They don't even try to hide the fact that its fake now, Zippys burgers

In no way are my wife or I clown phobic but Zippy the burger boy is creepy, super creepy, like mil spec creppy.

Is that head made of paper mache?

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Ok now im watching them use the parabolic mike, THROUGH THE WIND SHIELD.

OH MY THERE ARE TWO BURGHER BOYS!!!! The horror.

Did an image search for zippy the yum yum burger boy and find just a few drawings, no pics of the dude.

Obviously fake. One big publicity stunt for Zippys. Should be used in acting classes as a good example of "How NOT to act."

I've never watched an episode of this show before tonight. But I just saw a bit on VH1's Best Week Ever showing clips from the Zippy's episode, and my first thought was "Hey, I know that place!" so I had to check it out.

I live within a couple miles of Zippy's and let me say they truly have great burgers.

But I have to agree that everything about this episode seemed completely fake. I've never even seen a mascot in Zippy's before, which makes me wonder if they didn't just create it specifically for this show. And all the participants seemed like actors (but not necessarily good ones).

I like that Zippy's is getting some publicity, but I wish it wasn't this awfulness. Actually, edit that: I wish they didn't get the publicity at all. The lines there can be long enough as it is.

I totally agree!

So this supposed mascot was "sometimes" acting different yet coincidentally on the day they set up to watch he just happens to get a call and he leaves and his friend fill in?

But yet he didn't really leave and happened to still be in parking lot when the owner comes out?

Also the face on the fill-in dude when the creepy mask was removed from his head was a real tell-tale sign. He had the worst fake "Oh oh, I'm busted" look on his face.

I also watched the one where the employees were having a charity special, stashing $20 each time but then crumpling up the raffle ticket form.

Then when they're called on it they say they have almost $8 grand they all claim it's really for charity and they were really going to give away $1000 prize in the raffle.

I had seen a few other episodes before and they seemed legit, but these two are so obviously fake.

It's like maybe they ran out of real places calling for real situations and decided to make crap up.

Whoever is coming up with these crappy ideas should be fired.

Of course Zippy's was fake, as are pretty much every episode of this show.

Do you remember the episode where a BBQ joint's owner was apalled to find out that his manager was willing to sell the secret BBQ sauce recipe to a competitor? There was an article about another BBQ restaurant owner who was approached by this show offering him the same setup in exchange for free publicity for his restaurant, but he declined because he didn't want to support the phony "he's stealing my recipe" storyline.

I think an elementary school kiddo could have made a better mascot head for Yum Yum! Horrible-looking, in my opinion!

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Just watched it tonight, lol! So hilarious! Dopey Dave was a horrible actor as well! The only reason I watch this show is because it is a comedy and love to laugh at all the stupid scenarios production comes up with.

The episode was followed by Rockabillys. That one was pretty ridiculous too. If they put on a car show all the time, wouldn't the owner be there? If the car show was consistently losing money wouldn't the owner drop by to see what was going on?

I just wish they wouldn't think we were so stupid as to believe it's real and just own up to the fact it's scripted!