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** During Mac Tonight's job interview with Janine, Janine asks if he believes in magic. This is a nod to how [=McDonald's=] once had their advertisements featuring the Loving Spoonful song "Do You Believe in Magic" given the RepurposedPopSong treatment.
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** During Mac Tonight's job interview with Janine, Janine asks if he believes in magic. This is a nod to how [=McDonald's=] once had their advertisements featuring the Loving Spoonful Music/TheLovinSpoonful song "Do You Believe in Magic" given the RepurposedPopSong treatment.
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** During Mac Tonight's job interview with Janine, Janine asks if he believes in magic. This is a nod to how [=McDonald'a=] once had their advertisements featuring the Loving Spoonful song "Do You Believe in Magic" given the RepurposedPopSong treatment.
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** During Mac Tonight's job interview with Janine, Janine asks if he believes in magic. This is a nod to how [=McDonald'a=] [=McDonald's=] once had their advertisements featuring the Loving Spoonful song "Do You Believe in Magic" given the RepurposedPopSong treatment.
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* {{Manchild}}: Mayor [=McCheese=] is childlike in various aspects, most notably in that the first video shows him devouring a Happy Meal and complaining that he got the girl toy.
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* {{Manchild}}: Mayor [=McCheese=] is childlike in various aspects, most notably in that the first video shows him devouring a Happy Meal and complaining that he got the girl toy. He also giggles and says he "made a poot-poot" when Mac Tonight complains about him cutting one.
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* ParodyCommercial: ''[=McBusters=] 3'' features a commercial break where we are shown an ad for [=McBusters=] Cereal, which is really just fragments of burgers and fries with marshmallows.
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* ParodyCommercial: ''[=McBusters=] 3'' features a commercial break where we are shown an ad for [=McBusters=] Cereal, which is really just fragments of burgers and burgers, fries and [=McNuggets=] with marshmallows.
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* MythologyGag: Grimace first appears as a representation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man obsessed with milkshakes and cokes, then switches to being on the [=McBusters=]' side as a Louis Tully stand-in after he is defeated. This is a nod to how Grimace started out as a villain whose modus operandi was stealing [=McDonald=]'s drinks before eventually being retooled into a more benevolent character.
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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
** Janine Melnitz' appearance is based on how she was depicted in the earlier episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''.
** During Mac Tonight's job interview with Janine, Janine asks if he believes in magic. This is a nod to how [=McDonald'a=] once had their advertisements featuring the Loving Spoonful song "Do You Believe in Magic" given the RepurposedPopSong treatment.
** Grimace first appears as a representation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man obsessed with milkshakes and cokes, then switches to being on the [=McBusters=]' side as a Louis Tully stand-in after he is defeated. This is a nod to how Grimace started out as a villain whose modus operandi was stealing [=McDonald=]'s drinks before eventually being retooled into a more benevolentcharacter.character.
** [=McCheese=]'s food coma has him dream that he's in [=McDonaldland=], complete with sentient trees and friendly anthropomorphic fast food everywhere.
** Janine Melnitz' appearance is based on how she was depicted in the earlier episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''.
** During Mac Tonight's job interview with Janine, Janine asks if he believes in magic. This is a nod to how [=McDonald'a=] once had their advertisements featuring the Loving Spoonful song "Do You Believe in Magic" given the RepurposedPopSong treatment.
** Grimace first appears as a representation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man obsessed with milkshakes and cokes, then switches to being on the [=McBusters=]' side as a Louis Tully stand-in after he is defeated. This is a nod to how Grimace started out as a villain whose modus operandi was stealing [=McDonald=]'s drinks before eventually being retooled into a more benevolent
** [=McCheese=]'s food coma has him dream that he's in [=McDonaldland=], complete with sentient trees and friendly anthropomorphic fast food everywhere.
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* TheRealSpoofbusters: The series is essentially a spoof of the Ghostbusters films using [=McDonaldland=] characters.
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* MythologyGag: Grimace first appears as a representation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and switches to being on the [=McBusters=]' side as a Louis Tully stand-in after he is defeated. This is a nod to how Grimace started out as a villain before eventually being retooled into a more benevolent character.
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* MythologyGag: Grimace first appears as a representation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man obsessed with milkshakes and cokes, then switches to being on the [=McBusters=]' side as a Louis Tully stand-in after he is defeated. This is a nod to how Grimace started out as a villain whose modus operandi was stealing [=McDonald=]'s drinks before eventually being retooled into a more benevolent character.
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* MythologyGag: Grimace first appears as a representation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and switches to being on the [=McBusters=]' side as a Louis Tully stand-in after he is defeated. This is a nod to how Grimace started out as a villain before eventually being retooled into a more benevolent character.
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** Advertising/TheBurgerKing serves as the equivalent to Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'', with creator of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' Morgan Spurlock being the representation of Janosz Poha.
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** Advertising/TheBurgerKing serves as the equivalent to Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'' (and disguises himself as [[spoiler:Judge Wexler's counterpart]]), with creator of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' Morgan Spurlock being the representation of Janosz Poha.
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* AdaptationalLocationChange: While the ''Ghostbusters'' films took place in New York City, the third and final video ends with Mac Tonight indicating that the series takes place in Fresno, California.
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* InappropriateHunger: In ''[=McBusters=] 2'', [=McCheese=] remarks that witnessing the carnage caused by Grimace puking pink sludge into the sewers is making him hungry for [=McDonald's=] while also addressing that this is a serious situation and that he may need professional help for reacting to the disaster this way.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Birdie the Early Bird was as friendly as any other [=McDonaldland=] mascot, but here is reinterpreted as a demon [=McCheese=] dreams about in his food coma who initially appears beautiful before becoming scarier and vigorously pecking at [=McCheese=]'s groin.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: AdaptationalVillainy:
** The [=McNugget=] Buddies go from being harmless and amiable to bloodthirsty monsters who enjoy killing people.
** Birdie the Early Bird was as friendly as any other [=McDonaldland=] mascot, but here is reinterpreted as a demon [=McCheese=] dreams about in his food coma who initially appears beautiful before becoming scarier and vigorously pecking at [=McCheese=]'s groin.
** The [=McNugget=] Buddies go from being harmless and amiable to bloodthirsty monsters who enjoy killing people.
** Birdie the Early Bird was as friendly as any other [=McDonaldland=] mascot, but here is reinterpreted as a demon [=McCheese=] dreams about in his food coma who initially appears beautiful before becoming scarier and vigorously pecking at [=McCheese=]'s groin.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: ''[=McBusters=] 2'' shows one of the casualties of the fast food monsters being a bush of burgers slaughtering a dog, much to the horror of the dog's owner who gets [[BloodSplatteredInnocents covered in blood as he watches his pet's offscreen demise]].
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: ''[=McBusters=] 2'' The first video shows one of the casualties of the fast food monsters unleashed from Walter Peck forcing the shutdown of the [=McBusters'=] deep-frier being a bush of burgers slaughtering a dog, much to the horror of the dog's owner who gets [[BloodSplatteredInnocents covered in blood as he watches his pet's offscreen demise]].
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* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: In ''[=McBusters=] 3'', there is a spoof of ABC's After These Messages bumpers where the fire hydrant shoots the dog in the face.
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** Advertising/TheBurgerKing serves as the equivalent to Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'', with creator of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' Morgan Spurlock being the representation of Janos Poha.
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** Advertising/TheBurgerKing serves as the equivalent to Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'', with creator of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' Morgan Spurlock being the representation of Janos Janosz Poha.
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* DemotedToExtra: Of all the [=McDonaldland=] mascots featured in the series, Birdie the Early Bird gets the least amount of focus, as her only appearance is as a hallucination in Mayor [=McCheese=]'s food coma in ''[=McBusters=] 3''.
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* DemotedToExtra: Of all the [=McDonaldland=] mascots featured in the series, Birdie the Early Bird gets the least amount of focus, as her only appearance is as a hallucination in Mayor [=McCheese=]'s food coma in ''[=McBusters=] 3''. She doesn't even have any lines.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed. Ronald, [=McCheese=] and Hamburglar are still decent people for the most part, but are more prone to anger this time around. [=McCheese=] is the most notable due to punching Walter Peck unconscious to shut him up and yelling at Grimace to "shut the fuck up" when the latter complains about not being in the painting that results from defeating the Burger King.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed. Ronald, [=McCheese=] and Hamburglar are still decent people for the most part, but are more prone to anger this time around.around and occasionally engage in behavior unbecoming of fast food mascots aimed at children. [=McCheese=] is the most notable due to punching Walter Peck unconscious to shut him up and yelling at Grimace to "shut the fuck up" when the latter complains about not being in the painting that results from defeating the Burger King.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed. Ronald, [=McCheese=] and Hamburglar are still decent people for the most part, but are more prone to anger this time around.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed. Ronald, [=McCheese=] and Hamburglar are still decent people for the most part, but are more prone to anger this time around. [=McCheese=] is the most notable due to punching Walter Peck unconscious to shut him up and yelling at Grimace to "shut the fuck up" when the latter complains about not being in the painting that results from defeating the Burger King.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed. Ronald, [=McCheese=] and Hamburglar are still decent people for the most part, but are more prone to anger this time around.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Birdie the Early Bird was as friendly as any other [=McDonaldland=] mascot, but here is reinterpreted as a demon [=McCheese=] dreams about in his food coma who initially appears beautiful before becoming scarier and vigorously pecking at [=McCheese=]'s groin.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Birdie the Early Bird was as friendly as any other [=McDonaldland=] mascot, but here is reinterpreted as a demon [=McCheese=] dreams about in his food coma who initially appears beautiful before becoming scarier and vigorously pecking at [=McCheese=]'s groin.
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* AffectionateParody: In spite of all the violence and profanity, it is very clear that the series is intended as an enthusiastic tribute to the ''Ghostbusters'' films and the [=McDonaldland=] mascots.
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* AdaptedOut: In spite of being a send-up of the original ''Ghostbusters'' films, there are no representations of Gozer, Dana Barrett or Oscar.
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* AdaptedOut: In spite of being a send-up of the original ''Ghostbusters'' films, there are no representations of Gozer, Dana Barrett or Oscar. On the side of UsefulNotes/McDonalds mascots, there is no acknowledgement of Captain Crook, Officer Big Mac, Iam Hungry, Uncle O'Grimacey, the Professor or [=CosMc=].
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: ''[=McBusters=] 2'' shows one of the casualties of the fast food monsters being a bush of burgers slaughtering a dog, much to the horror of the dog's owner who gets [[BloodSplatteredInnocents covered in blood as he watches his pet's offscreen demise]].
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* EntitledBastard: Walter Peck in the first video insults the [=McBusters=] and has their equipment shut down despite their protests, then pleads for them to save him when he turns out to be wrong about the [=McBusters=] being phonies.
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* EntitledBastard: Walter Peck in the first video insults the [=McBusters=] and has their equipment shut down despite their protests, then pleads for them to save him when he turns out to be wrong about the [=McBusters=] being phonies. In response, [[TalkToTheFist McCheese punches him unconscious]].
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* Creator/Cameo: Creator/EricBauza, who voices Hamburglar, Grimace and a few others, appears in animated form among a crowd cheering on the [=McBusters=] in ''[=McBusters=] 3''.
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* Creator/Cameo: CreatorCameo: Creator/EricBauza, who voices Hamburglar, Grimace and a few others, appears in animated form among a crowd cheering on the [=McBusters=] in ''[=McBusters=] 3''.
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* MediumBlending: The series is traditionally animated in 2D, but the third video features use of a stop-motion bumper parodying ABC's After These Messages station IDs and a live-action ParodyCommercial for [=McBusters=] Cereal.
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* MediumBlending: The series is traditionally animated in 2D, but the third video features use of a stop-motion bumper parodying ABC's After These Messages station IDs [=IDs=] and a live-action ParodyCommercial for [=McBusters=] Cereal.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hamburglar's voice is blatantly Creator/EricBauza imitating Larry Fine of Film/TheThreeStooges.
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* BigEater: Mayor [=McCheese=] won't stop eating [=McDonald's=] food.
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** Mac Tonight takes Winston's role as the team's fourth member recruited sometime after the original three were active.
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** Mac Tonight takes Winston's Winston Zeddemore's role as the team's fourth member recruited sometime after the original three were active.
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'''[=McBusters=]''' is a trilogy of animated web shorts on Website/Channel101 created by Myke Chilian that serves as a mash-up of ''Franchise/Ghostbusters'' and the Advertising/McDonaldland mascots.
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'''[=McBusters=]''' is a trilogy of animated web shorts on Website/Channel101 created by Myke Chilian that serves as a mash-up of ''Franchise/Ghostbusters'' ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' and the Advertising/McDonaldland mascots.
* AdaptedOut: In spite of being a send-up of the original ''Ghostbusters'' films, there are no representations of Gozer, Dana Barrett or Oscar.
** The web series features a character named Frymer, who is a combo of both Slimer from ''Ghostbusters'' and the Fry Guys from the [=McDonaldland=] ads.
* EntitledBastard: Walter Peck in the first video insults the [=McBusters=] and has their equipment shut down despite their protests, then pleads for them to save him when he turns out to be wrong about the [=McBusters=] being phonies.
* ExtraLongEpisode: The first two videos last about five minutes, but ''[=McBusters=] 3'' runs for over twelve minutes.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Walter Peck yells coarse insults at the [=McBusters=] and forcibly orders for their machines to be shut off in spite of Hamburglar's insistence that doing so will cause trouble.
** Morgan Spurlock has a serious hate boner for the [=McBusters=] and sadistically relishes getting them in trouble.
* EntitledBastard: Walter Peck in the first video insults the [=McBusters=] and has their equipment shut down despite their protests, then pleads for them to save him when he turns out to be wrong about the [=McBusters=] being phonies.
* ExtraLongEpisode: The first two videos last about five minutes, but ''[=McBusters=] 3'' runs for over twelve minutes.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Walter Peck yells coarse insults at the [=McBusters=] and forcibly orders for their machines to be shut off in spite of Hamburglar's insistence that doing so will cause trouble.
** Morgan Spurlock has a serious hate boner for the [=McBusters=] and sadistically relishes getting them in trouble.
* {{Manchild}}: Mayor [=McCheese=] is childlike in various aspects, most notably in that the first video shows him devouring a Happy Meal and complaining that he got the girl toy.
* ParodyCommercial: ''[=McBusters=] 3'' features a commercial break where we are shown an ad for [=McBusters=] Cereal, which is really just fragments of burgers and fries with marshmallows.
* ParodyCommercial: ''[=McBusters=] 3'' features a commercial break where we are shown an ad for [=McBusters=] Cereal, which is really just fragments of burgers and fries with marshmallows.
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** The main villains of the videos are Advertising/TheBurgerKing and Morgan Spurlock of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' fame, with both individuals portrayed in a blatantly negative light.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Morgan Spurlock gets turned into [=McDonald's=] food after he gets the Burger King free of the painting imprisoning him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Morgan Spurlock gets turned into [=McDonald's=] food after he gets the Burger King free of the painting imprisoning him.
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'''[=McBusters=]''' is a trilogy of animated web shorts on Website/Channel101 created by Myke Chilian that serves as a mash-up of ''Franchise/Ghostbusters'' and the Advertising/McDonaldland mascots.
The videos serve as a WholePlotReference to ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' and ''Film/GhostbustersII'', with Ronald [=McDonald=], Mayor [=McCheese=] and Hamburglar using equipment to capture Fry Goblins and turn them into fast food to serve to their customers.
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* BloodierAndGorier: The shorts are far more violent and gory than any of the ''Ghostbusters'' movies or UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercials have ever been, with people frequently shown getting killed in gruesome ways.
* CompositeCharacter: Various Advertising/McDonaldland characters play the roles of ''Ghostbusters'' characters.
** Ronald [=McDonald=] is the leader of the team hunting supernatural creatures like Egon Spengler, while Hamburglar and Mayor [=McCheese=] both have elements of Peter Venkman and Ray Stantz.
** Mac Tonight takes Winston's role as the team's fourth member recruited sometime after the original three were active.
** Grimace is merged with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Louis Tully.
** Advertising/TheBurgerKing serves as the equivalent to Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'', with creator of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' Morgan Spurlock being the representation of Janos Poha.
** Birdie the Early Bird makes a brief appearance during Mayor [=McCheese=]'s food coma, serving a similar role to the female ghost in ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' who was implied to fellate Ray Stantz.
* FlippingTheBird: ''[=McBusters=] 3'' does a unique take-off of a hypothetical ''Ghostbusters 3'' logo by having the burger-headed ghost behind the prohibited symbol place his extended middle finger near the hand making a peace sign.
* RuderAndCruder: The web series is far more profane than either the UsefulNotes/McDonalds ads or the ''Ghostbusters'' movies, featuring frequent utterances of "fuck" and "shit".
* TakeThat:
** The No-Ghost insignia as depicted in ''Film/GhostbustersII'' is ridiculed when Hamburglar reveals that he's made new patches for their uniforms and Ronald complains that the insignia didn't need to be changed while pointing out that having the team wear patches that depict the ghost holding up two fingers makes no sense in-universe.
** The main villains of the videos are Advertising/TheBurgerKing and Morgan Spurlock of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' fame, with both individuals portrayed in a blatantly negative light.
The videos serve as a WholePlotReference to ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' and ''Film/GhostbustersII'', with Ronald [=McDonald=], Mayor [=McCheese=] and Hamburglar using equipment to capture Fry Goblins and turn them into fast food to serve to their customers.
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* BloodierAndGorier: The shorts are far more violent and gory than any of the ''Ghostbusters'' movies or UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercials have ever been, with people frequently shown getting killed in gruesome ways.
* CompositeCharacter: Various Advertising/McDonaldland characters play the roles of ''Ghostbusters'' characters.
** Ronald [=McDonald=] is the leader of the team hunting supernatural creatures like Egon Spengler, while Hamburglar and Mayor [=McCheese=] both have elements of Peter Venkman and Ray Stantz.
** Mac Tonight takes Winston's role as the team's fourth member recruited sometime after the original three were active.
** Grimace is merged with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Louis Tully.
** Advertising/TheBurgerKing serves as the equivalent to Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'', with creator of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' Morgan Spurlock being the representation of Janos Poha.
** Birdie the Early Bird makes a brief appearance during Mayor [=McCheese=]'s food coma, serving a similar role to the female ghost in ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' who was implied to fellate Ray Stantz.
* FlippingTheBird: ''[=McBusters=] 3'' does a unique take-off of a hypothetical ''Ghostbusters 3'' logo by having the burger-headed ghost behind the prohibited symbol place his extended middle finger near the hand making a peace sign.
* RuderAndCruder: The web series is far more profane than either the UsefulNotes/McDonalds ads or the ''Ghostbusters'' movies, featuring frequent utterances of "fuck" and "shit".
* TakeThat:
** The No-Ghost insignia as depicted in ''Film/GhostbustersII'' is ridiculed when Hamburglar reveals that he's made new patches for their uniforms and Ronald complains that the insignia didn't need to be changed while pointing out that having the team wear patches that depict the ghost holding up two fingers makes no sense in-universe.
** The main villains of the videos are Advertising/TheBurgerKing and Morgan Spurlock of ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' fame, with both individuals portrayed in a blatantly negative light.
