: my hair is naturally fine and curly, so it HAD to be plastered to my head just to stay straight and would not flip up…I did try. The glasses are actually real and my own, as is the horrible, uncomfortable posture. ;)

Trying to make the best of going stircrazy. Haven't seen the sun in a week! Gonna make a "Bobs Burger" for lunch. I love garlick, onion, mustard and curry flavors (probably not all of those at once) any suggestions?

Not gonna leave my neighborhood...super fancy ingredients will be impossible for me.

We are partial to Teddy-heavy episodes 🎃

It was a last second costume, but I think it worked! Even made an easy breezy shoe box!

When she talks, people listen.

Kia ora, i'm wanting to 3d model the Belchers apartment and restaurant. I have found other renders and sections, plans etc on line SO HELPFUL. but i can't find dimensions ? is this guess work? 14ft floor to ceiling? i just wondered if anyone had more info <3 tia

Me, my wife, our best friend, and our cat!

The wrench does. The screwdriver doesn’t know ANYTHING! And don’t ask the pliers!

Was trying to think of a “pumpkin of the day” title but could only come up with “don’t squash your dreams”.

Went with the classic bob

Wife said I couldn’t shave but I think it still works. Bob just living his best beaded self.

I know it's just a cartoon, please let it go and don't read this if you don't want to.

TLDR at the end

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Rewatching the show and I just had some thoughts about Bob and his father. Their bad blood seems to center around creativity and emotional freedom -- enough freedom to take the edge off take his mind off a boring/kind-of-fun internship at his parent's diner. Bob's mother encouraged and indulged her son, enough so for him to be able to tolerate his father's slights and criticisms. But when she died, the loving energy she used to nurture both Bobs left the two facing each other on opposite sides of this big chasm. Very quickly, they realize they don't know each other at all. Big Bob has emotionally neglected Bob so much so, they can't bond. And the only person who really understood both of them was gone - she couldn't soften their edges when they clashed anymore.

All of this to say, I think Big Bob is a bad father. Not because he couldn't connect with his son. I think he's a bad father because he couldn't put his emotions aside enough to take care of the only reminder he had left of the person he loved most in the world.

I'm not saying that he needed to immediately change his attitude or personality after his wife died. But I honestly think he deeply neglected Bob emotionally as a kid and needs to acknowledge this before he's shown any love from Bob. I think it was selfish for him to keep putting Bob down at every turn. He decided to wallow in misery instead of taking care of his son. It reminds me of the episode where Gene and Bob go do that swingy thing for Vday. Bob says something along the lines of how he needs to ignore every parental instinct and let go of his son. Bob knew the only thing they needed was to get over their fears and let go. It was safe, no one was likely going to get hurt and Bob knew this. But his fatherly instinct kicks in and protecting his child is the most important thing to him.

I just think that BIg Bob was of the mentality that solely he lost someone, his wife. I genuinely don't think he cared much about Bob as a kid. He never seemed to take into consideration that his son was also grieving for his mother. I just find it sad that instead of taking care of his kid, the only meaningful thing his wife left behind on this earth and presumably the only family close to him, he put himself first. Any bit of her he saw in his son, he wanted to stomp out because HE couldn't bare to be reminded of her. He didn't care how much it hurt Bob to be put down all the time and ordered around all day by someone who wouldn't talk to you.

It just showed Bob that his dad loved his wife more than him, seeing as he never let him grow and was not emotionally forthcoming in any way. Again, he didn't need to open up overnight, but he should have put in more effort to take care of Bob, all the family he had left.

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It's sad that Big Bob didn't see his wife's loving spirit and energy carry on in Bob. He saw it all as dangerous. It just touched me because I have a parent exactly like Big Bob. The episode of Bob having to apologize to Big Bob for raising his voice and calling him out made me so sad because it happened to me. It was obviously years and years of hurt that Bob exploded with. And no one cared. He was actually the wrong one somehow.

I raise your Peter pans labyrinth a Louise herself as Peter pans labyrinth:)