Bob's Burgers
Ferry on My Wayward Bob and Linda
TV Flash files “Ferry on My Wayward Bob and Linda” as hour 228 of 313 in the TV Flash guide — Bob's Burgers (2011–present) on Fox, season 12, episode 12, aired 2022-02-27, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S12E12: listed hour 228 of 313 in the Bob's Burgers guide, hour 12 of 22 in season 12. It aired 2022-02-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Touch of Eval(uations)” (S12E11). Next is “Frigate Me Knot” (S12E13).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Bob and Linda accept a Valentine's Day dinner invitation from the chef of a fancy restaurant on Kingshead Island. Meanwhile, the kids have a scheme to get cheap Valentine's Day candy, but first they'll have to make it past an unusually strict Jen the babysitter. Burger of the Day: 'Don''t dream it's Okra Burger'. '
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ferry on My Wayward Bob and Linda sit in the Bob's Burgers guide?
S12E12 is listed hour 228 of 313 — hour 12 of 22 in season 12, season 12 episode 12.
When did Bob's Burgers S12E12 air?
Ferry on My Wayward Bob and Linda aired 2022-02-27 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…