Bob's Burgers Sit Me Baby One More Time

"One of them will be my regular babysitter. And one of them won't."

"Kick them in the tinkledink!"

—Kendra

Tina and Tammy find themselves babysitting the same creepy kid. While the other Belchers visit an upscale eatery, which Teddy is secretly dining at.

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• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Louise references a time the family went out to a seafood restaurant and Linda really played this up.
• Berserk Button: Bob apparently acts rather poorly when it comes to burgers from other restaurants. Specifically he gets incredibly sulky if he finds out the burger might be better than the ones he makes, to the point Linda, Gene and Louise beg Teddy not to tell Bob what he actually thinks of Savory's burger. Bob genuinely didn't realize he did it until his family pointed it out... not that it stops him from doing it again.
• Continuity Nod: Much like "Lice Things Are Lice", this episode makes a reference to how blonde isn't Tammy's natural hair color.
  • Zeke mentions having been the new kid in school, referencing how "Broadcast Wagstaff School News" revealed he moved around a lot prior to the series.
• Creepy Child: Kendra is all kinds of creepy. With a bizarre fixation of crotch kicking, and a teddy bear she speaks through quite evilly.

  Jimmy Jr.: Why does that girl talk like a gremlin?

• Companion Cube: Kendra's teddy bear Mr. Boom-Boom, whom she speaks for in a deep, raspy voice.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: When the Belchers discover Teddy having a burger at Savory, he acts like someone who got caught sleeping around. To further nail it in, he says the few times he tried a burger outside of Bob's restaurant "meant nothing" to him, and sobs about betraying Bob when the truth is revealed.
• Enemy Mine: Tina and Tammy are forced to work together to confront Kendra.
• Enfant Terrible: Kendra makes Louise look like an angel.
• Evil Counterpart: Kendra almost acts as one to Louise. Both are Enfant Terribles who play up the Creepy Child trope for all it's worth. Both also have Companion Cube tendencies, but while Louise's tendencies are used to emphasize her (very hidden) innocence and playfulness, Kendra's are used to make her even more unnerving. Both also have tendencies to engage in physical abuse, but Louise pretty much never goes past relatively-harmless slapping while Kendra has upgraded to full-blown Groin Attacks.
• Female Groin Invincibility: Seemingly averted. When Tina and Tammy discover that Kendra's been kicking her classmates in the groin and letting them take the blame for it, Kendra yells that she's going to kick them in the "tinkle-dink". Judging by their panicked reactions, they know it's still gonna be painful for them. She never does get to nail her attacks on them, though.
• Groin Attack: Kendra loves trying to nail people in the "tinkle-dink". Unlike many shows, a crotch-kick to a female is framed as just as traumatic as a crotch-kick to a male.
• Hype Backlash: In-universe; despite all the praise Savory's burger got, Bob found it to be dry.
• Hypocrite: Tammy has the gall to call Tina out for "bullying" her.
• Ignored Epiphany: Tammy stubbornly refuses to admit that she and Tina make a great team and turns down her offer to work together on future babysitting jobs.
• Important Haircut: Subverted. Tammy wears her hair down for the episode rather than in her usual side-ponytail, and plays it up as very important. Jocelyn then reveals that it's just so she can wear a headband that covers her natural hair color (her parents stopped buying dye).
• Innocently Insensitive: Tina refers to herself as the first entrepreneur in the family, and it's clear that she genuinely forgot about the eponymous Family Business (which Bob lampshades).
• Large Ham: Gene really hams it up as the "hold music" for the Belchers' phone.
• Mistaken for Servant: When Linda is taking things out of her purse at the bathroom of the restaurant, she is mistaken for a restroom attendant, and keeps up the charade for the attention. In the end she has collected enough money to cover the remaining part of bill after it turns out their gift certificate wasn't enough.
• Shout-Out:
  • Episode title is an allusion to the Britney Spears song "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time".
  • In the opening, the storefront reads Plunger Games, Aggressive Toilet Tools, while the exterminator van reads Don't Stop Bugs Leavin'.
  • Tina's babysitter ad includes has a phrase saying "Nobody puts your baby in the corner", a shout out to Dirty Dancing.
  • Tina is inspired to be a babysitter after watching The Sound of Music. There's an imagine spot of her as Maria singing "Do, Re, Mi".
  • Burger of the Day: The Clear and Present Ginger Burger.
  • Louise calls Bob "The Incredible Sulk".
  • The scene with Tina and Tammy stapling their babysitting fliers over each other on a telephone pole resembles a scene from the Looney Tunes cartoon Rabbit Fire where Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck pull "Rabbit Season" and "Duck Season" signs off a tree, arguing over what season it is.
• Suddenly Shouting: When Kendra talks about what she plans to do to Tina and Tammy, she remarks "Kick you in... THE TINKLE-DINK!"
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Kendra hides all the letters from school in a box marked "Kendra's Secret Stuff (Not Letters From School)".
• Unusual Euphemism: "Tinkle-dink" is used for the female crotch. Kendra's father specifies that "tinkle-dinker" is used for the male crotch.

Bob's Burgers Sit Me Baby One More Time

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