BOB'S BURGERS Valentine's Day Episodes Ranked

Bob’s Burgers is one of my favorite shows. The writing is clever, silly, and heartfelt and their holiday episodes are usually some of my favorites. Bob’s Burgers is well known for its Thanksgiving episodes due to Bob’s love of Thanksgiving. But with Valentine’s Day around the corner I thought I would rank their episodes dedicated to the holiday. This list is obviously very subjective, but if you would like something to watch to help celebrate Valentine’s, these episodes are all worth watching.

8.) My Fuzzy Valentine (Season 3)

This first Valentine’s Day episode is incredibly sweet. While it has landed at the bottom of my list, don’t write it off completely. The episode features Bob and the kids desperately searching for the perfect gift for Linda. Bob tries to track down the love tester from his first date with Linda. After driving all over town and paying Hugo the health inspector and obscene amount of money for it, he realizes it wasn’t actually from a date with Linda at all. Meanwhile Linda has been hosting a disastrous speed dating event. In the end it turns out the effort is what mattered most and Bob and Linda share a romantic moment and Teddy walks away with a lady’s phone number.

7.) Ferry on My Wayward Bob and Linda (Season 12)

This episode features Bob and Linda being invited to a very exclusive Valentine’s Day event by a small restaurant owner on King’s Head Island thanks to Bob’s great burgers. After getting all dressed up and ready, Bob and Linda end up on the wrong ferry and land on the wrong side of the island. After traipsing through mud and sheep dung, Linda gives Bob a pep talk about how they do actually belong at the fancy dinner and nothing is going stop them, not even Bob’s impending feelings of imposter syndrome and doom. Meanwhile, the kids are scheming how to get their pushover babysitter to take them to get discount Valentine’s Day candy when the babysitter’s crush/public notary shows up to notarize some documents. After some very awkward flirting, the kids help the two get together. The episode balances the two different stories well and it’s always nice to see how Bob and Linda’s couple dynamic really work out for the two of them.

6.) The Gene and Courtney Show (Season 6)

This is low on my list simply for my bias against Courtney, I find her really annoying. But the episode overall is fun, Gene and Courtney try to pep up the morning announcements, but when a romance occurs between them it tanks their ability to do the show well. They break up in order to make the show good again with Gene singing a sad yet uplifting song on Valentine’s Day. I actually really like the B plot more which is Tina is in charge of a fundraiser in which students can buy a red carnation for a classmate. Everything is kept secret until Valentine’s Day, but it drives Tina crazy not knowing if she had one or not. After discovering she didn’t have any she goes nuts and opens all of them to find out who is sending flowers to each other only to need Louise and Linda to help her put all the correct names back into their correct envelopes. Meanwhile Bob was suppose to get the carnations but completely forgot to pre order them and has to find a way to get the flowers with help from Teddy. In the end Bob and LInda didn’t do anything for each other, but it’s a pretty funny moment and goes to show that the two have a solid relationship.

5.) Can’t Buy Me Math (Season 5)

Tina needs a math tutor and turns to Darryl for help. Darryl hatches a scheme for him and Tina to fake date in order to win Cupid’s Couple at the Valentine’s dance. After the dance they will break up and then be irresistible to their actual crushes. The plan works, but Tina almost ruins it by confessing the whole thing because she thinks she has fallen for Darryl. When it’s obvious that Darryl and his crush, Rosa, make a way better couple and that Tina only fell for the person Darryl was pretending to be, she finds a way to get the two together. Meanwhile Linda tries to take the pressure off Valentine’s Day for Bob by planning romantic activities throughout the week. Overall the episode is fun and has some good heartfelt moments in it.

4.) Romancing the Beef (Season 11)

In order to show up Jimmy Pesto, the Belchers decide to delay Bob and Linda’s Valentine’s Day plans to turn the restaurant into ‘Urge’, a romantic dining spot for one night only for couples that were too late to get reservations for Valentine’s Day. The family comes together, except Tina who goes to Tammy’s anti-Valentine’s Day party, to really deck out the place into a romantic hotspot that is quickly filled with moderately unhappy couples. Everything goes well until Hugo shows up and though he is not there for work, he won’t hesitate to shut the whole thing down if his date doesn’t show up. When it looks like he is being stood up the family keep coming up with more and more elaborate lies about where she is. In the end Bob and Linda share things they love about each other, their original plan for the evening, by shouting across the restaurant and Hugo’s date finally shows up. It's a really sweet episode that is especially good to watch if you and your partner are often too busy to do big romantic gestures for each other.

3.) Bed, Bob, And Beyond (Season 9)

Bob and Linda get into a big, stupid fight about dirty laundry on Valentine’s Day. After the kids break Gene’s bed by jumping on it together, they need to get their parents in a better mood before telling them. Hoping that the romantic comedy they go to see as a family will help, the movie is abruptly cut off at the theater leaving Linda in a particularly bad mood. Trying to salvage everything, each kid tells a different part of how the movie could have ended. Dirty laundry and broken beds turn out to be integral in each story and is a ton of fun. By the end Bob and Linda apologize to each other and the kids quickly tell them about the bed before quickly going inside the apartment. I really like most of the episodes that have three different stories in this, and this one is just so funny with all the broken beds in it. In the end though, Louise comes in with the big win by being the most obvious about what will help Bob and Linda feel better and it turns out to be a sweet moment.

2.) V for Valentine-detta (Season 8)

When Jimmy Jr. leaves Tina heartbroken on Valentine’s Day, Linda decides to cheer her up by taking her and Louise out for a girls night in the limo that was supposed to be for Linda and Bob. Enter one of my favorite side characters, Natalie the limo driver. She helps not only take them everywhere and manages to get them into a dessert place, but helps plot Tina’s revenge on Jimmy Jr. when they all find out the real reason Tina is so upset with him. When the big moment comes, Tina can’t do it because she doesn’t want to ruin the date for the girl Jimmy Jr. asked out. When he breaks up with her at the restaurant though all bets are off and Tina ends up bringing the other girl with her to finish off their girls night. Meanwhile Bob takes Gene on the activity Linda had originally planned for them, learning how to be trapeze artists. It's a really funny B story line and is really fun to see Bob and Gene having some bonding time.

1.) Bob Actually (Season 7)

If you asked me to list my top 5 favorite Bob’s Burgers episodes this one would definitely make the list. It has humor, it has romance, it has sweet moments, it has everything you would want out of a Valentine’s episode. Each character has their own story line in it much like the film Love, Actually. Bob wants to do dance lessons to surprise Linda on Valentine’s, but he never signed up. Teddy takes him to the studio he goes to and they both take the only class available that afternoon, hip hop. Meanwhile Linda finds herself comforting the probably unhinged Ms. Selbo. At school, Tina is trying to keep herself from exploding with diarrhea when Jimmy Jr. wants to do a sky kiss on a trampoline. Gene sneaks into the kitchen to grab some treats where he finds the substitute lunch lady making chocolates for her love. Louise has to break the news to regular sized Rudy that his crush is not into him despite him giving her flowers and a note. Each storyline is short and sweet and ends in a kiss, don’t worry Gene kisses a spoon covered in chocolate. Each story is so funny and good it’s really hard to pick a favorite one, for me it’s a tie between Louise and Bob. This episode is so good I really recommend it any time you are feeling down and need a pick me up.