Bob's Burgers Versus The System 

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Bob's Burgers isn't a stranger to anti-capitalism themes. There's this episode where Mr. Fishroeder raises rent and makes all his tennants fight each other in a Hunger Games esque balloon fight for his amusement.

This episode was a perfect example of how companies co-opt unions and turn them against the workers. This co-optation occurs when companies offer union leaders incentives, such as higher salaries or benefits, in order to sway them towards making decisions that benefit the company rather than the workers, just like what happened with Tina. This episode was a great example of how the capitalist system uses its power to undermine workers rights and interest due to having the ability to control not just the means of production, but also the political and social structures that affect workers.

I'm still so surprised that Louise put up with Tammy and co's crap for as long as she did. 💀 Thanks for making this!

i love the accidental hate against tammy by forgetting her name😂

Bob's Burgers: "Tweentrepreneurs" introduced us to " business monster" Tina, who bought into the management side. Jimmy Jr. was OK with "switching roles, but Tammy and Jocelyn weren't about to deal with wood dust, splinters, and wood stain fumes.

It's probably a good idea for Bob's Burgers to make a message without being exactly like the real world problems that is happening like South Park usually does because otherwise it would cause a messy discourse of what the show is telling their audience. BB manage to make a clear point about capitalism and socialism without using a real world business to give an example. They just use something simpler like the school kids making up their own business to make a much more calming message about standing up against CEOs who makes luxuries for themselves on the backs of their own employees. It helps to get the message across that also helps get the audience to agree on.

bobs burgers stays humble and inspiring great vid. more bobs videos for sure

The writers messed up my favorite character. No way would Louise become a line worker. Remember when she was running a painting business. I can't stand when writers forget their character's abilities.

I like how this isnt a recent episode too. Always glad too see more Bob's talk that isnt just focused on the newest seasons newest episode's and such, & go back an analynze the show when it was still an underated gem on adult animation

The Simpsons was Originally about the middle class family of america the struggles the problems and everything else but now they go on to meet celebrites then can afford high stuff and more i Don't know maybe it became more of a sitcom like simpsons where nothing matter or it was a show that how little to do about the middle class more about the america life But all of that Bob burger Followed it's concept to a t where the family is very Poor and is struggling but they love' Happiness and they adventure are wholesome and i think it's a great message about it that Because you don't have the high life cars money yachts that doesn't mean you are happy it's the people' friends and families that you have. Sorry about the rant great video great to hear about your bob's burger videos keep up the videos your cartoons ❤

I work on the corporate side of a company that has a production side (making stuff and shipping it) and a corporate side (accounting, IT, execs, marketing, sales). We all work hard, but there's definitely an effed up power dynamic. Production workers are not treated the same as corporate workers. It's not fair at all and as somebody who used to do more manual labor than desk work I sometimes feel uncomfortable with the way my colleagues talk about the production side workers. Luckily enough of us in this specific company are good at advocating for them when it comes to certain things like payroll, but a lot of companies don't have a corporate staff who will do that, or an executive staff who will listen. It's good that shows like this talk about this stuff. It's not that everyone should be working production (people who have certain disabilities can't, for instance), but pay should be the same for everyone. Even execs. Paying people with desk jobs more only makes sense if you think that people will only seek advanced education in order to make more money, but I don't think that's true. I think some people would naturally want to work production and others would naturally want to do desk work if both were equally compensated and respected. No job is more important than any other so why do we treat it that way?

I just love Teddy. He's down for anything Belcher related. And Louise line "Why where the people staring? It's like they never saw 3 kids shoving money to a crying adult", sent me to the Moon.

Business failure is an intrinsic part of capitalism. Most businesses will fail, often for pretty simple reasons as shown in the episode (ie can't balance quality, costs and labour). This rewards successful business models and lets bad ones fail. Businesses can cheat to avoid failure via cronyism, where businesses develop a close relationship with government and regulatory bodies that they leverage to hurt competitors or give themselves unfair advantages. Fun fact about socialism, it involves closer relationships between businesses and government & regulatory bodies. TLDR: Businesses failing due to bad choices is capitalism working as intended. Adding a state actor often allows businesses ways to mitigate failure. Source: a Canadian who has to do business with effective state monopolies.

Bob’s Burgers is definitely not a show you would expect to tackle the problems of capitalism but this episode made a good case against. Do you think they address the subject well or do you think it didn’t address it at all?

Everytime I watch Twin-trepreneurs I always say they made Tina Rice President. The President of Rice as a Fairly Odd Parents reference.

Nice video! I always enjoy when people talk about the overall themes of an episode.

00:22-00:55 I want to focus on how I've been saying the exact same thing about Bob's Burgers for years... but I'm *stuck* on the fact that this man is talking and I'm not hearing his inner thoughts!🤯

11:34 I actually feel like an AU where they did sell it to Teddy wudve actually been a more awesome version of this story. Teddy is a gullible and ignorant person; but he also isnt power driven, thus makin him a far better leader type than any of the four original leaders (and id argue better than Tina and Louise too, for that) If Teddy had taken over ownership of the business, he wudve no doubt acquiesced to the workers demands and then some; and you know Louise wudve been addin a lot to the and then some xD This wudve been a grt way to see what happens when the means of production are at the sole control of the workers first and foremost; and cud even be a caution against another threat to workers rights... The person who under the new communist regime decides to use their position or privilege or power to exact benefits for themself first and foremost; that is, Louise wud be a grt foil to Tina here and cud likewise abuse her control over Teddy to her own benefit, whilst the rest saw their shares of wealth ever decrease Essentially go full Animal Farm parody on it at that pt heh

This isn't a metaphor, this is just your standard retail operation.

YAY A BOBS BURGERS VIDEO I wasn’t sure what episode you were talking about till you mentioned it, and it’s one of my favourites. It gives a little insight into the capitalist world but makes it fun!!!! And then it shows how messed up the corporate world is

As a hobby and a fan, I made WoodChuck 2.0 keychains… for the love of the game.

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It’s not exactly that everyone should do the same thing, but that everyone in a company should work based on a shared interest. Where interests split (good safe product making vs more faster money) is where you start getting issues. And interests are bound to split if people put distance between issues and focuses. It’s not that everyone should do the same, Rudy shouldn’t risk his health to carve wood if he can work on other avenues for the product. The uneven profit division is bad because it alienates people. From the product in the case of the management as they stop thinking about the necessities, first for workers and soon for good product making to cut corners for higher profits, and it also makes the workers alienated from themselves and their own value, what they add to the product, what worth they actually have in the labor process. Even Marx said equality is too simple a standard for complexities of labor. Not everyone can work the same amount of time or the same kind of work, and paying the same amount to people who work less as people who work more is creating an inequality while trying to plug another inequality. That’s the turn in Marx’s work from focusing on the ‘Labor theory of value’ (short version: everyone should be paid by how much their labor adds to products) to the classic:’from each according to their ability, to each according to their need’. Basically decoupling labor from profit entirely, focusing on the good labor can do for people, and focusing on fulfilling the needs of people to create a society more capable of freely engaging in labor (in conditions where labor isn’t Soul crushing but actually satisfying, when workers will no longer be alienated from themselves, each other, and from the products of their labor)

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*Bob:* Don't listen to him capitalism is good. Buy my burgers. LOL

I thought it said the dangers of Catholicism but this works too

This model isnt really capitalism. The kids are forced to work for that "company" under threat of failure. A big part of capitalism is the ability to work for who you want. When everything is run by the state you dont have such a luxury.

Capitalism bad

The way I describe Capitalism compared to other systems is like this: Capitalism is like being shoved off a 50ft cliff, Socialism is like being shoved off a 1000ft cliff, and Communism is like being shoved off of Mount Everest.

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