Characters / Good Burger

Good Burger

Ed

Portrayed by: Kel Mitchell

The naive cashier of Good Burger.

• Animal Talk: He apparently can talk to dogs, as he understood one telling him "4 clowns are stranded on the highway with a broken radiator". After he and Dexter begin to suspect something suspicious about Mondo Burger when the dog refuses to eat a Mondo Burger, it is revealed that there really were a bunch of clowns, standing by a broken car, wondering where the dog went.
• Character Catchphrase: "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?"
  • "Uhhh...no?"
  • I'm a dude! He's a dude! She's a dude! Cause we're all dudes, hey!
  • That'll be 8 bucks! (then the customer points out it's only $2.50)
• Cloud Cuckoolander: His head seems to be in the clouds.
• The Ditz: His defining trait is that his brain appears to be non-functioning at times.
• Dumbass Has a Point: He actually had a well thought-out reason for overloading Mondo Burger's meat supply with their burger-growth chemicals instead of simply stealing a can and showing it to the police and for hacking the Ed-Bots to go haywire instead of shutting them down in the sequel. He's not as stupid as some make him out to be.
• Easily Forgiven: Evidently, Roxanne doesn’t hold a grudge against him for the injuries he unwittingly inflicted on her. Years later, she went on to become his children’s nanny and a family friend.
• Everyone Has Standards: He'll gladly tolerate the eccentricities of others and is quite eccentric himself, but he's visibly unsettled when the girl he meets at Demented Hills Asylum tells him that she's there for breaking into a zoo and freeing the kangaroos.
• Genius Ditz: He's a naive simpleton who's smart enough to gather evidence that can be used against Kurt and Mondo Burger and hack a worldwide population of fast-food franchise robots to put said franchise out of business. Seriously, he's beware the nice and silly ones rolled up into one person with a dash of Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass for good measure.

• Horrible Judge of Character: He believes that Kurt has the best of intentions, at first. It doesn't last once Kurt starts threatening to cost Ed his job.
  • The first time Kurt meets him, he loudly trash-talks Good Burger and asks "what kind of diseased maggot would eat here?" Ed responds by cheerfully greeting him in his usual way as if he didn't hear any of it.
• Hidden Depths: He clearly has some culinary talent if his sauce is that good.
• Idiot Hero: He may not show much in the ways of intelligence, but in the end, he certainly comes through.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: He's absolutely thrilled when Dexter calls him "buddy".
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: He's always in a good mood, never angry, and nice to everyone, even the people threatening to cost him his job.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: A huge idiot with an even huger heart.

• Limited Wardrobe: He almost never takes his uniform off, even in the shower.
• Literal-Minded: When Kurt tells Ed to "watch your butt," Ed nearly falls over with dizziness from trying.
  • When a construction worker, who had been waiting for an extended time to place his order asks if he can get two Good Burgers:
    Ed: Oh sorry, man, I have to get 'em. Customers aren't allowed in the back.
    Worker: JUST GIVE ME TWO GOOD BURGERS!
    Ed: Dude, I can't just give you two Good Burgers, you have to pay for 'em.
  • Ed also takes the "one burger nothing on it" by giving the customer two plain buns with nothing on them!
  • When Roxanne first sees Ed at Good Burger, she tells him that he is hot. Ed responds by telling her that he sweats at work.
  • After their outing at the miniature golf course, Dexter asks Monique if she wants to go for a walk. Ed then asks Dexter what he is supposed to do in the meantime and Roxanne wakes up from her coma and says, “Hello?!”. Ed says “Hello” to her, as if he thought she was saying “hello” in a friendly tone.
  • When a vegetarian customer comes in and asks if they serve veggie burgers, Ed tells her that he can "serve" anything on the menu. Cue him playing tennis with several Good Burger items.
• Married to the Job: He even says Good Burger is his life, and never takes off his uniform.
• Money Is Not Power: Ed has very little interest in money, and did not let himself get bribed by Kurt into giving him the recipe for his secret sauce. It also appears that Ed (unlike Monique assumed), did know about Dexter deliberately taking away most of his commission money on burger sales, Ed chose to let Dexter keep that money.
• Nice Guy: He treats everyone, even Kurt, with respect.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The usually unfailingly chipper Ed delivering a What the Hell, Hero? to Dexter after the latter sells off the Good Burger to its competitor in the sequel is what really drives home to Dex just how badly he screwed up this time.
• Too Dumb to Fool: Roxanne attempts to seduce him to get the secret recipe. She ends up hurting herself countless times. The two goons that Katt sends to coerce him into selling the Good Burger in the sequel meet with the same fate.
• Ultimate Job Security: Since his sauce is the only thing keeping Good Burger from going out of business. Amped up in the sequel when Ed reveals that he now owns Good Burger himself.
• Vague Age: He looks to be the same age as Dexter, a teenager, and says he lives with his parents. However, he doesn’t seem to be in school and also goes on a date with Roxanne, who is an adult. Subverted in the sequel when he's revealed to have since become a father of seven kids, including his first-born son Ed 2.

Dexter Reed

Portrayed by: Kenan Thompson

A high schooler forced to work at Good Burger due to financial/legal problems and the movie's main protagonist.

• Burger Fool: Forced to become this when he becomes indebted to Mr. Wheat for car repair costs.

• Character Development: He goes from a selfish, lazy hedonist to a genuinely kind person through the course of the movie.
• The Hedonist: At the beginning, he plans to spend the whole summer hanging out by the pool, ordering Chinese takeout, and hitting on girls.
• Heel Realization: Has this when Monique chews him out for cheating Ed out of money.
• Honorary Uncle: By the sequel, Ed has numerous children and they all call him "Uncle Dex". He also has an estranged biological niece named Mia who also works at Good Burger.
• Hypocrite: He warns Ed that "Kurt doesn't like you, he's just trying to use you!" Meanwhile, he's using Ed as well to earn extra money.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At first he uses Ed for his selfish gain, but then he considers Ed a good friend and decides to stop taking advantage of him.
• The Lancer: He's the more down-to-earth sidekick to the loopy Ed.
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: He becomes a kinder and better person after befriending Ed, a dense but loving Cloudcuckoolander.
• Never My Fault: Blames Ed for the car accident that forced him to get a job, when it was mostly his fault for going so fast in a residential area, not to mention that not only was he not permitted to use his mother's car, he didn't even have a license.
• Oh, Crap!: Too many moments to count. Highlights include when he totals his teacher's car, when Monique finds his "contract" with Ed, and when he's standing on top of a delivery van that's about to drive off.
• Skewed Priorities: Getting a summer job to pay off his teacher, while still an unpleasant prospect for a teenager, is worse than the fact that he could have gone to prison^note more likely juvie, but still for driving without a license.

• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: At first, he's nothing but a selfish and brash slacker annoyed that he has to get a summer job, but he gets better throughout the movie and starts to think of others besides himself.

Mr. Bailey

Portrayed by: Dan Schneider

The owner of Good Burger.

• Benevolent Boss: He's far nicer than Kurt and generally treats his employees well, including letting them leave early when he realizes keeping them at the store during Mondo Burger's opening is pointless. While he gets exasperated at Ed's antics he gives him an extra profit-sharing incentive as a reward for revitalizing Good Burger's business with his secret sauce.
• Large Ham: When he gets excited or panics, which is quite often.
• Momma's Boy: It's implied that his mother lives off of him, and when Mondo Burger begins stealing their business, he laments that he'll have to feed her cat food. He's also in the middle of a phone call with her when Ed's sauce attracts the attention of the whole Good Burger staff.

Monique

Portrayed by: Shar Jackson

Dexter's coworker and love interest.

• Deadpan Snarker: She has a dry and witty sense of humor.
• Dumb Is Good: Monique considers Ed to be the most genuine person she's ever met, which is why she viciously calls out Dexter for abusing his trust.

• Satellite Love Interest: Dexter has romantic interest in her but she doesn't seem to have any characterization other than that.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She's the one that calls out Dexter for taking advantage of Ed.

Otis

Portrayed by: Abe Vigoda

Good Burger's elderly French Fry cook.

• Cool Old Guy: He's Abe Vigoda.
• Dirty Old Man: In Roxanne's first scene, he takes a very obvious glance at her ass.
• Exact Eavesdropping: He happens to be around when Dexter is getting told off for using Ed, only noticed after Monique storms off. He takes a moment to say "...Punk." before the next scene. He also was napping under the counter when Kurt and his men were poisoning Good Burger's sauce supply.
• Iron Butt Monkey: He survives jumping out of a three-story window, for one thing.

Fizz

Portrayed by: Josh Server

Good Burger's drive-thru clerk.

• Human Popsicle: At some point, he gets stuck in Good Burger's second walk-in freezer and is discovered and thawed out in the sequel. He takes having missed two decades of his life, including high school and college, surprisingly well.
• Insane Troll Logic: He tells an irate customer that he can't take his order because he's the drive-thru guy, and thus can't take counter orders.
• Mundane Made Awesome: He's overjoyed when Dexter manages to abbreviate his name.

Mondo Burger

Kurt Bozwell

Portrayed by: Jan Schweiterman

The founder of Mondo Burger who is also secretly a black-market criminal.

• Bad Boss: He runs his business like a Nazi boot camp.
• Big Bad: As the first film's central villain, he attempts to take out Mondo Burger's competitor, Good Burger, throughout the course of the film.
• Bigger Is Better: His response to Good Burger's ultra-popular sauce is to make Mondo Burgers even bigger.
• Character Catch Phrase:
  • "You mess with Kurt, and you go into the grinder".
  • Also, "I'm aware!"
• Control Freak: If there's one thing he can't stand in the least, it's an incompetent, bumbling, sloppy fast food employee. Dexter found that out the hard way.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's even got "friends" in high places to put away anyone trying to find out his secrets. Not only that, but he and his cohorts try to sabotage Ed's Sauce.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: "In Mondo Burger, there are no comedians."
• Evil Is Hammy: MAKE THE MONDO BURGERS BIGGER, BIGGER!!!!
• Evil Is Petty: He's determined to not just do better than Good Burger but drive them out of business by increasingly extreme means including sabotage and poison solely out of spite.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to make him lose his temper.
• Hate Sink: There's nothing positive about Kurt. He's intentionally written to be as much of an over-the-top asshole as possible. He abuses his employees, knowingly endangers the health of his and Good Burger's customers, and uses his political connections to avoid facing the consequences of his actions.
• Hitler Cam: The catwalk scene, where he lets his employees know that working at Mondo Burger is Serious Business.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His business goes belly-up in the end thanks to the illegal chemicals he used to enlarge his burgers.
• Jerkass: He doesn't think much of his employees. And he knowingly poisons his own customers.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Spitefully trying to take all of Good Burger's business and trying to poach Ed to Mondo Burger isn't too bad. Then Kurt tries to have someone seduce and steal a business secret from Ed and when that fails he goes as far as attempting to poison innocent people to try and get Good Burger shut down.
• Lack of Empathy: He states that he doesn't know what side affects his burger-growth chemical Trimpathol have on customers, nor does he care.
• Large Ham: He can be quite boisterous when it comes to running Mondo Burger.
• Mean Boss: He throws a whole lot of insults, boasts, and slam-downs to just about everyone.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Between his oversized ego, lack of concern for other people's well-being, and tendency to throw tantrums when frustrated, it's quite clear that Kurt's emotional maturity is far behind his physical age.
• Put on a Prison Bus: The police place Kurt in their car when they arrest him for using illegal food additives and drive away from Mondo Burger at the end of the film.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Kurt has a massive ego and an inflated sense of entitlement. He goes as far as declaring during the training session that Mondo Burger will be the biggest burger chain on the planet within two years.
• Smug Snake: You can tell by the smug grin on his face.
• Third-Person Person: His trademark manner of talking.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: In a movie based on an All That comedy sketch of all things, he goes as far as to try to poison Good Burger's customers to ruin the business. In a sketch, it might have been a small thing, but in the movie, the consumption of that poison was likely to either cause severe illness or death. While there were villainous characters on All That who would threaten others and succeed in taking lives, it was always Played for Laughs. In this case, it's not.
• We Can Rule Together: He tries to get Ed to work for him by promising a higher salary.

Troy and Griffin

Portrayed by: Hamilton von Watts (Troy) and J. August Richards (Griffin)

The two menacing assistant managers of Mondo Burger

• Captain Obvious: Troy on occasion.
• Co-Dragons: They both serve as this to Kurt.

• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Griffin when training employees on making burgers.

Roxanne

Portrayed by: Carmen Electra

• Being Evil Sucks: The injuries (albeit accidental) she sustained from her encounter with Ed was enough to make her quit Mondo Burger and turn her life around for the better. In the sequel, she’s a nun who makes an honest living as a family nanny.
• Chew Toy: Who knew that going on a date with Ed would be so hazardous to one's health?
• Defeat Equals Friendship: She goes on to become friends with Ed, and the nanny to his children.

• Heel–Face Turn: She’s a much nicer, trustworthy person in the sequel.
• Honey Trap: Kurt sends her to seduce Ed into revealing his sauce recipe.
• Honorary Aunt: Downplayed; Given how long she’s known Ed and enjoys being his children’s nanny, she can be considered this.
• Ms. Fanservice: It's Carmen Electra.
• True Companions: Working for Ed has brought them closer.

Mega Corp

Katt Bozwell

Portrayed by: Jillian Bell

The CEO of Mega Corp and Kurt's younger sister

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When she finds herself drenched in condiments and captured by an Ed robot, she frantically apologizes and begs Ed and Dexter to let her go.
• Big Bad: Of the sequel, as her motive throughout is to exact revenge upon Ed and Dexter for getting her brother Kurt incarcerated.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She runs a massive tech and fast food corporation that not only wants to monopolize the fast food industry, but replace all its employees with robots.
• Freudian Excuse: Although he brought it completely on himself, having her brother lose his business and go to prison was probably her Start of Darkness, as she blames Ed and Dexter for "destroying her family".
• Kick the Dog: She blows up the Burgermobile just to spite Ed and Dexter.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Considering that she tries to kill Ed and Dexter by sabotaging the self-driving car she sends them off in, it's only fitting that she gets taken down when Ed hacks her company's fast-food serving robots. On her opening day, no less!
• Murder Is the Best Solution: She shares Kurt's ruthless streak, but instead of having Ed and Dexter committed, she blows up the Burgermobile and sends them home in an automated BMW that tries to crash itself with them in it.

Cecil McNevin

Portrayed by: Lil Rel Howery

A manipulative lawyer for Mega-Corp and Katt Bozwell's right-hand man.

• Amoral Attorney: He pressures Ed and Dexter into signing away Good Burger's rights without reading the fine print. They realize too late that this means he can shut down the restaurant to pave the way for a global automated "Mega Good Burger" chain.
• Faux Affably Evil: Cecil seems like a cool guy at first, but after successfully tricking Ed and Dex into selling Good Burger with the intent of shutting the flagship location down and rebranding the IP into the soulless Mega Good Burger, he's a cunning and manipulative lawyer and Katt Bozwell's right-hand man.
• The Dragon: He's Katt's right-hand man and is responsible for tricking Ed and Dexter into signing away ownership of Good Burger to Mega Corp.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Ed reprograms the Ed-amatronics to run amok at all Mega Good Burger locations around the world, he tries fixing the situation before eventually giving up and telling Ed that all ownership of Good Burger will be returned to him immediately before fleeing the scene.

Other Characters

Mr. Wheat

Portrayed by: Sinbad

Dexter's accident-prone teacher

• Butt-Monkey: His car and mailbox get destroyed twice, culminating in a giant burger statue from Mondo Burger's roof crushing his car. If it's any consolation, since insurance liability is shown to exist in the movie, it's likely that Mondo Burger will be required to pay for a new car for him.

• Cool Teacher: He at least thinks of himself as this though he doesn't press charges against Dexter when he very well could have.
• Disco Dan: When it comes to the 70s.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As harsh as he comes off, he has every right to be mad at Dexter for crashing into him on his way home, especially since Dexter didn't even have a license. He's also not wrong to suggest that Dexter should take his education more seriously.
• Jive Turkey: He talks and acts like he's in the 1970's.
• The '70s: A decade he seems stuck in.

Heather

Portrayed by: Linda Cardellini

• Cloud Cuckoolander: She claims to have been sent to the Bedlam House because space aliens told her to break into the zoo and free the kangaroos.

• I Choose to Stay: She declined to escape the mental hospital with Ed, Otis and Dexter.
• Ship Tease: With Ed. In the novelization, they do get together at the very end.

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