Gayle Genarro

Gayle Genarro is Linda Belcher's younger sister, Bob Belcher's sister-in-law, and the maternal aunt of their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise Belcher. She lives alone with her three cats: Jean Paw'd Van Damme, Pinkeye, and Mr. Business. She often needs money and help from her sister and her family, so she regularly visits Bob's Burgers, or they often see her. She makes her first appearance in "Art Crawl." 
She is voiced by Megan Mullally.
==Profile==
===Appearance===
In all her appearances, Gayle wears blue glasses. She has brown hair with bangs that she usually wears in a ponytail.
Gayle usually wears a purple T-shirt, green skirt and white fanny pack, though in "Dr. Yap," she swaps her shirt for a pink one of the same style and leaves her hair down. She occasionally wears a purple T-shirt with a lilac teddy bear design on it, dark green shorts, a pink fanny pack and white shoes, including in her brief cameo in "Boyz 4 Now" and her first appearance in "Art Crawl."
In "Purple Rain-Union," Gayle wears a pink fanny pack, shoes and wears her hair in a left-side ponytail when onstage with Linda Belcher and The Ta Tas. When it snows, Gayle wears a blue snow jacket with a pink stripe, yellow or pink pants and a pink hat.
In "As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps," she wears a guard uniform at her job at the art museum.
===Personality===
Gayle is a very cheerful and eccentric woman, but also extremely naive and gullible, as well as emotionally fragile. She frequently takes blatant lies and sarcastic statements seriously and can rarely take a hint, much to the frustration of others (though Louise regularly takes advantage of this). She is also peculiar, marginally confused, weird and strange.
Gayle is extremely socially inept, and often says and does things that are either inappropriate or annoying to those around her. Her emotional fragility and inability to connect with others often leads her to depression.
Gayle follows strange rituals and rules she creates for herself, such as sending $100 to a pig every time she eats a ham sandwich and if she stays awake, she won't die ("The Cook, The Steve, The Gayle, & Her Lover"), even going so far as to play pretend every night before bed that she's taking shelter from a nuclear apocalypse where everyone dies, "especially the men, so it's okay to sleep alone." ("The Kids Run Away").
Gayle is poor, and lives in a basement studio apartment within walking distance of Bob's Burgers. She is not seen to hold a consistent job, but gets a job as a security guard in "As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps." It is revealed in "There's No Business Like Mr. Business Business" that Gayle frequently borrows money from Bob & Linda.
She also has a bit of a manipulative streak, using her pathetic nature to get what she wants (mostly from her sister Linda), such as faking injuries for attention ("Gayle Makin' Bob Sled"), asking to borrow money ("There's No Business Like Mr. Business Business"), or guilting others to get her way ("The Gayle Tales").
Gayle's neediness and eccentricities are all enabled by Linda, who is not only permissive with money, but often goes to great lengths to keep indulging her sister, such as creating games to keep Gayle interested in her job ("As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps"), and forcing Bob to fake cheat with Gayle to boost her self-esteem ("Dr. Yap").
Despite Gayle's naive nature, she recognizes that she often annoys Bob and sometimes believes he doesn't like her. While Bob can become frustrated with Gayle, he nevertheless is willing to help her out in times of need. She greatly cares for her nieces and nephew and will help them out of a bind if she is able to, such as when she helps Louise face her fear of getting a filling. She often has a poor relationship with her parents due to their stubborn natures and unwillingness to own up to their mistakes.
Gayle expresses herself through art, mostly paintings, but also through outlandish performance art. Some of her artistic "statements" include wearing a dress made of shrimp to Catholic Mass, shaving her cat and eating her lipstick because she wanted to feel "red" inside. Her most noteworthy artistic endeavor may be her painting series of animal's anuses, featured in "Art Crawl." In "Purple Rain-Union," it is shown that Gayle plays the keyboard.
In her first three appearances, it is stated that she only has one cat. In "Boyz 4 Now," Tina mentions that one of her cats got accidentally pepper-sprayed meaning she now has at least two. Then in "Turkey in a Can," she is shown with all three of her cats, mentioning that she found Mr. Business on her way over to the Belcher's.
==Story==
==Relationships==
=== Family ===
==== Al Genarro ====
==== Gloria Genarro ====
In the few moments where the two are together, it is clear that Gayle and her mother do not have that good of a relationship, possibly due to their similar abrasive and argumentative personalities and. other factors dating to Gayle's childhood. In "Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas," the two spend most of the episode in a standoff over the "ottoman incident," where Gayle visited the two in their condo, and fell asleep in their large ottoman due to an ill-conceived prank then being trapped for hours under Christmas presents; Gloria denied any responsibility for not looking for her despite having been told about the prank idea, while Gayle is mad at her for not looking her, and the two only reconcile when Bob pretends to be a banker saying Gayle is rich.
==== Linda Belcher ====
Gayle's relationship with her sister is not exactly the healthiest either. Due to Gayle's emotional fragility, Linda has tried to protect her and enabled a lot, ranging from giving Gayle more and more money that's never paid back, to encouraging Bob to play along with Gayle's delusion of them having an affair, to smashing pumpkins for a high school pumpkin contest that she won against Gayle. 
==== Bob Belcher ====
After being kissed by Bob while on anesthetic drugs, she becomes attracted to him and attempts to seduce him throughout "Dr. Yap." However, Linda pretends that she likes Dr. Yap instead of Bob, so Gayle goes after Dr. Yap instead of Bob.
====The Belcher kids====
==== Donnie ====
=== Love interests ===
Gayle has had many romantic relationships throughout the series, but due to her bizarre habits, they tend not to last long. She has the second most known crushes in the franchise, behind Tina Belcher.
==== Carl ====
While in high school, Linda let Gayle believe she was dating her boyfriend, Carl, because she always wants what Linda wants. ("Dr. Yap")
==== Vinny ====
After thinking she dated Carl for three years, Gayle felt confident enough to go after a boy called Vinny. ("Dr. Yap")
==== Derek Dematopolis ====
Throughout high school, she had a crush on Derek Dematopolis who she describes as a Greek god. Years later at the high school reunion, she sings a song about him and they hook up. ("Purple Rain-Union")
==== Dr. Yap ====
Linda pretends she likes Dr. Yap so Gayle stop goes after Bob. It works, and Gayle changes her target to Dr. Yap ("Dr. Yap (Episode)").
==== Calvin Fischoeder ====
In "Topsy," Louise hires Gayle along with Mr. Fishcoeder to sing as Tina & Gene respectively. While rehearsing behind a curtain, they start fooling around. When their relationship is revealed at the end of the episode after the curtain collapses, she joyously exclaims that they’re in love. Turned off by the revelation, Calvin flees.
==== Mort ====
In "Turkey in a Can," she kisses Mort when panicking over whether Bob is going to drop the turkey in the toilet or not.
==== Stacy ====
In "The Gayle Tales," she is shown to be dating Stacy, a man she met on a dating site called Cat Chat.
==== Neil ====
Gayle mistakes Neil for an art thief in "As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps," and takes him as prisoner in the employee bathroom at the art museum where she works in the episode. When he accidentally refers to his dead cat as his dead wife, Linda suggests that the two have a lot in common and should get coffee. Gayle proceeds to make an overtly sexual move on him.
==== Mr. Frond ====
In "Gayle Makin' Bob Sled," it is revealed that she is now dating Mr. Frond, though the family learns the information for the first time to much hysteria and horror, two episodes later in "The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her Lover." Despite this supposed mix-up in episode order, It is hinted that the couple have broken up in "Lice Things Are Lice." According to Linda, Gayle's relationship with Mr. Frond was her longest ever after only 2 dates ("The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her Lover").
=== Friends ===
==== Gretchen ====
====Ginger====
==Appearances==
==References==
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