The Untold Truth Of Bob's Burgers

Created by cartoon veteran Loren Bouchard, Bob's Burgers mixes silly stories, puns, heart, and music to make for a truly original and wholesome viewing experience. Get ready to dive between the buns, because we're taking a look at the untold truth of Bob's Burgers.

The way a TV show gets made is pretty straightforward...and difficult. A writer comes up with an idea for a show, writes a pilot script, and, if they've got enough credits and clout in Hollywood, they've got an agent, and that agent gets the pilot into the hands of the executives at TV networks who decide what shows they might want to make. This is not how Bob's Burgers originated. Creator Loren Bouchard was actually approached by Suzanna Makkos, the executive vice president in charge of comedy at Fox, and asked to create an animated series for the network. Makkos was working on developing another animated series and was looking at demo reels by animation houses. One of them included some clips of Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, a macabre comedy that had briefly run on Adult Swim. Makkos liked the animation fine, but what she really liked was the show. She thought it was funny and had an assistant track down its creator, Loren Bouchard. He was living in San Francisco at the time and flew down to meet with Makkos about making a show that same day.

Because cartoons are so expensive and complicated to produce, some will forgo making a complete 30-minute pilot in favor of a "pilot presentation," a short, roughly animated film of just a few minutes that gives network executives a good idea of what a completed series would feel like. Bouchard and producer Jim Dauterive made one such pilot presentation for Fox. Fox entertainment head Kevin Reilly liked the overall concept and feel of the show, but he had some notes. Among them were that the three kids' personalities were not unique enough from one another. At that time, the Belcher kids consisted of one girl, Louise, and two boys, Gene and Daniel. While Bouchard had to admit that Reilly was correct, neither he nor Fox wanted to let go of Dan Mintz, who played Daniel. The solution: change Daniel to a girl named Tina, keep Mintz in the part, and don't have him change his voice or approach to the character at all. Keep watching the video to see the untold truth of Bob's Burgers!

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Bob and Lucy and the Devil make three | 0:16
Damn, Daniel | 1:09
The demon fry cook of Ocean Avenue | 1:59
From the Tube to the studio | 2:52
Something smells fishy... | 3:48
Real talk | 4:49
All ears | 5:36
Now you're cooking! | 6:52
Cast (no) doubt | 7:39
Artsy fartsy | 8:27
The Belch-ening | 9:13

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