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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:The main gang [[note]]from left to right: Ben O'Brien, Alan Resnick, Cricket Arrison, and Robby Rackleff [[/note]] ]] |
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4 | Wham City (also known as AB Video Solutions or Wham City Comedy) is an art/comedy collective based in Baltimore. Members include Alan Resnick, Dan Deacon, Ben O'Brien, Cricket Arrison, Robby Rackleff, Dina Kelberman, and Jimmy Joe Roche. |
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6 | Their works typically feature a blend of comedy, horror and mystery, ranging from complicated AlternateRealityGame-type videos, to comedic, audience-interaction-heavy live-shows, to everything in-between. |
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8 | !!Works by Wham City or their members: |
9 | [[index]] |
10 | * ''WebVideo/AlanTutorial'' |
11 | * ''Become Your Body with Cricket Arrison'' |
12 | * ''Series/TheCryOfMann'' |
13 | ** ''The Call of Warr'' |
14 | * ''WebVideo/ElectronicGameInformation'' |
15 | * ''Fan Fiction Showdown'' |
16 | * ''Film/LiveForeverAsYouAreNowWithAlanResnick'' |
17 | * ''Film/MayIPleaseEnter'' |
18 | * ''WebVideo/{{The Mirror|WhamCity}}'' |
19 | * The "Technology" episode of ''WesternAnimation/OffTheAir'' |
20 | * ''Pervert Everything'' (in collaboration with PFFR) |
21 | * ''AudioPlay/ReverseTransmission'' |
22 | * ''Film/ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt'' |
23 | * ''Speechoclock'' |
24 | * ''Film/UneditedFootageOfABear'' |
25 | * ''Series/TheWeather'' |
26 | [[/index]] |
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28 | !! Tropes exhibited by Wham City include: |
29 | * AuthorAppeal: Robby Rackleff seems to be a fan of Creator/HPLovecraft, as the two projects he wrote, ''The Mirror'' and ''The Cry of Mann'', have plenty of references to Lovecraft's works. |
30 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Colors show up quite a bit for symbolic reasons. In ''Alantutorial'', blue was used to portray childhood and sadness, while red was used as a symbol of Alan giving up or selling out. In ''Cry Of Mann'', the color orange was used to represent the supernatural and misunderstood. |
31 | * CompanyCrossReferences: They have a tendency to reference previous works in subtle ways, such as having a Claridryl bottle, from ''Unedited Footage of a Bear'', show up in the background of ''This House Has People In It''. |
32 | * KubrickStare: Alan Resnick is fond of doing this during his roles; especially noteworthy when he plays [[MadArtist the sculptor]] in ''Film/ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt'' or the cowboy in ''Film/MayIPleaseEnter'' |
33 | * SelfDeprecation: From their website: |
34 | --> ''We are doing very, very badly. We thought comedy would save us, but oh god we fucked up so so bad. We suck and we hate ourselves.'' |
35 | * SurrealHorror: They're ''very'' fond of this, from ''WebVideo/{{The Mirror|WhamCity}}'' tackling sci-fi Lovecraftian cult horror, to ''Film/UneditedFootageOfABear'''s surreal and terrifying take on [[DrugsAreBad drug abuse]], to everything in-between. |
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