Animation Domination Sets Up Thursday Summer Home As 'Bob’s Burgers' Returns

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Family Guy is leaving Sunday nights for the second straight year. But this time, it’s taking its Animation Domination brethren with it. With the Seth MacFarlane-created series and Grimsburg not having started their seasons until February, The Great North’s not quite getting going until then, and Bob’s Burgers having been on hiatus since the very end of 2024, it grew very obvious there would be overflow beyond traditional September-May season bounds. Fox has announced its summer schedule, marking May 18 season finales for The Simpsons and Krapopolis but after that? Animation Domination is moving to Thursdays for the summer starting May 29.

On that date, Bob’s Burgers will finally return from what will be an exact five-month hiatus and lead off the night in the 8 PM Eastern slot. It will then be followed by Grimsburg at 8:30 PM, Family Guy returning to 9 PM and The Great North at 9:30 PM. This will be the earliest time slot Bob’s Burgers will have since Fox was still using the 7:30 PM slot for them in seasons 7 and 8 from 2016 to 2018. Neither season had any midseason movement. The last time Family Guy held any 9 PM time slot, which it’s easily best known by was season 17, the 2018-19 season.

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Reportedly, the move off of Sundays is to avoid pre-emption by sports, which ones weren’t specified but I’m suspecting there’s some UFL at a sprinkle minimum. Loglines for each respective show’s remaining batches of episodes have been given, which is nice. On Bob’s Burgers, Linda forces everyone to go on a family walk; Tina, Gene and Louise strike it rich in the illegal snack business at school; The Belchers have a wild night at a casino; and Linda learns more about her late grandfather than she wanted to know. Grimsburg will see roles get reversed in Flute and Summers’ partnership after male sex workers start winding up dead. Elsewhere, in order to win this year’s Undies Award for best undercover operation, Flute infiltrates the Preggo crime family, and memories are sparked when Grimsburg Police Department cleans an evidence locker. The show is set to return from a 5 and a half week hiatus with a move to the post-Masked Singer Wednesdays alongside Krapopolis, starting April 30, while the latter will still air on Sundays for the rest of its season.

Family Guy is seemingly going to continue airing all the way until its move, so what the logline describes likely doesn’t touch on the weeks leading up Lois becomes the leader of a group of mothers who want to ban books from schools, then embarks on a journey of self-discovery, which includes dating Bonnie. Also this summer, Meg enlists in a training program for a mission to Mars and Brian convinces Stewie to go back in time and bring Mark Twain to the present-day. The Great North will see Wolf must track down Judy before they miss their dinner at a fancy French restaurant. Additionally, Beef discovers the thrills of stunt fishing, his and Walt’s best-friendship is put to the test and Honeybee and Wolf renovate the guest cabin. Also, Ham, Judy and Moon get whole new outlooks on life.

The last time Animation Domination aired outside of Sunday, it was an expansion in summer 2021 that put Duncanville and HouseBroken on Mondays in the 9 PM hour. I don’t think an audience like mine needs a staff recap or four, but I am left asking how encompassing these teases are. Will Animation Domination only be spending 3-5 Thursdays with this lineup? If one finishes first, will there be some surprise animated program(s) announced among the additional summer shows they’re promising? Guess we’ll have to find out.

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Sources: Animation Magazine, The Futon Critiv