Web Animation / BIGTOP BURGER

HOT TIRES...HOT BURGERS! ^{Clockwise from top:} Steve, Billie, Penny, Tim

"Brush my hair, read my lines
It's time to go!
Put on my suit, put the makeup on
Put on the show."

— "UP", the series' theme.

BIGTOP BURGER is an original computer-animated webseries by animator Ian "Worthikids" Worthington. The first episode was released on June 1st, 2020 onto YouTube.

The premise revolves around the titular Bigtop Burger, a food truck that sells burgers with a circus clown motif, and the shenanigans that the truck's group gets into on their job, mostly because of their bizarre boss and their rival truck, Zomburger.

All of the show's episodes can be found on Ian's YouTube channel for free, which you can check out below.

Season 1 ended after five episodes on August 10th, 2020. A Season 2 with five more episodes followed afterwards, putting additional focus on Zomburger and a continuous plot, premiering on June 11th, 2021 and concluding on August 4, 2023.

Episodes

Season One

• STOVE: Penny has trouble taking an order when the truck's stove goes missing.
• ELK: Steve picks a fight with an elk on his way to the brunch rush.
• KID: Steve starts acting weirder than usual, which gets in the way of the other employees.
• ZOMBURGER: Bigtop Burger tangles with their rival food truck, Zomburger.
• GREASEPAINT (Season 1 Finale): The employees clean up after a long day.
• SEASON ONE: An 11-minute compilation of all five episodes of Season 1, with some additional art and bloopers in the credits.

Season Two

• EXPO: Bigtop Burger goes to FTX (Food Truck Expo) to meet other food trucks. At the same time, Zomburger goes to the very same expo.
• BACKPACK: Cesare seeks an end to the Bigtop Burger / Zomburger rivalry, and gives Steve a peace offering.
• PANEL: Bigtop Burger and Zomburger attend a panel at FTX.
• DOWN: Cesare gives Steve another gift, though things aren't quite as they seem.
• UP (Season 2 Finale): Cesare finally manages to capture Steve, and Steve reminisces about his past.
• SEASON TWO: A 20-minute compilation of all five episodes of Season 2, with some additional scenes added into the episodes, as well as art and bloopers in the credits.

BIGTOP BURGER contains examples of:

• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: A more well-integrated example than most — the entire show is animated in Blender, so colors and frame rates can be more uniform — that's both played straight and invoked for comic effect, such as when Penny exhales letters that turn into a tiny, floating three-dimensional Steve. Or Steve's "juul" being a default Blender cylinder.
• 555: Zomburger's phone number, as seen in Cesare's ad in EXPO, is "555-BURG".
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Massively exaggerated in UP, when it's revealed that an identical version of the musical Cats was first composed by an ancient interstellar race of clowns, over nine billion years before the existence of Andrew Lloyd Webber, T.S. Eliot, London, cats or even the Earth itself. Performing in it — especially in the role of Old Deuteronomy — became a sacred tradition to the clowns, punishable by permanent exile for messing it up. This example is also an odd case of Klingons Love Shakespeare on humanity's part.
• Always Someone Better: Parodied with Zomburger, whose staff prides themselves on making worse food than Bigtop Burger, which somehow helps them sell more. They don't seem to be well-known by other food trucks at FTX, however.
• Ambiguously Human:
  • Steve, the manager, who has been seen with Reality Warper powers. The last episode of the first season implies that he may be a "real" clown, while everyone else just wears makeup; this is confirmed in UP, where he is revealed to be a member of an ancient Clown Species from a distant planet.
  • Due to his eyes, Zomburger manager Cesare could be a genuine living dead. In the Zomburger group photo in the Season 1 credits, Cesare appears to be the one taking the picture, leaving him out of frame and ambiguous whether he, like Steve, doesn't take his makeup off. The first episode of season 2 further drives this implications as he tells Frances he doesn't eat food, and he demands his employees to look as weird as he does or they will blow his cover. UP confirms he's at least a thousand years old, and he's heavily implied to be a Revenant Zombie who has been working to hunt down clowns like Steve.
• And Starring: The credits for the Season 2 finale UP has "featuring Alex Hirsch as Munkustrap and KC Green as Peanut".
• Animal Nemesis: ELK features Steve taking this attitude towards an elk in the woods, which he fights to get more burger meat (despite the truck already being stocked up for the brunch rush).
• Animation Bump: The animation fluidity tends to jump up by a lot during more action-heavy scenes; in particular, the sequence in DOWN where Cesare slams Steve through the ground with his hammer uses smooth 2D animation rather than the slower 3D animation the series is known for.
• Anti-Climax: After Steve fails to defeat an elk in a flashy fight scene and a dramatic poker match, Billie gets rid of it by waving a stick and telling it to shoo.
• Art Shift:
  • The credits at the end of the SEASON ONE include several pictures that have the characters with more detailed eyes and faces and more human proportions rather than the Super-Deformed style of the actual episodes.
  • A second-long gag in EXPO shows a clip from the end of a Zomburger commercial, featuring Cesare's model without cel-shading and at a higher framerate.
• Artistic License – History: The lyrics of "Friends in Low Places", implied to be from Cesare's perspective, give the name of his home as "Venezia", Italian for Venice. However, the Italian language did not begin to develop until the 13th century, and Cesare is stated to be over a thousand years old, meaning that he would have lived during the 11th century at the latest. Rather than Italian, he would have spoken a medieval version of Venetian when he was alive.
• Back for the Finale: The customer from STOVE returns in GREASEPAINT to express his disappointment that the Bigtop Burger crew aren't "real genuine clowns."
• Bathos: The tragic circumstances of Steve's banishment from his home planet are underscored by the fact that the banishment consists of being shot out of a cannon into space, and the reason he was banished in the first place is because his voice cracked and he froze up while singing "The Moments of Happiness" while playing Old Deuteronomy.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: In UP, Cesare offhandedly mentions trying and failing to capture Andy Serkis as part of his clown-hunting work.
• BFG: Zomburger's handheld cannon, used by Conrad.
• BFS: Steve uses a particularly large sword (which appears to be an Odachi) to slice the Zomburger truck in half.
• Bile Fascination: In-universe; since they're already a gimmicky food truck, Zomburger makes their burgers as awful as possible to get more business from social media posters.
• Black Comedy: During the flashback in "UP", a Tiktaalik tells his friend to make a wish as Steve flies in from outer space, only for Steve to land on the Earth and cause the catastrophe that led to the Late Devonian extinction.
• Boss Subtitles: ZOMBURGER introduces the Zomburger staff in this manner, with logos listing their name and voice actor in a similar format to how Bigtop Burger's staff are introduced in the intro.
• Burger Fool: The titular food truck may be considered a mobile version of this. All of Steve's employees find themselves continually forced into bizarre situations due to either their boss's antics or their odd clientele (usually the former), and they have to wear polka-dotted uniforms, rubber noses, and clown makeup on every inch of exposed skin. They seem to take it in stride, though. With the revelation that Steve, a genuine clown, has been banished to Earth, the employee dress code suggests that, like Cesare and his Zomburger employees, Steve was trying to look less conspicuous by association, or just felt lonely not being around his kind.
• Call-Back: UP features the surprise cameo appearances of Steve Brule, alongside Yoda and Palpatine from the unrelated Worthikids shorts "SPACE" and "Palpatine's Journey" respectively.
• Casting Gag: One of the Tiktaalik (an animal from the Late Devonian Period) in "UP" is voiced by TREY the Explainer, known for his videos on ancient history.
• Cerebus Retcon: The Season 1 episode "KID" features a Non Sequitur where Steve, possibly high as a kite, reminisces about being "back on Broadway yet again" as Old Deuteronomy in a production of Cats. Many episodes later, in Season 2's "UP", Steve says this again, only this time, the scene is much longer and details his backstory, where he got stage fright while trying to play this role and was banished from his home planet as punishment.
• Characterization Marches On: In the first two episodes, Billie is just as used to the weirdness of Bigtop Burger as Tim is. Later episodes establish that she's the newest employee, and doesn't know about things like Zomburger or Steve's weirder tendencies.
• Chef of Iron: Though Steve has yet to be seen actually cooking, assuming he also mans Bigtop's grill from time to time (when not ripping it out of the wall to pretend to bake rocks for a nonexistent daughter's bake sale), Steve also seems to have the ability to survive getting knocked out the window of a moving vehicle by a canonball, then catch back up to said vehicle running and slice another vehicle in half with a sword.
• Christmas in July: After giving him his burger, Steve wishes a customer Merry Christmas, which the customer thanks him for and wishes him a Merry Christmas too... Despite the fact that it's June.
  Billie: Aren't we in June?
  Penny: Yeah, it's June.
  Tim: It's 100% June.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Steve's grasp on reality is practically nonexistent. Then again, reality's grasp on him is also tenuous at best.
• Clown Species: The ending of Season 1 implies that not only that Steve is a "real, genuine" clown, but clowns are an actual mythical species separate from humans, although the other Bigtop employees don't think they are real. The ending of Season 2 reveals that Steve hailed from a planet full of these clowns.
• Conlang: While the clowns' spoken language is coincidentally identical to English, their written language is much different. It's written from right to left, but switches directions when another line is made, and has only one universal vowel which is simply pronounced differently as needed when spoken.
• Conveniently Close Planet: Notably averted. Even though he was traveling fast enough to crash all the way down to the Earth's mantle and cause a global extinction event, the timeframe given indicates Steve was flying through space for millions of years before he hit anything.
• Crazy Workplace: The premise focuses on the misadventures of the employees of a clown-themed burger truck (the three employees are just humans in clown makeup, but their Cloudcuckoolander boss is implied to be a "real" clown. Their rivals, the zombie-themed food truck Zomburger, are even weirder.
• Credits Gag:
  • The start of each credits sequence for Season 1 features Steve dancing on top of the Bigtop Burger logo as it scrolls upward. He falls off when it starts scrolling faster to display the cast credits and Patreon supporter list, and appears at the very bottom lying on his back.
  • In the credits sequence for Season 2, Cesare sits on the logo and the credits scroll in the opposite direction.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Steve froze up while acting as Old Deuteronomy in a performance of Cats on his homeworld, 375 million years ago. His punishment for this was to be banished from his homeworld by being shot out of a cannon into deep space.
• Drench Celebration: When Cesare thinks Steve has been defeated, he tells the other Zomburger workers to pour some Gatorade on Conrad (who was the one who knocked Steve out of the truck with a cannonball). They do, but their victory is short-lived since Steve soon shows up to retaliate.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Steve made an appearance on a drink machine in the short Worthington released immediately prior to STOVE, Jason & Friends.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Season 1 is a set of separate shorts running on a Random Events Plot, in contrast with Season 2 having an episode-to-episode storyline and being mostly grounded until the end. Some of the characterization is also different: Billie's Naïve Newcomer and Tim's Unfazed Everyman attitudes take a few episodes to fully set in, and Steve is far more prone to Non Sequitur Cloudcuckoolander dialogue and reality-warping gags than he is in the second season.
• Establishing Character Moment: Steve's attitude is established in his very first scene: cooking pieces of charcoal in a broken stove (broken because he ripped it off the wall), and claiming that he's making treats for his nonexistent daughter's bake sale.
• Extremely Short Timespan:
  • The Season 1 finale GREASEPAINT reveals that the entire season has taken place during the same day, as the customer from the first episode asks the Bigtop Burger crew "Weren't you folks all clowns this morning?"
  • Season 2 takes place during a day at FTX across a single morning/afternoon. With the exception of Steve's flashback, which speeds past 9 billion years of time.
• Extreme Omnivore: Apparently before Tim mentions it, Steve did not know one is not meant to eat a guitar.
• Fan Convention: EXPO sees both Bigtop Burger and Zomburger going to FTX, the Food Truck Expo. Tim is surprised by how many food trucks attended, though one of them was a guitar salesman.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Penny reacts very much like a mom would in STOVE when she thinks Steve might have a young daughter, getting excited and a little emotional, and claims "I'm great with kids!" in KID. The credits of SEASON ONE reveal she's got a little girl herself at home.
  • In PANEL, Billie tries to help Steve take off the very large and heavy backpack Cesare gifted him and cannot, noting it's "really screwed on". It turns out it's a kettle weight disguised with magic, and it's actually locked around Steve's body.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: At the start of ZOMBURGER, when Cesare gets angry at Steve for bumping into his truck, there's a cut to him slamming on the dashboard, briefly showing a Funko Pop-styled figurine of himself on top of it.
  • You'll also need to pause the video to get good glimpses at Bigtop Burger and Zomburger's odd menus.
• Funny Background Event: During the credits for SEASON ONE, there's a picture of the off-duty Zomburger employees, getting a beer together after work... and huddled behind them in a booth, the Bigtop Burger crew from a previous photo, trying not to be seen.
  • In EXPO, Shrek can be seen wandering around FTX in several of the scenes.
• GIS Syndrome: Parodied for a gag in EXPO. Cesare states that his employees not wearing makeup would make him stick out "like a horseshoe crab in a freshwater environment", followed by a cutaway to a picture of a deer standing in a lake with a horseshoe crab pasted next to it.
• Given Name Reveal: The episode BACKPACK reveals that Doctor's actual given name is "Allen".
• Greater-Scope Villain: After successfully capturing Steve, Cesare notes that he doesn't decide who he hunts down, he just does his job, suggesting a higher authority that wants clowns captured for some reason.
• Human Cannonball: The clown planet Steve hailed from has a giant circus cannon, which is used to banish clowns that fail their roles in the play Cats — like Steve — into outer space.
• Image Song: The Season 2 credits theme, "Friends in Low Places", tells the tale of a Venetian puppetmaker who was stabbed to death, but brought back as an immortal zombie by dark forces for unknown purposes — a backstory which fits the mysterious Cesare very well. "UP" has also been speculated to be about Steve vomiting from nerves and badly failing his audition for Old Deuteronomy; the Season 2 finale UP all but confirms this is the case.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Cesare is basically Chris Fleming in goth makeup.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Steve defeats Zomburger by pulling out a long Japanese sword and slicing their truck clean in half.
• Kitschy Themed Restaurant: The Zomburger food truck's main draw, according to Cesare. As all of their food is only just barely balancing on the tipping point of remotely edible, their primary source of income is influencers looking to get shock value attention on social media due to their bizarre array of food. Complete with all of the employees wearing full costume and makeup (and contact lenses, in the case of Conrad), to make them look like the undead. Aside from Cesare, who is implied to be an actual zombie who makes them dress like this to better blend in.
• Last Episode Theme Reprise:
  • The last episode of Season One ends in a soft, chilled out reprise of "UP", appropriately named simply "UP (Reprise)".
  • The last episode of Season Two, appropriately titled UP, features the "UP" theme as we see Steve being banished from the clown world and crash-landing into the center of the Earth.
• Lethal Eatery: Cesare states that Zomburger "practically sells charcoal on a bun" and that no one can even digest what they're selling. When asked about this, Doctor claims that people only buy their food to make humorous Instagram posts about it. The Bigtop Burger staff are baffled by this business model.
  Frances: The worse the food, the better the sales.
  Cesare: Bad food sells burgers, Steve. Bad food sells burgers.
  • A brief partial shot of their menu shows the truck's offerings include the titular Zomburger, mystery fish, old jerky, candles, something called "human poison," and odor.
• Mythology Gag: In UP, as Steve flies through outer space, he passes by in the background of two of Worthikids's previous animations: SPACE and Palpatine's Journey.
• Ninja Run: Steve manages to catch up with the Zomburger truck after getting knocked out by a cannonball using this technique.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The clown who penned the sacred text resembles Andrew Lloyd Webber.
• No Ending: KID ends very abruptly when Penny tries to tell a customer about her boss, only for the words to come out of her mouth and turn into a tiny version of Steve.
• Not Hyperbole: The first season's theme song, "UP", has a line about the singer going "down, down, down, to the center of the Earth" after screwing up his theater performance. The episode UP reveals that the song is about Steve, and the line isn't referring just to his reputation; he quite literally got shot into the Earth's core by the force of a cannon.
• Non-Ironic Clown: The main characters are this. Even the somewhat unnerving Steve is always kind to customers in his own bizarre way.
• The Older Immortal: Season Two implies, and eventually confirms, that Steve and Cesare are much older than they appear. However, while Cesare is a little over 1000 (his thousand years of undead servitude plus however old he was when he died as, presumably, a normal human), UP reveals that Steve is at least 600 million years old.
• Opposing Sports Team: ZOMBURGER revolves around the titular rival food truck, with their theme revolving around a darker, edgier Halloween motif.
• Orwellian Retcon: PANEL features a panel on burger science at the Food Truck Expo, hosted by a guest speaker voiced by Tom "Featureman" Willett. After the sexual abuse charges against Willett resurfaced, this scene ended up changed for the SEASON TWO compilation to remove Willett's character: in the new scene, the guest speaker couldn't attend the event and the panel is instead hosted by the FTX mascot guy and a second speaker named Boris.
• Our Product Sucks: The Zomburger business prides itself on having the worst, most inedible food possible. Their main draw comes from social media posts from customers sharing and promoting how awful the food is, instead of the quality of the food itself.
• Our Slogan Is Terrible: The "Hot Tires...Hot Burgers" slogan plastered on the side of the van has little to do with the restaurant's theme, and it's rather nonsensical on its own.
• Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: UP reveals that a global mass extinction of prehistoric life (specifically, the late Devonian extinction, according to TREY the Explainer who was consulted for this episode) happened thanks to Steve crash-landing on Earth after his banishment.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Bigtop Burger has a hard time getting around to making burgers (the only one they've sold onscreen was pre-made and hidden under Steve's hat) because of everything else that happens around them. Lampshaded in KID, where Penny has to ask Tim if they still make burgers "despite it all".
• Planet of Hats: The planet Steve originated from is entirely populated by a society of actual clowns.
• The Pollyanna: Penny is the cheeriest of the Bigtop Burger employees, despite whatever shenanigans are currently happening around her.
  Penny: (To Steve, who is wrestling an elk for burger meat) Oh, Steve, you can do it! Get that meat!
  Tim: Don't encourage him!
• Prophet Eyes: Conrad has these, but he's certainly not blind. Season Two's EXPO reveals that they are merely contacts.
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Averted. Characters stutter, repeat words, and pause frequently.
• Reality Warper: Steve. It starts out somewhat tame with him performing feats of simple Offscreen Teleportation. By KID though, it becomes clear that he does not operate by any rules set by reality. This is thanks to him being an actual clown.
• Scary Stitches: Conrad and Frances have Frankenstein-style stitches all over their bodies. Though just when they're in makeup. Their skin is quite unstitched when they've gone home for the day.
• Serious Business:
  • Zomburger treats their rivalry with Bigtop Burger so seriously that they try and knock over the truck with a cannon.
    Frances: This is the day you DIE, Bigtop Burger!
    Billie: D-Die?!
  • It is revealed in UP that the clown society Steve hails from highly values the musical Cats and holds performances of it regularly, with the number "The Moments of Happiness" being given utmost importance. If a performer fails to fulfill their role in the play, as Steve does, they will be banished by being shot out of a cannon into space.
• Sequel Hook: The full version of Season Two, like that of Season One, shows pictures of the characters immediately afterward - but this time, they're a lot more ominous: Steve with three other monsters, the crews meeting Munkustrap, and Cesare in some kind of cabinet.
• Shout-Out:
  • The titular food truck shares its name with a burger restaurant from the movie Killer Klowns from Outer Space. According to Ian, this was a coincidence, but he watched the movie during early production of the series and was astonished by the similarity.
  • A statue of Olaf can be seen in the background behind the customer in STOVE. The credits of SEASON ONE also show Penny's daughter wearing an Olaf hairpin, and a giant Olaf plushie is seen in the background of the Season Two premiere, EXPO, leaning against the wall of what can be assumed to be Penny's daughter's room.
  • In ELK, after a bit of sparring with the titular elk, Steve tells him, "You're pretty strong".
  • Steve imagines himself "back on Broadway yet again" in KID, where he plays Old Deuteronomy singing "The Moments of Happiness". Worthington has stated many times he's a big fan of Cats, and Deut and the Heaviside Layer are also both name-checked in the show's theme song.
  • In ZOMBURGER, a Night of the Living Dead (1968) poster can be seen behind Cesare, and the interior of the truck has a poster of the album cover for Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe.
    • Cesare's line upon being rammed was originally "Oh, you wanna take some POTSHOTS at my RIPE BIG UNDERBELLY, BILBO?!", but Ian wound up using one of Fleming's improvs instead, in which "Bilbo" became more of a holdover and a non sequitur.
  • The customer that Penny wishes a goodnight to at the beginning of GREASEPAINT has a striking resemblance to Austin Powers, being a recycled model from another video of Ian's.
  • SEASON ONE includes a slightly extended version of ELK, which reveals that Food Truck Radio only plays an all-"Weird Al" Yankovic format. Steve approves. There's also a framed landscape of Donkey and Shrek on the wall in the bar the Zomburger employees hang out at — and Shrek himself appears in the background of several scenes in EXPO.
• Shout-Out Theme Naming:
  • The main cast have names relating to Stephen King's It: Penny (Pennywise, the novel's Monster Clown), Billie (Bill Skarsgård, who played Pennywise in the 2017 film adaptation), Tim (Tim Curry, who played Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries), and, of course, their boss Steve (Stephen King).
  • Zomburger's employees all named after characters from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Cesare is the most obvious, since he's even modeled after his namesake, while the others are Conrad (Conrad Veidt, the actor who played Cesare in the movie), Frances (Francis), and Doctor (Dr. Caligari). The episode BACKPACK reveals an extra layer to the theming: Frances reveals that Doctor's actual name is "Allen", which is named after Alan, the name of the film's protagonist's best friend/love rival.
• Single Tear: Done in UP by Steve after failing his role as Old Deuteronomy, and by Munkustrap as Steve is banished to space.
• The Stinger: SEASON TWO features one, showcasing Steve emerging from the ground in the present day after he crash-landed onto Earth millions of years ago. He encounters Tim for the first time, who gives him money and recommends him a nearby burger joint.
• Stylistic Suck:
  • In KID, the "juul" that Steve smokes is the default cylinder object in Blender (the program the show is animated in), and is left untextured and unedited.
  • In-universe, Zomburger's burgers are this - intentionally made as awful and inedible as possible in order to be on-brand. Doctor claims that people only buy their food to make humorous Instagram posts about it.
• Super-Deformed: The characters are designed in this fashion.
• Vehicular Combat: Conrad fires cannonballs at Bigtop Burger from the Zomburger truck in an attempt to "destroy" them. He manages to shoot Steve out of the truck, but because this is Steve we are talking about, he manages to catch up with them by running and destroy the Zomburger truck by slicing it in half with a BFS.
• Weirdness Magnet: Bigtop Burger can't go a day without getting involved in something strange or dangerous, mostly because of Steve instigating it.
• Wham Episode:
  • DOWN reveals that the "gifts" Cesare has been giving to Steve all season were actually magically-disguised kettle weights. Now that Steve is weighed down enough that he can't move or resist, Cesare produces a giant hammer and smashes Steve into the earth, leaving only an empty crater, before seemingly teleporting away. The entire Zomburger food truck is revealed to be just a façade used to catch up with Steve, and Cesare is implied to have hunted other clowns in the past. It's also a Wham Episode in-universe, as shown by the shocked reactions of the Zomburger and Bigtop Burger employees.
  • UP reveals that:
    • Steve is actually from an alien clown planet and was banished for freezing up while acting as Old Deuteronomy in a performance of Cats, which was apparently written nine billion years ago by a clown composer, and became something akin to the clowns' religion. This banishment consisted of being shot out of a cannon into deep space.
    • In addition to this, Steve is the reason for the Late Devonian extinction on Earth, as his impact with the Earth was powerful enough to tear a hole straight through to the Earth's core. Judging by the timeframe of the Late Devonian extinction, this means that Steve was flying through space for at least three million years before encountering the Earth.
    • It's implied that Steve had no idea he was trapped at the center of the Earth for millions of years, something which gives Cesare a moment of pause while gloating to Steve about capturing him.
    • Also, apparently Worthikids' Steve Brule and Palpatine shorts took place in the same universe and timeframe as Steve's journey to Earth.
• Wham Line:
  • "Weren't you folks all clowns this morning?"
  • On a similar note, "Clowns aren't real."
  • In Season Two, "I DON'T EAT FOOD!!"
  • Frances' reveal that Cesare pays the Zomburger employees thousands of dollars per hour. Conrad claims he pulls up the money every morning from a hole in the ground behind an alley.
  • DOWN has a single line from Cesare that puts his ENTIRE character and motivations on its head.
    Cesare: I don't normally need help catching you freakazoids, but you are one tricky bitch, Steve!
  • Cesare reveals that Steve has been sleeping beneath the ground for millions of years, and that apparently Steve was not consciously aware of this.
• Wham Shot:
  • Steve never taking his makeup off.
  • All of the illustrations in the credits, minus the first one.
  • The brief shot of Cesare in the Season 2 intro, showing him at "home" — walking a long stone staircase into a cavern deep underground.
  • UP having the usual intro with Cesare walking down a long stone staircase... And then continuing down that staircase as the actual episode begins.''
  • Steve closes his eyes, reminiscing, and we transition to a shot of a clown planet... with the subtitle 9 Billion Years Ago.

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