Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse

"" is the ninth episode in Season 14, being the two-hundred-and-sixty-ninth episode overall.
==Plot==
A documentary film profiling world class archer Louise Belcher is interrupted by unexpected visitors.
== Full story ==
"Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse" begins as a documentary of Louise, the "9-year-old archer." It starts with her doing a slow-motion walk behind Bob's Burgers alley. Tina acts as the narrator, setting up the film by revealing how she discovered the 'renowned' archer after watching some of Louise's videos online. Tina adds that Louise's most-viewed video has her executing "The Off-the-Wall Fliparoo How-Do-You-Do," where Louise runs up against the restaurant's bathroom door and walks vertically for a split second. In the brief moment she's airborne, Louise fires an arrow at a cup on the soft serve machine into a dishpan on the counter and shoots another one at the dishpan, causing the dishpan to slide until it lands into the arms of Linda Belcher.
Tina transitions to the restaurant's exterior to review Louise's background, discussing how she works at Bob's Burgers, a "dingy diner in a shabby seaside town." Tina explains how the purpose of the documentary is to learn more about Louise's background and to see how her aim is so incredible. Tina insistently adds that she and the rest of the documentary crew (Gene) are unrelated to Louise because she's an only child. The film cuts inside the restaurant, with Louise marrying the bottles of ketchup and mustards in a booth and Bob and Linda cleaning the place in the background. Louise tells the camera she's "just a girl whose family runs a weird-smelling burger restaurant." She explains how her parents bought the archery set she carries for her as a present. Tina's camera gets commentary from Bob and Linda: Bob tells Tina that he told Louise not to shoot it in the apartment or the restaurant, and he doesn't know why his family's not enforcing the rule; Linda conveys she feels the exact opposite way as her husband--she encourages Louise's archery. The camera goes back to Louise, and Louise tells Tina that she's been shooting arrows for at least a month already. Tina lets out a "wow" in admiration, but she looks at Gene's camera, who's recording Tina recording her documentary for his "stalk-u-dock-rockmentary." She tells Gene to cut that wow out and utilize the other one she reiterates. Louise ignores what's going on and tells Tina that her bow's name is "Greta Gar-bow," but Tina tells the archer she has introduced her bow multiple times already. Louise suggests doing another slow-motion walk, which is another thing Tina already has so much footage of. Tina rushes Louise along to get some of Louise's arrow-shooting action on her camera, adding that she's been filming Louise for three days now. Louise tries coming up with excuses not to shoot her bow, telling Tina to use the footage already online and that her hand is sore from doing homework last night, but Linda cuts in and expresses that that's not true.
Their film gets interrupted when Teddy starts banging on the door. Gene's camera shows Teddy with ghoulish green makeup and body paint, acting like a zombie. Bob tells Teddy that the restaurant's closed, and in a quieter tone, he asks his family if he looks different than usual. Teddy keeps banging on the door without saying a word, creeping Tina, Gene, and the Belchers (since Tina and Gene are absolutely unrelated to them) out. Mort comes from his place to tell Teddy that the restaurant's closed, but Teddy begins devouring Mort's shoulder. Tina claims she believes Teddy's a zombie and sees other zombies. Gene points his camera to two other undead people coming to the restaurant (it's just Bob and Linda with the same green bodypaint as Teddy, acting as different characters, but Bob is wearing his trucker jacket, a messy shoulder-length wig, and his old trucker hat, and Linda is wearing a nightgown and an old lady wig). Tina starts panicking, but she and Gene become assured when they realize they have Louise, one of the best archers in the world. However, Louise appears to be in a daze and worried about the zombies. She distracts the camera crew from her unease by suggesting cutting the cameras so they can all focus on surviving the zombie apocalypse. Still, Tina believes this is the best scenario to turn their boring documentary (with just slow-motion shots of Louise walking and her introducing her bow) into an eventful one with Louise shooting arrows at the zombies. Gene shows that Mort has already become a zombie, and Teddy and Mort begin hitting the windowpane, trying to break through. Gene enjoys the sounds their banging makes and starts beatboxing to it.
Tina, Gene, and the Belchers take apart everything in the restaurant, from tables to doors, to barricade themselves from the zombies. After thoroughly covering the front, they believe the zombies have already left. They start making a plan B if the undead manages to break in. Tina and Gene believe Louise will still be able to protect them, but Louise keeps deflecting. However, they hear Regular Sized Rudy, Andy, and Ollie banging on the front, asking the Belchers to let them in since they've been running away from the zombies. Louise tells them to run to the backdoor, and they let them in. Before they lock the door, they see zombie Jimmy Jr. dance-stumbling towards them. Rudy sits at one of the booths (with the tabletop pried off), panicking as Louise tries to comfort him. Linda comes out of the restaurant with a burger for Gene. Gene puts down his camera to eat the meal, but his camera records Andy and Ollie in the bathroom, with Andy telling Ollie that he got bit by a zombie. They promise each other that if Andy turns into a zombie, he must bite Ollie first, so they both become zombies. Everyone's moment of peace gets interrupted as zombie Teddy, Mort, and Jimmy Jr. break through the barricade. Bob and Linda try holding them off as Louise, Rudy, and the Pesto twins go into the basement to hide. Tina tells Gene to follow them.
The kids grab everything in the basement, from toilet paper rolls to pickle jars, to block the zombies from coming down. However, Andy can barely help with his (now apparent) zombie bite on his right shoulder and staggering movement. Ollie asks if it's because of his zombie bite, and Louise and Rudy overhear this. However, it's too late, and Andy turns into a zombie (cutting out the part where Andy has to put on his zombie makeup). Gene, Louise, and Rudy rush upstairs as Ollie stays to let zombie Andy eat him. 
Bob and Linda are still holding the barricade with all of the strength. Louise informs her parents of the situation. Tina tells Louise to fire her arrows at the zombies, but Louise is still stubborn. She and Rudy begin throwing condiments instead, and after throwing mustard at zombie Jimmy Jr. and seeing him collapse, they realize that the weakness of zombies is mustard. However, it doesn't help, as too many zombies already exist. Bob and Linda tell the kids to escape through the backdoor and climb up the fire escape on the dumpster to get into the apartment. Louise's parents promise to meet them there as she, Tina, Gene, and Rudy run for it.  
Louise and Tina get on the dumpster, and Tina boosts Louise up so she can bring the fire escape ladder down. Rudy rushes them as he sees zombies Teddy, Mort, and Jimmy Jr. creeping their way. Louise, Tina, and Gene manage to get up, but zombie Teddy holds Rudy's legs, preventing him from climbing up. Tina tells the archer to shoot the zombies. As Louise tries aiming her bow, she stops and reveals she's an "archery fraud." She's not strong enough to pull the bowstring back, and all her videos are fake. Tina gets frustrated and demands Louise to give her an arrow. Tina climbs down and hands Rudy an arrow, telling him to impale the zombies with it. Rudy 'penetrates' zombie Teddy's head with the arrow, but it manages to do nothing. Zombie Teddy shakes his head when Rudy asks that heads are supposed to be a weak spot for zombies, and he drags Rudy away from the ladder. Zombie Teddy, Mort, and Jimmy Jr. eat Rudy alive. Louise tries apologizing to him, and while being eaten, Rudy puts the blame on himself for being so slow, and he tries not to complain because he doesn't "want to be remembered as a complainer" when he dies and becomes a zombie.
Tina climbs back up, upset that Louise lied to the world with her videos. Louise points out that they're safe now to divert Tina and Gene's attention from her. Tina and Gene realize Louise is heartbroken about being discovered as a phony. Confusing Tina, the archer starts singing about her being a fraud. Gene helps Louise's song by beatboxing along. Before Louise could sing the second verse, Tina stopped her. They look out the window and see that the zombies are figuring out how to climb the balcony. Zombie Teddy and Mort boost Zombie Rudy up the ladder, but Louise gets a comical amount of different mustard containers from the kitchen fridge to throw at the zombies. It drives them away, but it doesn't do any real damage. Louise, Tina, and Gene shut the kitchen window and bring their mustard. They go to Louise's room to get to her loft bed for "higher mustard-squirting ground." They barricade the door with one of Louise's stands (since her parents removed all of her door locks). Louise gets on the bed, but the zombies already managed to break into the house.
The barricade fails to do anything as zombie Jimmy Jr. easily opens the door. Tina gets distracted from seeing zombie Jimmy Jr., but she tries shooting mustard at him. However, she's all out of mustard, and it looks like Jimmy Jr. is about to eat Tina until Louise shoots zombie Jimmy Jr. in the head with a mustard-tipped arrow. Tina lets out a "wow" in admiration. Gene says her "wow" was too breathy, so she reiterates. However, Gene changes his mind and sticks with Tina's first wow. Tina asks how Louise managed to shoot her bow since she initially said she was not strong enough to pull the bowstring. Louise illustrates that she used her feet to hold the bow and pulled back the bowstring with both hands. Tina gets up on the bed, and Louise commands Gene to squirt mustard all over her sheets. She gives Tina her arrows and tells the camera girl to dip them in the mustard as she shoots them at the upcoming wave of zombies. With a song singing about how good she is at archery now, Louise eliminates all the zombies who enter, beginning with zombie Mort, zombie Teddy, zombie Rudy, and multiple unnamed zombies. 
After hearing no more zombies, they believe they're safe, which is fortunate because they only have one arrow and barely any mustard left. However, Bob and Linda enter the room as zombies, ready to eat Tina, Gene, and their only child. Louise is shocked at what her parents have become. To make the one arrow they have count, Louise leaps off the bed onto the wall to perform The Off-the-Wall Fliparoo How-Do-You-Do. Louise shoots them through the sides of their heads, putting both of her parents to rest. Although she saw how Louise had to kill her parents, Tina cheers that Louise performed her signature move—for real this time. Their moment gets ruined when they hear multiple zombies break in. Louise tells Tina and Gene to barricade themselves in her room as she gathers the arrows she shot into the dead zombie's brains. She plans to fight so the documentary crew can tell her story. However, multiple zombies ambush them before Louise even has a chance to get out, and they assumably die as Tina's camera cuts off. 
In the real world, the Belchers (Bob, Linda, Tina, Gene, and Louise) watch the movie in their living room. Bob and Linda genuinely praise their kids' film, but Louise hushes them, telling them it's not over.
The movie continues. In the static, Louise, Tina, and Gene confirm they're alive with their voices. Tina asks if any zombies bit him. He says no, and Tina also states no zombies bit her. She asks Louise the same question, and she says no zombies have bitten her either, but she did get stepped on a lot. Louise hands Tina her camera, and the film shows that none of the zombies who ambushed them were still there. Louise believes the undead didn't devour them because of the mustard all over them. With this new chance at life, Louise decides that she and her camera crew can save the world. They head down to the restaurant to get more mustard, arrows, and then some chicken satay for Gene. 
The film cuts to the credits, and the Belcher children's parents repeat that they loved the movie. Linda asks why Louise didn't just make herself good at archery for her role, and she tells her mom that it made the story better to show her struggle in their film. Louise compliments her parent's role in the movie, but Bob complains a little since he didn't see any mention that they had to dismantle the restaurant for the barricade scene in the credits. He also asks Louise if she thanked Teddy, Mort, Rudy, Jimmy Jr., Andy, and Ollie enough for the movie. Louise tells her dad that the extra cast is eager to be in the sequel movie, and Tina adds that there will be a movie screening tomorrow at the restaurant with free burgers. Bob is confused, but Gene says it's part of the contract he signed for the movie.
In the end credits sequence, the Belchers and Teddy are putting the restaurant back together after they took apart everything for the barricade scene.
==Videos==
Tina’s Documentary About Louise Turns Deadly - Bob’s Burgers
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Category:DASA Episodes
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Category:2023 Episodes
Category:Season 14 Episodes
Category:Episodes Written by Jameel Saleem
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