[7.0/10] This is a hard one for me to rate, because there’s parts of it I love and parts of it I hate.
Let’s start with the hate. I hate Tammy. She is just the worst. And she’s supposed to be the worst! You’re supposed to hate her! But her comeuppance never feels like enough to justify how awful she is for 90% of the episodes she appears in. Seeing her at peak “Bat-Zillla” here is often a chore, since she’s at her most selfish and abrasive, and is especially cruel to Tina.
But that's the part I like about the main story -- Louise using her powers to scheme and connive to get back at Tammy for being so terrible. Her convincing the party coordinator to quit so she can pursue her Broadway dreams is hilarious.
More to the point, when Louise and Tammy get trapped in the giant wooden Tammy head suspended above the dance floor, it’s exceedingly kind of Louise to stay stuck there with Tammy even though she could use the radio to get help because she wants to give her sister the chance to be the belle of the ball instead of this entitled brat. The fact that Tammy has to suffer what it’s like being excluded from the big event while someone else basks in the glory is the icing on the cake.
But that's where this one goes wrong. When Louise seems to have taught Tammy her lesson and radios to Tina to get help, Tina’s a total brat about it, choosing dancing with boys over helping her sister. I can kind of see the point Bob’s Burgers is going for here, where spoiling a kid leads to, what do you know, a spoiled kid, and that Tammy’s condition is as much a product of her environment as it is her personality. But it still kind of sucks to see Tina be so crappy to her sister after Louise was so self-sacrificing for her. As heartening as it is to get to see Tina finally get the spotlight in the name of sticking to the party agenda, watching it go to her head isn’t much fun.
That said, the bat mitzvah jokes are! The Klesbians is an inspired name. Something about Tina insisting on saying the motzi and imploring the rabbi to just go with it is hilarious. And even Tammy being too caught up in the horah to be able to get revenge on Tina for taking over her party is a fun visual gag.
I also looooove the B-story here about Bob and Linda hitting up the various catering stations, only to find they’ve eaten their way into a nearby wedding. The pair finding themselves in wedding photos, and going so far as to have Linda catch the bouquet had me in stitches. It’s also nicely poetic that for all Bob’s resistance to doing a catering gig because everyone leaves him to do the work by himself, he’s the one who bails on their slider station.
The other gags are solid. Gene making the best of it on his own at the slider station is good for some chuckles. The elderly relative who blithely yells out “Hi other Tammy!” to Tina cracked me up. And most of the humor is on point. This is just a tough one to watch because it’s Tammy at her worst and, sadly, also Tina at her worst.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2023-02-22T04:30:00Z
[7.0/10] This is a hard one for me to rate, because there’s parts of it I love and parts of it I hate.
Let’s start with the hate. I hate Tammy. She is just the worst. And she’s supposed to be the worst! You’re supposed to hate her! But her comeuppance never feels like enough to justify how awful she is for 90% of the episodes she appears in. Seeing her at peak “Bat-Zillla” here is often a chore, since she’s at her most selfish and abrasive, and is especially cruel to Tina.
But that's the part I like about the main story -- Louise using her powers to scheme and connive to get back at Tammy for being so terrible. Her convincing the party coordinator to quit so she can pursue her Broadway dreams is hilarious.
More to the point, when Louise and Tammy get trapped in the giant wooden Tammy head suspended above the dance floor, it’s exceedingly kind of Louise to stay stuck there with Tammy even though she could use the radio to get help because she wants to give her sister the chance to be the belle of the ball instead of this entitled brat. The fact that Tammy has to suffer what it’s like being excluded from the big event while someone else basks in the glory is the icing on the cake.
But that's where this one goes wrong. When Louise seems to have taught Tammy her lesson and radios to Tina to get help, Tina’s a total brat about it, choosing dancing with boys over helping her sister. I can kind of see the point Bob’s Burgers is going for here, where spoiling a kid leads to, what do you know, a spoiled kid, and that Tammy’s condition is as much a product of her environment as it is her personality. But it still kind of sucks to see Tina be so crappy to her sister after Louise was so self-sacrificing for her. As heartening as it is to get to see Tina finally get the spotlight in the name of sticking to the party agenda, watching it go to her head isn’t much fun.
That said, the bat mitzvah jokes are! The Klesbians is an inspired name. Something about Tina insisting on saying the motzi and imploring the rabbi to just go with it is hilarious. And even Tammy being too caught up in the horah to be able to get revenge on Tina for taking over her party is a fun visual gag.
I also looooove the B-story here about Bob and Linda hitting up the various catering stations, only to find they’ve eaten their way into a nearby wedding. The pair finding themselves in wedding photos, and going so far as to have Linda catch the bouquet had me in stitches. It’s also nicely poetic that for all Bob’s resistance to doing a catering gig because everyone leaves him to do the work by himself, he’s the one who bails on their slider station.
The other gags are solid. Gene making the best of it on his own at the slider station is good for some chuckles. The elderly relative who blithely yells out “Hi other Tammy!” to Tina cracked me up. And most of the humor is on point. This is just a tough one to watch because it’s Tammy at her worst and, sadly, also Tina at her worst.