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A {{machinima}} series created by [=Guitarmasterx7=] (real name Lyle), of ''WebAnimation/{{Brawlgasm}}'' and ''Master Chief'' fame, and [=Dexterboy124=], who is known for his VideoGame/SuperSmashBros machinina series ''WebAnimation/PeachsSluttyAdventure'' as well as ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]: Bullshit Evolved'', which premiered at the end of ''Sanity'''s first season. If you're reading this after the latter half of the 2010s and are wondering why Dex's [[RetroactiveRecognition voice sounds so familiar]], it's because he now does a ''lot'' of voice-over work for "entertainment culture" websites and channels.
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A {{machinima}} series created by [=Guitarmasterx7=] (real name Lyle), of ''WebAnimation/{{Brawlgasm}}'' and ''Master Chief'' (and later ''WebVideo/OneyPlays'') fame, and [=Dexterboy124=], who is known for his VideoGame/SuperSmashBros machinina series ''WebAnimation/PeachsSluttyAdventure'' as well as ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]: Bullshit Evolved'', which premiered at the end of ''Sanity'''s first season. If you're reading this after the latter half of the 2010s and are wondering why Dex's [[RetroactiveRecognition voice sounds so familiar]], it's because he now does a ''lot'' of voice-over work for "entertainment culture" websites and channels.
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* AmusingAlien: The titular ''Bad Alien'' is one of these, but all [[spoiler:four]] extraterrestrials seen in the short get some good jokes.
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* GroinAttack: An alien race of man-sized handguns invade Earth in ''Save the Phallus'' for the purposes of shooting a single groin. After they do so, [[AntiClimax they leave.]]
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* LongList: The Season 3 finale has Nina remind Dexter and Lyle about their tendency to choose homoerotic names for their band by listing them all sans their current one (The Boy Bangers).
-->''"Let’s see: Manhandle, The Cock Suckers, The Jizz Jockeys, One in the Stink, Come Funnel From Behind, Ass Take Shiterist, Just the Tip, Public Enema No. 1, The Man Hole. And let’s not forget my personal favorite: Bowling for Poop."''
-->''"Let’s see: Manhandle, The Cock Suckers, The Jizz Jockeys, One in the Stink, Come Funnel From Behind, Ass Take Shiterist, Just the Tip, Public Enema No. 1, The Man Hole. And let’s not forget my personal favorite: Bowling for Poop."''
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Though season four never received a proper finale, a fifth season was announced on January 9, 2014. Premiering on January 12, 2014 and concluding on April 6, 2014, the fifth season was focused on game skits over animated skits. An animated special premiered on July 18, 2015.
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Though season four never received a proper finale, a fifth season was announced on January 9, 2014. Premiering on January 12, 2014 and concluding on April 6, 2014, the fifth season was focused on game skits over animated skits. An ''Bad Alien'', an animated special special, premiered on July 18, 2015.
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The series would be put on hiatus for several years afterwards, during which Machinima would delete [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes several seasons of the show from Website/YouTube along with large swaths of their archive]], and then (alongside Machinima's entire catalogue, what with the company being dissolved and all) '''all of the show.''' Around the same time, Dex would reboot the series as a solo side project, retitled "Sanity Not Included: Dexified". Having all of the previous seasons saved, Dex has reuploaded the original series as of 2020.
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The series would be put on hiatus for several years afterwards, during which Machinima would delete [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes several seasons of the show from from]] Website/YouTube [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes along with large swaths of their archive]], and then (alongside Machinima's entire catalogue, what with the company being dissolved and all) '''all of the show.''' Around the same time, Dex would reboot the series as a solo side project, retitled "Sanity Not Included: Dexified". Having all of the previous seasons saved, Dex has reuploaded the original series as of 2020.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The "Sheep" skit has Amanda cheerfully and casually say "I love you" to Dex, only for Dex to get nervous stumble out an IUhYouToo style response. The ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen original]]'' idea for the skit, as revealed by Dex, would have consisted of Dex having sex with Amanda, and when she asks him immediately after climax if he loves her, his clear state of mind would cause him to mutter out a LittleNo. The skit would progress from there, but was ultimately deemed to adult to get across on [=YouTube=], so it was changed to him [[GainaxEnding screwing Amanda while she dresses up as a sheep.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The "Sheep" skit has Amanda cheerfully and casually say "I love you" to Dex, only for Dex to get nervous stumble out an IUhYouToo style response. The ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen original]]'' idea for the skit, as revealed by Dex, would have consisted of Dex having sex with Amanda, and when she asks him immediately after climax if he loves her, his clear state of mind would cause him to mutter out a LittleNo. The skit would progress from there, but was ultimately deemed to too adult to get across on [=YouTube=], so it was changed to him [[GainaxEnding screwing Amanda while she dresses up as a sheep.]]sheep]].
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The series would be put on hiatus for several years afterwards, during which Machinima would delete [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes several seasons of the show from Website/YouTube along with large swaths of their archive]], and then (alongside Machinima's entire catalogue, what with the company being dissolved and all) '''all of the show.''' Around the same time, Dex would reboot the series as a solo side project, retitled "Sanity Not Included: Dexified". He has Having all of the previous seasons saved at home, and promises to re-upload them at some point in saved, Dex has reuploaded the future.original series as of 2020.
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* {{Gainaxing}}: Nina and Amanda are almost always bouncing around with nary a care.
* GagBoobs: Nina, as per Gainaxing above.
* GagBoobs: Nina, as per Gainaxing above.
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A {{machinima}} series created by [=Guitarmasterx7=] (real name Lyle), of ''WebAnimation/{{Brawlgasm}}'' and ''Master Chief'' fame, and Dexterboy124, who is known for his VideoGame/SuperSmashBros machinina series ''WebAnimation/PeachsSluttyAdventure'' as well as ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]: Bullshit Evolved'', which premiered at the end of ''Sanity'''s first season. If you're reading this after the latter half of the 2010s and are wondering why Dex's [[RetroactiveRecognition voice sounds so familiar]], it's because he now does a ''lot'' of voice-over work for "entertainment culture" websites and channels.
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A {{machinima}} series created by [=Guitarmasterx7=] (real name Lyle), of ''WebAnimation/{{Brawlgasm}}'' and ''Master Chief'' fame, and Dexterboy124, [=Dexterboy124=], who is known for his VideoGame/SuperSmashBros machinina series ''WebAnimation/PeachsSluttyAdventure'' as well as ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]: Bullshit Evolved'', which premiered at the end of ''Sanity'''s first season. If you're reading this after the latter half of the 2010s and are wondering why Dex's [[RetroactiveRecognition voice sounds so familiar]], it's because he now does a ''lot'' of voice-over work for "entertainment culture" websites and channels.
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The first season consisted of 13 episodes while the second season was finished after much hiatus with 14 episodes. Season 3 premiered on November 25th, 2012, with episodes premiering weekly until the finale on December 30th. Lyle announced his retirement in 2012; ImmortalHD took over for him starting in the fourth season, which premiered on April 28, 2013.
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The first season consisted of 13 episodes while the second season was finished after much hiatus with 14 episodes. Season 3 premiered on November 25th, 2012, with episodes premiering weekly until the finale on December 30th. Lyle announced his retirement in 2012; ImmortalHD [=ImmortalHD=] took over for him starting in the fourth season, which premiered on April 28, 2013.
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** It makes sense considering how the two seasons were drawn by two completely different people: Guitarmasterx7 during all of season 1 (except the finale) and the internet animator Spazkid who has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Uj2go2t1M&list=UUcYw2GuJh1gkk5_4HM7q97Q&index=5&feature=plcp improved]] in his own right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2c8s9TRQs over the years]].
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** It makes sense considering how the two seasons were drawn by two completely different people: Guitarmasterx7 [=Guitarmasterx7=] during all of season 1 (except the finale) and the internet animator Spazkid who has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Uj2go2t1M&list=UUcYw2GuJh1gkk5_4HM7q97Q&index=5&feature=plcp improved]] in his own right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2c8s9TRQs over the years]].
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* ContinuityCameo: The man in the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] coat who was in Guitarmasterx7's video "Morgan's Birthday Video Thing dot doubleyoo emm vee. This is so srs you guys." blows up a Spartan in episode 1.
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* ContinuityCameo: The man in the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] coat who was in Guitarmasterx7's [=Guitarmasterx7=]'s video "Morgan's Birthday Video Thing dot doubleyoo emm vee. This is so srs you guys." blows up a Spartan in episode 1.
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A {{machinima}} series created by [=Guitarmasterx7=] (real name Lyle), of ''Machinima/{{Brawlgasm}}'' ''WebAnimation/{{Brawlgasm}}'' and ''Master Chief'' fame, and Dexterboy124, who is known for his VideoGame/SuperSmashBros machinina series ''Machinima/PeachsSluttyAdventure'' ''WebAnimation/PeachsSluttyAdventure'' as well as ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]: Bullshit Evolved'', which premiered at the end of ''Sanity'''s first season. If you're reading this after the latter half of the 2010s and are wondering why Dex's [[RetroactiveRecognition voice sounds so familiar]], it's because he now does a ''lot'' of voice-over work for "entertainment culture" websites and channels.
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A {{machinima}} series created by [=Guitarmasterx7=] (real name Lyle), of ''Machinima/{{Brawlgasm}}'' and ''Master Chief'' fame, and Dexterboy124, who is known for his VideoGame/SuperSmashBros machinina series ''Machinima/PeachsSluttyAdventure'' as well as ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]: Bullshit Evolved'', which premiered at the end of ''Sanity'''s first season. If you're reading this after the latter half of the 2010s and are wondering why Dex's [[RetroactiveRecognition voice sounds so familiar]], it's because he now does a ''lot'' of voice-over work for "entertainment culture" websites and channels.
''Sanity'' is unique in that it's one of the few machinima series that doesn't use just one game, but many others. The show also features animated segments, which usually appear in the middle or the end of an episode. These were animated by Guitarmaster for season 1, Spaz Kid for the season 1 finale and season 2, and Nevarky and Zeurel for season 3.
The animated segments star fictionalized versions of the show's creators Dexter and Lyle. For the sake of FanService, the segments also feature two female characters were created for the show known as Nina and Amanda. Nina is a blonde woman with massive breasts that lives with Dex and Lyle and debuted in season one. Amanda on the other hand is a brunette with a huge ass, is Dex's necrophiliac girlfriend, and debuted in season two.
The first season consisted of 13 episodes while the second season was finished after much hiatus with 14 episodes. Season 3 premiered on November 25th, 2012, with episodes premiering weekly until the finale on December 30th. Lyle announced his retirement in 2012; ImmortalHD took over for him starting in the fourth season, which premiered on April 28, 2013.
Though season four never received a proper finale, a fifth season was announced on January 9, 2014. Premiering on January 12, 2014 and concluding on April 6, 2014, the fifth season was focused on game skits over animated skits. An animated special premiered on July 18, 2015.
The series would be put on hiatus for several years afterwards, during which Machinima would delete [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes several seasons of the show from Website/YouTube along with large swaths of their archive]], and then (alongside Machinima's entire catalogue, what with the company being dissolved and all) '''all of the show.''' Around the same time, Dex would reboot the series as a solo side project, retitled "Sanity Not Included: Dexified". He has all of the previous seasons saved at home, and promises to re-upload them at some point in the future.
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!!This series includes examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The "Sheep" skit has Amanda cheerfully and casually say "I love you" to Dex, only for Dex to get nervous stumble out an IUhYouToo style response. The ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen original]]'' idea for the skit, as revealed by Dex, would have consisted of Dex having sex with Amanda, and when she asks him immediately after climax if he loves her, his clear state of mind would cause him to mutter out a LittleNo. The skit would progress from there, but was ultimately deemed to adult to get across on [=YouTube=], so it was changed to him [[GainaxEnding screwing Amanda while she dresses up as a sheep.]]
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In the season one finale, Psylocke thinks that Shuma-Gorath will molest her, simply because he is a tentacle monster.
* ArtShift: The animated segments have a marked increase in quality starting with the finale of season 1 and throughout season 2.
** It makes sense considering how the two seasons were drawn by two completely different people: Guitarmasterx7 during all of season 1 (except the finale) and the internet animator Spazkid who has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Uj2go2t1M&list=UUcYw2GuJh1gkk5_4HM7q97Q&index=5&feature=plcp improved]] in his own right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2c8s9TRQs over the years]].
* BagOfSpilling: Made fun of in a machinima of the first level of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight.'' Alucard shoots through the level until he meets Death, who takes away all his weapons.
--> '''Death:''' 'sup bitch? Ever played ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime''?
--> '''Alucard:''' No-WHAT THE FUCK?! ASSHOLE!!
--> '''Death:''' [[VillainExitStageLeft Later bitch!]]
--> '''Alucard:''' Oh, this is what I do now? I punch things. Yeah, I think I'll just kill myself.
--> '''Death:''' Have fun finding something to do it with!
* BashBrothers: Lyle and Dexter can kick ninja ass.
* BerserkButton: DO NOT INTERRUPT ME WHEN I'M RECITING THE PART ABOUT THE HAIRY BUSH!!
** Lyle flies into a rage during an Assassin's Creed III sketch and gives the game a zero out of ten. All because Desmond's back is clipping through his backpack.
* BitingTheHandHumor: The very end of the first episode has a Machinima employee choose to upload "a hundred trillion shitty ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' gameplay videos that nobody fucking cares about and should be on the other channel anyways" instead of Sanity Not Included. The employee's eyes then [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glow]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] after making making a stare similar to that of the [[MemeticMutation Card]] [[Troll Crusher]] as [[OminousLatinChanting Dissidia's rendering of One Winged Angel]] plays in the background.
** It's more of a joke about the Machinima community claiming to unsubscribe to the machinima channels when a YMMV video is uploaded.n
* BlackComedy
** Or at least "We might kill this baby but instead we're going to catapult it" comedy.
-->'''Dex''': (to Nina, after she tries to protect a baby from getting killed) Couldn't stop us that time, could ya?
-->'''Lyle''': Yeah! FUCK THAT BABY! *He and Dex hi-five and walk away*
** Taken up to eleven in a skit in the first episode of season 2
-->'''Husband''': I love you, honey.
-->'''Wife''': (With a rope that has one side in her vagina, and another attached to a truck) THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE ME TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL?!?!
** Lyle, when told to "get him down from there" in regards to someone preparing for a suicide.
-->"YOU SUCK AND NOBODY WILL EVER LOVE YOU! There. If that doesn't get him down, nothing will."
* BrickJoke: At the end of the first season, after having taken down the nameless agent's HumongousMecha, Nina asks if Dex and Lyle are up for a threesome, with [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the Queen of England popping up and suggesting a foursome instead.]] During the Christmas Teaser Trailer, all four are seen in bed together. Later still, at the end of the Season Two finale, Dex, Lyle, Nina, and Amanda are all grouped together, and the Queen of England says that it'll be a great fivesome.
* TheCameo: So far, there have been two occasions in which footage from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZIkdOY4ok&feature=channel_video_title A Strange Dream]], starring Vivvav (a friend of Dex and Lyle's), has appeared in the series. Both cameos have involved Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
** The character of the warden, Raust Blackdragon, is based off a real person who the creators are...acquainted...with.
* CampGay: Raust Blackdragon, the warden of the prison.
** ''Fifty Shades of Gay'' shows him going out with Dex's ex girlfriend Fanny however.
* CantYouReadTheSign: NO PETTING THE RECYCLING BIN!
* TheCasanova: [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]], apparently.
--> '''Snake:''' Sup baby, Bumblefaggot.
--> '''Woman:''' Oh God, I'm so turned on!
* CleavageWindow: Let's face it, any boob trope will be applied to Nina at some point, although she does avert it from time to time by wearing a shirt that completely covers her chest.
* ClothingDamage: In season 2, while trying to protect a baby, Nina's clothes are completely burned off. It would have been the perfect moment if not for the censor bar.
* CompensatingForSomething: Parodied in the very first episode.
--> '''Yellow Spartan watching other Spartan walk toward small car:''' Hey! What are you doing driving that small car? Trying to compensate for something, BIG DICK?
* ComplexityAddiction: Parodied in a ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' sketch, where two doctors are treating a patient with a cold. One comes up with a ridiculous plan to shrink her partner down and inject him into the patient's bloodstream so he can destroy the cold virus from within. He simply suggests [[MundaneSolution they give the patient some cough syrup,]] prompting her to ask if he's high.
* ContinuityCameo: The man in the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] coat who was in Guitarmasterx7's video "Morgan's Birthday Video Thing dot doubleyoo emm vee. This is so srs you guys." blows up a Spartan in episode 1.
** He was also featured in the video "Herpes: The Musical", which was uploaded by Lyle's alternate account "theloopholeistheahol". Another video that he used from that account in SNI was the "Disingenuous Assertions" video.
* ContinuityNod: During the INTERACTIVE CHOICE series, Link finds a hammer he can't control in the FIRE TEMPLE episode. He uses it again in the WATER TEMPLE.
* TheDeadCanDance: A skeleton dances so much the {{Necromancer}} who brought him back is paralyzed with frustration over the "stupid fucking bone dance".
* {{Equippable Ally}}/{{Grievous Harm With A Body}}: Dex uses the Queen of England as a spear in the Season 1 Finale.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Hearing a reading from Raust's novel.
* FlatWhat: Some viewers may experience this.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Nina and Amanda are almost always bouncing around with nary a care.
* GagBoobs: Nina, as per Gainaxing above.
* GagDub: Of the first two minutes of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''. See BagOfSpilling
* HypocriticalHumor: Squall often mocked Cloud's AmbiguouslyGay status with Zack. And yet he's totally crazy with [[MonsterClown Kefka]] of all people.
* ILoveTheDead: Dex mentions that his girlfriend Amanda has necrophilia. [[{{Squick}} It's not until he tells this to Lyle that he realizes how messed up this is in midsentence.]]
* IReadItForTheArticles: Inverted. People apparently watch the interactive choices because there are sexy pics of Nina and Amanda in suggestive poses at the end.
* InkSuitActor: Parodied and inverted in the Q&A video. [[spoiler: Meg, Nina's voice actress stuffs balloons in her shirt to make it seem like her boobs are as big as Nina's. Not that she's any less hot without them....]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Lyle, Dex, and several of the game characters.
** Evident when Lyle and Dex make Nina go onto X-Box Live just to see the Halo nerds yell and scream trying to impress her.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Two [[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Sackboys]] steal a car, which immediately launches into the air, spinning around with them screaming inside.
* MeaningfulName: Lyle's last name is [[{{Jerkass}} McDouchebag]]
* MsFanService: Nina.
** And sometimes Amanda, if Nina's not there.
* ModestyBedsheet: Nina's bedsheet is barely enough to cover her enormous breasts.
--> '''Bill:''' Is it just me or... is this... slightly arousing? I... *zip* It's gotta be done.
* OncePerEpisode: An interactive skit where the viewer can choose the situation's outcome. And at least one animated segment featuring the creators.
* PistolWhipping: "I am meleeing its legs!"
* RedOniBlueOni: Lyle and Dex. It's even in the title sequence!
* SelfDeprecation: In a video by Guitarmasterx7 announcing that episode 13 would be delayed.
--> '''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Spartan shoving medicine ball up his penis]]:''' Sanity Not Included is not a gay web show! It's '''the''' gay web show!
** There are often jokes about the creator's nationalities: One's British and the other is American.
* ShoutOut: To Manga/DeathNote, when a group of characters fall down the stairs and die.
--> '''Last to die:''' Damn you, Light Yagami...
* ShuttingUpNow: See ILoveTheDead above.
* SmokingHotSex: The waitress at the end of Season 2 Episode 12.
* StayInTheKitchen: Season 1 Episode 3
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: [[VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline He's been forced to sell armor in the Watchtower. Because he sucks so much.]]
** [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne "And then there was one..."]]
* TheUndead: Apparently, a guy with a skull mask is scarier than an actual animate skeleton.
* TheWormThatWalks: The season 2 finale' has, as it's ColdOpening first skit, a gunman who turns himself into a massive swarm of red spiders.
* YesMan: Dex will do ''anything'' Amanda asks him to.
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''Sanity'' is unique in that it's one of the few machinima series that doesn't use just one game, but many others. The show also features animated segments, which usually appear in the middle or the end of an episode. These were animated by Guitarmaster for season 1, Spaz Kid for the season 1 finale and season 2, and Nevarky and Zeurel for season 3.
The animated segments star fictionalized versions of the show's creators Dexter and Lyle. For the sake of FanService, the segments also feature two female characters were created for the show known as Nina and Amanda. Nina is a blonde woman with massive breasts that lives with Dex and Lyle and debuted in season one. Amanda on the other hand is a brunette with a huge ass, is Dex's necrophiliac girlfriend, and debuted in season two.
The first season consisted of 13 episodes while the second season was finished after much hiatus with 14 episodes. Season 3 premiered on November 25th, 2012, with episodes premiering weekly until the finale on December 30th. Lyle announced his retirement in 2012; ImmortalHD took over for him starting in the fourth season, which premiered on April 28, 2013.
Though season four never received a proper finale, a fifth season was announced on January 9, 2014. Premiering on January 12, 2014 and concluding on April 6, 2014, the fifth season was focused on game skits over animated skits. An animated special premiered on July 18, 2015.
The series would be put on hiatus for several years afterwards, during which Machinima would delete [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes several seasons of the show from Website/YouTube along with large swaths of their archive]], and then (alongside Machinima's entire catalogue, what with the company being dissolved and all) '''all of the show.''' Around the same time, Dex would reboot the series as a solo side project, retitled "Sanity Not Included: Dexified". He has all of the previous seasons saved at home, and promises to re-upload them at some point in the future.
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!!This series includes examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The "Sheep" skit has Amanda cheerfully and casually say "I love you" to Dex, only for Dex to get nervous stumble out an IUhYouToo style response. The ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen original]]'' idea for the skit, as revealed by Dex, would have consisted of Dex having sex with Amanda, and when she asks him immediately after climax if he loves her, his clear state of mind would cause him to mutter out a LittleNo. The skit would progress from there, but was ultimately deemed to adult to get across on [=YouTube=], so it was changed to him [[GainaxEnding screwing Amanda while she dresses up as a sheep.]]
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In the season one finale, Psylocke thinks that Shuma-Gorath will molest her, simply because he is a tentacle monster.
* ArtShift: The animated segments have a marked increase in quality starting with the finale of season 1 and throughout season 2.
** It makes sense considering how the two seasons were drawn by two completely different people: Guitarmasterx7 during all of season 1 (except the finale) and the internet animator Spazkid who has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Uj2go2t1M&list=UUcYw2GuJh1gkk5_4HM7q97Q&index=5&feature=plcp improved]] in his own right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2c8s9TRQs over the years]].
* BagOfSpilling: Made fun of in a machinima of the first level of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight.'' Alucard shoots through the level until he meets Death, who takes away all his weapons.
--> '''Death:''' 'sup bitch? Ever played ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime''?
--> '''Alucard:''' No-WHAT THE FUCK?! ASSHOLE!!
--> '''Death:''' [[VillainExitStageLeft Later bitch!]]
--> '''Alucard:''' Oh, this is what I do now? I punch things. Yeah, I think I'll just kill myself.
--> '''Death:''' Have fun finding something to do it with!
* BashBrothers: Lyle and Dexter can kick ninja ass.
* BerserkButton: DO NOT INTERRUPT ME WHEN I'M RECITING THE PART ABOUT THE HAIRY BUSH!!
** Lyle flies into a rage during an Assassin's Creed III sketch and gives the game a zero out of ten. All because Desmond's back is clipping through his backpack.
* BitingTheHandHumor: The very end of the first episode has a Machinima employee choose to upload "a hundred trillion shitty ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' gameplay videos that nobody fucking cares about and should be on the other channel anyways" instead of Sanity Not Included. The employee's eyes then [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glow]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] after making making a stare similar to that of the [[MemeticMutation Card]] [[Troll Crusher]] as [[OminousLatinChanting Dissidia's rendering of One Winged Angel]] plays in the background.
** It's more of a joke about the Machinima community claiming to unsubscribe to the machinima channels when a YMMV video is uploaded.n
* BlackComedy
** Or at least "We might kill this baby but instead we're going to catapult it" comedy.
-->'''Dex''': (to Nina, after she tries to protect a baby from getting killed) Couldn't stop us that time, could ya?
-->'''Lyle''': Yeah! FUCK THAT BABY! *He and Dex hi-five and walk away*
** Taken up to eleven in a skit in the first episode of season 2
-->'''Husband''': I love you, honey.
-->'''Wife''': (With a rope that has one side in her vagina, and another attached to a truck) THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE ME TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL?!?!
** Lyle, when told to "get him down from there" in regards to someone preparing for a suicide.
-->"YOU SUCK AND NOBODY WILL EVER LOVE YOU! There. If that doesn't get him down, nothing will."
* BrickJoke: At the end of the first season, after having taken down the nameless agent's HumongousMecha, Nina asks if Dex and Lyle are up for a threesome, with [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the Queen of England popping up and suggesting a foursome instead.]] During the Christmas Teaser Trailer, all four are seen in bed together. Later still, at the end of the Season Two finale, Dex, Lyle, Nina, and Amanda are all grouped together, and the Queen of England says that it'll be a great fivesome.
* TheCameo: So far, there have been two occasions in which footage from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZIkdOY4ok&feature=channel_video_title A Strange Dream]], starring Vivvav (a friend of Dex and Lyle's), has appeared in the series. Both cameos have involved Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
** The character of the warden, Raust Blackdragon, is based off a real person who the creators are...acquainted...with.
* CampGay: Raust Blackdragon, the warden of the prison.
** ''Fifty Shades of Gay'' shows him going out with Dex's ex girlfriend Fanny however.
* CantYouReadTheSign: NO PETTING THE RECYCLING BIN!
* TheCasanova: [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]], apparently.
--> '''Snake:''' Sup baby, Bumblefaggot.
--> '''Woman:''' Oh God, I'm so turned on!
* CleavageWindow: Let's face it, any boob trope will be applied to Nina at some point, although she does avert it from time to time by wearing a shirt that completely covers her chest.
* ClothingDamage: In season 2, while trying to protect a baby, Nina's clothes are completely burned off. It would have been the perfect moment if not for the censor bar.
* CompensatingForSomething: Parodied in the very first episode.
--> '''Yellow Spartan watching other Spartan walk toward small car:''' Hey! What are you doing driving that small car? Trying to compensate for something, BIG DICK?
* ComplexityAddiction: Parodied in a ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' sketch, where two doctors are treating a patient with a cold. One comes up with a ridiculous plan to shrink her partner down and inject him into the patient's bloodstream so he can destroy the cold virus from within. He simply suggests [[MundaneSolution they give the patient some cough syrup,]] prompting her to ask if he's high.
* ContinuityCameo: The man in the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] coat who was in Guitarmasterx7's video "Morgan's Birthday Video Thing dot doubleyoo emm vee. This is so srs you guys." blows up a Spartan in episode 1.
** He was also featured in the video "Herpes: The Musical", which was uploaded by Lyle's alternate account "theloopholeistheahol". Another video that he used from that account in SNI was the "Disingenuous Assertions" video.
* ContinuityNod: During the INTERACTIVE CHOICE series, Link finds a hammer he can't control in the FIRE TEMPLE episode. He uses it again in the WATER TEMPLE.
* TheDeadCanDance: A skeleton dances so much the {{Necromancer}} who brought him back is paralyzed with frustration over the "stupid fucking bone dance".
* {{Equippable Ally}}/{{Grievous Harm With A Body}}: Dex uses the Queen of England as a spear in the Season 1 Finale.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Hearing a reading from Raust's novel.
* FlatWhat: Some viewers may experience this.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Nina and Amanda are almost always bouncing around with nary a care.
* GagBoobs: Nina, as per Gainaxing above.
* GagDub: Of the first two minutes of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''. See BagOfSpilling
* HypocriticalHumor: Squall often mocked Cloud's AmbiguouslyGay status with Zack. And yet he's totally crazy with [[MonsterClown Kefka]] of all people.
* ILoveTheDead: Dex mentions that his girlfriend Amanda has necrophilia. [[{{Squick}} It's not until he tells this to Lyle that he realizes how messed up this is in midsentence.]]
* IReadItForTheArticles: Inverted. People apparently watch the interactive choices because there are sexy pics of Nina and Amanda in suggestive poses at the end.
* InkSuitActor: Parodied and inverted in the Q&A video. [[spoiler: Meg, Nina's voice actress stuffs balloons in her shirt to make it seem like her boobs are as big as Nina's. Not that she's any less hot without them....]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Lyle, Dex, and several of the game characters.
** Evident when Lyle and Dex make Nina go onto X-Box Live just to see the Halo nerds yell and scream trying to impress her.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Two [[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Sackboys]] steal a car, which immediately launches into the air, spinning around with them screaming inside.
* MeaningfulName: Lyle's last name is [[{{Jerkass}} McDouchebag]]
* MsFanService: Nina.
** And sometimes Amanda, if Nina's not there.
* ModestyBedsheet: Nina's bedsheet is barely enough to cover her enormous breasts.
--> '''Bill:''' Is it just me or... is this... slightly arousing? I... *zip* It's gotta be done.
* OncePerEpisode: An interactive skit where the viewer can choose the situation's outcome. And at least one animated segment featuring the creators.
* PistolWhipping: "I am meleeing its legs!"
* RedOniBlueOni: Lyle and Dex. It's even in the title sequence!
* SelfDeprecation: In a video by Guitarmasterx7 announcing that episode 13 would be delayed.
--> '''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Spartan shoving medicine ball up his penis]]:''' Sanity Not Included is not a gay web show! It's '''the''' gay web show!
** There are often jokes about the creator's nationalities: One's British and the other is American.
* ShoutOut: To Manga/DeathNote, when a group of characters fall down the stairs and die.
--> '''Last to die:''' Damn you, Light Yagami...
* ShuttingUpNow: See ILoveTheDead above.
* SmokingHotSex: The waitress at the end of Season 2 Episode 12.
* StayInTheKitchen: Season 1 Episode 3
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: [[VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline He's been forced to sell armor in the Watchtower. Because he sucks so much.]]
** [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne "And then there was one..."]]
* TheUndead: Apparently, a guy with a skull mask is scarier than an actual animate skeleton.
* TheWormThatWalks: The season 2 finale' has, as it's ColdOpening first skit, a gunman who turns himself into a massive swarm of red spiders.
* YesMan: Dex will do ''anything'' Amanda asks him to.
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