Bob Belcher Is Bi
Added 2021-11-18 21:54:44 +0000 UTC“Turkey in a Can” (November 24, 2013)
Why did the fourth-season Thanksgiving episode of Bob’s Burgers make some people think Bob Belcher is bisexual? In short, it’s a single line — “I’m mostly straight” — but the real answer is a more complicated one that has to do with the show’s queer sensibility, its overall gentle nature and the fact that Bob is a TV patriarch who operates differently than Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin. Who's the real sloppy bear?
Read the Mary Sue’s piece on Bob Belcher being a bi icon, which is probably the best-written argument in favor of this.
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Comments
I guess I've never read him as genderfluid so much as a free-spirit who reads as kind of gay in the way most creative little boys do, wether they grow up to be gay or not.
Drew Mackie
2021-11-21 19:59:04 +0000 UTCGreat ep! Though I was surprised the subject of Gene's genderfluidity didn't come up at all.
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2021-11-21 18:48:47 +0000 UTCLoved the deep psychological read of Bob you snuck in at the very end!
Erin Fletcher
2021-11-19 19:39:41 +0000 UTC
