BoB’s creator of Burgers says optimism is the key to success after 300 episodes

Hit 300 episodes in today’s television landscape is almost unheard of, but Bob Burger He just took it out. The longtime animated series kicked off its sixteenth season with the Milestone episode “Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Apertura” and Creator Loren Bouchard He admits that the result still seems surreal.

“I mean, a boy can dream, right? We didn’t dare” think “would have lasted so long, but we had hope for sure,” said Bouchard of the sitcom Fox, who was previewed in 2011. “I also know the net and the study. That was the concert, right? See if you can do a show to come after the Simpsons.”

Produced by the 20th television animation, the series built a faithful audience with its moving mix of humor, characters on the ground and acute narrative.

The Belcher family, which includes Bob (H. Jon Benjamin), Linda (John Roberts), Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Louise (Kristen Schaal) Continues to make their little hamburger work as you sail in the daily chaos.

Bouchard attributes the show’s power of resistance to the characters themselves. “In the end, if you are making a comedy based on the character, then you have to give credit to the characters for any success you could achieve. People must want to spend time with them.

The 300th episode is found at that connection with a nostalgic look at the first days of the restaurant while Bob underlines for the collection of prices and Linda is preparing to give birth. It is a classic story of Bob that is felt, fun and rooted in optimism.

“It is a confident show on a family of the working class with this irrational, creative dream, just profitable in the center-the restaurant. And since they never age, we will never know if they have success or will fail, but we hear their push and their fundamental optimism and this is probably precious for some people,” Bouchard explained.

“Optimism is an underestimated and complicated thing. The cynics can reject it, but this is because when it is bad in entertainment, it plays as Schmaltz. Bob is of a more gritty and profound hope and how it works for you too in difficult times.”

That balance of humor and sincerity is what keeps the show fresh even after so many years. Bouchard says it is still seen in the characters, depending on the day. “[It] It changes every day, and just when I think it is referring to one, I will know that I am actually behaving like any other. “

And what about an ending? Don’t expect one soon. “We will continue to do the show as long as people want to see it and until we have stories to tell. In a certain sense we have just started.”

After 300 episodes, Bob Burger It continues to serve a perfect mix of comedy, heart and hope, and it seems that the Belckers still have many stories to tell.

Source: Variety