Bob's Burgers - 1x10 - Burger Wars

    Bob's landlord has an offer from Jimmy Pesto to take over Bob's lease.  Bob needs to come up with the rent money by the end of the week, or he loses the lease.
    Almost every time I read a plot summary of one of these episodes, it doesn't sound like it would be good.  But this episode was really good.  In fact, my only reservation about it was that the ending seemed a little too neatly tied up.
    The show found the groove it needed to.  Louise still yells a lot, but she doesn't seem quite as cruel as she did at first.  Gene seems actually a little endearing, with his desire to entertain.  And Tina's plot is still a joy.  She wants to slow dance with Jimmy Pesto, Jr.  He's going through a slow dance phase, something that doesn't exactly make sense, but in the context of this episode, it works.  Getting to see the strange animation of Tina dancing is great.  It's just as awkward as it should be.
    The plot moves fast, and it doesn't linger on the dead weight of the episode - like Linda, or even the peculiarities of Louise and the smaller Pesto twins.  This isn't to say that those ideas are bad.  They actually play very well, since they are kept to the right balance.