YMMV / BIGTOP BURGER

• Adorkable: Penny's pleasant personality and design, her enthusiasm, and her cute voice all come together to make her this.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Are Steve's antics because he really is just that strange, or does he do crazy and absurd things because he's trying to squeeze a laugh out of his staff?
  • Despite Cesare's depiction as an antagonist, some fans have speculated that he's actually the "good guy" in his rivalry with Steve, for whatever definition that's worth. Evidence for this is the theme for Zomburger, "Down"; in the full version the singer claims to be charged with keeping the "Earthly peace" and opposes a "trickster god" who has come "from the deep".^note "Up's" chorus can be specifically interpreted as being about the singer moving up out of the deep It's also been pointed out that in his introductory short, Cesare was mostly retaliating at Steve for ramming him first.
  • Both times Steve says "Back on Broadway yet again," he closes his eyes and smiles faintly. Both times he says it are times he would be in emotional distress—first when having his Juul freakout in "Kid," and again in "Up," after Cesare has him captured and imprisoned. The first time appears to be Steve going to his "happy place" mentally. Given the way the memory ends in "Up," however, it seems more like Steve reflects on past failures as a way of mentally kicking himself for current ones.
  • Who is the clown who played Munkustrap and cried at Steve's banishment? A friend, a relative, a lover?
  • When Steve descends into the Earth's core, we get a closeup view of his fists opening before he continues to fall with his arms down at his sides. A failed attempt to slow the plummet, or did Steve finally accept his fate and stop resisting even the tiniest bit?
  • Considering Steve's exile-by-cannon was ultimately directly responsible for a massive extinction event on Earth, how responsible is the clown society for this? Are they aware of it— and if so, do they care?— or do they not realize the potentially destructive nature of the punishment? And how many times have they done this over their eons of history?
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: When Conrad pointed to a hole in the side of the road as a parking spot, was it because he’s dumb? Or could he not see it properly thanks to his milky white contacts?
• Awesome Art: The 2D and 3D assets are blended together incredibly well for a mostly solo production. Many comments expressed shock to find out the show was animated completely in Blender.
• Awesome Music:
  • The show's theme song/closing theme, "UP," is an up-tempo power-pop track about someone losing the part of Old Deuteronomy in a production of Cats after vomiting on themself at the audition. Fans originally speculated that it's written from Steve's perspective and explains the roots of his rivalry with Cesare. The theory was eventually Jossed when the episode "UP" revealed that the song is about the circumstances that led to Steve being banished from his homeworld, and sent "up to the Heaviside layer" (shot into space from a cannon).
  • The second season's theme song "Friends in Low Places" is equally beloved, appearing to provide series lore on Cesare and being of a darker, grungier tone from "Up." Commenters particularly praise the Scare Chord-esque violin instrumentals near the song's climax.
  • When Cesare reveals his true power and attacks Steve, the song that plays is "STRAIGHT DOWN", which is a Dark Reprise of the already-pretty-dark "DOWN". The intensity of the opening riff and chorus drives home the gravity of the scene it plays in.
• Dry Docked Ship: Plenty of fans like to paint Steve and Cesare's rivalry as them being estranged exes.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Zomburger Crew only showed up for one episode out of five in season one, and their cool designs and weird personalities made them incredibly popular. Ian seems to have taken note as they've seemingly been promoted to secondary character status in the second season.
• Fanon: Many fans have adopted the theory that the music video for "Wire"—also made by Worthington—is a prequel to this series, as it features clowns opposing vampires and other undead.
• Fridge Brilliance: Cesare of Zomburger claims his burgers are practically charcoal and indigestible. Charcoal cannot be properly digested, and activated charcoal is used in detox or other specialty diets as it also prevents other things from being absorbed by the digestive tract. In addition to Instagram posters, Zomburger probably has a lot of customers who are on specialty diets. Their food tasting bad and none of their customers really caring probably has something to do with diet food having a bad reputation of being tasteless or unappetizing.
  • Season Two introduces a rather bizarre circumstance: the full versions of the songs UP and DOWN seem to be opposite, with UP having nothing to do with the plot and DOWN being hilariously blunt about Cesare's plans, but the Season Two finale reveals that UP was basically just as blunt all along. (DOWN even turns out to be even more literally true than it initially seemed - Cease really does take Steve down.)
    • Fridge Horror sets in when you remember Steve's backstory, and how he crawled out of the earth in front of Tim still in his clown world clothes. Steve spent MILLIONS of years underground, struggling for who knows how much of that to reach the surface. And now Cesare has plunked him right back under the ground.
• Genius Bonus: During DOWN, Cesare mocks Steve whom he has pinned in place with magical heavyweights by saying "this is Giles Corey style, Steve!", referring to the historical figure Giles Corey who was crushed to death on suspicion of being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials.^note Not even Worthikids got this reference, as he has alleged that that was an improvisation from Chris Fleming.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Tom Willett's appearances in both seasons (and in the unrelated and now unlisted music video "Dried Up Old Bones) becomes harder to watch after the resurfacing of his sexual abuse crimes. The SEASON TWO compilation removes Willett's contribution entirely, replacing the panel scene he was featured in with a new one.
• Heartwarming Moments: The Stinger of the SEASON TWO compilation, which shows Steve first emerging in the present day. The first person he encounters is Tim, who immediately gives the confused clown money for food, saying there's a great burger place nearby.
• Magnificent Bastard: Cesare is the devious head of Zomburger, Steve's rival food truck. Secretly a mysterious agent of "upper management" seeking to capture Steve for being a real Clown from a distant planet, Cesare uses his eccentric and childish nature to disguise his talent at capturing beings like Steve. Cesare pays his employees thousands of dollars per hour to wear zombie makeup and throws off suspicion toward his true undead nature, employing schemes like attacking Bigtop's truck with a cannon before turning to his ultimately successful plan: Providing Steve with "gifts" that he reveals to be magical kettle bells that he tricks Steve into carrying, capturing Steve and going off to a happy retirement.
• Memetic Badass: Steve, with his seemingly infinite Reality Warper abilities and impressive feats, has been referred to as many things; from an Eldritch Abomination, to an anime protagonist, to God. GREASEPAINT implies— and "UP" confirms— that this is because he's a "real" clown, unlike the rest of the food truck's staff who just wear clown makeup.
• Unexpected Character: Nobody expected Steve Brule and Yoda (who had appeared in previous Worthikids shorts) to turn up for cameo appearances in "UP".

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