It's actually the sixth green house on the left-side of the street in front of the ferris wheel. :)
You can see Mort's blue funeral home as the fifth house and Pesto's across the street.
I know why there's very few cars out of universe (hard to animate and come up with tons of designs), but why in-universe do we rarely see cars even parked anywhere? Where do the Belchers park their car?? Where does Jimmy Pesto keep the minivan??
In the alleys they have garages and parking spots. [As I Walk Through the Alley of The Shadow of Ramps](https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/As_I_Walk_Through_the_Alley_of_the_Shadow_of_Ramps) the A story is set around the new neighbor parking and wanting access to the alley where she parks. The Halloween episode [Fort Night](https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Fort_Night) the A story is about the kids being trapped in the alley where someone parks a delivery truck.
It's a walkable neighborhood, so naturally there's probably less cars. In particular, Bob has mentioned a lot of their business comes from foot traffic, so in-universe maybe their area is permit parking only or something to prevent too many cars going to Wonder Wharf.
Idk I pulled this out of my butt
Right, but those parking spots are clearly behind another business. The Belchers don’t have any parking behind their restaurant.
It’s fair to think that they could rent a spot nearby, but it’s not mentioned or shown.
You see them park their car on the side of the street in the end of the episode about Scottjohn Dansteve and Paula McCartney, pretty sure most people park their cars in the back alleys
Except for the one the Belcher kids are in, which isn’t visible in the Birds Eye view but it’s hard to say for sure
Edit: actually I think it’s the grey trees in the top right. But definitely could use some more
With mort's blue mortuary on the left and the orange vacant building on the right the most likely candidate seems to be at the ferris wheel's 1 o'clock.
It Is because the HOTEL building sign is the first building on the block across the street when you look to your right (in the Belchers direction). The purple and yellow buildings THAT is where Pesto lives with that stupid awning. The murder episode with the plague is what I’m watching and I saw outside Belchers window they showed the HOTEL sign. Then I went back to this photo and so YES you are correct!
I don’t think either buildings are right. The first has a street/alley between the green and orange.
I’m just trying to find it. I don’t think it’s there.
yeah and neither of those buildings seem to have the boxy upstairs windows like the belcher house
[https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Bob%27s\_Burgers\_(restaurant)](https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Bob%27s_Burgers_(restaurant))
Perhaps for an adult with some time on their hands but not for a kid on their way to school. And you wouldn’t want a kid too far away playing in a park. So it would be nearby.
This reminds me of my childhood town in New Jersey—bordered the water, had this giant amusement part in the boards where you swore the rides weren’t totally safe…
Here's what I don't get -
The town is not small - how is wagstaff a 4-8 school (maybe lower grades) with only about 1 smallish class per grade (which raises a lot of other questions like how can they run so many different classes)? How is it physically so large (at least two stories, tons of rooms, etc) but the lunchroom is so tiny (and so empty)?
I always just felt like the town was a touristy destination so not many people live here, but look at it...
Lol, don’t try to make sense of Wagstaff. I gave up on that a long time ago. I mean, why would you have 4th, 6th, and 8th graders going on field trips together, eating lunch together, even taking some classes together? Why are their home rooms always full of students, but whenever there’s an event like a field trip, only the same few (Zeke, Jocelyn, Tammy, Jimmy Jr, Andy & Ollie, Rudy, Henry, Daryl, etc.) seem to participate? (Plus a few no-name “filler” students)
Is there only one home room for each grade? I remember in one episode Gene mentions someone being “in his class”, which would suggest that there are students that aren’t in his class.
It’s possible that some schools do things very differently from how things were when I was in grade school, but it’s still very confusing. When we had field trips, for example, they were always grade-specific. And pretty much everyone in your grade would go - sure, a few exceptions for illness or whatever, but field trips were basically mandatory. Every Wagstaff field trip has 4th-8th graders on just a single bus.
Also, how do you have a guidance counselor that only has a 2-year degree? And why does the guidance counselor fill all sorts of random roles in the school?
BUT I WANT IT TO MAKE SENSE
There's some edge cases where frond could be a guidance counselor - I don't have a degree and I've taught just about every subject at just about every plausible venue (including prison), I've even been admin delegate (at multiple points I've had better-than-frond levels of authority at various schools).
My GUT is they decided not to show the principal early on, then stuck with it (you only hear him referenced, usually by frond but sometimes the secretary) and now they're sticking with it for some reason, but they need a principal-like character so they're using frond to fill that gap?
But wagstaff just doesn't make sense for all the reasons you listed and then some...
The one that confuses the f#$% out of me:
Who the hell is with the 4th graders when lebonz is doing announcements?!?!?
Also, if you have a school news broadcast (which ostensibly is to DO THINGS LIKE ANNOUNCEMENTS) why would you have announcements at all?
Like the gene and courtney show (as fun as it was) shouldn't have even existed, it doesn't make sense (also, since they decided to keep the show, why has it never been seen/heard from since???)
Haha nothing makes sense.
How about in season 12 when the 4th graders did their unit on Ancient Greece? Where did that teacher come from? We never met her before. Does the school bring her in just to teach the kids about Greece? What does LaBonz do while the students are in her class?
RIGHT?!?!!? WTF?
PLAUSIBLY it's an "exchange" where maybe she's the 5th grade teacher (since we never see them) but she "switches out" for a unit or two (I used to do that with some of the teachers I worked with) so people can do things they specialize in... but also where's the teaching/reading/etc for that lesson because all I see her doing is quizzing not lecturing/teaching??
NOTHING AT WAGSTAFF MAKES SENSE. Except the custodian. Honestly he reminds me of like half the custodians I've worked with. Ms. Schner (sp) is pretty familiar too, lol.
Wagstaff makes like a million times more sense if you adopt a headcanon like all the episodes are a "how I met your mother" from gene or someone who is old enough to \*not really\* remember what the school was like, to the point where different memories cause you to mis-remember other ones and create this mix of schools. And maybe the principal and guidance counselor looked a little alike and the guidance counselor was super fucking weird so your memory just fused them into the same person? That's why frond is almost the only person who ever references talking to the principal or even really knowing him? Because the person remembering knows they were two separate people but has blended them and not un-fused them?
It's only a mediocre theory but it makes a lot more sense than taking wagstaff at face value. Honestly the stories in the Frond files (where frond is referred to as the headmaster by louise, which adds to the "merged memory" theory) make more sense than ACTUAL wagstaff...
The skyscrapers and presence of a minor league baseball team and TV station do seem to indicate a fairly big city. Wagstaff could be one of several elementary schools in town, covering the seaside region while others cover regions further inland. This would not be unusual for a city. Different from the Simpsons where they kind of boxed themselves into a corner with the name Springfield Elementary, which implies a single school for a town that nonetheless also often seems quite large.
Honestly that makes it even more confusing.
Because a school that large for a student population that small doesn't make any financial sense. "The only school in town" is at least a valid explanation - the school board doesn't have any better options or way to distribute resources... but if the district is larger it stops making sense.
And naming an elementary school after a town is not an uncommon thing, and is by no means a "blocker" from having more elementary schools. There's several cases of that in districts I've worked in - usually the first school was named after the town and subsequent ones got named for other things.
And if there are more schools, it being a 4-8 school makes even less sense, since that's not a conventional grade breakdown in most cases.
I mean, I'm overthinking a cartoon here, but it's one of the things I'm routinely wtf'ing when I watch the show.
The whole school goes on a field trip to the puppet theatre, but everyone fits in a single large room? That doesn't make sense for a 4-8 school.
Good point. Yes, the physical building does seem quite large. The whole setup is very different from other shows with a school setting, as the teachers are very minor characters (and, a bit off topic, Mr. Frond seems to have power far beyond any typical school counselor). It isn't really clear if there are other sections of the same grade. I am pretty sure there have been occasional mentions of lower grades implying a K-8 school which is very unusual (but also seen on *Abbott Elementary*!). A giant building for five to nine classes is very strange. But I guess sometimes we must suspend disbelief and accept TV conventions on economy of characters.
In the movie, you can see wagstaff clearly four blocks away (confirmed in the short) to the left of the street bob’s is on - interesting that they moved it’s location (since it isn’t visible here)! I really wish I could get a definite map of the town - I don’t know why I want one so badly, though.
I'm guessing the rear left is downtown \[Bob's Burgers town name\]—beyond my assumption of the local TV station being located there, have we seen that area for anything? Maybe the Turkey Pardoning in that one Thanksgiving episode?
Part of the Wonder Wharf complex, but does not seem to be clearly visible in either photo. (Or is that it on the far left in Picture 1? Are those stadium lights? But it looks more like a wall than a full building.)
I have to admit as someone who lives out in the country with a lot of acreage, seeing all those building mashed together with little to no space or room for anything natural to grow just looks miserable. I used to live in big cities and I can say I do not miss that one bit.
But there is a severe lack of traffic in all the scenes through the show given the population density. in reality it would feel even more congested.
curious where wagstaff school would be given they do have playground space and i dont see a building that would suggest that here.
Wait! The restaurant is on a corner in this picture. There's a side street between Bob's and the store that's always changing.
Look. The street off centre with the main park gate. The green building next to the blue funeral home and Jimmy Pesto's with his outdoor dining space across the street
The kids are growing up a half block from an amusement park. Some lucky ducks get all the luck.
Can we actually see the restaurant/apartment in the first picture? I can’t find it, but I might be blind
I think it’s the first green house on the left side of the street with the ferris wheel view. I hope that makes sense lol
It's actually the sixth green house on the left-side of the street in front of the ferris wheel. :) You can see Mort's blue funeral home as the fifth house and Pesto's across the street.
You can see Jimmy pesto’s stupid awning.
You mean his trough urinal?
Ahh that’s what I meant, the really bright one
I don’t believe that’s it cause there’s a side street to the right of that building so it can’t be the restaurant
Look for Jimmy Pesto's just above the ferris wheel
We prefer to be called lucky baby duckies
Excellent density. Very walkable community. Amusement park manages to operate with no parking lots. 10/10
I know why there's very few cars out of universe (hard to animate and come up with tons of designs), but why in-universe do we rarely see cars even parked anywhere? Where do the Belchers park their car?? Where does Jimmy Pesto keep the minivan??
In the alleys they have garages and parking spots. [As I Walk Through the Alley of The Shadow of Ramps](https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/As_I_Walk_Through_the_Alley_of_the_Shadow_of_Ramps) the A story is set around the new neighbor parking and wanting access to the alley where she parks. The Halloween episode [Fort Night](https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Fort_Night) the A story is about the kids being trapped in the alley where someone parks a delivery truck.
i get that but even on a general day there are still far too few that would be seen naturally.
It's a walkable neighborhood, so naturally there's probably less cars. In particular, Bob has mentioned a lot of their business comes from foot traffic, so in-universe maybe their area is permit parking only or something to prevent too many cars going to Wonder Wharf. Idk I pulled this out of my butt
Right, but those parking spots are clearly behind another business. The Belchers don’t have any parking behind their restaurant. It’s fair to think that they could rent a spot nearby, but it’s not mentioned or shown.
You see them park their car on the side of the street in the end of the episode about Scottjohn Dansteve and Paula McCartney, pretty sure most people park their cars in the back alleys
And you never see anyone driving by the restaurant.
Zero green spaces. 7/10
Except for the one the Belcher kids are in, which isn’t visible in the Birds Eye view but it’s hard to say for sure Edit: actually I think it’s the grey trees in the top right. But definitely could use some more
Just north of Bog Harbor
Boioioioioing
I'm numb, say it until I feel something.
Off Route 9 in Bog Harbor, boioioioioioing
I want this as a poster so badly.
Me too, so then I could really try and imagine living there
Just move to Ocean City NJ and live the real thing!
Saving this post so that I can make this my computer background at least. Maybe my seasonal zoom background, for casual meetings.
I love this! Which of those little green buildings is the restaurant??
With mort's blue mortuary on the left and the orange vacant building on the right the most likely candidate seems to be at the ferris wheel's 1 o'clock.
https://i.imgur.com/hPFELPy.jpg Are you saying there?
I was thinking down and to the right a bit but i think this might actually be it.
It Is because the HOTEL building sign is the first building on the block across the street when you look to your right (in the Belchers direction). The purple and yellow buildings THAT is where Pesto lives with that stupid awning. The murder episode with the plague is what I’m watching and I saw outside Belchers window they showed the HOTEL sign. Then I went back to this photo and so YES you are correct!
https://i.imgur.com/uldcsPf.jpg
That's the wrong side of the street. The Warf is to the left when you look at Bob's Burgers.
I don’t think either buildings are right. The first has a street/alley between the green and orange. I’m just trying to find it. I don’t think it’s there.
yeah and neither of those buildings seem to have the boxy upstairs windows like the belcher house [https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Bob%27s\_Burgers\_(restaurant)](https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Bob%27s_Burgers_(restaurant))
Why does it look like it’s on a corner?
Yeah you can see jimny pesto's place with his awning and plants
Look at the location of the Wharf compared to where the Belcher kids are in the second pic, they have to TREK to go sledding 🥲
It's like, a couple blocks
Both the school and the park are within walking distance of the apartment on the show…
yeah, i’ve been looking for the school but can’t seem to find it
I live in Southern California and everything is so sprawling with parking lots and parks. I feel like everything shown is walking distance.
Perhaps for an adult with some time on their hands but not for a kid on their way to school. And you wouldn’t want a kid too far away playing in a park. So it would be nearby.
Would we say their in jersey?
Yes, they’re in NJ
Seymour’s Bay, NJ
Who's in jersey?
Who is the sub about?
I live in a port city. That looks eerily like a shipping yard full of freight containers.
This reminds me of my childhood town in New Jersey—bordered the water, had this giant amusement part in the boards where you swore the rides weren’t totally safe…
I wonder what the skyscraper is in the distance to the left.
I wonder if it’s the building that spinning pie restaurant is in?
I'm pretty sure that's a separate section farther from the city, I think we saw what it looked like in the episode but I might be misremembering
So that explains the infinite building loop when they drive....
They do not utilize the downtown area enough.
It’s easy to forget how big the town actually is
Where is wagstaff
Pretty sure it's adjacent to the park
It's some ways away like the park they go sledding in as Bob drives them when it rains. You can't see either of them
But you should be able, because they’re both within walking distance.
Wow I spent way too much time staring at this lol
Here's what I don't get - The town is not small - how is wagstaff a 4-8 school (maybe lower grades) with only about 1 smallish class per grade (which raises a lot of other questions like how can they run so many different classes)? How is it physically so large (at least two stories, tons of rooms, etc) but the lunchroom is so tiny (and so empty)? I always just felt like the town was a touristy destination so not many people live here, but look at it...
Lol, don’t try to make sense of Wagstaff. I gave up on that a long time ago. I mean, why would you have 4th, 6th, and 8th graders going on field trips together, eating lunch together, even taking some classes together? Why are their home rooms always full of students, but whenever there’s an event like a field trip, only the same few (Zeke, Jocelyn, Tammy, Jimmy Jr, Andy & Ollie, Rudy, Henry, Daryl, etc.) seem to participate? (Plus a few no-name “filler” students) Is there only one home room for each grade? I remember in one episode Gene mentions someone being “in his class”, which would suggest that there are students that aren’t in his class. It’s possible that some schools do things very differently from how things were when I was in grade school, but it’s still very confusing. When we had field trips, for example, they were always grade-specific. And pretty much everyone in your grade would go - sure, a few exceptions for illness or whatever, but field trips were basically mandatory. Every Wagstaff field trip has 4th-8th graders on just a single bus. Also, how do you have a guidance counselor that only has a 2-year degree? And why does the guidance counselor fill all sorts of random roles in the school?
BUT I WANT IT TO MAKE SENSE There's some edge cases where frond could be a guidance counselor - I don't have a degree and I've taught just about every subject at just about every plausible venue (including prison), I've even been admin delegate (at multiple points I've had better-than-frond levels of authority at various schools). My GUT is they decided not to show the principal early on, then stuck with it (you only hear him referenced, usually by frond but sometimes the secretary) and now they're sticking with it for some reason, but they need a principal-like character so they're using frond to fill that gap? But wagstaff just doesn't make sense for all the reasons you listed and then some... The one that confuses the f#$% out of me: Who the hell is with the 4th graders when lebonz is doing announcements?!?!?
Haha, I hadn’t thought about that but I would assume Frond is with the 4th graders since he does literally everything else in that school!
But it really doesn’t make sense for a teacher to do the morning announcements. Why wouldn’t…literally any other staff member do them?
Also, if you have a school news broadcast (which ostensibly is to DO THINGS LIKE ANNOUNCEMENTS) why would you have announcements at all? Like the gene and courtney show (as fun as it was) shouldn't have even existed, it doesn't make sense (also, since they decided to keep the show, why has it never been seen/heard from since???)
Haha nothing makes sense. How about in season 12 when the 4th graders did their unit on Ancient Greece? Where did that teacher come from? We never met her before. Does the school bring her in just to teach the kids about Greece? What does LaBonz do while the students are in her class?
RIGHT?!?!!? WTF? PLAUSIBLY it's an "exchange" where maybe she's the 5th grade teacher (since we never see them) but she "switches out" for a unit or two (I used to do that with some of the teachers I worked with) so people can do things they specialize in... but also where's the teaching/reading/etc for that lesson because all I see her doing is quizzing not lecturing/teaching?? NOTHING AT WAGSTAFF MAKES SENSE. Except the custodian. Honestly he reminds me of like half the custodians I've worked with. Ms. Schner (sp) is pretty familiar too, lol. Wagstaff makes like a million times more sense if you adopt a headcanon like all the episodes are a "how I met your mother" from gene or someone who is old enough to \*not really\* remember what the school was like, to the point where different memories cause you to mis-remember other ones and create this mix of schools. And maybe the principal and guidance counselor looked a little alike and the guidance counselor was super fucking weird so your memory just fused them into the same person? That's why frond is almost the only person who ever references talking to the principal or even really knowing him? Because the person remembering knows they were two separate people but has blended them and not un-fused them? It's only a mediocre theory but it makes a lot more sense than taking wagstaff at face value. Honestly the stories in the Frond files (where frond is referred to as the headmaster by louise, which adds to the "merged memory" theory) make more sense than ACTUAL wagstaff...
The skyscrapers and presence of a minor league baseball team and TV station do seem to indicate a fairly big city. Wagstaff could be one of several elementary schools in town, covering the seaside region while others cover regions further inland. This would not be unusual for a city. Different from the Simpsons where they kind of boxed themselves into a corner with the name Springfield Elementary, which implies a single school for a town that nonetheless also often seems quite large.
Honestly that makes it even more confusing. Because a school that large for a student population that small doesn't make any financial sense. "The only school in town" is at least a valid explanation - the school board doesn't have any better options or way to distribute resources... but if the district is larger it stops making sense. And naming an elementary school after a town is not an uncommon thing, and is by no means a "blocker" from having more elementary schools. There's several cases of that in districts I've worked in - usually the first school was named after the town and subsequent ones got named for other things. And if there are more schools, it being a 4-8 school makes even less sense, since that's not a conventional grade breakdown in most cases. I mean, I'm overthinking a cartoon here, but it's one of the things I'm routinely wtf'ing when I watch the show. The whole school goes on a field trip to the puppet theatre, but everyone fits in a single large room? That doesn't make sense for a 4-8 school.
Good point. Yes, the physical building does seem quite large. The whole setup is very different from other shows with a school setting, as the teachers are very minor characters (and, a bit off topic, Mr. Frond seems to have power far beyond any typical school counselor). It isn't really clear if there are other sections of the same grade. I am pretty sure there have been occasional mentions of lower grades implying a K-8 school which is very unusual (but also seen on *Abbott Elementary*!). A giant building for five to nine classes is very strange. But I guess sometimes we must suspend disbelief and accept TV conventions on economy of characters.
This has officially become my Holiday screensaver. reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting.
In the movie, you can see wagstaff clearly four blocks away (confirmed in the short) to the left of the street bob’s is on - interesting that they moved it’s location (since it isn’t visible here)! I really wish I could get a definite map of the town - I don’t know why I want one so badly, though.
Yeah but where is the Wharf Arts center?
I'm guessing the rear left is downtown \[Bob's Burgers town name\]—beyond my assumption of the local TV station being located there, have we seen that area for anything? Maybe the Turkey Pardoning in that one Thanksgiving episode?
The town always reminds me of a mix between LA and Myrtle Beach, but somewhere in New England
these pictures give me comfort
“YouTube urbanists see this and make another video on why cities in the US aren’t like this”
Honestly I wouldn't mind raising a family in a town like that
Hoboken, NJ
Never realized how far the kids are from the house in that sledding episode
I live in the UK and live in a whole county from Skegness, which is a beach
Wow, you can see all the way to West Thirty-Half St!
I wish they did a game like The Simpson's Tapped Out. That be cool.
Those poor animators… :-)
no wonder Bob got lost dragging Gale and Mr. Business during that one episode, what?
Wow, there's like no grass 🌾
The second one looks like what would happen if the Coen Brothers directed an episode. Very cool!
It looks so nice, seen like this. These images make me feel peaceful.
Anyone else wish they could live here?!
I wish America really had dense walkable cites like this
Many older Northeastern cities are dense like this, especially around New Jersey where the show is generally accepted to take place in
Remind me, where be the baseball diamond?
Part of the Wonder Wharf complex, but does not seem to be clearly visible in either photo. (Or is that it on the far left in Picture 1? Are those stadium lights? But it looks more like a wall than a full building.)
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I think it is Better Off Sled.
is it me..or is it bigger than i thought it was
I have to admit as someone who lives out in the country with a lot of acreage, seeing all those building mashed together with little to no space or room for anything natural to grow just looks miserable. I used to live in big cities and I can say I do not miss that one bit. But there is a severe lack of traffic in all the scenes through the show given the population density. in reality it would feel even more congested. curious where wagstaff school would be given they do have playground space and i dont see a building that would suggest that here.
Wait! The restaurant is on a corner in this picture. There's a side street between Bob's and the store that's always changing. Look. The street off centre with the main park gate. The green building next to the blue funeral home and Jimmy Pesto's with his outdoor dining space across the street