The hormone iums

Episode of the Bob's Burgers series
title	The hormone iums
Original title	The hormone-iums
Country of production	United States
original language	English
classification	Season 6, episode 14 ; 102nd episode overall ( list )
First broadcast	April 17th, 2016 on Fox
German-language ; first broadcast	June 4th, 2017 on Comedy Central
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Director	Chris Song
script	Lizzie Molyneux and Wendy Molyneux
music	Loren Bouchard and John Dylan Keith
Guest appearance (s)
	Kevin Kline as Calvin Fischoeder; Zach Galifianakis as Felix Fischoeder; Bobby Tisdale as Zeke; David Herman as Mr. Frond; Samantha Shelton as Angela; Aziz Ansari as Darryl; Drew Droege as Adrian; Jenny Slate as Tammy Larsen; Tim Meadows as Mike; Andy Kindler as Mort; Jonathan Slavin as a shoe seller;
chronology
← Predecessor ; Freedom for Critter	Successor → ; Tiki or not Tiki?

Zach Galifianakis (2012)

The Hormon-iums (Original title: The Hormone-iums ) is the 14th episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series Bob's Burgers and the 102nd episode overall. It was written by Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux, directed by Chris Song, and written by Loren Bouchard and John Dylan Keith.

In this episode, Tina Belcher becomes the soloist in the school choir The Hormone-iums , while her family tries in vain to promote Linda Belcher's business idea - wine shoes. The first broadcast took place on April 17, 2016 on Fox , the German-language first broadcast on June 4, 2017 on Comedy Central . The script for this episode won an Annie Award .

Guest appearances in the original version have Kevin Kline as Calvin Fischoeder, Zach Galifianakis as Felix Fischoeder, Bobby Tisdale as Zeke, David Herman as Mr. Frond, Samantha Shelton as Angela, Aziz Ansari as Darryl, Drew Droege as Adrian, Jenny Slate as Tammy Larsen, Tim Meadows as Mike, Andy Kindler as Mort and Jonathan Slavin as a shoe seller.

action

Tina is part of the school choir The Hormone-iums , which sings about various aspects of puberty during lunch breaks . When the soloist Dottie Minerva falls ill with glandular fever , Tina takes on this role. The choir is supposed to sing about this illness in the school auditorium , but the song written for it contains the statements that the illness is transmitted by kissing and that one dies from it. A preview of the play on school television is interpreted there in such a way that it is bad to kiss Tina. Therefore, it is unloaded from Jocelyn's birthday party on the spin the bottle to take place. Since Mr. Frond has promised her that she can be a permanent soloist if she plays her role as directed, Tina finds herself in a bind. In a conversation between the two of them, her father Bob makes it clear that she is solely responsible for her mouth, namely what she says and who she kisses. She therefore ends her appearance with a speech in which she explains that Pfeiffer's glandular fever cannot be transmitted through kissing and that as a rule one does not die from it. Therefore she is no longer a soloist, but Jocelyn invites her back to her birthday .

Meanwhile, Linda holds an auction in the restaurant with items that have been left there by guests. A high heel is only auctioned when she puts a wine bottle in it and says that it is a wine shoe that is used to present wine. After several requests for wine shoes, she decides to sell more. The shoes required for this are too expensive, however, whereupon her daughter Louise has the idea of getting her landlord Calvin Fischoeder and his brother Felix as sponsors . To get their business idea closer, Linda, Bob, Louise and Gene put on a short Cinderella- inspired play, but both brothers refuse to participate. Linda later learns that her idea has been successfully marketed on the Internet for years .

reception

Alasdair Wilkins of the AV Club rated the episode “B +” and wrote that this episode “with the things that are most meaningful to Tina [represents] the episode's central conflict, between her desire to be a soloist and her still Weighs greater desire to kiss as many boys as possible. Becoming the face of Mr. Fronds like predictably insane anti-kissing campaign gives Tina's story a nightmare touch here, but the episode pans away so it's all about Tina navigating this mess. ”About the subplot he said that “the wine shoe store [...] is also very funny in terms of how it plays with the family's character dynamics. In particular, Louise to move away from being a silly Pläneschmiedin, all their ideas betray the fact that they, as we know, nine, and it is moving towards a prudent planner when she and Bob are equally surprised and annoyed when Linda absolutely fails to understand the significance of Fischoeders for their burgeoning business. "

For the script for this episode, Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux received an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated TV / Broadcast Production .

Web link

The hormone IUMS in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Alasdair Wilkins: Tina Belcher is the heart and soul of Bob's Burgers , and that will never stop being amazing. In: The AV Club. April 18, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017 .
↑ Terry Flores: 'Zootopia' Tops Annie Awards Nominations, 'Kubo and the Two Strings' in Close Second . In: Variety , Penske Media Corporation , November 28, 2016.

[1] Alasdair Wilkins: Tina Belcher is the heart and soul of Bob's Burgers , and that will never stop being amazing. In: The AV Club. April 18, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017 .

[2] Terry Flores: 'Zootopia' Tops Annie Awards Nominations, 'Kubo and the Two Strings' in Close Second . In: Variety , Penske Media Corporation , November 28, 2016.