Bob's Burgers | |
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Genre | Animated sitcom |
Created by | Loren Bouchard |
Developed by | Loren Bouchard Jim Dauterive |
Voices of |
H. Jon Benjamin Dan Mintz Eugene Mirman Larry Murphy John Roberts Kristen Schaal |
Theme music composer | Loren Bouchard |
Opening theme | "Bob's Burgers Theme" |
Composer(s) | John Dylan Keith Loren Bouchard |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 7 |
No. of episodes | 117 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Loren Bouchard Jim Dauterive |
Editor(s) | Mark Seymour |
Camera setup | Animated rendition of single-camera |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Bento Box Entertainment (2011) Wilo Productions (2012 - Present) Buck & Millie Productions (2012 - Present) 20th Century Fox Television |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network | Fox |
Picture format | 720p (16:9 HDTV) |
Audio format | 5.1 surround sound with SAP DVS audio description |
Original release | January 9, 2011 | – present
External links | |
Website | |
Production website |
Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Belchers – parents Bob and Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise – who run a hamburger restaurant. The show was conceived by Bouchard after he developed Home Movies. It is produced and distributed in association with 20th Century Fox Television.
The series debuted on January 9, 2011. While reviews for the first season were mixed, feedback for subsequent seasons has been much more positive. The series premiere, "Human Flesh", drew in 9.38 million viewers, making it the highest-rated series premiere of the season, and finishing 9th in the ratings for the week it aired. Reruns began airing on Cartoon Network's late night adult programming block Adult Swim on June 23, 2013, and began airing in syndication on local stations in September 2015.
A comic book series based on the show, published by Dynamite Entertainment, began in September 2014, and a soundtrack album is planned to be released at some point.
In 2013, TV Guide ranked Bob's Burgers as one of the top 60 Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time. The series has been nominated for several awards, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 2012 and 2013, before it won the award in 2014.
On January 8, 2015, Fox renewed the series for a 23-episode sixth production cycle, which premiered on September 27, 2015.
On October 7, 2015, Fox renewed the series for seventh and eighth production cycles.
The home centers on the Belcher family—Bob, Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise—who run a hamburger restaurant on Ocean Avenue in an unnamed seaside community (informally known as "Seymour's Bay" among the show's writing staff). While series creator Loren Bouchard has said that the show's location was an indeterminate Northeastern United States shore town, calling the setting a "semi-Springfield", some critics, particularly for the episode "It Snakes a Village", have deduced that the unidentified setting appears to actually be southern New Jersey.