History WesternAnimation / TheShiveringTruth

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A comedic and extremely weird example in "The Diff" when a geek is split in half vertically, one half being a macho alpha while the other retains his original meek demeanor, and the two go on to live their own lives. Both utterly paranoid that the other half is having a better life. They eventually find peace within Eban's cross-eyed gaze, that makes it look like they're together again in his vision.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: A woman trying to give a homeless woman a sandwich gets sent to Hell because it had mayo on it. Thankfully the woman is able to [[OutGambitted out-gambit]] the demon and gets out live.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: A woman trying to give a homeless woman a sandwich gets sent to Hell because it had mayo on it.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A comedic and extremely weird example in "The Diff" when a geek is split in half vertically, one half being a macho alpha while the other retains his original meek demeanor, and the two go on to live their own lives.

** The second story in "Beast of Both Worlds" has a husband and wife's marriage being plagued by a machine that tells them whether or not they have true love for one another. In the end, rather than trying to force true love out of each other, they break the machine and lovingly embrace.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In "Constadeath," Benny rejects the reincarnation contract offered to him in the face of his impending death and, poetically, gets to keep on living and puts the soul of the executed African slave from the intro to rest.

* ForWantOfANail: {{Parodied}} in the pilot, in which a mad scientist uses the flap of a butterfly wing to make himself into a basically omnipotent god.

* AbnormalAmmo: After the cut on his arm comes to life, Benny Beekoh gains the ability to fire chilli out of his nipples to lethal effect. [[ARareSentence Yes,]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext indeed.]]

* MentalAffair: An army private makes mental contact with his drill sergeant and manipulates him into a make out session where he mistreats him.
* MindScrew: Basically the entire show..
* MoodWhiplash: The pilot episode is far from the balls-to-the-wall horror insanity that are the episodes that follow it, but even in its own weird flux state of weirdness, its ending is surprisingly poignant. The culmination of the final skit is a confusingly heartwarming story of true love accompanied by a crescendoing orchestra. It's almost a TearJerker.
-> '''Narrator:''' The true nature of the universe ''is'' chaos, and is beautiful, and must never be defiled again.

* {{Irony}}: The mad scientist is unable to manipulate the flap of a butterfly's wing to find true love, but the Butterfly Man (a hollowed-out corpse filled with butterflies) he creates for the butterflies to infiltrate Bali ([[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext stay with us here]]) finds true love with a woman [[spoiler:who also turns out to be a hollowed-out corpse, filled with bees]]. The episode ends with the "[[SpoofAesop moral]]" that "the true nature of the Universe is chaos, and is beautiful, and must never be defiled again."

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* ShoutOut: The mask seen at the beginning and end of each episode resembles a mask from [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E145TheMasks the titular episode]] of ''Series/TheTwilightZone''.

* {{Irony}}: The mad scientist is unable to manipulate the flap of a butterfly's wing to find true love, but the Butterfly Man (a hollowed-out corpse filled with butterflies) he creates for the butterflies to infiltrate Bali ([[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext stay with me here]]) finds true love with a woman [[spoiler:who also turns out to be a hollowed-out corpse, filled with bees]]. The episode ends with the "[[SpoofAesop moral]]" that "the true nature of the Universe is chaos, and is beautiful, and must never be defiled again."

* AnimalNemesis: The entire country of Bali has a culture built on the suffering of butterflies, who retaliate by using their chaos manipulating wingflaps to raze the country with hurricanes.

* MindScrew: Basically the entire show.

* PlagueOfGoodFortune: A man attempts to commit suicide, but a series of fortunate coincidences keeps him alive. It escalates to the point where the government personally requests him to continue his suicide attempts due to all the good it causes.

* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: A man attempts to commit suicide, but a series of fortunate coincidences keeps him alive. It escalates to the point where the government personally requests him to continue his suicide attempts due to all the good it causes.

* {{Irony}}: The mad scientist is unable to manipulate the flap of a butterfly's wing to find true love, but the Butterfly Man (a hollowed-out corpse filled with butterflies) he creates for the butterflies to infiltrate Bali ([[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext stay with me here]]) finds true love with a woman [[spoiler:who also turns out to be a hollowed-out corpse, filled with bees]]. The episode ends with the "[[FantasticAesop moral]]" that "the true nature of the Universe is chaos, and is beautiful, and must never be defiled again."

'''The Shivering Truth''' is a 2018 stop-motion horror/comedy anthology created for Creator/AdultSwim by PFFR, the same production company behind ''Series/TheHeartSheHoller'' and ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel''.

* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: A man attempts to commit suicide, but a series of fortunate coincidences keeps him alive.

* WhyWontYouDie: A suicide hotline worker tells the story of a man who begins writing a suicide note to end all suicide notes. This eventually gains the attention of the media and the man becomes an overnight sensation. Once the letter is finally written, he holds off on finally doing the deed until the reviews come in. While the note is a success, it becomes yet another book on the shelf and fans turn on him because he never fulfilled the promise of killing himself. In retaliation, the man wills himself to never die.