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''Pancake's Show'' is a animated web series created by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Jamesinator Jamesinator]]. The first episode premiered on December 12, 2020. The series' titular character is Pancake, a good-natured but dimwitted person who lives with his snarky best friend Mars. He also has a friend named Liam, who's a science wiz, and a sister named Waffle, who's rather ditzy.

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''Pancake's Show'' is a animated web series created by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Jamesinator Jamesinator]].com/channel/UCruMOSymknSNdpcF2x-u_IQ Fly]]. The first episode premiered on December 12, 2020. The series' titular character is Pancake, a good-natured but dimwitted person who lives with his snarky best friend Mars. He also has a friend named Liam, who's a science wiz, and a sister named Waffle, who's rather ditzy.
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* OffModel: Happens A LOT throughout the series.
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** The episode "Educational Television" is one entire fourth wall break, [[spoiler:as the episode is essentially Pancake talking to ''you'' about the wonders of nature]].

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** The episode episodes "Educational Television" is one and "Not-Pancake's Show" are entire fourth wall break, [[spoiler:as breaks, with the former episode is essentially being Pancake talking to ''you'' about the wonders of nature]].nature, and the latter being about every character wanting an episode to themselves.



* DeadpanSnarker: Mars on occasion.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Mars on occasion.Some characters are this sometimes, mostly Mars.



* FingerlessHands: Pancake (along with some other characters) used to have these in the earlier episodes.

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* FingerlessHands: Pancake (along Mars is usually seen with some other characters) these. Some of the human characters also used to have these in the earlier episodes.



* GameShowHost: The Quiz Show Guy.

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* GameShowHost: The Quiz Show Guy.Guy, though he's also a news reporter as well.

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* ArtShift: The flashback scenes in "Battle of Witz" and "Holiday Hoax" are this.
** The former's art style switches to a poorly-drawn crayon look. In the latter, Pancake and Waffle in "Holiday Hoax" is in an outline-less, paper-esque style.


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** The plot is basically Pancake learning how Santa Lemon Claus isn't real by Melvin, though later it turns out that Lemon Claus actually ''is'' real.
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* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight [[UpToEleven using machine guns]].

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* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight [[UpToEleven using machine guns]].guns.
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* SantasExistenceClause: "Holiday Hoax" follows this trope almost to a T.
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* ArtShift: The flashback scenes in "Battle of Witz" and "Holiday Hoax" are this.
** The former's art style switches to a poorly-drawn crayon look. In the latter, Pancake and Waffle in "Holiday Hoax" is in an outline-less, paper-esque style.
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* ChristmasEpisode: "Christmas Present", the first episode.

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* ChristmasEpisode: "Christmas Present", the first episode.Present" and "Holiday Hoax".

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Liam gets his own centric episode with "Battle of Witz".



* AllJustaDream: The ending to "?" is like this at first, until it's revealed at the ''very'' end that [[spoiler: Pancake wasn't actually dreaming and his supposed "dream" was a reality all along]].

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* AllJustaDream: AllJustADream: The ending to "?" is like this at first, until it's revealed at the ''very'' end that [[spoiler: Pancake wasn't actually dreaming and his supposed "dream" was a reality all along]].



* BreakingtheFourthWall: The show does this on occasion.

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* BreakingtheFourthWall: BreakingTheFourthWall: The show does this on occasion.



** The episode "Educational Television" is one GIANT fourth wall break, [[spoiler:as the episode is essentially Pancake talking to ''you'' about the wonders of nature]].

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** The episode "Educational Television" is one GIANT entire fourth wall break, [[spoiler:as the episode is essentially Pancake talking to ''you'' about the wonders of nature]].



* ColonCancer: "A Really ''BEE-ig'' Problem".
* DayintheLife: "A Day in the Life of Pancake".

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* ColonCancer: "A Really ''BEE-ig'' Problem".
CollectorOfTheStrange: Abigail is shown to be a proud collector of plug-n-play consoles.
** Melvin in "The Spork" also appears to be a collector of sporks.
* DayintheLife: DayInTheLife: "A Day in the Life of Pancake".



* DoNotTouchtheFunnelCloud: The episode "Tornado".

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* DoNotTouchtheFunnelCloud: DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: The episode "Tornado".



* FunnyAnimal: Some characters like Abigail, Casey, and Melvin are this.



* ManChild: Pancake.
* NeverBareheaded: Pancake.

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* ManChild: Pancake.
* NeverBareheaded: Pancake.Pancake and Waffle. They are rarely seen without their hats.
* NewscasterCameo: Quiz Show Guy is this whenever he's not a quiz show host.



* NoNameGiven: Melvin was initially just an unnamed cat character that appeared occasionally. It wasn't until "Now on Sale!" where he finally had the name "Melvin".



* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight using machine guns.
* TalkingtoHimself: 95% of the characters are voiced by Jamesinator.

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* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight [[UpToEleven using machine guns.
* TalkingtoHimself: 95% of the characters are voiced by Jamesinator.
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* VagueAge: Pancake and Waffle's ages are unknown, as they look like children yet are able to live in their own houses.
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* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight [[UpToEleven using machine guns]].

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* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight [[UpToEleven using machine guns]].guns.
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[[caption-width-right:500:From left to right: Cruncher, Mars, Waffle, Pancake, Finley, and Liam.]]
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* AllJustaDream: The ending to "?" is like this at first, until it's revealed at the ''very'' end that Pancake wasn't actually dreaming and his supposed "dream" was a reality all along.

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* AllJustaDream: The ending to "?" is like this at first, until it's revealed at the ''very'' end that [[spoiler: Pancake wasn't actually dreaming and his supposed "dream" was a reality all along.along]].
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''Pancake's Show'' is a animated web series created by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Jamesinator Jamesinator]]. The first episode premiered on December 12, 2020. The series' titular character is Pancake, a good-natured but dimwitted person who lives with his snarky best friend Mars. He also has a friend named Liam, who's a science wiz, and a sister named Waffle, who's rather ditzy.

The series can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL1hPAj7Y3V1oVw6hFU_VMj5z2-9e6Za0 here]].

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* ActionPet: Cruncher in "Plant Sitting".
* AlienAbduction: The episode "Procrastination" ends with [[DownerEnding Pancake being abducted by aliens]].
* AllJustaDream: The ending to "?" is like this at first, until it's revealed at the ''very'' end that Pancake wasn't actually dreaming and his supposed "dream" was a reality all along.
* AxCrazy: Mars is shown to be this throughout the series. For example, in "Battle of Witz", it's revealed that Mars potentially murdered his high school rival for picking on him.
* BeeAfraid: "A Really BEE-ig Problem" involves Pancake and Mars being sent to bee prison after touching a bee's beehive repeatedly. Bees.
* BreakingtheFourthWall: The show does this on occasion.
**In "The Great Detective(s) of Waffletown", Pancake wears his spare hat [[spoiler:since his actual hat is missing]]. Pancake says he looks like a goofball, and Mars says that he has to wear it for the whole episode.
**In "The Rat Problem", [[spoiler:the Rat makes a joke about Mars, and a laugh track plays]]. Mars notices the laugh track and demands the canned laughter to stop. It then cuts to a Website/{{YouTube}} video of teeth chattering getting paused.
**The episode "Educational Television" is one GIANT fourth wall break, [[spoiler:as the episode is essentially Pancake talking to ''you'' about the wonders of nature]].
* CartoonCreature: Mars and Cruncher.
* CharacterTitle: ''Pancake's Show''.
* ChristmasEpisode: "Christmas Present", the first episode.
* ColonCancer: "A Really ''BEE-ig'' Problem".
* DayintheLife: "A Day in the Life of Pancake".
* DeadpanSnarker: Mars on occasion.
* DoNotTouchtheFunnelCloud: The episode "Tornado".
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Mars in "Christmas Present" was seen flying, which he doesn't do in later episodes.
* FingerlessHands: Pancake (along with some other characters) used to have these in the earlier episodes.
* FishPeople: Finley.
* FourFingeredHands: Most of the characters have this.
* GameShowHost: The Quiz Show Guy.
* GreatDetective: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Great Detective(s) of Waffletown]]".
* HalloweenEpisode: "Ain't Got No Eyes or Nothing".
* InsomniaEpisode: The episode "Sleepwalking" is this.
* LaughTrack: Parodied in "The Rat Problem" above.
* ManChild: Pancake.
* NeverBareheaded: Pancake.
* NewYearHasCome: The episode "New Year's 2022" where Pancake and friends watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve.
* NiceGuy: Pancake is this most of the time.
* NonHumanSidekick: Pancake and Mars.
* OffModel: Happens A LOT throughout the series.
* PetContestEpisode: "Battle of Witz" becomes this at the end where [[spoiler:Liam takes his pet piranha plant Petey to the World's Best Inventions competition]].
* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight [[UpToEleven using machine guns]].
* TalkingtoHimself: 95% of the characters are voiced by Jamesinator.
* TheCity: Waffletown.
* ThickLineAnimation: This show is this mostly.
* UnrealisticBlackHole: The black hole in "?".
* VagueAge: Pancake and Waffle's ages are unknown, as they look like children yet are able to live in their own houses.
* YouDirtyRat: The rats in "The Rat Problem".
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