Some Like It Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner

"" is the twenty-first episode in Season 12, being the two-hundred-and-thirty-seventh episode overall.
==Plot==
When Tina's new shirt is ridiculed by Tammy and Jocelyn in a Wagstaff News segment called "Wow or Weird," she turns to her erotic friend-fiction and writes about a futuristic world in which she is a robot.
==Synopsis==
Tina’s birthday is coming up, and with the increase in babysitting money coming in, she’s buying stuff for herself, such as a t-shirt of a horse in sunglasses saying "Clip Clop And You Don’t Stop," as well as boba at a place where her punch card is close to 10 for a free extra-large boba drink, where she is planning later that day to take her siblings. At breakfast, her parents try to find out what she wants for her birthday, and it comes up that the previous night, Bob had let the kids stay up to watch the end of Grease and the beginning of Blade Runner. 
 
At school, Tina wears the shirt but no one notices, until the Wagstaff student news does a new segment called "Wow or Weird," where Tammy and Jocelyn deem it "weird," to her frustration.
 
At the restaurant, Bob is shocked to find graffiti on the bathroom wall reading "Bob’s Is Crap" and desperately tries to get rid of it. Tina is depressed that no one said anything nice about her new shirt and returns home instead of taking the others for boba. Angered and frustrated by the way the others at school judge, she begins writing a new erotic friend fiction story.
 
In a dark, dystopian future, the Wagstell company makes robots in metal bodies with human faces to do manual labor. The robots however occasionally find ways to express themselves such as placing irregularly shaped metal pieces on themselves. One, which looks like Tina, does this with a vaguely horse-shaped piece, and is taken away by guards to a room with other bots. The room has a chair and a machine which wipes their memories. Tina Bot realizes this and breaks free, managing to escape the large robot guards (Which resemble Tammy and Jocleyn). on the run, the bot takes a bike, a wig and clothing off a mannequin to look human. It gets a job babysitting to get credits for the same horse shirt Tina wore. However, after displaying superhuman reflexes and agility to catch stuff the child knocked over, and her robotic arm is uncovered by her sleeve, the mother calls the police. At the factory, the bot is captured and brought in for a Voight-Kampff test with Jimmy Butt-erd (Jimmy Jr.) when Tina is called for breakfast.
 
At breakfast, Gene and Louise keep trying to cheer up Tina to get her to take them for boba, while Linda tries cheering her up and Bob is preoccupied with the graffiti. Tina is angrier than normal and walks off. At school, the Wow or Weird segment continues with Tammy and Jocelyn remarking on more things (such as Tina’s sock and Jimmy Jr’s vest and run) as "weird (while also praising Tammy’s braces again as "wow"). Back at home, Tina continues the story.
 
In the interrogation, Butt-erd’s boss tells him to finish up and that his vest is weird. Tina Bot catches onto his exasperation and tells him people can be judgy. Butt-erd offers to take the bot somewhere there they can make out. At a bar with a piano, both are terrible at playing, but about to kiss when Zaff (Zeke), Butt-erd’s rival and colleague in the Bot Bagger division, shows up to arrest both of them. Butt-erd tries to reason with Zaff about the morals of their job to retrieve robots to wipe their memories and identities, but Zaff reveals the Butt-erd is in fact a bot with implanted memories. However, when Butt-erd recounts one memory, Zaff says he has the same one, and the two realize they are both bots, made to believe they are humans so they can perform their retrieval and memory wiping jobs without hesitation. Tina Bot decides they need to talk to someone inside the company to change things. 
 
At school, Tina complains to Mr. Grant in the WSN room, who is not listening to her concerns that the segment is being used to bully people and instead goes on about the touchscreen they use and how he got the school to buy it instead of textbooks, causing Tina to storm off. Looking to cheer Tina up so she will take them for the free extra-large boba, Gene and Louise try to get Tammy and Jocelyn to either talk about how great Tina’s shirt is, or take back all the stuff they had said, but Tammy refuses. At Bob’s Burgers, Teddy discovers a new graffiti reading "Bob’s Burgers is Poop," and he and Bob have to be restrained by Linda from threatening the other customers or checking their hands for marker ink. Gene is ready to give up on boba but Louise figures they can find out how to make Tina feel better by reading her erotic friend fan fiction, which she spends all her time lately doing, to get any ideas. Linda, figuring that it could also give ideas for birthday presents, offers to look when the kids are at school. 
 
In the dystopian city, the trio are at a futuristic Bob’s Burgers for a meeting; Zaff contacted someone at Wagsteel for answers and was told to meet them there. However, Tina Bot notices the bot’s faces on a newscast, and soon police surround the restaurant. Future Louise deadbolts the door, and Future Bob notes the windows and walls are reinforced and bulletproof due to how dystopian things get. Tina Bot laments and wonders if "they" are right, that she is weird and better off wiped, any irregularities kept hidden from the world.
 
Tina wonders if it is bad to "steer off-course" and wear the horse shirt. Bob is focused on the bathroom graffiti, as he feels like the people know what he is thinking deep down about himself. Gene and Louise lament not getting the free boba with extra boba balls. Tina is ready to give up and say that they are right.
 
As police open fire on the restaurant, the bot trio are led to a secret tunnel in the basement, but Butt-erd and Zaff are captured by police to be taken back to Wagstell for wiping. Tina Bot tries to rescue them, however Butt-erd steals a policeman’s grenade launcher and uses it to destroy the entrance to the tunnel, so Tina Bot can escape. Tina Bot doesn’t want Butt-erd wiped.
 
Tina realizes she needs to do something to stop them and resolves to smash the touchscreen with a hammer.
==Videos==
Tina Fantasizes About Going Into School With Her New Shirt - Season 12 Ep. 21 - BOB'S BURGERS
It's Boba Madness - Season 12 Ep. 21 - BOB'S BURGERS
Louise And Gene Try To Cheer Up Tina So They Can Get Boba - Season 12 Ep. 21 - BOB'S BURGERS
Tina's Sad Dystopian Song - Season 12 Ep. 21 - BOB'S BURGERS
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