Bob's Burgers
The Gayle Tales
TV Flash files “The Gayle Tales” as hour 80 of 313 in the TV Flash guide — Bob's Burgers (2011–present) on Fox, season 5, episode 13, aired 2015-03-01, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E13: listed hour 80 of 313 in the Bob's Burgers guide, hour 13 of 21 in season 5. It aired 2015-03-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Millie-Churian Candidate” (S05E12). Next is “L'il Hard Dad” (S05E14).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Linda's sister, Gayle, arrives at Bob's Burgers in tears because her date for the evening was cancelled and she had theater tickets!!! Desperate to get out of the house after being grounded, the kids compete to be Aunt Gayle's "date" for the evening via an essay contest.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Gayle Tales sit in the Bob's Burgers guide?
S05E13 is listed hour 80 of 313 — hour 13 of 21 in season 5, season 5 episode 13.
When did Bob's Burgers S05E13 air?
The Gayle Tales aired 2015-03-01 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
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- 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…