History PlayingWith / AcmeProducts

* '''Discussed''': "Um... Charlie? [[GoshDangItToHeck Where in the heck]] did you find RocketBoots and a bucket of jellied eels?" "I bought them from the Anvil catalog, duh! They have everything a guy like me might ever need..." "And you never wondered how they became so prominent?" "Not really, no... oh look, there he comes! Stand aside, [[CatchPhrase it's scheme-o-clock!]]"

* '''Justified''': Anvil Industries are famous for InstantHomeDelivery, huge assortment of items, and affordable prices, and Charlie, [[IdiotBall not being too smart]], disregards [[RuleOfFunny the inevitable]] [[HonestJohnsDealership quality issues]] when he needs something for a ZanyScheme right this instant.

* '''Conversed''': "You noticed how in these cartoons, the characters always get their wares from a single company, no matter how improbable it would be?" "[[TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary Rule of Funny, dude]]. RuleOfFunny."

* '''Double Subverted''': However, it then turns out that they're a subsidiary of TropeCo, an umbrella corporation that owns dozens of other, smaller corporations that, together, do make absolutely everything.

* '''Subverted''': At first, it looks like Anvil Industries makes everything... but then it turns out they mainly deal in things like construction supplies and industrial equipment, and don't make things like consumer electronics, food products, or firearms.

** Whenever Charlie needs something, he buys it from a different overspecialized store... [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands which are all run]] [[RecurringExtra by the same guy]], who is a [[OneManArmy one-man]] [[MegaCorp multinational corporation]] in his own right.

* '''Conversed''': "You noticed how in these cartoons, the characters always get their wares from a single company, no matter how improbable it would be?" "[[TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary Rule Of Funny, dude]]. RuleOfFunny."

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ''Zany Avenue'' starts out as a GenreThrowback to the [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age cartoons]], so the appearance of Anvil Industries as a company that sells everything to the main characters doesn't raise any eyebrows - but as [[ContinuityCreep continuity and setting details pile up]], the astute viewers notice that Anvil Industries' products with oddly specific uses and employees willing to help out for a modest fee always seem to appear where they are needed...

* '''Zig Zagged''': In some episodes, Anvil Industries is Charlie's one-stop-shop for everything he needs, and in others, he has to go hunt for gadget-of-the-day in small mom-and-pop stores.

** In one episode, Charlie buys a Build-Your-Own-Starship kit from the Anvil catalog and goes on a tour of the Solar system - and even on the [[UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} moons of Saturn]], Anvil Industries is the go-to company for the inhabitants' ZanyScheme needs.

* '''Exaggerated''': Literally ''everything'' that ever appears on the show (and, according to the WordOfGod, everything that is left out of frame too) is made by Anvil Industries.

* '''Parodied''': Charlie and his friends react with genuine shock when they find out that there are, in fact, other companies that aren't Anvil Industries.

* '''Implied''': When [[TheAllegedCar Charlie's rustbucket of a car breaks down]] in the middle of [[DownOnTheFarm Poweshiek County, Iowa]], he mutters: "Dang it... I really ought to get my wares from some other company...", prompting a quizzical look from his passenger, [[CunningLikeAFox Henry the Fox]]: "What other company?"

* '''Inverted''': Every time Charlie or some other character needs something, they buy it from a different, overspecialized venture.

* '''Deconstructed''': In a WhatIf storyline, the writer explores the way Anvil Industries would function in real life, and lists off [[CorruptCorporateExecutive all the unethical methods they would likely use]] to destroy the competition and make themselves a monopoly, as well as the [[VastBureaucracy myriad ramifications]] of a company being so huge that it literally makes everything.

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* '''Exploited''': Charlie, sick of being a ButtMonkey, takes a crash course in MacGyvering, and that, combined with his unlimited access to Anvil Industries' products, makes him [[WhosLaughingNow truly a force to be reckoned with]].

* '''Exploited''': Anvil Industries are known by their low-quality products, which Charlie keeps buying so that when they inevitably break down and end up hurting him, he can sue the company.

* '''Exploited''': Anvil Industries are known by their low-quality products, which Charlie keeps buying so that when they inevitably break down and end up hurting him, he can sue the company and win some money.