| “ | Employees love their manager! | „ |
| ~ A poster in Alfred's office that somehow deludes Alfred into thinking he's a dictator. |
| “ | ALFRED GREAT LEADER | „ |
| ~ The banner held by the workers during Alfred's delusion. |
| “ | Alfred. Alfred. Alfred. Alfred. Alfred. | „ |
| ~ The Burritobell workers in Return to the Playhouse. |
The Burritobell employees are the secondary antagonists of the 2007 Newgrounds animation Rise of Alfred (alongside The Ghosts of Hitler and Stalin) and supporting characters in The Alfred Alfer Movie.
They're a group of burnt-out minimum-wage workers who work at Burritobell when their mentally-ill new manager, Alfred, mistakes his new position as manager for the role of dictator, and begins forcing them to love him. When Alfred's mental illnesses and paranoia get the worst of him, he brutally murders all of them, but their memory lives on in Alfred's decaying mind as a vast cult of mindless worship drones, standing with Alfred when he becomes a right-wing digital deity and commits cyberterrorism.
Every worker who has a speaking role in Rise of Alfred was voiced by Emily Youcis, who also voiced Alfred and Labby in the same series, along with the retconned character Phat Dawg and herself. In Return to the Playhouse, their chanting is provided by Andres Recabarren, Joel Hawkins (who also played one of the "Popsicle screamers" in the same short), Elle Backey and "Crispy".
Appearance[]
Similar to Alfred, the Burritobell workers were dopey, floppy, skinny cartoon dogs of varying breeds and fur colour, and similar height with vacant, bored expressions, dull demeanours and lavender uniforms sporting blue highlights. Their old boss was a greasy, unappealing brown dog with blonde hair, rectangular glasses, a white shirt, an orange tie, and a soft, slurred voice.
In the The Dictator Alfred Show! segment of Return to the Playhouse, any diversity between the workers in terms of shape, breed, fur colour, or expression were completely snuffed out, and all the workers took on the same form: Mindless, soulless pitbull-mixed dogs that look almost identical to Alfred, which is perfectly representative of how Alfred saw them: Not as fellow people, but objects for his disposal.
In Ascent of Alfred, they wore red versions of their uniforms with red MAGA hats, and while appearing slightly more diverse in breed, also appeared much more soulless.
Biography[]
Rise of Alfred[]
When Alfred was promoted to manager, due to a powerlessness and lack of love in his life (and the resulting mental illnesses), he immediately mistook his new position for the role of "Dictator". As a result, instead of treating his employees accordingly, Alfred abused his power and forced them to sing to him, give him sexual favours, and overall just worship him mindlessly. By this point, a DID-induced alter ego called Dictator Alfred began to tell Alfred that the workers were out to get him and murder him, and that he needed to murder all of them before they could catch him, and although not wanting to participate at first, his sanity and restraint quickly crumbled at the overstimulation from one worker talking to him and his cell-phone going off. After blacking out, Alfred woke up on the floor, surrounded by the mutilated corpses of his former coworkers, having murdered them.
Legacy[]
The Alfred Alfer Movie[]
When Alfred returns to the playhouse, he collapses asleep on the couch, exhausted from his necrophilia rampage, until he's interrupted by Dictator Pickles, who manifests himself in Alfred's mind as a TV show playing on the television called "The Dictator Alfred Show". In the audience, dull, watered-down apparitions of the Burritobell workers are chanting Alfred's name, doing exactly what he expected of them during his reign as Burritobell's manager. Dictator Pickles greets his audience excitedly, thanking them for their mindless, repetitive praise before ultimately brutally murdering them with a snap of his fingers, blowing their heads off.
Hordes of Burritobell workers are seen again during Ascent of Alfred, worshipping him still, greeting every single action of his with enthusiasm and praise, and showing clear worry when the cyberterrorists began to revolt and try to assassinate Alfred.
Although both Alfred and Pickles clearly never cared for the workers, they still remain in their mind as a memory of the only time that Alfred ever had any real power over other people outside of the internet and their mind.
Trivia[]
- The Burritobell Employees also appear as the "main antagonists" of Alfred Tribute, a 2009 shitpost by Emily Youcis, who stated in the description, "In this story, the playhouse employees are trying to take over alfred. Can alfred smite them all? LOL". In reality, this is just clips from Rise of Alfred, Alfred's Playhouse and Alfred Christ, edited together choppily and overlayed with voice-lines and footage from "The legend of zelda - CD-I".
