The Nuclear Family In The Show Bob's Burgers

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The Nuclear Family is a concept of a standard familial unit consisting of a breadwinner father, a devoted wife, and a number of children. Since is rise in popularity in the 1950’s, television has been a comfortable home for the nuclear family; where the family would learn a lesson once shenanigans ensue. While the family’s background, class, race, or familial structure may differ from show to show over the years; the formula for the nuclear family seems to follow the same patterns. While many shows have tried to reshape this concept over the years, the show Bob’s Burgers retains the basic standard of the nuclear family and thrives through each member of the family being well written developed characters. Bob’s Burgers is a animated sitcom created …show more content…

The belchers have to adapt when they need extra money and the episode shows all of the struggles it takes to manage a family and two jobs. This makes the story all the more grounded in how the family coexists and the fact that the town is not the model suburban city rather a town where the inhabitants are much crazier in the family. This makes the Belchers, despite their flaws, feel like a normal loving family. The show also benefits from the crazy town by allowing the family to embark on weird adventures ruining the suspension of disbelief. This entire episode doesn’t venture far outside of the realm of the restaurant, and focuses primarily on Bob making ends meet. While this would be considered a boring by animation standards, though the show makes up for this through the clever writing and well developed characters. Bob is the straight man in this family and is constantly annoyed by their crazy antics, he is willing to put up with so much in order to assure his daughter’s happiness. He is even willing to shave his mustache for his rival, Jimmy Pesto Senior so that Jimmy Junior can go the the party to make Tina’s dream come true. That is the sort of dedication and love that measures the true value of a

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