Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?

Kurt Braunohler (2010)

"Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the American animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and the 112th episode overall. It was directed by Chris Song and written by Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux, its guest stars are Kurt Braunohler as Logan Bush, Erik Griffin as Gerald the accountant and David Herman who voices Mr. Frond, a director and Logan's friend. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 20, 2016. In this episode Tina Belcher has detention and Bob and Linda Belcher are in Gerald's office, so Gene and Louise Belcher are on their own when they have to deal with Logan Bush.

Plot

When Tina overhears that a boy she likes has detention at school, she gets detention on purpose by throwing some books to the ground. So Linda and Bob have no-one to babysit their younger children when they have to meet their accountant Gerald because it is the last day to do the taxes. At his office they accidentally eat some cookies filled with marijuana, so it takes the parents much longer to come back home.

At home Gene is in charge to watch his younger sister Louise and they decide to toss a cantaloupe out of the window. Louise throws it but hits Logan who wants to get revenge for that. He tries to get into the apartment to do a professional wrestling move called the "Reverse Norwegian Stinkhole" where he hurts Louise and forces her to smell his armpit. He calls her saying he is already in the house and throws a shoe into the kitchen making Gene and Louise think he is really there. They leave the house and Logan chases them to the Lobsterfest from the episode of the same name. There they put on some shrimp costumes but the upper parts of it fall off. They hide in a warehouse but Logan can see Louise's bunny ears from her hat. When Logan is about to do the wrestling move, she cries and Gene places himself in front of her to protect his sister, so Logan does the move on him instead. Louise thanks her elder brother for it and they hug.

Meanwhile Bob, Linda and Gerald are high and they build a fort out of some cushions to hide from his client. Tina is in detention and dreams about being together with the boy she likes but cannot she because another boy sits in between.

Reception

Alasdair Wilkins from the A.V. Club gave the episode a "B+" and wrote that "[g]etting Tina out of the picture allows the show to focus on just Gene and Louise, and the latter’s reaction when Bob and Linda decide the babysitting arrangement is telling: Who would ever think of Gene as an older brother? Sure, he’s the epitome of a middle child, but that implies both Tina and Louise are there to keep him in that center spot. When it’s just Louise and Gene, the age difference feels incidental, with them operating more as unhinged partners in crime than any recognizable spin on an older brother and younger sister." He also noted that the "moment where Gene reluctantly stands between Louise and Logan is genuinely touching, all the more so because the episode doesn’t remotely hide Gene’s reluctance. He’s scared and unclear why he’s doing something this stupidly brave, yet he doesn’t allow his fear or confusion deter him in the slightest. He’s resolute in a way that doesn’t contradict at all what makes Gene, well, what makes him Gene."^[1]

The episode received a 1.1 rating and was watched by a total of 2.35 million people.^[2]

References

External weblink

• Large Brother, Where Fart Thou? at the Internet Movie Database