Trivia / BIGTOP BURGER

• The Danza: Tim is voiced by Tim Batt.
• Deleted Scene: The Season 1 compilation video features an extra scene at the beginning of ELK where Steve listens to a "Weird Al" Yankovic radio station. This didn't make it into the original episode out of pacing concerns, but worked just fine when all the episodes were combined into one long short.
• Descended Creator: Steve is voiced by the show's creator, Ian Worthington.
• Meaningful Release Date: STOVE was released on the first of June 2020, enhancing a joke where the employees are confused about Steve wishing a customer merry Christmas in June.
• Harpo Does Something Funny: Aside from Chris Fleming's many ad-libs, Ian asked Tom Willett to improvise a little speech about "burger science" for PANEL, which proved so well-received that, within hours, he released the isolated audio for listeners to enjoy.
• He Also Did: Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera (who play Conrad and Penny respectively) are also the creators behind Baman Piderman.
• Outdated by Canon: Speculation that Steve and Cesare's theme songs reflect a history and backstory between them, such as Cesare being picked to play Old Deut over Steve, appear to have been Jossed as of "UP", which shows that it was Peanut, Steve's understudy, who was given the Old Deut role after Steve froze up on stage; that Steve had no idea how long he was trapped at the centre of the Earth; and that Cesare only began pursuing Steve because his original mark, Andy Serkis, proved "too tricky to catch".
• Real-Life Relative: Penny and Conrad are played by real-life married couple Lindsay and Alex Small-Butera.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Tom Willett originally made appearances in both seasons of Bigtop Burger, especially so in the episode PANEL where he hosts a panel at the Food Truck Expo as a guest speaker, but in 2023 his sexual abuse crimes from decades prior resurfaced. This ultimately led to Worthikids removing him from the show's SEASON 2 mega-compilation upload, with the panel scene being redone to have the two hosts of FTX do the panel instead with them stating the intended guest speaker couldn't make it. Unrelated to Bigtop Burger, Worthikids also unlisted the Dried Up Old Bones music video he had made of Willett's performance.
• Schedule Slip: By his own admission, Ian put the second season on hiatus because the stressful summer heat was making it too hard for him to animate, which ended up pushing the release date of BACKPACK from July all the way to mid-November, PANEL to late March, DOWN to the following November, and UP to the following August.
• Throw It In!: Some of Chris Fleming's dialogue as Cesare for "ZOMBURGER" was completely improvised or riffed, which Ian liked so much that he ended up keeping it in and animating new scenes to implement them. For example, the "banana cage" line was originally "oh, you wanna take pot-shots at my RIPE UNDERBELLY, BILBO?". Similarly, Ian has stated that most of Cesare's sillier lines in Season 2 are improvisations by Chris.
• Typecasting: Downplayed, given his apparent acting range, but Chris Fleming's performance as Cesare is very evocative of his other Large Ham roles. Various Throw It In! lines are particularly reminiscent of similar Unusual Euphemism moments from Gayle.

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