13 episodesFirst aired 9 January 2011
The first season introduces the Belcher family—father Bob, mother Linda, daughters Louise and Tina Belcher, and their son Gene.
E1Jan 201122m
A health inspector's visit coincides with Bob's efforts to bring in customers.
E2Jan 201122m
A leaky roof causes Bob to get trapped in a wall while Linda's mother visits.
E3Jan 201122m
Bob takes to a film maker's cow.
E4Feb 201122m
Tina develops a crush on her martial arts instructor.
E5Feb 201122m
Linda and the kids stage a murder mystery that doesn't go as planned.
E6Mar 201122m
Tina is desperate to get her first kiss at her 13th birthday party. But after Louise breaks the deep fryer, Bob takes a second job as a late-night cab driver to pay for Tina’s party. Things keep getting worse for Bob when the parents of Tina’s crush refuse to let their son attend the party, and Bob has to do everything in his power to save his daughter’s big day.
E7Mar 201122m
Linda hosts a bed and breakfast, but her guests aren't as grateful as she would like. Things take a turn for the worse when Louise's room is rented to Teddy.
E8Mar 201122m
It's Bob vs. the city art council when Linda's sister displays her work at Bob's Burgers.
E9Mar 201122m
Bob and Gene bond over spaghetti western movies, which makes Louise jealous.
E10Apr 201122m
When Bob's eccentric landlord, Mr. Fischoeder, pays the family a visit, he informs Bob that his rival across the street, Jimmy Pesto of Jimmy Pesto's Pizzeria, wants to take over Bob's lease so that he can expand his gift shop. With little time and not enough money, the Belcher family must cook up some business or luck to save the restaurant.
E11May 201122m
Bob and his family are forced to spend the weekend at Mort the Mortician's while the restaurant is being de-molded. Linda and Bob double date with Mort and a female mortician he meets online while Tina babysits Gene and Louise in Mort’s crematorium.
E12May 201122m
After the town's annual Lobsterfest is cancelled by a storm, Bob defiantly opens his doors for a festive celebration. When he wakes the next morning, Bob finds the restaurant in disarray and that the town has spurned him, but Bob won't let that deter him from further involvement in the celebratory weekend.
E13May 201122m
Bob's hero, a washed-up baseball player named Torpedo Jones, starts pitching for the local minor league team. Torpedo befriends Bob, but the dark underbelly of minor league baseball threatens to corrupt the Belchers.