Bob’s Burgers is finally joining fellow 20th Television Animation comedies for Fox The Simpsons and Family Guy in releasing an original installment exclusively on its Disney streaming home.
At the Bob’s Burgers San Diego Comic-Con panel Saturday, creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard announced “On the Fort Day of Christmas“, a holiday short premiering during this year’s holiday season exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally in most markets.
In “On the Fort Day of Christmas”, a record-breaking Christmas snowstorm means one thing to the Belcher kids — a record-breaking Christmas snow fort.
The Simpsons and Family Guy started making exclusive episodes for Disney+ and Hulu, where their libraries are housed, respectively, when the series’ longtime broadcast network Fox a couple of years ago started ordering shorter seasons. The shows’ studio, 20th TV Animation, kept the annual output relatively steady, diverting the surplus episodes to its streaming platforms.
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Bob’s Burgers, the third of the long-running Fox series from 20th TV Animation, had not done original streamlining specials until now.
The Simpsons in May revealed the latest episodes to stream exclusively on Disney+: double-episode “Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition,” released June 17, followed by full-length episodes “Simpsley” on July 3 and “Yellow Mirror,” a take on Black Mirror, on Aug. 26. Family Guy has been doing a Halloween and Christmas specials the last two years.
Bob’s Burgers centers on the working-class Belcher family — parents Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda (John Roberts) and their three children, Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal) — who run a seaside New Jersey hamburger restaurant and their adventures interacting with the eccentric members of their community.
Bouchard was joined on the Comic-Con panel by stars Benjamin, Roberts, Schaal, Mirman as well as Supervising Director Bernard Derriman.
Season 17 of Bob’s Burgers debuts on Fox in midseason 2027, and will stream on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S.
Bouchard executive produces alongside Nora Smith, Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Jon Schroeder, Steven Davis, Scott Jacobson, Holly Schlesinger, Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin and Janelle Momary-Neely. The series was co-developed by Jim Dauterive.
