Few shows know exactly what they are from the first episode and fewer still experience no drop-off from one season to the next, especially when they’re not serialized.
Yet Bob’s Burgers, currently 12 seasons and over 200 episodes into its run on Fox’s Sunday animation block, has been a reliable pleasure from the start, with a charmingly low-key seaside backdrop and arguably the best voice cast on television. The one obvious stumbling block for a Bob’s Burgers movie is that the show is so resolutely minor, tied up in the day-to-day anxieties and miscues of a family whose lives rarely expand past the half-block between their restaurant and the decrepit boardwalk down the street. How do you expand the Belcherverse without losing the smallness that makes it great?
