Burger Fool: Difference between revisions

** It's called Loteri-ya. After Bravo and Papillon start eating there, it is dubbed Freak Burger.

* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', Konata tells Kagami and Tsukasa she got a summer job, but doesn't tell them what it is until they ask the next day. A worker at a fast food restaurant is one of the jobs they imagine, but can't imagine her doing well at. At least, the "dealing with people" aspect.

 

 

* The "Fat Boy" restaurant chain in ''[[Give Me Liberty]]'', which wages war using ''giant mascot mecha'' for farmland to raise cattle.

* At one point, [[Wonder Woman]] worked at a "Taco Whiz." She took it very seriously.

* The fast food chain "O'Shaughnessy's" has made multiple appearances across various [[DC Comics]]. It's been stated to be a major rival to Big Belly Burgers.

 

* The 1997 comedy film, ''[[Good Burger]]'', which was based on the recurring sketch Nickelodeon's ''[[All That]].'' Featuring loveable idiot Ed who loves his job as much as his brain can allow, and his snarky sidekick, Dexter, The Good Burger is the epitome of Burger Fool. As far as fast food jobs go, the employees weren't treated badly and they all seemed to like each other and Good Burger. Their rival Mondo Burger, on the other hand, treated their employees as slaves and had a hellish boss.

* Musical horror comedy, ''[[Poultrygeist|Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead]]'' - When a Ku Klux Klan funded military-themed fried chicken chain, The Chicken Bunker, builds a restaurant build over an ancient Indian burial ground, the chickens killed take their revenge by taking "possession" of the customers and turning them into "fowl" zombies. The restaurant is meant to be the ultimate example of [[Burger Fool]] (despite being a chicken fast-food restaurant). Includes necrophiliac chicken humping, shit-stained restrooms, skirt wearing senior male employees, masturbation in chicken grinders, delicious vats of chicken beaks and claws, cash register humping (lot of sex in here isn't there?), chicken buckets slathered with human waste and excrement, vomiting, ravenous drumsticks, acid nuggets, and the aforementioned zombie chickens.

[cuts to employee dumping skeletal human corpses in a common dumpster] }}

* The main character of ''[[Sex Drive]]'' works at a bizarre, Mexican-themed donut kiosk in the mall. Part of the job included a huge, slightly racist mascot costume. His close friends didn't hold it against him, but the punk kids at the mall would take advantage of his limited vision in the suit to stick a dildo onto the front of his costume as he wandered around.

* In one episode of ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'', Doogie tries to prove to Vinnie that he can survive working in a "degrading, dead-end" fast food job (“Burger Baby”), [[Ordinary High School Student|just like any “normal teenager” his own age.]] As a genius doctor, it should be undoubtedly easy for him, right?...Wrong! In fact, it’s a lot more difficult than he realizes.

* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'':

* In season 2 of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Lily takes a job as a waitress in a Hawaïan restaurant; she has to wear a local costume and welcome customers (among whom are her friends) with "Aloha".

* Fatso Burger, Eric's temporary job in season 1 of ''[[That 70s Show]]'' fits this trope to a T. The place itself is mediocre, he has a silly outfit, and his boss is embarrassing. He's afraid to quit because his hardass father Red wants him to learn responsibility and all that stuff, even though his girlfriend and mother both try hard to get him to quit. Eventually he does quit, and Red doesn't mind.

== Web Animation ==

* On ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', the fast-food restaurant "Blubb-O's", which may just consist of a non-sequitur-spouting drive-thru speaker box ("Sever your leg, please, it's the greatest day.") in the middle of nowhere. Coach Z wears a whale costume at one point, and mangles the speaker box's creepy catch phrase to make it ''creepier'' ("I'll chop off your legs!") The chain is evidently endorsed by a hip-hop artist who promotes their "Thick n' Nasty" burger. (EEEEEEEEUNGH!) Strong Bad also wears a hot-dog-shaped "sad clown" mascot costume (the "Crying Clown-Dog") at one point to advertise Bubs' Concession Stand.

'''Bubs''': Oh! Pleasure doing business with you, then. }}

 

* Krusty Burger from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', complete with pimple-faced geeky teens working there (and, in one case, an elderly man [Grampa Simpson]). [[Squick|The "secret sauce" is actually mayonnaise that's been left out in the sun all day.]] And as one character points out, the name "Krusty Burger" itself isn't all that appetizing. The boondocks outside Springfield are apparently home to even less savory chains, with names like "Burger Place", "Skobo's", and "Dimwillie's".

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' had Nasty Burger which is frequently referenced, including a special where a ghost was threatening to kill all of Danny's loved ones by overheating the special nasty sauce (no, "overheating the special nasty sauce" is not an [[Unusual Euphemism]]) to kill them. The main character doesn't take a job there to learn any form of [[An Aesop]] or some such. Nope, it's just his [[Local Hangout]].

** There is one character who takes a job there, but it's done to show how bad off her family is financially

* In an episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'', Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl start working at McSpanky's. Ironically, [[Have a Gay Old Time|Skeet]], the Employee of the Month, considers Jimmy to be the idiot of the group, and forces him to stand outside the restaurant wearing a hamburger suit, repeating the phrase: "If you want cheap food with taste, put McSpanky's in your face."

* The waitresses in the resort restuarant in ''[[Stoked]]!'' have to dress in pirate wench costumes.

* An episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' had Buster and Babs working at Weenie Burger (the series' fast food parody), complete with the overbearing boss and Montana Max deciding to be the customer from Hell.

* Jeremy from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' works at Slushy Dawg, where their motto is "Slushy Dawg will never get any better", unless he's working at Slushy Burger, whose motto is "Pickles so green and meat so brown, Lunchtime's fun with Slushy the Clown!" Despite all this, they're both pretty nice places and Jeremy seems happy working there.

* In a flashback sequence in ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'', we learn that Duke briefly worked the drive-through of a fast food joint between high-school and the Army. Flint rubs it in when he isn't bragging about the tackle he'd landed on Duke at a football game that won his school a state championship. Subverted at the end of the scene when Flint sees Duke leaving for home on crutches; knowing the injury is his fault, he realizes he's being cruel and offers Duke a ride.