Here’s another edition of the Thursday Evening Post. 🌹

When you were a kid, do you remember liking something SO MUCH but getting made fun of for it? 😟

What was it?

How did you respond?

The Bob’s Burgers episode “Some Like It Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner,” season 12, episode 21, addresses this topic.

Tina Belcher LOVES horses, and she is VERY EXCITED to wear her brand new horse shirt to school! 🐎

When students begin making fun of her new shirt, she feels mortified and questions her decisions and interests.

The episode features a beautiful song about Tina’s feelings about this situation called “What If They’re Right?”

Before you check out the song, please note the following:

• This episode parodies the 1982 film Blade Runner, and Tina is a robot trying to escape having her memory wiped. 😄
• Bob Belcher is hurt because someone wrote a mean comment about him on the bathroom wall. ☹️(Adults can get hurt feelings too!)
• The awkwardly phrased words that Louise and Gene Belcher are singing refer to them not being able to get Tina to buy them bubble tea! 🤣

Here’s the song:

Lyrics:

What if they’re right?
What if I’m weird and better off wiped?
Front to back, all my cracks
What if they’re right?
What if the me that lives inside…
Is something I should try to hide?
What if they’re right?
What if my vest is odd?
Okay if I
Still eat a burger if I’m a bot?
Is it so bad to steer off course?
And wear a shirt with a really cool horse?

How do they know what I feel in my soul that I might just be poop or crap?
Honey, I worry you’re gettin’ a little too focused on bathroom feedback
I thought that we could have it all
We’re never gonna taste those balls
Feels like something’s wrong with me
And they know it
They took one look my way
And exposed it
I’m ready to give up the fight
And just admit that they are right

This song is so moving! ❤️

There are hilarious parts, of course, like the wiping joke at the beginning of the song! 🤣

The lines “What if they’re right?/ What if I’m weird” show that Tina trusts others more than she trusts herself.

The lines “What if the me that lives inside/ Is something I should try to hide?” show that Tina is afraid to be her authentic self—that she fears rejection so much that she’d rather pretend to be someone she is not.

The song ends in such a sad way with the lines “I’m ready to give up the fight/And just admit that they are right.” I just want to jump into the episode and give Tina a BIG hug and tell her that she should wear her horse shirt because that’s important to HER! ❤️

Can you relate to any parts of this song?

This song makes me think of how I got made fun of as a kid for liking Hanson.

If I could go back in time, I would tell those people “You like what you like, and I’ll like what I like.”

Where did people get the idea that we all have to like the same things? 😮

We are SUPPOSED to be unique.

Embrace your uniqueness! ❤️

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