"The Burger Problem!" (Stylized as "The Burger PROBLEM!") is the 1,060th episode of SML Movies.
Synopsis[]
McDonald's is making people sick!
Plot[]
The video begins at the McDonald's Headquarters, where Ronald McDonald is called to a meeting. He initially believes that Steve Staleburger called the meeting, but after finding out it was Susan, Ronald began flirting with her. Susan tries explaining to Ronald that his Quarter Pounders are infected with E. coli and that he may lose millions, but Ronald continuously undermines the seriousness of the situation. He makes Susan film a video of himself eating a Quarter Pounder, "proving" that they don't have E. coli. However, Ronald becomes sick with E. coli due to the Quarter Pounder. Ronald still undermines the situation until Susan reveals that Burger King is beating McDonald's in stocks. This finally motivates Ronald to fix the situation.
On the news, Mr. Goodman reports about the E. coli outbreak. Marvin, shocked by the news, warns Jeffy not to eat his Quarter Pounder due to the outbreak. Jeffy doesn't understand what E. coli is, but complies with Marvin's order anyway. The doorbell suddenly rings, and Marvin opens the door and watches as Ronald vomits in a bag. Ronald runs in the house to dump away the waste in his bag.
Afterward, Rose asks if Ronald will refund them, but Ronald denies and instead promises a free medium French fry. Ronald then explains to Marvin why he is so sick, but after Marvin stated that he found out about the E. coli outbreak on the news, Ronald claims that the news is lying. He asks Marvin to help bring up his stocks by getting sick from eating a Whopper and telling about it to the news. Marvin initially refuses, but after Ronald offers him $1 million, Marvin goes to Burger King.
Marvin comes back with a Whopper and prepares to eat it, but Ronald instead tells Marvin to simply take a picture of it and send it to the news. Marvin still wants to eat the Whopper to get the $1 million, so Ronald decides to heavily tamper with the burger in order to make Marvin sick. Marvin decides not to eat it, so Ronald offers Jeffy $1 million to eat the Whopper, which Jeffy does.
Jeffy is soon infected and brought to the hospital, where Ronald pretends to be his father and tells Brooklyn Guy to tell the news about Burger King's Whoppers. Suddenly, the Burger King appears and figures that Ronald is trying to draw attention away from his E. coli outbreak, which Ronald admits to. Ronald also revealed that he had sex with the Whopper, and tells Brooklyn Guy to forget about the whole thing. As Ronald leaves, Marvin asks if he will give Jeffy $1 million, but Ronald simply refuses. As the video ends, Marvin realizes that Brooklyn Guy is attached to the Burger King.
Characters[]
- Ronald McDonald
- Susan
- Marvin
- Jeffy
- Rose
- Brooklyn Guy
- Plumber Guy (as a doctor)
- The Burger King
- Mr. Goodman
- Steve Staleburger (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- This video was uploaded a year after "The Monster Mash!", 2 years after "Jeffy Gets Captured!", 7 years after "The Monster!", 8 years after "Broken", 9 years after "American Idol Episode 1", and a decade after "Bowser Junior Goes to the Fair!".
- This video is similar to "The Burger!" and "Zombie Bowser!".
- This is The Burger King's first appearance since "Jeffy's Moon Cheese!".
- The doctor in the first hospital scene is reused from the same puppet as Jimmy from "Stuck!".
- The episode's plot is based off of McDonald's real E. coli outbreak, which was first reported on October 22, 2024.
- The burger that is shown after Ronald heavily tampered with the Whopper was "Wednesday's Whopper", which is part of Burger King's promotion with The Addams Family.
- The E. Coli outbreak didn't affect Florida.
References[]
- The montage where Ronald tampers the Whopper is similar to the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Nasty Patty", where SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs tamper the Krabby Patty in a similar way with dropping it in the toilet.
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