"Spaghetti Western and Meatballs"
Season
Episode
Overall
Prod. Code
1
9
9
1ASA10
“I'd like you to take a look at my abs. ”
"Spaghetti Western and Meatballs " is the ninth episode in Season 1 , being the ninth episode overall.
Synopsis [ ]
Louise feels alienated when Bob and Gene start watching spaghetti westerns. Tina fights her way through a conflict resolution program.
Plot [ ]
One night, Bob and Louise are doing their "burn unit", which involves taking turns doing harsh critiques on TV shows. Gene comes in just when they land on Bob's favorite movie, Banjo , and he insists that they pause "burn unit" and just watch and enjoy. Gene does enjoy it, and father and son enjoy bonding; unfortunately, Louise gets jealous. Meanwhile, Bob and Linda are responsible for catering the conflict-resolution spaghetti dinner at the kids' school, a job Linda takes very seriously because of her rivalry with fellow PTA-member Colleen Caviello . Tina & Jimmy Jr. are both members of Mr. Frond 's conflict-resolution club; during one meeting, Tina displays her lingering crush on Jimmy Jr. and warns Jocelyn to stay away from him.
Downstairs in the restaurant, Bob reveals that he has bought the entire collection of Banjo on DVD; Louise fumes and attempts to destroy it. Gene starts playing on Louise's toy guitar like Banjo when he decides to counter-attack his rival, Choo-Choo . Louise gets tired of it and starts a food fight in the cafeteria during lunchtime. The ensuing mayhem makes Mr. Frond ban Bob from serving at the event, angering Linda. Gene, Louise, and Choo-Choo are sent to detention for the food fight, and Choo-Choo decides to fight Gene outside. Bob decides to stop the fight from happening, until Choo-Choo's dad runs into the fight and chases Bob while he takes Gene and Louise away from the fight. While they hide in a slide, Bob reprimands Louise harshly for her bratty behavior until she finally explains that she had just missed hanging out with her dad and brother, preferring them to "the menstruation nation" (aka her mother and sister).
In the end, they resolve their problems as Bob decides to serve the spaghetti dinner by showing Mr. Frond how he can "work on his A.B.S." Mr. Frond allows it and the spaghetti dinner happens—complete with another food fight as the episode ends with the Banjo theme.
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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1
Human Flesh • Crawl Space • Sacred Cow • Sexy Dance Fighting • Hamburger Dinner Theater • Sheesh! Cab, Bob? • Bed & Breakfast • Art Crawl • Spaghetti Western and Meatballs • Burger War • Weekend at Mort's • Lobsterfest • Torpedo
2
The Belchies • Bob Day Afternoon • Synchronized Swimming • Burgerboss • Food Truckin' • Dr. Yap • Moody Foodie • Bad Tina • Beefsquatch
3
Ear-sy Rider • Full Bars • Bob Fires the Kids • Mutiny on the Windbreaker • An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal • The Deepening • Tinarannosaurus Wrecks • The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene • God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins • Mother Daughter Laser Razor • Nude Beach • Broadcast Wagstaff School News • My Fuzzy Valentine • Lindapendent Woman • O.T. The Outside Toilet • Topsy • Two for Tina • It Snakes a Village • Family Fracas • The Kids Run the Restaurant • Boyz 4 Now • Carpe Museum • The Unnatural
4
A River Runs Through Bob • Fort Night • Seaplane! • My Big Fat Greek Bob • Turkey in a Can • Purple Rain-Union • Bob and Deliver • Christmas in the Car • Slumber Party • Presto Tina-o • Easy Com-mercial, Easy Go-mercial • The Frond Files • Mazel Tina • Uncle Teddy • The Kids Rob a Train • I Get Psy-chic Out of You • The Equestranauts • Ambergris • The Kids Run Away • Gene It On • Wharf Horse • World Wharf II: The Wharfening
5
Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl • Tina and the Real Ghost • Friends with Burger-fits • Dawn of the Peck • Best Burger • Father of the Bob • Tina Tailor Soldier Spy • Midday Run • Speakeasy Rider • Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise • Can't Buy Me Math • The Millie-churian Candidate • The Gayle Tales • Li'l Hard Dad • Adventures in Chinchilla-sitting • The Runway Club • The Itty Bitty Ditty Committee • Eat, Spray, Linda • Housetrap • Hawk & Chick • The Oeder Games
6
Sliding Bobs • The Land Ship • The Hauntening • Gayle Makin' Bob Sled • Nice-Capades • The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her Lover • The Gene & Courtney Show • Sexy Dance Healing • Sacred Couch • Lice Things Are Lice • House of 1000 Bounces • Stand by Gene • Wag the Hog • The Hormone-iums • Pro Tiki/Con Tiki • Bye Bye Boo Boo • The Horse Rider-er • Secret Admiral-irer • Glued, Where's My Bob?
7
Flu-ouise • Sea Me Now • Teen-a Witch • They Serve Horses, Don't They? • Large Brother, Where Fart Thou? • The Quirk-ducers • The Last Gingerbread House on the Left • Ex MachTina • Bob Actually • There's No Business Like Mr. Business Business • A Few 'Gurt Men • Like Gene for Chocolate • The Grand Mama-pest Hotel • Aquaticism • Ain't Miss Debatin' • Eggs for Days • Zero Larp Thirty • The Laser-inth • Thelma & Louise Except Thelma is Linda • Mom, Lies, and Videotape • Paraders of the Lost Float • Into the Mild
8
Brunchsquatch • The Silence of the Louise • The Wolf of Wharf Street • Sit Me Baby One More Time • Thanks-hoarding • The Bleakening • V for Valentine-detta • Y Tu Ga-Ga Tambien • The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets • Sleeping with the Frenemy • The Hurt Soccer • Cheer Up, Sleepy Gene • The Trouble with Doubles • Go Tina on the Mountain • Are You There Bob? It's Me, Birthday • Boywatch • As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps • Mo Mommy Mo Problems • Mission Impos-slug-ble • Something Old, Something New, Something Bob Caters for You
9
Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now • The Taking of Funtime One Two Three • Tweentrepreneurs • Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street • Live and Let Fly • Bobby Driver • I Bob Your Pardon • Roller? I Hardly Know Her! • UFO No You Didn't • Better Off Sled • Lorenzo's Oil? No, Linda's • The Helen Hunt • Bed, Bob & Beyond • Every Which Way but Goose • The Fresh Princ-ipal • Roamin' Bob-iday • What About Blob? • If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Marionette? • Long Time Listener, First Time Bob • The Gene Mile • P.T.A. It Ain't So • Yes Without My Zeke
10
The Ring (But Not Scary) • Boys Just Wanna Have Fungus • Motor, She Boat • Pig Trouble in Little Tina • Legends of the Mall • The Hawkening: Look Who's Hawking Now! • Land of the Loft • Now We're Not Cooking with Gas • All That Gene • Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas • Drumforgiven • A Fish Called Tina • Three Girls and a Little Wharfy • Wag the Song • Yurty Rotten Scoundrels • Flat-Top o' the Morning to Ya • Just the Trip • Tappy Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap • The Handyman Can • Poops!… I Didn't Do It Again • Local She-ro • Prank You for Being a Friend
11
Dream a Little Bob of Bob • Worms of In-Rear-ment • Copa-Bob-bana • Heartbreak Hotel-oween • Fast Time Capsules at Wagstaff School • Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids • Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid • The Terminalator II: Terminals of Endearment • Mommy Boy • Yachty or Nice • Romancing the Beef • Die Card, or Card Trying • An Incon-Wheelie-ent Truth • Mr. Lonely Farts • Sheshank Redumption • Y Tu Tina También • Fingers-loose • Some Kind of Fender Benderful • Bridge Over Troubled Rudy • Steal Magazine-olias • Tell Me Dumb Thing Good • Vampire Disco Death Dance
12
Manic Pixie Crap Show • Crystal Mess • The Pumpkinening • Driving Big Dummy • Seven-tween Again • Beach, Please • Loft in Bedslation • Stuck in the Kitchen with You • FOMO You Didn't • Gene's Christmas Break • Touch of Eval(uations) • Ferry on My Wayward Bob and Linda • Frigate Me Knot • Video Killed the Gene-io Star • Ancient Misbehavin' • Interview with a Pop-pop-pire • The Spider House Rules • Clear and Present Ginger • A-Sprout a Boy • Sauce Side Story • Some Like It Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner • Some Like It Bot Part 2: Judge-bot Day
13
To Bob, or Not to Bob • The Reeky Lake Show • What About Job? • Comet-y of Errors • So You Stink You Can Dance • Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory) • Ready Player Gene • Putts-giving • Show Mama from the Grave • The Plight Before Christmas • Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang • Oh Row You Didn't • Stop! Or My Mom Will Sleuth! • These Boots Are Made for Stalking • The Show (and Tell) Must Go On • What a (April) Fool Believes • Crows Encounters of the Bird Kind • Gift Card or Buy Trying • Crab-solutely Fabulous • Radio No You Didn't • Mother Author Laser Pointer • Amelia
14
Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral • The Amazing Rudy • The Pickleorette • Running Down a Gene • Bully-ieve It or Not • Escape from Which Island? • The (Raccoon) King and I • Wharf, Me Worry? • Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse • The Nightmare 2 Days Before Christmas • Mission Impossi-Bob • Jade in the Shade
15
TBA
Unknown season (order subject to change)
Butt Sweat and Fears • The Big Stieblitzki • The Tina Table: The Tables Have Tina-ed • The Right Tough Stuff • To Catch a Beef • Don't Stop Be-cheesin' • For Whom the Doll Toes • They Slug Horses, Don't They? • Hope N' Mic Night • Boogie Days • Dog Christmas Day After Afternoon • Advice Things Are Ad-Nice • Mr. Fischoeder's Opus • Like a Candle in the Gym • Snackface
See also: Episode Guide