The Deepening

"The Deepening" is the 6th episode of the third season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and the overall 28th episode, and is written by Greg Thompson and directed by Bernard Derriman. It aired on Fox in the United States on November 25, 2012.

Plot

Mr. Fischoeder's new pier attraction, a mechanical shark, goes haywire and terrorizes the town, and it falls to Bob and the family to catch it.^[1]

Reception

Rowan Kaiser of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+, saying "This sweet, hilarious confusion helps Bob’s Burgers to operate at the two levels it requires during the course of the episode. The character work keeps it grounded as an episode of Bob’s Burgers. Meanwhile, the monster-movie parody works in large part because, as everyone plays it straight, there’s Tina in the corner, defending a mechanical shark on the grounds that it was used in a movie to depict a confused shark. Bob tries to tell her that she’s wrong by comparing it to a toaster, but Tina’s empathy knows no bounds: 'Our toaster is also confused. It doesn’t know why we put bagels in it.'"^[2]

The episode received a 2.0 rating and was watched by a total of 4.66 million people. This made it the fourth most watched show on Animation Domination that night, beating The Cleveland Show but losing to The Simpsons with 7.46 million.^[3]

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