History WebVideo / GloveAndBoots

!!''Glove and Boots'' contains the following tropes:

* MadeOfIron: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilariously]] [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in "Amazing Product Commercial" when Hanzi drives over the Amazing Product to demonstrate how tough it is.

They began posting videos in 2004 with a style that was reminiscent of a pastiche of early edutainment shows like ''Series/SesameStreet'' and ''Series/TheElectricCompany'', complete with some music videos. By 2010, the format received some changes in technology and switched to a slightly older demographic, with more references to pop culture and the like.

* AffectionateParody: Several of their videos are these, such as "[[Film/{{Saw}} Jigsaw Puzzle]]", "The [[Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse Pee-wee Herman]] Blog", and the music videos featuring Gorilla, like "[[Music/VillagePeople Gorillage People]]",

* CatchPhrase: Johnny T.: "Boom. Done."

* LargeHam: ComicBook/{{Thor}}, of course!

* LargeHam: ComicBook/Thor, of course!

* LargeHam: [[ComicBook/Thor Thor]], of course!

* TopTenList: Some of their blogs, like "Ten reasons we hate Facebook", "Nine Movies that make Men Cry", and "Top Ten Worst Top Ten Lists".

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They began posting videos in 2004 with a style that was reminiscent of a pastiche of early edutainment shows like SesameStreet or TheElectricCompany, complete with some music videos. By 2010, the format had received some changes in technology and switched to a slightly older demographic and referenced more pop culture.

Their posts are often on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and occasionally make it onto Reddit. They also have separate Twitter accounts, one for [[https://twitter.com/marioglove Mario]] and one for [[http://twitter.com/fafagroundhog Fafa]].

Their youtube channel can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/user/gloveandboots here]].

* AffectionateParody – Some of the music videos featuring Gorilla. “Jigsaw Puzzle.”
* AxCrazy – Jack Woods, full stop. Armed with a shotgun loaded with holy wafers and sunshine.
* BeingEvilSucks – Zombie is a nice guy who adores puppies and singing, but by virtue of being a brain-eating zombie, is not really accepted by Fafa or Mario.
* ChristmasEpisode - Gorilla
* CloudCuckooLander – Stan Lee, Thor to an extent, Fafa in the Pee Wee Herman video.
* CurseCutShort - “Jigsaw Puzzle”
* EdutainmentShow – Sort of. Early videos tended to be similar to SesameStreet in that there would be a lesson about certain words like Mario's “Word of the Day” (cyanoacrylate) and now they've moved on more to explaining pop culture.
* FantasticComedy
* GilliganCut
* HappyDance – When the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd5F-doyKo Apocalypse didn't happen!]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners – If the “Time Machine” episode is to be believed, Mario and Fafa have been pals since the days of the dinosaurs.
* LetsPlay – A few videos show Mario and Fafa playing [[NintendoHard classic NES games]] on their Wii, as well as a little bit of VideoGame/Left4Dead and RockBand.
* HostileShowTakeover – Gorilla in Fafa's Photoshop Tutorial
* ManlyTears – Nine Movies that make men cry.
* MirrorMatch – The Halo 2012 Debate, or [[http://youtu.be/qrSt5fTFxPk Fafa's Ping Pong match]]
* {{Montages}} – The video blog makes liberal use of various Montages, from the SadTimesMontage
* MurderArsonAndJaywalking
* NewMediaAreEvil - Ten Reasons Why We Hate {{Facebook}}
* OhCrap – Mario's reaction to a number of potential disasters, ranging from Temporal destruction to Doomsday!
* ParentalBonus
* {{Puppet Show|s}}
* RedOniBlueOni – Mario is the Red Oni to Fafa's Blue.
* RelaxOVision – Used liberally during “Jigsaw Puzzle'
* ShoutOut – There are tons of references to various bits of pop culture from over the years, ranging from ''Film/TopGun'' to ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''.
* SitcomArchNemesis – Their competition for Twitter's 2012 Shorty awards, [=DJTayJames=] (the official DJ of JustinBieber).
* ShmuckBait - the Lollipop Hat.
* [[TalkingAnimal Talking Animals]] – Fafa and Gorilla
* TakeThat – Hipsters get a whole video dedicated to them.
* TimeMachine – the TimeTravel blog.
* TopTenList – Top Ten Worst Top Ten Lists, Ten reasons we hate Facebook, Nine Movies that make Men Cry.
* TheUnintelligible – Gorilla
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny – Mario and Fafa's idea for condensing the OlympicGames to prevent it from getting too overwhelming.
* VlogSeries – Videos Posted on YouTube
* WhichMe – Fafa uses a Time Machine to hang out with himself, to which Mario fears for the worst and so he uses the TimeMachine to get his own Time Clones and destroys the TimeMachine!
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim – Justified because of the ZombieApocalypse!

* LetsPlay – A few videos show Mario and Fafa playing [[NintendoHard classic NES games]] on their Wii, as well as a little bit of Left4Dead and RockBand.

* PuppetShow

* ShoutOut – There are tons of references to various bits of pop culture from over the years, ranging from TopGun to ShaunOfTheDead.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids – While not R rated, there is some strong language, and some of the humor is definitely meant for an older audience.

* GrowingTheBeard – Compare the older “vintage” episodes from 2004-2006 when the Blog was a bit more like a pastiche of the 1970s and 1980s SesameStreet and where they are now. There's also a bit of CharacterizationMarchesOn, most notably with Mario's presentation and voice.

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny – Mario and Fafa's idea for condensing the OlympicGames to prevent it from getting too overwhelming. Eventually turns into a description of “The Klingons stabbing Harry Potter as they fight to the death during Rollerball. And the nation that wins the most gold medals gets to rule the world for the next four years.”

* TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny – Mario and Fafa's idea for condensing the OlympicGames to prevent it from getting too overwhelming. Eventually turns into a description of “The Klingons stabbing Harry Potter as they fight to the death during Rollerball. And the nation that wins the most gold medals gets to rule the world for the next four years.”

[[http://www.gloveandboots.com ''Glove and Boots'']] is a [[VlogSeries Video Blog]] focusing on two puppets, Mario and [[TalkingAnimal Fafa the Groundhog]]. They often discuss things that are going on, in both their lives and in the world, from the ZombieApocalypse to TimeTravel to Twinkies.

* [[TalkingAnimal TalkingAnimals]] – Fafa and Gorilla

* SitcomArchNemesis – Their competition for Twitter's 2012 Shorty awards, {DJTayJames} (the official DJ of JustinBieber).

* SitcomArchNemesis – Their competition for Twitter's 2012 Shorty awards, {{DJTayJames}} (the official DJ of JustinBieber).

* NewMediaIsEvil - Ten Reasons Why We Hate {{Facebook}}

* TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny – Mario and Fafa's idea for condensing the OlympicGames to prevent it from getting too overwhelming. Eventually turns into a description of “The Klingons stabbing Harry Potter as they fight to the death during Rollerball. And the [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne nation that wins the most gold medals gets to rule the world for the next four years]].”

* Montages – The video blog makes liberal use of various Montages, from the SadTimesMontage

* TalkingAnimals – Fafa and Gorilla