Bob Fires the Kids

Written by Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux, the episode sees Bob Belcher (H. Jon Benjamin) firing his children Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal) from the family restaurant for the summer, not wanting to deprive them of normal childhood experiences as his own father did.

The episode also sees the return of the bank robber Mickey, voiced by guest actor Bill Hader, who is hired by Bob at the restaurant in his children's absence.

The toys make Bob recall memories of constantly working at his father's restaurant, and he realizes that his job deprived him of a normal childhood.

In their place, he hires newly released bank robber Mickey, whom the family had previously befriended, to do various jobs around the restaurant, in exchange for free meals and shelter in the basement.

[1] The episode's title was first revealed in a February 2012 post on the official Bob's Burgers writers' blog alongside its accompanying script cover,[2] designed by series storyboard artist Tony Gennaro.

[4] Megan Mullally, who voices the character Aunt Gayle in the series,[5] also makes a guest appearance in the episode with her husband and Parks and Recreation co-star Nick Offerman as the hippie couple Beverly and Cooper.

[11] The episode was watched by 3.92 million viewers and received a 1.8/4 Nielsen rating in the 18–49 demographic, becoming the fourth most-watched program of the Animation Domination block for the night.

"[6] Ross Bonaime of Paste wrote: "As great as an episode of Bob's Burgers can be when the kids and the adults are given their own separate stories... there's something much more rewarding about a storyline that combines the two groups in an almost Simpson-ian manner.

"[7] He also praised the episode's guest voice actors, citing in particular Bill Hader's character Mickey as "very odd, but so much fun"; Bonaime gave "Bob Fires the Kids" an overall grade of 8.3 out of 10.