Season Analysis: Bob’s Burgers was the best television show of the 2012-2013 season (give or take an Arrested Development).

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TIE: “An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal”/“O.T. the Outside Toilet”
“An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal” was the one Season 3 episode of Bob’s Burgers that I gave an A to after it first aired, so it would seem like the obvious choice for the best episode of the season.  But something had been holding me back.  It may be filled to the brim with hilarious Belcher-isms, but its plot does not feel as significant as some other episodes from the past year.  That is not a prerequisite for being the greatest, but it is a safer criterion, because “significant plot” tends to stick with me longer than “lots of laughs.”  But I cannot deny “Thanksgiving Proposal” was indeed pure hilarity, and thus it does deserve that number one spot, but it will have it in a tie with the more “significant” episode, “O.T. the Outside Toilet,” in which the family shows their love and support of Gene by having his back regarding his love and support (the love and support that a pre-teen father shows his toilet child) of a Jon Hamm-voiced john that he discovered in the woods.