History WebVideo / AfterHours

*** Specifically, while he manages to bite his tongue throughout the episode while still visibly seething with hurt rage, it's when Michael dismissively refers to Peter Parker '[[WithGreatPower having fun]]' as Spider-Man that sets him off.

*** Specifically, while he manages to bite his tongue throughout the episode while still visibly seething with hurt rage, it's when Michael dismissively refers to Peter Parker 'having fun' as Spider-Man that sets him off.

--> '''Mike''': ''Troopas''.
--> '''Katie''': ''(Gives Michael a DeathGlare)'' to create armies-
--> '''Mike''': '''Armoopas!''' ''(gives a 'Did I not just make this clear?' shrug to Soren and Dan)''.
* {{Irony}}: The old main cast of After Hours being [[NoSocialSkills Daniel]], [[LoveableSexManiac Michael]], [[LovableJock Soren]] and [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Katie]] tend to discuss/criticise common tropes in shows and movies along with their character archetypes and wonder what life would be like if it played [[TropesAreTools common movie/tv tropes]], while they fail to realise that they themselves are parodies of common character archetypes. Even the world around them paraodies the tropes that they tend to talk about such as the background characters having a [[MusicalWorldHypotheses random musical numbers]] in "The Horrifying Truth About Life Inside of Movie Musicals".

--> "Sen. Soren Bowie had sex so fast he caught on fire and died."

** In "5 Evil Organizations We Wouldn't Mind Joining (in movies)", Soren initially says he wants to join the League of Shadows from the Christopher Nolan ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' films. He's initially thrilled at the prospect of bringing justice down on corrupt cities, until Daniel points out that his hometown of Los Angeles would almost certainly be on that list.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: It takes a few promptings, but Michael eventually realizes this about his plan for the ''Film/ItFollows'' curse. Namely, that it eventually ends up with him being [[spoiler: horribly fucked to death.]]

* {{Irony}}: The old main cast of After Hours being [[NoSocialSkills Daniel]], [[LoveableSexManiac Michael]], [[LovableJock Soren]] and [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Katie]] tend to discuss/criticise common tropes in shows and movies along with their character archetypes and wonder what life would be like if it played [[TropesAreTools common movie/tv tropes]], while they fail to realise that they themselves are parodies of common character archetypes. Even the world around them paraodies the tropes that they tend to talk about.

* MajorMinorInconvenience: Discussed at length in "4 Ads That Depict Terrifying Alternate Realities".

Not to be confused with the 1985 BlackComedy of the [[Film/AfterHours same name]].

* BiTheWay: Michael said in one episode that his sexuality is constantly changing (his mental 'sexuality wheel' is mostly various versions of 'I like all genders'). He appears to prefer women though.

--->'''Daniel:''' Why don't you tell us [why [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] would be grossed out by sex with Eric], in a voice that I'm sure will be 10% too loud for everyone's comfort?\\

--->'''Dan''': I think we can all agree that it'd suck to live in a kingdom like ''{{Disney/Frozen}}''. Anytime your teenage princess can't control her emotions, everyone who's outside of the castle freezes. ''[[NoEndorHolocaust To death]]''!\\

** Dan rails against the "handsome, blond shithead" in Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' who gets the girl and wasn't in the book. The whole time he's pointing his thumb at Soren, who waggles his eyebrows and grins.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Katie and Soren have this in spades in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd1sIwCLtIc "Why Batman is Secretly Terrible for Gotham"]] episode. [[spoiler: However, after they both snap and [[SlapSlapKiss make out for a few seconds]], things quickly go [[JustFriends back to normal.]]]] Also with Michael. [[NoodleIncident They dated and had sex at least once.]] [[NeverLiveItDown Mike refuses to let her forget it.]]

*** Subverted in the "Alternate Dimensions" episode, in spite of Dan actually doing a rather impressive take on [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Krang]].

--> '''Dan (ignoring Katie)''': Jawas as a metaphor for the [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide Armenian Genocide]]...somehow.

Currently, Michael Swaim [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdl3e4AzpF8 is doing a spiritual successor]] called ''WebVideo/Off Hours'', which also features Katy Stoll and a rotating cast.

Currently, Michael Swaim [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdl3e4AzpF8 is doing a spiritual successor]] called ''WebVideo/Off Hours'', which also features Katy Stoll.

Currently, Michael Swaim is doing a spiritual successor called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdl3e4AzpF8 Off Hours]]'', which also features Katy Stoll.

Currently, Michael Swaim is doing a spiritual successor called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdl3e4AzpF8 Off Hours]]'', which also features Katie Willert.

Currently, Michael Swaim is doing a spiritual successor called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdl3e4AzpF8 Off Hours]]

* RealityEnsues: In their discussion on rom-coms, Michael([[DumbassHasAPoint very accurately]], I might add) points out that the easy part of a relationship, which is the one that rom-coms cover and nothing else, is falling in love, and that people fall in love by accident with terrible people all the time... Cue illustrations of Music/AmyWinehouse with Pete Doherty, Tina Turner with Ike Turner, Music/{{Rihanna}} with Music/ChrisBrown and Music/KurtCobain with Music/CourtneyLove.

* CloudCuckooLander: And yet again, Michael. And, yet again, so, so very much.
--> '''Katie''': Gordon and Batman both work hard to help the world. But only one of them has to file paperwork and obey the system, while the other one gets to expense smoke bombs and plow Catwoman, and it has nothing to do with who worked harder!
--> '''Michael''': Whaaat? You guys [[ComicallyMissingThePoint don't expense smoke bombs?]] How ''(falters under castmates' looks of derision)''...how are you paying for your smoke bombs?
** The guy eats hot dogs with chocolate sauce. Doesn't get any weirder than that.
* TheCameo: Cody Johnston, one of Cracked's top editors, appears as a waiter in the Batman episode.
** And to date several more, leading up to a subplot where he is some kind of secret society spy/monitor to the "After Hours" cast (8 Mind-Blowing Connections Between the Works of Joss Whedon).
* ClosetGeek: Soren. He changed out of his Comic-Con costume before meeting up with the others because he's [[LampshadeHanging not "out" yet.]]

* CozyCatastrophe: They spend an episode debating which catastrophe would be the coziest. They conclude that the most fun, and most peaceful one, would be an asteroid that would without a doubt destroy everyone, so there'd be no reason to panic and nobody to fight [[spoiler:leaving the world open to spend their final moments "boning"]].
** [[spoiler:Asspocalypse.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: Frequently invoked by the AlternateCharacterInterpretations, since many of them frequently depend on interpreting a given character's actions in the least flattering ways possible. Lampshaded [[{{Invoked}} in-universe]] by Soren in the ''Batman'' and ''James Bond'' episodes, when he points out with some frustration that he seems to be the only one of the group willing to defend the guys who routinely risk their lives trying to protect innocent people from psychotic murderous maniacs while the others keep trying to find ways to view them in the worst possible light.

* ClosetGeek: Soren. He changed out of his ComicCon costume before meeting up with the others because he's [[LampshadeHanging not "out" yet.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: It takes a few promptings, but Michael eventually realizes this about his plan for the, ItFollows, curse. Namely, that it eventually ends up with him being [[spoiler: horribly fucked to death.]]

* FanonDiscontinuity: [[invoked]] Enforced in the Mario episode, where Katie brings up the live action movie, to the chagrin of Dan, Michael and Soren. Despite the fact that the waitress is clearly that film's version of Daisy.

-->'''Katie''': I...can't do that, guys. Can I get vagged up?