Art Crawl
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"Art Crawl" is the eighth episode of the first season of the animated television series Bob's Burgers
. The episode originally aired on the Fox network
in the United States
on March 20, 2011.
The episode was written by Lizzie Molyneux & Wendy Molyneux and directed by Kyounghee Lim. It received positive reviews from critics for its character interactions, humor and storyline. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 4.43 million viewers in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Andy Kindler
, Jerry Minor
, Megan Mullally
, Larry Murphy
, Sam Seder
, Laura Silverman
and Sarah Silverman
) who is currently hanging her paintings at the restaurant. Louise became surprised when someone brought a painting from the managers whom she hates and gets exiled by the elderly Art Crawl managers Edith and Harold (Larry Murphy
and Sam Seder
) who are married. Bob and the kids come back home to discover Gayle's artistic paintings of animal anuses.
Bob worries that it will loose customers due to the paintings but Linda wants Gayle to be happy for her work and will be taken down when Art Crawl finishes which is only for a few days. Realizing how bad the Art Crawl paintings are in her opinion, Louise opens an art sale outside the restaurant and forces her siblings to paint 'crap' artwork in an easy way to get money. Twenty seven minutes later, Gene completes his painting that he worked hard on of a robot
ninja
fighting a tape recorder
vampire
at the Stonehenge
with his 28 year old albino friend on it and Tina's painting is a worked-hard painting of his dentist
naked. Louise disagrees with their paintings although, later agrees lets them to paint in a realistic way but Gene has to cut off one of his ears
similar to what Vincent van Gogh
did to his ear but luckily, Bob interrupts the cutting and hangs the paintings to replace the anuses and to enjoy Linda of her kids artistic work. Bob levels with Gayle to tell her why he replaced her paintings until Edith and Harold arrives at the restaurant to forbid displaying the anus paintings due to their offensive material. However, now Bob criticizes her decision and scares them off with the anuses. Bob declares that the restaurant will be an "anus restaurant" by hanging them up and Gayle painting more while Louise's art sale is failing so she replaces Tina and Gene with classmates Red and twins Andy and Ollie Pesto (Laura
and Sarah Silverman
). Edith and Harold continue to protest the anus paintings and Bob declares it will be a permanent installation.
The next morning, Bob discovers the anuses has been painted over with pink underpants
and blames Edith for the vandalism
. Despite, Louise's business success, she becomes very bossy and starts treating the boys like their but she sees Bob entering the Art Crawl commission so she comes along where she sees Gene and Tina learning to paint well. Bob demands an apology but Edith nor Harold say they did anything to Gayle's paintings so Bob paints anuses on their paintings (actually black dots which Edith and Harold point out look nothing like anuses). Bob later gets arrested by Officer Julia and Cliffany for defacing Edith's property and it is revealed that Linda censored the anuses, not Edith. Linda explains that she had frequent hallucinations of animal anuses (a parody of the infamous Pink Elephants on Parade
segment from Dumbo
) so she painted her pink underwear over them. Louise pays for the damaged paintings with the money she earned from selling paintings at the Art Crawl.
The episode ends with Andy and Ollie at night, left alone at Louise's stand. As they agree that one of them should live, Louise runs back and the twins quickly continue painting.
and Sarah Silverman
however, the later episode Burger Wars
is produced as their first appearance. Emmy Award
winning actress Megan Mullally
voices Linda's sister Gayle while recurring guest stars Andy Kindler
voices Mort, Larry Murphy
voices Teddy and Edith and Sam Seder
voices Harold. The episode carries a TV-PG rating.
Critical reception has been positive, Rowan Kraiser of the A.V. Club gave it an A, the highest rating of the night and also the highest rated episode of the season. He praised the storyline, it's humor and praises and it's improvement on the series, also Bob's funnier role in this.
Bob's Burgers
Bob's Burgers is an American animated television sitcom, which premiered on January 9, 2011 on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was created by Loren Bouchard and focuses on the Belcher family, who runs a hamburger restaurant. On April 7, 2011, Bob's Burgers was renewed for a second season...
. The episode originally aired on the Fox network
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
in the United States
United States
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on March 20, 2011.
The episode was written by Lizzie Molyneux & Wendy Molyneux and directed by Kyounghee Lim. It received positive reviews from critics for its character interactions, humor and storyline. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 4.43 million viewers in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Andy Kindler
Andy Kindler
Andy Kindler is an American stand-up comedian from New York City who now resides in Los Angeles.-Stand up:His material often covers the comedy industry itself, criticizing other comedians for being too predictable. One of his more notable criticisms was that of Dane Cook where he compared the...
, Jerry Minor
Jerry Minor
Jerry C. Minor is an American actor, comedian and writer known for his comedic roles in numerous television programs such as Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, Delocated, Crossballs, Carpoolers and Lucky Louie....
, Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer.After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway...
, Larry Murphy
Larry Murphy
Lawrence Thomas Murphy is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently serves as an analyst and sideline reporter for the Detroit Red Wings on Fox Sports Detroit, and a studio analyst on NHL Network.-Playing career:...
, Sam Seder
Sam Seder
Samuel Lincoln "Sam" Seder is a comedian, writer, actor, film director, television producer-director, and talk radio host...
, Laura Silverman
Laura Silverman
-External links:...
and Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman is a Jewish American comedian, writer, actress, singer and musician. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and religion....
Plot
Bob and his children tours the town's yearly Art Crawl where they walk past paintings, criticizing them and to avoid Linda's fragile sister Gayle (Megan MullallyMegan Mullally
Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer.After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway...
) who is currently hanging her paintings at the restaurant. Louise became surprised when someone brought a painting from the managers whom she hates and gets exiled by the elderly Art Crawl managers Edith and Harold (Larry Murphy
Larry Murphy
Lawrence Thomas Murphy is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently serves as an analyst and sideline reporter for the Detroit Red Wings on Fox Sports Detroit, and a studio analyst on NHL Network.-Playing career:...
and Sam Seder
Sam Seder
Samuel Lincoln "Sam" Seder is a comedian, writer, actor, film director, television producer-director, and talk radio host...
) who are married. Bob and the kids come back home to discover Gayle's artistic paintings of animal anuses.
Bob worries that it will loose customers due to the paintings but Linda wants Gayle to be happy for her work and will be taken down when Art Crawl finishes which is only for a few days. Realizing how bad the Art Crawl paintings are in her opinion, Louise opens an art sale outside the restaurant and forces her siblings to paint 'crap' artwork in an easy way to get money. Twenty seven minutes later, Gene completes his painting that he worked hard on of a robot
Robot
A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
ninja
Ninja
A or was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations...
fighting a tape recorder
Tape recorder
An audio tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage...
vampire
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
at the Stonehenge
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...
with his 28 year old albino friend on it and Tina's painting is a worked-hard painting of his dentist
Dentist
A dentist, also known as a 'dental surgeon', is a doctor that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aides in providing oral health services...
naked. Louise disagrees with their paintings although, later agrees lets them to paint in a realistic way but Gene has to cut off one of his ears
EARS
EARS may refer to:* Electoral software* Electronic Arts, Redwood Shores campus.* Emirates Amateur Radio Society...
similar to what Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
did to his ear but luckily, Bob interrupts the cutting and hangs the paintings to replace the anuses and to enjoy Linda of her kids artistic work. Bob levels with Gayle to tell her why he replaced her paintings until Edith and Harold arrives at the restaurant to forbid displaying the anus paintings due to their offensive material. However, now Bob criticizes her decision and scares them off with the anuses. Bob declares that the restaurant will be an "anus restaurant" by hanging them up and Gayle painting more while Louise's art sale is failing so she replaces Tina and Gene with classmates Red and twins Andy and Ollie Pesto (Laura
Laura Silverman
-External links:...
and Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman is a Jewish American comedian, writer, actress, singer and musician. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and religion....
). Edith and Harold continue to protest the anus paintings and Bob declares it will be a permanent installation.
The next morning, Bob discovers the anuses has been painted over with pink underpants
Underpants
-Boxer shorts:Boxer shorts, or simply boxers, have an elasticated waistband that is at or near the wearer's waist, while the leg sections are fairly loose and extend to the mid-thigh. There is usually a fly, either with or without buttons...
and blames Edith for the vandalism
Vandalism
Vandalism is the behaviour attributed originally to the Vandals, by the Romans, in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable...
. Despite, Louise's business success, she becomes very bossy and starts treating the boys like their but she sees Bob entering the Art Crawl commission so she comes along where she sees Gene and Tina learning to paint well. Bob demands an apology but Edith nor Harold say they did anything to Gayle's paintings so Bob paints anuses on their paintings (actually black dots which Edith and Harold point out look nothing like anuses). Bob later gets arrested by Officer Julia and Cliffany for defacing Edith's property and it is revealed that Linda censored the anuses, not Edith. Linda explains that she had frequent hallucinations of animal anuses (a parody of the infamous Pink Elephants on Parade
Pink Elephants on Parade
Pink Elephants on Parade is the name of a segment, and the song played therein, from the Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q...
segment from Dumbo
Dumbo
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a...
) so she painted her pink underwear over them. Louise pays for the damaged paintings with the money she earned from selling paintings at the Art Crawl.
The episode ends with Andy and Ollie at night, left alone at Louise's stand. As they agree that one of them should live, Louise runs back and the twins quickly continue painting.
Production
"Art Crawl" is the eighth episode of Bob's Burgers and was written by Lizzie & Wendy Molyneux and directed by Kyounghee Lim. The episode features the first appearance of Andy and Pesto voiced by sisters LauraLaura Silverman
-External links:...
and Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman is a Jewish American comedian, writer, actress, singer and musician. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and religion....
however, the later episode Burger Wars
Burger Wars
The Burger Wars is series of off and on comparative advertising campaigns consisting of mutually-targeted advertisements that highlight the intense competition between hamburger fast food chains McDonald's, Burger King and others in the United States...
is produced as their first appearance. Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
winning actress Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer.After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway...
voices Linda's sister Gayle while recurring guest stars Andy Kindler
Andy Kindler
Andy Kindler is an American stand-up comedian from New York City who now resides in Los Angeles.-Stand up:His material often covers the comedy industry itself, criticizing other comedians for being too predictable. One of his more notable criticisms was that of Dane Cook where he compared the...
voices Mort, Larry Murphy
Larry Murphy
Lawrence Thomas Murphy is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently serves as an analyst and sideline reporter for the Detroit Red Wings on Fox Sports Detroit, and a studio analyst on NHL Network.-Playing career:...
voices Teddy and Edith and Sam Seder
Sam Seder
Samuel Lincoln "Sam" Seder is a comedian, writer, actor, film director, television producer-director, and talk radio host...
voices Harold. The episode carries a TV-PG rating.
Reception
In it's original American broadcasting, "Art Crawl" was viewed by an estimated 4.43 million viewers and received a 2.2 rating/6% share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, an increase from last episode.Critical reception has been positive, Rowan Kraiser of the A.V. Club gave it an A, the highest rating of the night and also the highest rated episode of the season. He praised the storyline, it's humor and praises and it's improvement on the series, also Bob's funnier role in this.
External links
- http://www.tv.com/bobs-burgers/art-crawl/episode/1371154/summary.html at TV.comTV.comTV.com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Japan...
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1857991/ at Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...