Bob’s Burgers Cooks Up a Panel and a Signing at D23 2026
The Belcher family gets its own hour in Anaheim, with a Friday panel at the Backlot Stage and an autograph signing right after at Talent Central.
Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld
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D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event opens today, August 14, 2026, and runs through August 16 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and the Belcher family has landed a spot right in the middle of opening day. Bob’s Burgers is getting its own hour on stage, followed by a chance for fans to meet the people behind the show in person.
On Friday, August 14, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., the Backlot Stage hosts a panel built for the show’s fans, and the title alone is enough to make longtime viewers smile. It is called “Lettuce Show You How We Make Bob’s Burgers!”, a fitting name for a series that has spent years finding a pun in every burger of the day.
Order up! The Emmy-winning Bob’s Burgers creative team takes you from script to screen through a live demonstration featuring voice cast, live drawing, storytelling insights, and a closer look at how they bring the episodes you know and love to life.
That description promises a full hour of behind-the-scenes storytelling. Fans can expect a walk through the process of turning a script into a finished episode, with members of the voice cast joining the conversation and an artist drawing live as the panel unfolds. It is billed as a look at how the Emmy winning creative team actually builds the episodes fans have followed for years, from the first table read to the final frame.
That kind of process focused panel tends to mean a lot to Bob’s Burgers fans in particular. The show has always taken visible pride in its craft, from the hand drawn character work to the running joke of a different pun filled burger special in nearly every episode. Hearing the people who build those jokes and drawings talk through their own process, live and on stage, gives fans a rare look at the care that goes into keeping the Belcher family funny week after week.
Right after the panel wraps, the celebration continues a short walk away. An autograph signing for Bob’s Burgers is scheduled for 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. at Talent Central, giving fans who just watched the panel a chance to meet members of the team in person and walk away with a signature to remember the day by. For many attendees, that back to back scheduling makes for one of the tidiest fan experiences of the whole weekend, a panel and a signing without much of a gap in between.
For anyone newer to the world of Bob’s Burgers, the show follows Bob Belcher, his wife Linda, and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise, as they run a small burger restaurant and try to keep it afloat through one absurd family adventure after another. It is a 20th Television animated series, and it airs on Disney-owned networks while streaming on both Disney+ and Hulu, which means new fans can always catch up on past seasons before diving into whatever comes next for the family.
The Belchers also made the leap to the big screen with The Bob’s Burgers Movie, released in 2022 and given a proper Hollywood send-off at its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre that May. The film gave the family a full length adventure, complete with a mystery under the restaurant and a summer that Bob and Linda could not afford to lose, and it let longtime fans see the show they loved rendered in a new widescreen format for the first time.
That mix of small screen charm and big screen ambition is part of why Bob’s Burgers fits so naturally into D23 2026. This year’s event has been framed by Disney as a look at where the company has been and where it is headed next, spread across three days in Anaheim. A show that has spent well over a decade making people laugh, and that has picked up Emmy wins along the way, is right at home in that kind of lineup.
For fans planning their Friday at the Anaheim Convention Center, the schedule lines up nicely. Grab a seat at the Backlot Stage at noon for the panel, stay through the live drawing and the behind-the-scenes stories, and then head over to Talent Central by 1:15 for the signing. It is a tidy little block of time built entirely around one restaurant family that has been serving up laughs since long before some of D23’s younger attendees were even watching cartoons, and it is exactly the kind of warm, fan-first programming that makes the event feel like a family reunion.
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