Gassy Linda

Fun, Gassy, Thick, MILF, Like the rest of the family, Linda has tan skin and black hair. She wears a red-orange long-sleeved shirt. Until "The Runway Club," Linda's top was a Henley shirt with two buttons, but now, it's a v-neck. In addition, she wears red cat glasses (inspired by Sally Jessy Raphael's[12]), blue jeans, and yellow shoes with socks. When working in the restaurant, she often wears a waist apron with a pen in the pocket on the right.

Personality Happy-go-lucky, enthusiastic, funny, and friendly, Linda supports her husband Bob's dream through thick and thin. She has a joyful enthusiasm for whatever she undertakes, from dinner theater ("Hamburger Dinner Theater") to synchronized swimming ("Synchronized Swimming") to road rage ("Food Truckin'").

Linda's first song about Thanksgiving. ("An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal")

Linda is incredibly outgoing, flamboyant, and feminine and has absurd obsessions with performing arts and dramatic tradition. She occasionally takes extreme measures to pursue these and encourages her family/bystanders to join her in enacting them. In "Nice-Capades," Linda helps Tina, Gene, and Louise with a scheme since it lets her make costumes for them and see them sing. She is also very extroverted and is often rambling or very talkative. Linda sings most of all the characters and can break into song at any moment. In "Hamburger Dinner Theater," she lies to Bob, telling him she is going to Pickles while going to see a pirate-themed dinner theater show. Linda may have seen the show before, as she sang along with the actors. Linda also loves chanting, especially in picketing, because she can chant in public like that.

Sometimes, her passion for performance arts and drama can irritate her husband and children. In "All That Gene," she kept bugging Gene when she found out he became a cheerleader, upsetting Gene enough to yell at her. In "Hawk & Chick," Linda brags to Tina about the number of roles in a movie their family is dubbing since she has four while Tina only has three. But after Linda finds out Tina has a significant role in the film (therefore, having more lines), Linda keeps trying to speak over Tina and take over her role, even at the showing for the movie. It can also annoy other people. In "Carpe Museum," protests chase Linda away after she tries to make them take off their pants for a chant.

She is lenient and supportive toward her whole family while still garnering their love and respect. She is incredibly kind to her emotionally unstable sister, Gayle, encouraging Bob to have a pretend affair with her to raise her self-esteem ("Dr. Yap") and allowing Gayle to hang many anus-themed paintings in the restaurant ("Art Crawl").

Linda trying to make her kids do chores after a phone call with her mom. ("Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral")

While usually open-minded and accepting of others, she has strong opinions and expectations that she will force onto others regardless of their feelings, such as renting Louise's room to Teddy without talking to her. The only things that waver her are online parent blogs ("Mother Daughter Laser Razor") and her parents. In "Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral," Linda has a phone call with her, and Gloria expresses disappointment at Linda for not making her children do chores at home. The same day of the call, she tries to make her children do chores. Her servility to her parents lessens after this episode, however. In a conversation with Louise, Linda decides she should be the only one to determine how to raise her children.

Despite this, Linda is a pushover, always easily convinced by her kids to do all the work on their school projects, but she doesn't think she's a pushover ("Synchronized Swimming"). Louise, in particular, can make Linda do whatever she wants. For example, she has her get the family together for a family meeting ("The Kids Run the Restaurant"), to get her to be the kid's swimming coach ("Synchronized Swimming"), and to sell Bob's espresso machine ("The Unnatural").

While Linda is usually fairly laid-back regarding how she raises her kids, she is not above punishing them when they act disrespectfully or push her too far. She has sent both Tina and Louise to their rooms for talking back to her ("Bad Tina" & "Mother Daughter Laser Razor") and threatened to give Louise a large number of chores if she ruined Gayle's dinner party date with Phillip Frond ("The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her Lover"). Linda can sometimes be petty for these punishments, such as grounding all three of her kids after they caused her to have an embarrassing experience at the supermarket ("The Gayle Tales"). Sometimes, she acts condescendingly to her family members to prevent them from realizing her grudges or seeing something wrong, but they often do. An example is when she asks Jen to babysit her kids in "Purple Rain-Union" while she and Bob go to her high school reunion rather than Tina, claiming that it was because of the long hours they'd be gone. However, Tina surmises and quickly accuses her mom of not trusting her to babysit because she let Gene eat all the Chunky Chocolate Shim Shams in the apartment and throw up in her bed, which leads to Linda throwing out her lie and bluntly admitting her daughter's right. Linda also acts this way to Gayle, like how she tries to make her sister's vandalized paintings seem less of a big deal by claiming "all the best artists get censored" ("Art Crawl").

Occasionally, Linda's beliefs will cause her to act irrationally, including around Tina, Gene, and Louise. She usually ends up feeling guilty and thinks she may be a bad mother after her plans fail and her kids react negatively. However, Bob often insists that she tries her best and knows how much she loves their kids ("All That Gene" & "Worms of In-Rear-ment").

S5e6 Father of the Bob "Here, Bob, have some Christmas magic!" ("Father of the Bob")

She also has an alcohol problem, specifically wine. Linda brings alcohol everywhere, even when it's not appropriate, even when she's chaperoning at the school, like her children's field trips ("Carpe Museum") or school dances ("Two for Tina"). According to her, however, she "doesn't get drunk. She just has fun ("Bad Tina")."

S2e4 Burger Boss Linda ♪ If you're not real, then how come I feel this way? Little babies ♪ ("Burgerboss")

Linda is obsessed with baby-related things, so much so that they may even jeopardize her, her family, and others. She buys miniature water bottles in "Dawn of the Peck," and Linda still has the ornaments Tina, Gene, and Louise made as babies ("The Bleakening"). When Linda loses the trinkets, Bob suggests their kids could make new ones. However, she says, "I don't want new ornaments, Bob. The ornaments from when they were young and cute, not from now."

In "Burgerboss," Linda reminds Bob about how he had to take their credit card away from her because she kept buying a bunch of porcelain baby dolls. She babysits Sidecar, Critter, and Mudflap's baby in "Wag the Hog" and passes him off as her child. Linda didn't even know if anyone would pay her: the previous babysitter had just put Linda in charge since they came to Critter and Mudflap's house, and the mother of three agreed. The last babysitter warned Linda about Sidecar, who proved to be a dangerous beast to Linda, other children, and other mothers at a baby center Linda took him to. She also buys a Dutch baby pancake at a diner in "Christmas in the Car," despite being with her family in the middle of the night, not to mention a winter storm.

Linda teaches Tina how to mislead her class and teacher by tap dancing. ("Li'l Hard Dad")

Her foolhardiness stems from her childhood. As a kid, she burned many buildings and stole from many stores ("Stop! Or My Mom Will Sleuth"), and that's probably why her daughter Louise also has a passion for arson and stealing. She also acknowledges that she's dangerous. When Bob tells her that Louise got her 'crazy' from Linda's side of the family, Linda agrees and cackles ("The Kids Run Away"). Sometimes, she tries to teach her children about her old habits. In "Li'l Hard Dad," Linda tries to teach Tina how to cheat in a book report, admitting that she never read any books she was supposed to read in school. In the same episode, Linda also teaches Louise how to get out of a speeding ticket. Sometimes, she gives her 'advice' to other people, like Teddy. In "Frigate Me Knot," Linda tells Teddy that he should go to his navy reunion to show his teasers that they didn't win, but only because people also teased Linda as a kid. The only reason she got back at her bullies was because she "called them 2:00 in the morning every night for a year and pretended [she] was a killer."