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I'll take this one and I'll go with "best and worst fictional towns". A fictional setting can really capture me into a story and make me connect with it more deeply. This won't be a particularly exhaustive list but if people want me to add more locations, I'll certainly try to think up some more!

Anyway...

Best: Beach City, Delmarva - Steven Universe

Man, Beach City really goes hard as a setting. Putting the more fantastical elements with space aliens and all that aside, Beach City is just an absolutely beautiful coastal town that feels like this idyllic place that we've both never been to before yet know it very intimately. The walkable town and the boardwalk, the beach, the outlying rural areas with barns and grassy hilltops. It's really capturing that Mid-Atlantic charm and makes me want to just pack up and move there for a summer every time I see it.

Worst: Quahog, Rhode Island - Family Guy

I always find the episode "The Hurt Soccer" enjoyable and one that I feel doesn't get its flowers all the time. Like, I'm a sucker for a fun little sports episode, which felt very true to the characters involved here. Each character interacted with being responsible for this failing sports team in their own special way, it's a joy to watch. The fact that the "win" for them was getting blown out but not shut out is still so funny to me.

Oh, and the Home Movies references. This was the episode that made it click in my head that H Jon Benjamin not only worked on Home Movies (a fave from my tween years of sneaking Adult Swim without my parents knowing) but also Science Court (a fave from my 5th grade science class).

If Bob's Burgers had such a show, I think a small time skip could be in order and could really be a new angle for the show to explore. Has Bob's burger ethics paid off with serious success or maybe even with a little more regular foot traffic? Would Louise's enterprising spirit pay off for the restaurant? Will Gene become that art school musician that he seems destined to become someday? So many new storylines could potentially open up by taking the show a few years into the future. If it makes more sense, a larger time skip where they jump to a future where Louise and Tina are in charge of the burger joint as two adults in their 20s or 30s could be interesting. Of course, I fear that this would imply something happens to Bob (the man is too stressed, you can't be that stressed for that long).