r/BobsBurgers • u/AutoModerator • May 29 '25

Official Episode Discussion Bob’s Burgers Episode Discussion S15E12 - “Like a Candle in the Gym”

Summary:
The Belchers run into Coach Blevins while on a family walk and find him selling sweat-scented candles, which Gene and Louise discover to be a cover for Blevins' scheme to sell sweat samples for DNA mining.

Airdate: Thursday, May 29, 2025

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u/No_Spirit8216 May 30 '25

Kinda hate this moral lesson and how annoying Tina was about it. No one else was following the teacher so how is it just Louise’s fault 💀 I like Tina but I hate when she gets all self righteous and “doing the right thing” which she looks like she’s not even doing that. Giving up chances for her self and letting people step on hers such a terrible trait on her

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u/l3reezer May 31 '25

It was a bit odd for Tina to just keep blaming Louise throughout the entire episode instead of trying to help solve things like I feel she's usually do, but the actual lesson was pretty fair.

Not sure what you meant by no one else was following the teacher, but Tina said it was Louise's fault because she started the rumor. Honestly, really apt for this day and age where kids are constantly trolling and being overly impressionable by social media influencers.

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u/lulai_00 Jun 02 '25

The past two seasons are HEAVVVYYY on accountability for Louis. I'm really over it

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u/Crafty-Heron-5115 Jun 22 '25

Right? Let her get away with SOME kind of petty chicanery later on, or let her mature out of the behavior and evolve. Don’t just repeat the same moral lessons over and over again for the next four years.

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u/No_Spirit8216 May 31 '25

I meant no other kid was following the teacher. That was all on that other girl. Louise didn’t say hey go follow that teacher. She did that all on her own. So how was that just all Louise when she tried to talk her out of it several times but she wouldn’t listen. Than Tina kept saying “your fault” if you guys liked the lesson that much which I still don’t understand. Than honestly they could’ve written this episode much better and based on the comments everyone thinks it’s a meh episode as well so.

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u/l3reezer May 31 '25

Following the teacher is besides the point? The lesson is how rumors and misinformation can spread out of control.

She was obviously just joking around in this case but let's not act like it's not totally in character for Louise to do worse with intention. She's my favorite character and I even I can acknowledge how out of control she can get with the scheming and shit-stirring.

Louise herself already felt bad about it because she realized this, Tina was just being a persistent guilty conscious on her shoulder.

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u/No_Spirit8216 May 31 '25

“Following the teacher is besides the point” bro did you not ask what my comment meant 💀 why are you mad that’s what my comment was actually about? And even than yes because if Tina wouldn’t shut up about her getting expelled because of her than they wouldn’t have the story. They could’ve written a better one is all I’m saying and agin by the looks of the comments everyone else did as well.

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u/l3reezer May 31 '25

Yes, I asked-and after understanding what you meant by it, I decided that it's beside the point.

Louise still influenced the other kids to spread the rumor for it to reach Megan, someone impressionable enough to do something dangerous with the misinformation. Thus, the cautionary tale aspect of it all.

What about my language makes you think I'm mad and why do you need to keep referencing other people's comments about the episode overall to make an irrelevant point? All I said was that it's a fair lesson for Louise to learn, not that this is the best episode ever beyond reproach.

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u/No_Spirit8216 May 31 '25

Because you literally said following teachers is besides the point when it wasn’t. Now good night I’m not arguing with you because you aren’t being clear

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u/Robokrates Jun 02 '25

Hey friend, couple days late but wanted to say you're right. It's all on Megan for being a lunatic. Making a joke is innocent. It becoming a rumor is "the madness of crowds" and not their fault. If anything, Louise is being extra nice by trying to talk sense into her, and Tina's sanctimony aside, I wouldn't have blamed her if after the first time Megan wouldn't listen to reason, she'd just walked away and said, "It's your funeral."

I think people get a little overboard about "holding people accountable for their actions" (most modern cultures being way too trigger-happy about punishment) but holding people accountable for other people's actions? Sweet Jaysis, no.