Dan Mintz

Dan Mintz voices Tina Belcher on Bob’s Burgers, the eldest kid inside a struggling burger joint where songs erupt without warning. Loren Bouchard’s Fox animation runs on Bob’s anxiety and Linda’s whoop; Mintz is the monotone — horses, butts, yearning as a whisper that somehow carries the episode. Kindest long-running adult animation of the decade still needed a teen who sounded like a secret.

On Fox from 2011–present, Bob's Burgers had to look inhabited. Bob’s anxiety, Linda’s whoop, Gene-Louise specificity; Tina is the deadpan that made adolescent yearning a house style. Dan is the inhabitant tagged Tina Belcher — a seat the hour still has to account for.

Do not hunt a recap of Dan Mintz. File s01e01 as the door. Human Flesh is the kitchen rumor as launch: Belchers, anxiety, whoop, kids generating problems on Fox animation night one. s16e15 is the turn. Smellbound is the latest burger-joint hour on the calendar — kindest long-running adult animation still serving without a finale hedge. Bob's Burgers still argues at s02e01. The Belchies is a family-name pun as the show finds its weekly song-and-problem rhythm after the flesh rumor.

Tina generates beautiful problems without raising her voice. On TV Flash Mintz is 2010s animation craft: the Belcher who photographs as a doodle and plays as the show’s comic nervous system, a deadpan that made the grill feel like a diary. Dan Mintz stays Tina Belcher in the Bob's Burgers drawer — Fox, 2011–present — and the temperature holds. His temperature is why a rewatch still has a hole without him.