Mother Daughter Laser Razor

"Mother Daughter Laser Razor"
Bob's Burgers episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Series 32 Episode 10
Directed by	Jennifer Coyle
Written by	Nora Smith
Produced by	Jon Schroeder
Production code	2ASA15
Original air date	January 6, 2013
Guest actors
Kurt Braunohler as Logan Brooke Dillman as Jamie Lee Curtis Tim Heidecker as Dakota Lindsey Stoddart as Cynthia

"Mother Daughter Laser Razor" is the 10th episode of the third season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and is the overall 32nd episode. It aired on Fox in the United States on January 6, 2013.

Plot

When a Family Game Night at the Belcher's home ends up with a shouting match between Linda and Louise, the former goes to a "mommy blog" to gather some ideas as to how to get closer to her youngest child, since she realizes that Louise favors Bob over her. When a series of attempts to get closer to the child fails, Linda tricks Louise into attending a Mother-Daughter seminar.

Meanwhile, Tina overhears a couple of schoolmates gossip over another girl's leg hair. This makes her conscious of her own, and wants to get rid of it. When Linda fails to shave Tina's legs because of her frustrations with Louise, Tina asks Bob to shave her legs instead. Bob brings her to a waxing salon but Tina's fear over the pain forces him to have his legs waxed as well.

In the Mother-Daughter seminar, Louise and Logan from "Ear-sy Rider" manage to anger the seminar leader Dakota and he locks them in a room where the movie "Freaky Friday" is played on loop. Louise thinks of a way to get out of the room and traps Dakota and the mothers in the seminar as well. She and the other children go to the nearby laser tag arena. Linda and the rest kick their way out of the room and get into a fight with the children in the arena, where Louise reveals that she does not really hate her mother. Blaming her for ruining his seminar, Dakota "shoots" Louise and Linda "avenges" her daughter, showing her fun side.

After getting her legs waxed, Tina realizes that she has succumbed to peer pressure and that she has "killed" her tiny leg hairs. Gene gets jealous and demands that his legs get waxed too. However, his and Bob's end up getting itchy because of the procedure.

Reception

Rowan Kaiser from The A.V. Club gave the episode an A. Ross Bonaime of Paste Magazine said “Mother Daughter Laser Razor is just phenomenal in how it blends its two main stories, having both parents reinforce how they care for their kids, while not making it too overwhelming. Bob’s Burgers is setting the bar for itself for 2013 pretty high, but the show has proven that just when you think it can’t get better, it most certainly will."^[1] John Blabber from Bubbleblabber gave the episode an 8/10 saying "Unlike just about every animated show this one deals with a coming of age scenario ' but the overall plot devices ' seemed rather run-of-the-mill."^[2]

The episode received a 3.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic and was watched by a total of 6.40 million viewers making the episode the second most watched episode, the other being the first episode Human Flesh.^[3]

References

Bob's Burgers

Episodes

Season 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 Wars" "Weekend at Mort's" "Lobsterfest" "Torpedo"

Season 2	"The Belchies" "Bob Day Afternoon" "Synchronized Swimming" "Burgerboss" "Food Truckin'" "Dr. Yap" "Moody Foodie" "Bad Tina" "Beefsquatch"

Season 3	"Ear-sy Rider" "Full Bars" "Bob Fires the Kids" "Mutiny on the Windbreaker" "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" "The Deepening" "Tina-Rannosaurus 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" "Lindapendant 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"

Season 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 (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town – Part I)" "World Wharf II: The Wharfening (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town – Part II)"

Season 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" "L'il Hard Dad" "Adventures in Chinchilla-sitting" "The Runway Club" "Itty Bitty Ditty Committee" "Eat, Spray, Linda"

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