Kuchi Kopi/Story

== Story ==
=== Season 1 ===
==== "Crawl Space" ====
Kuchi Kopi first appears in "Crawl Space" where Louise gives Bob her Kuchi Kopi nightlight while he is in the crawl space hiding from Linda's mother, Gloria. After Bob realizes he is actually stuck, and Linda realizes he was deliberately hiding from her mother, she makes him stay there. While stuck there, Bob starts to lose his mind, talking to the night light and eventually hallucinating that it can speak (among other things). He imagines a speakeasy in the walls and that Kuchi Kopi is the bartender, paying homage to the Stanley Kubrick movie, The Shining. Kuchi then starts to persuade Bob to kill Gloria as she is interfering with the restaurant. At the end of the episode, when Bob gets freed from the wall, Louise and Bob start fighting over the nightlight because Bob refuses to return it.
=== Season 4 ===
==== "Fort Night" ====
During the opening sequence for "Fort Night", Kuchi Kopi appears on a title card for only a couple of frames which reads "Happy Halloween," intended to scare viewers.
=== Season 7 ===
==== "Flu-ouise" ====
In "Flu-ouise," while ill with the flu, Louise asks Linda to retrieve Kuchi Kopi from the bathroom as he is Louise's "doodie buddy." Linda accidentally drops the nightlight in the toilet, and water ends inside it. Tina suggests the family put the nightlight in the oven with rice to dry it out, but they leave it there too long, and it melts, disfiguring it. Louise later swears she will never forgive her family for what they did to her nightlight. But she then goes into a fever state dream where she and Melted Kuchi Kopi go on a Wizard of Oz-style adventure to his fortress, meeting some of her other toys along the way that have the voices of her family. The toys sing about how the fort's construction ruined their daily lives. The episode reveals that the Kuchi Kopi with whom Louise travels is a "bad Kuchi Kopi," and a "good Kuchi Kopi" also occupies the fortress. The good Kuchi Kopi persuades Louise to forgive her family and reveals that the fort is a metaphor for Louise being dismissive and closing herself off from them. Bob & Teddy find Louise a new nightlight thanks to Clyde at the About a Toy toy store, and Louise wakes up with the new nightlight and forgives the family for what they did.
=== The Bob's Burgers Movie ===
Kuchi Kopi appears again in The Bob's Burgers Movie, alongside Melted Kuchi Kopi and several of Louise's other toys in Louise's imagination, where she talks to them about not doing the "dead man's drop" and her insecurity regarding her rabbit ears beanie.
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