History Characters / BobsBurgersBelcherFamilyFriends

** Both are widows who lost their husbands in freak accidents, but Kathleen had no involvement in her husband's death while Helen is implied to have caused her own husband's death.

** In spite of his sometimes spotty intellect, he was able to assemble a giant, functional Van de Graaf generator in high school (and later provides it for Louise's science fair project). He's also very competent as a contractor, and a surprisingly able babysitter. As long as his back doesn't act up, that is.

** In "Comet-y of Errors", Teddy goes so far as to assume he's cursed ever since a bad experience with a comet from 30 years ago. While it can partially be attributed to Teddy's superstitiousness, it's also another way Teddy shifts blame from himself and his own mistakes. This is best shown when Bob rightfully tells him that there are some things over the past 30 years that were likely his fault (and just things beyond his control), causing Teddy to blow up at this notion and storm off rather than actually consider that some of those things may have been his fault (such as stepping on dozens of rusty nails because he's not watching where he steps).

* WidowWoman: A characteristic she shares with Helen. Mentions that she used to be married but her husband was hit by a train and killed.

* DodgyToupee: He's got hardwood under that rug. It's made obvious by the fact that the color of the toupee doesn't match what remains of his actual hair (the toupee is brown, while what remains of Mort's hair is gray).

* SlippingAMickey: [[AmbiguousSituation Potentially.]] She apparently drugs her husband Tony with "penis pills" all the time, or he willingly takes them regularly. Linda wasn't clear on the details.

* CoolPet: According to "The Ring (But Not Scary)", she has a pet Komodo dragon at home. Prior to the end of "Just the Trip", she also owned a rather large pet snake.

* OperationJealousy: A platonic example occurs in "Drumforgiven" when he is hired by Jimmy Pesto Sr. to do maintenance around his restaurant, and he attempts to use the opportunity to make Bob jealous. However, Bob doesn't actually care (he only feels weirded out that Teddy is even making it out to be a big deal), and Teddy's response is to ''berate'' Bob for ''not'' feeling a little bit jealous about it. Bob exasperatedly is convinced by Linda to act jealous just to put the matter to rest, because it'd be easier than trying to convince Teddy he seriously doesn't mind. Even though Bob's acting could not be any more obvious, Teddy completely buys it.

* {{Yandere}}: She seems to be more milder version of this, however, according to a few episodes, she's stalked exes to the point that she once got a restraining order. She does not want to let go.

** In "Comet-y of Errors", Teddy goes so far as to assume he's cursed ever since a bad experience with a comet from 30 years ago. While it can come off Teddy being superstitious (and he kind of is), it's also another way Teddy shifts blame from himself and his own mistakes. This is best shown when Bob rightfully tells him that there are some things over the past 30 years that were likely his fault (and just things beyond his control), causing Teddy to blow up at this notion and storm off rather than actually consider that some of those things may have been his fault (such as stepping on dozens of rusty nails because he's not watching where he steps).

* StoutStrength: He has enough core strength to lift and throw a moped off a cliff and into the ocean.

* KavorkaMan: It's indicated several times that Teddy isn't exactly a looker, but he nonetheless manages to get several dates throughout the series. And Denise might've been absolutely awful to him, but at one point she actually agreed to marry him.

* GenreSavvy: In "Ambergris", the kids approach him for help selling the titular lump and tell him that it'll be OneLastJob. While reviewing his options, Mickey notes that this means he'll either die or go to jail at the end of it. [[WrongGenreSavvy That said, he ends up doing neither.]]

** Teddy's love and admiration of Bob and his family can get a bit creepy at times, but the Belchers genuinely view him as a friend and he's their most ardent supporter in and out of the restaurant. Gayle shows little to no loyalty towards her sister's family, even [[AbhorrentAdmirer acting sexually aggressive towards Bob on different occasions]] and then her nieces and nephew have almost no decent opinions of her in the slightest with even Linda thinking of her as her good friend and sister at best and an aggravating inconvenience at worst.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: This is downplayed as The Belchers do like Teddy. He is a close family friend and they even consider him a surrogate member of the family. The problem is that he can get far too clingy and obsessed to the point where there's a limit to how much they can take before they want him gone. Bob has even asked if they should just stop being friends with him, and Linda even briefly agreed before taking it back.

** Prior to the end of "Ear-sy Rider", she was part of this with the late Horny Dave.

* NiceGuy: It seems like the show is building up to the reveal that he's not as great a guy as Bob claims, but he's actually just as friendly as Bob remembered, and it's easy to see why Bob and him were friends.

* TooDumbToLive: ''[[ExaggeratedTrope Where do we begin?]]'' All too often Teddy does something that could have landed him in the running for a Darwin Award--and in the case of "Full Bars", his stupidity proves to be dangerous to not just himself but other living things as well. Perhaps the best example is "Adventures in Chinchilla-Sitting", where Teddy attempts to eat pad thai ''while driving''. Then, as if it weren't bad enough, we learn that he's allergic to peanuts[[note]]For those unfamiliar with pad thai, peanuts are a core ingredient[[/note]]... which Teddy has somehow forgotten up until he starts ''choking''. And to top it all off, ''he does it again'' in "The Terminalator II: Terminals of Endearment", eating an eggplant-themed Burger of the Day despite being deathly allergic to it (even though the Burger of the Day name explicitly lists eggplant, he doesn't draw the connection)--sure enough, next time he's on-screen he's in the hospital, barely even able to speak.

* InformedAttribute: It's pointed out in "Friends with Burger-Fits" that he doesn't always order a burger from the restaurant, which is why he's healthier than Teddy despite going there nearly as often. However, if he's shown eating something at the restaurant (and not just sitting at the counter) it's basically always a burger (even in that same episode). In fact, the item he says he often orders (soup) isn't even on the menu.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: It can be hard to tell characters' age range in the art style of the show, but Marshmallow appears to be a wise and experienced middle-aged woman. She claims in "The Bleakening" that she's only twenty-three, barely ''half'' of Bob's age.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Downplayed. The Belchers do like Teddy. He is a close family friend and they even consider him a surrogate member of the family on occasion. The problem is that he can get far too clingy and obsessed to the point where there's a limit to how much they can take before they want him gone. Bob has even asked if they should just stop being friends with him, and Linda even briefly agreed before taking it back.

* {{Irony}}: In the same vein as Gene; the man who will eat literally anything is one of the few characters who ''can't'' eat literally anything (he has a known allergy to peanuts and eggplant).

* KarmaHoudini: He ''is'' arrested at the end of "Bob Day Afternoon", but in "Bob Fires the Kids" it's revealed that during his trial the prosecutor was under a heavy dosage of meth, resulting in a mistrial that made Mickey a free man. He lampshades it during the movie; when his fellow carnies (who are all ex-cons) sing about how they've paid for their crimes, Mickey quickly adds that ''most'' of them have.

* CentipedeDilemma: Teddy is very prone to these. Attempting to give him any instructions for a task will lead him to overcomplicate or outright fail at it, only to point out how simple it was when he finally does figure it out.

** In "Comet-y of Errors", Teddy goes so far as to assume he's cursed ever since a bad experience with a comet from 30 years ago. While it can come off Teddy being superstitious (and he kind of is) it's also another way Teddy shifts blame from himself and his own mistakes when Bob rightfully tells him that there are some things over the past 30 years that were likely his fault (and just things beyond his control), but all Teddy does is blow up at this notion and storm off rather than actually consider that some of those things may have been his fault.

* SlippingAMickey: She apparently drugs her husband Tony with "penis pills" all the time, or he takes them regularly. Linda wasn't clear on the details.

* RelationshipUpgrade: Implied in "Fingers-loose", where she and Teddy are going out to see a movie.

* InadequateInheritor: As leader of the One-Eyed Snakes, he mentions that he's worried about not being able to live up to the legacy of Horny Dave.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Feels the weight of being the new head of the One-Eyed Snakes after the death of their previous leader, Horny Dave. He even admits he feels like he isn't worthy of succeeding Horny Dave and laments how he doesn't have the man's natural authoritative personality.