@12DAMDO
"Marshmallow is not handsome, she's beautiful" ~Bob Belcher
@Kemily91
Marshmallow comes and goes as she pleases, she answers to no one, and she is truly free.
@jack_patroclus
one thing i love about bob's burgers, just in general, is how the show changed with time. because at first it kind of blended in with the other "adult animated shows about a kooky family", which isn't a unique niche. but it slowly moved away from that. it became less focused on trying to be an adult animated show, and grew to be a show about a family. it grew into something more wholesome, and that's why i adore bob's burgers: when it needed to, it changed.
@nregames8447
One of my favourite things about Bob's Burgers is how Working Class it is Theyre always struggling and genuinely too, not like in Simpsons. Theres one line i remember that goes "we're poor, but we're happy" from the first Hawk and Chick episode It's nice to see working class people on TV, instead of the same Middle Class ones
@luxordtimet
My reading of Marshmallow's parents hadn't heard her sing before is that they haven't heard her sing while living her true life. They may have heard her sing before she came out as trans, but now they can hear her as she truly is.
@NottJoeyOfficial
The writers of this show seem like genuinely good people. They saw that the voice actor for Jimmy Pesto was at the capitol on January 6th and fired him on the spot. They replaced his voice after that. This was entirely their choice and had no involvement from higher ups.
@kafkacheswan
the videos about horrible trans "rep" are fun and all, but it really does inspire a lot of hope in me to see the good examples too. there's people who care about us and our experiences, who see us as PEOPLE. <3
@uemochi9316
"I dunno if I'll ever wiggle again" is one of my favorite Marshmallow lines
@WickedKatze
The scene of Marshmallow singing felt like the climax of another story that's happening offscreen. Like, it wasn't the focus of the episode's narrative, but it still felt important and added some emotional weight to what could have been just another Belcher shenanigan.
@Jurgan6
The Marsha P. Johnson reference is gratifying as I’d already written it into a fanfic that she was one of Marshmallow’s heroes.
@Jurgan6
Way back in that season one episode, the sex workers helped Bob blackmail Jimmy Pesto by telling him that Jimmy was into diaper play. It would have been easy to repeat something like that with the fire marshal, but instead he’s embarrassed about starting a fire. So we get the same aggressive characterization of Marshmallow but without shaming people for their kinks.
@applied_skeleton
i think we're headed toward a world where bob is canonically bi, theres a whole bit in a thanksgiving episode where the grocery clerk thinks bob is flirting with him and bob says 'im straight, well im mostly straight' like ok burger man 👀
@Smogget
I always liked the scene where Linda calls Marshmallow tall dark and handsome and Bob responds with "Marshmallow isn't handsome, she's beautiful." It's played as a joke but he says it in such a genuine way.
@legzfalloffgirl5148
Bob does sport the bisexual colours during pride month. So, we have that 🩷💜🩵
@najbaamer
I am not caught up on Bob's Burgers, so i wasn't aware of the casting change. It's nice to know that they listened and made the effort to change.
@haileybalmer9722
I laughed so hard about the blackmail in this episode. In the episode where Marshmallow debuts, there is also a blackmail plot. The trans sex workers go kink shame Jimmy Pesto into letting Jimmy Jr. go to Tina's party. When Marshmallow went up to the fire marshal, I was expecting something very similar. Instead, the dirt she had on him was that he was dancing with an open flame in an overcrowded club and he burned the place down. That's great comedy writing right there. It also plays into my personal head cannon that Marshmallow isn't a sex worker. She's friends with sex workers, like a boss, but I like the idea that no one knows what Marshmallow does for work. I feel like gold outfit even plays into that idea. That's not something a sex worker would typically wear, it looks more like something you'd wear in a dance troupe. What DOES she do? She's glamourous and mysterious like that.
@dimwitdove3813
i find myself crying at every other episode of bob’s burgers. it has so much heart in a way other “adult” animation shows just don’t. plus, sam sedar voices one of the characters. having one of the biggest political commentator’s, whose politics are consistently left and progressive, voice a character on the show says a lot about the people who work on it.
@deadbeat008
im a Cis man and when heard Lily describe how others in ur life might remember the past version of u as a ghost...i just broke down and started crying. ive not always been a supporter of the Trans community and sometime i get called a hypocrite for it, but sometime a hypocrite is just some one in the process of changing. thanks for making this vid Lily.
@kaitlyn__L
I love the part about having a trans character just-existing being more important than having A Trans Episode. This is part of why I liked the Quantum Leap reboot's second season "trans episode" wayyy more than its first season one. (As important as the message in the first one was.)
@omegahaxors9-11