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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* TearJerker: There's a surprisingly somber, dramatic scene in "Tornado" where two workers are forced to press the button that'll launch a nuke, intended to destroy a tornado. They ''know'' it'll kill a lot of people, and neither of them ''want'' to do it, but it's their job. The caller begs that neither of them do it, while a nearly-crying Cricket insists they have to.
* UncannyValley: With the way the callers manifest as a hand-drawn, googly-eyed face added to a stock photo and the Wham City members have their faces digitally-imposed over other stock photo characters, it can look quite unnatural and a bit creepy, though knowing Wham City, this may have been an IntendedAudienceReaction. One specific moment of note is when Cricket plays a dog in "Thunderstorm"- between the general freakiness of a human face on an animal's body, she spent the entire skit grinning wildly, which helped to creep out the audience.

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* TearJerker: There's a surprisingly somber, dramatic scene in "Tornado" where two workers are forced to press the button that'll launch a nuke, intended to destroy a tornado. They ''know'' it'll kill a lot of people, and neither of them ''want'' to do it, but it's their job. The caller begs that neither of them do it, while a nearly-crying Cricket insists they have to. \n* UncannyValley: With the way the callers manifest as a hand-drawn, googly-eyed face added to a stock photo and the Wham City members have their faces digitally-imposed over other stock photo characters, it can look quite unnatural and a bit creepy, though knowing Wham City, this may have been an IntendedAudienceReaction. One specific moment of note is when Cricket plays a dog in "Thunderstorm"- between the general freakiness of a human face on an animal's body, she spent the entire skit grinning wildly, which helped to creep out the audience.
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* UncannyValley: With the way the callers manifest as a hand-drawn, googly-eyed face added to a stock photo and the Wham City members have their faces digitally-imposed over other stock photo characters, it can look quite unnatural and a bit creepy, though knowing Wham City, this may have been an IntentionalAudienceReaction. One specific moment of note is when Cricket plays a dog in "Thunderstorm"- between the general freakiness of a human face on an animal's body, she spent the entire skit grinning wildly, which helped to creep out the audience.

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* UncannyValley: With the way the callers manifest as a hand-drawn, googly-eyed face added to a stock photo and the Wham City members have their faces digitally-imposed over other stock photo characters, it can look quite unnatural and a bit creepy, though knowing Wham City, this may have been an IntentionalAudienceReaction.IntendedAudienceReaction. One specific moment of note is when Cricket plays a dog in "Thunderstorm"- between the general freakiness of a human face on an animal's body, she spent the entire skit grinning wildly, which helped to creep out the audience.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: One caller, playing a pine-tree in "Snow", was tossed into a situation where the cast not only wanted them to talk, but to ''sing.'' And sing they did, with a ton of enthusiasm and talent to boot, taking the prompt and running with it in a very well-received skit.

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One caller, playing a pine-tree in "Snow", was tossed into a situation where the cast not only wanted them to talk, but to ''sing.'' And sing they did, with a ton of enthusiasm and talent to boot, taking the prompt and running with it in a very well-received skit.
** ''Nobody'' was expecting the events of "Slightly Too Hot", which abandoned the usual format in favor of a continuity-heavy courtroom drama episode. But ''damn'' was it awesome solely for how well they pulled it off- and how well the callers played along.
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I've realized this fits better as Black Comedy.


* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** A woman dying in a car-accident is terrifying. A woman dying in a car accident while her doctor is utterly useless and tells her only to "gain self confidence", all while the woman calls her out for being so unhelpful, is ''hilarious.''
** One skit had Cricket act as a BoundAndGagged DamselInDistress, trapped in a car's trunk. The caller was a passerby who just happened to be standing inches away from her, who could very easily reach in and untie her, but instead did nothing of help because he couldn't understand her pleas for him to do ''anything.''
** "James" the hunter came across a very talkative owl while on a walk, who insisted on telling a long story about a bathtub mishap. At the end of this story, James promptly said goodbye... and then ''blew her head off'' with his gun. The timing and cheering of the chat made the moment ''priceless''.
** Seven innocent men were brutally murdered, and the police have no leads on who might have killed them. Sounds scary, until you throw in the details of the men all being identical butlers killed in ridiculous and impossible ways, and the two cops coming to the conclusion that they're all actually clones.
** In "Snow", there's a recurring cowboy character with a talking horse, both venturing through the snow as things get colder. The last time we see them... the horse has been killed, and the cowboy, seemingly now insane, has crawled inside of its bleeding stomach for warmth, and stays there the entire time.
** Both "Thunderstorm" and "Snow" features a creepy man speaking to a child, separated only by a glass. It'd be scary, if the child-playing-callers didn't act so unfazed and cheerful when speaking to a clearly malicious Alan, even playing a game with him.
** In "Tornado":
*** The short-film "Hey Girl", where a woman enjoys herself at a guest-less bridal shower, and receives increasingly dramatic and fearful calls from her friends, who ended up kidnapped and murdered by some men they trusted to give them a ride. Instead of helping them, she just makes margaritas, decorates a cake, and takes selfies. So dark and unsettling, but so funny.
*** In a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''-themed segment, Alan is talking to a bunch of cute animals, as played by callers. Their conversations get increasingly dark, with the pig claiming to eat bacon, Alan admitting to drowning his brother while smiling all the way, and every animal getting tossed into the raging tornado in the background. All while quirky music plays, and both Alan and the callers laugh at everything being said.
*** At the end of an InterspeciesAdoption plot involving human parents and a tornado, the parents release the tornado into the wild, and cheerfully discuss how the school principal the tornado tossed out a window "just woke up", and how the mother's failed bakery isn't a big deal since everyone in the town had Celiac Disease, anyway. They then gush about how big and destructive the tornado will be.
** In "Spooky Fog":
*** Apparently, dogs go to Heaven...but remain dead. Despite being in Heaven. Their deceased owners get to go and see their dog's corpse, because only humans are alive in Heaven.
*** A prisoner is about to be executed in the electric chair...but is taking it pretty well, insists on their final words being "We live in a society", and then admit they didn't even do the crime they were going to be killed for!
*** A group of rich people start getting murdered one-by-one, supposedly by a butler. However, they also spend the whole time just speculating and bickering about who the killer is, and barely seem fazed when their friends get murdered- even admitting that Cricket's character was being annoying, anyway.
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** In "Spooky Fog":
*** Apparently, dogs go to Heaven...but remain dead. Despite being in Heaven. Their deceased owners get to go and see their dog's corpse, because only humans are alive in Heaven.
*** A prisoner is about to be executed in the electric chair...but is taking it pretty well, insists on their final words being "We live in a society", and then admit they didn't even do the crime they were going to be killed for!
*** A group of rich people start getting murdered one-by-one, supposedly by a butler. However, they also spend the whole time just speculating and bickering about who the killer is, and barely seem fazed when their friends get murdered- even admitting that Cricket's character was being annoying, anyway.
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*** At the end of an InterspeciesAdoption plot involving human parents and a tornado, the parents release the tornado into the wild, and cheerfully discuss how the school principal the tornado tossed out a window "just woke up", and how the mother's failed bakery isn't a big deal since everyone in the town had Celiac Disease, anyway.

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*** At the end of an InterspeciesAdoption plot involving human parents and a tornado, the parents release the tornado into the wild, and cheerfully discuss how the school principal the tornado tossed out a window "just woke up", and how the mother's failed bakery isn't a big deal since everyone in the town had Celiac Disease, anyway. They then gush about how big and destructive the tornado will be.

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** The short-film "Hey Girl", where a woman enjoys herself at a guest-less bridal shower, and receives increasingly dramatic and fearful calls from her friends, who ended up kidnapped and murdered by some men they trusted to give them a ride. Instead of helping them, she just makes margaritas, decorates a cake, and takes selfies. So dark and unsettling, but so funny.
** In a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''-themed segment, Alan is talking to a bunch of cute animals, as played by callers. Their conversations get increasingly dark, with the pig claiming to eat bacon, Alan admitting to drowning his brother while smiling all the way, and every animal getting tossed into the raging tornado in the background. All while quirky music plays, and both Alan and the callers laugh at everything being said.

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** In "Tornado":
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The short-film "Hey Girl", where a woman enjoys herself at a guest-less bridal shower, and receives increasingly dramatic and fearful calls from her friends, who ended up kidnapped and murdered by some men they trusted to give them a ride. Instead of helping them, she just makes margaritas, decorates a cake, and takes selfies. So dark and unsettling, but so funny.
** *** In a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''-themed segment, Alan is talking to a bunch of cute animals, as played by callers. Their conversations get increasingly dark, with the pig claiming to eat bacon, Alan admitting to drowning his brother while smiling all the way, and every animal getting tossed into the raging tornado in the background. All while quirky music plays, and both Alan and the callers laugh at everything being said.
*** At the end of an InterspeciesAdoption plot involving human parents and a tornado, the parents release the tornado into the wild, and cheerfully discuss how the school principal the tornado tossed out a window "just woke up", and how the mother's failed bakery isn't a big deal since everyone in the town had Celiac Disease, anyway.
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* TearJerker: There's a surprisingly somber, dramatic scene in "Tornado" where two workers are forced to press the button that'll launch a nuke, intended to destroy a tornado. They ''know'' it'll kill a lot of people, and neither of them ''want'' to do it, but it's their job. The caller begs that neither of them do it, while a nearly-crying Cricket insists they have to.
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** The short-film "Hey Girl", where a woman enjoys herself at a guest-less bridal shower, and receives increasingly dramatic and fearful calls from her friends, who ended up kidnapped and murdered by some men they trusted to give them a ride. Instead of helping them, she just makes margaritas, decorates a cake, and takes selfies. So dark and unsettling, but so funny.
** In a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''-themed segment, Alan is talking to a bunch of cute animals, as played by callers. Their conversations get increasingly dark, with the pig claiming to eat bacon, Alan admitting to drowning his brother while smiling all the way, and every animal getting tossed into the raging tornado in the background. All while quirky music plays, and both Alan and the callers laugh at everything being said.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: One caller, playing a pine-tree in "Snow", was tossed into a situation where the cast not only wanted them to talk, but to ''sing.'' And sing they did, with a ton of enthusiasm and talent to boot, taking the prompt and running with it in a very well-received skit.
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** In "Snow", there's a recurring cowboy character with a talking horse, both venturing through the snow as things get colder. The last time we see them... the horse has been killed, and the cowboy, seemingly now insane, has crawled inside of its bleeding stomach for warmth, and stays there the entire time.
** Both "Thunderstorm" and "Snow" features a creepy man speaking to a child, separated only by a glass. It'd be scary, if the child-playing-callers didn't act so unfazed and cheerful when speaking to a clearly malicious Alan, even playing a game with him.

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** The entire scene with "James" and the owl caller, from the caller just stealing the scene with her long story, to Ben's awkward facial expressions as she kept talking, to the owl being immediately killed at the end.
** One skit involved Robby getting massaged by a character voiced by a caller, though the person actually massaging him in the scene was Ben. With each cut-away from the caller, Ben was doing something different, from chopping him, to tussling his hair, to messing with his face, to just keeping his hands hovering over Robby's shoulders. And Robby rolled with it like a champ.
** Alan wasn't able to make it to Episode 2, but they wanted him at the end, in a scene with the other Wham City members present. What did they do? ''Photoshop a still-image of Alan'' and place it into the scene, sitting with the others, immobile and ever-conspicuous.
* UncannyValley: With the way the callers manifest as a hand-drawn, googly-eyed face added to a stock photo and the Wham City members have their faces digitally-imposed over other stock photo characters, it can look quite unnatural and a bit creepy, though knowing Wham City, this may have been an IntentionalAudienceReaction.

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** The entire scene with "James" and the owl caller, from the caller just stealing the scene with her long story, to Ben's awkward facial expressions as she kept talking, to the owl being immediately killed at the end.
** One skit involved Robby getting massaged by a character voiced by a caller, though the person actually massaging him in the scene was Ben. With each cut-away from the caller, Ben was doing something different, from chopping him, to tussling his hair, to messing with his face, to just keeping his hands hovering over Robby's shoulders. And Robby rolled with it like a champ.
** Alan wasn't able to make it to Episode 2, but they wanted him at the end, in a scene with the other Wham City members present. What did they do? ''Photoshop a still-image of Alan'' and place it into the scene, sitting with the others, immobile and ever-conspicuous.
* UncannyValley: With the way the callers manifest as a hand-drawn, googly-eyed face added to a stock photo and the Wham City members have their faces digitally-imposed over other stock photo characters, it can look quite unnatural and a bit creepy, though knowing Wham City, this may have been an IntentionalAudienceReaction. One specific moment of note is when Cricket plays a dog in "Thunderstorm"- between the general freakiness of a human face on an animal's body, she spent the entire skit grinning wildly, which helped to creep out the audience.
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** Alan wasn't able to make it to Episode 2, but they wanted him at the end, in a scene with the other Wham City members present. What did they do? ''Photoshop a still-image of Alan'' and placed it into the scene, sitting with the others, immobile and ever-conspicuous.

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** Alan wasn't able to make it to Episode 2, but they wanted him at the end, in a scene with the other Wham City members present. What did they do? ''Photoshop a still-image of Alan'' and placed place it into the scene, sitting with the others, immobile and ever-conspicuous.
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** Seven innocent men were brutally murdered, and the police have no leads on who might have killed them. Sounds scary, until you throw in the details of the men all being identical butlers killed in ridiculous and impossible ways, and the two cops coming to the conclusion that they're all actually clones.

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** Seven innocent men were brutally murdered, and the police have no leads on who might have killed them. Sounds scary, until you throw in the details of the men all being identical butlers killed in ridiculous and impossible ways, and the two cops coming to the conclusion that they're all actually clones.clones.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** The entire scene with "James" and the owl caller, from the caller just stealing the scene with her long story, to Ben's awkward facial expressions as she kept talking, to the owl being immediately killed at the end.
** One skit involved Robby getting massaged by a character voiced by a caller, though the person actually massaging him in the scene was Ben. With each cut-away from the caller, Ben was doing something different, from chopping him, to tussling his hair, to messing with his face, to just keeping his hands hovering over Robby's shoulders. And Robby rolled with it like a champ.
** Alan wasn't able to make it to Episode 2, but they wanted him at the end, in a scene with the other Wham City members present. What did they do? ''Photoshop a still-image of Alan'' and placed it into the scene, sitting with the others, immobile and ever-conspicuous.
* UncannyValley: With the way the callers manifest as a hand-drawn, googly-eyed face added to a stock photo and the Wham City members have their faces digitally-imposed over other stock photo characters, it can look quite unnatural and a bit creepy, though knowing Wham City, this may have been an IntentionalAudienceReaction.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** A woman dying in a car-accident is terrifying. A woman dying in a car accident while her doctor is utterly useless and tells her only to "gain self confidence", all while the woman calls her out for being so unhelpful, is ''hilarious.''
** One skit had Cricket act as a BoundAndGagged DamselInDistress, trapped in a car's trunk. The caller was a passerby who just happened to be standing inches away from her, who could very easily reach in and untie her, but instead did nothing of help because he couldn't understand her pleas for him to do ''anything.''
** "James" the hunter came across a very talkative owl while on a walk, who insisted on telling a long story about a bathtub mishap. At the end of this story, James promptly said goodbye... and then ''blew her head off'' with his gun. The timing and cheering of the chat made the moment ''priceless''.
** Seven innocent men were brutally murdered, and the police have no leads on who might have killed them. Sounds scary, until you throw in the details of the men all being identical butlers killed in ridiculous and impossible ways, and the two cops coming to the conclusion that they're all actually clones.

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