Bob's Burgers
Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl
TV Flash files “Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl” as a desk essential hour — Bob's Burgers (2011–present) on Fox, season 5, episode 1, aired 2014-10-05, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E01: listed hour 68 of 313 in the Bob's Burgers guide, first listed hour of season 5. It aired 2014-10-05 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “World Wharf II: The Wharfening (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town -- Part II)” (S04E22). Next is “Tina and the Real Ghost” (S05E02).
Essential hour: “Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl”. Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl turns restaurant anxiety into a numbered showstopper, not a stunt musical.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Gene's "Die Hard"-inspired musical doesn't get picked for the school's fall performance, he decides to stage an underground show with the help of Louise. But Wagstaff Middle School families begin to feud when they learn that Eugene has planned his show on the very same night as Courtney's school-sanctioned "Working Girl"-inspired musical featuring Tina.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl sit in the Bob's Burgers guide?
S05E01 is listed hour 68 of 313 — first listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 1.
When did Bob's Burgers S05E01 air?
Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl aired 2014-10-05 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need to watch from season one?
Helpful for family texture, not a mystery box. Episodes are largely hangout-and-song; continuity is love, not homework. Jumping in mid-run still works.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Belchers run a struggling burger joint while the kids generate beautiful problems and songs erupt without warning. Loren Bouchard's Fox animation is Bob's anxiety, Linda's whoop, Tina-Gene-Louise specificity. Kindest long-running adult animation of the decade without losing joke bite — working-class warmth, pun burgers, a movie, Ocean Avenue still open.
A struggling burger joint, kids generating beautiful problems, songs erupting without warning. Loren Bouchard's Fox animation premiered January 9, 2011, and never really left: H. Jon Benjamin's anxious Bob, John Roberts's Linda, Kristen Schaal's Louise, Dan Mintz's Tina, Eugene Mirman's Gene. Guest burgers are puns; love is non-negotiable. Storyboarded fantasy sequences and original songs are house style, not extras. The work is the griddle — working-class warmth as comic engine, joke bite intact.
Filed against
- H. Jon Benjamin as Bob Belcher
H. Jon Benjamin voices Bob Belcher as anxiety you can grill — struggling burger joint, kids generating beautiful problems, songs erupting without warning. Loren Bouchard's Fox animation, Linda's whoop, Tina-Gene-Louise specificity. TV…
- John Roberts as Linda Belcher
John Roberts’s Linda Belcher whoops through Bob’s Burgers as the family engine — a struggling burger joint, kids generating beautiful problems, songs erupting without warning. Loren Bouchard’s Fox animation: Bob’s anxiety, Linda’s yes,…
- Kristen Schaal as Louise Belcher
Kristen Schaal’s Louise Belcher is the pink-eared coup of Bob’s Burgers — kids generating beautiful problems, songs erupting without warning — and she doubled as Mabel Pines’s summer-supernatural heart on Gravity Falls. Kindest adult…
- Dan Mintz as Tina Belcher
Dan Mintz’s Tina Belcher is Bob’s Burgers at a monotone simmer — horses, butts, a diary of beautiful problems inside Loren Bouchard’s Fox animation. Bob’s anxiety, Linda’s whoop, Gene-Louise specificity; Tina is the deadpan that made…
- Eugene Mirman as Gene Belcher
Eugene Mirman voiced Gene Belcher on Bob's Burgers — Loren Bouchard's kindest long-running adult animation, songs without warning, a burger joint where the kids generate beautiful problems. Bob's anxiety, Linda's whoop, Gene's keyboard…