Fox always seems to have the most success on Sunday night with animated series that don’t stray too far from what’s already successful — namely, anything from “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane.
Last year, “Sit Down, Shut Up,” from the executive producer o
f “Arrested Development,” was a bomb. But I hope the network has better luck with “Bob’s Burgers” (8:30 p.m. Sunday, Channel 13), an unexpectedly amusing comedy meal.
The first episode begins with the grand re-re-reopening of Bob’s Burgers, a burger joint in a beach town, just down the street from an amusement park.
Bob (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) assigns his children their tasks, but that often seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Grill cook Tina (Dan Mintz) has an itchy crotch, son Eugene (Eugene Mirman) doesn’t know the difference between being entertaining and annoying as he tries to get passers-by to sample the burgers, and youngest daughter Louise (Kristen Schaal) wants to change the burger of the day to “The Child Molester” (“comes with candy”).
On top of that, Bob’s wife, Linda (John Roberts), expects a surprise wedding-anniversary gift, but Bob has forgotten about the occasion. And then the health inspector shows up.
“They’re down in the basement grinding the meat right now,” Louise tells the inspector, who’s looking for her parents. “That’s not a euphemism; they really are grinding the meat.”
From there, the absurdities only grow as the public comes to believe Bob is serving burgers made of human meat harvested from the crematorium next door.
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