History WebVideo / VinesauceTomodachiLife

** In addition to the two Bootleg Mario Bros. most viewers are familiar with, the series has mentions of (but not appearances by) Grunge, Schnitzel ({{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Bootleg Mario Bros.), Poptart, and Popcorn. In an unrelated stream, Vinny jokes about adding Nario, a Mario knockoff from a bad fan game Vinny played, while Qario appears in a drawing by Joel in ''Mario Paint'' and works as a used-car salesman instead of a plumber, and Grand Dad is an OffModel Mario sprite Joel discovers in a bootleg version of ''VideoGame/TheFlintstonesTheRescueOfDinoAndHoppy''.

* SequelHook: Vinny has stated that when/if the next sequel to ''Tomodachi Life'' is released, he will be playing it. He references this in the WebVideo/VinesauceMiitopia streams after referring to ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' as an RPG version of ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife''. This is reflected in the last line of the song made in Episode 55:

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: When Vinesauce is apologizing to Waluigi in the latter's apartment in Episode 52, Vinny says the crab is "scootling" to describe its movement pattern.

** Vinny says "YES! YEEEES!" as part of his boast in Episode 50 when [[spoiler:Vinesauce and Cling On get together]]. The SB Edit displays an image with the text "YES!" in big letters during this scene.

** Episode 55, concludes the ''Survivor Edition'', Vinny doesn't rule out one-off revisits. He returns to the series in early 2016 for an episode {{dedicat|ion}}ed to Music/DavidBowie, due to his death shortly before Episode 56's stream date.

** [[RelaxOVision While it isn't shown]], the SB Edit to Episode 55 implies that masturbation is Vinny's response when Cling On asks him what he does when alone andbored, given how grossed out she is by it. In the full stream, Vinny says that he picks his nose, but that isn't as funny.

** Vinny says "YES!" as part of his boast in Episode 50 when [[spoiler:Vinesauce and Cling On get together]].

** Peach tells Vinny she's hungry for Italian food. She means it literally, but Vinny is caught off guard because he's Italian-American.

* InheritedIlliteracyTitle: Episode 41's SB Edit has the title "Canned Food and Spake Monkies", misspelling "monkeys" as "monkies".

** Vinny says "YES!" in Episode 35 when [[spoiler:Alpaca reveals that she and [=BonziBUDDY=] want to have a baby]].

** PlayedForLaughs when Vinny states in Episode 50 that [[spoiler:the assimilated islanders, possibly excluding the recently returned Wario, were all "unfunny twats", and doesn't care that they're either dead or Jahns/Jehns. He does seem to miss Levi, however, as he states a little sadly that it leaves Hailey as the only child on the island]].

** Defied with David Bowie's Mii's "death"; since Vinny removed him as a tribute to the real David Bowie, it's played as seriously as he can. [[spoiler:Things get a little muddled when Bowie returns after a game reset, as Vinny is forced to cut his second serenade short so as to not drag the stream out any longer.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: Southbird (as well as his brother, Zydelski) provided actual voiceovers in his "Totally Normal Visit to the Island" video, rather than just using text. This was not the case for his videos for non-North American versions of the game.
* SurveillanceDrone: Vinny once commented that he thought that the in-game weddings look like a security drone was recording footage of them.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In-universe, Vinny refers to disposable cameras as "1992 technology" after Tingle claims he requires one to express himself, with the game itself containing UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS [=XLs=] and cell phones that are at least newer than what was available in the '90s, with the former having built-in cameras and the latter looking advanced enough to potentially also have one built-in.

** The Jahns, three identical aliens who managed to cause a lot of problems on the island, mostly nonthreatening ones. [[spoiler:By the time they're actually a threat, however, the trio has been fractured and joined by a dozen other Jahns/Jehns.]]

* TimeSkip: There's always a time lapse between episodes due to the varying times Vinny streams the game, though Vinny sometimes resets the clock if it's too late at night in real life for much to happen in the game. However, nothing happens in those time periods, and the only way the skips are referenced is by the islanders mentioning approximately how long it's been since they last saw Vinny (though islanders also say this if they're simply ignored even while the game is being played). [[spoiler:However, meaningful things have happened offscreen in the time lapses starting around Episode 47, including HOTDOG's return, the Jahn's assimilation of various islanders, and Mulder and Scully stopping said assimilation]].

* TradeSnark: Vinny addresses Jesus as a "Prince of Forgiveness™" in Episode 43. In that episode's SB Edit, "Jabroni Outfit" gets a text-only trademark sign.
* {{Transplant}}:
** Most of the earlier Miis (except for Vinny's Mii of himself and a small amount of Miis made by fan artist [=Tev216=]) didn't originally have anything to do with Vinesauce, in contrast to most of the later Miis, which were made by Vinesauce fans specifically for the stream.
** Starting with Sponge (originally thought up during one of Vinny's ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' streams), Vinny added some of the characters he thought up in other streams. Due to how many times he's streamed ''Tomodachi Life'' compared to other games, their Miis outlasted their original streams and they tend to have a bigger presence than in their original streams, even gaining character sections for these streams before they received ones for the rest of Vinesauce.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Southbird's Totally Normal Island had 9,999 problems (the maximum the game will record) solved and when when a news flash occurred because of it, Gaben, the anchorman, thought that such a feat was completely unimpressive.

* {{Vaporware}}: InUniverse, ''Half-Life 3'' has been canceled too many times to count. In fact, it's Gaben's standard way of coping with sadness.

** Episode 28 sees Vinny attempting to add an [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Isaac]] Mii to Vineland Island... [[spoiler:only for him to crash the game, and since he forgot to save '''everything he did that day was gone'''. This was explained as a dimensional split, with Isaac becoming an instigator of chaos]].

** The very next episode, Episode 38, ends up making a bunch of jokes from past episodes a lot less funny when [[spoiler:Vinny finally goes through with his continual threats and ends up evicting Bonzi and Dolan [[ForTheEvulz for no reason]] beyond them being [[BerserkButton memes]]]].

** In Episode 49, [[spoiler:the Jahns assimilate several others, and are rather open about doing so. Meanwhile, their hold on Vinny seems to be [[SanitySlippage affecting his state of mind]], with several bouts of madness leading him to ''kill'' Wii Fit Trainer[[labelnote:*]]Well, technically, he just deletes her, but he claims to have "an urge to kill" shortly beforehand.[[/labelnote]], change the island's name to "Jahnland Island"[[labelnote:*]]Again, technically it's just the pronunciation of what is still ''written'' as "Vineland Island", due to Vinny's habit of changing the pronunciation instead of the spelling.[[/labelnote]], and almost ''delete the entire island''. He also makes several cryptic comments throughout, asking the islanders if they're afraid of "the end" and later remarking:]]

** The David Bowie special. To sum it up: [[spoiler:DK proves himself to be the biggest jerk on the island with him rejecting Clown Lady, Bowie gets released from the island after an extremely close vote, Vinesauce tries to propose to Cling On but fails because of a group effort between Scrumin' Birt, loco moco, and Waluigi, Vinny splits the timeline ''on his own accord'', Sponge '''gets a girlfriend''' in the form of Clown Lady, and Bowie is released again]].

** Early on in Episode 47, Vinny is searching around the apartments, and casually comes across [[spoiler:HOTDOG]]. Who, if you recall, [[spoiler:was evicted '''25 episodes prior''']].
** The 50th episode begins with the news, as usual, this time covering Vinesauce's birthday. [[spoiler:Except the newscaster is someone we've never seen before (later revealed to be [[Series/TheXFiles Dana Scully]]).]] When we actually see the birthday party, Vinny points out [[spoiler:an unfamiliar islander (Jahn & Jehn)]]. Then it cuts to the islanders' thoughts, and the first one up is [[spoiler:[[Series/TheXFiles Fox Mulder]], who ''also'' had never been seen before. Following him is Wario, who was ''dead'' (or rather, assimilated) in the previous episode, yet he came back and once again said he was glad everyone remembered the birthday that was being celebrated.]] Later in Episode 50, we see [[spoiler:the return of Vineschnoz]], though that example is subverted in that [[spoiler:he did very little in later episodes]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Due to the way Vinny plays the game, several game mechanics and situations are either never shown or barely touched on.

** Vinny played "Tomodachi Quest" a few times early in the series, but he quickly comes to find it boring and annoying. From then on, he avoids it most of the time and quickly exits out when he checks it accidentally. The SB Edits cut out every single time Vinny played it.

** Southbird's videos of the European version of the game never show what the Rap Battles are like when the language is set to English, thus North American viewers never get to see how the British English Rap Battles differ from what's shown in Vinny's streams. We do see Rap Battles for other languages, but the English-language segments only show the Word Chain event, which originated in the Japanese version, appears alongside Rap Battles in the European version (in contrast to how the North American version cut it completely in favor of only having Rap Battles), and is considered by Southbird to have lost much of its appeal after being reworked for languages that use the Latin alphabet.

** Vineland Island is part of the Risotto Isles in the Coffee Ocean. Where that is is a mystery. The corrupted island and Southbird's islands are in the same boat.

* WordSaladHumor: A number of the islanders' songs and catchphrases are barely coherent, as Vinny types in random stuff in an attempt to play with the text-to-speech generator. Usually, HilarityEnsues, particularly if the game actually pronounces it instead of spelling out the individual letters.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's possible that [[spoiler:Vinny giving the Jahns unique outfits (and unintentionally making Jahn #3 captain in the process) in Episode 46]] directly led to [[spoiler:the invasion two episodes later]].
* NintendoHard: ''Super Sponge Bros.'', a hack of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' that was given to Vinny and ended up being accepted as canon, ramped up the difficulty compared to the vanilla game. The main parts of the levels aren't too different, but the bonus rooms (which originally lacked little other than coins and/or blocks containing coins) were changed to add difficult jumping puzzles. The Warp Zones are also changed to Limbo Zones, where the highest-numbered world you can go to is lowered (World 3 for the first, and World 7 for the second, as opposed to 4 and 8 respectively).
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: The Buvvins Brothers' bassist, Ralph, gets no lines in the duo's song (with Vinesauce being the singer) and received no solo songs of his own, unlike his bandmate.

** The assorted treasures Vinny sells in Episode 53 were supposedly gained from unseen events.

** While Vinny's response to one of Cling On's questions ("What do you do when you're alone and bored?") in Episode 55 was clear in the original stream, the SB edit makes it this by cutting to RelaxOVision while he's answering. Given Cling On's reaction and the question itself, the answer can be... [[ADateWithRosiePalms assumed]].
** Pee-wee asks if Vinny heard any "froggy noises" coming from his apartment in Episode 56, saying there wasn't any reason for why he was asking. Vinny believes that Kenny was [=RPing=] as a frog with Pee-wee after seeing Kenny's frog hat.

* ObviousRulePatch: Episode 54's [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Battle Royale]] has Vinny putting items on low (after a poll says so), and lets the first stage be random. The game picks [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong 75 M]], and Two Faced almost immediately loses all her lives to a ''stage hazard'' (namely, the springs). The following match (on the Miiverse stage) is noticeably marred by the use of items (notably a combination of the clock and the ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' ship). The final match has no items, and is played on [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Bridge of Eldin's]] Omega Form.[[note]]That is, completely flat.[[/note]] ''Then'', [[spoiler:when Two Faced loses, he sets up ''another'' match (with himself -- as Pit -- fighting Vlinny) that endangers Vlinny yet again. Vlinny still makes it out alive, though.]]

** In Episode 53, Witch has a fight with Satan. Vinny tries to calm her down with almost every gift he has (including Southbird's mascot in the SB Edit), with each one failing until he tries a music box. It then happens ''again'' with Groose, although not as much.
** Vinny's Pretzel voice. It may be slightly annoying, but he keeps it going for ''so long'' to make it hilarious, and it just keeps coming back.

** There are five characters based on Vinny: Vinesauce[[note]]Vinny's own Mii[[/note]], Vlinny[[note]]Vinesauce's allegedly evil clone[[/note]], Vineschnoz[[note]]a Vinesauce doppelganger from the corrupted island[[/note]], Vuntt Sk'dilda[[note]]the owner of the onscreen hands and the one who informs the islanders if anything gets stuck to their clothes[[/note]], and [=BootlegVin=][[note]]a Vinesauce knockoff from Southbird's European and Japanese islands as well as the Totally Normal Island and fluent speaker of at least six languages[[/note]].
** In addition to the two Bootleg Mario Bros. most viewers are familiar with, we have mentions of (but not appearances by) Grunge, Schnitzel ({{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Bootleg Mario Bros.), Poptart, and Popcorn. Taking into consideration characters from elsewhere on Vinesauce, we have Nario, a Mario knockoff from a bad fan game Vinny played, Qario, who was created by Joel in ''Mario Paint'' and works as a used-car salesman instead of a plumber, and Grand Dad, an OffModel Mario sprite Joel discovered in a bootleg game.
* OverusedRunningGag: In Episode 16, several islanders ask Vinny to look inside their stomachs. Vinny comments on how tiring this got.

* RealTrailerFakeMovie: Southbird made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGzp41rKcp8 one]] ('''extreme''' spoiler warning) for [[spoiler:the "Jahnpocalypse" that would happen in Episode 50]]. It consists mainly of clips from prior episodes and fanart, put to music and including some new voice clips. The "fake movie" part comes from [[spoiler:the "Jahnopocalypse" not actually happening in the way it was expected to]].

* RepetitiveName: Vinny intended to give his island the same name as his original ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' town, but the game ended up adding "Island" to the name, rendering it as Vine''land'' Is''land''. He didn't mind this, however.

** Vinny makes jokes at his own expense often, usually indirectly via insulting his look-alike Mii.
* SensoryAbuse: This is part of Southbird's editing style, so it shows up a few times.
** For some of the failed love confessions earlier in the series, Southbird blurs and waves the game screen around. Mainly seen in Alpaca's two confessions to Clown.

* SequelHook: Vinny has stated that when/if the next sequel to ''Tomodachi Life'' is released, he will be playing it. This is reflected in the last line of the song made in Episode 55:

** Episode 50 was speculated to be the end of the series, partially because of Vinny admitting that the series had grown a bit stale and partially due to the [[spoiler:Jahn invasion plotline seemingly climaxing at the perfect point]]. Vinny stated (slightly ambiguously) that it wouldn't be the end, though the episode contains [[spoiler:the Jahns [[AntiClimax anticlimatically leaving]] and everything returning to normal, not to mention [[TheyDo Vinesauce and Cling On getting together]]]]. At the very end, Vinny states that the series would likely end later, and sure enough ''Survivor Edition'' kicked off in two months' time.
** Episode 55, while not as closed of an ending as Episode 50 as, is still a definite conclusion. However, Vinny makes it pretty clear that he'll return to the game if he ever feels like it.

** Southbird had to play some ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' music over a scene to avoid [=YouTube=] audio bots. The scene? Gaben talking on the phone about either cancelling ''Half-Life 3'' altogether or skipping to the fourth installment.

** Vinny provides a spoof sitcom advertisement in Episode 2, when commenting on how a sitcom of his game would be.

** Vinny mishears "conch" (which the game actually pronounces as "conk") as "cock" when it's said by Toad.

** After Vinny decides to draw penises on Vinesauce's face, Southbird's response to this is to insert an audio clip of Joel saying "Who's been drawing dicks?" from Joel's "Windows XP Destruction" video.[[note]]The quote in question is something a teacher of his said in response to a prank a classmate of his pulled.[[/note]] As Joel isn't the one streaming the game, his only other presence in the series is his cover of Wario's "Dragon's Dilda" song.

** Vinny mishears "conch" (which the game actually pronounces as "conk") as "cock" when it's said by Toad

* GrandFinale: Subverted in Episode 55, which is the finale of the ''Survivor Edition'', but lacks that arc's voting-off gimmick, with the voting-off poll being replaced by a popularity poll. Everything that happens is normal [[WidgetSeries by Vineland Island's standards]]. [[InvokedTrope This was intentional]] -- Vinny had quite a bit of creator's block after [[WhamEpisode Episode 54]], and eventually chose a "back-to-basics" approach.

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Vinny asks the islanders if they were into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beezing beezing]], which in real life refers the [[UrbanLegends alleged practice]] of applying Burt's Bees balm to one's eyes in an attempt to induce hallucinations.

** Near the beginning of the series, Vinny says he had plans to add Mike Stoklasa from WebVideo/RedLetterMedia. He later has second thoughts about this after deciding that he would be out of place among the Miis he did end up adding. Later in the series, the most normal-looking islanders would have a strange tendency to be the least interesting.

* FissionMailed: At the beginning of Episode 14, Vinny jokes that the stream is over after he turned out to have accidentally left ''VideoGame/MarioGolf: World Tour'' in the cartridge slot. Southbird follows this line up with [[spoiler:a fake list of recommended videos]].

** In Episode 5, a rooftop meeting features a [[PaperThinDisguise poorly disguised]] Clown saying "[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Our princess is in another castle]]" to someone. In Episode 30, he requests a peach to eat, with Vinny making a joke about the similarly named princess. The two hook up six episodes after the latter event.
** In Episode 20, Donkey Kong asks Vinny what he thought of him and Lamb Chop. It was only about friendship, but Vinny interpreted as more than that; since Lamb Chop was already married to Groose, Vinny suggested that Donkey Kong "dong [his] way" into their relationship. [[spoiler:He ends up doing this to Two Faced, who wasn't married, but was dating Walrus.]]
** In Episode 21, Vinny wonders why Vlinny seems to be taking over his island after he did a news report. [[spoiler:On the corrupted island, Vineschnoz, the other Vinesauce clone, ended up working for multiple businesses and doing ''every'' news report.]]
** Early on, Vinny notices Alpaca and Walrus hanging out, and wonders if there's something between them. [[spoiler:Sure enough, they get together (and ''marry'', no less) much later.]]

* ForgettableCharacter: The fact that there are so many islanders means a lot of characters are going to be OutOfFocus, but some don't get a whole lot of attention from other islanders, either. For example, the islanders rarely interacted with Lolly until her birthday and she rarely attended group events.

** Vinny declared Clown to be a ghost after he walked through Clown Lady, adding that only she and Sponge can see him. This doesn't transfer over to the game, where Clown hangs out with others often. This especially shows with his prominent interactions with Peach (could be justified by ThePowerOfLove) and Tucker (could be justified by AchievementsInIgnorance).
** The only person Sponge has ever been seen befriending is David Bowie, which Vinny has extended to him being Sponge's OnlyFriend. In-game, islanders automatically make friends offscreen after they have their first one, and Sponge has been seen hanging out with islanders other than Bowie.

* TheGhost: Several characters are referenced, but never appear.
** Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant are frequently referenced due to Creator/KarlPilkington's presence on the island.

** One of Southbird's out-of-band videos has Cling On saying she got into a fight with Southbird's Mii. We never see him in any of the videos made using Southbird's main copy of the game and he doesn't exist at all in his international copies or his corrupted copy of the North American version.
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Both UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and {{Satan}} live on Vineland. Satan is pretty nonthreatening, but it hasn't stopped him from vouching to delete the island once. Meanwhile, JesusWasWayCool generally applies, but Jesus has caused more problems on the island than Satan has, specifically [[spoiler:splitting the timeline with game crashes twice; the first time was more the chaotic Isaac's doing, but the second time was clearly Jesus trying to make himself look better than Satan by removing one of his few acts of kindness]]. Isaac lampshades this in his song "Ticket to Hell" (performed with Jesus and Satan), saying that [[AboveGoodAndEvil there's really not much of a difference between them]] and he can choose to follow either of them (a privilege he proceeds to [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor abuse heavily]]).

* GrandFinale: ''Inverted'' in Episode 55, where absolutely nothing particularly weird happens ([[WidgetSeries for Vineland Island, at least]]). [[InvokedTrope This was intentional]] -- Vinny had quite a bit of creator's block after [[WhamEpisode Episode 54]], and eventually chose a "back-to-basics" approach.

** ''Tomodachi Collection'' crashing (due to being corrupted) sometimes produces a loud screeching noise that even Vinny can't stand.

** The in-game Hypnotizer is used by Vinny a few times. Once, he used it on Two Faced to convince her that Walrus was a monster (using the "Sea Monster" dream), only for it to backfire when a gigantic David Bowie rose from the sea instead.

* IAmVeryBritish: Because these streams come from an American streaming the North American version of the game, every character speaks with a General American accent. Seeing the characters speak with a Received Pronunciation accent (including one based on [[Creator/KarlPilkington a real-life Mancunian speaker]]) in Southbird's European copy ends up making them sound overly sophisticated.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Vinny once asked the islanders if they were into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beezing beezing]], which in real life refers the alleged practice of applying Burt's Bees balm to one's eyes in an attempt to induce hallucinations.

* ImGoingToHellForThis: Vinny says this shortly after moving UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} into the island. He would continue to do this during certain interactions with Jesus.

* InAWorld: Vinny pulls one in Episode 2, when commenting on how a sitcom of his game would be. He later spoofs this when preparing to send [[spoiler:Vlinny]] into space in Episode 54.

** Peach once told Vinny she was hungry for Italian food. She meant it literally.

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Episodes 46 and 47. The former has [[spoiler:the three Jahns getting individual clothes -- and, crucially, Jahn #3 becoming the Captain. This directly leads to their AssimilationPlot.]] It also has [[spoiler:Skelorita's eviction, and Vinny subsequently [[UnPerson pretending she never existed]] -- a crucial part of the Jahn arc]]. The latter has Bowser asking Vinny what he would do "if [his] whole world was going to go dark tomorrow", as well as [[spoiler:HOTDOG's return, which shows that Vinny is willing to mess around with the islanders in between episodes -- another crucial part of the Jahn arc]].

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: The islanders pronounce "meme" as "mem" (as though it were a French word).
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Due to the nature of ''Tomodachi Life'', Vinny and the viewers have to interpret many minor things in order to build up Vineland Island's lore.

* LamePunReaction: Ralph's comment that a restaurant is "out of cluck" if it doesn't serve chicken earned an unimpressed reaction from Vinny.

** It's very easy to walk into a livestream or skip to a later episode and be spoiled about some part of the series, either by seeing it or because Vinny mentions it. This was especially the case before the Vinesauce: The Full Sauce [=YouTube=] channel was established (Vappyvap's own channel contains previous streams, but they weren't yet official uploads), as well as before Southbird started shortening the streams (or even before Vinny discovered Southbird in early 2015). At one point, Southbird didn't even have edited versions of several of the earlier episodes, meaning that longtime SB Edit viewers would have most likely seen those after later episodes' edits. As early/late as Episode 54, Vinny is casually talking about [[spoiler:the Jahn invasion of Episodes 48 and 49]], showing how fast that plotline came and went despite its major impact.

** The majority of the songs written earlier in the series were solo efforts, with these often being replayed after their debuts. Later on the songs were mostly from groups (with only a few solo songs) and Vinny ended up paying less attention to the solo songs that were already made, such as when one Strawpoll gave viewers a choice of which song they wanted Vinny to replay and none of the options were solo.
** The ''Survivor Edition'''s SB Edits seem to have a greater amount of Easter eggs than the original run's edits.

* LittleNo: Vinny says "Kappa? No...!" when he sees Kappa on the corrupted island. It was cut from the SB Edit, but it does appear in Vinny's own edit.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In total, the series has had around '''70''' islanders, though only about twenty of them get consistent focus. There have also been other characters in the series, such as the game's generic shopkeepers and Miis exclusive to the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream.
* LongSongShortScene: The stores' Christmas music in ''Tomodachi Life'' is already used only slightly more than most ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' holiday music (this and the more festive map theme start playing a week before Christmas itself and stop playing on New Year's Day), but in Vinny's Christmas stream, it plays even less due to the limited amount time Vinny spends in the stores. The associated map theme played more often, however.
* MadnessMantra: In the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream, the voice synthesizer gets corrupted enough that Sponge and Two Faced (during Quirky Questions) say something sounding like "Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn... E ICHI ARU NE ICHI ARU NE ICHI ARU NE ICHI ARU NE," which generally went on longer than what's listed here.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Islanders include multiple ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' characters (though Vinny never added the Mario Bros. themselves), an ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' villager, Music/DavidBowie, Kenny from ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' games, Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', Film/{{Seabiscuit}}, and many, many more.

** In Episode 49, [[spoiler:Vinny inexplicably freaks out when Two Faced does an impression of Hamburger]].
** The dialogue on the Totally Normal Island makes very little sense, on top of the islanders moving strangely. For example, some of the things islanders say are usually reserved for rooftop meetings or sleep-talking, despite being in neither of those situations. One instance of dialogue normally reserved for rooftop meetings being said in the wrong context (by Walrus) also produced the options usually displayed when an islander asks to play a game.

* MissingEpisode: InUniverse, ''Half-Life 3'', should Gaben [[spoiler:end up skipping to ''4'']] as he implied on a phone call.

** Two Faced introducing herself in the first episode sounded like "I'm toothpaste" to at least one person, which Vinny notes when adding her.

** Vinny mishears "conch" (which the game actually pronounces as "conk") as "cock" when it's said by Toad, while "schnitzel" sounds like "shitzel" when it's said by Wario.
** Episode 42 has Broccoli asking Vinny what he should say when he's mad. Southbird misheard it as "What should I say when I melt?"
** [[spoiler:HOTDOG (after his short-lived return to the island)]] once said "I want some new clothes," but it sounded like "I need a new coat."

** Islanders can say their catchphrase at any given moment. Kenny's is "Duck, I miss you," causing a lot of this for Vinny.
** Episode 37 goes from [[spoiler:a sad Walrus remembering the good times he had with Two Faced]] to [[spoiler:a happy Walrus dancing because he was given a sausage by his former worst enemy]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Several islanders' voices annoy Vinny, most notoriously Cling On and Dheerse. Southbird and many of his edits' viewers disagree on the former, but either way, Seabiscuit's is [[HellIsThatNoise much worse]] (though Seabiscuit's voice goes from HellIsThatNoise to MostAnnoyingSound when she's giving a speech commemorating an in-game milestone, as well as during the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream, with Vinny still finding her voice to be worse in both of those cases). [[spoiler:When the ''Survivor Edition'' rolls around, Dheerse and Seabiscuit are among the first few to leave.]] These islanders' voices are toned down significantly if they're added to the European version, as its voice synthesizer is harder to "break".

** It takes a lot skill to turn a simple Nintendo game into a bizarre and enthralling soap opera, but Vinny managed it.

** Stated almost word-for-word by Vinny during Episode 13, after he helps Groose and Lamb Chop marry each other. "What Have I Done?" is even the condensed episode's title.

** At the very beginning of the series, Vinny decided to name his island Vineland, like his original ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' town (''Tomodachi Life'' came out in English-speaking countries about a year after that game). He found out that the game renders it as Vineland ''Island'', but didn't mind that.
** Several islanders are derived from Vinesauce in-jokes (e.g., Ralph, Baledgah, and Bub Skebulba).
** In the first episode, when asking the audience if they consider him a "trendsetter", Vinny mentions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITfzLGNc0RY "spaalonebabaguuscooties"]]. It also becomes Lamb Chop's catchphrase (part of it, anyway, and even then it's pronounced differently).
** After Vinny decided to draw penises on Vinesauce's face, Southbird's response to this was to insert an audio clip of Joel saying "Who's been drawing dicks?" from Joel's "Windows XP Destruction" video.[[note]]The quote in question was something a teacher of his said in response to a prank a classmate of his pulled.[[/note]] As Joel wasn't the one streaming the game, his only other presence in the series is his cover of Wario's "Dragon's Dilda" song.
** Vinny referred to some brightly colored corrupted textures as "clown diarrhea" at one point in the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream. He often uses the phrase "clown vomit" in the same sense in other corruption streams.

** In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'', Vinny fights the Miis of Groose, Walrus, Clown, Sponge, Jesus, Waluigi, and Donkey Kong used in the ''Tomodachi Life'' streams, while he plays as Vinesauce, Clown, and Vineswole. He also customizes Groose's Mii for the game and Two Faced and Vinesauce appear in apartments in the ''Tomodachi Life'' stage. %%This list only covers the 3DS version; Wii U cameos should probably go on a separate line and should be listed separately from anything from the Battle Royale

* CastOfSnowflakes: No Vineland Island member is alike. You've got original characters made from Vinesauce in-jokes or just for the game, original characters based on existing franchises, characters taken from all kinds of media (mainly video games and TV), real-life celebrities, generic characters from sites hosting Mii Maker QR Codes (such as [[http://www.miicharacters.com/ MiiCharacters.com]]) that are given much more character, a few anthropomorphic foods and animals, and, of course, Vinny himself, who has a look-alike Mii and two clones of said Mii with differing facial features between them. (While the Jahns [[spoiler:and Jehns]] are physically identical, they have other differences.)

** Begins to set in after [[spoiler:[[GameBreakingBug the]] [[TheCorruption Isaac]] [[ResetButton incident]]]]. Vinny is now convinced there's a conspiracy on the island to keep his Mii single, and everyone is in on it. Ever since, he hasn't trusted any of them, especially not Isaac or Jesus. In his rage, he now seeks to purge all memes from the game.
** [[spoiler:The Jahns begin their invasion in Episode 48, [[KillAndReplace replacing various islanders]], and they seemingly have Vinny under their spell, who begins to slowly lose his [[SanitySlippage sanity]]]].

* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 39, which was streamed on Christmas Day.

* CommonplaceRare: As mentioned on [[VideoGame/TomodachiLife the page for the game itself]], birthday cake can only be obtained once a year, not counting cheating by changing the first islander's birthday. As it turns out, at least one of the islanders from these streams ([[spoiler:Dheerse]]) really likes the stuff while another ([[spoiler:Pee-wee]]) despises it.

* CreditsGag: Southbird's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-tvEphSxs 1-50 Special]] ends with a credits reel. While most islanders follow a standard listing formula (the islander's nickname followed by their full name, or "[[CharacterAsHimself As Himself/Herself]]" if both are the same), there are a few odd ones sprinkled in there, such as the full names being catchphrases ("Bomb Dodongos" for CD-i Link) or references to a part of their character ("Elderly Schoolteacher" for Clown Lady). Also, [[spoiler:"Jahn" ([[CharacterAsHimself played by Jahn]]) is listed ''sixteen times'', one after another]].

** A level from Vinny's 2015 ''Super Mario Bros. X'' contest featured [[spoiler:the Jahns invading Mario's world]]. In it, Mario [[spoiler:raids their spaceship and fights Vlinny as the final boss]].
** One of Vinny's ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' streams (adapted by Southbird as ''WebVideo/MayorVine'') has him enter a fan's Dream Town themed after the series. Southbird's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDGpHfWt28 edit]] of it (and a [[http://captainsouthbird.tumblr.com/post/155129919103/mayor-vine-tomodachi-life-crossover supplementary Tumblr post]] explaining everything fully) turns it into a full-on crossover -- one that [[CanonWelding brings the two series together]] and explains [[spoiler:why the Jahns' apparent influence over Vinny in the ''Survivor Edition'' ended so abruptly]]. (Of course, whether or not it's canon is up for debate; even within the context of the Mayor Vine series that episode doesn't follow the numbering of the rest of the series.)
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: [[spoiler:Part of the reason why Vinny loses against Vlinny in Episode 54's extended Battle Royale is because he forgot to select his name at the character select screen, meaning he had to use the default controls.]]

** Vinny has asked islanders if they masturbate on a few occasions in Quirky Questions, mostly to see who responds. This has backfired before, with [[AuthorAvatar Vinesauce]] responding to being unable to sleep without "a good fap" in one session.

** During the ''Collection'' Corruptions episode, Vinny checks a corruption state that gave everyone a deformed, slightly buffer arm. The name of this corruption? "Masturbation Island."
** When Pretzel mentioned that he's a "people watcher", Vinny interpreted him as a voyeur, commenting that "He stares at people, and then he stares at his own genitalia."

** Directly implied in Episode 53, during the treasure-selling montage.

** [[invoked]] Pretty much the only reason Pee-wee is on the island is so that Vinny can crack jokes about the time [[NeverLiveItDown his actor jerked off in a porno theater]]. The situation was actually a lot more serious that Vinny makes it out to be, but he either doesn't know, doesn't care, or is applying the RuleOfFunny.
** In Episode 50, Birdo asks Vinny what he does when he's alone and bored, and Vinny implies this, but then tells Birdo that he hums.
** [[RelaxOVision While it isn't shown]], the SB Edit to Episode 55 implies that this was Vinny's response when Cling On asked him the same question that Birdo had previously asked, given how grossed out she was by it. (In the full stream, Vinny said that he picks his nose, but that wasn't as funny.)

** Episode 47 is this for Lolly, since it was streamed on her birthday and all. (It's also the ''only'' time she gets any substantial attention, since [[spoiler:she's assimilated in the very next part]].)
** Episode 54 serves as this for Vlinny -- he gets to go to space, face off against Two Faced in ''Smash Bros.'' [[spoiler:and ''win'' (and subsequently win against ''Vinny himself'' as well)]], and have a lengthy rap battle against Snoop Dogg.
** Episode 55 gives some attention to Pretzel, thanks to Vinny giving him a ridiculous voice in order to narrate something. The voice was so popular that he keeps it up whenever Pretzel makes an appearance. [[spoiler:It's also a large reason for him getting an above-average ranking on the popularity poll.]]

* DeadlyGame: The ''Survivor Edition'', if you believe that eviction is death for the islanders.

** [[spoiler:HOTDOG]] got evicted because his funny face was unsatisfactory (and he was boring and OutOfFocus).
** [[spoiler:Dolan's]] crimes that led to eviction included being unfunny and wanting everyone on the island to be friends (despite not getting along with every islander he had met).

** In ''Survior Edition'', Vinny is on the hunt for the islander's flaws. If they say something that can be interpreted negatively, he'll use it against them as evidence for being voted off.

* DysfunctionJunction: Vineland Island has quite a large amount of troubled islanders. We've got a cocaine addict who constantly fails at staying in long-term relationships, [[spoiler:a divorced couple]], a guy who's been forced to take on sports by his father, someone who's constantly abused for being with someone he loves (who also qualifies because [[spoiler:she cheats on him and proceeds to become very antagonistic]]), a few hopeless romantics (one of whom is BornUnlucky), possibly the most depressed man in the world and his constantly indifferent brother, a hobo, a trio of creepy alien researchers (one of whom lacks social skills and another of whom [[spoiler:tried (and may still be trying) to assimilate an entire island to get food]]), a child who has to deal with [[spoiler:never really knowing his dad]], and an [[spoiler:ignored, loveless mime]]. While the lives of a few of these islanders did get better (albeit after relatively long periods of time), this isn't the case for all of them.

** Depending on how you interpret eviction, the ''Survivor Edition'' is basically a DeadlyGame where you get killed off if you put a toe out of line, with Vinny going along with it without a second thought. The only person who seems to know (or at least is concerned about it) is Tucker. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when Vinny decides to stop with the evictions in the final episode, making it clear that nothing like this will happen to Vineland again.]]

** Vinny uses him own Mii collection to pick most of the early islanders, so you can see some of them in the selection menu ahortly before they're added. For example, [=BonziBUDDY=] appears in the corner of the Mii Maker screen in the background before Episode 2 starts (the condensed version, which was made well after the original stream, explicitly zooms in on him).
** Early in Episode 2, Vinny says that he wanted Balegdah islander, but couldn't find a Mii of her. A viewer ended up making a Mii of her and she gets added a few episodes later.
** In Episode 5's SB edit, Captain Jahn makes a cameo when Walrus and Bonzi are stargazing. The Jahns aren't introduced until Episode 34, but by the time Southbird got around to condensing the first several streams (which lacked SB Edits until 2015), that episode had already happened.
** Satan was mentioned plenty of times before he actually arrived, including Donkey Kong being proclaimed a Satanist by Vinny and Jesus choosing the guy over himself during a round of Judgment Bay.
** Pretzel appeared during the Episode 41 art showcase, an episode before becoming an islander. He had existed for a while in fanart, but this was his first appearance in the series (and to Vinny, not counting the ''Game & Wario'' scribbles that inspired him).
** The ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruptions feature [[spoiler:Vineschnoz]], who was officially added in [[spoiler:Episode 50]].

** Before the series became a mainstay, Vinny chose islanders from his own 3DS' Mii Maker, as the forum thread where fans could host QR Codes didn't exist. This caused the starting lineup of islanders to include more "generic" Miis (a witch, a clown, a girl with two faces, and a walrus) and Lamb Chop (who has no real connection to Vinesauce and likely wouldn't have been chosen later on). He started adding Miis via QR Codes with Ralph in Episode 4, but even then some of the earlier QR Codes were Mii Maker QR Codes, meaning Vinny's copies of those Miis will only have ''Tomodachi Life'' codes if Vinny makes them.
** When Vinny was starting off, he would stream the game often but for much shorter periods of time, either because he wanted to do a quick checkup or because the islanders were asleep and he couldn't do anything. This led to several extremely short episodes, including ones that were only 8-12 minutes long. Starting about halfway through the original run, he began regularly devoting one or two hours to each session, in exchange for not streaming it as often.
** The early islander songs were fairly simple, with only a few words being replaced in them (though "Right Em' in the Wrong Hole" and "Opera Star" were complete rewrites). It took a while for Vinny to start making the majority of his songs from scratch.

* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: [[spoiler:While the Jahns don't have any weaknesses of note, they fall under this for being stopped by only two people that we know of. Those two people may be very effective paranormal investigators, but according to Mulder, all it took was an offering of chicken cutlets to get them to pack their bags.]]

** Vinny tried to calm Hamburger down with various things in Episode 41. Southbird replaces one item with Chef Boyardee (Vinny had commented about eating and not liking it earlier in the episode), which Hamburger apparently wasn't in the mood for. Later on in the same episode, Sponge blasts off into space after eating a herring and [[spoiler:Bonzi flies by in the foreground]].

** In Episode 51, Tucker has a drawing of Dolan in his apartment. Southbird also added a self-promoting Easter egg in the form of replacing the generic shoot 'em up on one of Tingle's arcade machines with ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3Mix''.
** Episode 52 has a monochrome picture of [[spoiler:Skelorita]] on the giant Game Boy in Vinesauce's room, a picture of [[spoiler:Dheerse and Vlinny]] in Alpaca's room, and [[spoiler:the picture in Vineschnoz's room has the text "[=ÄSlw b=]" on it, as well as a recurring corrupted graphic from the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream's news reports]].
** In Episode 54: [[spoiler:An apparently giant Broccoli]] appears outside Karl's window, Gordon's kitchen has a picture of [[spoiler:Dheerse]], Isaac's apartment has a cave painting of Ralph (his best friend), Southbird appears in the vitality ranking, and [[spoiler:Bonzi]] flies by during Quirky Questions.
** In Episode 55: Peach's face changes into that of a Grandchild from ''VideoGame/AlbinoLullaby'' for a brief moment, Ben's whiteboard has [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"]] written on it, and the restaurant Ben is eating at has a picture of a Seabiscuit in space.

** Vineland Island is hinted to be this, as no one knows how the islanders got there and several pieces of fanart have hinted that there's something horrifying underneath it. The latter once led to Vinny commenting that there were "Ancient Robot Satans" depicted under the island in one piece.

* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler:Vinny repeatedly attempting to assure the viewers that "everything's okay" in Episode 50, after the Jahns leave (but their effects are still felt on the island).]]
* FantasticDrug: Vinny once asked the islanders if any of them were into skunt, which is apparently a drug that exists in-universe.

** Near the beginning of the series, Vinny said he had plans to add Mike Stoklasa from WebVideo/RedLetterMedia. He would later have second thoughts about this after deciding that he would be out of place among the Miis he did end up adding. Later in the series, the most normal-looking islanders would have a strange tendency to be the least interesting.

** In Episode 50, it looked like [[spoiler:Vineschnoz had brought his antics from the corrupted island]]. To say that nothing came out of this would be an understatement, as he largely stayed OutOfFocus after that.
** Episode 53 has Vinny state early on that [[spoiler:he's being encouraged to delete more islanders by a Jahn, implying that Jahn #3 or one of the other invader Jahns is trying to get Vinny to clear up the island so they can take it over]]. This was never addressed in the series itself, though it's used as the basis for Southbird's crossover special.

** Early on, Vinny tried to establish a love triangle between Vinesauce, Waluigi, and Two Faced. This faded away for several reasons, including Two Faced getting with Walrus, Waluigi making it clear that he won't leave Witch, and more islanders opening the way for more relationships. [[spoiler:This becomes a bizarre sort of BrickJoke in Episode 56, when Vinesauce's marriage proposal is ruined when Cling On distractedly mentions seeing Waluigi earlier; Vinny interpreted this as Waluigi subtly making a move on Cling On.]]
** At separate points in time, both Groose and David Bowie were going to be sent to space by giving them pocket money. However, [[spoiler:as of Episode 50, Vinny decided to send Vlinny to space instead, not even mentioning the other two]]. He ''does'' remember Bowie by the time the special devoted to him rolls around, but by then Vinny's too broke to do anything about it.
** The Jahns tend to be characterized as alien researchers investigating the weirdness of the island. However, Vinny decided to add to their arc by saying that they were stuck on the island without a way to return home, and were trying to find a way back. [[spoiler:However, the invasion arc of Episodes 48-50 established that the Jahns have a connection to their homeworld, and Episode 50 reveals that they left for home easily, so the entire plot seems to be a non-issue. Despite this, Vinny still refers to them wanting to go home in Episode 49, which may be related to [[AssimilationPlot the Jahns making Earth their new home]], or is just a lie fed to Vinny through mind control]].
** Vinny mentioned that [[spoiler:a Jahn]] had urged him to evict more than one islander at one point in the Survivor Edition. Because [[spoiler:there was only one instance of two islanders being evicted]] and Episode 55 completely dropped the ''Survivor'' aspect, this never came up again. [[spoiler:Unless you consider the ''Mayor Vine'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDGpHfWt28 crossover]] to be canon, which explains the Jahns' sudden disappearance and Vinny turning around for the last episode.]]

* AdaptedOut: The later streams occasionally feature dialogue by Vuntt Sk'dilda, an imperfect {{Tulpa}} of Vinny and the series' "cameraman". However, aside from Vinny's discussion of the piece of fanart which spawned the character, none of these references made it into the condensed versions.
* AerithAndBob: Thanks to the crossover nature of the series, this is omnipresent on the island. Vinny, Ralph, Kenny, Isaac, and similar live in the same apartment building as the likes of Alpaca, Walrus, Clown Lady, and Small Face. Then there are the names Vinny makes himself, which tend to be vulgar at best and incomprehensible at worst, including Sklort [=McFungus=], Fart Shartly, Bub Skebulba, Scrumin' Birt, and Vuntt Sk'dilda (who wasn't named by Vinny, but was named with his naming habits in mind).

** The most major dimensions are [[spoiler:Dimensions One and Two; the split came when Vinny's attempt to add Isaac to his town crashed the game, undoing everything he had done that episode. Thus, those events (including Vinesauce and Seabiscuit getting together) were relegated to Dimension Two.]]
** Episode 54 [[spoiler:sees the creation of another split, as Vinny's 3DS crashes when [[EpicFail he taps the screen]]. He later attributes it to Jesus -- apparently, he caught wind of Satan [[OutOfCharacterMoment forgiving Sponge]] earlier in the stream and "cut the cord" with the help of Isaac.]]
** In the David Bowie special, [[spoiler:a ''third'' split happens, only this time it's entirely Vinny's doing, as he quit to try SaveScumming without remembering that he hadn't saved. The only difference in the new universe is that Sponge got with Clown Lady, but Isaac still sees it as his chaos being upheld.]]
** Assuming that Southbird's "out-of-band" videos are canon to some extent, there are also at least four other islands from his videos (the island on his main copy of the game, SB Eurolan, the Japanese island, and the Totally Normal Island).

* AndHereHeComesNow: Vinny begins Episode 29 by saying Waluigi's name in a stereotypical French accent. He then checks the news and Waluigi himself was the anchorman.

** While Vinny has made his eviction/killing powers known, he only uses it to get rid of the most useless islanders. Though he has gotten rid of some of the more prominent ones, mainly [[spoiler:[=BonziBUDDY=] (although it's been said that he was merely evicted)]].
** [[spoiler:During the Jahn Army's AssimilationPlot, no one was safe from said assimilation (barring Vinesauce and Jaxon, due to technical limitations) and it was impossible for viewers to predict who would be next. Southbird ended up pointing out the specific victims in his edits, as the unpredictability of who was targeted meant it would otherwise be difficult to know who was gone. Wario (the most prominent of the assimilated) was the only one to be saved when it ended, while the other assimilated characters were still gone, causing Levi, Balegdah, and Jack & Jill, all of average notability, to be lost.]]
** In the ''Survivor Edition'', if an islander does one thing wrong, then they ''will'' have a chance of being voted off, fan-favorite or not. [[spoiler:In the end, the only major character to get eliminated was Two Faced.]]

* ArcWords: The words "I mostly come up here when I have to fart" came up unusually often on Southbird's apparently fart-obsessed Totally Normal Island, despite "fart" being blocked by the word filter in Vinny's copy of the game.

** Vinny's love for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' are extremely present. In particular, the [[spoiler:assimilation arc]] is an homage to [[spoiler:the Borg]] from the former series, and he finds a way to play "Goodbye Moonmen" from the latter twice later on, and later added Rick Sanchez to the island.
** Vinny almost exclusively picked his islanders from a Vinesauce forum thread (the exceptions were generally added directly from Vinny's own [=3DS=], with several such Miis having been downloaded from [=MiiCharacters.com=]), but he made an exception so he could add [[spoiler:[[Series/TheXFiles Mulder and Scully]]]] to the island.

** Vinny suspects this of [[spoiler:Alpaca and Walrus]], as the two spend a lot of time alone -- particularly the latter, who eats dinner by himself in their house, haunted by a horror movie he saw some time ago. [[spoiler:It was another false alarm, as Alpaca has said she loves the moments she has with Walrus and had a baby with him. They're still married when the series wraps up.]]

** The only truly unhappy married couple on the island was [[spoiler:Lamb Chop and Groose, who got a divorce shortly after marriage]]. Even then, only the former felt unsure about the relationship, and it was because Vinny persuaded her that it was faltering to see what would happen.

* BattleRapping: Rap battles were added to the North American version of the game (as well as the European version, which includes the original Word Chain event alongside it), and Vinny has shown them many times. Southbird has made a compilation of at least most of the ones from Vinny's streams.

** [[spoiler:Alpaca and Walrus]] both [[spoiler:have tragic love lives and were disliked by Vinny]].
** [[spoiler:For a short time, Vlinny and Dheerse]] were together, and both are [[spoiler:among the most hated islanders for various reasons and both were made by the same person]].

** Unlike the first time Vinny streamed ''Tomodachi Life'' on April 1 (in 2015), Episode 57, which was streamed on April 1, 2017, is just a nostalgic revisit of the game with no disasters. Vinny even added a couple of new characters, something that hadn't happened since Episode 50 (barring Jocelyn's birth, since she wasn't manually added by Vinny).

** One exclusive to the condensed version of Episode 45 -- at one point, as Vinny discusses the islanders' catchphrases, Southbird brings up Cling On's (previously unseen) catchphrase ("Honor Thru Blood"). Some time later, after a round of Judgment Bay, Cling On says it for the first time.

** One which spans ''[[UpToEleven 55 episodes]]'': in Episode 2, Vinny claims there will Waluigi will be his rival on the romantic scene. This largely doesn't end up happening, but in Episode 56, sure enough, [[spoiler:the thought of Waluigi ruins Vinny's marriage proposal]]. Granted it was a different girl ([[spoiler:Two Faced having been evicted two episodes earlier]]), but the prediction came true.

** A theme among the Miis: Two Faced has two faces with a conjoined eye, Jack & Jill is one body with two people inhabiting it, and Jaxon was born with a nose ''inside his lips''.
** The residents of the ''Tomodachi Collection'' island suffer from this thanks to the island's instability. This includes malfunctioning limbs, bodies that stretch upwards forever, lacking a body entirely, having a head that lies on the floor, and much more. Everyone takes it in stride.
* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler:In Southbird's edit of Episode 54, Vlinny drops one after winning the last Smash Bros. match against Two Faced: "Two less faces around here!"]]

* ButtMonkey: Vinny once held a Judgment Bay poll to see which of Music/TheBeatles is the island's favorite. ''Nobody'' chose Music/{{Ringo|Starr}}, who even in real life has a tendency to stand in the shadows of the other three, even after the deaths of Music/{{John|Lennon}} and Music/{{George|Harrison}}. (The winner was George, who's Vinny's own favorite Beatle.)

** Done ''unintentionally'': Episode 8 features Two Faced successfully asking Walrus out at the local café. [[spoiler:In Episode 37, Donkey Kong steals her away there as well.]]
** Episode 29 is the second episode to show the "tree climbing" news report. Vinny's response to the fact that the "trees" aren't actually trees was the same both times.

** One of Southbird's "out-of-band" ''Tomodachi'' videos was a series called ''Tomodachi VS.'', wherein Vineland Islanders dueled in ''Smash for 3DS'' (with occasional dialogue from the combatants). When Vinny adopts a very similar idea for Episode 54's battle royale, Southbird's edit adds in dialogue in the style of ''VS.''

* EskimosArentReal: Vinny wonders if the game is truly being unrealistic with apple pie made with a frying pan after Peach fries apple pie in Episode 7.

** Vinny finds out that trying to misspell "fuck" often results in the misspelling being pronounced "fewk".

* BattleRapping: Rap battles were added to the North American version of the game (as well as the European version, which includes the original Word Chain event alongside it), and Vinny has shown them many times. Southbird has made a compilation of at least most of them.

** Vinny says "YES!" in Episode 35 when [[spoiler:Alpaca reveals that she and [=BonziBUDDY=] want to have a baby]]

** Both 50 and 55 come after major {{Wham Episode}}s and are much less eventful. The former sees [[spoiler:the Jahn invasion rejected in the most [[AntiClimax anti-climatic]] way possible]], and nothing especially weird happens in the latter -- just regular Vineland Island antics. Interestingly enough, both of them are finales (the former for the original run, the latter for ''Survivor Edition'').

** In order, we have Waluigi and Witch are both [[{{gonk}} hilariously ugly]]

** The most major are [[spoiler:Dimensions One and Two; the split came when Vinny's attempt to add Isaac to his town crashed the game, undoing everything he had done that episode. Thus, those events (including Vinesauce and Seabiscuit getting together) were relegated to Dimension Two.]]

** [[spoiler:Vineschnoz]] causes most of the mischief in the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream.

* ArcWords: The words "I mostly come up here when I have to fart" came up unusually often on Southbird's apparently fart-obsessed Totally Normal Island, despite "fart" being blocked by the word filter in Vinny

** [[spoiler:Vineschnoz]] causes most of the mischief in the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream.
* ArcWords: The words "I mostly come up here when I have to fart" came up unusually often on Southbird's apparently fart-obsessed Totally Normal Island, despite "fart" being blocked by the word filter in Vinny's copy of the game.
-->'''Karl:''' I mostly come up here when I have to fart.\\
'''Southbird:''' So do I.
* AudienceParticipation: The ''Survivor Edition'' uses viewer polls to determine who gets evicted.
* AuthorAppeal:
** While Vinny's love of video games is obvious, there are significantly more islanders based on characters from Creator/{{Nintendo}} franchises than any other. Of those, more than half are ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' characters (though Mario never appears, and Luigi only appears in a cameo in the beginning of Episode 2).
** Music is a huge interest of Vinny's. While the only musicians on the island are Music/DavidBowie and Music/SnoopDogg (and the latter is more for [[TheStoner stoner humor]]), Vinny frequently [[WaxingLyrical waxes lyrical]] and references music artists often.
** Vinny's love for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' are extremely present. In particular, the [[spoiler:assimilation arc]] is an homage to [[spoiler:the Borg]] from the former series, and he finds a way to play "Goodbye Moonmen" from the latter twice later on, and later added Rick Sanchez to the island.
** Vinny almost exclusively picked his islanders from a Vinesauce forum thread (the exceptions were generally added directly from Vinny's own [=3DS=], with several such Miis having been downloaded from [=MiiCharacters.com=]), but he made an exception so he could add [[spoiler:[[Series/TheXFiles Mulder and Scully]]]] to the island.
* AwfulWeddedLife:
** Vinny suspects Alpaca and [=BonziBUDDY=]'s marriage to be loveless, particularly when he notices that the former is hungry and needs Vinny to give her food (which he interprets as Bonzi starving her, either [[BastardBoyfriend deliberately]] or because of poverty). [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Despite this]], they remain together until Vinny evicts Bonzi in Episode 38.]]
** Vinny suspects this of [[spoiler:Alpaca and Walrus]], as the two spend a lot of time alone -- particularly the latter, who eats dinner by himself in their house, haunted by a horror movie he saw some time ago. [[spoiler:It was another false alarm, as Alpaca has said she loves the moments she has with Walrus and had a baby with him. They're still married when the series wraps up.]]
** Downplayed with Little Mac and Banana. At one point, Vinny notices the latter cooking dinner by herself, and interprets this as them being too caught in their respective hobbies to actually work together. He contrasts this to [[HappilyMarried Waluigi and Witch]], who prepare a meal together.
** The only truly unhappy married couple on the island was [[spoiler:Lamb Chop and Groose, who got a divorce shortly after marriage]]. Even then, only the former felt unsure about the relationship, and it was because Vinny persuaded her that it was faltering to see what would happen.
* BaitAndSwitch: Vinny acts like it's an accomplishment when he wins a UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy, only to unflinchingly sell it shortly afterward.
* BattleRapping: Rap battles were added to the North American version of the game (as well as the European version, which includes the original Word Chain event alongside it), and Vinny has shown them many times. Southbird has made a compilation of at least most of them.
* BigYes:
** Vinny says "YES!" in Episode 35 when [[spoiler:Alpaca reveals that she and [=BonziBUDDY=] want to have a baby]]
** Vinny says "YES!" as part of his boast in Episode 50 when [[spoiler:Vinesauce and Cling On get together]].
* BirdsOfAFeather:
** In order, we have Waluigi and Witch are both [[{{gonk}} hilariously ugly]]
** [[spoiler:Alpaca and Walrus]] both [[spoiler:have tragic love lives and were disliked by Vinny]].
** [[spoiler:For a short time, Vlinny and Dheerse]] were together, and both are [[spoiler:among the most hated islanders for various reasons and both were made by the same person]].
** [[spoiler:Sponge and Clown/Mime Lady]] are [[spoiler:[[TheEeyore eternally gloomy]] and down on their luck]].
* BlatantLies: Southbird's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiydYeLzSnM "totally normal"]] offshoot of the island features characters saying random things and moving oddly, thus resulting in a lack of normality.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: Vinny plays/corrupts the first game in the series, ''Tomodachi Collection'', using a fan translation. It's awkward and doesn't seem to have been written by a native English speaker.
* BonusFeatureFailure: Invoked in Southbird's Euro Vineland Island videos. In contrast to how the North American version of ''Tomodachi Life'' completely cut the Japanese version's Word Chain event in favor of Rap Battles, the European version contains both events alongside each other. However, Southbird considers the Word Chain event[[note]]Which in Japanese involved one person naming one word followed by another person naming a word beginning with the syllable the previous word ended with.[[/note]] to be uninteresting when reworked for European languages.[[note]]The European version only supports languages written using the Latin alphabet, so the Word Chain event was modified to be based on individual letters instead of syllables, which don't always have the same pronunciation (if they're pronounced at all), in contrast to how the Japanese version used the exact same syllable for both words.[[/note]]
* BreatherEpisode:
** Both 50 and 55 come after major {{Wham Episode}}s and are much less eventful. The former sees [[spoiler:the Jahn invasion rejected in the most [[AntiClimax anti-climatic]] way possible]], and nothing especially weird happens in the latter -- just regular Vineland Island antics. Interestingly enough, both of them are finales (the former for the original run, the latter for ''Survivor Edition'').
** We get Episode 39, the ChristmasEpisode, right after Episodes 37 (in which [[spoiler:Two Faced cheats on Walrus]]) and 38 (in which [[spoiler:two kids are born, and two long-lasting islanders are deleted]]). Starting with Episode 40, the plot starts developing more rapidly, at least one famous event happens per episode, and [[spoiler:the Jahn invasion]] approaches.
** Unlike the first time Vinny streamed ''Tomodachi Life'' on April 1 (in 2015), Episode 57, which was streamed on April 1, 2017, is just a nostalgic revisit of the game with no disasters. Vinny even added a couple of new characters, something that hadn't happened since Episode 50 (barring Jocelyn's birth, since she wasn't manually added by Vinny).
* BrickJoke:
** One exclusive to the condensed version of Episode 45 -- at one point, as Vinny discusses the islanders' catchphrases, Southbird brings up Cling On's (previously unseen) catchphrase ("Honor Thru Blood"). Some time later, after a round of Judgment Bay, Cling On says it for the first time.
** Early in Episode 55, Vinny expresses interest in seeing [[RunningGag Karl attempt to get a lover again]], since it had been a while and he wanted to see in happen one last time. Guess what happens later on in the episode. [[spoiler:He doesn't get the girl, but he finally gets good food.]]
** In Episode 23, [=CDi=] Link proposes setting up Vinesauce and Cling On, which Vinny promptly turns down. However, [[spoiler:Vinesauce and Cling On do end up getting together in Episode 50]]. In a suitably ironic fashion for the series, this occurs [[spoiler:immediately after [=CDi=] Link's presumed death from the Jahn invasion]].
** One which spans ''[[UpToEleven 55 episodes]]'': in Episode 2, Vinny claims there will Waluigi will be his rival on the romantic scene. This largely doesn't end up happening, but in Episode 56, sure enough, [[spoiler:the thought of Waluigi ruins Vinny's marriage proposal]]. Granted it was a different girl ([[spoiler:Two Faced having been evicted two episodes earlier]]), but the prediction came true.
* BodyHorror:
** A theme among the Miis: Two Faced has two faces with a conjoined eye, Jack & Jill is one body with two people inhabiting it, and Jaxon was born with a nose ''inside his lips''.
** The residents of the ''Tomodachi Collection'' island suffer from this thanks to the island's instability. This includes malfunctioning limbs, bodies that stretch upwards forever, lacking a body entirely, having a head that lies on the floor, and much more. Everyone takes it in stride.
* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler:In Southbird's edit of Episode 54, Vlinny drops one after winning the last Smash Bros. match against Two Faced: "Two less faces around here!"]]
* BreathlessNonSequitur: In Southbird's "Metadachi Life" video, Wario plays a game with Southbird and starts to comment about Banana and Ben being a nice couple, followed by suddenly asking who Creator/MasahiroSakurai is.
* BuffySpeak: When discussing the origin of Balegdah, "distorty" is the "word" Vinny uses to describe what Darren did to the footage.
* ButtMonkey: Vinny once held a Judgment Bay poll to see which of Music/TheBeatles is the island's favorite. ''Nobody'' chose Music/{{Ringo|Starr}}, who even in real life has a tendency to stand in the shadows of the other three, even after the deaths of Music/{{John|Lennon}} and Music/{{George|Harrison}}. (The winner was George, who's Vinny's own favorite Beatle.)
* CallBack:
** Done ''unintentionally'': Episode 8 features Two Faced successfully asking Walrus out at the local café. [[spoiler:In Episode 37, Donkey Kong steals her away there as well.]]
** Episode 29 is the second episode to show the "tree climbing" news report. Vinny's response to the fact that the "trees" aren't actually trees was the same both times.
--->'''Vinny:''' "Those are vines."
** In Episode 47, [[spoiler:Vinny takes a look at HOTDOG's face, and wonders if he's practicing his funny faces]]. This is a clear reference back to [[spoiler:the failure that got HOTDOG evicted in the first place]].
** Southbird's description of Episode 49 is almost identical to the one for the very first episode, with a few alterations (reflecting [[spoiler:the island's name change]]):
--->The beginning of everyone's favorite [[spoiler:Jahnsauce]] Sitcom. Welcome to [[spoiler:Jahnland]] Island, where only the finest [[spoiler:Jahns]] live.
** Vinny shouts '''"YOU'RE OUT!"''' twice when deleting an islander. The first time, it's after [[spoiler:Dolan]] says that he hopes everyone on the island becomes friends. The second time, [[spoiler:he's killing [=Jahn&Jehn=] -- and, by proxy, totally eliminating the threat of the Jahns]].
** One of Southbird's "out-of-band" ''Tomodachi'' videos was a series called ''Tomodachi VS.'', wherein Vineland Islanders dueled in ''Smash for 3DS'' (with occasional dialogue from the combatants). When Vinny adopts a very similar idea for Episode 54's battle royale, Southbird's edit adds in dialogue in the style of ''VS.''
** In Episode 55's news broadcast, sheep are attracted to [[spoiler:Vineschnoz's]] snoring. Unlike most news events, this is remembered by Vinny so that he can accuse [[spoiler:Vineschnoz]] of [[BestialityIsDepraved jostling said sheep]] when he gets visited later on.
** One Quirky Question in Southbird's second Japanese episode consisted of "mumumu" repeated several times, referencing how the text-to-speech engine was mostly reduced to saying "nnnnnnn" repeatedly at one point in the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruptions.
* TheCameo:
** Luigi appears in Vinny's Mii Maker in Episode 2, though he never moves in and Mario never appears at all, despite other ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' characters becoming residents.
** In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'', Vinny fights the Miis of Groose, Walrus, Clown, Sponge, Jesus, Waluigi, and Donkey Kong used in the ''Tomodachi Life'' streams, while he plays as Vinesauce, Clown, and Vineswole. He also customizes Groose's Mii for the game and Two Faced and Vinesauce appear in apartments in the ''Tomodachi Life'' stage. %%This list only covers the 3DS version; Wii U cameos should probably go on a separate line and should be listed separately from anything from the Battle Royale
** A level from Vinny's 2015 ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosX'' contest takes place on Vineland Island, stars Sponge, and features other islanders.
** Vinesauce's face appeared on a bumper in Miitomo Drop when Fred streamed ''Miitomo''.
* CanonWelding: Southbird's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDGpHfWt28 edit]] of one of Vinny's ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' streams manages to tie the two series together.
* CaptionHumor: Southbird often adds his own commentary to the SB Edits in the form of humorous captions. He's cited [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Barry]] as inspiration.
* CastOfSnowflakes: No Vineland Island member is alike. You've got original characters made from Vinesauce in-jokes or just for the game, original characters based on existing franchises, characters taken from all kinds of media (mainly video games and TV), real-life celebrities, generic characters from sites hosting Mii Maker QR Codes (such as [[http://www.miicharacters.com/ MiiCharacters.com]]) that are given much more character, a few anthropomorphic foods and animals, and, of course, Vinny himself, who has a look-alike Mii and two clones of said Mii with differing facial features between them. (While the Jahns [[spoiler:and Jehns]] are physically identical, they have other differences.)
* CerebusSyndrome:
** Begins to set in after [[spoiler:[[GameBreakingBug the]] [[TheCorruption Isaac]] [[ResetButton incident]]]]. Vinny is now convinced there's a conspiracy on the island to keep his Mii single, and everyone is in on it. Ever since, he hasn't trusted any of them, especially not Isaac or Jesus. In his rage, he now seeks to purge all memes from the game.
** [[spoiler:The Jahns begin their invasion in Episode 48, [[KillAndReplace replacing various islanders]], and they seemingly have Vinny under their spell, who begins to slowly lose his [[SanitySlippage sanity]]]].
** [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted in Episode 50, when [[Series/TheXFiles Mulder and Scully]] get them to leave off-screen, and we find out that [[AntiClimax they just wanted chicken cutlets]] and [[BlackComedy went a bit too far]]. The remainder of the series is, at worst, only dark if you interpret it a certain way.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 39, which was streamed on Christmas Day.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: There is not one completely sane person on Vineland Island. ''Every'' character has at least one odd moment (including [[TheGenericGuy Peach]] befriending Bowser, Lolly making Clown Lady her first friend, and Little Mac [[spoiler:marrying ''a sentient banana'']]). Thus, Vinny serves as the straight man to the entire population.
* CommonplaceRare: As mentioned on [[VideoGame/TomodachiLife the page for the game itself]], birthday cake can only be obtained once a year, not counting cheating by changing the first islander's birthday. As it turns out, at least one of the islanders from these streams ([[spoiler:Dheerse]]) really likes the stuff while another ([[spoiler:Pee-wee]]) despises it.
* TheCorruption: The ''Tomodachi Collection'' version of the island is clearly unstable.
* CounterpartComparison: [[invoked]] Vinny himself compares [[spoiler:Lumber Jahn]] to [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data]] in Episode 54, as both are [[spoiler:non-humans attempting to act as human as possible]].
* CreditsGag: Southbird's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-tvEphSxs 1-50 Special]] ends with a credits reel. While most islanders follow a standard listing formula (the islander's nickname followed by their full name, or "[[CharacterAsHimself As Himself/Herself]]" if both are the same), there are a few odd ones sprinkled in there, such as the full names being catchphrases ("Bomb Dodongos" for CD-i Link) or references to a part of their character ("Elderly Schoolteacher" for Clown Lady). Also, [[spoiler:"Jahn" ([[CharacterAsHimself played by Jahn]]) is listed ''sixteen times'', one after another]].
* {{Crossover}}:
** A level from Vinny's 2015 ''Super Mario Bros. X'' contest featured [[spoiler:the Jahns invading Mario's world]]. In it, Mario [[spoiler:raids their spaceship and fights Vlinny as the final boss]].
** One of Vinny's ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' streams (adapted by Southbird as ''WebVideo/MayorVine'') has him enter a fan's Dream Town themed after the series. Southbird's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDGpHfWt28 edit]] of it (and a [[http://captainsouthbird.tumblr.com/post/155129919103/mayor-vine-tomodachi-life-crossover supplementary Tumblr post]] explaining everything fully) turns it into a full-on crossover -- one that [[CanonWelding brings the two series together]] and explains [[spoiler:why the Jahns' apparent influence over Vinny in the ''Survivor Edition'' ended so abruptly]]. (Of course, whether or not it's canon is up for debate; even within the context of the Mayor Vine series that episode doesn't follow the numbering of the rest of the series.)
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: [[spoiler:Part of the reason why Vinny loses against Vlinny in Episode 54's extended Battle Royale is because he forgot to select his name at the character select screen, meaning he had to use the default controls.]]
* DarkReprise: "Jahn of the Jungle" is played exactly twice, without any alterations. The first time, it's funny. The second time ([[spoiler:after the AssimilationPlot begins]]), less so.
-->"We the Jahns will assimilate..."\\
'''Vinny:''' [[spoiler:It's all been there since the beginning.]]
* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Vinny has asked islanders if they masturbate on a few occasions in Quirky Questions, mostly to see who responds. This has backfired before, with [[AuthorAvatar Vinesauce]] responding to being unable to sleep without "a good fap" in one session.
** "Fop" and "Wank" are often used by Vinny to get these jokes past the game's censors. The latter is especially popular, since the game pronounces it as "wonk".
** During the ''Collection'' Corruptions episode, Vinny checks a corruption state that gave everyone a deformed, slightly buffer arm. The name of this corruption? "Masturbation Island."
** When Pretzel mentioned that he's a "people watcher", Vinny interpreted him as a voyeur, commenting that "He stares at people, and then he stares at his own genitalia."
** Clown and Clown Lady mention "wank stains on the curtains" in their song.
** Directly implied in Episode 53, during the treasure-selling montage.
--->'''Vinny:''' ''[as he sells some tissues]'' "These boxes of tissues! Ah, remember when I used... ah, tissues from each of those for... for reasons?"
** [[invoked]] Pretty much the only reason Pee-wee is on the island is so that Vinny can crack jokes about the time [[NeverLiveItDown his actor jerked off in a porno theater]]. The situation was actually a lot more serious that Vinny makes it out to be, but he either doesn't know, doesn't care, or is applying the RuleOfFunny.
** In Episode 50, Birdo asks Vinny what he does when he's alone and bored, and Vinny implies this, but then tells Birdo that he hums.
** [[RelaxOVision While it isn't shown]], the SB Edit to Episode 55 implies that this was Vinny's response when Cling On asked him the same question that Birdo had previously asked, given how grossed out she was by it. (In the full stream, Vinny said that he picks his nose, but that wasn't as funny.)
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** Episode 47 is this for Lolly, since it was streamed on her birthday and all. (It's also the ''only'' time she gets any substantial attention, since [[spoiler:she's assimilated in the very next part]].)
** Episode 54 serves as this for Vlinny -- he gets to go to space, face off against Two Faced in ''Smash Bros.'' [[spoiler:and ''win'' (and subsequently win against ''Vinny himself'' as well)]], and have a lengthy rap battle against Snoop Dogg.
** Episode 55 gives some attention to Pretzel, thanks to Vinny giving him a ridiculous voice in order to narrate something. The voice was so popular that he keeps it up whenever Pretzel makes an appearance. [[spoiler:It's also a large reason for him getting an above-average ranking on the popularity poll.]]
* DeadlyEuphemism: What the game calls eviction, Vinny calls death.
* DeadlyGame: The ''Survivor Edition'', if you believe that eviction is death for the islanders.
* DevelopersForesight: Parodied. Vinny exaggerates the significance of the game's censorship of "dirty magazines" (which doesn't appear to have run into the ScunthorpeProblem, in contrast to the original draft of Cling On's ballad); he tries to ask the question "Who hides dirty magazines in their apt.?" during Quirky Questions and the game doesn't allow it.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** [[spoiler:HOTDOG]] got evicted because his funny face was unsatisfactory (and he was boring and OutOfFocus).
** [[spoiler:Dolan's]] crimes that led to eviction included being unfunny and wanting everyone on the island to be friends (despite not getting along with every islander he had met).
** [[spoiler:As Skelorita discovers]], asking for $48 is all it takes for Vinny to want you off Vineland.
** In ''Survior Edition'', Vinny is on the hunt for the islander's flaws. If they say something that can be interpreted negatively, he'll use it against them as evidence for being voted off.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In Episode 53, Lamb Chop (in her cop outfit) has fists on her mind. Southbird adds in a quickly zooming image of UsefulNotes/JosephStalin, with the Soviet national anthem playing in the background.
* DysfunctionJunction: Vineland Island has quite a large amount of troubled islanders. We've got a cocaine addict who constantly fails at staying in long-term relationships, [[spoiler:a divorced couple]], a guy who's been forced to take on sports by his father, someone who's constantly abused for being with someone he loves (who also qualifies because [[spoiler:she cheats on him and proceeds to become very antagonistic]]), a few hopeless romantics (one of whom is BornUnlucky), possibly the most depressed man in the world and his constantly indifferent brother, a hobo, a trio of creepy alien researchers (one of whom lacks social skills and another of whom [[spoiler:tried (and may still be trying) to assimilate an entire island to get food]]), a child who has to deal with [[spoiler:never really knowing his dad]], and an [[spoiler:ignored, loveless mime]]. While the lives of a few of these islanders did get better (albeit after relatively long periods of time), this isn't the case for all of them.
* {{Dystopia}}:
** Vineland Island starts to have shades of the ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' type when [[spoiler:Vinny starts {{unperson}}ing people.]] It becomes especially blatant in the condensed version of Episode 47, which starts with [[spoiler:Vinesauce making what amounts to a propaganda speech about how Skelorita never lived here, but HOTDOG always did]].
** Depending on how you interpret eviction, the ''Survivor Edition'' is basically a DeadlyGame where you get killed off if you put a toe out of line, with Vinny going along with it without a second thought. The only person who seems to know (or at least is concerned about it) is Tucker. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when Vinny decides to stop with the evictions in the final episode, making it clear that nothing like this will happen to Vineland again.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** Vinny uses him own Mii collection to pick most of the early islanders, so you can see some of them in the selection menu ahortly before they're added. For example, [=BonziBUDDY=] appears in the corner of the Mii Maker screen in the background before Episode 2 starts (the condensed version, which was made well after the original stream, explicitly zooms in on him).
** Early in Episode 2, Vinny says that he wanted Balegdah islander, but couldn't find a Mii of her. A viewer ended up making a Mii of her and she gets added a few episodes later.
** In Episode 5's SB edit, Captain Jahn makes a cameo when Walrus and Bonzi are stargazing. The Jahns aren't introduced until Episode 34, but by the time Southbird got around to condensing the first several streams (which lacked SB Edits until 2015), that episode had already happened.
** Satan was mentioned plenty of times before he actually arrived, including Donkey Kong being proclaimed a Satanist by Vinny and Jesus choosing the guy over himself during a round of Judgment Bay.
** Pretzel appeared during the Episode 41 art showcase, an episode before becoming an islander. He had existed for a while in fanart, but this was his first appearance in the series (and to Vinny, not counting the ''Game & Wario'' scribbles that inspired him).
** The ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruptions feature [[spoiler:Vineschnoz]], who was officially added in [[spoiler:Episode 50]].
** [[spoiler:Jahn&Jehn]] attend Vinesauce's birthday party at the beginning of Episode 50, some time before [[spoiler:they get discovered and deleted]]. [[LampshadeHanging Vinny notices them]], but doesn't explicitly point them out.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Before the series became a mainstay, Vinny chose islanders from his own 3DS' Mii Maker, as the forum thread where fans could host QR Codes didn't exist. This caused the starting lineup of islanders to include more "generic" Miis (a witch, a clown, a girl with two faces, and a walrus) and Lamb Chop (who has no real connection to Vinesauce and likely wouldn't have been chosen later on). He started adding Miis via QR Codes with Ralph in Episode 4, but even then some of the earlier QR Codes were Mii Maker QR Codes, meaning Vinny's copies of those Miis will only have ''Tomodachi Life'' codes if Vinny makes them.
** When Vinny was starting off, he would stream the game often but for much shorter periods of time, either because he wanted to do a quick checkup or because the islanders were asleep and he couldn't do anything. This led to several extremely short episodes, including ones that were only 8-12 minutes long. Starting about halfway through the original run, he began regularly devoting one or two hours to each session, in exchange for not streaming it as often.
** The early islander songs were fairly simple, with only a few words being replaced in them (though "Right Em' in the Wrong Hole" and "Opera Star" were complete rewrites). It took a while for Vinny to start making the majority of his songs from scratch.
** The series has a lot of drama, but it doesn't start to show until later on. This makes Vinny's "greatest hits" video (which focuses only on the SurrealHumor) a bit unrepresentative of the stream as a whole, since it was made before CerebusSyndrome kicked in midway through.
** For the first few episodes after Vlinny shows up, Vinny calls him "Vinesnauce", which is his first name as opposed to his nickname.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: [[spoiler:While the Jahns don't have any weaknesses of note, they fall under this for being stopped by only two people that we know of. Those two people may be very effective paranormal investigators, but according to Mulder, all it took was an offering of chicken cutlets to get them to pack their bags.]]
* EasterEgg:
** Episode 5's SB Edit (which wasn't made until early 2015) features a Jahn in the background when Bonzi and Walrus are shown on the tower.
** Episode 38 adds [[spoiler:an outline of Bonzi in his apartment, after his eviction]].
** Levi's office in Episode 40 has a poster with [[spoiler:Bonzi (his father) and the text "NEVER FORGET"]] on it.
** Vinny tried to calm Hamburger down with various things in Episode 41. Southbird replaces one item with Chef Boyardee (Vinny had commented about eating and not liking it earlier in the episode), which Hamburger apparently wasn't in the mood for. Later on in the same episode, Sponge blasts off into space after eating a herring and [[spoiler:Bonzi flies by in the foreground]].
** In Episode 46, Ben's office has a picture of the Jahns on the whiteboard.
** Right before Vinny feeds Sponge in Episode 47, the image of him in the corner is replaced with art of him holding his fingers to his head like a gun.
** In Episode 51, Tucker has a drawing of Dolan in his apartment. Southbird also added a self-promoting Easter egg in the form of replacing the generic shoot 'em up on one of Tingle's arcade machines with ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3Mix''.
** Episode 52 has a monochrome picture of [[spoiler:Skelorita]] on the giant Game Boy in Vinesauce's room, a picture of [[spoiler:Dheerse and Vlinny]] in Alpaca's room, and [[spoiler:the picture in Vineschnoz's room has the text "[=ÄSlw b=]" on it, as well as a recurring corrupted graphic from the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream's news reports]].
** In Episode 54: [[spoiler:An apparently giant Broccoli]] appears outside Karl's window, Gordon's kitchen has a picture of [[spoiler:Dheerse]], Isaac's apartment has a cave painting of Ralph (his best friend), Southbird appears in the vitality ranking, and [[spoiler:Bonzi]] flies by during Quirky Questions.
** In Episode 55: Peach's face changes into that of a Grandchild from ''VideoGame/AlbinoLullaby'' for a brief moment, Ben's whiteboard has [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"]] written on it, and the restaurant Ben is eating at has a picture of a Seabiscuit in space.
* EldritchLocation:
** Vineland Island is hinted to be this, as no one knows how the islanders got there and several pieces of fanart have hinted that there's something horrifying underneath it. The latter once led to Vinny commenting that there were "Ancient Robot Satans" depicted under the island in one piece.
** The ''Tomodachi Collection'' island features strange physics and geometries and is a place where your head could ''fall off onto the floor'' and it would only be a minor inconvenience.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:[[SeriesFauxnale Episode 50]] reveals that the Jahns really just wanted chicken cutlets all along, and they leave when Mulder and Scully force them to. One stays behind, attempting to become a human... but he's still morally ambiguous on the whole assimilation front. Not only that, but ''another'' Jehn (and maybe a Jahn) assimilate Jack&Jill, casting doubt on whether all of them are truly as benevolent as the ending would suggest. Also, Vinny's attempts to reassure the viewers come off as [[FalseReassurance forced]]....]]
* EskimosArentReal: Vinny wonders if the game is truly being unrealistic with apple pie made with a frying pan after Peach fries apple pie in Episode 7.
* EvilOverlooker: After Teckworks started giving the SB Edits WebVideo/MayorVine-style thumbnails in 2017, Episode 1 was given a thumbnail that depicts Vinny looking over the island with a sinister expression on his face.
* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler:Vinny repeatedly attempting to assure the viewers that "everything's okay" in Episode 50, after the Jahns leave (but their effects are still felt on the island).]]
* FantasticDrug: Vinny once asked the islanders if any of them were into skunt, which is apparently a drug that exists in-universe.
* {{Fauxshadow}}:
** Near the beginning of the series, Vinny said he had plans to add Mike Stoklasa from WebVideo/RedLetterMedia. He would later have second thoughts about this after deciding that he would be out of place among the Miis he did end up adding. Later in the series, the most normal-looking islanders would have a strange tendency to be the least interesting.
** Vinny suspects Sponge of plotting a coup against him with several other islanders (mainly ones who had been [[ButtMonkey abused]] in some way), with an ultimate goal of [[KillAndReplace becoming the real look-alike of Vineland]]. This doesn't ever happen.
** In Episode 49, [[spoiler:Peach and Cling On seem to show some connections to the Jahns in a Quirky Questions session, implying that they may be conspiring with them]]. Nothing comes of this by the next episode, so it's most likely that [[spoiler:the two were either under the Jahns' mind control or lying so they wouldn't be assimilated]].
** In Episode 50, it looked like [[spoiler:Vineschnoz had brought his antics from the corrupted island]]. To say that nothing came out of this would be an understatement, as he largely stayed OutOfFocus after that.
** Episode 53 has Vinny state early on that [[spoiler:he's being encouraged to delete more islanders by a Jahn, implying that Jahn #3 or one of the other invader Jahns is trying to get Vinny to clear up the island so they can take it over]]. This was never addressed in the series itself, though it's used as the basis for Southbird's crossover special.
* FauxSymbolism: In-universe, Vinny tends to interpret everything UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, who's a character in the series, does as symbolic.
* FissionMailed: At the beginning of Episode 14, Vinny jokes that the stream is over after he turned out to have accidentally left ''VideoGame/MarioGolf: World Tour'' in the cartridge slot. Southbird follows this line up with [[spoiler:a fake list of recommended videos]].
* ForegoneConclusion: Downplayed -- the game won't let you evict your look-alike Mii, so Vinesauce is safe from eviction in ''Survivor Edition''. Jaxon, as a traveler at the docks, is also safe, at the cost of not making an appearance in the series proper.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** As Vinny discusses his plans to make his Mii fall in love with Two Faced in Episode 2, we look into her mind. She's thinking about [[spoiler:apes]]. [[spoiler:'''35''' episodes later, she abandons her boyfriend Walrus for Donkey Kong]].
** In Episode 4's movie poster group photo, Ralph and Lamb Chop are in the center, reaching out to each other. [[spoiler:The two would later get married.]]
** In Episode 5, a rooftop meeting features a [[PaperThinDisguise poorly disguised]] Clown saying "[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Our princess is in another castle]]" to someone. In Episode 30, he requests a peach to eat, with Vinny making a joke about the similarly named princess. The two hook up six episodes after the latter event.
** In Episode 20, Donkey Kong asks Vinny what he thought of him and Lamb Chop. It was only about friendship, but Vinny interpreted as more than that; since Lamb Chop was already married to Groose, Vinny suggested that Donkey Kong "dong [his] way" into their relationship. [[spoiler:He ends up doing this to Two Faced, who wasn't married, but was dating Walrus.]]
** In Episode 21, Vinny wonders why Vlinny seems to be taking over his island after he did a news report. [[spoiler:On the corrupted island, Vineschnoz, the other Vinesauce clone, ended up working for multiple businesses and doing ''every'' news report.]]
** Early on, Vinny notices Alpaca and Walrus hanging out, and wonders if there's something between them. [[spoiler:Sure enough, they get together (and ''marry'', no less) much later.]]
** After [[spoiler:the dimensional split]], Vinny [[MrExposition informs the audience]] that [[spoiler:the Dimension Two island has been [[SendInTheClones overrun with HOTDOG clones]]]]. Whether or not it has anything to do with [[spoiler:the extremely similar Jahn invasion]] some time later is up for debate.
** Episode 38 features the first sign that the other Jahns are beginning to [[DivergentCharacterEvolution come into their own]] -- namely, when Jahn #3 puts on his helmet, confusing Vinny into thinking he was Jahn #1 (who he had previously declared Captain). [[spoiler:Several episodes later, he ends up making #3 the new Captain, possibly heralding the invasion.]]
** The very first line of "Jahn of the Jungle" is "We the Jahns will assimilate". [[spoiler:Nobody expected them to follow through on it, though, and this gets {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Vinny in Episode 49, when he replays the song after their plans are enacted.]]
** In Episode 45, Ben summons Captain Jahn up to the roof and gives him a piece of paper with his destiny written on it. [[TheUnreveal Its message is never revealed]], but it could have something to do with [[spoiler:him later being stripped of his rank, which in turn influenced the decision to invade]].
** [[spoiler:The new]] Captain Jahn responding to praise on his photography skills with "[[TakeOverTheWorld I could rule the world with this kind of talent!]]"
** Episode 47 sees Bowser ask Vinny "If your whole world was going to go dark tomorrow, what would you look at today?" [[spoiler:The Jahns invade and begin assimilating in the following episode.]]
* ForgettableCharacter: The fact that there are so many islanders means a lot of characters are going to be OutOfFocus, but some don't get a whole lot of attention from other islanders, either. For example, the islanders rarely interacted with Lolly until her birthday and she rarely attended group events.
* FreudianSlip:
** At one point in Episode 49, Vinny says "memes" instead of "Miis" and corrects himself. This wouldn't be that weird normally, but considering the events going on then, it's most likely that [[spoiler:this was because of the Jahns' mind control; they were tricking him into thinking all of his Miis were "memes", so he would evict them like he did Bonzi and Dolan]].
** Usually, if Vinny refers to the islanders as anything other than islanders (or the more generic description of Miis), he calls them villagers (an ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''-induced habit). However, in Episode 54 he accidentally calls them ''creatures'', which isn't as inaccurate as it could be.
* FreudWasRight:
** After discussing the abundance of sweets in Clown Lady's apartment, Vinny comments that the gingerbread men on the bookshelf look phallic.
** When Small Face [[spoiler:breaks up with Cling On]], the game displays cherries and sausage in his list of favorite foods. Vinny interprets this figuratively.
* GameMod: ''Super Sponge Bros.'' is a hack of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' that replaces Mario and Luigi with Sponge and Pretzel and increases the difficulty. Vinny misinterpreted its creator's anonymity request as forbidding the hack from being made public and missed the followup email that corrected this misunderstanding, but Southbird (who's a ROM hacker himself) was later sent a copy of the hack and [[http://sonicepoch.com/sponge/ published patches]] for the NTSC versions of both the standalone version of ''Super Mario Bros.'' and the ''Super Mario Bros.''/''VideoGame/DuckHunt'' bundle.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** Vinny declared Clown to be a ghost after he walked through Clown Lady, adding that only she and Sponge can see him. This doesn't transfer over to the game, where Clown hangs out with others often. This especially shows with his prominent interactions with Peach (could be justified by ThePowerOfLove) and Tucker (could be justified by AchievementsInIgnorance).
** The only person Sponge has ever been seen befriending is David Bowie, which Vinny has extended to him being Sponge's OnlyFriend. In-game, islanders automatically make friends offscreen after they have their first one, and Sponge has been seen hanging out with islanders other than Bowie.
** Some aspects of islanders' personalities (such as Alpaca's cocaine addiction) are based on Quirky Questions answers. It works fine for the most part, but since the responses of islanders are completely random, this leads to some contradictions both in Quirky Questions and outside it (for example, Bowie is never mistaken for a pirate despite being DressedToPlunder a majority of the time, and Donkey Kong can't stand Jesus but sides with him during a Judgment Bay round).
** Early episodes see Vinny consult the Compatibility Tester to see how his Mii's love life will go. He takes the results at complete face value, even though it's all based on personalities and has nothing to do with the actual chances islanders will get together.
* {{Gasshole}}: A RunningGag features at least three residents of Southbird's Totally Normal Island commenting that they mostly go to their apartments when they have to fart, with one saying this right after being given a new interior.
* GenreShift: In Episode 54, Vinny determines whether Two Faced or Vlinny is sent off with a battle royale in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]''.
* TheGhost: Several characters are referenced, but never appear.
** Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant are frequently referenced due to Creator/KarlPilkington's presence on the island.
** While Luigi has a cameo in Vinny's Mii Maker early in the series, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] never appears, despite the island's residents including the Bootleg Mario Bros. as well as several official ''Mario'' characters other than the brothers, with Peach's catchphrases referencing Mario himself.
** Groose's solo song references the incarnation of Link from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', who isn't included among the island's Link variants.
** Two of Alpaca's catchphrases reference Seaki Kazuma, the main character of ''VisualNovel/PacaPlus'', her game of origin.
** Two Faced's European counterpart on SB Eurolan Island mentioned her mother once. This is the ''only'' time any islander has ever referred to a member of their family, not counting either married couples and their children or Ben and Vlinny being classified as being related to Vinny.
** The ''Tomodachi Collection'' songs are composed by Shiba-kun and choreographed by [[RepetitiveName Ryonryon]], whoever they are.
** One of Southbird's out-of-band videos has Cling On saying she got into a fight with Southbird's Mii. We never see him in any of the videos made using Southbird's main copy of the game and he doesn't exist at all in his international copies or his corrupted copy of the North American version.
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Both UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and {{Satan}} live on Vineland. Satan is pretty nonthreatening, but it hasn't stopped him from vouching to delete the island once. Meanwhile, JesusWasWayCool generally applies, but Jesus has caused more problems on the island than Satan has, specifically [[spoiler:splitting the timeline with game crashes twice; the first time was more the chaotic Isaac's doing, but the second time was clearly Jesus trying to make himself look better than Satan by removing one of his few acts of kindness]]. Isaac lampshades this in his song "Ticket to Hell" (performed with Jesus and Satan), saying that [[AboveGoodAndEvil there's really not much of a difference between them]] and he can choose to follow either of them (a privilege he proceeds to [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor abuse heavily]]).
* AGoodNameForARockBand: While going through Episode 38's art, Vinny comments that one piece appeared to depict "Ancient Robot Satans" under Vineland Island. He then says anyone is free to use that as a band name.
* GrandFinale: ''Inverted'' in Episode 55, where absolutely nothing particularly weird happens ([[WidgetSeries for Vineland Island, at least]]). [[InvokedTrope This was intentional]] -- Vinny had quite a bit of creator's block after [[WhamEpisode Episode 54]], and eventually chose a "back-to-basics" approach.
* HellIsThatNoise:
** Seabiscuit's voice ''actually causes Vinny pain''. He declares it "a new level of shitty voice" when he first hears it. Despite not being as painful when she's giving a commemoration speech or anytime in the ''Tomodachi Collection'' stream, Vinny still finds her voice to be worse in both cases. However, her voice sounds normal if she's added to the European version, as its voice synthesizer is harder to "break" than the North American version's.
** ''Tomodachi Collection'' crashing (due to being corrupted) sometimes produces a loud screeching noise that even Vinny can't stand.
* AHellOfATime: As often as we're told that the corrupted island could be Hell, the inhabitants don't seem to mind being there any more than they mind being on Vineland Island.
* HypnoTrinket:
** The in-game Hypnotizer is used by Vinny a few times. Once, he used it on Two Faced to convince her that Walrus was a monster (using the "Sea Monster" dream), only for it to backfire when a gigantic David Bowie rose from the sea instead.
** One interpretation of a bit in Episode 49, where (immediately after becoming friends, thanks to a Jahn) Two Faced and Hailey [[spoiler:end up fighting over a Jahn doll. Most people assume that it's an extension of their mind control, hence their feud.]]
* IAmVeryBritish: Because these streams come from an American streaming the North American version of the game, every character speaks with a General American accent. Seeing the characters speak with a Received Pronunciation accent (including one based on [[Creator/KarlPilkington a real-life Mancunian speaker]]) in Southbird's European copy ends up making them sound overly sophisticated.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Vinny once asked the islanders if they were into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beezing beezing]], which in real life refers the alleged practice of applying Burt's Bees balm to one's eyes in an attempt to induce hallucinations.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Implied in Episode 50 -- after [[spoiler:the Jahns' influence is totally eradicated]], the islanders openly refuse a life full of "advemture and fop".
* ImGoingToHellForThis: Vinny says this shortly after moving UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} into the island. He would continue to do this during certain interactions with Jesus.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Corn dogs are sold at the Food Mart after HOTDOG is evicted, implying that they're made of his remains.]]
* InAWorld: Vinny pulls one in Episode 2, when commenting on how a sitcom of his game would be. He later spoofs this when preparing to send [[spoiler:Vlinny]] into space in Episode 54.
* InnocentInnuendo:
** Peach once told Vinny she was hungry for Italian food. She meant it literally.
** Witch says she's not hungry enough to eat Southbird in Episode 53's SB Edit.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Episodes 46 and 47. The former has [[spoiler:the three Jahns getting individual clothes -- and, crucially, Jahn #3 becoming the Captain. This directly leads to their AssimilationPlot.]] It also has [[spoiler:Skelorita's eviction, and Vinny subsequently [[UnPerson pretending she never existed]] -- a crucial part of the Jahn arc]]. The latter has Bowser asking Vinny what he would do "if [his] whole world was going to go dark tomorrow", as well as [[spoiler:HOTDOG's return, which shows that Vinny is willing to mess around with the islanders in between episodes -- another crucial part of the Jahn arc]].
* InternalRetcon: The beginning of the condensed version of Episode 47 puts a ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''-esque spin on the events of both it and the previous episode:
-->'''Vinesauce:''' Before we get started, I just wanted to clear up a common misunderstanding. A lot of people think that [[spoiler:a skeleton character lived on this island. But I don't know who this character is. They seem to be confusing it with Hot Doggerson, a long term resident who has always been living here.]]
* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: The islanders pronounce "meme" as "mem" (as though it were a French word).
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Due to the nature of ''Tomodachi Life'', Vinny and the viewers have to interpret many minor things in order to build up Vineland Island's lore.
* JokeAndReceive: Vinny comments that he thinks Episode 28 is very weird. He says this before [[spoiler:the game crashes]] later in the episode, which catches him off guard more than any previous event in the series.
* LamePunReaction: Ralph's comment that a restaurant is "out of cluck" if it doesn't serve chicken earned an unimpressed reaction from Vinny.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** It's very easy to walk into a livestream or skip to a later episode and be spoiled about some part of the series, either by seeing it or because Vinny mentions it. This was especially the case before the Vinesauce: The Full Sauce [=YouTube=] channel was established (Vappyvap's own channel contains previous streams, but they weren't yet official uploads), as well as before Southbird started shortening the streams (or even before Vinny discovered Southbird in early 2015). At one point, Southbird didn't even have edited versions of several of the earlier episodes, meaning that longtime SB Edit viewers would have most likely seen those after later episodes' edits. As early/late as Episode 54, Vinny is casually talking about [[spoiler:the Jahn invasion of Episodes 48 and 49]], showing how fast that plotline came and went despite its major impact.
** In Episode 47's SB edit, before the episode begins, there is a scene where [[spoiler:Vinesauce broadcasts to the audience that Skelorita never lived on the island, but HOTDOG always has]]. While it provides an in-story justification for events around that time, it spoils the surprise that [[spoiler:HOTDOG is back, and that Vinny is acting like he's always been there]]. The full surprise can only be gotten from the full stream, which doesn't have the intro scene.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness:
** The majority of the songs written earlier in the series were solo efforts, with these often being replayed after their debuts. Later on the songs were mostly from groups (with only a few solo songs) and Vinny ended up paying less attention to the solo songs that were already made, such as when one Strawpoll gave viewers a choice of which song they wanted Vinny to replay and none of the options were solo.
** The ''Survivor Edition'''s SB Edits seem to have a greater amount of Easter eggs than the original run's edits.
* LiteralMinded: Episode 52 sees Tingle remark that, after taking yoga for a while, "[he's] crazy bendy now." Vinny immediately changes his full name (or rather, its pronunciation) to "Crazy Bendy".
* LittleNo: Vinny says "Kappa? No...!" when he sees Kappa on the corrupted island. It was cut from the SB Edit, but it does appear in Vinny's own edit.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In total, the series has had around '''70''' islanders, though only about twenty of them get consistent focus. There have also been other characters in the series, such as the game's generic shopkeepers and Miis exclusive to the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream.
* LongSongShortScene: The stores' Christmas music in ''Tomodachi Life'' is already used only slightly more than most ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' holiday music (this and the more festive map theme start playing a week before Christmas itself and stop playing on New Year's Day), but in Vinny's Christmas stream, it plays even less due to the limited amount time Vinny spends in the stores. The associated map theme played more often, however.
* MadnessMantra: In the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream, the voice synthesizer gets corrupted enough that Sponge and Two Faced (during Quirky Questions) say something sounding like "Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn... E ICHI ARU NE ICHI ARU NE ICHI ARU NE ICHI ARU NE," which generally went on longer than what's listed here.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Islanders include multiple ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' characters (though Vinny never added the Mario Bros. themselves), an ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' villager, Music/DavidBowie, Kenny from ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' games, Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', Film/{{Seabiscuit}}, and many, many more.
* MindScrew:
** In Episode 49, [[spoiler:Vinny inexplicably freaks out when Two Faced does an impression of Hamburger]].
** The dialogue on the Totally Normal Island makes very little sense, on top of the islanders moving strangely. For example, some of the things islanders say are usually reserved for rooftop meetings or sleep-talking, despite being in neither of those situations. One instance of dialogue normally reserved for rooftop meetings being said in the wrong context (by Walrus) also produced the options usually displayed when an islander asks to play a game.
* MindScrewdriver: In the condensed version of Episode 49, [[spoiler:Vinny's freakout is justified by changing it to have Two Faced say "Assimilate" in a Jahn voice, rather than saying Hamburger's catchphrase. Though this may just raise ''more'' questions, unless you go with the theory that Two Faced is a Jahn of some sort]].
* MissingEpisode: InUniverse, ''Half-Life 3'', should Gaben [[spoiler:end up skipping to ''4'']] as he implied on a phone call.
* {{Mondegreen}}:
** Two Faced introducing herself in the first episode sounded like "I'm toothpaste" to at least one person, which Vinny notes when adding her.
** "Vinesauce's look-alike" sounds like "Vinesausage look-alike" when said by some characters.
** Vinny mishears "conch" (which the game actually pronounces as "conk") as "cock" when it's said by Toad, while "schnitzel" sounds like "shitzel" when it's said by Wario.
** Episode 42 has Broccoli asking Vinny what he should say when he's mad. Southbird misheard it as "What should I say when I melt?"
** [[spoiler:HOTDOG (after his short-lived return to the island)]] once said "I want some new clothes," but it sounded like "I need a new coat."
* MoodWhiplash:
** Islanders can say their catchphrase at any given moment. Kenny's is "Duck, I miss you," causing a lot of this for Vinny.
** Episode 37 goes from [[spoiler:a sad Walrus remembering the good times he had with Two Faced]] to [[spoiler:a happy Walrus dancing because he was given a sausage by his former worst enemy]].
** Episodes 48 and 49 intersperse the regular Vineland Island antics with [[spoiler:the steadily growing [[AssimilationPlot Jahn invasion]]]].
** Subverted in the SB Edit for the David Bowie special. "[[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Goodbye Moonmen]]" (the song Vinny played as a sendoff to Bowie) normally ends with Rick telling the singer to shut up. Since this is a far more serious moment than the last time Vinny used the song in Episode 54, Southbird cuts out that bit and skips from the last part of the song to Vinesauce's apartment.
* MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Several islanders' voices annoy Vinny, most notoriously Cling On and Dheerse. Southbird and many of his edits' viewers disagree on the former, but either way, Seabiscuit's is [[HellIsThatNoise much worse]] (though Seabiscuit's voice goes from HellIsThatNoise to MostAnnoyingSound when she's giving a speech commemorating an in-game milestone, as well as during the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream, with Vinny still finding her voice to be worse in both of those cases). [[spoiler:When the ''Survivor Edition'' rolls around, Dheerse and Seabiscuit are among the first few to leave.]] These islanders' voices are toned down significantly if they're added to the European version, as its voice synthesizer is harder to "break".
* MundaneMadeAwesome:
** It takes a lot skill to turn a simple Nintendo game into a bizarre and enthralling soap opera, but Vinny managed it.
** In an in-series example, Vinny treats [[ToiletHumor Jesus's fart]] in Episode 43 as a momentous occasion, enough to note the time and exact details.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Stated almost word-for-word by Vinny during Episode 13, after he helps Groose and Lamb Chop marry each other. "What Have I Done?" is even the condensed episode's title.
** Vinny is shocked when [[spoiler:Lamb Chop and Groose get a divorce several episodes later, with this being the first divorce in the series, all because of him encouraging Lamb Chop to do so]].
** After Vinny sees [[spoiler:Walrus's post-breakup montage]], he decides to start treating him better.
* MythologyGag:
** At the very beginning of the series, Vinny decided to name his island Vineland, like his original ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' town (''Tomodachi Life'' came out in English-speaking countries about a year after that game). He found out that the game renders it as Vineland ''Island'', but didn't mind that.
** Several islanders are derived from Vinesauce in-jokes (e.g., Ralph, Baledgah, and Bub Skebulba).
** In the first episode, when asking the audience if they consider him a "trendsetter", Vinny mentions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITfzLGNc0RY "spaalonebabaguuscooties"]]. It also becomes Lamb Chop's catchphrase (part of it, anyway, and even then it's pronounced differently).
** After Vinny decided to draw penises on Vinesauce's face, Southbird's response to this was to insert an audio clip of Joel saying "Who's been drawing dicks?" from Joel's "Windows XP Destruction" video.[[note]]The quote in question was something a teacher of his said in response to a prank a classmate of his pulled.[[/note]] As Joel wasn't the one streaming the game, his only other presence in the series is his cover of Wario's "Dragon's Dilda" song.
** Vinny referred to some brightly colored corrupted textures as "clown diarrhea" at one point in the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream. He often uses the phrase "clown vomit" in the same sense in other corruption streams.
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[[folder:Tropes N to Z]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's possible that [[spoiler:Vinny giving the Jahns unique outfits (and unintentionally making Jahn #3 captain in the process) in Episode 46]] directly led to [[spoiler:the invasion two episodes later]].
* NintendoHard: ''Super Sponge Bros.'', a hack of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' that was given to Vinny and ended up being accepted as canon, ramped up the difficulty compared to the vanilla game. The main parts of the levels aren't too different, but the bonus rooms (which originally lacked little other than coins and/or blocks containing coins) were changed to add difficult jumping puzzles. The Warp Zones are also changed to Limbo Zones, where the highest-numbered world you can go to is lowered (World 3 for the first, and World 7 for the second, as opposed to 4 and 8 respectively).
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: The Buvvins Brothers' bassist, Ralph, gets no lines in the duo's song (with Vinesauce being the singer) and received no solo songs of his own, unlike his bandmate.
* NonIndicativeName: Vinny comments that the in-game microchip item isn't very "micro" if it's about hand-sized.
* NoodleImplements:
** The assorted treasures Vinny sells in Episode 53 were supposedly gained from unseen events.
** David Bowie runs the Night Market stand in the David Bowie special and Vinny receives a bathhouse interior, some smoked salmon, and a magician costume from it. Vinny interprets these as being related to an album Bowie made while on the island.
* NoodleIncident:
** ''Everything'' about [[spoiler:the period between Episodes 49 and 50]]. All the viewers get to know about it is a (detail-sparse) InfoDump transferred from one character to another and then to the audience. Just about everything that isn't directly stated (e.g., [[spoiler:the Jahns are gone except for #2, Scully and Mulder played a part in it, and Jack & Jill got assimilated at some point]]) is up to fan interpretation.
** During Episode 53, Vinny ends up selling almost all of his treasures, and mentions how he got them, including solving Jesus' finacial crisis, stopping Alpaca's pregnancy, and funding Pretzel's stem cell research. He admits that [[{{Understatement}} his memories may not be entirely clear]].
** While Vinny's response to one of Cling On's questions ("What do you do when you're alone and bored?") in Episode 55 was clear in the original stream, the SB edit makes it this by cutting to RelaxOVision while he's answering. Given Cling On's reaction and the question itself, the answer can be... [[ADateWithRosiePalms assumed]].
** Pee-wee asks if Vinny heard any "froggy noises" coming from his apartment in Episode 56, saying there wasn't any reason for why he was asking. Vinny believes that Kenny was [=RPing=] as a frog with Pee-wee after seeing Kenny's frog hat.
* NoPronunciationGuide:
** Inverted with "wank", which has an established pronunciation, but is pronounced "wonk" by the game.
** Vinny finds out that trying to misspell "fuck" often results in the misspelling being pronounced "fewk".
* ObviousRulePatch: Episode 54's [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Battle Royale]] has Vinny putting items on low (after a poll says so), and lets the first stage be random. The game picks [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong 75 M]], and Two Faced almost immediately loses all her lives to a ''stage hazard'' (namely, the springs). The following match (on the Miiverse stage) is noticeably marred by the use of items (notably a combination of the clock and the ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' ship). The final match has no items, and is played on [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Bridge of Eldin's]] Omega Form.[[note]]That is, completely flat.[[/note]] ''Then'', [[spoiler:when Two Faced loses, he sets up ''another'' match (with himself -- as Pit -- fighting Vlinny) that endangers Vlinny yet again. Vlinny still makes it out alive, though.]]
* OddballInTheSeries: Despite being grouped with the Survivor Edition episodes, Episode 55 features no islander removals and the episode's poll is merely a popularity contest.
* OddNameOut: The "Four Jabronis" band has four members: Vinesauce, Vlinny, [[spoiler:Vineschnoz]], and... Sponge. Doubles as TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers, as Sponge isn't either Vinny's Mii or a clone of him like the rest.
* OverlyLongGag:
** In Episode 1, Vinny tries to give Wario the personality of a jerk (something that isn't really possible, as bad behavior from islanders is random). He fails at it several times, though the SB Edit cuts most of it out.
** The ''Collection'' corruptions have a bit where all anyone says during Quirky Questions is "Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn," often followed by long strings of gibberish. It truly hits its apex when the first session ends, as Sponge just goes on and ''on'' with it, amusing Vinny to no end.
** In Episode 53, Witch has a fight with Satan. Vinny tries to calm her down with almost every gift he has (including Southbird's mascot in the SB Edit), with each one failing until he tries a music box. It then happens ''again'' with Groose, although not as much.
** Vinny's Pretzel voice. It may be slightly annoying, but he keeps it going for ''so long'' to make it hilarious, and it just keeps coming back.
* OverusedCopycatCharacter:
** There are five characters based on Vinny: Vinesauce[[note]]Vinny's own Mii[[/note]], Vlinny[[note]]Vinesauce's allegedly evil clone[[/note]], Vineschnoz[[note]]a Vinesauce doppelganger from the corrupted island[[/note]], Vuntt Sk'dilda[[note]]the owner of the onscreen hands and the one who informs the islanders if anything gets stuck to their clothes[[/note]], and [=BootlegVin=][[note]]a Vinesauce knockoff from Southbird's European and Japanese islands as well as the Totally Normal Island and fluent speaker of at least six languages[[/note]].
** In addition to the two Bootleg Mario Bros. most viewers are familiar with, we have mentions of (but not appearances by) Grunge, Schnitzel ({{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Bootleg Mario Bros.), Poptart, and Popcorn. Taking into consideration characters from elsewhere on Vinesauce, we have Nario, a Mario knockoff from a bad fan game Vinny played, Qario, who was created by Joel in ''Mario Paint'' and works as a used-car salesman instead of a plumber, and Grand Dad, an OffModel Mario sprite Joel discovered in a bootleg game.
* OverusedRunningGag: In Episode 16, several islanders ask Vinny to look inside their stomachs. Vinny comments on how tiring this got.
* ParanoiaFuel: In-universe, Gaben spontaneously states that "They're watching us" on the Totally Normal Island, not stating who "they" are.
* {{Portmanteau}}:
** Vinny thinks Cling On's voice is horrible. Southbird thinks it's adorable. The latter suggests they compromise and call it "adhorrible".
** Vinny comes up with the name "[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Vinefeld]]" for café conversations, due to their random nature.
* PreviouslyOn: The SB Edits of the ''Survivor Edition'' episodes begin with clips of the previous episode.
* RealTrailerFakeMovie: Southbird made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGzp41rKcp8 one]] ('''extreme''' spoiler warning) for [[spoiler:the "Jahnpocalypse" that would happen in Episode 50]]. It consists mainly of clips from prior episodes and fanart, put to music and including some new voice clips. The "fake movie" part comes from [[spoiler:the "Jahnopocalypse" not actually happening in the way it was expected to]].
* RecordNeedleScratch: Southbird's edit of Episode 49 briefly stops the footage and plays a record needle sound effect after he notices that [[spoiler:Tucker ''wasn't'' assimilated (as he had previously assumed), but was simply moved to another apartment]].
* RecurringRiff: Music/KevinMacLeod's "Exciting Trailer" is Southbird's pseudo-theme song for ''Survivor Edition''.
* RelaxOVision: In Episode 55's SB Edit, Cling On asks Vinny what he does when he's alone and bored. Cut to a BRB screen (an image streamers put up while they're taking a short break), then cut back to Cling On being disgusted by Vinny's unseen response.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Discussed in the ''Survivor Edition'' regarding in-game eviction, as Vinny remarks in Episode 53:
-->"It's a 50/50 chance. [[spoiler:[Two Faced is]]] probably going to die... or not. We'll see."
* RepetitiveName: Vinny intended to give his island the same name as his original ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' town, but the game ended up adding "Island" to the name, rendering it as Vine''land'' Is''land''. He didn't mind this, however.
* RunningGag: [[RunningGag/VinesauceTomodachiLife Plenty.]]
* SarcasticTitle: Southbird chose the title "The Totally Normal Visit to the Island" for the first of his two ''Tomodachi Life'' text-hacking videos, which involves randomizing and replacing the game's text and randomizing character animations.
* TheScapegoat: Vinny says [[spoiler:the Jahn invasion]] happened due to a communication error, which he blames on Darren. [[spoiler:As it turns out, one of the Jahns considers "potato" to be an insult.]]
* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:In the David Bowie special, Vinesauce fails to propose to Cling On. In a fit of confusion, Vinny decides to ''reset the game'' and try again. However, thanks to how the game works, the proposal request isn't there, though things still go better in this timeline.]]
* ScunthorpeProblem: Vinny runs into problems with the word filter when making Cling On's song "Questions": the lyric "...o'''f a g'''iant space turtle" gets caught by the profanity filter, and it takes him a while to figure out why. (He ends up changing it to "massive space turtle".)
* SelfDeprecation:
** The penultimate line of "The World's End?" is "This tomodachi shiit has got to stop".
** Vinny makes jokes at his own expense often, usually indirectly via insulting his look-alike Mii.
* SensoryAbuse: This is part of Southbird's editing style, so it shows up a few times.
** For some of the failed love confessions earlier in the series, Southbird blurs and waves the game screen around. Mainly seen in Alpaca's two confessions to Clown.
** In the condensed version of Episode 49, [[spoiler:the game screen waves around the edges and/or tints red when the Jahns are directly influencing Vinny's mind]].
* SequelHook: Vinny has stated that when/if the next sequel to ''Tomodachi Life'' is released, he will be playing it. This is reflected in the last line of the song made in Episode 55:
-->'''Vinesauce:''' "Until the sequel you all I will miss."
* SeriesFauxnale:
** Episode 50 was speculated to be the end of the series, partially because of Vinny admitting that the series had grown a bit stale and partially due to the [[spoiler:Jahn invasion plotline seemingly climaxing at the perfect point]]. Vinny stated (slightly ambiguously) that it wouldn't be the end, though the episode contains [[spoiler:the Jahns [[AntiClimax anticlimatically leaving]] and everything returning to normal, not to mention [[TheyDo Vinesauce and Cling On getting together]]]]. At the very end, Vinny states that the series would likely end later, and sure enough ''Survivor Edition'' kicked off in two months' time.
** Episode 55, while not as closed of an ending as Episode 50 as, is still a definite conclusion. However, Vinny makes it pretty clear that he'll return to the game if he ever feels like it.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/VinesauceTomodachiLife See here]].
* SoundtrackDissonance:
** In Episodes 48 and 49, [[spoiler:some of the overall uneasiness and creepiness of the Jahn invasion]] is curbed thanks to the upbeat, cheerful soundtrack that the game normally has.
** Southbird had to play some ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' music over a scene to avoid [=YouTube=] audio bots. The scene? Gaben talking on the phone about either cancelling ''Half-Life 3'' altogether or skipping to the fourth installment.
* SpoilerTitle:
** Episode 38's title is [[spoiler:"The Great Meme Purge of 2014"]], referencing a major plot point in that episode.
** Episode 46's title is [[spoiler:"The Unity of Alpaca and Walrus"]], referencing an unexpected moment from that episode.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead:
** PlayedForLaughs when Vinny states in Episode 50 that [[spoiler:the assimilated islanders, possibly excluding the recently returned Wario, were all "unfunny twats", and doesn't care that they're either dead or Jahns/Jehns. He does seem to miss Levi, however, as he states a little sadly that it leaves Hailey as the only child on the island]].
** Vinny insults [[spoiler:HOTDOG]] after he gets evicted/killed, and does it again two episodes later.
** Defied with David Bowie's Mii's "death"; since Vinny removed him as a tribute to the real David Bowie, it's played as seriously as he can. [[spoiler:Things get a little muddled when Bowie returns after a game reset, as Vinny is forced to cut his second serenade short so as to not drag the stream out any longer.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: Southbird (as well as his brother, Zydelski) provided actual voiceovers in his "Totally Normal Visit to the Island" video, rather than just using text. This was not the case for his videos for non-North American versions of the game.
* SurveillanceDrone: Vinny once commented that he thought that the in-game weddings look like a security drone was recording footage of them.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Episode 47's SB Edit begins with Vinesauce stating that [[spoiler:a lot of people think that a skeleton character used to live on the island, but that he doesn't know who that is, and that they must be thinking of HOTDOG instead]].
* TakeThat:
** Early in the series, Vinny gets the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy he's wanted for a while. He clings on to it for not even an entire episode before selling it as VendorTrash.
** Vinny feels sorry for Vlinny when he says that his Virtual Boy means the world to him, and gives him a UsefulNotes/WiiU to replace it, following this up by subtly insulting ''that'' system by saying that it's at least slightly better than the Virtual Boy.
** After Vinesauce solves a dispute, Vinny declares himself to be "like the fucking United Nations... with a better success rate."
** In Episode 54, after pondering a scenario where he'd have to burn the game cartridge and the "spirits within", Vinny refers to ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' and sarcastically calls it great. A chat member then remarks that they fell asleep while watching it in theaters, to which he responds "It was in theaters for more than a week?"
* TearJerker: InUniverse, Episode 38. [[spoiler:Walrus is abandoned by Two Faced, and the resulting montage singlehandedly changes Vinny's view of him as a character.]]
-->'''Vinny:''' "Oh, my God... this is ''gut-wrenching''."\\
'''Southbird's caption:''' "Even I'm feeling bad now :'("
* TechnologyMarchesOn: In-universe, Vinny refers to disposable cameras as "1992 technology" after Tingle claims he requires one to express himself, with the game itself containing UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS [=XLs=] and cell phones that are at least newer than what was available in the '90s, with the former having built-in cameras and the latter looking advanced enough to potentially also have one built-in.
* TerribleTrio:
** The Jahns, three identical aliens who managed to cause a lot of problems on the island, mostly nonthreatening ones. [[spoiler:By the time they're actually a threat, however, the trio has been fractured and joined by a dozen other Jahns/Jehns.]]
** A round of Judgment Bay reveals Isaac, Pinkle, and one of the Jahns to be part of a cult that worships Satan and believes handjobs to be superior to blowjobs.
** Episode 52 shows Isaac taking both Satan and [[spoiler:Little Mac]] along for a vacation. This, plus his earlier remark that he's "always looking out for the little guy" while "the big guy" takes care of himself, cause Vinny to realize that they form some sort of sinister group. [[spoiler:Isaac may have betrayed this group for Jesus in Episode 54, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder which isn't a rare thing for him]].]]
* ThereShouldBeALaw:
** Vinny responds to how weird the game is by saying it should be banned.
** In Southbird's "Metadachi Life" video, Gordon randomly comments that clowns should be legally prohibited from having sex with princesses after playing a game with Southbird.
--->'''Gordon:''' "A clown should NOT be legally allowed to fuck a princess"\\
'''Southbird:''' ''[snickers]'' "I'm sorry to hear about your clown bias."
* TimeSkip: There's always a time lapse between episodes due to the varying times Vinny streams the game, though Vinny sometimes resets the clock if it's too late at night in real life for much to happen in the game. However, nothing happens in those time periods, and the only way the skips are referenced is by the islanders mentioning approximately how long it's been since they last saw Vinny (though islanders also say this if they're simply ignored even while the game is being played). [[spoiler:However, meaningful things have happened offscreen in the time lapses starting around Episode 47, including HOTDOG's return, the Jahn's assimilation of various islanders, and Mulder and Scully stopping said assimilation]].
* TitleDrop: The condensed episodes usually take one of Vinny's lines from the stream and use it for the episode's title. Sometimes, it's taken from the game itself.
* TradeSnark: Vinny addresses Jesus as a "Prince of Forgiveness™" in Episode 43. In that episode's SB Edit, "Jabroni Outfit" gets a text-only trademark sign.
* {{Transplant}}:
** Most of the earlier Miis (except for Vinny's Mii of himself and a small amount of Miis made by fan artist [=Tev216=]) didn't originally have anything to do with Vinesauce, in contrast to most of the later Miis, which were made by Vinesauce fans specifically for the stream.
** Starting with Sponge (originally thought up during one of Vinny's ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' streams), Vinny added some of the characters he thought up in other streams. Due to how many times he's streamed ''Tomodachi Life'' compared to other games, their Miis outlasted their original streams and they tend to have a bigger presence than in their original streams, even gaining character sections for these streams before they received ones for the rest of Vinesauce.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, this is what Vinny thinks about seeing Mii heads superimposed on human bodies (which happens fairly often in ''Tomodachi Life''), as he expresses in Episode 2.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Southbird's Totally Normal Island had 9,999 problems (the maximum the game will record) solved and when when a news flash occurred because of it, Gaben, the anchorman, thought that such a feat was completely unimpressive.
-->''[The game displays the headline "9,999 Mii Problems Solved!"]''\\
'''Gaben:''' "Oh... sure. If that's what you want."
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler:While being added, Isaac crashes the game, sending Vinny back to the Home Menu. Much later, Jesus crashes ''the entire system''.]]
* {{Vaporware}}: InUniverse, ''Half-Life 3'' has been canceled too many times to count. In fact, it's Gaben's standard way of coping with sadness.
* VisualInnuendo: When playing the item-catching game with Birdo, Vinny mistakes her hands for "Birdo boobs" due to their positions.
* VotedOffTheIsland: The premise of ''Survivor Edition'' is that at least one islander gets removed per episode, with the twist being that ''viewers'' choose who gets removed instead of Vinny himself.
* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: The song "Right Em' in the Wrong Hole" (Vinesauce's solo rock and roll song) has the apostrophe in the wrong spot, on top of having an example of RougeAnglesOfSatin just before that.
* WeirdCrossover: Vinny's Mii additions are seemingly random. For example, many of the ones based on fictional characters come from completely unrelated series, often ones not even from the same medium and/or genre as each other. However, the weird additions were toned down a bit when Vinny started adding viewer-made Miis instead of copying them from [=MiiCharacters.com=], particularly because several of the later Miis are often from other games Vinny has played (such as Dheerse and Toad) or are real people Vinny is familiar with (such as Gabe Newell and Karl Pilkington).
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 28 sees Vinny attempting to add an [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Isaac]] Mii to Vineland Island... [[spoiler:only for him to crash the game, and since he forgot to save '''everything he did that day was gone'''. This was explained as a dimensional split, with Isaac becoming an instigator of chaos]].
** In Episode 37, after Vinny sets the clock back (because very few islanders were awake), [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Two Faced]] abandons Walrus, her loving boyfriend, for Donkey Kong. In the aftermath, we get an absolutely gut-wrenching flashback from Walrus, with even Vinny feeling sorry for him, and the scene ends with Vinny finally ending his long-standing rivalry with Walrus by silently giving him a sausage (one of his favorite foods) followed by giving him a new apartment to replace his jail cell]].
** The very next episode, Episode 38, ends up making a bunch of jokes from past episodes a lot less funny when [[spoiler:Vinny finally goes through with his continual threats and ends up evicting Bonzi and Dolan [[ForTheEvulz for no reason]] beyond them being [[BerserkButton memes]]]].
** In Episode 48, [[spoiler:the Jahns begin their invasion by [[KillAndReplace mysteriously evicting three islanders and replacing them with their own kind]]. However, the fact that [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Lolly]] (the only girl removed) was replaced by a ''female'' Jehn implies that ''[[AssimilationPlot they're being transformed into Jahns]]'']]. Not only that, but [[spoiler:''Vinny himself'' seems to be affected by their mind control]]!
** In Episode 49, [[spoiler:the Jahns assimilate several others, and are rather open about doing so. Meanwhile, their hold on Vinny seems to be [[SanitySlippage affecting his state of mind]], with several bouts of madness leading him to ''kill'' Wii Fit Trainer[[labelnote:*]]Well, technically, he just deletes her, but he claims to have "an urge to kill" shortly beforehand.[[/labelnote]], change the island's name to "Jahnland Island"[[labelnote:*]]Again, technically it's just the pronunciation of what is still ''written'' as "Vineland Island", due to Vinny's habit of changing the pronunciation instead of the spelling.[[/labelnote]], and almost ''delete the entire island''. He also makes several cryptic comments throughout, asking the islanders if they're afraid of "the end" and later remarking:]]
--->[[spoiler:"What do you mean, you want Reg to save me? Oh, my sweet summer child, if only you knew..."]]
** In Episode 54, [[spoiler:Two Faced, one of the very first islanders, gets eliminated]]. In addition, [[spoiler:Isaac betrays Satan (again) and teams up with Jesus to reset the island (also again), for a petty reason that suggests that Jesus is getting too egotistical for his own good]].
** The David Bowie special. To sum it up: [[spoiler:DK proves himself to be the biggest jerk on the island with him rejecting Clown Lady, Bowie gets released from the island after an extremely close vote, Vinesauce tries to propose to Cling On but fails because of a group effort between Scrumin' Birt, loco moco, and Waluigi, Vinny splits the timeline ''on his own accord'', Sponge '''gets a girlfriend''' in the form of Clown Lady, and Bowie is released again]].
* WhamLine:
** In Episode 37, Donkey Kong confesses his love to Two Faced (who's currently in a long-lasting relationship with Walrus, and who had spurned several other would-be boyfriends). Her reaction?
--->[[spoiler:"Sure!"]]\\
'''Vinny:''' [[spoiler:WHOA! ''What?'']][[labelnote:*]]The Southbird edit replays it ''four times'' in succession.[[/labelnote]]
** From Episode 49, during [[spoiler:the then-ongoing Jahn invasion]]:
--->'''Vinny:''' I have... [[spoiler:I have a strong desire to kill]]. ''[He subsequently [[spoiler:deletes Wii Fit Trainer]]]''
** Near the beginning of Episode 53, we get a line that all but reveals that [[spoiler:the Jahns are still around, and might be trying to indirectly kill the islanders in ''Survivor Edition'']]:
--->"I was inspired by [[spoiler:some guy with a blank face... two big eyes, and... a big ''line'' for a mouth. He said we should vote ''two'' off today.]]"
** The David Bowie special has a line from [[spoiler:Bowser, turning down Clown Lady's offer to go out with Donkey Kong on Donkey Kong's behalf]]:
--->'''Vinny:''' "There he is. He finally showed up this time."\\
'''[[spoiler:Bowser]]:''' "It doesn't look like [[spoiler:[=DK=] is interested in going out with you]]."\\
'''Vinny:''' ''[just realizing that [[spoiler:Bowser is there]]]'' "Wait, who is that? Is that [[spoiler:Bowser? Did he send Bowser? Donkey Kong sent Bowser! To tell her to fuck off!]] Oh my sweet God."
* WhamShot:
** During the ''Tomodachi Collection'' corruption stream, Vinny skims the apartments and finds out that [[spoiler:despite Vlinny not being present, he still has an EvilKnockoff]] on the corrupted island, introducing both him and the viewers to its resident troublemaker.
--->'''Vinny:''' "Who the fuck is [[spoiler:Vineschnoz]]?"
** Early on in Episode 47, Vinny is searching around the apartments, and casually comes across [[spoiler:HOTDOG]]. Who, if you recall, [[spoiler:was evicted '''25 episodes prior''']].
** The 50th episode begins with the news, as usual, this time covering Vinesauce's birthday. [[spoiler:Except the newscaster is someone we've never seen before (later revealed to be [[Series/TheXFiles Dana Scully]]).]] When we actually see the birthday party, Vinny points out [[spoiler:an unfamiliar islander (Jahn & Jehn)]]. Then it cuts to the islanders' thoughts, and the first one up is [[spoiler:[[Series/TheXFiles Fox Mulder]], who ''also'' had never been seen before. Following him is Wario, who was ''dead'' (or rather, assimilated) in the previous episode, yet he came back and once again said he was glad everyone remembered the birthday that was being celebrated.]] Later in Episode 50, we see [[spoiler:the return of Vineschnoz]], though that example is subverted in that [[spoiler:he did very little in later episodes]].
** Episode 54: The [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Battle Royale]] has been decided, and Vinny returns to the main menu. [[spoiler:And then moves Player 1's cursor over [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]], revealing that [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Vlinny isn't out of the frying pan yet.]]]]
--->"Oh, OH! [[spoiler:A new challenger approaches!]]"
** The David Bowie special has Clown Lady interested in telling Donkey Kong her feelings for him. [[spoiler: He doesn't show up the first time, and when she tries again, Bowser appears instead, telling her that Donkey Kong isn't interested in her at all.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Due to the way Vinny plays the game, several game mechanics and situations are either never shown or barely touched on.
** Vinny never shows interest in using the 3DS Image Share plane. The one time it has any presence is when Southbird [[StuffBlowingUp blows it up]] in one of his SB Edits (which was undone when the plane magically reassembled in the following episode).
** Vinny played "Tomodachi Quest" a few times early in the series, but he quickly comes to find it boring and annoying. From then on, he avoids it most of the time and quickly exits out when he checks it accidentally. The SB Edits cut out every single time Vinny played it.
** Vinny is a late-day streamer, so the morning events (Morning Market, Magic Show, and Flying Disc) are never seen and the afternoon events (such as the Afternoon Market and the first of the two times "Tomodachi Quest" is available each day) only appear rarely. %%I can't remember if Vinny showed off the Flying Disc game or not.
** [[invoked]] Vinny never does anything with the extensive [=StreetPass=] features of the game, which leaves two locations unused, two sections of the Rankings Board locked, and causes the entire traveler system to go undiscovered, meaning Vinny's own traveler will never get a chance to go anywhere while Vinny is unable to receive anyone else's travelers. This is a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot; Vinny has a capture card built into his 3DS to stream with it, so taking it out to [=StreetPass=] someone would be a hassle and possibly dangerous for the setup (which did end up breaking once in 2016). While Vinny does have a separate, unmodified 3DS he uses when not streaming, his ''Tomodachi Life'' [=StreetPass=] data was created on his streaming system.
** Since Vinny only used the Compatibility Tester to test romantic relationships, he never unlocks the Friendship Ranking on the Rankings Board.
** Southbird's videos of the European version of the game never show what the Rap Battles are like when the language is set to English, thus North American viewers never get to see how the British English Rap Battles differ from what's shown in Vinny's streams. We do see Rap Battles for other languages, but the English-language segments only show the Word Chain event, which originated in the Japanese version, appears alongside Rap Battles in the European version (in contrast to how the North American version cut it completely in favor of only having Rap Battles), and is considered by Southbird to have lost much of its appeal after being reworked for languages that use the Latin alphabet.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield:
** Vineland Island is part of the Risotto Isles in the Coffee Ocean. Where that is is a mystery. The corrupted island and Southbird's islands are in the same boat.
** In Episode 55, the country of Kraskatalia is mentioned. It's the homeland of the Bootleg Mario Bros. and it's... somewhere in Europe.
* WidgetSeries: The game is already very weird by itself, but the residents and the lore around them (usually supplied by Vinny) only makes it even more bizarre.
* WordSaladHumor: A number of the islanders' songs and catchphrases are barely coherent, as Vinny types in random stuff in an attempt to play with the text-to-speech generator. Usually, HilarityEnsues, particularly if the game actually pronounces it instead of spelling out the individual letters.
* WorldOfSymbolism: Downplayed -- given that much of the game consists of random events, Vinny (and particularly the viewers) try to make sense of it, forming the backbone of the series' lore.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:After Vlinny wins Episode 54's [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Battle Royale]], Vinny enters the fray (as [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]]) for ''another'' battle with zero warning, declaring that if Vlinny loses, he'll be evicted as well. Thankfully, he doesn't lose.]]
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