Yes Without My Zeke

"" is the the twenty-second episode and Season 9 finale of Bob's Burgers, being the one-hundred-and-seventy-second episode overall.
==Plot==
When Zeke gets in trouble for horseplaying, the Belcher kids and Jimmy Jr. pitch in to help prevent him from being sent to a disciplinary school. However, Tina tries to thwart their mission, so she can have Jimmy Jr. and his butt all to herself. Meanwhile, Randy rents out Bob's Burgers to shoot his independent short feature film.
==Full story==
During lunch at Wagstaff, Gene asks Jimmy Jr. and Zeke if they want to join the Belchers at the pier after school to play "sunburn bingo" by pointing out funny tourist sunburn patterns when a cruise ship docks later. Tina tries to hint to Jimmy Jr. about him going along as a date, but he doesn't notice and only agrees when Zeke agrees to go. Tina is not excited about Zeke being along ,when Zeke starts wrestling with Jimmy Jr. again, this time wrestling him to the floor then jumping off the cafeteria table onto Jimmy Jr., hurting the latter and splashing Mr. Frond with lasagna in the process. Frond gives Zeke detention after school that day, so he cannot join in sunburn-shaming tourists, but Tina doesn't mind.
At the restaurant, Randy comes in and asks to rent out their restaurant to shoot his "short independent feature film" called A Life Well Steved, in which he plays the main role, after the previous filming location burned down due to him overloading the circuits with his lighting equipment. He wants to shoot the next day, Saturday, which Bob points out is when they are busiest, but Randy hands them a large check to cover any costs from missed customers. They agree and Linda is excited to have a film crew, but said crew is Randy. Linda says it will be fun, while Bob doesn't think so but agrees to have the film shot there.
At the beach, the kids look down from the sidewalk to find sunburns with Jimmy Jr. Tina tries to be excited, but Jimmy Jr. only perks up when Zeke arrives and asks Tina to move over so Zeke can stand next to him. However, Zeke is down; his dad got mad about him getting detention, and said if Zeke gets one more, he'll be sent to a special school an hour away for kids with disciplinary issues. Tina tries to sell Jimmy Jr. on hanging out all week then seeing Zeke on the weekends, but Jimmy Jr. wants to help Zeke, but Zeke tells him it is too late. While in detention, Mr. Frond left him alone and he got frustrated, wetting some toilet paper (which he keeps in his backpack for emergencies) with a classroom sink and throwing pieces at the ceiling to spell "every bad word strung together". Once Frond sees it on Monday, Zeke is done for. 
Jimmy Jr. is upset, and ignores Tina's suggestions of hanging out (and wrestling) with her during the week, when Louise suggests they sneak into the school and remove the toilet paper word. Zeke and Jimmy Jr. agree but wonder how to get in on a Saturday. Louise brings up a plan she has, which involves getting crickets into the school when she graduates as a prank. While she hasn't figured it all out yet, she explains that the gym has a window that's always cracked a little, so they push a dumpster under it, climb up, and open it. It opens just wide enough for a very small person to fit inside (or a million crickets). It is too small for herself, but Pocket Sized Rudy could fit through it, until Gene tells her that Pocket Sized Rudy is out of town with his family for the weekend. Louise brings up that there is another small kid, Arnold Evans, who is in her class after skipping a grade (and is known to wear a karate outfit to school). The other kids agree except for Tina, who tries telling them that breaking into the school is wrong in an attempt to not help Zeke, but they all plan to break in, with Jimmy Jr., Zeke, and Gene hugging to her frustration.
Later, Louise calls Arnold, who agrees to meet them at the school the next day, while Tina is wondering what to tell their parents. Louise figures to tell them they are doing something "stupid and helpful" like cleaning up the beach. However, when they go to tell their parents, Bob and Linda tells them that Randy is shooting there, so the place will be closed, and they have the day off tomorrow. The kids huddle and prep for helping Zeke, to Tina's disappointment. 
On Saturday, the kids push a dumpster under the window and Zeke opens it while Arnold arrives. He is not enthusiastic about his small size being used, and tries to highlight his karate "skills," before being helped to the window, as "the karate code" says to help people in need, to Tina's dismay. He falls through the window, briefly scaring the others, before managing to get out, only to have to be dropped in again due to forgetting to prop the door open.
At the restaurant, Randy tapes black tarp over the windows and begins filming by speaking into the camera in a sweatsuit and wig, sitting in a booth. His monologue beings to rhyme, and Bob accidentally ruins the take by whispering about it to Linda during the filming.
In the school hallways, the kids slip and fall, and see Mr. Branca waxing the floors. Tina is hopeful they are busted but he is wearing headphones and moves away from them, so Louise suggests they take off their shoes to not scuff the floors to avoid detection. Jimmy Jr. stops in an open supply closet and grabs a broom to knock the letters down. 
At the restaurant, Randy keeps rhyming, which Bob again whispers about, annoying Randy into telling him to eventually stay in the employee bathroom, which leads to a shouting argument between Bob and Randy.
The kids reach the classroom, and after being awed by Zeke's swear word on the ceiling, before attempting to knock down the toilet paper. The only way they can reach the ceiling is for Jimmy Jr. to sit on Zeke's shoulders and throw the broom, but it's not fast enough. 
Randy cuts the take in his monologue, which Linda praises while an annoyed Bob returns and sarcastically thanks randy for letting him stay to watch Randy rehearse. However, Randy starts calling the restaurant depressing, and Bob notes the change from a guy happily looking back on his life, and how the rhyming stopped. Randy denies the rhyming, and says he wrote some last-minute changes for the film now titled ‘'A Life, Well, Steved. Bob is frustrated that Randy didn't say he would make the restaurant sound depressing or like a "stink hole', but as eh cashed the check, Randy keeps saying "stink hole."
Mr. Frond arrives in the school parking lot and walks in the school building. The kids have only managed to get a quarter of the toilet paper down, and while Tina is ready to give up, Jimmy Jr. remembers he saw a ladder in the closet he got the broom from (while Louise notes that instead of the ladder, he took the broom). However, frond hears Zeke throwing the broom, and the kids realize that if he is there and catches them, they are in trouble (with Tina muttering "finally" before correcting herself). The kids stay silent until Frond walks away and slips on the floor, getting Mr. Branca's tire. He forgot it was floor-waxing day and assumes the noise was Branca, explaining that he is there because the second floor bathroom mirrors are flattering for his new clothes. While Tina tries to tell them it's hopeless, Louise notes it's the time to get the ladder while Frond is in the bathroom. The kids sneak out of the room.
Randy's character continues to insult the restaurant to Bob's frustration, who asks who Randy's character is even talking to. Randy brags about how the character is talking to Death as something no other film has done, only for Bob and Linda to point out it's already been done, which he downplays. His plan is to play Death as well, and refuses to take the money back from Bob to leave.
The kids get the ladder and sneakily carry it to the classroom, with its height helping them clear the toilet paper much faster. Tina sighs as Zeke and Jimmy Jr. hug over being able to still hang out.
Randy is in the Death robes, but Bob points out that, as he is playing both characters, he needs someone else to play Death so that there can be a shot with both characters in it, rather than simply cutting back and forth. Linda figures she cannot play Death, and suggests Bob do it. And angry Randy tells Bob to do it too, which Bob agrees.
The kids finish getting the last bits of toilet paper off the ceiling. However, frond, who accidentally brought a woman's camouflage tank top but takes it for a lap, hears them celebrate, and stands outside the locked room, before remembering that Ms. Schnur has a key to the room in her desk. Frond goes off to get the key. Zeke suggests hey jump out the window to escape, but Louise points out that they are on the second floor and the fall would likely kill them. Zeke thanks everyone for trying to help him and laments his fate, when Tina, seeing how sad Jimmy Jr. is as he and Zeke hug and cry, decides to help. 
Tina tells them they need to go up, into the room ceiling, pull the ladder up, find another place to drop down ,and get out. Louise notes that the ceiling tiles can't hold them, which Tina acknowledges, but the cable trays for AV equipment and computer cables are bolted into the ceiling on metal tracks (which she knows hold their weight due to experience using them to spy on the boy's locker room). Frond gets the key and manages to unlock the door, but the kids manage to get up with the ladder just in time to avoid him.
Bob, now in the robes, plays the Grim Reaper listening to Randy's character ask him for a few more years of life, and nods. Randy cuts filming and thanks Bob for helping, while Bob is happy it is over and is keeping the Grim Reaper robes.
The kids crawl on the trays into the space over the hallway, but Frond hears them and begins poking the tiles with the broom that had been left in the room. The kids get away but have to jump between trays as Frond starts to catch up to them. Tina tells Zeke to throw a stapler he had grabbed (as a token to remember the school by) further down the ceiling hall tiles as a distraction, but Arnold asks to, and manages to throw it far like a throwing star. Frond hears it, and begins busting the tiles up there. This catches Branca's attention, as the tiles are going up and putting ceiling dirt on his waxed floors. As Frond and Branca argue about how Frond will have to clean it up and how someone could be up there, the kids manage to escape to a spot with a locker to drop onto, and run out of the school.
Randy packs up and leaves, and Bob asks if anyone will see, which Linda responds that a few online critics might. Bob asks her if the restaurant is like death, and she says it is not, but adds that they will probably die there, but not for a long time, which she would not trade for anything. She kisses Bob, who asks that she wants to die in their restaurant in confusion, and she outlines to probably die in 60 years at the time.
The kids all walk back, and Jimmy Jr. thanks Tina for helping with the ceiling idea, which she is a bit taken back by but wants to hear more about how she made him happy, before Zeke thanks her as well for helping him not go to the special school, to her frustration. Zeke says he just never has to get in trouble again, then starts wrestling with Jimmy Jr. again. Louise tells Tina that although it was hard to give up having Jimmy Jr.'s butt to herself, but she did the right thing in helping out. Tina asks to not be reminded before hoping that Mr. Branca finds the note they left him. Meanwhile in the school broom closet, Branca finds a note saying the ladder was put in the ceiling (as well that it is from his "secret admirer" to his delight).
==Videos==
Tina Asks Jimmy Jr. On A Date Season 9 Ep. 22 BOB'S BURGERS
Randy Wants To Shoot His Independent Film Season 9 Ep. 22 BOB'S BURGERS
Arnold Shows Up To Help Break Into The School Season 9 Ep. 22 BOB'S BURGERS
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Category:Episodes
Category:8ASA Episodes
Category:Season 9 Episodes
Category:2019 Episodes
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Category:Episodes Written by Jon Schroeder
Category:Episodes Directed by Chris Song