History WebAnimation / Asdfmovie

If you'd like to experience ''asdfmovie'' in book form, you're in luck -- on October 21, 2015, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7cDTaMES8I Tom published an "asdfbook"]] called ''Art is Dead'' ([[TitledAfterTheSong named after the song by]] Music/BoBurnham) consisting of over 100 comics of old and new jokes.

After a successful Kickstarter, the asdf card game ''TabletopGame/MuffinTime'' is now available.

If you'd love to experience ''asdfmovie'' in a book form, you're in luck -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7cDTaMES8I Tom published an asdfbook]] called ''Art is Dead'' (named after a Music/BoBurnham song) consisting of over 100 comics of old and new jokes. It was released on 21 October 2015.

[[caption-width-right:345:[[WidgetSeries And this is just the tip of the iceberg.]]]]

* CastingGag: In the "Come out with your hands up" sketch from ''11'', the man gleefully saying that he's gay is voiced by [[WebVideo/AmazingPhil Phil Lester]], known himself for being a gay man.

** LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} and LetsPlay/PewDiePie made a few cameos in ''8''. Mark also cameos in ''9''.

* NakedApron: Barring a miniskirt, [[StacysMom Billy's mom]] from ''4'', bearing [[CleavageWindow visible cleavage]] and [[DoesNotLikeShoes no shoes]].

* {{Bishonen}}: The Do The Flop Guy and I Like Trains Kid are animated this way in asdfmovie12's anime-styled opening theme. Do The Flop Guy even doubles as a LongHairedPrettyBoy!

** "I'm feeling carsick!" ''([[LiteralMetaphor pukes up a car]])''
* TheWalrusWasPaul: "Random, nonsensical humor" is the name of the game, and ''asdfmovie'' plays it very well.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDDBb9cRLQg [TRAILER] asdfmovie]]'' (August 8, 2008): A trailer for the first movie.

* BadassBaritone:
** The potato, during his brief bout of badassery in the second movie.
** Also the big baby in movie ''8'', who happens to be voiced by the sultry-voiced LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}.
** The baby in the beginning of "asdfmovie: deleted scenes".
** The cop in ''13'' that's given flowers.

* StupidStatementDanceMix:
** Everybody do the flop!
** Beep beep, I'm a sheep! I said beep beep, I'm a sheep.
** "The Muffin Song" is one for the series in general, with most of the lyrics composed from various gags.

* BearsAreBadNews: The bear in the sixth movie eats a little girl who draws a picture of a bear on it's belly.

** The time-traveler, who succedded at travelling through time but gets stepped on by a "[[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Stegosaurus]]" upon arrival.

'''Boss:''' '''You can't frog me, you're wife !'''\\

* OneSteveLimit: Averted as name as sometimes reused. Even if the character look the same, they never have the same voice.

''(guitar riff)''

The ''asdfmovies'' (pronounced "ass-duff-moo-vee") are a series of short Website/YouTube [[WebAnimation web cartoons]] produced by Creator/TomSka, partially adapting strips from ''asdfcomics,'' his {{webcomic}}.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Men and boys aren't the only characters that experiencing physical trauma and death.
** "When I grow up I want to go to the moon!" ''"Why wait?"'' (man kicks little girl hard enough she's launched to the moon)
** Many of asdfmovie 7's gags involve women and death.

The skits are short, as are the movies overall, and their humour is [[RandomEventsPlot random]], [[RapidFireComedy rapid-fire]] and [[SurrealHumor very strange]], often relying on puns (usually of the LiteralMinded or [[VisualPun visual]] sort), {{Brick Joke}}s, and straight-up {{non sequitur}}s, alongside the occasional dip into the [[BlackComedy macabre]].

%%Even for a Rapid-Fire Comedy series like the ASDFMovies, Zero-Context Examples are not allowed, so while adding dialogue without any other description works here, just using a character name or video number to signify a trope is a big no-no.

* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: "Doctor, I think I might be a homosexual." "How can you tell?" "[[VomitIndiscretionShot RAAAINBOOOOOWS]]"

** Doctor, I think I might be a homosexual." "How can you tell?" "[[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows RAAAINBOOOOOWS]]"

* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: PlayedForLaughs in the Mine Turtle music video.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Everything's Better With Dinosa-]][[KilledMidSentence *stomped*]] '''[[ArtisticLicensePaleontology "I AM A STEG-O-SAURUS!"]]'''
** This particular skit is repeated in the Mine Turtle music video, resulting in the "Stegosaurus" being blown up by the Mine Turtle. Then a whole army of Mine Turtles comes out of the time machine, leading to a hilarious instance of PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs.

* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: PlayedForLaughs in the Mine Turtle music video; see EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** The little girl who opens up ''11'' is capable of this.
--->'''Girl''': I want an ice cream!\\
'''Man''': What's the magic word?\\
'''Girl''': ''(BlackSpeech, and the man is turned into an ice cream cone)''
** ''14'' introduces a guy who can turn people into eggs by pointing at them and saying, "Egg."

* BlackSpeech: The girl in the opening skit of ''11'', when advised by her dad to [[ExactWords "say the magic word"]] when she says she wants ice cream, utters a sinister [[SubliminalSeduction backmasked]] incantation that [[BalefulPolymorph turns her dad into an ice cream cone]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI3sNq3-yg asdfcomp]]'' (July 17, 2010): The announcement of a competition to make a skit to be [[AscendedFanboy remade and used]] in the third movie. This competiton garnered over a thousand entries ([[SturgeonsLaw most of them]], naturally, obvious puns or {{Non Sequitur}}s without wit).

* TurtlePower: The Mine Turtle has the powers of a mine packed into the body of a turtle, though technically he's a tortoise, as he mentions.

* LostInTranslation: While many of the episodes ''have'' found their way onto Website/NicoNicoDouga in one form or another, many of the Japanese users that attempt to subtitle the series have noted that ''asdf's'' use of fast-paced English wordplay and puns makes it difficult to follow for Japanese viewers, even with subtitles, without [[CutAndPasteTranslation completely changing the context of the dialogue.]] As a result, some subtitlers have taken to adding a [[NoteFromEd small note]] explaining various skits that would otherwise be rendered incomprehensible.

The ''asdfmovies'' (pronounced "ass-duff-moo-vee") are a series of short, [[RapidFireComedy rapid-fire]] Website/YouTube [[WebAnimation web cartoons]] produced by Creator/TomSka, partially adapting strips from ''asdfcomics,'' his {{webcomic}}.

The skits are short, as are the movies overall, and the humour is random but amusing in its own strange way, often relying on puns (usually of the LiteralMinded or [[VisualPun visual]] sort), {{Brick Joke}}s, and straight-up {{surreal|Humor}} {{non sequitur}}s, alongside the occasional dip into the [[BlackComedy macabre]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15rEf75OHNM THE TWENTY MINUTE ASDFMOVIE]]'' (March 29, 2011): A StylisticSuck-filled movie [[LiteralGenie made in 20 minutes]], possibly for AprilFoolsDay.

* '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFKXS6Nyho asdfmovie10]]''''' (April 1, 2017): The long awaited tenth movie which is [[SincerityMode totally not an April Fool's joke]].

The short skits mean that knowing what's in them will spoil the (what can loosely be called) gags very easily, so '''we recommend you watch the movies before reading the trope list'''. It won't take long.

* FurryDenial: The Cow Pretending to Be a Man.
-->'''Person''': Alan, are you a cow?\\
'''Alan''': What? No!\\
'''Cow Pretending to Be a Man''': Yeah, me neither.