Bob’s Burgers and The Simpsons are indelibly linked. Both strive to highlight the ordinary lives of an American family, and it speaks to the growing class divide and economic downturn that the struggling Belchers represent the new normal, while The Simpsons, with two cars in the garage in a suburban neighbourhood on the salary of a single working man (despite some single episode stories, Marge has remained a stay at home wife), have long been outdated. Bob’s Burgers was attached to The Simpsons – and Family Guy – during Animation Domination, and began as the struggling newbie riding coattails before growing into the more reliable, consistently high quality toon compared to its cousins. They are similar in so many ways, but their movies feel very different.
