List of Bob's Burgers characters
Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is centered on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise—who run a burger restaurant and often go on adventures of many kinds. This is a list of characters from the animated television series, main characters are listed first.
Appearances
Belcher family
The Belcher family is a family who runs the family business called Bob's Burgers. Loren Bouchard described their ethnicity as follows:The Belcher family consists of:
Bob Belcher
Robert Eugene "Bob" Belcher Jr. is the main character of the series. He is the son of Robert Belcher Sr. and Lily Belcher, the husband of Linda, and the father of Tina, Gene, and Louise. He is a third-generation restaurateur and currently the proprietor of his eponymous burger restaurant in a shore town. The Season 5 episode "Father of the Bob", begins with a flashback set 30 years prior in which a young Bob states he is 14 years old, making him 44 until the episode "The Laser-inth", in which he turns 45 and then again in the episode "Are You There Bob? It's Me, Birthday", where he turns 46 years old. The episode also mentions that Bob's mother Lily died prior to the series' beginning. As revealed in "Bob Fires the Kids", his childhood has been described as "crappy," as his father discouraged play. However, in The Bob's Burgers Movie, he implies that he loved spending time with his mother as she would take him on long walks. Bob's mother went unnamed until the Season 13 episode "Show Mama From the Grave", where the Belchers go to visit her gravesite.Bob has a tendency to entertain himself by having conversations with inanimate objects, mainly food, and then speak back as the inanimate object, usually using a high falsetto voice. He also enjoys making puns, using this talent to name his burger specials. While poor with business management, and cursed with an unlucky streak, his skills at burger cooking are excellent; he has even been referred to as a "beef artist" by Mr. Fischoeder. His primary business rival is Jimmy Pesto, who owns an Italian restaurant across the street from Bob's Burgers. In the episode "Moody Foodie", it's mentioned that his eyes are brown.
As shown in the flashback during "Father of the Bob", the Burger of the Day special stems from an incident in which he customized a burger by adding chives and sour cream to it, calling it "Baby You Can Chive My Car". He tried to serve it to one of Big Bob's regular customers who normally ordered a tuna melt, but Big Bob threw the burger away in front of the whole diner. Ten years later, still resentful over not being allowed to cook the way he wanted, Bob turned down Big Bob's offer of a partnership in the diner and opened his own restaurant.
Bob prides himself on giving the customer a quality meal and goes the extra mile to ensure that by choosing fresh ingredients he gets from the local farmer's markets and co-ops. His biggest accomplishment is the 'Meatsiah', a concoction that consists of a steak tartare center with a medium-well cooked burger surrounding it and a burger Wellington surrounding the burger. Bob is allergic to shellfish, particularly lobster, as it causes his face to swell any time he eats it. This is a problem, as the seaside town where the Belchers live has an annual lobster festival. Bob, along with Linda, enjoys drinking and many of the episode gags involve Bob or Linda getting drunk, usually from wine. Bob also has a tendency to take mind-altering substances such as crack cocaine in "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?", absinthe in "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal", pain relievers in "Housetrap", and his pain medication in "Burgerboss".
Bob is a tall, paunchy, and swarthy chef. He has male pattern baldness and a bushy mustache. He has olive skin, and feathered bangs swooping down on his forehead. He wears a pale-grey, short-sleeved t-shirt usually donned with a white apron with a breast pocket with a pen peeking out of it; dark-grey chefs pants; and black kitchen clogs with white socks shown on the top near where his pants end.
Linda Belcher
Linda "Lin" Belcher is the happy-go-lucky wife of Bob and the mother of Tina, Gene, and Louise. Before her marriage to Bob, she was engaged to Hugo, who is now a local health inspector. In the season 5 episode "Eat, Spray, Linda" she turned 44 years old. She has also referred to herself as a "pre-middle-aged mother". In early seasons, Linda wears her everyday outfit top with a button up while in newer seasons it is a V-neck instead.Linda's attraction to Bob, whom she often refers to as "Bobby", is in part due to his passion for his work, and also due to his "Tom Selleckian" mustache. Linda remains a loyal and devoted wife despite their frequent financial problems, and never having had a honeymoon or a day off in 10 years. She has a preference for mustaches, and says Bob "made himself ugly" when he shaved it off. Her passions include singing, dinner theater, porcelain baby figurines, Tom Selleck, nautically themed romance novels, and prenatal yoga. She handles the accounting for the restaurant, though her bookkeeping methods are overly complicated. She is fond of alcohol and is known to say that "Mommy doesn't get drunk; she just has fun."
Linda is extroverted, has a thick New Jersey accent, and is fond of tackling problems using unconventional methods, though her methods are frequently over-optimistic and things sometimes go awry. She often encourages her kids to engage in behavior that Bob finds annoying, and though she wants what's best for her kids, she tends to be scatterbrained. Bob has described her as a "pushover" because she allows people to take advantage of her. She has a contentious relationship with Louise and often misunderstands her, even once organizing a slumber party for Louise against her will. She is a talented lyricist, as shown in "Lil Hard Dad". She has a tendency to spontaneously burst into song, a trait she shares with her voice actor John Roberts. Many of the songs she is known for are improvised by Roberts, including her "Thanksgiving Song", "Dish-a-Dee-Doo", and a hair-braiding ditty that references the late Harry Truman. Her songs are frequently remade and set to music for the episode's end credits.
In the Season 12 episode "Sauce Side Story", Linda's maiden name is revealed to be Genarro and that she is of Italian descent.
She has a friend who's only mentioned but never seen or heard named Ginger.
Tina Belcher
Tina Ruth Belcher is the eldest Belcher child. She is 13 years old. She generally speaks in a masculine tone, wears glasses, works part-time at the family restaurant, and is often the voice of reason among the Belcher children. However, it is made quite clear Tina's own characteristics rival those of her siblings. She is trying to come to grips with her entry into adulthood and claims to have a complicated relationship with zombies. She typically wears a sky-blue, short-sleeved t-shirt; a short, navy-blue pencil skirt; white tube socks with red stripes on the bottom; black sneakers with white tips; and a yellow barrette on the right side of her head, which she dons typically with her thick and black-framed glasses to help her see better. Like the rest of her Italian-looking family, she has black hair and olive skin. She also wears her hair in a "bob cut" with loose curls at the ends. Despite seeming reticent and shy around her peers, Tina has an active social and romantic life. She has an on-again off-again relationship with Jimmy Jr., and has dated, kissed, or flirted with several other boys. She is obsessed with horses, boys, and buttocks; in various episodes, she writes in her journal about touching people's butts, which, to her, is the height of sexual contact. According to her siblings, Tina has written erotic fanfiction of several television shows and movies and has moved on to "erotic friend fiction", in which she uses real-life people. She is a member of the Hormone-iums, a musical revue at Wagstaff that sings songs about puberty, and was formerly a member of the Thundergirls, a Girl Scout-like organization. Tina was aged 12 in early episodes and now 13 since the episode "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?". She is generally soft-spoken and reserved, often in contrast to her more strident siblings. In the show's early developmental stages, the eldest Belcher child was originally written as a boy, named Daniel Belcher, who was also voiced by Mintz, whose personality in the never-broadcast pilot is said to have been similar to that of Tina's. She is also shown to have difficulties with her schoolwork despite working hard at it, as shown in "Can't Buy Me Math" when she is put into remedial math and "Bob and Deliver" when guidance counselor Mr. Frond refers to her as a "dum-dum".Gene Belcher
Eugene “Gene” Belcher is the middle child and only son in the family, revealed to be 11 years old in season 3. Like Linda, he has an upbeat and enthusiastic attitude about almost everything; however, he closely resembles Bob and has inherited his lobster allergy. He often promotes the restaurant by wearing a burger costume, which he uses to run in a mascot race in the season 1 episode "Torpedo" and using a toy megaphone to hand out samples.Gene has a variety of interests and hobbies, with his most well-known being food and music. Though he has no training, he occasionally demonstrates great skill in music and aspires to be a musician; he enjoys playing a Casio-type keyboard and makes fart sounds using it, and creates an elaborate love duet in "Topsy" as well as a one-man show in "Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl". Despite this, Gene is not without his flaws, namely a tendency to be easily distracted, which the family refers to as "Gene-ing out" in "Best Burger", but he is loving and loyal toward his family. He is also unathletic, as seen in several episodes including "Synchronized Swimming", when he has trouble opening a door which Tina then opens with ease and "Spaghetti Western and Meatballs", when he runs away from a fight in fear. In "It Snakes a Village", it is shown that he suffers from a fear of snakes.
Gene has an occasional tendency towards making unintentionally sexual double entendres, which his father Bob corrects or tells him not to repeat, often admonishing the boy by simply saying, "Gene...". He is also fond of making wisecracks and pop culture references. Like his father and mother, he has olive skin and dark black hair. He has his hair in a short "bowl cut" with long flips at each side of his head. He sports a pale-yellow short-sleeved t-shirt; a pair of slightly lengthy, light-blue denim shorts; short white socks; and, like his older sister, white and red sneakers.