10 Secret TV Pilot Episodes You Didn't Know Existed
5. Bob's Burgers - Daniel, Gene And Louis
The three Belcher siblings in the show Bob's Burger's are one of the highlights of the cartoon. Louis, the youngest, is a mischievous, smarter-than-her-years anarchist that constantly gets the group into trouble.
Gene, the middle child, is a mommy's boy with rhythm in his bones and food in his belly. And Tina, the eldest, is a sad sack, boy-crazy tween that lets her younger siblings rule her life more often than not.
But the original pilot featured a slightly different combination of siblings. Tina was initially written as Daniel, the Belcher's eldest son. Weirdly though, his pilot storyline was exactly the same as Tina's, with Daniel having a mysterious rash in his crotch area. The actor that played Daniel carried on with the show as Tina, so despite common belief, the character wasn't intentionally gender-bend cast.
Other differences stemmed from the fact that the creators had next to no money to create the cartoon and so it was drawn very roughly, with the characters having wonky eyes and genital-looking noses. Another disturbing feature was that Bob wore a tank top, creepily showcasing his extremely hairy body to the world.
It's also fun to note that before the first pilot was made, and the show was just a concept, the creators concieved the Belcher family as cannibals, which was obviously shut down but it did inspire the plot for the pilot episode "Human-Flesh".