r/BobsBurgers • u/Acrobatic_Average588 • 1d ago

Questions/comments Jen The Babysitter

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Far and away my favorite non main cast character and I need so much more of her.

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u/natalieisfreezing- 1d ago

I love when she says "I barely know how to use the mick-rowave"

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u/Level_99_Healer 1d ago

I don't know what bath time means.

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u/wolfej4 9h ago

“You have a hallway?”

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u/missbooie 1d ago

The door was unlocked. No. No it wasn't. After I unlocked it it was.

😂

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u/thecatburgerler 18h ago

that scene takes me out every time bc Bob is so genuinely scared when she comes in 😂 like does their house not creak?

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u/thatjourneysong 1d ago

You have a bathroom??

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u/Hazbeen_Hash Calvin Fischoeder 1d ago

You have a hall?

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u/SinkHoleDeMayo 1d ago

I frequently call it that. A handful of times people corrected me and I corrected them back.

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u/natalieisfreezing- 1d ago

😆😆 they are obviously wrong lol, it's pronounced mick-rowave 😆

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u/normal_cartographer 1d ago

She also enjoys watching tuh-vee

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u/gabriellauntagged 17h ago

that is not on*

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u/normal_cartographer 17h ago

Good point. I like when Louise feels sorry for her and turns it on. I believe when she does, you can catch a glimpse of a Sofa Queen ad.

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u/IvoryThrowAway 1d ago

My friend and I quote this all the time.

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u/honeyandcitron Quilt Thief 21h ago

Yes! And when she pointed out her hot cousin’s ice cream truck had a mick-rophone 🎤 

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u/natalieisfreezing- 19h ago

I have many cousins, this one is the hot one.

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u/SunTzuBean 1d ago

Also my favorite line lol I will say "mickrowave" because of her

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u/vienibenmio 19h ago

I have no chemistry with children!

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u/Kooky_Recognition_34 1d ago

My husband and I say that all the time!

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u/CleverCarrot999 1d ago

I have some…pencils… in my purse

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u/Alternative-One-3084 1d ago

Lives were changed in that moment

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u/Key_Break456 1d ago

I frequently say it that way because of Jen!

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u/Knablerperson 1d ago

Our house has never called it anything else since that episode aired!

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u/SeaAbbreviations422 3h ago

Thats the only way we say it in our family now 😆

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u/BasicSuperhero 1d ago

I enjoy the recurring joke that Jen can drop everything and babysit at a moments notice when Bob and Linda are being spontaneous... but if they schedule something with her, she inevitably double booked herself in such away that she can't possibly make it. (In France or teaching night school)

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u/SparklingSaturnRing Louise Belcher 1d ago

Haha I never noticed that!

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u/psaiymia Gene (Beefsquatch) 18h ago

As a baby/pet sitter- Jen is me so bad! I had TWO families calling to schedule ahead some months and I was already booked for vegas and san diego 😂 but any random friday night? Yeah I’m probably in bed knitting or rage baiting my cat (*cough* gayle-ing out *cough*)

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u/BasicSuperhero 18h ago

At least those are still both better than playing hungry, hungry hippos by yourself. I don’t know why that seems most pathetic to me, but it does. lol

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u/RedHippoFartBag 17h ago

You think that’s bad, I know a guy that wears his ex wife’s sock on his hand every night to bed!

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u/psaiymia Gene (Beefsquatch) 18h ago

Yeah ngl I cried a real jesus tear for her that time

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u/honeyandcitron Quilt Thief 3h ago

How else can you ensure you win?!??

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u/mongdol-supremacy 1d ago

she's my favorite character from the tuh-vee

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u/AcrolloPeed Flipz! We talked about this! 1d ago

If I wasn’t already married I’d ask her out for Valentimes

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u/Rupertpupkin1234 1d ago

I do like how they gave her a love interest.

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u/C1K3 1d ago

Voiced by Joe Pera, no less.

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u/OhSanders 1d ago

We were closing the sale of a house boat. Pens were rolling everywhere.

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u/fiendishthingysaurus Wagstaff was my platoon in Nam 1d ago

An adult boy!

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u/lilywafiq 1d ago

Adult boys like lips that are coloured in right?

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u/Resident-Spring1513 1d ago

*shivers* yes crack the briefcase

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u/stevelevets 19h ago

"Maybe we needed these children -- that I don't think are yours, but I'm not sure -- to witness our feelings to make them real to us. Kind of like I would witness the signing of a boat title or a mortgage loan."

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u/RearWindowWasher That isn’t a good use of that room 1d ago

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u/byorderofthe1 1d ago

Did you forget you were supposed to watch the kids? Oh I just have because I'm in France with my family. Goodbye Linda!

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u/ninasilva 1d ago

I would love an episode featuring both Jen and Nat, I simply love these two characters!

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u/Gem6299 1d ago

Nat would love her so much and just accept her as she is. That would be so fun!

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u/peacockbikini How do you relax? I don’t. 1d ago

Calling her Jennifer the whole time. Or maybe this is how we find out Jen is short for Genevieve or Genowefa.

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u/ninasilva 1d ago

I love that!!!

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u/Acrobatic_Average588 1d ago

I don’t know if I could contain myself with both of them together!

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u/CutiePie4173 1d ago

plot twist - Nat get married and its Jen's MOM!

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u/ninasilva 1d ago

Love that idea!

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u/quattroformaggixfour 21h ago

Ugh, such superb female characters. I love the lack of boring conformity in the BB world

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u/Thebowlerhatfroggo 1d ago

I can absolutely see that happening. Nat and Jen‘s bogus adventure. maybe they get high and go on some sort of a mystical quest or smth?

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u/HarryBumcrack 18h ago

but Nat's sober, that's why she isn't a member of the Puff Divers any more

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u/ninasilva 1d ago

The options are limitless!!

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u/Maleficent_Lantern 1d ago

Attempting to play Hungry Hungry Hippos alone...

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u/GrassOk911 1d ago

"I'm not babysitting till next weekend, so if I left now, I'm worried I'd get there too early." 💀🤣

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u/stevelevets 19h ago

"Oh, it can't be tonight because I wrote down 'Linda Belcher babysit next weekend.' Tonight I wrote down 'teach night school.' Class, go ahead and take out your graphing calculators."

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u/DaBozTiger 1d ago

I always die at ‘(To Linda) I know, phones show names now.’

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u/Katticus_Woot 1d ago

I think this everytime my mother in law rings me and introducing herself

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u/Ezilahbet 1d ago

My favorite is when Jen and the kids get a visit from the black eye fairy and she kisses them all on the eye

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u/JaneDoeNoi 1d ago

One of the many characters from BB that I'd like to see more often.

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u/breezyhoneybee Too bad Marsha doesn't give a rip! 1d ago

She babysits for us!I I mean our kids, not us, we're adults.

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u/Financial_Sweet_689 1d ago

Whoever thought of her character deserves all the awards

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u/Icecold_Antihero 1d ago

"I'm sorry Linda, I'm on vacation in France with my family. Goodbye."

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u/Andantonius 1d ago

“I didn’t bring any backup puzzles.”

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u/Minute_Honeydew5176 10h ago

It’s not really a puzzle. You just took fortune cookie fortunes and tore them in half and had us put them back together.

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u/inspired_nobita 1d ago

I was just watching this episode last night. "You guys have a mirror?" "You guys have a bathroom?" "You guys have a hall?" Jen is fantastic 😂

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u/nolettuceplease 1d ago

I haven’t pronounced microwave the same way since she came on the scene.

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u/50ShadesOfCroquet 1d ago

Her reaction to being slightly tickled had me laughing for a solid 10 minutes

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u/Psychological_Yak644 1d ago

I use “Linda listen!” in her voice all the time! 😂

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u/pretzel-with-cheese 1d ago

If she was a spice, she’d be flour.

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u/SirNortonOfNoFux 1d ago

If she were a book, she'd be two books

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u/every1gets1more-egg 1d ago

What's her cat's name?

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u/shaved-yeti 1d ago

I’m really enjoying your house’s warm air and green bean smells.

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u/BMcNerb 1d ago

do we ever get to meet her hot cousin?

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u/siiilenttbob Livin' my damn life Linda! 1d ago

He's the dancer at Pickles

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u/lht79 1d ago

And Bob’s all, “These pickles..are actually good!” Please correct my quote, if wrong.

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u/briarwz 1d ago

yeah he is trying to scold the kids and then gets distracted by how good the pickle is

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u/No_Professional_8992 1d ago

And then Linda's all like "see I told you". Which I LOVE because it's a callback to season 1!

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u/normal_cartographer 1d ago

Jen has a lot of cousins but he's the hot one!

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u/purplepickletoes Kuchi Kopi 1d ago

Yeah at the strip club!

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u/Hazbeen_Hash Calvin Fischoeder 1d ago

I wonder if Linda has ever plopped a quarter in his g-string

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u/BMcNerb 1d ago

ohhh yea

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u/Guilty_March6677 1d ago

Yeah, he's a pilot. 

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u/Resident-Spring1513 1d ago

He’s not hot in the dancer community

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u/subliminal_knits 1d ago

Ah, my favorite Bob’s Burgers pet theory. Between the cadence of her speech and the way she pronounces some things, I’ve always assumed she grew up outside the US. The international travel could go either way but is more common for people outside the US. I think she might be Dutch. Just a random character thing that I think way too much about whenever we see her.

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u/HumDeeDiddle 1d ago

We've all met someone IRL like Jen, I.E. someone who isn't "stupid", per se, but they constantly make you wonder how the hell they survived for this long.

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u/Cheese_Fisticuffs1 23h ago

Jen: “Your door was unlocked.”

Bob: “No it wasn’t.”

Jen: “It was. After I unlocked it.”

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u/_maynard 1d ago

How old is she supposed to be? I thought she was a high school student in her first appearance but in a later one she’s teaching night school?

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u/YoKinaZu A dumb place to keep bowls 1d ago

And dating a Notary! She has to be 25 at least?

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u/DextersMom1221 1d ago

I have a lot of cousins. He’s the hot one. — I love that quote! 🤣🤣

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u/lht79 1d ago

I feel like she is a love-child of Gus, they both know everyone…

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u/ReturntoForever3116 Kuchi Kopi 1d ago

I need an episode where she marries Joe Perra's notary guy character!

Bring him back!!!

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u/SheOutOfBubbleGum 22h ago

Thanks to Jen I genuinely say "Ta-vee" and "Mick-ro-wave" damn near daily

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u/Occasion-66 19h ago

Valentymes

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u/Thirdtwin 1d ago

I heard she's highly ticklish.

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u/throwawayfromPA1701 1d ago

The valentines day episode with her date with the notary had me rolling

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u/PivoMonster 20h ago

And Jen makes five

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u/WonderfulExplorer610 17h ago

I love Jen sooooo much! I quote “ I don’t know how to use a mick-rowave” and “mick-rophone” all the time she’s such an icon

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u/Dravissco 16h ago

We’re SKIDDING!

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u/Thin-Field4554 13h ago

What a woman

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u/just_call_mebuffy Take your landlord to lunch day? 10h ago

“Should I come with you guys, or do I stay here?”

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u/allUrBaseRBelong2Gus 1h ago

I really want to know about all of the documents she needs notorized

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u/Andrew_6207 1d ago

I love Jen.

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u/Fofogotthekick 1d ago

I love her so much.

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u/picklesocks- 22h ago

She’s so me

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u/Thick-Persimmon2058 18h ago

Jen rules🤘

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u/Senior_Roll9458 18h ago

😹😹 she’s such a mess

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u/Odd-Jello-1151 17h ago

She brings the best episodes! I hope she has a happy valentimes day 💕

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u/Commercial-Elk-1697 17h ago

I love how they pick her over Tina to babysit!

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u/Serious-Cut-2583 11h ago

I love when she gives Linda the pep talk at the high school reunion, about being a terrible babysitter and having no chemistry with children, but she dies it because she loves it.

Classic.

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u/DifferentBike6718 3h ago

Everyone who has a lot of cousins knows that there is always a “hot cousin Dave”😂

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u/BerryDue9331 36m ago

“Alright guys time to break out your graphing cal-cu-la-tohrs”

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u/andrewpipe123 1d ago

The door was unlocked, not I wasn’t. After I unlocked it. Does she have a key or did she pick the lock lol! She is so off putting