Nickelodeon's GoodBurger reminds you that no matter how weird you are, you deserve a friend.
Aw, here it goes: 25 years ago, one of the more bizarre kids’ comedies made its way into theaters. 1997’s Good Burger, starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, is a weird, celebratory love letter to the Nickelodeon generation. If the beloved teen movies of the '80s relied more heavily on archetypes i.e: The Breakfast Club, the '90s specifically celebrated weird kids on the fringe.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Good Burger is super weird, absolutely tapping into the 1990s kids’ counterculture vibe of Nickelodeon. Nick back in the day was never as polished or shiny as the content on, say, the Disney Channel. Nickelodeon wasn’t where you came for things to be neat and squeaky clean; you came to Nick to get slimed! Nickelodeon always captured the Freckle Juice by Judy Blume aspects of childhood: being a kid is fun, yeah, but it can also be strange and gross.
Part of the weirdness of Good Burger is in how sincerely the main characters react to the absolute chaos around them. Sure, the customers of Good Burger might get irritated with Ed taking everything in an order so literally, but the rest of the staff is pretty chill and unfazed. Meanwhile, the intense fury of Kurt and the Mondo Burger team at being upstaged by Ed’s secret sauce is played super straight. This is not a tongue-in-cheek or ironic film.
Good Burger never tries to explain Ed. He’s a guy who wakes up and showers in his uniform, rollerblades to work, and then gets into wacky mishaps pretty much all day. That’s the bit. But the movie still finds the heart of Ed, best demonstrated in a scene between Ed and Dexter sitting up on Good Burger’s roof. Dexter gets vulnerable about his problems: having been abandoned by his dad as a child, and subsequently moving around a lot.
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