Panic Collection (パニコレ) is a Vyond-animated YouTube anthology channel. It mostly stars Paige but other characters can have their own stories as well.
The English channel is here
. The original Japanese channel can be found here.
Panic Collection features examples of:
- Anonymous Public Phone Call: Henry calls Paige from a phone booth after learning that his new wife, Chelsea, was lazy and overspent on designer stuff to the point of taking loans from shady people (which eventually led to her being taken away to somewhere else to work off the debt). Moreover, this also led to Henry's firing; everyone cut ties with him after learning he was chased down by debt collectors.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Melissa appeared to be Rachel's best friend. However Rachel went missing on a trip to the woods that she and Melissa went on. However when Hiroshi found his mother Penny washing Rachel with a hose and found out Melissa abandoned Rachel in the woods, the three went to confront Melissa. It is revealed that Melissa is in fact a lazy housewife who used her mother-in-law Tammy for chores and stole from her husband John. John divorced her and kicked her out of the house.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Karen was obsessed with her brother Michael, and got jealous when Michael got together with Paige. When Paige caught Michael being fed from a baby bottle like a baby from Karennote , she recorded the footage and sent it to their father. The two were promptly disowned and Paige broke up with Michael.
- Buried Alive: Michael buried his pregnant wife Paige because he thought she was having an affair with Francis and the fact that her father had a criminal record. Fortunately, she was able to get out and expose him.
- Didn't Think This Through: Karen learned from a friend that getting a divorce gave her a settlement fee, so she cheated on Paige's brother, Paul, thinking that he would lose if he divorced her as he'd have to split his assets with her and therefore take the apartment to kick both siblings out. However, when the cheating SIL accidentally exposed herself to Paul, not only did the siblings reveal that since she was married for less than three months, Paul won't have to split his assets with her. Moreover, the apartment was bought by Paige as she was the CEO of a small company. As a result, the cheating SIL ends up destitute and a pariah for what she did.
- Dub Name Change: The English channel renames the characters to English names.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Travis, the protagonist of "My wife went on a trip with another man, but left our daughter home alone" substitutes W's for both his R's and L's while speaking.
- Failed a Spot Check: Ali sent Bob a message that was actually directed at her lover. When she learned about it, she tried to cover it up but Bob refused to hear her excuses until he saw a pill bottle on the table as she claimed to be dizzy. However, Bob suspects again when his friend called about Ali going to a bar with a guy.
- Food Slap: At a blind date with the three top men of the Panikore company, Mia spilled orange juice all over Paige's skirt to make her look bad.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Ms. Karen harassed Ms. Melanie because she was close to the new guy in the office, Steven, whom the former had a crush on. When the latter took a leave to rest from Karen's harassment, she caught Paige talking with Steven and harassed her instead.
- Hypocrite: Mackenzie claims to be a vegan and always gave Phoebe a hard time for eating meat, saying that she feels sorry for the animals that were slaughtered. However Phoebe caught her enjoying a steak and took a picture as proof, and showed it to the workplace. This embarrassed Mackenzie so much that she quit the company.
- The Mistress: A common plot is Paige getting cheated on by her husband/boyfriend.
- Mugging the Monster: In "When my fiancé met my family, my little sister tired to steal him and my parents told me to..." [sic], when Karen and her parents intercept her older sister Rachel to have her give up Paul to her, his little sister Paris joins the conversation and is mistaken for another lover of his. When Karen breaks into the office to slander Paul as a cheater to ruin Rachel's life only to stumble upon his whole family, he reveals that not only is Paris his little sister, but that she is the owner of the premises. Afterward, Paul's family chews the three of them out for playing favorites before his older sister Phoebe calls the cops on them.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife:
- Aileen was a single mother who had a habit of stealing others' stuff, especially Paige's. Moreover, she even used her daughter Twinkle to guilt-trip Paige into doing so when the latter was fed up with her stealing. When Aileen found out Paige's boyfriend, York, worked at a big company, she badgered her into "sharing" him only to be scolded by York.
- Hilda always bragged about being a great housewife and mother of two while disparaging childless ones, especially Yvonne. Eventually, Yvonne got fed up with Hilda's bragging and read through the latter's blog, revealing that the "little angels" she bragged about were actually screenshots she took from someone else's blog, which she claimed belonged to Marisa, an infamous delinquent. While this scared the crap out of Hilda, Yvonne reveals the blog wasn't Marisa's after all.
- Aileen
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Paige's mother-in-law and her daughter Ariana gave her a hard time about working from home, thinking that she just plays games all day. When Ariana broke Paige's laptop after failing to log in, she told everything to her husband and father-in-law. Paige's father-in-law divorced his wife and cut ties with his daughter Ariana. Ariana also got caught having an affair after her husband got suspicious of her going to Paige's house.
- Older Than They Look: Paige is always depicted as a child even as an adult though she is often portrayed as an adult in the thumbnails.
- Parental Incest: An uncle-niece variant is shown in "My husband took in his college student niece and was obsessed with her…", where Paige's husband, Michael, and their niece, Natalie, started a relationship for five years. However, she gathered enough evidence and showed it at Natalie's wedding, exposing their affair and causing the groom to call off the wedding and sue the incestuous couple alongside Paige.
- Pop-Up Texting: There are occasional scenes where characters are communicating via text.
- Relationship Sabotage: Lucy from "Crazy Sister Steals My Fiance And Invites Me To Their Wedding → But When She Saw My Husband…!" always tried and failed to steal other girls' boyfriends since high school, but when Paige brought her boyfriend, Ethan, she succeeded and tried to rub it in at every opportunity. Later on, when Paige attends Lucy's wedding with her wealthy foreign husband, Lucas, who roasts both cheating newlyweds for their affair.
- Secretly Wealthy: When Paris left the company building after quitting, Miss Karen tried to harass her only to find out a parade of luxury cars. She mistook the handsome men in suits for princes who came to pick her up in white horses, but they revealed themselves as Paris' butlers, ready to bring Miss Karen down for her harassment.
- Terrible Artist: Steven is an aspiring manga artist, but his drawing skills are in fact terrible and was unsuccessful so Paige had to support him.
- The Un-Favorite:
- "My family were all doctors, and I was kicked out by them when I turned 18…": Stephen was put aside in favor of his older brother John, who because of his excellent grades in medical school, looked down on people. Not helping matters is that their parents, both doctors, see their patients as peasants to gouge money out of. Eventually, Stephen ends up disowned by his parents for getting into a car accident and thus failing his medical college exam because he was absent for a month.
- "Went to meet my fiancé's parents, but then…": Shawn's parents always played favorites with his sister Kay and spoiled her causing her to be lazy and reliant on her mother for everything.
- "When my fiancé met my family, my little sister tired to steal him and my parents told me to..." [sic]: Rachel was cast aside in favor of her younger sister Karen, whom their parents spoiled rotten. When she came over with her fiancé, Karen predictably tried to flirt with him much to Rachel's chagrin. When Karen demands that Rachel give Paul up with her parents taking the former's side, Paul himself reaffirms his relationship with Rachel, unaware that her family looked down on her.
- "My family were all doctors, and I was kicked out by them when I turned 18…"
- Vandalism Backfire: Kevin and Michelle both gleefully stomp on Paige's tablet after kicking her out of her house. Much to their dismay, Paige reveals that the tablet wasn't hers, but it belonged to Mr. Thomas, who gives the lovebirds a thorough verbal smackdown for breaking his property.
- White-Collar Crime: Miss Karen is found out to have embezzled company money and stolen company property on top of her constant harassment towards other employees. As a result, she is fired and sued for it all.
