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| Bob's Burgers | |
|---|---|
| Season 16 | |
 Promotional poster for the sixteenth season | |
| No. of episodes | 9 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | September 28, 2025 – present |
| Season chronology | |
The sixteenth season of the American animated television series Bob's Burgers premiered on Fox on September 28, 2025.
On April 2, 2025, Bob's Burgers was renewed for a further four seasons taking the number of seasons up to nineteen. [1] This season also included the airing of the show's 300th episode. [2]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [3] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [3] | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 299 | 1 | "Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening" | Chris Song | Loren Bouchard & Nora Smith | September 28, 2025 | EASA17 | 0.63 [4] |
Bob is panicking over a plan to increase his burger prices by $1 apiece, which leads to him reflecting on the restaurant's origins, as the kids compose an elaborate and insulting musical "tribute" to their parents and the restaurant: A younger newlywed Bob was a short order cook, and Linda was a secretary for an insurance company. Linda finds the Wonder Wharf location and gets Mr. Fischoeder's OK to have the space once they come up with a down payment, which Linda sources from the condo fund she'd been saving for since she was a teenager. She signs the location's lease for Bob, encouraging him to pursue his dreams while simultaneously revealing she is pregnant with Tina. The Belchers move in and renovate, meeting handyman Teddy and a toupee-wearing Mort. During the restaurant's grand opening, a panicked Bob stress vomits, while Linda goes into labor, forcing them to close early with no official sales. When Tina is born, Bob suddenly feels less afraid of the future, recognizing that he must be strong for Tina, and he re-does the grand opening shortly after they bring Tina home. Back in the present, Bob ups his regular burger price to $6.00 and the special to $6.95, and prepares for the lunch shift. | |||||||
| 300 | 2 | "'Til Death Do Us Art" | Brian Loschiavo | Katie Crown | October 5, 2025 | EASA16 | 0.90 [5] |
Gayle becomes determined to marry after observing Bob and Linda's marital life. She chooses two former flames from her upcoming artists' showcase to marry, having the Belchers and Teddy rate them in secret during trial dates at the restaurant. Linda objects, telling Gayle that she doesn't need to marry two weirdos she doesn't really like to be happy. Gayle, offended by Linda's lack of support, bans Linda from her show, where she will marry one of the two as part of a performance piece, but also intends to formally marry the chosen man. Linda is blocked by the security guard, per Gayle's request, but sneaks onto the roof and yells for Gayle not to go through with it. Gayle sees Linda wearing a necklace she made, and realizes that the person she needs to be happy is herself and her art, and opts to marry herself, with Linda as her bridesmaid. | |||||||
| 301 | 3 | "The Twinnening" | Ryan Mattos | Kelvin Yu | October 19, 2025 | EASA18 | 1.17 [6] |
Gabriel, the creepy antique store owner next door hires Teddy to install a cabinet for an expensive ritual mask. Gabriel must leave, but warns him not to open the store door for anyone, not even his nefarious twin brother, Gideon. Soon after, "Gabriel" reappears asking to be let in, but cannot remember any of the details of his conversation with Teddy. Unnerved, Teddy refuses to open the door. The double manages to sneak into the store, demanding the mask. Gabriel returns, revealing the double to be Gideon, who is also an antique dealer. They both have a buyer for the mask, but when the twins muse about the buyer using the mask for dark purposes, Teddy flees and throws the mask into the harbor. The twins opt to split the insurance on the loss, while Gus later finds it washed up on the beach. Meanwhile, Bob and Linda fail to get standby tickets to the latest Cake show. Outside, they encounter an original member of Cake, who has become disenchanted with the show's success at the cost of its integrity. Bob convinces him to keep at it, in the hopes of inspiring others like it did for him. | |||||||
| 302 | 4 | "The Skids in the Hall" | Brian Loschiavo | Rich Rinaldi | October 26, 2025 | EASA19 | 0.67 [7] |
Mr. Frond fires Tina from hall monitor duty at school after she briefly leaves her post to fix a water fountain left unattended by another monitor, Stuart, while a student, Cole, supposedly twists his ankle after running and falling. Louise notices the water fountain had been clogged deliberately, then sees Cole dancing on the allegedly injured leg. She suspects that Tina has been set up. The Belcher kids find out that seventh-grade boys are competing in illegal sock slide-racing in the halls. Stuart and head hall monitor Maggie are being bribed with candy to allow it. With Rudy's help, they manage to record evidence of the races along with Maggie confessing about the bribery. They use it as blackmail to get Tina reinstated and promoted to head hall monitor. Meanwhile, Bob is excited to re-take his driver's license photo as his current one is embarrassing. He reluctantly allows Gretchen to trim and style his mustache to model for her salon, which is a disaster. Gretchen's attempt to fix it makes it worse. Bob is forced to shave it off and wears a fake mustache to the appointment, which begins to fall off as the new photo is taken. | |||||||
| 303 | 5 | "The Secret Guardin'" | Chris Song | Dan Fybel | November 2, 2025 | EASA20 | 0.77 [8] |
The Belcher kids try to replace Linda's shattered porcelain baby that happened while Tina was babysitting. They order a new one, but Louise has dental surgery and is loopy from the anesthesia. Worried that Louise will blab about what happened, Tina and Gene hover around her while trying to distract Linda. Finding them unhelpful, Linda tells them to leave. The replacement arrives. Tina has Louise distract Linda during the swap by telling her to tell the truth, banking that Linda will think Louise's story is a hallucination. The swap succeeds. While Tina and Gene celebrate their successful gambit, Linda and Bob secretly celebrate that Louise didn't blab about them allowing her to stay up late to watch a horror movie without Tina and Gene. Meanwhile, Teddy is nervous about picking up Kathleen's very stringent Catholic mother at the airport during her visit. While trying to gain her approval at the restaurant by pretending to be Catholic, he too late realizes that he picked up another Irish Catholic woman whose daughter's name also happens to be Kathleen. He rushes to pick up the correct woman while arranging for the other Kathleen, a bodybuilder, to pick up her mother at the restaurant. The wrong Irish mom hates Bob on sight for no clear reason and he later reports that she tried, without success, to get her extremely buff but kind-hearted Kathleen to severely beat him up. | |||||||
| 304 | 6 | "Get Her to the Zeke" | Ryan Mattos | Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin & Wendy Molyneux | November 9, 2025 | EASA21 | 1.19 [9] |
Jimmy Jr. refuses to go to the 8th grade dance with Tina, because he's worried that Zeke won't have a date. Tina tries to set Zeke up with new student Penelope and they go on a trial double date. However, she and Jimmy Jr. discover that Penelope is weird and controlling, and treats Zeke badly. Penelope also smarmily tells an increasingly angry Tina that she thinks Jimmy Jr. should take her cousin to the dance and abandon Tina. They try to privately urge Zeke not to go with her to the dance, but Zek expresses frustration that no one is ever interested in him for things like dancing or dating and that at least Penelope is/appears to be. Realizing that Zeke is a soft-hearted romantic, Tina and Jimmy Jr. jointly invite him to be their dance date together, telling him that he deserves to be with people who like the real Zeke. They leave a bitter Penelope at the restaurant and Zeke excitedly makes plans to coordinate their outfits and a dance routine for all three of them. Meanwhile, Hugo brings along a rat catcher, seeking a large "super rat" near the restaurant. When Bob accidentally lets it in, the Belchers feel sympathy for it and secretly capture it and let it go free without Hugo or the rat catcher knowing. | |||||||
| 305 | 7 | "Tube for Tina" | Brian Loschiavo | Nora Smith & Holly Schlesinger | November 23, 2025 | EASA22 | 1.21 [10] |
Tina goes shopping with Linda for a new outfit for when she and her friends go see the Boyz4Now concert film. Tina picks out a skimpy tube top and Linda later admits to Bob that her unease over it is two-fold: her mom Gloria used to denigrate girls who dressed like "hoochies", and Linda had her own body issues when she was Tina's age. Bob says that Gloria was rarely right about anything and Tina doesn't have the same body image problems her mom had. When the top goes missing, Tina blames Linda, knowing she didn't approve. However, Tina realizes that she accidentally donated it with her old clothes to a thrift store and Linda takes Tina to recover it. They learn that Edith purchased it. Edith refuses to part with it until Linda buys it back from her. Linda recognizes that her unease was unfounded, and encourages Tina to wear the top and be proud of herself before dropping her off at the movie. Meanwhile, an exotic bird crashes into the restaurant's window and dies. Bob, feeling guilty, agrees to bury it. Afterward, Bob is horrified to learn the bird was a local pet named Zeus whose owner reported him missing. The group exhumes Zeus so the owner can have closure and say a heartfelt albeit strange goodbye. | |||||||
| 306 | 8 | "Les Lizárdables" | Ryan Mattos | Steven Davis | December 7, 2025 | FASA02 | TBD |
Gene and Courtney find a five-lined skink outside and decide to take care of him. They name him Linus. Courtney becomes irritated when Gene only cares about being seen with Linus, rather than doing any of the labor of properly caring for him. Exhausted, she goes on vacation, leaving Gene responsible for him. Gene's carelessness while Gayle is staying over with her cats causes Linus to lose his tail. Devastated, Gene properly cares for him and informs Courtney. Incensed, Courtney plans to send Linus to her out of town cousin, who can properly care for him. Gene wishes to retain custody, and the argument is handled in Mr. Frond's student mediation program, where Courtney is granted full custody. However, Courtney sees that Gene really has learned how to properly care for Linus. The two then see that Linus has reached sexual maturity and release him into the wild together. Meanwhile, Gayle uses the Belchers' apartment to give pinching massages to clients. Her extended stay with her cats triggers Bob's allergies. Gayle offers to "cure" him with a pinch massage, and Bob reluctantly agrees. To everyone's surprise, it does improve his symptoms. | |||||||
| 307 | 9 | "It's a Stunterful Life" | Brian Loschiavo | Lindsey Stoddart | December 14, 2025 | FASA03 | TBD |
On a freezing night, the Belcher family visits a Christmas tree farm/winter village that includes a cookie-making station, a cocoa stand, and a very slow mini-train for visitors to "enjoy." Bob gets annoyed at the cookie place, first when his kids make grotesque candy-crushed items so they can eat all of the candy that falls of them, and then when Linda leaves him there by himself to go look at the trees. However, Bob's eye for bakery quickly makes him a go-to expert for all of the other families who are making cookies, and he leaves with a quality box of pastries. Gene, Tina and Louise are happy to ride the slow train with an old and barely conscious driver, but Louise is NOT happy to find that her arch-enemy Logan Bush is there as well. He rudely explains that his parents always drag him to the village so his mom and dad can fight over trees and he just rides the train in endless loops until he can go home. Louise wants him gone at first, but then meets his challenge to do some stunts that involve jumping off and running back to the train, despite Tina's increasingly pointed warnings for them to stop. Louise then does an elaborate leap and twist that accidentally snares a doll named Nebkin from a little kid who starts crying and screaming over the loss of his toy. Louise and Logan then do a legitimately dangerous stunt to get Nebkin back to the kid and succeed, with Logan initially telling Louise he actually had fun on the train before reverting to form and insulting her and her siblings before running off. Linda is horrified to learn that the sickly, leafless unwanted trees are being chopped into mulch and gets the tree master to let her try to give them away. No one wants them until Logan's irritating mom Cynthia demands her henpecked husband take a dead tree--because she hates the smell of pine and a leafless Xmas tree don't have no aroma. The family heads home with cookies, fresh cocoa, and a bunch of the reject trees that Linda then puts into every room of their house alongside their already-in-place hale tree. Happy holidays! | |||||||
| 308 | 10 | "Heist Things Are Heist" | TBA | TBA | December 28, 2025 | TBA | TBD |
The season premiered on September 28, 2025, as part of Fox's Animation Domination block alongside Krapopolis , Universal Basic Guys , and The Simpsons . [11]
