About “Bob’s Burgers” in a few words:

Bob’s Burgers is an animated sitcom that follows the Belcher family, who run a struggling burger restaurant in a seaside town. The show focuses on the family’s quirky personalities and their misadventures in the restaurant business, as well as their relationships with the colorful characters in their community. With its unique blend of heartwarming moments and offbeat humor, Bob’s Burgers has become a fan favorite and has earned critical acclaim since its debut in 2011.

Meet the characters from Bob’s Burgers

Bob Belcher

Bob is the tired, stubborn heart of Bob’s Burgers — practical, proud, and secretly sentimental about his burgers. He grumbles a lot and has a very specific way of taking care of his family and his grill (also he will judge your mayonnaise choices, probably). He’s reliable to a fault but can be hilariously oblivious to chaos around him, like the world is a baffling seasonal special. There’s a low-key artistic streak too; he names burgers like they’re children and sometimes hums like he’s composing an opera — maybe that’s a lie, but maybe not. He gets exasperated easily but you can feel that genuine, exhausted love in everything he does.

Tina Belcher

Tina is the awkwardly honest teenager who lives in a perpetual blush and a notebook full of… feelings (and horses, and sweaty romance scenes). She’s earnest to a fault, the kind of person who’ll say the thing other people won’t and then apologize with a very small, embarrassed laugh. There’s this deadpan monotone delivery that makes everything more hilarious and kind of profound at the same time. She loves butts, zombies, and writing dramatic fanfic — and yet she’s also weirdly mature about loyalty and rules, like rules are best when bent slightly. She’s awkward but sincere, and you can see her trying very hard to be brave even when she’s terrified.

Gene Belcher

Gene is pure chaos and joy wrapped in a keyboard and a terrible one-liner. He is loud, weirdly philosophical about snacks, and will compose a jingle for anything — and I mean anything (including the sadness of a toaster). His energy is like ketchup on a hot dog: unnecessary maybe, but absolutely essential. He’s childlike but not stupid; he understands feelings through sound effects and belly laughs, which somehow works. He alternates between being a mastermind of nonsense and the most sincere friend you could ask for, sometimes in the same breath.

Linda Belcher

Linda is the big, unabashed cheerleader of the family — singing at minor inconveniences and turning every disaster into a show tune. She’s loud, optimistic to the point of sheer willpower, and terrifyingly confident about bets she invented five minutes ago. Also simultaneously nurturing and flammable — she loves a good hug and a dramatic rant with equal enthusiasm. She has wildly specific obsessions (mystery meat? show tunes? margaritas?) and will commit fully, sometimes confusing happiness with spontaneous costumes. She’s the kind of person who will decorate your sadness into glitter and then take you out for a burger and a dance.

Louise Belcher

Louise is tiny, ferocious, and slightly sociopathic in the best way — cunning, quick, and always two steps ahead in whatever scheming game she’s playing. She’s sharp-tongued, terrifyingly confident, and also secretly very soft about the family (but she would never tell you that, she’d just set a trap to prove it). She loves chaos diagrams, disguises, and manipulating adults, and yet she has moments of ridiculous loyalty. She insists she’s in control and is probably right, except when she randomly bursts into a mood where she wants to be babied — UGH, don’t tell her I said that. She’s the most dangerous kind of kid: brilliant, kind of terrifying, and impossible to stop.

Teddy

Teddy is the earnest, slightly neurotic regular who treats Bob’s place like his emotional clubhouse. He’s loyal to a fault, a walking pile of bad luck and good intentions who will show up with questionable advice and a Band-Aid for your heart. He has weird hobbies (handyman hero by day, amateur conspiracy podcast listener by night?) and an almost pathological need to be needed. He cries at commercials, tells long, rambling stories that go nowhere, and will defend the Belchers with the fierce dignity of a dog. He’s a lovable mess and somehow the softest, most dependable part of the whole gang.

Mr. Frond

Mr. Frond is the school guidance counselor who genuinely believes in bureaucracy and passive-aggressive policies as emotional support. He tries so hard to be progressive and helpful but gets tangled in his own procedural spaghetti — bless him, he means well, most of the time. He’s the kind of guy who will organize a sensory assembly and then have a meltdown over a missing sign-in sheet. There’s an anxious optimism to him; he imagines himself as a guide for troubled youths and sometimes accidentally becomes one, awkwardly. He’s equal parts earnest, overwhelmed, and oddly committed to a poster board of feelings.