History VideoGame / ShovelwaresBrainGame

* AnAesop: After a question related to one of ''Vincent van Gogh's'' famous paintings, Dancing Banana mentions that "Mental health is important, kids!"

* RealityBreakingParadox: The current fate of the 2023 Innovation Award prize. Due to neither of it's planned outcomes[[note]]if Brain Game won the awards, this prize would be them pawning off their award. But if Brain Game didn't win, this prize would've been stolen from another game that won the awards.[[/note]] ever happening due to the Roblox Innovation Awards ceremony being canceled, the prize is in what is essentially quantum paralysis, as it has no known result made to ground it to human existence.

Shovelware's Brain Game is a VideoGame/{{Roblox}} experience made by Creator/ShovelwareStudios, best known for ''VideoGame/DespicableForces'' and several other obbies. The game takes place as a GameShow of the trivia flavour, hosted by [[AnthropomorphicFood Dancing Banana]], and usually attended by SpecialGuest Boardy the SMART Board, where players have their thinking parts put to the test to win unconviental prizes of all kinds. [[https://www.roblox.com/games/7978512334/Shovelwares-Brain-Game Play it here and hope you know your stuff!]]

** Same goes for Garfunkel, who's an obvious ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} riff. The comic strip prize also mentions a [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenace Constance the Nuisance]].

* RealityBreakingParadox: The current fate of the 2023 innovation award prize. Due to neither of it's planned outcomes[[note]]if Brain Game won the awards, this prize would be them pawning off their award. But if Brain Game didn't win, this prize would've been stolen from another game that won the awards.[[/note]] ever happening due to the Roblox Innovation Awards ceremony being canceled, the prize is in what is essentially quantum paralysis, as it has no known result made to ground it to human existence.

* TheGhost: Naturally, the Announcer is this. All we do know is that he apparently lives in his car until the next episode is announced. Although one of the prizes being a self-help book on how to deal with being a disembodied voice heavily implies he's TheVoice instead. It's all subverted in the end when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oj9PYtTev8 Shovelware's announcement video]] gives us the man(or mic, in this case) in person.

* LastLousyPoint: Wanna get all the prizes? Well, hope you have patience and luck along with the knowledge to answer the question or the money to buy it when the game's over. There's over 50 of these things and they keep coming out!

* SpeakingSimlish: With the exception of the Announcer and Boardy (both of whom who indeed have full voice acting), all of the other characters have speech boxes with their 'speaking voices' not unlike those of Animal Crossing Villagers or even the cast of Banjo Kazooie.

* SpeakingSimlish: With the exception of the Announcer and Boardy, all of the other characters have speech boxes with their 'speaking voices' not unlike those of Animal Crossing Villagers or even the cast of Banjo Kazooie.

* TheGhost: Naturally, the Announcer is this. All we do know is that he apparently lives in his car until the next episode is announced. Although one of the prizes being a self-help book on how to deal with being a disembodied voice heavily implies he's TheVoice instead.
* HypocriticalHumour: The Announcer refuses to give out the dancing hotdog as a prize, has no problem with Carl being one.

* TheGhost: Naturally, the Announcer is this. All we do know is that he apparently lives in his car until the next episode is announced. Although one of the prizes being a self-help book on how to deal with being a disembodied voice heavily implies he's TheVoice instead.

** An option for the question about the moon landing is "the first game of VideoGame/AmongUs".

** A prize you can win is a Giant Dancing Banana Plush that's "Too big to fit on your bed, and much too big to fit on a shelf. This stuffed banana will have you saying 'Where the heck do I put this?'"

* CastOfExpies: Downplayed example in witch it's not the enitre cast, but most of the studio audience: Orange's inspiration [[WebAnimation/TheAnnoyingOrange might be too obvious]], Lemons freakout might bring to mind [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Lemongrab]], Cantaloupes appearance and gimmick is a dead ringer for [[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} Bluto]], and the Cherries dynamic might bring to mind [[Franchise/TheMuppets Statler and Waldorf.]]

* CastOfExpys: Downplayed example in witch it's not the enitre cast, but most of the studio audience: Orange's inspiration [[WebAnimation/TheAnnoyingOrange might be too obvious]], Lemons freakout might bring to mind [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Lemongrab]], Cantaloupes appearance and gimmick is a dead ringer for [[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} Bluto]], and the Cherries dynamic might bring to mind [[Franchise/TheMuppets Statler and Waldorf.]]

* HypocriticalHumour : The Announcer refuses to give out the dancing hotdog as a prize, has no problem with Carl being one.

* HypocriticalHumour : Refuses to give out the dancing hotdog as a prize, has no problem with Carl being one.

* HypocriticalHumour : Refuses to give out the dancing hotdog as a prizes, has no problem with Carl being one.

* DepravedKidsShowHost: Implied. While Dancing Banana is ''definitely'' the opposite of this, sometimes the Broccoli might ask him about some allegations. The security Donut also might occasionally chime in to pull out a wanted poster of Dancing Banana and ask if anyone has seen him.

* UndesirablePrize: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]]. A lot of the prizes shown are quite unusual and purposefully useless. Prizes include: a [[WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld stone football]], cabbage, [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones caveman vitamins]] (which contain ''lead''), a tiger poster, a broken phone charger cord, a dancing hotdog, a shaken can of soda, [[ComicStrip/TheFarSide cow tools]], a rock found outside the studio, an I.O.U., etc.

* BlackComedyBurst: As of the April 14th update, one of the prizes is [[spoiler:[[Literature/HemingwaysSixWordStorya pair of baby shoes that have never been worn.]] the announcer mentions that they were on sale.]]