1. Food Truckin’ (Season 2/Episode 5)
Hop on the truck kids, and don’t forget the sleeping bags, oh and Tina’s body pillow Jeffrey too! The mama of all episodes and a long standing personal favorite, the Belcher’s take the burger biz on the food truck circuit. Linda’s all hopped on bennies and she’s not taking no for an answer! Bye bye everyone else’s side mirrors.
This episode is packed full of quality laughs – Bob buys a crappy food truck in spite of how stupid it is, the kids find a way to trash everyone else’s business online and lie about the quality of their own food to win a check, there’s a sexually charged concert, and a drunken riot. What more could you ask for?
2. Ear-sy Rider (Season 3/Episode 1)
No one messes with Louise – no one. Well, except for when Logan steals away her bunny ears, oh my! This will definitely not go well for him. Conveniently, just as the title suggests (a wonderful nod to a New Hollywood classic), a badass hardcore motorcycle gang floods into Bob’s place after a funeral over at Mort’s. They trash the place and for that Bob earns a favor.
Louise supplies much of the humor and guts in this one by virtue of her fury and self-reliance. Unbeknownst to Bob, she calls in the favor and gets back what’s hers. Those precious pink bunny ears. Oh, and a biker named after the dirty part of a truck gives birth in one of the booths.
3. The Belchies (Season 2/Episode 1)
Without a doubt a Bob’s classic, there’s nothing quite like exploring an abandoned taffy factory, looking for treasure and getting trapped in the belly of the beast just as it’s getting demolished. You know it’s funny when Louis’ yelled sarcasm from a booby trapped pit transcends laughter and brings on the tears.
Luckily our favorite family makes it out alive and in one piece, perhaps Linda was right, Bob’s penis made the kids, and it helped find them. There’s nothing quite like being a pill popping sex freak for a day. A shame they didn’t stay long enough to collect the hidden treasure!
4. Art Crawl (Season 1/Episode 8)
Ohhh Gayle, be careful around her, she’s unstable! Thanks to her wall of anuses, Bob loses out on business during Art Crawl – the town’s crappy seashore-themed art festival. No matter, our little entrepreneur Louise finds a different angle, babyyyy. She may be a little harsh on her “clients” but don’t worry, mama’s gonna take care of them.
In a bit of a role reversal, and in spite of Edith’s barring of the anuses as Art Crawl president (or something), Bob embraces Gayle’s animal paintings, and asks for more and bigger too! He. Won’t. Be. Told. What. To. Do.
Luckily just before Bob gets hauled away by the police, Louise has the cash to pay off Edith, the “Reflections” store owner, for her damaged paintings. Don’t worry, trust me, it’s funny, Bob loses it, it’s a whole thing. Don’t ask questions – shush – shut your mouth, it’s Art Crawl.
5. Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks (Season 3/Episode 7)
There’s nothing quite like that first time your dad gives you the wheel, it’s a shame Tina got her shot and couldn’t possibly help herself to avoid hitting the only other parked car in the otherwise empty lot.
After a bunch of insurance fraud involving some kind of bird native to Asia, a flooded basement, and a house fire, Tina is ready to break, and Bob is desperate to find a way out of the clutches of a fraudulent insurance adjuster.
Luckily Gene is standing by with his fart sounds and keyboard, recording everything the fraudulent adjuster admits to about the lies, finally freeing the Belchers from this nightmare.
The worst part? Tina hit Jimmy Pesto’s car! Really takes the fun out of those discount napkins.
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