Episodes in Midnight Burger

Now jobless in the pandemic era, Gloria takes a job interview at a lonely diner outside of Phoenix. What could possibly go wrong?

It's Gloria's first official shift at everyone's favorite space, time, and dimension traversing diner and the staff finds themselves setting down on a dense, forested planet, teeming with life.

You'd think working a busy shift in a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner in 1934 Harlan County, Kentucky would keep you from being confronted by your past relationships. That's what you get for thinking.

We've all been there... your sentient old-timey radio stops talking to you and suddenly your diner is hurtling toward a supermassive black hole, right guys?! Whom amongst us?

You know how sometimes an ad gets stuck in your head? Well, this time the diner has found itself in a dystopian Earth where the ads are LITERALLY stuck in your head. That's right, it's the worst dystopia of all. No mohawks, no zombies, no improvised weaponry... just more ads.

You may be done with the past, but the past isn't done with you. Also the future would like to have a word...

There's a joke I'm trying to think of... A robot walks into a diner something something something humanity is subjective. Anybody know that one?

Things can keep for a long time when they're frozen: Chicken, fish, broccoli, reminders of the futility of our actions. Be careful when you defrost...

Don't you hate it when you throw a party at the end of the last great Ice Age and your friend just HAS to be the center of attention?

SEASON ONE FINALE!! Remember: When faced with a dark and mysterious force in the sky, try throwing a scientists at it. Literally.

It's Season 2! Midnight Burger is down a man but that doesn't stop the doors from opening at 6. Hey, are we in Arkansas?

Harlan County, Kentucky, 1963. June takes her baby cousins camping and tells them the story of the day her Daddy met The Dead Woman of Brownie's Creek...

Somewhere in deep space is the unhappiest man in the multi-verse.

This club has everything: Robots, overt threats, uncomfortable conversations about sexuality, space lawyers...

Hey. Remember Ted? Nice guy. What ever happened to him?

Reid's paradox of rapid plant migration... but in space.

The first night is always the roughest.

For sale: One old west town. Never used.

Time is meaningless but let's do a flashback anyway!

And Gloria said unto them, "Show me your plate, and I'll tell you a sad, sad story." -The Book of Mucklewain

Hey. We kind of left Westernville in a hurry. I wonder how they're doing...

Let's save BertBert!

"It's our universe, they just don't know it yet."

Home...

In an idle moment, Leif checks the news feeds from home...

Welcome back, Caspar! We're all screwed!

In our final interlude, we take a quick step back before we move forwrad, and say goodbye to the old man of the starways...

Season 2 Finale! Departures, arrivals, goodbyes, hellos, fights, realizations, idiocy, tacos... Funerals, am I right?

"There's no aliens anymore, Leif. Just a big mess."

Welcome to the Horizon Motel. We apologize for the unconscious lady in the parking lot.

"Sigians, man."

"What are we to think of a woman's suffering a broken leg when another crowd of 1,000 turned violent after waiting eight hours to get into a Zayre store in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.? Departmental Manager William Shigo could provide no explanation either. He armed himself with a baseball bat to defend his position behind the counter. Said he: 'Get back, you're breaking my legs.'" -Time Magazine, September 12th, 1983.

"You want to be in the mess with me?"

Out there, somewhere, lookin' for ya...

"Until then... I surf."

Every day is the end of the world for somebody.

"Oh great emergence from dark waters, what new world do you bring to see its first light?"

"There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano." ― Marcel Proust

"New message from BertBert marked URGENT."

"While we're on brunch, how about hollandaise sauce? Not for me. Bacteria love hollandaise. And hollandaise, that delicate emulsion of egg yolks and clarified butter, must be held at a temperature not too hot nor too cold, lest it break when spooned over your poached eggs. Unfortunately, this lukewarm holding temperature is also the favorite environment for bacteria to copulate and reproduce in."-Anthony Bourdain

"I have to see it."

Welcome to Hood's Pocket, Oregon. It gets weird here.

Oof. Home again.

Showtime.

"I'm going to hate this so much, Leif."

And the Hoopoe said to King Solomon, "I have found out what you could not."

Time for a nice, relaxing day off.

"Many things wait in the woods, and they will wait forever. They wait for you." -Coralee's Guide to the First Forest.

"There is life even in the darkness, they say... If we thrive then so shall you, they say..."

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

"The world Keeps Changin' on me..."

"We make the world, Caspar."

Have you seen this dog?

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.

"... Something in the sky..."

"Total Atomic Breakdown" sounds bad.

"That is the Space Foot."

"Not just a theory of everything..."

"What I see will depend on what I'm seeking."

"What's the crime before the crime?"

-Content Warning: Episode contains Violence.- "I have no idea what this place is."

"You have no idea... Dr. Maddox."

"It really was a nice night..."

"If we were forced to pinpoint a year, 2012 appears to be a good choice for when the modern world was invented, and we’ve been living in it now for a little over a decade." -Erik Hoel

"Even the Christians who cut down the sacred groves must have felt the loss, because they built their cathedrals with soaring columns like the trunks of trees and with vaulted ceilings ribbed and fanned like the canopy of a forest, and every where, in unexpected places, they carved the head of the Green Man–spirit of nature–peering out of his leafy dell, beautiful and challenging." - Moyra Caldecott

"Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity." -Thomas Malthus

-Show Notes Redacted by the US Military-

"Get ready. Get set. Get out!"

"Attention, people of Earth..."

"In the storm, in the calm, with you there..."

Boom.

Ever forward... That way.

"What if we can't stop him?"