Happy 4th of July! 🎇🎆

When you were growing up, what did you enjoy doing on the 4th of July?

When I was a kid, what I loved most about the 4th of July was having delicious picnic food and seeing my relatives. 💙

I was never really a fan of fireworks. They are BEAUTIFUL for sure, but they are too loud for my liking. 😉

A lot of kids enjoy playing with sparklers on the 4th of July, and when I was a kid, I remember it taking a LONG TIME for me to like sparklers. 🤣

One 4th of July, my aunt was visiting from out of state and was trying to get me to use sparklers. I remember her showing me that I could write my name in the air using sparklers, but I didn’t want anything to do with that. 😂

Since the 4th of July makes me think of that funny sparklers memory, I wanted to share a song this week that (for a portion of the song) is about sparklers. It’s from my FAVORITE episode of Bob’s Burgers “Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids,” season 11 episode 6. In the episode, Linda Belcher sculpts a mermaid and hopes to win a contest, but since her kids think the sculpture is horrible, they sneak out of their rooms to the sculpture and try to fix it. The Belcher family wakes up to a huge fire in their restaurant. Here’s a song the characters song about who is to blame for the fire:

Lyrics:

I woke up in the night, ’cause I was on a mission
To get downstairs and do some mermaid fixin’
Her hair was a mess and I knew what to do
But then a rumble in my tummy said I needed to poo
I was feeling light like I could dance a jig
I grabbed the crimping iron and my favorite wig
It’s time for your hair to strut, no more limping
I plopped on that wig and then I got to crimping
I went back upstairs knowing we’d win
But I left the crimping iron plugged in

It’s all my fault
I set the restaurant on fire
It’s all my fault
I burnt my dad’s dreams
With my wiggy desires

I woke up from a dream in the middle of the night
And thought of a way to win the gold
Help Mom’s sculpture really stand out
By making thе mermaid explode
I’m talking M-80s, bottlе rockets
Roman candles, sky missiles
Or even dynamite
I didn’t have any of that stuff
But I had some sparklers
And those things are fun enough
Anyway, I just shoved like a bunch of them into the mermaid

It’s all Gene’s fault
He set the restaurant on fire
And maybe it’s partially my fault, too
But Gene’s guilt definitely ranks higher

I wanted to fix that ugly mer-thing
So we could win the prize
I wasn’t expecting the mermaid’s crimped hair and sparklers stuck all over everywhere
I thought she’d look better in a blue bikini
Instead of just being all throw-up greeny
The paint was pretty wet
So I plugged in a fan
Which in hindsight might have not been a great plan
‘Cause you know oxygen and fire, you-you do the math

It’s all our fault
We set the restaurant on fire
It’s all our fault
Everything went haywire

It’s all Hugo’s fault
He burned your restaurant
It’s all Hugo’s fault
Even though he didn’t want to mention it
It’s not our fault
I mean the stuff we did didn’t help
It’s not our fault
It’s nice to get to blame someone else
It’s all Hugo’s fault

I HIGHLY recommend this episode of Bob’s Burgers because Bob Belcher’s reaction to each of his kids’ confessions is absolutely HILARIOUS! 🤣🤣🤣

Whenever I watch this episode, it makes me cry from laughing so hard! ❤️

I hope this week’s song brightened your day! 💚

Wishing you well! 💜