“Bob’s Burgers” is hitting its 300th episode, and the show is celebrating with several special episodes. For the landmark 300th, “Bob’s Burgers” will flash back to the very beginning of the Belchers’ restaurant, exec producer Loren Bouchard told fans Saturday during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
“In the present day Bob is really sweating whether or not to raise prices, and it’s killing him,” Bouchard said. “It sends us on this kind of series of flashbacks to to just what was going on when Bob and Linda started the restaurant.” In the episode, Bob is overwhelmed with cooking for all of his customers — constantly throwing up in the kitchen — while Linda is about to give birth.
Bouchard also revealed a new Halloween episode, in which Teddy takes a job in the store next door, a creepy cult store. Jamie Demetriou (“Fleabag”) guest stars. And a new Christmas episode takes place at a Christmas village.
Among other storylines to come: Gail decides to get married for an art piece and she invites Teddy to officiate.
Also, a previously announced “The Art of Bob’s Burgers” book is finally set to be released later this year, on September 23. “This is a very important book to us,” Bouchard said. “We love the artists’ work on the show, we love the drawings that have gone on, all themillions of miles of pencil lead on paper, and we wanted to celebrate.”
And Bouchard announced a slew of new “Bob’s Burgers” merch to come, including aprons, recipes and new shirts.
The panel featured creator/executive producer Loren Bouchard and supervising director Bernard Derriman, along with stars H. Jon Benjamin (Bob), John Roberts (Linda), Kristen Schaal (Louise), Eugene Mirman (Gene), Dan Mintz (Tina), and Larry Murphy (Uncle Teddy).
“There’s something absolute bizarre about doing 300 episodes of television of the same show across 15 years,” Bouchard said. “I mean, we do live in a bizarro upside down world!”
Retorted Benjamin: “Yeah, look what happened!”
Bob’s Burgers airs on Fox and comes from by 20th Television Animation. The series was created and is executive-produced by Loren Bouchard. Nora Smith, Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Greg Thompson, Jon Schroeder, Steven Davis, Scott Jacobson, Holly Schlesinger, Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin also serve as executive producers. The series was co-developed by Jim Dauterive.
Bouchard opened the panel by thanking the fans in the audience for writing about the show on social media. “We read everything, and I like your criticism. I do. But I will also say you guys are very kind. I love your kind words when you write, when you choose to go on Reddit or wherever, and you write about the things that you like. It is a magical thing. Kind words, you know, in these times, I think especially are wonderful. I appreciate so much that some of you take the time to do that.”
