Torpedo redirects here. If you are looking for the character, see Torpedo Jones .
"Torpedo"
Season
Episode
Overall
Prod. Code
1
13
13
1ASA12
“Oh that's creepy. Your role model is the same age as you? I would never have another nine-year-old as my role model. ”
"Torpedo " is the thirteenth episode in Season 1 , being the twelfth episode overall. It is the first-season finale.
Plot [ ]
Bob buys an ad at the baseball park and closes the shop early to take the family to a game. There he discovers that his idol/role model, Torpedo Jones , has joined the local minor league team. During the 7th inning, local mascots, including the Wonder Wharf seal, run a race. The idea excites Gene , who wishes to run the race in the hamburger costume. Torpedo uses his influence to get Gene in the race, and also hires Tina as a ballgirl. She immediately begins hitting on and creeping out the entire team.
Gene wins his first race, but unfortunately forgets the name of the restaurant while being interviewed by Mr. Fischoeder , much to Bob's frustration. Torpedo begins having an amazing pitching run, which he attributes to Bob's Burgers . Bob later discovers the Torpedo is using grease from the burgers to improve his pitch. When Bob takes the news to Mr. Fischoeder, he convinces Bob it's okay to cheat for entertainment purposes. He shows Bob that all the games at Wonder Wharf are rigged and that people are removing wood from the roller coaster to create seating at the park. Bob then tells the kids it's OK to cheat for entertainment purposes. This causes Louise to suggest that Gene consider cheating as a valid option if he wants to win. Gene concedes and the next time he races, he nudges the other top-heavy mascots causing them to stumble and lose. Linda learns about the cheating and becomes angry at Bob for teaching the kids such a bad lesson. Ashamed of his actions, he decides to talk to Torpedo Jones. Torpedo tells Bob he's always been a cheater, and that he cannot be a role model for someone his own age.
Desperate to teach Gene to do the right thing, Bob enters the announcer booth to talk to him. When he nearly reveals his secrets, Mr. Fischoeder begins shooting at him with the gun he uses instead of a starter pistol. Gene decides not to cheat, and is instead knocked over by a pelican mascot. Bob tells Gene it appears karma has caught up with him, which starts an argument about karma with Mr. Fischoder, who claims there to be no such thing. At that moment, the Wonder Wharf roller coaster, stripped of many of its support beams, crashes to the ground. Mr. Fischoeder later tells Bob that he admires him and that he reminds him of his father.
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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Episode Navigation
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Season
Episodes
The Demo
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