It was a strange year for San Diego Comic-Con. This year marked the second in a row where in-person festivities were canceled for pandemic-related reasons, but while 2020’s event had the novelty and fresh horror of a lockdown people still hadn’t entirely adjusted to, 2021’s quarantine-dictated Zoom panels felt simultaneously overly-familiar
and laced with existential dread.
Points to
Bob’s Burgers then for addressing the issue straight out of the gate. After moderator (and show creator, and co-showrunner) Loren Bouchard introduced the panel’s participants — the main voice cast and Nora Smith, writer and co-showrunner — he talked about how he wasn’t going to ask anyone how they dealt with the challenges of working from home: “It’s boring to talk about recording from home, I won’t even get into it.”