Without the Belcher kids, Bob's Burgers would be nowhere near as interesting, but out of the three kids, the most low key oddball is Tina. If fans didn't pick up on that in the pilot, they had that confirmed in Bob's Burgers Season 1, Episode 2, "Crawl Space," when her feelings about zombies developed.
Tina Belcher is a 13-year-old girl who goes to Wagstaff School with her younger siblings, Louise and Gene. While Louise is the youngest of the three, she is certainly the Machiavellian leader of the trio. Time and time again, it's been proven that Louise is the last person on the show anyone should mess with. Meanwhile, Gene lives life loud and proud, so with such big personalities in the room, it's easy to write someone as a quiet as Tina off, but the second episode shows why that isn't the case.
As a teen going through puberty, a hallmark of her character quickly became her budding sexuality, with a significant percentage of her focus directed at Jimmy Pesto Jr. That being said, Tina's attentions have wandered to a variety of boys over the years. She has also explored her sexuality through her seemingly endless volumes of erotic friend fiction, with some of those stories delving into her passion for zombies.
The second episode of Bob's Burgers introduces fans to one of Tina's oddest foibles, which is the fact that she is sexually attracted to zombies. For most of her life, Tina had nightmares about those undead creatures. From a young age, they scared her, which is understandable, but in Episode 2, Tina's grandparents come to town and change the game.
While sleeping in the apartment with the rest of the family, Linda's mom and dad have sex. This happens while Tina sleep next door and has a frightening nightmare about zombies. She unconsciously incorporates the sounds of her grandparents' love making into the nightmare, which transitions it to a sexual dream. If the fact that Tina is attracted to zombies isn't unsettling enough, the origins of that attraction are more uncomfortable.
Tina might seem a bit more low key than her siblings, but she's just as absurd as they are. What makes her so incredibly relatable are the confused feelings of sexuality she grapples with constantly. While her zombie fetish is a hilarious, over the top manifestation of those feelings, it doesn't change the fact that it's still an expression of something very real done in an odd way, and that's what makes Tina such a special character.
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