Big Evil Bob (or BEB for short) is a collection of Web Videos about the eponymous Big Evil Bob, who apparently makes it his mission in life to offend, hurt or kill two other guys named Sam and Eddie. The videos are interrelated, but are self-contained with little continuity. It is stylistically simple, with very little information given about any of the characters' backgrounds; outside of their homes, nothing is known of the characters' jobs, ages, location, or families. BEB videos are live-action with a cartoonish quality. They were released sporadically on YouTube and can be viewed here
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This show provides examples of:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In episode 3, Bob is studying The Prince by Machiavelli, Sam is studying Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard, and Eddie is reading an Archie Comics Double Digest.
- Bad Santa: Played both ways in the Christmas Special, as Bob impersonates Santa in order to depress/offend Sam and Eddie, and then the real Santa appears. While he's quite jolly to the duo, he expresses the fact that he is "less than pleased with Bob's wicked ways."
- Beach Episode: Episode 2, "Big Evil Bob and The Beach Beauties." It subverts the tendency of this trope to feature sexy ladies in skimpy bikinis: it does feature the beach, but despite the title, no characters appear except for Sam, Eddie and Bob, and only Sam and Bob actually appear on the beach. Thankfully, none of them wore skimpy bikinis.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Buttermilk could easily have killed Bob, but delayed it in order to spend some time with him before doing so to take advantage of spending a day with his "idol".
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In episode 5, Buttermilk Eugene Buttwhick introduces himself as a fan of Bob and references past episodes, going so far as to reference the YouTube channel/username where Big Evil Bob videos are posted (TheRealGentleman). Bob expresses confusion about how Buttwhick could know all about the free banana incident, the trip to Myrtle Beach, the "full-proof plan", or, in Buttwhick's own words, "The Christmas Special". While Buttwhick initially seems smart, he ends up being as mentally disorganized and ineffective as Bob himself, or even moreso. Later, Sam and Eddie notice a camera as they leave Bob's house, and run from it fearing "the Government". The view of this camera pans out to reveal Buttwhick inside, watching them on Bob's computer.
- Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': Bob's sole purpose is to offend, injure, or perhaps even kill Sam and Eddie, yet everything he does is interpreted by them as an incredibly gracious act of friendship. Sometimes, his own stupidity causes things to go wrong; other times, Sam and Eddie's stupidity and obviousness are the sole reason Bob never successfully conveys his negative feelings towards them. In the third episode, Sam and Eddie believe Bob actually "predicted the future" and knew they were going to buy protective athletic cups, then planned for three months to "kick them in the groin to test them". His clairvoyance was attributed, nonsensically, to simply being "really smart.". As the series progresses, Bob's schemes begin to backfire in a way that causes him physical harm, specifically in the Christmas Special and the fifth episode when he's subjected to misfortune at the hands of new characters. In the case of the latter, the reason for this makes very little sense and doesn't follow as any kind of direct, meaningful consequence of his own evil deeds.
- Character Development: The lead character turns from a mean-spirited jerk in the first episode to an enraged psychopath who attempts to set elaborate death traps and mails bombs disguised as Christmas presents.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Sam and Eddie constantly interpret plainly aggressive acts as friendly ones, often by use of the most ridiculous logic imaginable. Bob tends to sabotage his own plans by not wanting to spend more time on them, often justifying this by apparently having lost touch with reality; for example, in the Christmas Special, he thinks that a black biker hat, a wig of long, gray hair, a fake black moustache, a pillow under his shirt and a name-tag reading "Santa" is a "good enough" impersonation of Santa Claus. Sam and Eddie's believed it.
- Computer Voice: A friendly Computer Voice appears in episode 5, bearing bad news despite the cheery attitude.
- Contemplate Our Navels: Sam has a tendency to make up ridiculous interpretations of events so that he never notices the real, negative intent behind them, such as the beginning of episode. In the beginning of episode 3, he is seen reading Soren Kierkegaard's "Works of Love".
- Dedication: Episode 5 is dedicated to "the memory of The Myth, The Man, The Magic: Harold 'Hal' P. Warren". He directed, wrote and starred in Manos: The Hands of Fate, which is widely regarded as the worst movie ever made.
- The End... Or Is It?:
- Over the credits at the end of the Christmas Special, a radio announcer references a dangerous madman recently escaped from a mental institution as having delusions of being Santa Claus. However, "Santa" teleports his Naughty and Nice lists into his hand with a snap of the fingers, disappears/teleports as he walks away at the end, gives Sam and Eddie a Nintendo Wii and other (less glamorous) presents and seemingly broke into the house without any signs of having done so. This leaves it unclear whether he really was Santa or a deranged lunatic.
- In episode 5, Buttermilk Eugene Buttwhick was shown to literally explode after eating an explosive lollipop, but he appeared again at the end, first watching Sam and Eddie on Bob's computer, and then laughing manically right at the camera.
- Evil Laugh: Buttermilk Eugene Buttwhick does this for an especially long time at the end of episode 5.
- My New Gift Is Lame: Santa gives Sam a Nintendo Wii, and gives Eddie a brown paper bag filled with episodes of Benson that he taped off of TV himself, to make it "extra special". Eddie appears less than pleased, but doesn't complain.
- Non-Lethal Warfare: In the fourth and fifth episodes, Bob attempts to use weapons and traps that would kill a normal person, but misses Sam and Eddie, falls victim to said weapons himself, and comes away stumbling but still alive.
- Oh, Crap!: In the Christmas Special, Bob is informed that the nachos he's eating are full of MSG (he apparently has an allergy) and that the milk he attempts to wash it down with comes from a hippopotamus. He looks at the camera and gurgles, before the scene cuts directly to him vomiting violently in a trash can in the garage.
- Saving Christmas: In the Christmas Special, Bob tries sabotaging Saint Nick by pretending to be him, only to inadvertently come to harm that would have otherwise befallen the real Santa and ruined Christmas.
- The Unintelligible: Downplayed in the fourth and fifth episodes; Bob speaks in a rather caveman-like way and often mumbles incoherently, though generally the viewer gets a sense of what he means anyway.
- The Voiceless: In the first couple of episodes, Bob 55only screams and growls.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: When Bob vomits in the Christmas Special, complete with the trashcan being vomited into shaking violently.
- Zany Scheme: Bob's schemes have been progressively zanier as the series has moved forward from episode 3, going from a simple kick to the groin, to impersonating Santa Claus, to rigging some sort of insane trap that causes an explosion of toilet paper and chicken noises.
