Hawk & Chick

"Hawk & Chick" is the 20th episode of the fifth season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and the overall 87th episode, and is written by Rich Rinaldi and directed by Tyree Dillihay. It aired on Fox in the United States on May 17, 2015.

Plot

Bob and Louise are thrilled when they meet Hawk, the star of their favorite martial arts series, and are quick to offer help upon learning about his family troubles.

Reception

Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode an A, saying, "Hawk And Chick” does a wonderful job taking what could be a fairly out-there premise and bringing it into the Belchers’ orbit; it’s maybe a little random that a Japanese child actress would immigrate to the United States and become an accountant in a sleepy New Jersey seaside town, but if that’s the contrivance necessary to get the story rolling, so be it. The masterstroke here is having Devon locate a print without dubbing or subtitles, forcing Bob and company to record their own dub. Beyond having Bob offer a monologue on the virtues of spell check—which might be the most Dad thing ever aired on network television—this allows the Belchers to insert themselves more directly into the central story, and the batteries dying during the screening allows for a still more intimate connection between the two father-daughter relationships. Kristin Schaal has rarely been better than when she lets slip just how scared Louise is that Chick’s fate might someday be her own, and H. Jon Benjamin matches her perfectly as Bob realizes mid-dubbing that this all might not be about what he thought it was. “Hawk And Chick” is a very real contender for the sweetest episode in the show’s history, and I really hope it doesn’t get lost in the shuffle, because it’s a gem."^[1]

The episode received a 0.9 rating and was watched by a total of 1.95 million people. This made it the fifth most watched show on Fox that night, behind Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a second episode of Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons and Family Guy.^[2]

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