Tina Belcher

Tina Ruth Belcher[1] is the oldest daughter of Bob Belcher and Linda Belcher and the older sister of Gene Belcher and Louise Belcher. She is in eighth grade.[2]

She is a hopeless romantic yet easily influenced person with a powerful sex drive and minimal social skills. In Crawl Space, she likes horses, butts, zombies, boys and writing erotic fiction about movies and her life. She attends Wagstaff School with her siblings.

Appearance
Just like the rest of the Belcher Family, Tina has tan skin, a black bowl-hair cut that has a yellow barrette on the right side, except when she operates as her alter ego (Food Truckin') and blue eyes. Like Linda Belcher, Tina's eyesight is impaired and she wears glasses to correct the problem. Her height is 4'9"[3].

Her usual attire is a light blue t-shirt, a navy blue skirt, white tube socks with a red stripe and black high-top sneakers that resemble Chuck Taylor All-Stars. In more formal situations, Tina wears a purple dress and black shoes. She sleeps in a light purple top with grey bottoms and occasionally slippers.

Her winter attire usually is simply a purple sweatshirt and scarf over her usual blue skirt, but in "Dr. Yap", when they are skiing, she wears a magenta coat and ski pants. When out at night in "The Land Ship", while playing Cupid in "The Gene and Courtney Show", and while at horse camp in "The Horse Rider-er", she wears long blue pants instead of her skirt.

Personality
Tina's personality is a quirky "every-girl" transitioning from childhood to adolescence. The child in her still clings onto her love for horses, rainbows, and zombies while her inner teenager calls her to fantasize about zombies making out (which she claims is caused by seeing "Night of the Living Dead" at too young an age), and writing her feelings/activities in her diary. She also writes erotic fiction about her friends, acquaintances, and other people's works, and constantly thinks about her primary crush, Jimmy Pesto, Jr.. She develops fleeting crushes anyone she deems cute - including an entire baseball team of twenty-five, for example.

A defining aspect of Tina's personality is her intense, precocious interest in sex and relationships. However, this is shown to be an innocent, age-appropriate interest. The extent of her precociousness is being a boy crazy teen with a love of butts.

Tina's undoubted boy-craziness is a plot element in many episodes, often getting her into zany situations chasing unrequited or even oblivious crushes. The issue is addressed directly in Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now, wherein at first Tina denies being boy-crazy, she eventually accepts it as nothing to be ashamed of.

Tina is very well intention, but socially awkward. When voting who would serve a customer they thought was a child molester in "Human Flesh," Bob says they shouldn't let Tina serve him because she is bad with customers. Louise says that it isn't her fault because she's autistic, but Bob quickly says Tina isn't autistic. She displays poor social skills like prolonged groaning when under pressure, hiding under tables, naivety, muted emotional expression, speaking in a monotone, believing everything she hears, having a very small range of interests and topics and taking things too literally.

Also, Tina doesn't express emotions very clearly. Even when times are rough and she's under tremendous amounts of (often self-induced) pressure, her voice is always flat and without inflection. Even her groans sound disinterested.

Tina has a strong conscience and sense of right and wrong. She believes in following rules and is conscious of how her actions affect others. When she crashes a car and helps Bob lie to an insurance company and then accidentally burns down a man's house in "Tinarannosaurus Wrecks", she is consumed with guilt until she convinces Bob to tell the truth.

Despite this, Tina is shown to have moments of extreme selfishness, often the result of getting swept up in something. Prioritizing her wants at the expense at of others feelings, and will even display a cognitive dissonance when her selfish behavior is pointed out to her. However, she is at heart a good person who eventually recognizes her bad behavior and makes amends.

Tina sometimes displays quite a bit of confidence and self-worth, and often learns lessons about self-esteem during the family's adventures. For example, she initially conforms to the peer-pressure of shaving her legs, but regrets it when she reflects on how she did it for the wrong reasons. As she is discussing self-confidence with her dad, she says that she believed that she was beautiful and became so and that he should do the same. She considers herself to be a "smart, strong, sensual woman" and embraces her transition into adulthood.

Despite having trouble with Math in "Can't Buy Me Math", Tina is shown as a good student and a "Star Hall Monitor" ("Midday Run"). She loves to write, often in her diary, and has written so much fan-fiction that she now writes "erotic friend-fiction", which stars her friends, and erotic holiday stories. According to Louise in "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?", Tina is "better on the page."