Fried Chili Cheese Dogs (webseries)

**Fried Chili Cheese Dogs** (formerly known as *Fried Chili Cheeze Dogs)* was an surreal sketch comedy webseries, created, written and performed by Bobby Crawford and Brandon Kinzer. The style of humour relies heavily on absurdism, subversion, puns and parody. The first episode premiered on July 9th 2008, with the final episode premiering on November 29th 2011.

Following the final episode, Crawford and Kinzer would abandon the 10-minute sketch compilation format and instead release sketches as individual videos on the Fried Chili Cheese Dogs YouTube channel. These sketches would be more wacky and energetic in tone.

## History

Not much is known about the history of the series itself. The YouTube channel *Fried Chili Cheese Dogs* was created in 2007. No videos were added to the channel until 2008. That same year, the webseries started. It is unknown how Bobby and Brandon came together to make the series but it is presumed that they were friends before the series and wanted to create something.

The first episode premiered on July 9th 2008. The series would run for another 11 episodes, officially ending on November 29th 2011.

On July 9th 2017, the 9-year anniversary of the series, a supercut of the best moments from the 11 episodes (plus some bonus sketches made during its run) was released, titled *The Best Beans*.

In 2019, as part of the privatisation of all the other videos on the Fried Chili Cheese Dogs channel, all episodes of the series where privated. As of December 2022, only Episode 2 is publicly available as it is the only one that has been found. Excerpts from the other episodes can be viewed as part of *The Best Beans* but the episodes have yet to be re-released in full. It has been confirmed by Bobby, however, that the episodes will be re-released on the date the series premiered (July 9th 2023).

## Style of comedy

*Fried Chili Cheese Dogs*' style of comedy contains a mixture of different comedic elements. It has a hint of the absurd and surreal that only strengthens with each episode. There is a heavy emphasis on subverting audience expectations (an example being a sketch where Ross appears to be climbing a tall mountain and reaching the top before it is revealed that he only climbed a foot off the ground). The style also uses puns to its advantage (an example being a sketch where Bobby says he needs to go take a pee before walking off and taking a single pea from a pot) as well as pop culture references.

## Format

The series doesn't have an opening titles sequence or a theme song. The opening to Episode 2 infers that the show's identification is through a simple caption at the beginning of each episode. Each episode has a varying amount of sketches but are all mostly the same length (10 minutes). Each sketch is sandwiched between a title card with a illustrated chili cheese dog on it and the title of the series. These cards are accompanied by a popular song. Identifiable songs that have appeared alongside these cards are

* Michael Jackson - *Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough*
* An unknown version of *Jingle Bells*
* The Beatles - *Taxman*
* Los Del Río - *Macarena*
* The Jackson 5 - *I Want You Back*
* Pink Floyd - *Time*
* Louis Armstrong - *What a Wonderful World*

## Episodes

1. Episode 1
2. Episode 2
3. Episode 3
4. Episode 4
5. Episode 5
6. Episode 6
7. Episode 7
8. Episode 8
9. Episode 9
10. Episode 10
11. Episode 11