History VideoGame / GoGoHypergrind

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* CallBack: Act 5: Factory takes place in the factory where the robots are built that are on display in the robot museum in Act 1: Toon City.

* DoubleUnlock: The store is near-empty when the game begins. To get it stocked, various goals have to be met during Story Mode's forty rounds. Once the store is stocked, the goods have to be purchased with money won during the rounds, the amount of which also depends on met or unmet goals. New boards and equippable gear thus are only earned after first unlocking them in the shop and then buying them there.

%%* LevelAte: The winter set in Act 3: Fantasy Studio evokes winter in relation to the other seasonal sets, but its also a food-themed area. It more or less is one giant cake, with the snow doubling as frosting or cream. Vertical areas look like cake with pieces of fruit inserted, such as kiwi and strawberry.

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%%* MiniMe: Sally,

* MoneyToThrowAway: There are two instances of money being thrown about. Firstly, Bob is filthy rich and possibly royalty. He likes to show off his wealth by throwing money around, such as during his air appeal special Bling Bling, his manual appeal special Camel Ride, and during his victory cutscene. Secondly, in Act 2: Western Film, the bank has a moneybag billboard from which people-sized coins fall. These coins have Kevin's face on them and cause the Accordion Negative Reaction.

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* PunnyName: Gigi's name derives from the Japanese word for "rabbit", which is "usagi". Gigi has a strong rabbit theme.

%%* RecurringExtra: But there is also the recurring image of a long-nosed face. Among others, it appears on top of the weather vane in Act 2: Western Film and in that same act it's also pictured on the train. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the face is on the chimney at the front of the winter house. In Act 4: Haunted Night, a giant skull ornament has the characteristic big nose. In Act 6: Jungle, the native masks and the temple are in the face's image. And in Act 7: Ninja Village, several walls bear the image. Is this supposed to be Chief Walt?

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** Kevin's profile mentions one Chief Walt as ostensibly the contest's organizer and that's all that is known about him. He may be a cut character, because there is a character file for "Chief" in the game's code. But there is also the recurring image of a long-nosed face. Among others, it appears on top of the weather vane in Act 2: Western Film and in that same act it's also pictured on the train. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the face is on the chimney at the front of the winter house. In Act 4: Haunted Night, a giant skull ornament has the characteristic big nose. In Act 6: Jungle, the native masks and the temple are in the face's image. And in Act 7: Ninja Village, several walls bear the image. Is this supposed to be Chief Walt?

* InformedSpecies: Kevin very obviously wears a tutu shaped like a standard cartoon vulture when he performs his grind appeal special Dark Ballerina. There's even distorted music playing while he performs it and that distorted music is preceded by disturbing laughter, so that fits with the reputation of vultures as creepy birds. Yet that tutu as equippable gear is called the Dodo Tutu. It doesn't remotely look like a dodo, whether the real bird or any of its cartoon depictions.

%%* RemixedLevel: Every stage has an eye-catching secret Negative Reaction that has to be unlocked during Freeride Mode, an Appeal Champ rank match, a 1 Link Appeal rank match, a Simon Says rank match, or a Mini Game rank match. It is already unlocked during the Battle and Race rank matches and it cannot be unlocked during Rehearsal. In Act 1: Toon City, the globe held up by a big robot can be knocked off by circling its ring. It will roll around the museum staircase and inflict the Accordion Negative Reaction. In Act 2: Western Film, the edge of a circular pen near the tipis can be rounded thrice to generate a tornado. Skating into this tornado causes the Flatten Negative Reaction. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the man-eating plants on the spring/summer set can be brought to bloom by a skater who is shot into the big star hanging above the set to make it rain stardust. Two plants grow up: a purple one chews up skaters for the Flatten Negative Reaction while the green one chomp down on a skater's head to cause the Pinch Negative Reaction. In Act 4: Haunted Night, there's a circle of six candles set up on the mansion's roof. A skater can lit themselves on fire and follow the outline of the candles to light them and finish a summoning ritual for the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper proceeds to wield his scythe in a circle for an opportunity at the Decap Negative Reaction. In Act 5: Factory, there's a lever in the control room at the top of the factory. Flipping it activates the pistons in the walls for the Accordion Negative Reaction. In Act 6: Jungle, there's a temple with light-redirecting orbs on pillars. Above each orb is a stone slab. Skating the beams of light to destroy the slabs causes the volcano to explode and launch a large stone head over to the temple, where it rolls across a linear path and causes the Flatten Negative Reaction. In Act 7: Ninja Village, there's a lever in the corner to the upper right of the dojo that when flipped tilts the dojo over for the gekijo to appear. This exchanges a double of the Box Negative Reaction obtainable on the other side of the small stage for an otherwise unobtainable H Cylinder Negative Reaction. And in Act 8: Hong Kong Night, there is a satellite dish on the restaurant's roof and if it's switched up, it sends a message into space that draws a big UFO that beams skaters up and leaves them with the Puncture Negative Reaction.

* ToiletHumour: Part of the game's humor is slapstick violence, another part is the characters being silly, and another part is gross and naughty stuff. For instance, Mr. Smith won't keep his fingers out of his nose, there are two stages in which the skaters may cover themselves in poop, the appeal Johnson Juice involves copious amounts of a bodily fluid that hopefully is sweat, Piggy Sue has a tendency to show her butt to the camera and she farts during the award ceremony, the second face on the Mount Rushmore-like sculpt props up the overly long tongue of the first face, and Pinch 50% of the time targets the head and 50% of the time the butt.

* AmbiguousSituation: Character stories are told through a profile, a cutscene shared with another character, and a solo cutscene. With relatively little to work with, some matters are left unclarified.

* EyePop: As inhabitants of the Toon World, all contestants have the ability to pop their eyes out of their sockets if they're shocked or get hurt. They get shocked and hurt a lot during the auditions.

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* MoneyToThrowAway: There are two instances of money being thrown about. Firstly, Bob is filthy rich and possibly royalty. He likes to show off his wealth by throwing money around, such as during his air appeal special Bling Bling and, if he wins, during the award ceremony. Secondly, in Act 2: Western Film, the bank has a moneybag billboard from which people-sized coins fall. These coins have Kevin's face on them and cause the Accordion Negative Reaction.

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* RunningGag: There aren't many cutscenes per character, so it draws attention that in both the opening cutscene and in his conversation cutscene Mr. Smith ends up covered in liquid, much to his disgust. In the opening cutscene, he gets covered in poop. In his conversation cutscene, he gets covered in pumpkin vomit.

** After Gigi gives Bob a beatdown in their cutscene, she lies alone in the trashed landscape while the camera pans up to the clear sky. A message comes into view reading "War is over if you want it," referencing the lyrics of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno.

%%* SpoiledBrat: Bob is from a very wealthy family

** Some piece of classic music plays during most of the conversation cutscenes. Gigi's and Bob's battle cutscene melodramatically ends with a rendition of "Air on the G String" by [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]]. The Johnson Bros' and Sally's cutscene plays Music/ErikSatie's "Gymnopédie No. 1" when the Johnson Bros talk about their missing brother. Mr. Smith's and Piggy Sue's cutscene, which takes place in the spooky Act 4: Haunted Night, open with Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen". Freddy's and Penny's cutscene opens with Music/ErikSatie's "Gnossienne No. 1" to evoke the calm of city at that hour.

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Vert's katana are well-maintained and ridiculously sharp. While relaxing in his room, a leaf may breeze by. If that happens, he gets up, slashes at it once, and the leaf breezes on split in two.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There are two sources on the size of the Smith Family. According to his profile, the family consists of fifteen children consisting of three quintuplets. They may be all boys. In the photo cutscene, however, he gazes at a photo of him, his wife, and an octuplet worth of babies. The two sources do not necessarily conflict because the octuplet could just be children #16-23, but otherwise which source is correct is unknown. But whether the Smith Family contains eight children, fifteen childreen, or twenty-three children, all those numbers are a lot.

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%%* ToiletHumour: Part of the game's humor is slapstick violence, another part is the characters being silly, and another part is gross and naughty stuff. Mr. Smith won't keep his fingers out of his nose, there are two stages in which the skaters may cover themselves in poop, Piggy Sue may fart while trying to be cute and appealing,

* Toontown: The Toon World is a dimension separate from but connected to the Real World. The Toon World follows cartoon logic and cartoon physics where injuries are funny rather than dangerous and the natives range from humans to anthropomorphic animals to robots to monsters. Sometimes, the Toon World helps out the Real World by filming themselves and sending over the tapes, which are used as cartoons in the Real World.

Not counting the [[VideoGameTutorial tutorial]]-exclusive gym, there are eight arenas available for the three play modes. These modes are Story Mode, Freeride Mode, and VS Mode. Story Mode is the meat of the game, the auditions for the ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' lead role. A full run of Story Mode consists of five round per arena, all in a set order. A round can be any of six challenges: Appeal Champ, Simon Says, Battle, Race, 1 Link Appeal, and Mini Game.

* BoobBasedGag: There are two near-identical billboards in Act 1: Toon City, one reading "Drink Milk" above the milk shop and one reading "Strawberry Juice" above the grocery story. Their design entails a woman with humongous mechanized breasts that stick out of the billboard and flop up and down. Those breasts can be hopped on for the contestants to be bounced up sky high. Incidentally, this is generally enough to make it over to the other billboard.

* CameraAbuse: The contestants are viewed through the lens of a camera when they participate in the challenges. Piggy Sue, Vert, Kevin, and Mr. Smith all have moves that damage said camera. When Piggy Sue flirts towards the camera during her air appeal special Impish Wink, the lens breaks. When Vert or Kevin perform their air appeal specials Samurai Style, they cut the lens to pieces with a katana. And Mr. Smith, during his lip appeal special Pick-a-Winner, digs into his nose and flings the sizeable boogers at the camera.

* CuckooClockGag: The train station in Act 2: Western Film features a town clock that's actually a disturbingly big cuckoo clock. Jumping over to it when it pops out sends the contestant flying.

* EternalEngine: Both Act 5: Factory and Act 7: Ninja Village are huge machine levels. Act 5: Factory is a robot assembly facility. There are a sweep truck making the rounds, open vats filled with molten metal, assembly belts, lasers, fire, paint-sprayers, and a control room in the center of the factory way up high where more of the wall-pistons can be activated by means of a lever. Act 7: Ninja Village is a set meant to resemble what the games calls the country of Jipang. It has a strong karakuri theme with plenty of huge gears steadily rotating in the open, a clockwork frog in a corner, a tea-serving automaton making the rounds, and there is a switch in a corner that can exchange the dojo for the gekijo.

* FourSeasonsLevel: Act 3: Fantasy Studio consists of three film sets: Winter, Fall, and a third set that combines Summer and Spring. By default, the third film stage only has flower buds, but when a skater launches themself up to the giant star prop, stardust rains on the stage and the buds grow into venus flytraps. This is the stage's secret Negative Reaction.

%%* ImprobableWeaponUser: During the Battle challenge, the contestants have to bombard each other with whatever ammunition they can get their hands on. Ammunition is acquired through Negative Reactions with each type generating a different weapon, although the effective differences between them are limited to the ammo count and the damage each hit does. On the conventional end, Fire generates molotov cocktails, Decap generates sawblades, Bomb generates hand grenades, Accordion generates hammers, and Puncture generates ice picks. One the improbable end, Lightning generates lightning icons, V and H Cylinder generate toilet rolls, Flatten generates doors, Box - , and Pinch generates plungers.
* InterfaceScrew: During a Race challenge, a skater may end up getting hit with the disorder status effect. It inverts the movement controls.

* MoneyToThrowAway: There are two instances of money being thrown about. Firstly, Bob is filthy rich and possibly royalty. He likes to show off his wealth by throwing money around, such as during his air appeal special Bling Bling and, if he wins, during the award ceremony. Secondly, in Act 2: Western Film, the bank has a moneybag billboard from which people-sized coins fall. These coins have Kevin's face on them and cause the Flatten Negative Reaction.

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* SimonSaysMiniGame: Simon Says is the name of one of the challenges that can be issued and it's the one that most leans into the Negative Reaction gameplay aspect. During a Simon Says round, the contestant is given an ever-lengthening sequence of Negative Reactions to perform. The goal is to complete as many Negative Reactions as possible to walk away with the best score. This particular mini-game is tough because it requires the player to memorize the map's layout for the locations of each Negative Reaction. On the upside, performing the wrong Negative Reaction affects neither the score nor the sequence.

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%%* ToiletHumour: Part of the game's humor is slapstick violence, another part is the characters being silly, and another part is gross and naughty stuff.

* TornadoMove: There is a circular pen in a clearing in Act 2: Western Film. Grinding along its edge brings about a tornado. A contestant can skate into this tornado to be launched up, giving easy access to the town's roofs.

* BoobBasedGag: There are billboards in Act 1: Toon City promoting milk. These billboards feature a woman with humongous mechanized breasts that stick out of the billboard and flop up and down. Those breasts can be hopped on for the contestants to be bounced up sky high.

* CuckooClockGag: The town hall in Act 2: Western Film features a town clock that's actually a disturbingly big cuckoo clock. Jumping over to it when it pops out sends the contestant flying.

%%* ImprobableWeaponUser: molotov cocktail - fire, lightning - lightning, V and H cylinder - toilet roll, Flatten - door, Decap - sawblades, Box - , accordion - hammer, bomb - hand grenade, Pinch - plunger, Puncture - ice pick.

* MoneyToThrowAway: Bob is filthy rich and possibly royalty. He likes to show off his wealth by throwing money around, such as during his air appeal special Bling Bling and, if he wins, during the award ceremony.

%%* ImprobableWeaponUser: molotov cocktail - fire, lightning - lightning, V and H cylinder - toilet roll, Flatten - door, Decap - sawblades, Box - , accordion -, bomb - hand grenade, Pinch - , Puncture - ice pick.

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Vert's katana are well-kept and ridiculously sharp. While relaxing in his room, a leaf may blow by. If that happens, he gets up, slashes at it once, and the leaf blows on split in two.

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** Freddy possesses a gold key in addition to his silver one. The gold key is evidently not compatible with because Freddy is badly affected every time he uses it, so the question is with what or whom it is compatible. Freddy does have half an ochre robot head and two ochre robot hands lying around in his dressing room, so possibly the key goes with that set.

* AmusingInjuries: Hurting and trashing the contestants is half the purpose of the game. Injuries are divided by the physical effects they leave the skaters with, the Negative Reactions, which are Paint, Pinch, Puncture, Decap, Lightning, Fire, Bomb, Flatten, Box, Cylinder, and Accordion. There are two variants of Cylinder, namely V(ertical) Cylinder and H(orizontal) Cylinder, which decides whether the contestant takes the shape of a can or a can on its side, but otherwise doesn't influence gameplay. There's also a Negative Reaction called Fallin', which can only be activated when reaching the end of a rail that goes nowhere, but unlike the others Fallin' does not have a physical effect of its own. Rather, it leads to another Negative Reaction, usually Cylinder because the contestants fall into a tube. Fallin' and Fire, which does have its own physical effect, are the only Negative Reactions that combine with other ones: Fire is usually needed to get Bomb.

* AsYouKnow: During the classroom cutscene, Kevin explains to the contestants, all inhabitants of the Toon World, that there are two kinds of cartoons: those drawn in the Real World and those filmed in the Toon World for viewing in the Real World. Kevin opens his explanation with "I'm sure you all know", which the contestants indeed likely do, but it's convenient for the player to be told this.
* AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: During both her manual appeal specials, Re-lax and Rubba Dub Dub, Piggy Sue manifests a bathtub for her to unwind in and provide her audience with a little bit of service even though she doesn't have the looks for it. She also awaits the announcing of the winner at the award ceremony while seated in her bathtub. Kevin's manual appeal special Kickin' Back is based on Piggy Sue's Re-lax and so he too spawns a bathtub on the spot.

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* BloodlessCarnage: The contestants have to be decapitated, punctured, flattened, eaten, shocked, burnt, and so on, but because they are toons, there is no blood.

* ButtBiter: One of the Negative Reactions is Pinch, which may be obtained by landing in a body of water, hitting a carnivorous plant, or entering a dark room. Pinch doesn't always involve creatures, but does so about half the time. Of that half, there are two true buttbiters. Landing in a pond in either Act 4: Haunted Night or Act 7: Ninja Village respectively gets skeletal fishes or regular koi chomping down on the contestant's lower cheeks. In other cases, the creatures go for the head. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, hitting a small carnivorous plant causes it to bite the contestant's head and hold on. In Act 5: Factory, entering an assembly line tunnel causes a robot head to chomp down on the contestant's head. And in Act 6: Jungle, jumping into a pond nets the contestant a crocodile on the head.

* ChromaticArrangement: The three Johnson Bros are identical except for two details, primarily their eye colors. Bro #1 has blue eyes, Bro #2 has green eyes, and Bro #3 has red eyes.

* CosmeticAward: There are a lot of unlockable goodies for completing Story mode and for getting various grades in Single Session mode. As far as ones that don't do anything goes, there is unlockable concept art. One piece of art is awarded for each rank from C- and up in Single Session mode for a total of twelve pieces per act that makes for 96 pieces for the entire game. Another cosmetic award are the movies, which are the cutscenes shown throughout the Story more. They're unlocked when a cutscene is watched for the first time for a total of twenty-eight. The third encounter of the cosmetic kind are figures. Each of them depicts one of the contestants in their normal palette, their alternative palette, and a gold variant. These are won by getting first place in Story mode's event matches #12 and #27 and by playing the credits mini-game. Winning the alternative palette figure also unlocks the alternative palette for the contestant.

* TheDarknessGazesBack: Many pairs of red eyes gaze out from the utter darkness of the tram tunnels in Act 4: Haunted Night. Walking into them gets the contestant beaten up.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The gorgeous Penny mercilessly teases Freddy when she joins him on a walk through Toon City, insisting he tells her whom he likes and leaning into him. Freddy steadily overheats under her sultry gaze until his system violently gives out. Penny is caught in the explosion and left coughing with ash marks on her front while Freddy ends up in pieces but at peace. All in all, the whole scene strongly comes across as if Freddy ejaculated and gave Penny a facial.
* EternalEngine: Both Act 5: Factory and Act 7: Ninja Village are huge machine levels. Act 5: Factory is one of the few arenas that isn't a set, but a genuine factory where robots are produced. There are a sweep truck making the rounds, open vats filled with molten metal, assembly belts, lasers, fire, paint-sprayers, and a control room in the center of the factory way up high where more of the wall-pistons can be activated by means of a lever. Act 7: Ninja Village is a set meant to resemble what the games calls the country of Jipang. It has a strong karakuri theme with plenty of huge gears steadily rotating in the open, a clockwork frog in a corner, a tea-serving automaton making the rounds, and there is a switch in a corner that can exchange the dojo for the gekijo.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The acts are chock-full of hazards that inflict all kinds of slapstick violence on whomever comes in contact with them. Decapitation by sawblade, being blown sky high by a bomb, getting chewed by giant mouths, and so on are omnipresent threats, but this is to the contestants' benefit. By getting hurt, they get Negative Reactions, which can be linked for lots of points and thus massive winnings.
* ExpressiveMask: Bob has a visor over his head that obscures his eyes. Usually, the visor is lined with dollar signs, but while looking up at the big-breasted woman on the milk billboard the visor is lined with hearts.

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* FormerChildStar: Two photos from Piggy Sue's acting career suggest that her glory days were during her teens, possibly up to her very early twenties. She's some ten years older now and while still young and cute, she has her weight against her. She's desperate to regain her old glory, which is why she joins the competition.

* FourSeasonsLevel: Act 3: Fantasy Studio consists of three film sets: Winter, Fall, and a third set that combines Summer and Spring. By default, the third film stage only has flower buds, but when a contestant launches themself up to the giant star prop, stardust rains on the stage and the buds grow into venus flytraps.

* FunnyTerrainCrossSection: In two arenas, Act 1: Toon City and Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the Fallin' Negative Reaction drops the contestants in a tube tunnel that takes them to another corner of the stage. During the tunnel ride, the camera looks on from the outside and so the stuff buried around the tube tunnel is visible. In Act 1: Toon City, two moles with shovels and a dinosaur skeleton are passed by. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, a broken pink teddy bear and a tin soldier are passed by.

* GrimReaper: The Grim Reaper can be summoned in Act 4: Haunted Night by lighting the six candles aligned in a circle on the roof. When present, he spins in a circle holding his scythe. When hit, the contestant suffers Decapitation and is sent flying.
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* SummoningRitual: On the roof of the mansion in Act 4: Haunted Night, six candles are set at an even pace in a circle. A contestant who sets themselves on fire can light these candles and summon the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper will spin around with his scythe out, giving the contestants an opportunity to decapitate themselves.

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There's a cast of eleven characters to pick from, of which [[SecretCharacter two unlockable]]. In terms of gameplay, these characters are distinguished by their 1-to-10 rating on six different stats: ollie, air, rail, manual, lip, and reaction. Respectively, these are how high a character can jump, how long they can stay airborne, how well they balance while grinding, how well they balance on one set of wheels, how well they balance while lipsliding, and how long they can hold a Negative Reaction.

At a time when ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' was one of the hottest American productions, ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' distinguished itself by recreating that particular flavor of comedy within the confines of a ZanyCartoon about extreme sports. The gameplay system for this are the aforementioned Negative Reactions, which are called so because MoralGuardians would [[AppropriatedAppellation object]]. Negative Reactions is the collective of ways for contestants to hurt or humiliate themselves.

Not counting the [[VideoGameTutorial tutorial]]-exclusive gym, there are eight arenas available for the three play modes. These modes are Story Mode, Freeride Mode, and VS Mode. Story Mode is the meat of the game, the auditions for the ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' role. The eight arenas are played through in a set order and each arena consists of five rounds put together from a selection of six challenges: Appeal Champ, Simon Says, Battle, Race, 1 Link Appeal, and Mini Game.

* Butlerspace: If Bob wins the contest, when he gets up on stage two handmaidens appear out of nowhere to shower him in rose petals for extra prestige.

* CoveredInGunge: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is dunking the contestant in sticky liquids, an action called Paint. There are at least two colors per act to choose from. In Act 1: Toon City, the choices are white milk that pours out of a bottle-shaped billboard and brown poop found in the porta-potties. In Act 2: Western Film, the choices are purple whiskey that pours out of bottle-shaped billboard at the saloon, brown sludge that pours from a pipeline at the gold mine, and dirty green water that leaks from the water towers. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the choices are polluted white water that leaks from a pitcher pump and buckets of blue stage paint left open. In Act 4: Haunted Night, the choices are orange vomit spewed around by pumpkin heads and purple paint sprayed around by the ghost tram. In Act 5: Factory, the choices are brown waste leaking from its container, green soap water sprayed by a sweeper truck, or blue paint sprayed by a conveyor belt's robot arm. In Act 6: Jungle, the choices are brown poop obtained by being run through the digestive track of a hippo, orange nectar found inside rafflesias, and suspiciously blue water from a fountain. In Act 7: Ninja Village, the choices are green tea distributed by the tea robots and something else. In Act 8: Hong Kong Night, the choices are yellow soup left to cool or flowing from a broken pipe and dirty green water pouring from a set of three dragon-shaped fountains.

* NatureLovingRobot: Freddy is a robotic gentle simpleton whose innate kindness is demonstrated through the willingness of birds to perch on him. During the opening cutscene, he's playing with three of them when Decker slams into him and knocks him off the building. Gameplay-wise, Freddy's manual appeal special Shutdown consists of him willingly taking the wind-up key out of his back and falling over. Birds fly down to perch on him the longer Shutdown is maintained until the fifth bird that descends is suddenly roughly the size of Freddy himself. Funnily enough, Freddy's gold figure depicts this exact event.

The setting of the game is the Toon World, where cartoon logic and cartoon physics apply. The Toon World and the Real World are connected and every so often the Real World asks the Toon World for help in the production of cartoons. Artists in the Real World can draw them, but the residents of the Toon World can also film themselves and send the recordings over. With the rise of [[AllCGICartoon CGI]], the animation company Spümcø, Inc is looking for a smash hit to bring back interest for cel-animation. What they have in mind is [[ZanyCartoon antic-filled series]] about skateboarding called ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' and rather than drawing it, they want actors from the Toon World to perform it. The game covers the auditions for the lead star of the show.

The game offers the player their pick from a cast of eleven characters of which [[SecretCharacter two unlockable]]. In terms of gameplay, these characters are distinguished by their 1-to-10 rating on six different stats: ollie, air, rail, manual, lip, and reaction. Respectively, these are how high a character can jump, how long they can stay airborne, how well the balance while grinding, how well they balance on one set of wheels, how well they balance while lipsliding, and how long they can hold a Negative Reaction.

** Kevin's profile mentions one Chief Walt as ostensibly the contest's organizer and that's all that is known about him. He may be a cut character, because there is a character file for "Chief" in the game's code. But there is also the recurring image of a long-nosed face. Among others, it appears on top of the weather vane in Act 2: Western Film and in that same act it's also pictured on the train. In Act 4: Haunted Night, a giant skull ornament has the characteristic big nose. In Act 6: Jungle, the native's mask is in the face's image. And in Act 7: Ninja Village, several walls bear the image. Is this supposed to be Chief Walt?
%%* AmusingInjuries: All available types of There's Fallin', Pinch, Paint, Puncture, Decap, Lightning, Fire, Bomb, Flatten, Box, Cylinder, and Accordion.

* AsYouKnow: During the classroom cutscene, Kevin explains to the contestants, all inhabitants of the Toon World, that there are two kinds of cartoons: those drawn in the Real World and those filmed in the Toon World for viewing in the Real World. Kevin opens his explanation with "I'm sure you all know", which the contestants indeed likely do, but it's convenient for the player to be told this anyway.

* BloodlessCarnage: The contestants can be decapitated, punctured, flattened, eaten, shocked, burnt, and so on, but because they are toons, there is no blood.
* BoobBasedGag: There are billboards in Act 1: Toon City promoting milk. These billboards feature a woman with humongous mechanized breasts that stick out of the billboard and flop up and down. Those breasts are one of the hazards that can be used to generate Negative Reactions: hopping on top of them bounces the contestant up sky high.

* BowledOver: Decker knocks the large planet model from the robot's hands in the opening cutscene. The planet model neatly rolls over to the other ten skaters that are following behind Decker and sends them all flying.

* ButtBiter: One of the Negative Reactions is Pinch, which may be obtained by landing in a body of water whereupon its inhabitants lock their teeth in the contestant's behind. In Act 4: Haunted Night, jumping into the pond will get skeletal fishes hooked into the contestant's cheeks. In Act 6: Jungle, jumping into the water nets the contestant a crocodile on the butt. And in Act 7: Ninja Village, jumping into the pond will agitate its koi to bite.

* ChromaticArrangement: The three Johnson Bros are identical except for a few minor details, among which their eye colors. Bro #1 has blue eyes, Bro #2 has green eyes, and Bro #3 has red eyes.
* ClockworkCreature: Freddy is a frankenmonster-shaped clockwork robot as evidenced by the silver wind-up key sticking out of his back. He also carries a gold wind-up key with him that he uses for his manual appeal specials Shutdown and Overheat. In both scenarios, the gold key causes him to malfunction.

* ExpressiveMask: Bob has a band over his head that obscures his eyes. Usually, the band is lined with dollar signs, but while looking up at the big-breasted woman on the milk billboard the band is lined with hearts.

%%* EyePop: As inhabitants of the Toon World, all contestants have the ability to pop their eyes partially or fully out of their sockets if they're shocked by whatever is going on.

%%* FingerFraming: Kevin panshots his classroom while finger framing the contestants to illustrate the option to film toon actors instead of drawing sequences to create cartoons.

* FormerlyFit: In her teens, Piggy Sue was a popular actress whose childlike thinness helped her cute image. But some ten years later, she has gained an extra curvaceous form and she's desperate to get rid of some weight. As per her profile, she "has tried every fad diet advertised on TV, even the ones that sound too good to be true."
* FourSeasonsLevel: Act 3: Fantasy Studio consists of three film stages: Winter, Fall, and a third stage that combines Summer and Spring. By default, the third film stage only has flower buds, but when a contestant launches themself up to the giant star prop, stardust rains on the stage and the buds grow into venus flytraps.
%%* FrankensteinsMonster:
%%* FunnyTerrainCrossSection:
* TheGhost: Kevin's profile notes that he was hired to be an instructor at the skating school for Hypergrind by Chief Walt. This would make Chief Walt the organizer of the contest, but he never shows up, not even during the award ceremony.

%%* GoldTooth:

%%* HumanCannonball:
%%* HumanPincushion:

%%* ImprobableWeaponUser: molotov cocktail - fire, lightning - lightning, V and H cylinder - toilet roll, Flatten - door, Decap - sawblades, Box - , accordion -, bomb - ??, Pinch - , Puncture.

* SummoningRitual: On the roof of the mansion in Act 4: Haunted Night six candles are set at an even pace in a circle. A contestant who sets themselves on fire can light these candles and summon the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper will spin around with his scythe out, giving the contestants an opportunity to decapitate themselves.

* XRaySparks: One of the hazards that can be used for Negative Reactions is getting zapped with high voltage, an action called Lightning. If this happens, the silhouette of the contestant turns black and transparent, leaving their bright white skeleton well-visible. Freddy and Sally are no exception, even though they are decidedly unlikely to have a skeleton.

The game offers the player their pick from a cast of eleven characters of which [[SecretCharacter two unlockable]]. In terms of gameplay, these characters are distinguished by their 1-to-10 rating on six different stats: ollie, air, rail, manual, lip, and reaction. Respectively, these are how high a character can jump, how long they can stay airborne, how well the balance while grinding, how well they balance on one set of wheels, how well they balance while lipsliding, and how long they can hold a Negative Reaction.

Negative Reactions are ''Go! Go! Hypergrind''[='=]s unique twist on the usual aspects of skateboarding games and tie into its story. The game is set in the Toon World, where cartoon logic and cartoon physics apply. The Toon World and the Real World are connected and every so often the Real World asks the Toon World for help in the production of cartoons. Artists in the Real World can draw them, but the residents of the Toon World can also film themselves and send the recordings over. With the rise of [[AllCGICartoon CGI]], the animation company Spümcø, Inc is looking for a smash hit to bring back interest for cel-animation. What they have in mind is a series called ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' and rather than drawing it, they want actors from the Toon World to perform it. The game covers the auditions for the lead star of the show.

At a time when ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' is one of the hottest American productions, ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' distinguishes itself by recreating that particular flavor of comedy within the confines of a ZanyCartoon about extreme sports. The gameplay system for this are the aforementioned Negative Reactions, which are called so because MoralGuardians would [[AppropriatedAppellation object]]. Negative Reactions is the collective of ways for contestants to hurt or humiliate themselves. There's Fallin', Pinch, Paint, Puncture, Decap, Lightning, Fire, Bomb, Flatten, Box, Cylinder, and Accordion.

Negative Reactions are ''Go! Go! Hypergrind''[=s=]s unique twist on the usual aspects of skateboarding games and tie into its story. The game is set in the Toon World, where cartoon logic and cartoon physics apply. The Toon World and the Real World are connected and every so often the Real World asks the Toon World for help in the production of cartoons. Artists in the Real World can draw them, but the residents of the Toon World can also film themselves and send the recordings over. With the rise of [[AllCGICartoon CGI]], the animation company Spümcø, Inc is looking for a smash hit to bring back interest for cel-animation. What they have in mind is a series called ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' and rather than drawing it, they want actors from the Toon World to perform it. The game covers the auditions for the lead star of the show.

Appeal Champ
Easy. Rack up the NRs and rack up the points. You can really spank
the competition in this event; it's a shame that you don't get any
reward for the amount of points you can rack up during these.

#2. Simon Says
Easy. The Box NR is a flapping chute that can be found by going
straight from the starting point and transfering over the quarterpipe;
then go right on the rooftop and it should be pretty easy to spot.
The puncture NR is in the Arms Museum building. You can skate through
the windows to get inside.

#3. Battle
Medium/Hard. The level makes it a little difficult to stay on top
of the CPU, and I have been ambushed more than once by the
footbridge. Unless you are going for a perfect score, I wouldn't
sweat this one too much.

#4. 1 Link Appeal
Easy. Just pick your favorite spots and NRs that you can link easily.
3rd place will get you Gear #91: Kaminari.

#5. Mini Game (Car Chaser)



What sets ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' apart from its genre peers is [[AmusingInjuries its focus on self-inflicted pain]]. At a time when ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' was one of the hottest American productions, ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' recreates its flavor of comedy pushed through the lens of a ZanyCartoon. The gameplay system for this is called Negative Reactions, evoking the idea that MoralGuardians would respond negatively to it. Negative Reactions is the collective term are all kinds of ways for the contestants to get hurt. There's Fallin', Pinch, Paint, Puncture, Decap, Lightning, Fire, Bomb, Flatten, Box, Cylinder, and Accordion.

* CoveredInGunge: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is dunking the contestant in sticky liquids, an action called Paint. There are at least two colors per act to choose from. In Act 1: Toon City, the choices are white milk that pours out of a bottle-shaped billboard and brown poop found in the porta-potties. In Act 2: Western Film, the choices are purple whiskey that pours out of bottle-shaped billboard at the saloon and dirty green water that leaks from a water tower. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the choices are polluted white water that leaks from a pitcher pump and buckets of blue stage paint left open. In Act 4: Haunted Night, the choices are orange vomit spewed around by pumpkin heads and purple paint sprayed around by the ghost tram. In Act 5: Factory, the choices are brown waste leaking from its container, green soap water sprayed by a sweeper truck, or blue paint sprayed by a conveyor belt's robot arm. In Act 6: Jungle, the choices are brown poop obtained by being run through the digestive track of a hippo, orange nectar found inside rafflesias, and suspiciously blue water from a fountain. In Act 7: Ninja Village, the choices are green tea distributed by the tea robots and something else. In Act 8: Hong Kong Night, the choices are yellow soup left to cool or flowing from a broken pipe and dirty green water pouring from a set of three dragon-shaped fountains.

* Bookworm: Sally loves to enrich her life by reading books and is very studious. She doesn't wear glasses normally but will don a pair when she cracks open a book. Even her lip appeal special Speed Reader is about her need to read.

* ButtBiter: One of the Negative Reactions is Pinch, which may be obtained by landing in a body of water whereupon its inhabitants lock their teeth in the contestant's behind. In Act 4: Haunted Night, jumping into the pond will get skeletal fishes hooked into the contestant's cheeks. In Act 6: Jungle, jumping into the water nets the contestant a crocodile on the butt. And in Act 7: Ninja Village, jumping into the pond will agitate its fishes to bite.

* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Assuming that Act 8: Hong Kong Night takes place on a set designed to evoke Hong Kong (and that it doesn't actually take place in Hong Kong), there's a notable trio of fountains in the bay on the right. The fountains resemble the dragon that resides on the left, but in design are copies of the Merlion found in Singapore.

%%* {{Mummy}}:

%%* RobotMaid:

* ShoutOut: Freddy wears a red-and-dark-blue striped sweater that brings to mind Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.

%%* StunnedSilence:

* XRaySparks: One of the hazards that can be used for Negative Reactions is getting zapped with high voltage, an action called Lightning. If this happens, the silhouette of the contestant turns black and transparent, leaving their bright white skeleton well-visible. All the while, blue electricity surrounds them.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: According to his profile, Bob likes Gigi, but Gigi likes Vert, who is solely focused on the contest. Popular as she is, Penny still mourns over a lost love of which all said is that they "were supposed to be happy together." She may like Freddy and Freddy definitely likes her, but he's way to shy to reciprocate.

** Freddy possesses a gold key in addition to his silver one. The gold key is evidently not compatible with because Freddy is badly affected every time he uses it, so the question is with what whom it is compatible. Freddy does have half an ochre robot head and two ochre robot hands lying around in his dressing room, so possibly the key goes with that set.
** Kevin's profile mentions one Chief Walt as ostensibly the contest's organizer and that's all that is known about him. He may be a cut character, because there is a character file for "Chief" in the game's code. But there is also the recurring image of a long-nosed face. Among others, it appears on top of the weather vane in Act 2: Western Film and in that same act its also pictured on the train. In Act 4: Haunted Night, a giant skull ornament has the characteristic big nose. In Act 7: Ninja Village, several walls bear the image. Is this supposed to be Chief Walt?

%%* AsYouKnow:

* BathingBeauty: Piggy Sue loves relaxing in a bath, possibly because she's a pig. For both her manual appeal specials, Re-lax and Rubba Dub Dub, she busts out a bathtub to take a dip in. She does consider it something that is appealing for the audience, but the truth is that her appearance leaves something to be desired, so while she believes herself to be a bathing beauty, she isn't the latter.

* BoobBasedGag: There are billboards in Act 1: Toon City promoting milk. These billboards feature a woman holding a bottle of milk and sporting humongous mechanized breasts that stick out of the billboard and flop up and down. Those breasts are one of the hazards that can be used to generate negative reactions: hopping on top of them bounces the contestant up sky high.

* BowledOver: Decker knocks the large planet model from the robot's hands in the opening cutscene. The planet model neatly rolls over to the other eleven contestants that are skating behind Decker a sends them all flying.

* ButtBiter: One of the negative reactions is Pinch, which often is obtained by landing in a body of water whereupon its inhabitants lock their teeth in the contestant's behind. In Act 4: Haunted Night, jumping into the pond will get skeletal fishes hooked into the contestant's cheeks. In Act 6: Jungle, jumping into the water nets the contestant a crocodile on the butt. And in Act 7: Ninja Village, jumping into the pond will agitate its fishes to bite.
%%* CameraAbuse:

** Spümcø, Inc is outright part of the in-game story. The Toon World is in trouble because of the increasing popularity of CGI, so its leaders join forces with the Real World studio Spümcø to produce a "major action-packed cartoon featuring extreme skateboarding" to put cel animation back on the map. The game covers the auditions for who gets to be the star of the new show.
** Spümcø billboards using the "George Liquor" logo and Poponchi billboards using "STRONG FORCE FROM FAR EAST" logo are set up in the training gym.

* CosmeticAward: There are a lot of unlockable goodies for completing Story mode and for getting various grades in Single Session mode. As far as ones that don't do anything goes, there is unlockable concept art. One piece of art is awarded for each rank from C- and up in Single Session mode for a total of twelve pieces per act that makes for 96 pieces for the entire game. Another cosmetic award are the movies, which are the cutscenes shown throughout the Story more. They're unlocked when a cutscene is watched for the first time for a total of twenty-eight. The third encounter of the cosmetic kind are figurines. Each of them depicts one of the contestants in their normal palette, their alternative palette, and a gold variant. These are won by getting first place in Story mode's event matches #12 and #27 and by playing the credits mini-game. Winning the alternative palette figuring also unlocks the alternative palette for the contestant.
* CoveredInGunge: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is dunking the contestant in sticky liquids, an action called Paint. There are at least two per act to choose from. In Act 1: Toon City, the choices are white milk that pours out of a bottle-shaped billboard and liquidized brown poop found in the porta-potties. In Act 2: Western Film, the choices are purple whiskey that pours out of bottle-shaped billboard at the saloon and dirty green water that leaks from a water tower. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the choices are polluted white water that leaks from a pitcher pump and buckets of blue stage paint left open. In Act 4: Haunted Night, the choices are orange vomit spewed around by pumpkin heads and purple paint sprayed around by the ghost tram. In Act 5: Factory, the choices are brown waste leaking from its container, green soap water sprayed by a sweeper truck, or purple paint sprayed by a conveyor belt's robot arm. In Act 6: Jungle, the choices are brown poop obtained by being run through the digestive track of a hippo and orange nectar found inside rafflesias. In Act 7: Ninja Village, the choices are green tea distributed by the active tea robots and something else. In Act 8: Hong Kong Night, the choices are yellow soup left to cool and dirty green water pouring from a fountain.

* DanceBattler: Both Piggy Sue and Penny incorporate dance moves in their specials. For Piggy Sue, her grind appeal Prima Ballerina relies on ballet. For Penny, her air appeal Passion Flower relies on flamenco, her lip appeal Aloha 'Oe relies on hula, and her manual appeal Cheerleader relies on cheerleading.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The acts are chock-full of hazards that inflict all kinds of slapstick violence on whomever comes in contact with them. Decapitation by sawblade, being blown sky high by a bomb, getting chewed by giant mouths, and so on are omnipresent threats, but this is to the contestants' benefit. By getting hurt, they get negative reactions, which can be linked for lots of points and thus massive winnings.

%%* EyePop: Piggy Sue's eyes bulge out when the railing she and Mr. Smith are sitting on breaks under her weight and sends her friend flying.
* EyeScream: Many characters are able to pop out their eyes, but only in moments of shock because that's how cartoon logic works. Sally is the only one shown to be able to remove her eyes casually, which she sometimes do while reading in her room.
* FingerFraming: Kevin panshots his classroom while finger framing the contestants to illustrate the option to film toon actors instead of drawing sequences to create cartoons.

* NoseNuggets: Mr. Smith is really into picking his nose and digging up dirt. During the class meeting, he casually pokes around while he has the class's attention on him and flicks his findings to the back of Freddy's head. In his lip appeal, Pick-a-Winner, he even goes so far as to dig up pink brain matter and flick it at the camera.
* OffWithHisHead: One of the Negative Reactions is Decap, a move that has the contestant decapitate themselves. Depending on the level, it can be achieved with sawblades randomly sticking out of walls, the Grim Reaper's scythe, laser beams, and hostile ninjas striking with their kitana.

* OutsideRide: A move that never comes up during missions but is possible to pull off is skitching. Each act has at least one vehicle making rounds and contestants can grab onto the back and ride along on their skateboards.
%%* PaletteSwap:

** A melody, "Walkure", incorporating "StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries" plays in the gym during training.

** When Gigi fights back against Bob placing a curse on her, "Cello Suite No.1" by [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] plays.
** When the Johnson Bros decide to tell Sally about their search for their lost brother, Music/ErikSatie's "Gymnopédie No. 1" plays.

%%* SupermodelStrut:
%%* ToiletHumour: Part of the game's humor is slapstick violence, another part is the characters being silly,

%%* TubeTravel: In Toon City,

What sets ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' apart from its genre peers is [[AmusingInjuries its focus on self-inflicted pain]]. At a time when ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' was one of the hottest American productions, ''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' recreates its flavor of comedy pushed through the lens of a ZanyCartoon. The gameplay system for this is called Negative Reactions, evoking the idea that MoralGuardians would respond negatively to it. Negative Reactions is the collective term are all kinds of ways for the contestants to get hurt. There's Fall, Pinch, Paint, Puncture, Decap, Lightning, Fire, Bomb, Flatten, Box, Cylinder, and Accordion.

** Sally is the only character without a profile, seemingly because she was intended to be an unlockable character until shortly before release. Because of this, her backstory and her motivations for entering the contest are vague at best.
** Freddy possesses a gold key in addition to his silver one. The gold key is evidently not compatible with because Freddy is badly affected every time he uses it, so the question is with what whom it is compatible. Freddy does have half an ochre robot head and two ochre robot hands lying around in his dressing room, so possibly the key goes with that set.

* AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: During both her manual appeal specials, Re-lax and Rubba Dub Dub, Piggy Sue manifests a bathtub for her to unwind in and provide her audience with a little bit of service even though she doesn't have the looks for it. She also awaits the announcing of the winner at the grand ceremony while seated in her bathtub. Kevin's manual appeal special Kickin' Back is based on Piggy Sue's Re-lax and so he too spawns a bathtub on the spot.

%%* BathingBeauty: Piggy Sue loves relaxing in a bath, possibly because she's a pig.

* Bookworm: Sally loves to enrich her life by reading books and is very studious. She doesn't wear glasses normally but will don a pair when she cracks open a book.
%%* BowledOver:

* FingerFraming: Kevin panshots his classroom while finger framing the contestants to illustrate the option to film toon actors to create cartoons instead of drawing sequences.

* InUniverseCamera:

%%* SimonSaysMiniGame:

* SouthernBelle: Piggy Sue is a modern Bonne Belle. Aside from her accent, she's easily the most hospitable of the cast and despite being relatively young is a bit of an old soul. The middle-aged Mr. Smith, who isn't the easiest person to get along with, thinks highly of her and Piggy Sue is the only contestant who thanks people, both the contest's crew and her family, if she wins.

* StandardSnippet: There are several scenes or moves that utilize classical music.

* XRaySparks: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is getting zapped with high voltage, an action called Lightning. If this happens, the silhouette of the contestant turns black and transparent, leaving their bright white skeleton well-visible. All the while, blue electricity surrounds them.

* {{Ballet}}: Piggy Sue is trained in classical ballet and combines its principals in her skateboarding style. Prima Ballerina

%%* IWillFindYou:

* MoonRabbit: Gigi looks like a girl dressed in a pink rabbit-shaped pajamas, but she can move the ears of her supposed pajamas, so the outfit might be part of her body. Gigi's grind appeal special is Crescent Grind, which turns her board into a crescent moon that spins around her.

%%* NewJobAsThePlotDemands:

%%* OffWithHisHead:

%%* SouthernBelle: Piggy Sue is a modern Bonne Belle. Aside from her

%%* SquashedFlat:

** Piggy Sue's grind appeal special is Prima Ballerina, for which she dons a swan-themed tutu while a sped up version of Overture of ''Theatre/SwanLake''.
** When Gigi fights back against Bob placing a curse on her, Cello Suite No.1 by [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] plays.
* StockShonenHero: Decker is an American skater punk, but still one created by Japan following the shounen hero formula. Rebellious as he looks, he is a go-getter with a strong sense of loyalty and right and wrong. He has a tragic backstory of how his family fell apart and he and his little sister ended up in an orphanage. He befriended Vert there, but in adulthood they went separate ways and became rivals. Decker is the energetic upstart, Vert the ostensibly superior stoic. Decker joins the contest both to earn money for the orphanage he owes so much to and to follow in his father's footsteps, who was one of the best skateboarders in the world before his premature death.
%%* ToiletHumour:
%%* TotemPoleTrench:

%%* TubeTravel:

[[caption-width-right:350:''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'', save me a spot!]]

''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' is a [[CelShading cel-shaded]] [[SportsGame skateboarding game]] co-developed by Team Poponchi and [[Creator/JohnKricfalusi Spümcø, Inc]] and with signature music by Grizzly. It is a late entry from the skateboarding game boom of 1996-2003 as it was released on November 18, 2003. Despite being produced in Japan, Creator/{{Atlus}} only published it in North America and furthermore only on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. As such, it is one of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames the sixth generation]]'s rare titles.

%%* AmbiguousSituation:
%%* AstroClone:

%%* Bookworm:

* CoveredInGunge: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is dunking the contestant in sticky liquids, an action called Paint. There are always two per act to choose from. In Act 1: Toon City, the choices are white milk that pours out of a bottle-shaped billboard and liquidized brown poop found in the porta-potties. In Act 2: Western Film, the choices are purple whiskey that pours out of bottle-shaped billboard at the saloon and dirty green water that leaks from a water tower. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the choices are polluted white water that leaks from a pitcher pump and buckets of blue stage paint left open. In Act 4: Haunted Night, the choices are orange vomit spewed around by pumpkin heads and purple paint sprayed around by the ghost tram. In Act 5: Factory, the choices are brown waste leaking from its container or green soap water sprayed by a sweeper truck. In Act 6: Jungle, the choices are brown poop obtained by being run through the digestive track of a hippo and orange nectar found inside rafflesias. In Act 7: Ninja Village, the choices are green tea distributed by the active tea robots and something else. In Act 8: Hong Kong Night, the choices are yellow soup left to cool and dirty green water pouring from a fountain.
* CuckooClockGag: The town hall in Act 2: Western Film features a big clock that's actually a giant cuckoo clock. Jumping over to it when it pops out sends the contestant flying.

* {{Expy}}: Kevin looks a lot like John Kricfalusi's signature character George Liquor and fills a similar mentor role.

%%* PomPomGirl:

[[caption-width-right:350:''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'', here I come!]]

%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited:

%%* BloodlessCarnage:
* BoobBasedGag: There are billboards in Act 1: Toon City promoting milk. These billbo,,ards feature a woman holding milk and sporting humongous mechanized breasts that stick out of the billboard and flop up and down. Those breasts are one of the hazards that can be used to generate negative reactions: hopping on top of them bounces the contestant up sky high.
* ButtBiter: One of the negative reactions is Pinch, which principally is obtained by landing in a body of water and get one of its inhabitants to chew on the contestant's behind. In Act 4: Haunted Night, jumping into a pond will get fish skeleton hooked into the contestant's butt flesh. In Act 6: Jungle, jumping into the water nets the contestant a crocodile on the butt. And in Act 7: Ninja Village, jumping into a pond will get the hungry fish to bite.

%%* ClockworkCreature:

%%* CosmeticAward: There are a lot of unlockable goodies for completing Story mode, getting various grades in Single Session mode
* CoveredInGunge: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is dunking the contestant in sticky liquids, an action called Paint. There are always two per stage to choose from. In Act 1: Toon City, the choices are white milk that pours out of a bottle-shaped billboard and liquidized brown poop found in the porta-potties. In Act 2: Western Film, the choices are purple whiskey that pours out of bottle-shaped billboard at the saloon and dirty green water that leaks from a water tower. In Act 3: Fantasy Studio, the choices are polluted white water that leaks from a pitcher pump and buckets of blue stage paint left open. In Act 4: Haunted Night, the choices are orange vomit spewed around by pumpkin heads and purple paint sprayed around by the ghost tram. In Act 5: Factory, the choices are brown waste leaking from its container or green soap water sprayed by a sweeper truck. In Act 6: Jungle, the choices are brown poop obtained by being run through the digestive track of a hippo and orange nectar found inside rafflesias. In Act 7: Ninja Village, the choices are green tea distributed by the active tea robots and something else. In Act 8: Hong Kong Night, the choices are yellow soup left to cool and dirty green water pouring from a fountain.
%%* CuckooClockGag:

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The stages are chock-full of hazards that inflict all kinds of slapstick violence on whomever comes in contact with them. Decapitation by sawblade, being blown sky high by a bomb, getting chewed by giant mouths, and so on are omnipresent threats, but this is to the contestants' benefit. By getting hurt, they get negative reactions, which can be linked for lots of points and thus massive winnings.

* NoNameGiven: Some peripheral characters, such as Sister Mary and Dr. Daryl, are given names. Others, like Decker's sister and Penny's once-boyfriend, have to do without name.

* OutsideRide: A move that never comes up during missions but is possible to pull off is skitching. Each stage has at least one vehicle making rounds and contestants can grab onto the back and ride along on their skateboards.

%%**
%%* StockShonenHero:

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: In addition to the people of Toon World, there are also animals that don't look too different from the animals that live in the Real World except for their colors. The horses in Western Film, for instance, are blue and green.

* BoobBasedGag: There are billboards in Toon City promoting milk. These billboards feature a woman holding milk and sporting humongous mechanized breasts that stick out of the billboard and flop up and down. Those breasts are one of the hazards that can be used to generate negative reactions: jumping over on top of them bounces the contestant up sky high.

* CoveredInGunge: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is dunking the contestant in disgusting or slimy liquids, an action called Paint. There are always two per stage to choose from. In Toon City, the choices are milk that pours out of a bottle-shaped billboard and liquidized poop found in the porta-potties. In Western Film, the choices are whiskey that pours out of bottle-shaped billboard at the saloon and dirty green water that leaks from a water tower. In Fantasy Studio, the choices are polluted white water that leaks from a pitcher pump and buckets of blue stage paint left open. In Haunted Night, the choices are orange vomit spewed around by pumpkin heads and something else. In Factory, the choices are brown waste leaking from its container or green soap water sprayed by a sweeper truck. In Jungle, the choices are hippo poop obtained by being run through the digestive track of a hippo and contaminated blue water pouring from a fountain. In Ninja Village, the choices are green tea distributed by the active tea robots and something else. In Hong Kong Night, the choices are yellow soup left to cool and dirty green water pouring from a fountain.

* TheDarknessGazesBack: Many pairs of red eyes gaze out from the utter darkness of the tram tunnels. Walking into them gets the contestant beaten up.

%%* ExpressiveMask:

%%* NoseNuggets:

%%* XRaySparks: One of the hazards that can be used for negative reactions is getting zapped with high voltage, an action called Lightning. If this happens, the silhouette of the contestant turns black and transparent, leaving their bright white skeleton well-visible. All the while, blue electricity surrounds them.

[[caption-width-right:350:]]

''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' is a [[CelShading cel-shaded]] [[SportsGame skateboarding game]] co-developed by Team Poponchi and [[Creator/JohnKricfalusi Spümcø, Inc]] and with music by Grizzly. It is a late entry from the skateboarding game boom of 1996-2003 as it was released on November 18, 2003. Despite being produced in Japan, Creator/{{Atlus}} only published it in North America and furthermore only on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. As such, it is one of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames the sixth generation]]'s rare titles.

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The horses in Western Film are blue and green. They are inhabitants of the Toon World like everyone else,

* LadyInRed: Penny is an absolute stunner and a professional model. She wears a red leather outfit consisting of a zip-up leotard, elbow-length gloves, and knee-high boots that contrast sharply against her blue fur.

**

%%* XRaySparks:

''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' is a [[CelShading cel-shaded]] [[SportsGame skateboarding game]] co-developed by Team Poponchi and [[Creator/JohnKricfalusi Spümcø, Inc]] and with music by Grizzly. It is a late entry from the skateboarding game boom of 1996-2003 as it was released on November 18, 2003. Despite being produced in Japan, Creator/{{Atlus}} only published it in North America and furthermore only on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. As such, it is one of the rarest titles to be found in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames the sixth generation]].

%%* {{Ballet}}:

''Go! Go! Hypergrind'' is a [[CelShading cel-shaded]] [[SportsGame skateboarding game]] co-developed by Team Poponchi and [[Creator/JohnKricfalusi Spümcø, Inc]]. It is a late entry from the skateboarding game boom of 1996-2003 as it was released on November 18, 2003. Despite being produced in Japan, Creator/{{Atlus}} only published it in North America and furthermore only on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. As such, it is one of the rarest titles to be found in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames the sixth generation]].

%%* OrphanageOfLove:
%%* PigMan:

%%* StalkedByTheBell: