History WebVideo / Drawtectives

The show was put on hold after the 2020 Website/CollegeHumor shutdown, which left the future of the series up in the air. However, after Webvideo/{{Drawfee}} reestablished itself as an independent production, the show has officially been {{Uncancelled}}, with new episodes premiering on the channel.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RR3xqmpQFg Local Cat Wanted]], by Patrick Luhrs on Website/YouTube. (Warning, contains some spoilers!)

** When the detectives [[WhatTheHellHero call out Emery for cutting down a tree as part of his daily exercise]], Rosé asks him [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax "How bad can you be?"]]

* AnAstralProjectionNotAGhost: [[spoiler: While Gareville ''was'' built for the spirits of the dead, our protagonists and most of the NPCs they interact with still have very-much-alive bodies to return to in the world of the living.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Our protagonists speculate that Dax Hund may be Harold transformed into a human, but this turns out to not be the case.

* TheTourney: The Joust Houst is a large tournament arena where the contestants ride magically spawned steeds of their choosing to joust against each other... [[MundaneUtility as well as a pair of dice placed on pillars.]] It implied that several participants have been injured and killed, [[TruthInTrlevision as sometimes happened during real torneys.]]

** It was confirmed that Season Two would try to avoid it in a different way, namely by having ''multiple'' {{Special Guest}}s with equal involvement in the show's production. [[spoiler: then Julia Lepitit ended up playing the culprint anyway.]]

** Eugene draws ”Flash”, an unintentionally undead-looking stred which is dubbed a ”horpse”. [[StylisticSuck It looks significantly worse than Julia Lepitit’s other drawings.]]

* NotSoPhonyPsychic: [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Terry / Madame All / Madame Alm]] relies mostly on hoaxes, but does in fact have three legitimate visions [[SelfImposedChallenge which our heroes have to draw out with their eyes closed.]] Pretty much all of said visions are {{Call Back}}s.
** Grendan draws a rhinoceros, which was a hypothetical suspect in the first season, and something they rode on earlier in this one.
** Rosé draws a bizarre-looking animal which somewhat resembles York’s ”[[CatBoy pissboy]]” look, or possibly Barfield.
** York draws a strange collection of shapes which vaguely resemble items and symbols he and his friends have already collected.

* MysteriousEmployer: Whoever is running the Celestial Spear Express is very secretive about both themselves and how the train actually functions, with even their employees only being told the bare minimum. Conrad Uctor claims that the boss is some guy named Barry.

* TheLittleDetecto: Harvey Hornswoggle gives the Drawtectives a Spirit Detector as thanks for saving his show. Rather alarmingly, it starts bleeping immediately. This implies that either the Drawtectives have been DeadAllAlong, or they’re [[ParanoiaFuel surrounded by invisible ghosts]], or [[OccamsRazor the device is just broken.]]

* FacelessMasses: The crowds of background extras are all depicted as black silhouettes.

** Ultimately, [[spoiler: Gareville is indeed revealed to be an ArtificialAfterlife.

* CapitalismIsBad: [[WebVideo/{{Drawga}} Once again]], the villains seem to be motivated by capitalistic greed. The Drawtectives reason that Gareville is run like a big, expensive theme park, with the ”employees” all being missing people who have been kidnapped and had their memories altered.

** Season Two brings back the idea, revealing [[spoiler: both the Ticket Taker and the Conrad Uctor who seemingly died]] to be animatronics. There’s also one working at Club Vega, [[HaveIMentionedImADwarfToday but he’s not exactly hiding it.]]

** It then appears again as a piece of wall art in Gareville proper, which makes the constellation out to be in the shape of a dragon. It turns out to show the way to [[spoiler: what may very well have been Eugene’s old living quarters.]]

* RoboticReveal: The players agree that it would be cool if this happened, though they argue that this probably ''won't'' happen with the very sweaty Avis, at the very least.

** It's been confirmed that Season Two will try to avoid it in a different way, Namely by having ''multiple'' {{Special Guest}}s with equal involvement in the show's production.

* ExcusePlot: The premise of the show is essentially an excuse to incorporate WebVideo/{{Drawfee}} challenges into an actual story. To wit, our protagonists are tasked with solving a crime which has already been solved, and proceed to interview witness who inexplicably all want them to draw stuff.

* InformedAttribute: Ogalvy’s description of Harold makes him sound like — as the Drawtectives put it — a very old ”[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Boopy Shoe]]”, and very little like the strong dog Harper insisted that he was. [[spoiler: Probably because Ogalvy confused him with Dax Hund, a rather doglike man.]]

* FurriesAreEasierToDraw: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Julia Lepetit essentially banned anthropomorphic animals from the setting as she felt that they would be too ''difficult'' to draw in her detailed style.

--> [[spoiler: ‘’’Avis:’’’ I was invited by Emory.]]