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"An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" is the fifth episode in Season 3, being the twenty-seventh episode overall. It is the show's first Thanksgiving-themed episode.

Plot[]

Mr. Fischoeder convinces Bob to have the Belcher family pose as his own for Thanksgiving dinner at his mansion in order to seduce his old flame, famous sharp shooter and pursuer of married magnates, Shelby Schnabel. Bob is hired to pose as the cook While Linda and the kids pose as Calvin's family. Bob, distraught that his favorite holiday was taken from him, drinks too much absinthe in the kitchen and after a hallucinogenic "My Neighbor Totoro" themed dream, becomes emotionally attached to the turkey, Lance.

Synopsis[]

The Belchers are grocery shopping before Thanksgiving, where Bob is excited (as it is his favorite holiday) and selects a turkey to cook. At the restaurant, Mr. Fischoeder arrives and says he needs to borrow Bob’s family for Thanksgiving dinner. He explains that he is in love with world-famous sharpshooter Shelby Schnabel, who once left him for a married oil magnate, who in turn left for a married movie magnate. Shelby is a serial homewrecker, and Fischoeder wants to give a home for her to wreck and offers one month’s rent for the Belchers to pretend to be his family. Bob refuses that and to be the cook, stating that thanksgiving is the family’s favorite holiday, pointing out the activities they do every year (he and gene play football, Tina helps him break the wishbone, and he and Louise play Turkey Crime Scene Investigation: Miami with the discarded organs) including his funny toasts, but they shoot him down. Fischoeder agrees to up the offer to five month’s rent, and they agree.

On Thanksgiving, Linda is in her old bridesmaid dress and singing her own Thanksgiving song as they approach Fischoeder’s mansion. Bob lays out a plan so they can all do activities before doing the toast in the kitchen at 8. Fischoeder lets the family in while Bob is made to go around to the back. In the kitchen, Bob is alone after Fischoeder leaves to get drunk and put on his “sex face” while Linda redoes her hair, and begins conversing with the turkey, whom he names Lance. The kids dress in overalls to play-act as another family, and Fischoeder explains that to keep them motivated to pretend to be a family Shelby can destroy, he will be giving them arcade tickets for their performances and flattery, with the winner getting a prize from his prize room. Bob continues conversing with Lance, and hallucinates when taking a sip of absinthe left in the kitchen. Shelby arrives and meets the “family”, and demonstrates her skill with her old rifle which Fischoeder (whom she addresses as “Calvin”) had kept on his mantle. At the dinner table, Gene and Louise keep getting tickets, Tina almost blow their cover, and Shelby is attracted to Calvin. Bob comes in from the kitchen with salads and tries to tell Gene that it is time to play football, but he ignores him and Shelby flings a small tomato at Bob. Linda makes Gene go in the kitchen to apologize.

Bob tries to play football with a bread loaf but Gene leaves because he wants to get more tickets. Bob, still drinking absinthe, forgets to get the wishbone out of the turkey and burns his hands trying to get it out of the oven without mitts and only gets some turkey skin, but Tina wants to get more tickets due to being behind her siblings and leaves to send Louise in. Louise slips a note under the door saying they won’t be playing Turkey CSI Miami. Bob gets drunker on absinthe and falls asleep, imagining his family in the kitchen loving him and his dinner toast, and Lance growing in size and forming a tree of food. At 8:35, the timer dings and he realizes he missed the toast, but sees the family enjoying Fischoeder’s company at the dining table more and realizes they are not coming in for the toast. Linda comes in to get an onion to help her fake-cry for the act, and after telling Bob that they can do the toast the next day with five month’s free rent, an angry/drunk Bob says that since no one came in for his toast, he will do it out in the dining room.

As Linda and the kids continue to play at being a family to get Shelby interested in Calvin, a very drunk Bob bursts in with the cooked turkey on a cart insulting the family and after arguing with Lin begins saying his toast, delivers his toast overlapping with Fischoeder’s, to Shelby’s amusement. Calvin has the kids hug him, and tries to seal the deal by kissing Linda, to Bob’s anger. He grabs Lance and runs off with the turkey, not wanting Fischoeder’s “blood money” and not thinking the others are good enough to eat Lance. To Linda’s horror, Shelby grabs her rifle to hunt down Bob. Bob runs through the hallway and up to the attic avoiding Shelby’s shots, despite the pleas of the family to not shoot their dad (which an oblivious Shelby says she wont, she will shoot the cook). Bob is shot through a door and seems to be dead to the family’s distress, but it is revealed that Lance took the bullet. After a short one-sided conversation, Bob says Lance is gone and the family apologize for ruining Thanksgiving as he realizes that he’s drunk and was talking to a turkey. Shelby is still confused and as Calvin tries to pass it off as an extramarital affair, Linda confesses the scheme. Shelby is touched Calvin would go to such lengths but says it would not still work, as she respects herself too much “not to be the other woman.” Bob calls the tow insane and wants to leave, but Louise first grabs a prize as she had the most tickets: an unflattering “family” portrait” Fischoeder had done of himself, Linda and the kids, to hang up in the Belcher kitchen as they eat Lance for dinner and Linda drinks absinthe. They cheer for eating Dad if the bullet hadn’t struck Lance as Bob tries to end dinner.

Cast[]

Starring

  • H. John Benjamin as Bob
  • Dan Mintz as Tina
  • Eugene Mirman as Gene
  • John Roberts as Linda
  • Kristen Schaal as Louise

Also Starring

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The Demo
1 Human FleshCrawl SpaceSacred CowSexy Dance FightingHamburger Dinner TheaterSheesh! Cab, Bob?Bed & BreakfastArt CrawlSpaghetti Western and MeatballsBurger WarWeekend at Mort'sLobsterfestTorpedo
2 The BelchiesBob Day AfternoonSynchronized SwimmingBurgerbossFood Truckin'Dr. YapMoody FoodieBad TinaBeefsquatch
3 Ear-sy RiderFull BarsBob Fires the KidsMutiny on the WindbreakerAn Indecent Thanksgiving ProposalThe DeepeningTinarannosaurus WrecksThe Unbearable Like-Likeness of GeneGod Rest Ye Merry Gentle-MannequinsMother Daughter Laser RazorNude BeachBroadcast Wagstaff School NewsMy Fuzzy ValentineLindapendent WomanO.T. The Outside ToiletTopsyTwo for TinaIt Snakes a VillageFamily FracasThe Kids Run the RestaurantBoyz 4 NowCarpe MuseumThe Unnatural
4 A River Runs Through BobFort NightSeaplane!My Big Fat Greek BobTurkey in a CanPurple Rain-UnionBob and DeliverChristmas in the CarSlumber PartyPresto Tina-oEasy Com-mercial, Easy Go-mercialThe Frond FilesMazel TinaUncle TeddyThe Kids Rob a TrainI Get Psy-chic Out of YouThe EquestranautsAmbergrisThe Kids Run AwayGene It OnWharf HorseWorld Wharf II: The Wharfening
5 Work Hard or Die Trying, GirlTina and the Real GhostFriends with Burger-fitsDawn of the PeckBest BurgerFather of the BobTina Tailor Soldier SpyMidday RunSpeakeasy RiderLate Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and LouiseCan't Buy Me MathThe Millie-churian CandidateThe Gayle TalesLi'l Hard DadAdventures in Chinchilla-sittingThe Runway ClubThe Itty Bitty Ditty CommitteeEat, Spray, LindaHousetrapHawk & ChickThe Oeder Games
6 Sliding BobsThe Land ShipThe HaunteningGayle Makin' Bob SledNice-CapadesThe Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her LoverThe Gene & Courtney ShowSexy Dance HealingSacred CouchLice Things Are LiceHouse of 1000 BouncesStand by GeneWag the HogThe Hormone-iumsPro Tiki/Con TikiBye Bye Boo BooThe Horse Rider-erSecret Admiral-irerGlued, Where's My Bob?
7 Flu-ouiseSea Me NowTeen-a WitchThey Serve Horses, Don't They?Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?The Quirk-ducersThe Last Gingerbread House on the LeftEx MachTinaBob ActuallyThere's No Business Like Mr. Business BusinessA Few 'Gurt MenLike Gene for ChocolateThe Grand Mama-pest HotelAquaticismAin't Miss Debatin'Eggs for DaysZero Larp ThirtyThe Laser-inthThelma & Louise Except Thelma is LindaMom, Lies, and VideotapeParaders of the Lost FloatInto the Mild
8 BrunchsquatchThe Silence of the LouiseThe Wolf of Wharf StreetSit Me Baby One More TimeThanks-hoardingThe BleakeningV for Valentine-dettaY Tu Ga-Ga TambienThe Secret Ceramics Room of SecretsSleeping with the FrenemyThe Hurt SoccerCheer Up, Sleepy GeneThe Trouble with DoublesGo Tina on the MountainAre You There Bob? It's Me, BirthdayBoywatchAs I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of RampsMo Mommy Mo ProblemsMission Impos-slug-bleSomething Old, Something New, Something Bob Caters for You
9 Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for NowThe Taking of Funtime One Two ThreeTweentrepreneursNightmare on Ocean Avenue StreetLive and Let FlyBobby DriverI Bob Your PardonRoller? I Hardly Know Her!UFO No You Didn'tBetter Off SledLorenzo's Oil? No, Linda'sThe Helen HuntBed, Bob & BeyondEvery Which Way but GooseThe Fresh Princ-ipalRoamin' Bob-idayWhat About Blob?If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Marionette?Long Time Listener, First Time BobThe Gene MileP.T.A. It Ain't SoYes Without My Zeke
10 The Ring (But Not Scary)Boys Just Wanna Have FungusMotor, She BoatPig Trouble in Little TinaLegends of the MallThe Hawkening: Look Who's Hawking Now!Land of the LoftNow We're Not Cooking with GasAll That GeneHave Yourself a Maily Linda ChristmasDrumforgivenA Fish Called TinaThree Girls and a Little WharfyWag the SongYurty Rotten ScoundrelsFlat-Top o' the Morning to YaJust the TripTappy Tappy Tappy Tap Tap TapThe Handyman CanPoops!… I Didn't Do It AgainLocal She-roPrank You for Being a Friend
11 Dream a Little Bob of BobWorms of In-Rear-mentCopa-Bob-banaHeartbreak Hotel-oweenFast Time Capsules at Wagstaff SchoolBob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad KidsDiarrhea of a Poopy KidThe Terminalator II: Terminals of EndearmentMommy BoyYachty or NiceRomancing the BeefDie Card, or Card TryingAn Incon-Wheelie-ent TruthMr. Lonely FartsSheshank RedumptionY Tu Tina TambiénFingers-looseSome Kind of Fender BenderfulBridge Over Troubled RudySteal Magazine-oliasTell Me Dumb Thing GoodVampire Disco Death Dance
12 Manic Pixie Crap ShowCrystal MessThe PumpkineningDriving Big DummySeven-tween AgainBeach, PleaseLoft in BedslationStuck in the Kitchen with YouFOMO You Didn'tGene's Christmas BreakTouch of Eval(uations)Ferry on My Wayward Bob and LindaFrigate Me KnotVideo Killed the Gene-io StarAncient Misbehavin'Interview with a Pop-pop-pireThe Spider House RulesClear and Present GingerA-Sprout a BoySauce Side StorySome Like It Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade RunnerSome Like It Bot Part 2: Judge-bot Day
13 To Bob, or Not to BobThe Reeky Lake ShowWhat About Job?Comet-y of ErrorsSo You Stink You Can DanceApple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)Ready Player GenePutts-givingShow Mama from the GraveThe Plight Before ChristmasCheaty Cheaty Bang BangOh Row You Didn'tStop! Or My Mom Will Sleuth!These Boots Are Made for StalkingThe Show (and Tell) Must Go OnWhat a (April) Fool BelievesCrows Encounters of the Bird KindGift Card or Buy TryingCrab-solutely FabulousRadio No You Didn'tMother Author Laser PointerAmelia
14 Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ralThe Amazing RudyThe PickleoretteRunning Down a GeneBully-ieve It or NotEscape from Which Island?The (Raccoon) King and IWharf, Me Worry?Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypseThe Nightmare 2 Days Before ChristmasMission Impossi-BobJade in the Shade
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Unknown season (order subject to change) Butt Sweat and FearsThe Big StieblitzkiThe Tina Table: The Tables Have Tina-edThe Right Tough StuffTo Catch a BeefDon't Stop Be-cheesin'For Whom the Doll ToesThey Slug Horses, Don't They?Hope N' Mic NightBoogie DaysDog Christmas Day After AfternoonAdvice Things Are Ad-NiceMr. Fischoeder's OpusLike a Candle in the GymSnackface
See also: Episode Guide
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