"Grease and Fear" is a song in "Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening."
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Release[]
On October 2, 2025, the Behind Bob's Burgers YouTube account released a collage music video of the song, combining clips from multiple episodes to sing part of the song, some slower to match the tune.[1]
Description[]
In "Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening," Tina, Gene, and Louise make the song for a new band they formed outside of the Itty Bitty Ditty Committee called "Bus Boy and the Cuss Girls." They sing it in the basement as Gene plays his Casio while Tina and Louise use items from the restaurant to make music, like pots and utensils. They use a recorder Peter Pescadero took from his brother to record themselves playing. As they sing, Bob and Linda are in the restaurant as Bob decides whether to increase the prices of his burgers, the song's lyrics unintentionally influencing him. Throughout the episode, the kids continue playing as it shows Bob and Linda when they bought the restaurant.
When the kids finish their project, while Tina and Gene initially express doubt, they upload it online, hoping it's popular.
The song also plays in the End Credits Sequence of "Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening," which is a cover of the song by Jack Black, John Kimbrough, Scott Seiver, and John Spiker. The credits show the Belchers aging in the restaurant since Tina's birth as Gene and Louise are born.
Lyrics[]
| # | "Grease and Fear" | Singers |
|---|
| Gather 'round, we're gonna tell you a story (Ooh...) |
Tina & Louise; (Gene) | |
| About a lady and a burger boy (Ooh...) |
Tina & Louise; (Gene) | |
| For some crazy reason, don't know why (Ooh...) |
Tina & Louise; (Gene) | |
| Wanted to open up a restaurant |
Tina & Louise | |
| That ruined all our lives |
Tina, Gene, & Louise | |
| I guess they wanted that life (that life) (Oh, yeah) |
Tina; (Louise); (Gene) | |
| They opened up a restaurant |
Tina & Louise | |
| That ruined all our lives (Oh, yeah) |
Tina, Gene, & Louise; (Tina) | |
| Seems like they wanted that life |
Tina | |
| Burger lady, burger man |
Tina & Louise | |
| What were you thinking? |
Tina & Louise | |
| What was the plan? |
Tina | |
| Why would any rational person want (any rational person want) |
Tina; (Louise) | |
| To open a restaurant? |
Tina & Louise | |
| There was once a man who dreamed a dream |
Louise | |
| A dream of burgers |
Louise | |
| Of beef, tomatoes, lettuce, and some buns |
Louise | |
| But sometimes, dreaming burger dreams |
Louise | |
| And dreams of burgers |
Louise | |
| Can make your burger dreamer come undone |
Louise | |
| Not talking well-done |
Louise | |
| Not talking medium well-done |
Louise | |
| We're saying burger dreams can make you come undone |
Louise | |
| Have you ever smelled a man who stands |
Louise | |
| Near a greasy grill all day long? |
Louise | |
| He smells like grease and fear |
Louise | |
| Grease and fear |
Tina, Gene, & Louise | |
| Grease and fear |
Tina, Gene, & Louise | |
| Have you ever met a woman who sleeps |
Louise | |
| Near a man who smells like grease and fear? |
Louise | |
| She smiles a lot |
Louise | |
| Just to pretend |
Tina, Gene, & Louise | |
| She doesn't mind the smell |
Tina, Gene, & Louise | |
| But you know that she minds the smell (Oh, she does) |
Louise; (Tina & Gene) | |
| How can you not mind the smell of |
Louise | |
| Grease and fear? |
Louise |
Bob's Buskers version[]
The Bob's Buskers version of "Grease and Fear" is covered by Jack Black, John Kimbrough, Scott Seiver, and John Spiker. It is also the End Credits Sequence version of the song in "Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening."
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Release[]
On September 26, 2025, two days before the premiere of "Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening," Billboard released an article for the Bob's Buskers cover of "Grease and Fear," sharing the music video for it from the Behind Bob's Burgers YouTube channel. Black covers the song with Kimbrough, Seiver, and Spiker.[2][3]
Description[]
The music video features Black, Kimbrough, Seiver, and Spiker on a dark stage illuminated by spotlights, with the musicians on cylindrical podiums of different heights. Kimbrough plays the guitar, Seiver plays the drums, and John Spiker plays the bass. Everyone but Black wears yellow unitards underneath burger suits resembling Gene's, while Black wears a white unitard with a cape with rhinestones on it that make a burger. Singing burgers that sing as a chorus and provide background vocals are on similar platforms.
The video starts with a chorus of the burgers singing, and the musicians abruptly play their instruments as their podiums rise and Black's rises from the ground. When Black is out, he starts singing with a microphone as the musicians play, making his way to a podium with some of the singing burgers as the burgers start jumping as the song speeds up as Black actively dances for the rest of the song until the music slows down at line 20 until its end, where Black stands as he sings as floating burgers surround Black.
Lyrics[]
| # | "Grease and Fear" | Singers |
|---|
| There was once a man who dreamed a dream |
Black | |
| A dream of burgers |
Black & Burgers | |
| Of beef, tomatoes, lettuce, and some buns (Ooh, ooh, ooh) |
Black; (Burgers) | |
| But sometimes, dreaming burger dreams |
Black | |
| And dreams of burgers |
Black & Burgers | |
| Can make your burger dreamer come undone |
Black | |
| Not talking well-done |
Black | |
| Not talking medium well-done |
Black | |
| We're saying burger dreams can make you come undone |
Black | |
| Have you ever smelled a man who stands |
Black | |
| Near a greasy grill all day long? (Near a greasy grill) |
Black; (Burgers) | |
| He smells like grease and fear |
Black | |
| Grease and fear |
Black | |
| Grease and fear! |
Black | |
| Have you ever met a woman who sleeps |
Black | |
| Near a man who smells like grease and fear? (smells like grease and fear) |
Black; (Burgers) | |
| She smiles a lot |
Black | |
| Just to pretend |
Black | |
| She doesn't mind the smell (the smell) |
Black; (Burgers) | |
| But you know there's another smell |
Black | |
| And that's the smell of Bob and Linda's dreams |
Black | |
| And Bob's B.O... |
Black |
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Trivia[]
- The Bob's Buskers cover is the only one to feature in an episode.
- The Bob's Buskers cover of the song is the first video uploaded on the Behind Bob's Burgers YouTube channel since November 22, 2018, when it released the Bob's Buskers cover of "Saving the Bird." It is also the first video uploaded on the channel when it changed its name to Bob's Burgers Side Orders.[3]
- Kimbrough, Seiver, and Spiker previously worked with Black under his band Tenacious D. Kimbrough produced the band's Rize of the Fenix album, and Seiver and Spiker act as additional and touring members for the band.
- On September 29, 2025, supervising director Bernard Derriman shared rough boards for the Bob's Buskers music video.[4]
- On September 29, 2025, retake director Erin Humiston shared an animation progression for the Bob's Buskers music video.[5] He shared another October 13, 2025.[6]
References[]
- ↑ https://youtu.be/WXaK6YOjRFg
- ↑ https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/jack-black-bobs-burgers-300th-episode-grease-fear-music-video-1236075406/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://youtu.be/u5L7n3veUKU
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/DPM1CJDk1P2/
- ↑ https://youtu.be/6N8Cis1Uhqk
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ef0wA7DNGM