The eclectic wharf of Bob's Burgers is full of all manner of quirky and irreverent characters besides the actual Belcher Family. The Belchers, whether they want to or not, have gotten to know a lot of people in their humble, beachside town; but if there's anyone that they tend to see a little more often than they care to, it's the school's counselor, Phillip Frond.
Phillip Frond is a nasally, no nonsense type of administrator who cares more about the glory of education than actually teaching. Plenty of his disciplinary actions and experimental teaching have gone well past the bounds of what an administrator should do; but seeing as how the Belcher children haven't burned the school down (yet), he has done what's best a little more often than the kids care to say.
Overboard: Taking The Belchers To See If Their Dad Was Dead
The episode "Crawl Space" was both a fine introduction to how obsessed and weird Bob can be with family minutiae. When his in-laws come to visit, he does the only rational things and hides within his restaurant's walls. Taking advantage of the situation, Louise pretended as if her father had died and took kids to see their now haunted home.
With some kids understandably traumatized by the situation, Mr. Frond decided to look into the situation but did so very poorly. As Linda's mother eloquently pointed out, Mr. Frond ended up taking the kids out of school in the middle of the day and drove them fast down the street without seat belts just to investigate whether or not their father was actually dead.
Justified: Taking Down The Kids' Wagstaff Stories
As hard of a time as Mr. Frond may give the Belchers, it's not as if they've been total angels at Wagstaff. Evident in the episode "The Frond Files," they kind of go out of their way to make fun of their school counselor.
Here, each of the kids submitted a story about why they loved Wagstaff; and either in a fit of parallel thinking or a coordinated assault, they all decided to paint Mr. Frond and the school itself as ridiculous villains. While Bob and Linda were naturally supportive of their kids, they didn't do any favors for Frond or the school who were understandably offended by the stories.
Overboard: Trying To Suspend Zeke For Cheering Up His Grandmother
Zeke is the resident delinquent of Wagstaff's halls. While Louise has gotten into her fair share of trouble for pranks, Zeke is like a mini-tornado just trying to run through as many kids and walls as possible. It's unsurprising that he's clashed with Mr. Frond a few times. This is clear in "Midday Run" when his attempts to steal the school's mascot costume got him suspended.
Unbeknownst to Mr. Frond, however, is that Zeke was actually trying to get the costume to entertain his sick grandmother before surgery. Despite the kind intent, Mr. Frond didn't believe any of it and just generalized Zeke as this kid with an uncontrollable tendency to do bad things.
Justified: Disqualifying Louise From The School Costume Contest
While it's clear why the Belcher kids don't like Mr. Frond, they really don't try too hard to get him to like them. In the episode "Teen-a-Witch," the kids reveal that Wagstaff has an annual costume contest for Halloween; and while Tina eagerly prepares her entry, Louise is sadly but unsurprisingly disqualified.
This is because during last year's contest, she went out of her way to dress as Mr. Frond and mocked him on stage. While cute, she did explicitly try to disrespect Mr. Frond; and if she were allowed to compete again, she would've likely done the same this year.
Overboard: Stealing Votes As A Child
Mr. Frond likes to advocate for the straight-and-narrow style of school living, but even he has his shortcomings when it comes to academic honesty. When the Belcher kids break into the school's long-abandoned ceramics room to steal some pottery, they stumble upon a vase filled with what appeared to be ballots.
As it turns out, Frond tried to run for class secretary a long time ago in Wagstaff. For obvious reasons, he didn't get the popular vote. Backed against a wall, Frond stole some of his opponent's ballots so that he could win, a dark secret that he obsessively tried to keep even as an adult.
Justified: Creating The ABS Program
In "Spaghetti Western and Meatballs," Mr. Frond starts a new conflict resolution group to promote a special technique called A.B.S. that is meant to teach kids how to more effectively communicate. While a little pandering, it certainly fits the theme of an episode that was all about poor communication and conflict resolution.
With Bob and Louise seemingly drifting apart and Gene getting into an annoying showdown with a kid named Choo-Choo, the A.B.S. approach or, at least, its spirit got everybody to talk through their problems in the end instead of starting a (second) food fight.
Overboard: Making The Kids Perform In A Music Video
Mr. Frond does often punish the Belcher children, but he's never actually hurt them in any explicit way. With the exception of a few confiscations, he's mostly just talked down to and or gave detention to the Belcher kids. However, one of the worst things that he's ever done to the kids wasn't even a punishment. It was a favor.
After pressuring Gene, Louise, and Tina to perform in his empathy music video, he accidentally lets the video leak, leaving the three's performance to spread across the school. While he initially just wanted a fun project for an upcoming counselor convention, he inadvertently ruined the reputations of three kids who don't need any more targets than they already do.
Justified: Creating Ga-Ga Ball
To be fair, Mr. Frond did go overboard with this project towards the end. It did, however, begin with some good intentions and gave some much needed self-esteem to some kids that really needed it. In "Y Tu Ga-Ga Tambien," Frond invents a new game that has kids swat at a ball at each other's legs. It was meant to be a safe and easy game that anyone could get into. And it did.
"Ga-Ga ball" swept through the entire school, becoming the most addictive trend in the halls. Its best quality was the fact that it gave small kids, who typically have the worst odds in sports, a time to shine. Though he'd eventually build too many and create a new, social hierarchy, Ga-Ga ball itself was something that the kids genuinely enjoyed.
Overboard: Vandalizing His Own Dolls To Avoid A Field Trip
In one fell swoop, Mr. Frond lied to, tried to frame, and punished his students for a crime that they didn't commit. In the episode "The Silence of the Louise," the teachers promised the students a trip to the waterpark if they were able to read a combined 500 books. When the kids surprisingly did, the teachers panicked.
They didn't actually expect Wagstaff children of all people to actually read and spent the money for the field trip on coffee maker pods. With few options, Mr. Frond staged a school crisis and destroyed his own, therapy dolls. Blaming the kids for it, he threatened to cancel the trip if no one stood forward, knowing full well that no one actually would.
Justified: Using A Fashion Show For Conflict Resolution
While Mr. Frond may sound like the boy who cried wolf when it comes to school dilemmas, it doesn't mean that the kids themselves don't have actual problems. When Tammy and Tina coincidentally end up wearing the same bracelet to school, they start a huge fight that ends with a fire alarm being pulled and Jimmy, Jr. dancing around with a fire extinguisher.
With some not so subtle inception from Louise, Mr. Frond devises an entire fashion competition meant to get the kids to work together. While they initially began competing against each other like wolves, the fashion show does eventually get the kids to hash things for a common goal, getting out of school early.