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The National Revisit 'Bob’s Burgers' for Some Thanksgiving Cheer

"Give It to Teddy" is a gently uplifting cover of the end credits music from last week's episode of the FX comedy.

Grown-up mood-rockers The National have returned to the music of FX comedy cartoon Bob’s Burgers for another Thanksgiving-themed cover, just in time for your food hangover. “Give It to Teddy,” released late last night, is a gently uplifting reimagining of the end credits music from last week’s episode, “Thanks-Hoarding.” As they did with their three-track cameo on last year’s 107-song The Bob’s Burgers Music Album, the band push their smoky, morose aesthetic into deadpan parody, with Matt Berninger’s baritone wrapping around less-than-serious lines. A favorite: “But is a Gerald Ford bobble-head / That doesn't really bobble / Worth your trouble, Teddy?”

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Bob’s Burgers has been behind some fun pop music over the last few years. Belcher family matriarch and wine enjoyer Linda breaks into song at inappropriate moments, gender-ambiguous adolescent Gene is obsessed with gear, farts, and the timbre of everything, and the show usually closes out with a brief, weird burst of melody. Reviewing The Bob’s Burgers Music Album earlier this year, Robert Christgau found that he couldn’t help but return to the record in idle moments: “Now past five plays on both discs, I'm still chuckling at jokes I know and catching new ones, and in some vaguely avant-garde way no longer finding the thing unmusical.”

"Give it to Teddy" also comes with a kaleidoscopic video, which you can watch at the top of the page.

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