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* AbsenteeActor: Happens from time to time, usually with Gaster and Gruber.
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** In episode 4, the two voice changes in the episode are explained as demons leaving the characters affected.



* DenserAndWackier: Later episodes would become this in comparison to the rest of the main series.
** The Hiatus dubs to the series as a whole. The second and third are definitely bizarre by the series standards, but the first one [[RandomEventsPlot absolutely]] [[GainaxEnding defies]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment explanation.]]



** The first episode is more of an English dub with raunchier dialogue, possibly as a result of the (back then, only) two voice actresses accidentally reading the hardsubs.

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** The first episode is more of an English dub with raunchier dialogue, possibly as a result of the (back then, only) two voice actresses accidentally reading the hardsubs.hardsubs.
* OverlyLongName: Mr. Shyman's wife's name is somehow "Cloris Doris McBoris Floris Hymen." By Shyman's own admission, people tend to call her "C.D Hymen."
* SensoryAbuse: The first Hiatus dub.

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''Parappa Abridged is an [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] of the Parappa The Rapper anime, created by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHamtaroFlower1/ HamtaroFlower]] beginning production in 2015. The series is notable for its rather surrealist-style humor, usually taking the plot and transforming it heavily into a chaotic romp through the once-innocent world of Parappa The Rapper. Playlist can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00kqQfagggaRGzmWBcowSklR7-uKoIwz/ here.]]

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''Parappa Abridged is an [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] of the Parappa The Rapper anime, created by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHamtaroFlower1/ HamtaroFlower]] beginning production in 2015. HamtaroFlower]], running for 17 episodes, 3 improvised hiatus dubs and a completely improvised Christmas special between 2015 and 2020. The series is notable stands apart from other abridged series for its rather surrealist-style humor, usually taking the plot featuring a more dense and transforming wacky, absurdist sense of humor (as well as it heavily into a chaotic romp through the once-innocent world of having been improvised until episode 9). The series focuses on Parappa The Rapper.and his friends (in a loose sense of the term) going on adventures that tend to be so beautifully far-removed from the original plots, typically in a vulgar and inappropriate manner. Playlist can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00kqQfagggaRGzmWBcowSklR7-uKoIwz/ here.]]



* BreakingTheFourthWall: There's not much of a fourth wall to begin with...

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: There's not much of a The fourth wall to begin with...takes a bit of a walloping in this series:



* CrossdressingVoices: FREQUENTLY. Most of the voice cast are girls, and so most characters go through this. Occasionally the one male voice actor currently on the cast will voice a girl.

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* CrossdressingVoices: FREQUENTLY. Most of the Frequently. The voice cast actors for Parappa, Matt, Gaster, and PJ are girls, and so most characters go through this. Occasionally the one male girls. Similarly, Katy would end up having two simultaneous voice actor currently on actors in the cast will voice last two episodes, one of them being a girl.boy.



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first 8 episodes were all improvised on the fly, and the first two episodes had only two voice actors. In addition, all the vocal performances were very different from how they are now (PaRappa's voice being way deeper, Sunny having a constantly changing accent, etc)

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The In a grand sense, the first 8 eight episodes were all improvised on notable for being near-entirely/entirely improvised, as opposed to the fly, following episodes, which were scripted, then recorded in a call with some improvisation. Other notable differences:
** The series used to be presented in a lower visual quality
and was presented in letterboxed ''and'' pillarboxed format (the series would switch to higher quality 4:3 in a 16:9 screen in episode 7, and would switch to a strictly 4:3 resolution in episode 9).
** The style of
the first two humor had a tendency to be more cynical and had some jokes that didn't quite fly (and the series was a bit more down to earth in general). Later episodes had only would have a [[DenserAndWackier more off the wall tone]] and left some of it's cynicism behind.
** The first episode is more of an English dub with raunchier dialogue, possibly as a result of the (back then, only)
two voice actors. In addition, all actresses accidentally reading the vocal performances were very different from how they are now (PaRappa's voice being way deeper, Sunny having a constantly changing accent, etc)hardsubs.

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: ''And how.'' Parappa is a wimp, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl who verbally abuses her friends from time to time, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a DeadPanSnarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the VoiceOfReason... ''kind of.''

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: ''And how.'' Parappa is even more of a wimp, wimp and a major airhead with occasional mean tendecies, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl who verbally abuses her friends from time to time, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner, stoner as well as having become [[AdaptationalJerkass rather hateful and mean]] towards his friends, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a DeadPanSnarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the VoiceOfReason... ''kind of.''when he wants to be.''



* CrossdressingVoices: FREQUENTLY. Most of the voice cast are girls, and so most characters go through this. Occasionally the one male voice actor currently on the cast will voice a girl.

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* ContinuityNod: There's a rough sense of continuity through the series, with mentions of past events occurring in dialogue from time to time.
* CrossdressingVoices: FREQUENTLY. Most of the voice cast are girls, and so most characters go through this. Occasionally the one male voice actor currently on the cast will voice a girl.girl.
* DubNameChange: MC Doberman from Episode 9 gets renamed "MC BigDick." Sticks into the Christmas special.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first 8 episodes were all improvised on the fly, and the first two episodes had only two voice actors. In addition, all the vocal performances were very different from how they are now (PaRappa's voice being way deeper, Sunny having a constantly changing accent, etc)
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* CatchPhrase: ''"Hey, you meme loving [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKS!!!]]"''

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* CatchPhrase: ''"Hey, you meme loving [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKS!!!]]"''FUCKS!!!]]"''
* CrossdressingVoices: FREQUENTLY. Most of the voice cast are girls, and so most characters go through this. Occasionally the one male voice actor currently on the cast will voice a girl.

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: ''And how.'' Parappa is a wimp, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a DeadPanSnarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the VoiceOfReason... ''kind of.''



* AdaptationPersonalityChange: ''And how.'' Parappa is a wimp, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl who verbally abuses her friends from time to time, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a DeadPanSnarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the VoiceOfReason... ''kind of.''



** In episode 12, Parappa, Matt, and PJ are looking at clouds and Matt points out how one looks like a butt-plug with wings. Parappa tells Matt that the mothers watching Parappa Abridged aren't going to be happy about it. Less than a second later, Matt gets a call from an angry mother.

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** In episode 12, Parappa, Matt, and PJ are looking at clouds and Matt points out how one looks like a butt-plug with wings. Parappa tells Matt that the mothers watching Parappa Abridged aren't going to be happy about it. Less than a second later, Matt gets a call from an angry mother.mother.
***In the same scene, Matt notices how much PJ sleeps. Matt asks him if he's always been so sleepy, and Parappa's response is that he's "been like that for the last 11 episodes."
* CanonForeigner: Matt Major gets some new family members. His mother, Mama Major, who hardly helps her son at all and apparently spends most of her time [[VillageBicycle having copious amounts of sex]], and Matt's brother, Matt Jr., who is very academically successful, polite, and ''British.'' While Mama Major is [[TheGhost unseen]], with the only proof of her existence being phone calls made to and from Matt Major, Matt Jr. appeared in the ChristmasSpecial.
* CatchPhrase: ''"Hey, you meme loving [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKS!!!]]"''
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* AbsenteeActor: Happens from time to time, usually with Gaster and Gruber.



* AffectionateParody: It's made with love, from the whole cast.

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* AffectionateParody: It's made with love, from the whole cast.cast.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: There's not much of a fourth wall to begin with...
** In the first episode, Katy gets mad at Paula for "not talking when she's supposed to."
** In episode 12, Parappa, Matt, and PJ are looking at clouds and Matt points out how one looks like a butt-plug with wings. Parappa tells Matt that the mothers watching Parappa Abridged aren't going to be happy about it. Less than a second later, Matt gets a call from an angry mother.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: ''And how.'' Parappa is a wimp, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a DeadPanSnarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the VoiceOfReason... ''kind of.''

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: ''And how.'' Parappa is a wimp, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a DeadPanSnarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the VoiceOfReason... ''kind of.''''
* AccidentalMisnaming: In Matt's Depressing Birthday Bash[[note]] Episode 11[[/note]], Matt keeps getting called Regonald. Yes, it's spelled like that.
* AffectionateParody: It's made with love, from the whole cast.

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-->-- Paula, in The Hiatus.

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-->-- Paula, in The Hiatus.Hiatus.

''Parappa Abridged is an [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] of the Parappa The Rapper anime, created by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHamtaroFlower1/ HamtaroFlower]] beginning production in 2015. The series is notable for its rather surrealist-style humor, usually taking the plot and transforming it heavily into a chaotic romp through the once-innocent world of Parappa The Rapper. Playlist can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00kqQfagggaRGzmWBcowSklR7-uKoIwz/ here.]]

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: ''And how.'' Parappa is a wimp, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a DeadPanSnarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the VoiceOfReason... ''kind of.''
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->''"It tastes so GOOD, I'm eating my own FLESH!!!"''
-->-- Paula, in The Hiatus.

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