Bob's Burgers
Running Down a Gene
TV Flash files “Running Down a Gene” as hour 264 of 313 in the TV Flash guide — Bob's Burgers (2011–present) on Fox, season 14, episode 4, aired 2023-10-29, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S14E04: listed hour 264 of 313 in the Bob's Burgers guide, hour 4 of 16 in season 14. It aired 2023-10-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Pickleorette” (S14E03). Next is “Bully-ieve It or Not” (S14E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Gene tries to learn how to lucid dream in order to recover the world's most perfect song that he wrote while asleep. Meanwhile, Louise and Tina try to trap a cricket whose chirping is keeping Linda up at night.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Running Down a Gene sit in the Bob's Burgers guide?
S14E04 is listed hour 264 of 313 — hour 4 of 16 in season 14, season 14 episode 4.
When did Bob's Burgers S14E04 air?
Running Down a Gene aired 2023-10-29 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…