Archer x Bob’s Burgers Crossover
Exclusive news dropped today that Archer an animated TV series created by Adam Reed for the FX network, Next season will include a Bob’s Burgers crossover episode. I am personally not familiar with the animated comedy series Archer but maybe this will get me interested! H. Jon Benjamin who voices for FX’s Archer and Fox’s Animation Domination Bob’s Burgers and word you will be hearing a lot more of him in this exclusive episode, where he will be voicing, ISIS agent Sterling Archer and grill-master Bob Belcher. Stay posted for the official air date on FOX. Check out some of the interview from EW.com below.
“[Archer creator Adam Reed] really likes Bob’s Burgers,” Benjamin says. “And the fourth season has a Bob’s Burgers tie-in, which is really bizarre.”
Indeed: “It’s like a Bourne Identity-type plot line. It starts off with Archer as Bob, making hamburgers, but he doesn’t know that he’s Archer. He’s at the restaurant and these, like, I think Russian thugs come in, and Bob dispatches them expertly. And then he’s like, What just happened? How did I do that? So he has to try to figure out why he’s so good at killing people.”
Adds Benjamin, “It was Adam’s idea.”
Bob’s creator Loren Bouchard [who also co-created Home Movies and produced Dr. Katz] signed off on the idea, Benjamin says, but stayed out of the creative process. “It was prompted by Adam, but Loren was into it.”
Bob’s wife Linda (voiced by John Roberts) will be in the episode as well, he confirms, “but the kids aren’t in it. I guess it must’ve been a budget restriction or something. Like, ‘I can’t afford to pay an extra three grand to pay actors.’”
As for how the different visual styles of the shows will mesh, he says that “it’s Archer-style animation, but with all the accouterments and characteristics of the [Bob’s] characters.”
“It is a little weird,” he continues, “because you have to be a fan of both to understand it. But you don’t have to know about Bob’s Burgers to enjoy it.”
If the crossover threatens to expose how similar his voices for Bob and Archer (and, well, most of his characters) are, Benjamin isn’t concerned. “It’s seems like kind of a 50-50: 50 percent of people are like, ‘You suck, you use the same voice,’ and 50 percent of people are like, ‘It’s amazing how different they are!’ And I really can’t speak to either opinion.”
via: insidetv.ew.com
