Content guide
Skip for under 13
Bob's Burgers S1 E5, “Hamburger Dinner Theater”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 1/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. Bob reluctantly lets Linda and the kids stage a musical murder mystery dinner theater in the restaurant, but on opening night, an abrupt interruption changes the play's creative direction.
Across the episode we counted 19 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (3); Violence & injury (12). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.
Parents need to know
Age 13+Violence, strip-club and porn references, sex talk in animation.
Parents need to know that Bob's Burgers S1 E5, "Hamburger Dinner Theater", is a animation episode. Driven by violence & injury (explicit, in dialogue), with porn / strippers / sex work alongside it. Violence includes What's the show gonna be? Ah, murder. Sexual content is explicit — for example, Like all their clothes? Well, maybe just a condom and a hat; You know, a good way to beat the stage fright imagine the audience naked. Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 2 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Bob's Burgers S1 E5:
Like all their clothes? Well, maybe just a condom and a hat.
Enough with Canada! In a ketchup factory, a sexy ketchup factory? I got it! In a morgue! I have props.
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Bob's Burgers S1 E5:
You know, a good way to beat the stage fright imagine the audience naked.
I imagine everyone naked.
Porn / strippers / sex work 3 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Bob's Burgers S1 E5:
- Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
Bachelorette party! All right! Going to the strip club.
You know what? I'd rather you go to a strip club.
Violence & injury 12 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Bob's Burgers S1 E5:
What's the show gonna be? Ah, murder.
Murder mystery.
This is the story of love, but there will be a murderer, and it's up to you to guess who that murderer is.
Corpse delivery for a lonely morgue owner.
That would be me I've been murdered to death.
The tree, it's been murdered.
Oh, Butler, who is committing all these murders? Beats me.
Fake blood Or is it? Now, script.
We might have overdone it a little on the Gore.
This tastes nothing like real blood.
That's me Oh, God! That feels like a sharp knife in my belly.
Oh, there's my knife.
Watch With The Kids · Your kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.