History WesternAnimation / TheBobsBurgersMovie

Released on May 27, 2022 in the US and select international markets after being pushed back twice due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. A theatrical short known as "[[https://archive.org/details/mybutthazzafever My Butt has a Fever]]" accompanied the film in showings at Alamo Drafthouse movie theaters.

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Tina finally kisses Jimmy Jr. after he returns her barrete-bracelet.]]

* FriendshipTrinket: Tina's storyline has her making a bracelet out of one of her barrettes (a "barra-celet") to give to Jimmy Jr., but can't work up the nerve. [[spoiler:When she has second thoughts about giving it, she thinks it's no use keeping it and throws it into the sea. At the end, Jimmy Jr. brings it back to her after finding it at the beach.]]

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: After a bullet found in Cotton Candy Dan’s skeleton matches Calvin Fishoeder’s gun, everybody but Louise is convinced that he is the murderer. [[spoiler: He’s even planning to flee to Cuba because he doesn’t believe that he’d be able to prove his innocence in court]].

* FriendshipTrinket: Tina's storyline has her making a bracelet out of one of her barrettes (a "barra-celet") to give to Jimmy Jr., but can't work up the nerve. [[spoiler:When the family is kept hostage by Grover, she thinks it's no use keeping it and throws it into the sea. At the end, Jimmy Jr. brings it back to her after finding it at the beach.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Albeit with more emphasis on the "sweet" part. As befitting any ''Bob's Burgers'' story, success is achieved with little to no long-term change. [[spoiler:All the property damage and murder is averted, and Calvin thanks the Belchers for saving him by giving them the money to pay off their loan, saving the restaurant. On the other hand, the loan only covers the ''current'' month, meaning Bob and Linda will have to repeat their efforts for the foreseeable future. Gene's big concert that he'd spent the entire movie hyping up only attracts the attention of his parents and Teddy, but he's content with the turnout and he gets a standing ovation. Tina gets a BigDamnKiss with Jimmy Jr., but just as little commitment as usual.]]

* BigDamnMovie: On aggregate, at least.
* BigWhat: Teddy upon hearing that the Belchers' attempt to extend their bank loan is unsuccessful.

* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: At the Mole Hill, Gene finds a panel with buttons and starts pushing them impulsively, especially one that says "owie". [[spoiler:Pushing that button takes them to the Fischoeders' secret underground club. Later, Bob and Linda arrive and a flashback shows they found it when Linda was also pushing the buttons.]]

Released on May 27, 2022 in the US and select international markets after being pushed back twice due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. A theatrical short known as "My Butt has a Fever" was accompanied in limited runs of the film.

Released on May 27, 2022 in the US and select international markets after being pushed back twice due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:Grover, the Fischoeders' lawyer and cousin, turns out to have been Cotton Candy Dan's murderer, with the implication that he intended to botch Calvin's defense after he got arrested for it.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:The Fischoeders' escape plan involves piloting a submarine-themed roller coaster ride through the sea, all the way to Cuba, completely disregarding that it's a disused ride clearly not designed for actual aquatic travel. Sure enough, Grover knew this from the start and actually worked it into his own plan to kill Calvin and Felix; the two end up trapped on the ocean floor and would have died of suffocation had the Belchers not rescued them.]]

* FantasySequence: Used to set up the kids' main issues throughout the film. Tina finds herself unable to enjoy one about riding horses with Jimmy Jr., Gene imagines a robot arriving all the way from another planet just to tell him how bad his napkin-holder-instrument sounds, and Louise talks out her insecurities about her bunny ears with giant, sapient versions of her toys.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Being a ''Bob's Burgers'' movie, the film leans ''far'' on the idealistic side. Optimism is even a major theme in the film.

* AnimationBump: The animation is quite an improvement over a typical episode of the show, especially when you compare it to the first season. The show's typical look is upgraded with stronger attention to light and shadow, detailed backgrounds, and character animation that is very nice, crisp, and fluid.

* AnimationBump: The animation is quite an improvement over a typical episode of the show, especially when you compare it to the first season. The show's typical look is upgraded with stronger attention to light and shadow, detailed backgrounds, and character animation that is very nice, crisp, and fluid (''especially'' during the musical numbers).

* AnimationBump: The animation is a ''very'' nice improvement over a typical episode of the show, especially when you compare it to the first season. The show's typical look is upgraded with stronger attention to light and shadow, detailed backgrounds, and more fluid animation.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Being a ''Bob's Burgers'' movie, the film is very much on the idealistic side. Optimism is even a major theme in the film.

* BigDamnMovie: On aggregate, at least. Though this isn't the first time the Belchers have feared for their business, or their lives, or even for [[spoiler:the destruction of the neighborhood]], it's certainly not a common occurrence and has only gotten less common as the series goes on.

* OutOfFocus: Gene's plotline gets less attention than the rest of the families'.

** For that matter, the origin of the bunny ears themselves is finally revealed. [[spoiler:They were based on a knit cap worn by Bob's late mother, and knitted for Louise after her first day at preschool. Linda made the ears because she had extra material.]]

** At the Fischoeders' underground lair, [[spoiler:we see a picture of young Calvin and Felix with their dad, showing the mustache that Calvin has repeatedly said Bob's own reminds him of.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Part of [[spoiler:Grover's]] beef with Calvin: members of the Fischoeder family lose access to the family trust if they're convicted of a crime. Calvin's become the sole beneficiary not because he's innocent, but because he's ''never been caught.''

* LowerClassLout: PlayedWith. The Belchers' murder investigation leads them to Wonder Wharf's carnies, who live in TrashyTrailerHomes and are all by their own admission ex-convicts. However, they point out that they've all done the time for their misdeeds, don't deserve their exploitation at the hands of Calvin Fischoeder, and are incensed that they're seen as so disposable that their boss (allegedly) has no issues murdering them.

* CharacterDevelopment:
** Louise always thought her hat it was the thing that makes her brave. She later learns she was alaways brave.
** Bob throught the movie becomes pessimist while Linda tries to cheer him up. During her darkest hour, Bob becomes optimistic and his optismism is what saves his family.

* DudeWheresMyReward: Bob and Linda are a little grumpy that their prize for [[spoiler:exonerating Calvin, saving him from certain doom, and averting the destruction of the neighborhood amounts to a single month's rent forgiveness, having their loan payment made for them, and Calvin's organ accompaniment at Gene's bandstand performance.]]

* GroinAttack: From Linda to Bob. She didn't do it hard though, she was just trying to make a point.

* JurisdictionFriction: Being in the burglary department, Sergeant Bosco has absolutely no business investigating the murder, and as such spends his screentime trying desperately to convince anyone who'll listen how much cooler his beat is than homicide. [[spoiler:The Belchers throw him a bone at the end of the movie by tipping him off to Grover's location, allowing him to be first on the scene.]]

* MoodWhiplash: After a touching {{Reveal}} regarding Louise's bunny ears hat, Gene asks if anybody wants to talk about the time he wore a bucket on his head for a month. Bob says no and that he was worried about Gene during that phase.

* OutOfFocus: Gene gets the least focus out of all the Belchers during the movie. With his plotline being very minor and not important to the plot, and mostly just going along with Louise and Tina.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:When Grover is revealed as the murderer and tried to kill Tina, Gene, and Louise alongside their parents and the Fischoeder brothers. Also later on when he tried to bury the entire family alive.]]

* LowerClassLout: PlayedWith. The Belchers' murder investigation leads them to Wonder Wharf's carnies, who live in TrashyTrailerHome[=s=] and are all by their own admission ex-convicts. However, they point out that they've all done the time for their misdeeds, don't deserve their exploitation at the hands of Calvin Fischoeder, and are incensed that they're seen as so disposable that their boss (allegedly) has no issues murdering them.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Grover Fischoeder]].

* CellPhonesAreUseless: The show, thankfully, does a little bit of the work for the movie on this one: the Belchers have been repeatedly demonstrated to be low-tech, mostly for reasons of poverty, which means when [[spoiler:Grover]] demands his hostages' cell phones Tina just vents a little about how unfair it is she hasn't got one ([[spoiler:Grover]] is even surprised she doesn't). Played painfully straight with the adult hostages, whose phones are immediately confiscated and dropped into the ocean, preventing them from calling for help.

* ChekhovsGun: A pile of dirt is brought to the sinkhole, presumably to fill it... Only for it to be dumped beside the sinkhole and left there. [[spoiler:This gives Grover the opportunity to push the Belchers into the hole and burry them alive.]]

* FatalFlaw: The villain is completely unable to predict people operating outside of his complex plans. The below-mentioned entry on SpannerInTheWorks is the most obvious example, but it reemerges throughout the climax. [[spoiler: Grover's alibi nearly falls apart because he didn't think anyone would move the table he needed to sneak back into the gym. His plan for disappearing the Belchers is rushed and improvised and he nearly lets them escape because he assumes they'll stay still while he's focused on the Fischoeder brothers. Once the Belchers are BuriedAlive, he completely puts them out of mind and fails to consider how they're still in a loud vehicle pressed against a plastic water pipe. Many of these factors give the Belchers the chance to finally escape and report his crimes to the police.]] Even his VillainSong features a call and response section requiring his captives to ask about his master plan. When no one does so, he's reduced to pathetically asking again until Louise acquiesces.

* FrameUp: Louise suspects Calvin's been framed, since he seemed a bit ''too'' casual about the sinkhole emerging (if he'd committed the murder, he'd probably have been a lot more panicked about the evidence suddenly re-emerging). [[spoiler: She's [[RightForTheWrongReasons right about the frame-up but not about who did it]].]]

** For that matter, the origin of the bunny ears themselves is finally revealed. [[spoiler:They were based on a knit cap worn by Bob's late mother, and knitted for Louise after her first day at preschool.]]
* RuleOfThrees: Three times Mr. Frond tries to council Louise during an emotionally fraught situation. The first two times he gets shouted down for his trouble, [[spoiler:while in the third Louise has successfully solved her problem herself and calmly reassures Mr. Frond that she's fine.]]
* RunForTheBorder: The Belchers suspect [[spoiler:Felix]] is planning on doing this and spend much of the movie tailing him. They're right--but [[spoiler:he's not doing it because he's guilty, merely because Calvin doesn't think he can beat the charges and Felix (and Fanny) have insisted on joining him.]]

** Hugo and Ron, usually a big deal when they appear in an episode, are reduced to cameos here--but spotting them scares Bob off work as an unlicensed street vender, leading him to set up business inside Wonder Wharf itself, setting events in motion that allow he and Linda to [[spoiler:find the kids in the Fischoeder's underground base towards the end of the film.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Grover]]'s plan was supposed to reach its apex ''six years ago'', when he [[spoiler:stuck Cotton Candy Dan's body in a pile of dirt outside Wonder Wharf, expecting it to be found and connected to Calvin immediately. Instead, some anonymous construction driver took the body and the dirt and used it to fill a hole outside of Bob's Burgers, where it wouldn't be discovered until the present day.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: When Grover is revealed as the murderer and tried to kill Tina, Gene, and Louise alongside their parents and the Fischoeder brothers. Also later on when he tried to bury the entire family alive.]]