The Lorraines are picking Helen up from a soccer game, and they decide to stop at Burger Boy because Helen's team won. Danny places the order through the drive-thru, but then finds a note saying the restaurant will go out of business the following week. At dinner, Martha is very sad about Burger Boy going out of business, and Danny explains that a new burger place has opened up and proved more popular.
The next day, Helen, the dogs, T.D., Alice, and Truman hang out in the yard, and Alice wonders why the new restaurant is so popular. Helen thinks it might have something Burger Boy lacks, so they go to the place (Big Burgertorium) to check it out. They find the music that's playing too loud, the colour scheme too garish, and the uniforms too tacky, but they do notice that it has bigger portion sizes. When they leave, Martha thinks the burgers smell bad, and when she tastes one, she thinks they taste bad too.
T.D. remembers his first time eating at Burger Boy — O.G. took him there when he learned how to ride a bike, and they made a bicycle out of food. Then, Truman remembers how he used to study geography and the Burger Boy people made a map of Wagstaff City out of food, but the ants ate it before he could. He wonders if that's why he's afraid of bugs, then Alice remembers a birthday party she had at Burger Boy, where she crashed into a castle made of fruit. On the playground, Helen suggests that they save Burger Boy by making an advertising campaign.
At the Lorraine house, Truman suggests making the ad about the ingredients of the burgers, but everyone else think that sounds boring. Alice suggests doing a musical ad, and Martha approves, but Truman thinks it isn't exciting enough. T.D. comes up with an ad in which he's at first very weak from eating Big Burgertorium's food, but turns into a buff, flying superhero after eating just one Burger Boy burger. Truman and Martha approve, but Helen doesn't, since that would be lying. Then, Helen suggests making a commercial mentioning the foods they mentioned earlier.
They make said ad, with other kids joining in, and the owner of Burger Boy decides he will stay in business after all.
This episode provides examples of
- Alliterative Title: Bye Bye, Burger Boy.
- And Your Reward Is Edible:
- The Lorraines order burgers to celebrate Helen winning a game of soccer.
- When T.D. was younger, he was given a bicycle made of food as a reward for learning to ride a bike.
- Appeal to Nature: In Alice's imaginary ad, T.D. sings that the food at Burger Boy is organically-grown as a marketing tactic.
- Asbestos-Free Cereal: In Alice's imaginary ad, Truman sings that none of the burgers' chemicals are toxic, which is a pretty low bar when it comes to food.
- Bad Job, Worse Uniform: The waitress at Big Burgertorium looks bored and she's wearing a multicoloured apron and burger-shaped hat.
- Big "NO!": Martha yells, "NOOOO!" when she learns about Burger Boy closing down.
- Cereal-Induced Superpowers: T.D.'s imaginary ad shows him becoming a muscular superhero just from eating a burger from Burger Boy.
- Conforming OOC Moment: Justified in that it's in Alice's imagination and exaggerated in that it's not just out of character but impossible — at the end of the imaginary jingle, Skits sings along with everyone else.
- Crappy Holidays: Subverted. Carolina once remembers that the power went out on Christmas, so she thought she and Jorge wouldn't be able to have Christmas dinner, but then they had it at Burger Boy.
- Delicious Distraction: Martha and T.D. get sidetracked upon noticing Big Burgertorium's larger burgers.
- Everyone Has Standards: Martha thinks that Big Burgertorium's burgers are gross, even though she eats expired food.
- Expospeak Gag: Truman in his imaginary ad claims that the fries are seasoned with "sodium chloride".
- Fantasy Sequence: Helen and her friends imagine how their ads would go, and we see their imaginings.
- Flashback: We see several scenes of the kids eating at Burger Boy in the past.
- Flying Brick: In T.D.'s ad, he becomes super ripped and able to fly.
- Here Comes the Science:
- Truman imagines explaining the ingredients of the burgers in his ad, using a lot of technical jargon.
- In Alice's imaginary ad, Truman has a part where he stands in front of two posters — one of the periodic table and one of a human stomach — and explains that none of the burgers' chemicals are poisonous.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Truman thinks describing a food's nutritional information is "exciting".
- Lethal Chef: Somehow, the Big Burgertorium workers manage to make burgers that not even a dog likes.
- Little Professor Dialog: Nine-year-old Truman uses big words like "sodium chloride" in his imaginary ad.
- Lost Food Grievance: A pre-emptive example — Martha yells out a Big "NO!" at the prospect of Burger Boy shutting down.
- Musical World Hypotheses: The Big Burgertorium jingle was written as a song in-universe, while the song in Alice's ad is all in her imagination.
- Ode to Food: Alice imagines everyone singing a song about Burger Boy to advertise it.
- The Pratfall: Alice falls on her butt when failing to walk on her hands.
- Pun: Martha says that "the nose knows" when saying that for a dog, smelling and tasting are essentially the same.
- Speak in Unison:
- Helen, Alice, and Truman yell, "Guys!" at once when Martha and T.D. try to eat some of Big Burgertorium's food.
- At the end of the song in Alice's imagination, everyone sings in unison.
- Stock Animal Diet: Martha eats a sausage in Alice's imagination.
- Suck E. Cheese's: Big Burgertorium has a painfully-loud jingle, a playground, an arcade, a garish colour scheme, and the burgers don't even taste good.
- Superheroes Wear Capes: T.D.'s ad shows him in a cape when he becomes a superhero.
- Take That!: In T.D.'s commercial, Janice claims that T.D. became too weak to lift a pencil from eating at Big Burgertorium.
- Talking Animal: In Alice's imagination, even Skits sings along.
- Tears of Joy: The Burger Boy guy is moved to tears by the kids' nostalgic ad.
- Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: Subverted when Martha thinks she's too sad to eat, but immediately scarfs down her burger.
