Bob’s Burgers: “It Snakes A Village” (Episode 3.18)

Bob’s Burgers has always had a great fondness for the unusual. One of the main lessons that the show constantly comes back to without ever coming right out and stating is the idea that we are all a bit weird, and that’s completely OK. In the Bob’s Burgers universe, Gene can become best friends with a talking outside toilet, and his family and friends will support him in that—or Louise can wear rabbit ears for far too long into her adolescence, yet no one tries to talk her out of it. There’s a welcoming nature to Bob’s Burgers.
Now, any show can show us people with weird quirks and let us laugh at them—just check out any reality TV show ever—but Bob’s Burgers shows that it is our eccentricities that make us normal. Being odd is normal. In “It Snakes A Village,” Bob’s Burgers has the Belcher family addressing once again (yet still effectively) that being strange is the norm.
For the first time, we meet Linda’s parents, who live in a senior living center in Florida. Linda’s parents are much quieter and calmer than Linda, so much so that they have no interest in going to the parties thrown by the center. However, because of their lack of involvement, they could possibly be thrown out of their home and are threatening to move to New Jersey with the Belchers. This is the last thing Bob wants, so he has to figure out how to get Linda’s parents to be more active. It just turns out that the parties they aren’t going to are swinger parties. Not like dancers. Or golfers.