Sympathy For The Deviled Egg

Episode: I Get Psy-Chic Out Of You (S4 E16)

Episode Reviewed: Eggs For Days (S7 E16)

Favorite Moment: Linda harassing the Big Baby Pudding Snatcher by jamming out to "Amadeus"

Favorite Quote: "It's moving the egg around the house, like I moved Mom's egg around the womb" -Gene

Bob's Burgers always does an amazing job with holiday themed episodes. But, if I am remembering correctly there has only ever been one Easter themed episode: Eggs For Days.

In Eggs For Days, Bob and Linda have an Easter competition. They hide seventy two eggs in the house and the kids do not get their baskets until the last egg is found. Half of them are marked with an M, the other half with a D for Mom and Dad. Whomever's egg is found last is the winner. The parents love it, the kids hate it.

Gene eats an egg, and fails to eat a second egg to even out the number.

The night before Easter, Bob and Linda accidentally get wasted with some back-alley-Jelly-Bean-Schnapps that Linda purchased in the grocery stores parking lot. They forget to use the map and neither of them remember where the eggs are hidden.

The children find 70 and think that the competition is over... until the next day when the house starts to stink like a rotten egg.

The Belchers scour the house trying to find the egg, but the smell seems to move around the house. They discover that the egg has been moved into the crawl space by a raccoon and her babies.

Those whose who follow the show know that there are several alley raccoons that Linda has named and given stories to.

The family spends the rest of the episode trying to get Big Baby Pudding Snatcher and her babies out of the house so they can get rid of the rotten egg.

The Sympathy For The Deviled Egg Burger was featured in I Get Psy-Chic Out of You from season 4, but I couldn't let the holiday pass without an Easter burger, or something on a burger that tied back to Easter.

In honor of Easter, I made my family eat burgers with egg salad on top of them. That's really all that the Sympathy For The Deviled Egg Burger is... a burger with egg salad on top. Needless to say my family was nervous. They wanted me to make a burger that I already knew was good... but I was like listen people I've got a million kinds of burgers I need to make by the end of the year... and so you have to try this potentially gross one. We all make sacrifices.

I hard boiled the eggs in water, salt, and vinegar and the first 5 peeled easier than bananas. Then something in the atmosphere shifted and the Devil himself bewitched the rest of my eggs.

I tried every method that was suggested to me by my family, but initially I refused to let them peel any eggs. I need to make the recipes by myself.

After twenty minutes, a lot of under-my-breath-cursing, and three almost whole-but not perfect eggs- in the garbage... I gave up and let my family help.

And they had just as much difficulty as I did! So either we are all idiots... or those eggs were touched by evil.

In all likelihood, it's because the eggs were fresh as hell. Like straight-from-the-chicken's-ass-to-Aldi fresh. If you want to make egg salad wait until your eggs are almost nasty, and then hard boil them.

Once they were all peeled, I cut them in half and sorted out the yolks. I mashed them up with a fork, which was kinda difficult... I am not yolking. (I feel terrible for the yolk-joke but I would be remiss of my duties as a Bob's Burger Burger Artist ((new title I am considering for business cards...)) if I failed to make that spectacular yolk) (omg help me.)

I combined the egg yolks with mayonnaise (Gods gift to burgers), spicy brown mustard, and a couple of teaspoons of pickle juice from a jar of sweet bread and butter pickles.

Next, I chopped up the egg whites with this tiny little knife that made the job take forever. Why? IDK sometimes a little unnecessary difficulty builds character.

Then, I mixed in a tablespoon of smoked paprika. You may recall when I made the Poutine on the Ritz Burger that the paprika I used tasted horrible to me. No, well read it again. So I cashed out for some smoked paprika... and holy smokes it was so much better. A word of caution to the wise egg salad connoisseur- a little smoked paprika goes a long way. I only used half of what the recipe called for and it was perfect.

In the end, egg salad on a burger was better than expected. I would never have done it of my own volition but in the end it was delicious.

And just cause this part was amazing: