Gene Belcher

Eugene Belcher, also known as Gene Belcher, is one of the main characters from the Bob's Burgers series.
== Charactah Account ==
The 11-year-old middle child and Bob and Linda's only son, Gene fancies himself a musical genius, and is constantly carrying around an electric keyboard. Gene is the biggest cloudcuckoolander of the Belcher family—if one of them is going to end up comically missing the point, it'll be him. Though what he might lack in intelligence, he makes up for with heart.
Gene has a gross sense of humor. His favorite jokes and quips often involve excrement, his genitals, and farts. Gene enjoys pestering everyone around him using sound effects with his Casio SK-5 keyboard or his megaphone. He frequently records fart sounds and uses them as sound effects and additions to his music.
Despite this, Gene shows maturity in "Lil Hard Dad" when he encourages Bob to let go of an argument about a broken toy helicopter.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Bob's Burgers
* Bob's Burgers Season 2
* Bob's Burgers Season 3
* Bob's Burgers Season 4
* Bob's Burgers Season 5
* Bob's Burgers Season 6
* Bob's Burgers Season 7
* Bob's Burgers Season 8
* Bob's Burgers Season 9
* Bob's Burgers Season 10
* Bob's Burgers Season 11
* Bob's Burgers Season 12
* Bob's Burgers Season 13
* Bob's Burgers Season 14
=== Comics ===
* Bob's Burgers
=== Movie ===
* The Bob's Burgers Movie
== Trivia ==
* Gene is shown to be incredibly impulsive, often doing and saying things with little to no thought as the consequences or what they imply. Another way of saying this is how he blurts out anything that comes to his mind.
* In "My Fuzzy Valentine," Louise refers to Gene as "Eugene," proving that this is his real name for which Gene is short, meaning that he shares his first name with his voice actor, Eugene Mirman.
** The name Gene means "well-born."
* Gene doesn't know his own middle name because his mom refuses to tell him.
* Gene swears the least out of all the characters (although he frequently uses terminology that are double entendre's and is often scolded by Bob for it).
* Linda writes their family's phone number on Gene's leg every morning in case he gets lost.
* Despite his love of music, Gene has no training and he has never shown an interest in partaking in formal lessons.
** Gene also has acknowledged, in "The Kids Run the Restaurant," that he is not a good singer.
** Despite this lack of interest and self-proclaimed lack of skill, Gene has successfully written several songs ("Turkey in a Can," "Topsy"), a musical ("Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl"), and frequently breaks into song.
* Gene is in between being a teen and a child, and unlike Tina Belcher (Gene's eldest sister), has shown a preference for remaining young. He prefers to stay close to home and his parents, especially Linda.
* Gene is closest to Linda Belcher due to their love of music and shared eccentricities.
* Gene is in sixth grade at Wagstaff School.
* Gene is the only Belcher with visible ears.
* In the episode "Moody Foodie," it is revealed Gene is uncircumcised. This is mentioned again in "Mazel-Tina" after Bob agrees to cater Tammy's Bat Mitzvah when he expresses a desire to get a circumcision.
* It is suggested that Big Bob wanted Gene to be named Bob after him like his father before him.
* In the episode "My Big Fat Greek Bob," Gene reveals that he has had a secret cat living under his bed for 8 months.
* In "Bad Tina," Gene reveals that he has and uses a litter box under his bed.
* Gene was born late, after his due date and Linda implies his birth was difficult in "Ear-sy Rider."
** Also in "Ear-sy Rider," it is stated that Gene had a pet fish to prove he was responsible enough to get a dog (but he was not, and it is implied the fish died).
* Gene has a 28-year-old albino friend named Ken, who does improvised hip-hop. It is unknown if Ken is imaginary or not.
* Like Bob, Gene has an allergy to lobsters, as seen in "Lobsterfest." He's allergic to shellfish in general.
* Gene's keyboard is a Casio SK-5, both Loren Bouchard and Eugene Mirman had one when they were kids.
* Gene likes sand. 
* Gene calls his testicles "Two Small Coincidences".
** Gene also calls them his "money twins".
* Gene is a Sagittarius, which means his birthday is between November 23rd and December 21st.
* In "Stand by Gene," Louise mentions that Gene once had a concussion.
** Gene does not remember getting a concussion.
* Sometimes Gene dresses as the opposite gender and enjoys doing so. He also refers to himself as feminine quite often, and will respond when someone treats him like a girl. His family is mostly supportive of his gender fluidity; Louise has referred to Gene as her "sister" on multiple occasions, but Bob once chastised Gene for insisting he had a vagina. It is unknown if this behavior is indicative of a specific gender-fluidity orientation, or a result of him simply being eccentric, impulsive individual.
** The crew and cast have been asked about this, but essentially declined to comment because of their belief that, at Gene's age, it wouldn't matter (and he likely wouldn't have really thought about gender/sexuality at all yet).
** The fastest time Gene can put on a dress is 3.5 seconds.
** This could mirror the fact that one of Gene's two Tobin counterparts from The Great North, Ham (the other being Wolf) is openly gay, and that Ham's family is also supportive of his sexuality.
* In "Crawl Space," Gene had a history report and when he was called to the board, he was scolded, then sent to detention for playing his grandparents' sex sounds in front of the entire class.
* Gene's favorite candy is Chunky Blast Offs, manufactured by Spratt's Sweets.
* When Linda and Bob were drunk, they signed Gene up for ballet in the episode, "Best Burger." It has not been mentioned since though Gene definitely went as Linda references it saying "Gene never would have taken ballet [if we didn't sign up for things drunk]."
* Gene's first spit-up was on the family sofa.
* On one of his birthdays, Gene sat on the toilet for so long, the clown that was hired had to come into the bathroom.
* In "It Snakes A Village," Gene reveals he once ate a button, and it passed through him without being digested. He kept the button after.
* Gene has ophidiophobia, which is the fear of snakes. However, he doesn't seem to be scared of dead snakes.
* Gene burned his penis when he spilled hot sauce on it while eating his bathroom taco.
* Gene was the first human character in the series with a confirmed eye color, with it being brown.
* Gene is the least hygienic of the Belchers, once leaving hot sauce on the back of his neck for 3 days that the family mistook for a sunburn.
* According to Linda, Gene has the best calves in the family.
* At a 2020 Comic-Con @Home panel, Loren Bouchard revealed he had originally named Gene “Leo,” but ended up changing it to avoid having too many “L” names on the show.
* Several episodes indicate that Gene is a fan of English actor Sir Michael Caine.
* Gene and Louise both have a hall pass that allows them to go anywhere in the school.
* Gene has a hairy mole on his back that the kids 'draw straws' (hair) from.
* Gene collages.
* Gene called the police on his parents for not providing macaroni and cheese on "mac and cheese night".
* Gene gives his dad a surprise shower-hug every day.
* The movie Cast Away makes Gene cry.
* Gene takes prednisone.
* "So You Stink You Can Dance" reveals Gene's normal shorts are buttoned.
* Gene's signature is a peace sign, a yin-yang, and four lightning bolts.
* Gene learned how to lucid-dream in "Running Down a Gene".
* Gene either wears two sets of underwear or none at all. 
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Gene Belcher at Bob's Burgers Wiki
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