(Which is the only way to know eye color in animation like the show.)Īs shown in the flashback during " Father of the Bob," the "Burger of the Day" special stems from an incident in which he customized a burger by adding chives and sour cream to it, calling it "Baby You Can Chive My Car". His eyes were revealed to be brown in the episode " Moody Foodie". His primary business rival is Jimmy Pesto who owns an Italian restaurant (Jimmy Pesto's Pizzeria) across the street from Bob's Burgers. While poor with business management, and cursed with an unlucky streak, his skills at burger cooking have been shown to be excellent, to the point where he has been referred to as a "beef artist" by Mr. As revealed in " Bob Fires the Kids", his childhood has been described as "crappy," as his father discouraged play. "If Looks Could Kale", "She's A Super Leek", "The Cauliflower's Cumin from Inside the House", etc.). He also enjoys making puns, utilizing this talent to name his burger specials (e.g. Bob has a tendency to entertain himself by having conversations with inanimate objects, mainly food, and then speak back as the inanimate object, usually in a high, squeaky voice. It is also mentioned in the episode that Bob's mother had died sometime prior to the series' beginning. Bob is a tall, paunchy and swarthy chef, he has male pattern baldness and a bushy mustache (which is what initially attracted his bride-to-be to him). The Season 5 episode " Father of the Bob" begins with a flashback set 30 years prior in which a young Bob states that he is 14 years old, making him 44 until the episode "The Laser-inth", in which he turns 45 and then again in the episode "Are You There Bob? It's Me, Birthday", where he turns 46 years old. He is a third-generation restaurateur and currently the proprietor of his eponymous burger restaurant (Bob's Burgers) in a shore town. (nicknamed "Big Bob"), the husband of Linda, and the father of Tina, Gene, and Louise. Jon Benjamin) is the main character of the series. But in a perfect world, we'd have the show about a sort of Greek-Armenian-Italian-Jewish-German polyglot. Loren Bouchard described their ethnicity as:įor better, for worse we gave the name Belcher so at least one of Bob's parents hails from some French or French-Canadian lineage. The Belcher family is a family who runs the family business called Bob's Burgers.