The Evil Burger Sitcom
Pitch
The Evil Burger Sitcom is a "found footage" absurdist sitcom about a cults attempt at comedy.
The Evil Burger Sitcom is a totally normal sitcom, until it isn’t. For brief moments, the molds of reality, in any and every way, are entirely broken. Then, without the bat of an eye, it is once again your favorite brain-numbing, cliché, yet endearing sitcom. Normalcy, starkly contrasted with a sort of comedic cleverness based in absurdism, is the new take on the sitcom format that “The Evil Burger Sitcom” has to offer.
The idea for “The Evil Burger Sitcom” arose from the universally distracted 5th grader in all of us; the voice in our heads who is watching an episode of Friends and saying: “Wow, it sure would be funny if Chandler started threatening all the members of the cast's life right now.” A part of seemingly every adult is satisfied with the comedy in something normal and somewhat serious, totally devolving into chaos.
How would you define “devolving into chaos?” Think “Smiling Friends” when a simple objective culminates into a disastrous misadventure. Or more specifically “The Eric Andre Show” when the entire band is no longer playing instruments but instead voraciously eating beans from a can.
What is the perfect film medium to utilize this kind of comedy? What kind of show is so played out, so cut-and-dried, so generic that the mind simply has no choice but to create fictitious absurdist scenarios for members of the cast just to entertain itself? The answer is a sitcom. The repetitive and formulaic nature of a sitcom: the laugh tracks, the beaten out jokes, the predictable structure; all of which, while fine in their own right, undeniably beg to be broken up by something. That something? Well, the answer lies somewhere between “eat a burger” and “kill my dog”.
Premise
The Evil Burger Sitcom is a "found footage" absurdist sitcom displaying a defunct cult's attempt at comedy. The sitcom was first shot by a cult based in St. Louis in the early 2000s. It was made to be used as propaganda for the cult’s existing members.
Later, the raw footage was seized in a police raid of the cult’s headquarters. In a recent data dump a large amount of St. Louis Police Department files were leaked to the public, among them was this footage. The production company known as “Splaticus Maximus” got ahold of the footage and, finding it odd and funny, decided to edit the sitcom together and doctor the footage with their signature absurd editing style.
The group Splaticus Maximus found the footage to be that of a harmless homemade movie. As the show progresses eagle eyed viewers will be able to piece together the themes of control, corruption, and even death.
The Evil Burger Sitcom apartment set
Michael Daniels, Brad Norkus, Pierce Docherty, and Teddy Hill on the first day of filming on set
Pierce Docherty Getting Into character as "Porky" on the set
