The Best Episodes Written By Loren Bouchard

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Director's Cut

   S1:E69/2/2001

   Duane has written a rock opera based on Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis,'and he wants Brendon to direct. But the collaboration has a few bugs.

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   8.7/10(6 votes)

   #2 - For Whom the Doll Toes

   S15:E410/27/2024

   It's a mystery within a mystery as Louise stages a murder mystery in a creepy old dollhouse store for reasons that she has trouble explaining.

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   8.4/10(5 votes)

   #3 - Hope N' Mic Night

   S15:E611/10/2024

   The kids want to host an open mic night at the restaurant, but the hidden costs keep mounting and Bob worries that this night will ruin them.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening [300th episode]

   S16:E19/28/2025

   In the 300th episode, Bob can't decide whether to raise the prices as flashbacks occur to when Bob and Linda first opened the restaurant and Linda was pregnant with Tina.

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   8.3/10(11 votes)

   #5 - The Plight Before Christmas

   S13:E1012/11/2022

   Bob and Linda try to attend all three kids' holiday performances at the same time.

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   8.0/10(15 votes)

   #6 - Topsy

   S3:E163/10/2013

   Louise expects to get a charge out of taking down her Thomas Edison-obsessed science teacher when she re-creates one of the famous inventor's experiments that involved electrocuting an elephant.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Get Away From My Mom

   S1:E14/26/1999

   It's hard enough for Brendon to accept that his mother is going on a date, but couldn't she have picked a guy other than Coach McGuirk?

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Episode One

   S1:E15/29/2020

   An event goes awry in the New York park, which Owen manages and lives in with his family. Paige chases a hard news story.

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   7.8/10(8 votes)

   #9 - Amelia

   S13:E225/21/2023

   Louise takes a class assignment - and a few unhelpful comments by Wayne - very personally. And Bob hires a masseur-in-training to give Linda a massage for Mother's Day.

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    7.6/10(15 votes)

    #10 - Burger Wars

    S1:E104/10/2011

    When Bob's eccentric landlord, Mr. Fischoeder, pays the family a visit, he informs Bob that his rival across the street, Jimmy Pesto of Jimmy Pesto's Pizzeria, wants to take over Bob's lease so that he can expand his gift shop. With little time and not enough money, the Belcher family must cook up some business or luck to save the restaurant.

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    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #11 - Crawl Space

    S1:E21/16/2011

    A leaky roof causes Bob to get trapped in a wall while Linda's mother visits.

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12. 

    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #12 - Some Like It Bot: Eighth Grade Runner (1)

    S12:E215/15/2022

    When Tina's new shirt is ridiculed by Tammy and Jocelyn in a Wagstaff News segment called "Wow or Weird," she turns to her erotic friend-fiction and writes about a futuristic world in which she is a robot.

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13. 

    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Purple Rain-Union

    S4:E612/1/2013

    Linda reunites her old band to perform at her high school reunion; a woman who had a crush on Bob in high school attempts to impress him.

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14. 

    7.0/10(30 votes)

    #14 - Human Flesh

    S1:E11/9/2011

    A health inspector's visit coincides with Bob's efforts to bring in customers.

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15. 

    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Some Like It Bot: Judge-bot Day (2)

    S12:E225/22/2022

    Tina is on a mission that could get her into a lot of trouble. Then, her family reads her erotic friend fiction, finds out what Tina is up to and tries to stop her.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Art of the Sucker Punch

    S1:E35/10/1999

    Brendon documents his first fight on video.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - I Don't Do Well in Parent-Teacher Conferences

    S1:E25/3/1999

    Brendon is in danger of being held back when he won't complete the research for his presentation, and Paula isn't helping his cause.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - It Was Supposed to Be Funny

    S1:E79/9/2001

    Brendon decides to add some comic relief to his documentary about Melissa's grandfather, but nobody is laughing.

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