First annunciate back in 2017 , thendelayed and retard againthanks to the pandemic , The Bob ’s Burgers Movie — an animated melodic based onthe long - run Fox seriescreated byLoren Bouchard — is almost in theaters . Ahead of the movie ’s May 27 launching , io9 attended a press league featuring its cast and crew .
First things first : “ You do not require to see the series to understand the movie , ” said Bouchard , who also co - wrote and co - lead the flick . “ It is [ about ] a class that runs a restaurant and the restaurant ’s in problem . You ’ll get it all the first five minute . We have literally made no preparation for you . You are invited to come cold . You do n’t necessitate to know a affair . ”
That tell , it ’s good to assume that many of the people who attend The Bob ’s Burgers Movie will already be Bob ’s Burgers fans , something producer and moving picture co - writer Nora Smith acknowledged . “ We recognize that we had to essay to make our fans happy and make people who are not our fans — but are dead fine people as well — felicitous , like people [ envision it ] for the first time . So we were trying to not make it too chock - full of inside address , and we want mass to come at it fresh and still bask all the character . And I think we did a in effect task . ”
Tina, Louise, and Gene Belcher in The Bob’s Burgers Movie.Image: Courtesy of 20th Century Studios
Given the foresightful spread between the commencement of product and the theatrical release , it ’s tempting to imagine that The Bob ’s Burgers Movie has just been sitting somewhere fully complete for calendar month . That is most in spades not the case , according to Bouchard . “ We make on this movie until just — it feels like last week . We were dictated to take every moment they give us and keep working on it . So , yeah , [ the story ] change [ during the delays ] . It was n’t like it drastically changed . It was more like any time we had , we were emotional to take advantage of — tweak jokes , variety [ the ] word-painting , fool around with the sound . It was not just the hand [ that changed ] , [ just ] everything in was our hand until they tore it from our slight fingers . ”
Translating Bob ’s Burgers the serial into The Bob ’s Burgers Movie was a challenge , but it was one the creators savour taking on . “ We always say , every instalment we do , we would love to make it look like the picture show , ” Centennial State - conductor Bernard Derriman explain . “ But the problem is we do 22 episodes a twelvemonth . It ’s 11 hours of Bob ’s Burgers . So we ’ve only got a few weeks at a time where we can focalise on each sequence . So it was n’t it was n’t actually that openhanded a stretch on the motion-picture show ; it ’s just we had four old age for an minute and a half . And it was all the poppycock we ’ve always want to do on the show , we ’re able-bodied to do now in the flick . ”
Bob ’s Burgers has bunk for 12 seasons — the time of year conclusion was on May 22 — with a 13th on the way , in improver to the new feature film . The show ’s impressive length of service is n’t something that Bouchard take for accord . “ We really like making the show . We really loved make the movie . It is a great pleasure , a privilege , and an honor . And we are always shocked and surprised that it is also so intemperate to make a show this many installment in . You reckon there ’s go to be an infinite number of stories , and it change state out that ’s a sap ’s position . You have to in reality try out to now go back and get in between the 200 - something episodes that we ’ve done . So the target ’s aim smaller if you need the show to be sweet and still find unexampled matter to say . But we love the challenge . The characters suggest to us that they are worthy of more narrative . They kind of keep us travel , come back and trying to figure out how to keep going , and we ’ll go as long as we can . ”
Image: Courtesy of 20th Century Studios
Bouchard also addressed something that Bob ’s Burgers fan have wonder : what is the timeline of the show precisely — and adding onto that , how does the pic accommodate into its continuity ? “ I like this interrogative sentence because it ’s , you know , it ’s not any form of running timeline that we can empathise using our own lives . This is sort of a rotary space where this sept seems to be go through , close to , a year over and over again with dissimilar transposition , and then some things we ’ve tear through , ” he said . “ So you ca n’t call it continuity , really , and for certain not for somebody who ’s watching other season and late seasons … for them it must be doubly weird [ when ] Louise is on her on her green machine in one episode and then she ’s riding a bike in the next sequence . And so that ’s not persistence , on the button . ”
He excuse further : “ But we have made a great deal with the fans , I call up , that as long as it feels veracious , that as long as there ’s this sort of — it ’s not narrative growth over time , but it ’s kind of these layer that build up this deepness . So for the movie , it ’s got to accommodate in there . And we are just now get going to think about these episode that are go to bare after the movie , and they ’re going to air in the shadow of this event [ that go on in the motion picture ] . But of grade , they also kind of happened before . I mean , in a path , the picture show happened before the first episode . So this is a weird game to act , but it ’s fun . ”
Another Bob ’s Burgers conundrum also came up in the press conference : is Bob , voiced by H. Jon Benjamin , really a really good cook with really regretful business sensory faculty , or is he a bad James Cook ( also with bad business sector sense ) ? “ Loren and I have talked about this over the age , ” Benjamin say . “ I used to argue to Loren that Bob was not a good cook because there were no client or very few , just Teddy . One guy came in . So maybe that ’s revelatory of a nutrient job . But Loren always hint there ’s the Burger of the Day . There ’s these , like , flight of stairs of creativity that Bob has , and he ’s super into his nutrient . And I call back over the years , [ Loren ] might have won the argument … I have to say that it ’s been guide out by many chefs , even just to me , how much they like the Burger of the Day element . They think that ’s a signal that Bob is a good Captain Cook … or originative , at least . ”
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By the way , that other big Bob ’s Burgers whodunit — what ’s the deal with Louise and her bunny ears?—finally comes to lighter in The Bob ’s Burgers Movie . ( “ I feel very honored that this is the moment that we get to apportion it with the humankind … it ’s really exciting ! ” say Kristen Schaal , who voices Louise . ) We ’ll chance out the solution to that when the movie opens May 27 in theaters .
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