Fries with That?

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Fries with That?
The employees of Bulky's, left to right: Anne-Marie Baron as Tess Laverrière, Stéfanie Buxton as Robyn Cohen, Giancarlo Caltabiano as Ben Shaw, Jeanne Bowser as Pattie Johnson, Morgan Kelly as Alex Kurzi.
Genre	preteen sitcom
Creator(s)	Claudio Luca (Producer)
Starring	Anne-Marie Baron, Stéfanie Buxton, Giancarlo Caltabiano, Jeanne Bowser, Morgan Kelly
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	approx. 23 minutes per episode, 1196 minutes total
Broadcast
Original channel	YTV
Original run	4 April 2004 – 2 December 2004
Links
IMDb profile

Fries With That? was a YTV produced sitcom. It first aired in April 2004.

This sitcom revolves around a group of high-school students who work at a local fast food restaurant named Bulky's in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The sitcom follows primarily five high school students and focuses on many themes such as love, responsibility, friendship, and honesty. Each member of the Bulky's main crew has a unique personality.

It was cancelled after completion of the second series due to declining ratings.

1 Principal Characters
2 Origin of the series
3 Cast
4 External links

[edit] Principal Characters

Pattie, cashier. She enjoys playing sports, especially football and basketball. She uses her athleticism to compensate for her lack of intellect. For example, Pattie uses a unique studying technique, which involves shooting a piece of paper into a makeshift basket in order to learn specific historical events such as July 1, 1867 (Canadian Confederation). Although she is in touch with her masculine side, she is extremely romantic. Her taste for men vary from an ostracized nerd to a handsome criminal.

Tess, cashier. Tess is the freespirit of the crew. Her French accent and last name indicate that she comes from a Francophone household. Her colleagues know her to be extremely creative and artistic. She tends to be rather eccentric and she believes her aura/soul is a huge presence in her life and should be taken seriously (but she is often ignored). She is obsessed with the paranormal and likes to use it as an explanation for everyday occurrences. She is often distracted at work by studying, art projects, deadlines, songs, extra projects, or boys.

Robyn cashier, griller, dishwasher. Robin is the probably the most functional character. She claims to hate men, but has a secret crush on the egotistical Alex. She hints at the secret several times, but Alex can’t seem to figure it out. For example, when Alex and Pattie were mistaken to be involved in a serious relationship, she indicated with two miniature figurines that they would not be married. She moped and even ate expired chocolate that Ben bought for whomever would be his "future girlfriend.” She also mysteriously has a huge love for Romanian soap operas that was demonstrated when a criminal used TNT on a vault about 20 feet away and she didn't even notice.

Alex, burger flipper. Alex is the typical handsome egotistical young teenager. Although he has a reputation of being rude, disgusting and inconsiderate, he is a loyal friend. He is not terribly romantic and fails to recognize Robyn’s attraction for what it is. He tends to be very physical in his relationships and can’t seem to keep his hands off the girls that attract him. He also loves to provoke his extremely obsessive assistant manager, Ben Shaw, and they seem to be in a constant state of frustration with each other. One notable instance involved a particularly attractive exchange student from Flin Flon, Manitoba who caught their eyes. Ultimately, a feud commenced and it finally resulted in two broken hearts. He also plays the violin, but tries to keep it a secret because he thinks it is geeky.

Ben is the highly obsessive and greedy assistant manager. He only wants one thing: more profits for Bulky's so that he can get recognition and be finally the manager. He is a largely two-faced character—sometimes aloof and unpleasant, and sometimes friendly and accepting. He is a perfectionist and tends to stress easily. Certain crewmembers wish he would fall off a bridge, just so they could have a day off for once. He enjoys making up absurd but “official” sounding rules such as “no member of the crew at Bulky’s is allowed to date another crewmember at Bulky’s.” On the other hand, Ben is an excellent mathematician and greatly enjoys listing and calculating profits. He is always the employee of the month and he is the only one that has access to the money in his "personal vault" which even a criminal with TNT could not break in. He also did horribly on his provincial exams due to cheating.

Meiyan, introduced in season two. Her work hours seem to vary from the rest of the cast, as most often, she appears during her off hours, mostly to antagonize Ben. She loves to annoy Ben, and tried to take his job when Ben faked his death.

Eddie is not part of the main crew, but rather an employee that transports the supplies from the warehouse to the restaurant. He is portrayed as a simpleton, but rather showed some signs of intelligence when he got 100% on all of his provincial exams without cheating. He often replies "____? I'm super good at _____" whenever anyone mentions something they have problems with, but usually, Eddie turns out to not be as good as he says he is.

The "head office guy" supervises the restaurant and is constantly bombarding Ben and the crew with threats in order to increase productivity. He tends to be serious, but did stir things up with a crafty April Fool's Day prank.