#we open at six

[spacetravels]

we run a diner!!!

[awnrii]

what if I combined my interests together

rvb/mb au that I’ve lovingly dubbed… red versus burger

[podcastbree]

[ailelie]

GLORIA:  Everyone. Everyone, can I have your attention? I know this is a strange day for you, I appreciate you showing up at all… So… On my home planet there’s this thing called Top Ramen. It’s dried noodles and a packet of flavoring. It’s not very good for you but it’s food. And you can get them for 50 cents each. That’s not a lot where I’m from. I never ate it all that much myself, but it was always nice knowing it was there. You knew you were never going to starve because of a cheap package of dried noodles always waiting for you at any store. It’s nice.

What a lot of people don’t know is that the reason  why there’s dirt cheap noodles at any store, is because one day, a long time ago, two nuclear bombs  were detonated on an island called Japan. Thousands of people died in an instant, and in the aftermath thousands more were going to die of sickness and starvation. But one man had an idea to send bricks of dried noodles with a packet of flavoring to anyone who was hungry. They knew they weren’t going to starve. On the island of Jamaica they cook chicken in a way that doesn’t make any smoke. They do that because a long time ago, they were slaves, and the smoke would’ve alerted slavers and they  would then be running for their lives. Zebulon, why do Jewish people eat unleavened bread?

ZEBULON: Because they too were slaves. When word came from Moses that it was time to flee captivity in the night, they had no time to wait for their bread to rise. So to this day, the flat bread is a reminder of that flight from their oppressor.

GLORIA: For me, when I cook with corn, beans, and squash, it’s called the tres hermanas. The same way my ancestors cooked thousands of years ago. My ancestors who were nearly wiped out by foreign invaders… Show me your plate, and I’ll tell you a sad, sad story. Your sad story begins today. The day you had to turn to the spirits of your ancestors to keep you alive while you were just trying to do the right thing, and leave a better life for your children. I can’t make you eat this food. It’s your story, not mine. So Zebulon’s going to say a prayer, and then you’re all going to make a choice. It’s up to you.

ZEBULON: Bless us, O Lord. Bless our food and our drink. Since you redeemed us so dearly and delivered us from evil, as you gave us a share in this food so  may you give us a share in eternal life.

[budgies-with-pencils]

In honor of the new season.

[delicate-little-honeysuckle]

I think my favorite thing about Midnight Burger (which is actually everything about it, it's my favorite podcast ever and one of my favorite things ever), is that the characters are allowed to ramble. They're allowed to make their touching speeches with too many metaphors and repeating similar sentences again and again.

I rarely see that happen in fucking anything! Characters shut each other down all the time, as if talking a lot is some horrible taboo or crime (is it a taboo? I am socially clueless), like in so many shows and movies and books, someone is passionately talking and is shut down with a "you're rambling" and reply with "sorry". But in Midnight Burger, they let each other ramble and talk and explain and technobabble to their heart's content (mostly), seeking clarification afterwards.

I love that! I really don't see that much! The more I listen to Midnight Burger, the more I love it, which is impressive because I already love it so much.

[debrouiller]

DO interact:

173 year old ex-dmv workers, two time escapees of chemical ice jail, presumed insane ivy league professors known for disappearing, restaurant managers who declared war on an intergalactic dictatorship and WON, 20th century christian radio hosts who are “the hot ones,” big malevolent things, unkillable robots made to accost estranged ex-husbands, barts, annas, molotov cocktails brought to you by communism, space pirates, elders who lost an arm in the Justine Burbank system, space pirate lawyers, talking plants who didn’t disclose they were poisonous, cooks who didn’t disclose they were engineers who didn’t disclose they were criminals, zombified mallgoers, aliens interfering with human life for better reality tv, confused motel owners and their cousins, people who couldn’t see Ashley the asteroid, people who could see Ashley the asteroid, booth enthusiasts, pocket dimension dwelling wolves named after the members of a kpop group, redheaded self-fulfilling prophecies who are the river and the tiger and the fire, deadbeat dads with two moms, scientists befriended by fourth dimensional beings, time traveling coworkers who bit and then exploded john wilkes booth, collapsing waveforms that used to be arkansas residents, hogs named pansy, and finally, people who run a diner.

[clowninthecoffeehouse]

me when i disrupt the fabric of space time

[theccrowsnest]

you know what they say Leif Låff Love

[liakunemui]

midnight burger animatic

made a little animatic of that conversation between ava and caspar from the S2 finale. It's finally finished and now up on youtube! enjoy!? i guess???

[junosteelyourgirl]

made the midnight burger gang on picrew :)) (credit: potatolord!)

@midnightburgr

(top to bottom, left to right: caspar, ava, gloria, leith, effie, zeb, clementine, terrence, ex)

[awnrii]

i do, i do, i do / trace me back to you

hi. normal about bertleif. here’s a bertleif timeline (at least, until the events of episode 20.)

\/ here’s a version where it’s all stacked up in one image!

[podcastbree]

Gloria MidnightBurger, the only professional in the joint

do we reckon she still wears the uniform at this point or has she given up?

[emberdune]

time is the river that sweeps me along but i am the river. it is the tiger which destroys me but i am the tiger. it is the fire which consumes me but i am the fire

[budgies-with-pencils]

I CAN DO ANYTHING BETTER THAN YOU! 🎵

Support below!

[blightsmanor]

cannot stop thinking about Midnight Burger