Bob’s Burgers takes its holiday episodes seriously. Each year brings a handful of seasonal specials, hitting everything from Halloween to Easter.
But over 14 seasons, no holiday looms larger on the Belcher family calendar than Thanksgiving. It makes sense that a family with a restaurant would take the biggest meal of the year seriously. But patriarch Bob goes above and beyond in his commitment to make a perfect meal, only to have it perpetually ruined by forces both outside and inside his own control.
This year’s episode would have marked the 12th Thanksgiving episode in the long-running cartoon’s arsenal … except it was a long tale about raccoons and burnout instead of a 22-minute treatise on turkey. No matter, we’ve got 11 Thanksgiving episodes lingering to fall back on — and enough time to divine the classics from the merely “pretty good.”
That’s enough to form a quorum for a proper ranking. Let’s start at the bottom.