As Bob’s Burgers hits its 100th episode, it’s worth looking at how far the show has come since its humble debut in 2011. Or, more precisely, how far it hasn’t come. It still hasn’t enjoyed the culture-eating ubiquity of The Simpsons or Family Guy, nor has it provided endless fodder for memes as King of the Hill has. Rather, it’s sat consistently at fourth or fifth place in ratings besides the Seth MacFarlane and Matt Groening juggernauts with which it rubs elbows on Fox.

Bob’s biggest cultural export remains Tina, the oldest child of the show’s central Belcher family. She’s something of a feminist icon, an alternately awkward and confident 13-year-old unafraid of slathering her schoolmates with the female gaze. But Tina’s stagnated as a character since the writers gradually brought her out of her shell in the show’s first few seasons. Several episodes from this last season hint that her longtime crush Jimmy Jr. isn’t the right man for her after all and that perhaps she should focus more on his fart-loving friend Zeke. But for the most part, she’s just doing what she’s always been doing these days, and Tina-mania has died down.

This last season, the show’s big project has been Louise, the youngest, most mischievous and arguably smartest Belcher. She tore through early seasons like a fireball, causing wanton destruction and chaos in her wake. But she’s developed something of a conscience recently, though perhaps she’s not entirely sure what a conscience is yet — she described it as “this weird feeling” in “Lice Things Are Lice.” This development came to a head in the sixth-season finale, “Glued, Where’s My Bob,” where Louise’s regret at accidentally gluing her father to the toilet (god, I love this show) forms an entire story arc by itself. The littlest Belcher is growing up. 

Middle child Gene’s still mostly a repository of fart jokes and esoteric pop culture references. Unfortunately, one of his most compelling early traits — his gender-fluid expression — has been toned down. “The Gene And Courtney Show” also hinted at a romance with his classmate Courtney, whom he finds annoying and was pressured into courting back in season three. A lot of fans took Gene as queer, and I for one was a bit disappointed that he’s so far straight. More egregious is the fact that Gene’s fallen for his former enemy, which reeks too much of the untrue and potentially harmful “if a boy and a girl don’t like each other they must be in love” trope.

Now that the kids have grown up a little, I suspect the show’s next big project will be the parents. The parents’ private lives are still largely unexplored; most of the time, they’re just dicking around the restaurant. There are plenty of relationships still unexplored, including Bob’s friendship with the mysterious Marshmallow and Linda’s with her outrageous hairdresser Gretchen. Fifth-season standout “Eat, Spray, Linda” also hinted at the rich private life Linda leads outside the restaurant. It’d be a shame if that all turned out to be a one-episode punchline.

The mysteries the show has yet to explore suggest there’s no shortage of future plots for this show and that Bob won’t be going to space or working as a soccer referee anytime soon. Bob’s has been renewed for seventh and eighth seasons, so there’s years of plots to come. And it’s a sign of a great show when it’s less worrying that the show will run out of plots than that it won’t have enough time to explore all the directions it could potentially take.