Bob’s Burgers has a protracted historical past of recruiting rock royalty to sing songs about butts, burgers, and extra. However each from time to time, the FOX sitcom takes on a canopy. The Belcher household’s newest? Pleasure Division’s “Transmission,” which Bob Belcher (H. Jon Benjamin) and his son, Gene (Eugene Mirman), carried out dwell from Gene’s bed room on the collection’ March 27 episode. The rousing rendition featured Gene on a synth keyboard and Bob on vocals (after various false four-count begins). All in all, channeling their interior Ian Curtis seems to be good on the duo. Watch the video, directed by Brian LoSchiavo, beneath.
Pleasure Division now formally be a part of the host of artists who’ve featured on the present, together with Sleater-Kinney, the Nationwide, and St. Vincent. (Fiona Apple even sung the closing credit for a 2019 Halloween-themed episode.) In 2017, the present launched a group of covers and originals as a 106-track compilation. A follow-up, The Bob’s Burgers Music Album Vol. 2, arrived in 2021.
Presently in the course of its sixteenth season, Bob’s Burgers returns to a Sunday night time slot on FOX on April twenty sixth. Final yr, the present was renewed for a seventeenth season, which can air from 2028 by 2029 (and supply ample air time for a “Love Will Tear Us Aside” cowl).
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