Come closer and let us *whisper in your eyes* 👁️👄👁️, because it’s time to discuss the Bob’s Burgers episode “Boyz 4 Now,” and everyone’s favourite fictional pre-teen boy band🕺👯♂️👨🎤. Whether you’re team Griffin, Boo Boo, or an Allencaholic, you’re sure to find this episode *so interesting*, as we explore how Bob’s Burgers lovingly subverts, parodies, and plays with our preconceptions of the ‘boy band’. We also discuss the mechanics of comedy in animation, the art of tablescaping, and Tina Belcher as a millennial feminist icon. There’s only one thing left to say… Will you be mine? Coal mine? 💎⛏️ *autotune intensifies*
Also enjoy the transition, it slaps 👏👀 (Louise would be proud)
📝 Shownotes: 📝
“Boyz 4 Now.” Bob’s Burgers (2015, 20th Television) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2835028/)
Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMFll3aIbmo)
Sam Summers “Layered, Like Onions: Introducing DreamWorks’ Intertextuality” and “Why Is Shrek Funny?: DreamWorks and the Intertextual Gag” from DreamWorks Animation: Intertextuality and Aesthetics in Shrek and Beyond (https://0-link-springer-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-36851-7)
Bob’s Burgers Comic-Con @Home 2021 (https://youtu.be/xIQULeGMKvM)
Constance Grady “The Waves of feminism, and why people keep fighting over them, explained” (https://www.vox.com/2018/3/20/16955588/feminism-waves-explained-first-second-third-fourth)
Alexander McCall “Feminism in a Run-Down Tarry Factory: The Women of ‘Bob’s Burgers’”(https://www.npr.org/2014/08/23/342397137/feminism-in-a-run-down-taffy-factory-the-women-of-bobs-burgers)
Meg Tully “Constructing a feminist icon through erotic friend fiction: millennial feminism on Bob’s Burgers” (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2017.1398831)
Recommendations:
📺 Tuca & Bertie - Lisa Hanawalt
🎶 Chaise Longue - Wet Leg
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🎹Intromusic🎹:
"Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🎹Outro Music🎹:
“Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
🎹Transition Music🎹:
“Huge Slap in the Face” by ArrowheadProductions - Pixabay
