You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

This episode contains explicit language.

Lauren Bouchard is the creator of the animated TV comedy, Bob's Burgers, currently in its fourth season on Fox.

In addition to being the co-executive producer and showrunner, Lauren also composed the show's opening theme.

I interviewed Lauren in his office, where his desk is surrounded by musical instruments.

Coming up, he talks about which ones went into the theme, and the emotions he wanted to evoke with each of them.

Plus a few thoughts from cast members, John Benjamin and Eugene Merman.

And Lauren Bouchard and I, this is me talking about the Bob's Burgers theme song.

So I created the show, I guess it was 2010, I always knew I wanted to write the theme song to Bob's Burgers,

partly because when you give people a piece of work, animated comedy, to me, it sort of feels appropriate that you should also have your hand in the music.

It kind of marries the voice of the thing together, I think, if you do it right.

While we were working on the pilot and the early development phases, I was working on the theme music.

I knew it was something that I could grow alongside the show, the earliest version of the show, which was a 12-minute demo that they paid for us to do in about 2010.

I love making this music, so much of the music is almost as if kids made it.

Maybe the best part of that experience is there are adults hearing it who are essentially being invited to hear it, the way kids hear it.

I stumbled across the ukulele in probably about 2005 or 2006, I literally stumbled across one at a flea market, and it lit me up, and it was very exciting.

I knew I'd found something that I'd probably been waiting for my whole life, which was the instrument that fit my hands and my ears and my sensibility.

Before that, I'd just been sort of lost, you know, a little bit of a keyboard player and just kind of a dilatant.

And I still am, but the ukulele is a great instrument for a dilatant, for a hack.

It's wonderful, because in a way, you really shouldn't overthink the ukulele.

I mean, it's just a simple and humble and happy little instrument.

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