Much to my wife’s annoyance, Bob’s Burgers has lately become a favorite show on Netflix (we don’t have cable or bother with broadcast). Fear not, nothing has been pushed aside, Bob’s has just joined the lengthy list. As it approaches its upcoming fifth season on Fox (hard to believe from the network that OK’d The Cleveland Show), releases an album of its songs this Fall and gets an additional boost through [adult swim], I was stoked to grab this mashup shirt to accompany the Big Boy one.
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks is often parodied/imitated in terrible prints in my opinion: there’s an Austin one (weak) and the one with Elvis, Marilyn and Bogart is lame. I do like the quick glimpses cartoons have given the iconic painting, namely The Simpsons.
The Bob’s Burgers is pretty strong. Key characters are in the positions of the real painting’s denizens while essential elements to the cartoon are integrated to make it feel more original: the soft-serve machine, the coffee pot, Bob in the order window, the kids gathered around Gene’s Casio keyboard and Jimmy Pesto’s being the restaurant in the background.