I'll fill this out later

Still figuring things out

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Trying my hand at writing Bob's Burgers fanfic. Unfortunately my brain spends far more energy on coming up with terrible pun burgers than actually writing.

That said, and this may be my egotism talking, the If I Gouda Turn Back Thyme Burger is gold.

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Sometimes artists like to hide subtle messages in the background. Sometimes. Not always though.

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I want to take a moment to talk about something I noticed when I was watching the latest Bobs Burgers episode The Amazing Rudy.

Several scenes are designed to mirror an earlier scene. I'll go through a few here.

At breakfast Rudy eats scrambled eggs. A dish composed of one ingredient that has a very messy look.

At the Belcher's he has the lasagna that, despite having far too many ingredients, has a much more defined structure.

His dad discusses the upcoming dinner with Rudy with the camera placed behind glass.

Gene discusses the upcoming dinner with Rudy, again the camera is again placed behind glass.

Rudy and his dad go to a store to return something. The store is very tidy and clean

The Belchers are at a store buying something. The store is far busier with a variety of things on the shelves.

The climactic moment of both dinners involve Rudy accidentally spilling something. In the first case water.

In the second, the truth.

Rudy is shown twice at the center of a group positioned far lower than them. Tina and Gene are literally partitioned off in this shot to allow the audience to focus on the connection between Bob and Linda and Louise and Rudy.

The final comparison I want to make is the beginning and the end. A bird leaves the nest alone in the morning. At night two kids leave together. There's stuff to be said about how the birds represent Bob and Linda and how Bob and Linda are positioned to parallel Rudy and Louise but this isn't a ship evidence post. I mean, if you ship you spotted all that straight away, no need for me to tell you.

The Amazing Rudy might be on a structural level the finest episode Bobs Burgers has ever made. An incredible amount of care must have went into this episode and I hope future episodes can be as great as this one.