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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:
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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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