Burger Me!

Do you want mustard with your veggie burger? Yes, please. Mickey…squeeze us one of them spots in. A nice big, fat, yellow one. I’m gonna teach that smug get a lesson.

Red and yellow / gold are clearly your go-to when you’re flogging burgers. In fact, I struggle to think of any beyond McDonald’s and Burger King. There must be loads of them in America. Either way, Royston Vasey isn’t bucking that global colour palette trend.

Burger Me! (to non-Brits, a clear play on the phrase ‘bugger me‘) serves as a source of employment for pen-obsessed psychopath Pauline (and Mickey) after she loses her job at the Job Centre. As it turns out, Ross – her most hated restart dole scum – is an undercover inspector and fires her. One day he comes into Burger Me! and places an order which Pauline (and Mickey) soil with various body fluids. Afterwards, there’s a hostage situation and she ends up in prison. All fairly standard stuff for a programme as batshit as TLOG. An initialism that probably nobody uses.

It’s well documented that Royston Vasey is the real name of unfunny swearmerchant Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown and he does appear in the show as the mayor – you can assume from this that the cast were / are fans of his in some shape or form. I personally don’t find his work offensive. Just not very good. It just strikes me as the type of stuff children in a playground might find amusing. Horses for courses, I suppose. At least he’s not Jim Davidson.

A pretty low bar, you must admit.