Line #92 Creator/HarryPartridge


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:I dunno. Should we tell blissfuly unsuspecting [[TheChewToy Chuck]] what good ol' Harry's [[SadistShow got in store for him?]]]]
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4	Harold Andrew "Harry" Partridge (aka [=HappyHarry=], born 17 August 1985) is an English flash animator, who voice acts, writes and scores all of his animations, as well as occasionally doing collaborative works with [[WebVideo/OneyPlays Chris "Oney" O'Neill]] (of WebAnimation/LeoAndSatan fame) and WebVideo/StuartAshen. He also happens to be the son of Music/{{XTC}}'s Andy Partridge. Your stereotypical Flash cartoon, his are not!
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6	He releases his videos on his [[https://www.youtube.com/user/harrypartridge YouTube]] and [[http://happyharry.newgrounds.com/flash/ Newgrounds]] pages. Some of his older videos were once available on Website/ChannelAwesome, but they have since been removed.
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8	Not to be confused with Franchise/HarryPotter.
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10	Works by Partridge with their own pages:
11	[[index]]
12	* ''WebAnimation/DrBees''
13	* ''WebVideo/GHOSTBLEEDTheBioHorror''
14	* ''WebAnimation/SaturdayMorningWatchmen''
15	* ''WebAnimation/{{Starbarians}}''
16	[[/index]]
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19	!!The works of Harry Partridge provide examples of :
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21	* AbhorrentAdmirer: He has a fictional one in the form of ZONE-tan in his cameo at ZTV-news. While she is not unattractive by any means ([[HumanoidAbomination in her normal form at least]]), she happens to have...[[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes certain off-putting urges]] that scare him off.
22	* AbusiveAdvertising: One video had him proclaim "Follow me on Twitter, or I'll do ''terrible things'' to this cockney orphan!" He may be animated, but the pain will be more than real...
23	* AffectionateParody: Almost all of his cartoons are parodies, if not, direct homages to, stereotypical Saturday morning cartoons of the '80s and '90s.
24	* AnimationBump: His cartoons were already pretty good-looking, but in recent videos, he's called on other animators to do more in-betweens and shading, allowing for some incredibly fluid and detailed animation.
25	* ApprovalOfGod:
26	** ''Saturday Morning ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is well-received by both of the creators of the source material; Dave Gibbons loved it and Creator/AlanMoore said that it was the only adaptation of his works that he approves of (well, except for the ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'' episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'').
27	** Music/JustinBieber himself uses the [[https://twitter.com/HappyHarryToons/status/15493966166233088 ''It's the Justin Bieber show!'' jingle in his concerts.]]
28	* AreYouThinkingWhatIAmThinking:
29	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEq_Fz3bBO8 "Michael The Terrible Boyfriend"]]. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike In all likelihood]], you're not.
30	** Hal the Misinterpretive Porn Star.
31	* AuthorAppeal:
32	** Has two videos dedicated to [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]] found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eGtyqz4gY here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsqiSknjHK8 here]]. Both have [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale over ten million]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic views]].
33	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvz9jLqSzX8 Harry states]] that the reason why Chris-chan and Sonichu keep showing up in his work is because he's personally obsessed with the comic and all the drama surrounding its creator.
34	* AxCrazy: Michael the Terrible Boyfriend. He wants to sneak into his girlfriend's bedroom without her parents catching on. He sees an opportunity to pose as a pizza guy, so [[spoiler:he decides to crash into his girlfriend's bedroom on the back of a man-eating [[TerrorDactyl pterodactyl]], which rips his girlfriend to shreds, all the while he's watching with murderous glee.]]
35	* BadBadActing: Does a lot of this in his live action scenes for Webvideo/GHOSTBLEEDTheBioHorror.
36	* BavarianFireDrill: Stephen the Lesbian combines this with InsaneTrollLogic, convincing the lesbians to do as he says despite him obviously being a cis straight man.
37	* BizarreAlienReproduction: Lampshaded in "[[Film/{{Avatar}} Hot Na'vi Sex]]" with the Na'vi's use of connecting their ponytails for use in mating. Males apparently also have a "soup drinker" in place of where we would expect to find a penis, and females have a secondary pair of lips between their legs that they use to play musical instruments.
38	* BlackComedy: Often in the vein of BloodyHilarious.
39	* TheBlank: A Victorian-looking gentleman in ''The Justin Bieber Show''.
40	-->They took my ''face''!
41	* BlatantLies:
42	** His Platform/YouTube channel description reads "Good clean cartoon hijinks from the lovable Harry Partridge." [[BlackComedy Haha, no]].
43	** His description for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTbFN0EsDM Stephen the Lesbian]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext cartoon]]:
44	--->''An educational documentary about lesbians.''
45	* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs in his cartoon about ''Platform/GoAnimate'', where he demonstrate the superiority of actual animation over drag-and-drops programs like ''Go Animate!'' by turning his left arm into a self-conscious gay lobster who's excited about the next ''Film/CaptainAmerica'' film.
46	* BornInTheWrongCentury: Trilby Dogtooth, a modern day monster hunter in an era where pretty much all of the monsters worth fighting are extinct.
47	* BoyMeetsGhoul: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAYf9YJSKXc With Animation You Can!]]":
48	-->'''Harry:''' VAMPIRE T-REX, VAMPIRE T-REX, he's my best friend forever, now let's go have sex!
49	-->cue OhCrap face from Vampire T-Rex
50	* BuffySpeak: Animatery, Film-Makery Stuffery (Subtitle: [[BlatantLies Actual Technical Terms]])
51	* ButterFace: Foster's wife from ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution: Hiding in Plain Sight'' is introduced with the MaleGaze but is quickly shown to have Agent 47's face ([[RuleOfFunny like everything else]]). [[spoiler: Double subverted when the failed assassination attempt reveals that Foster was the real Agent 47 in disguise.]]
52	* CarryingACake: Subverted at the last second. [[spoiler: The cake is unscathed. The guy who was about to fall into it, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice not so much.]]]]
53	* CreepyChild: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvFS3U1KO9w Jimmy Tickles]], who laughs maniacally as he watches a death row inmate being electrocuted.
54	* CurbStompBattle: The butch lesbian in "Stephen the Lesbian" has to fight in an arena against a dark phantom beast... which kills her in a single hit.
55	* {{Defictionalisation}}: In a video advertising merchandise for his cartoons, Harry talks about Stephen the Lesbian, Gentlemen Clam, and Black Guy with the Brain of a White Guy, among others, then talked about merchandise for his real cartoons. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTbFN0EsDM Then came the Stephen the Lesbian cartoon.]]
56	* EntendreFailure: The whole point of "Hal the Misinterpretive Porn Star", who keeps taking the comments from his co-stars as literally as possible. He's not really clueless though, more of a jerkass LiteralGenie.
57	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqHUa2LfNY "Barrrlaaaaa!"]]
58	* EvilLaugh: Jimmy Tickles, denying DeathRow inmates their [[PrisonersLastMeal last meals]], then laughing as they're executed.
59	* FakeAmerican: Partridge is British, but he voices most of his characters with an American accent.
60	* FakeUltimateHero: Trilby Dogtooth is a downplayed example: he's actually a pretty competent monster-hunter, but the "monsters" he fights are more like minor neighborhood nuisances. Despite this, he has a very high opinion of how well he'd do if he fought a more dangerous one.
61	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms:
62	** Parodied. Bo-Starr's "Stun Ray" ''[[LudicrousGibs blows off Grassman's entire upper half]]'' because Bo-Starr forgot to actually set it to stun.
63	** Played for laughs with the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' [[WebAnimation/SaturdayMorningWatchmen parody]], in keeping with the SaturdayMorningCartoon tropes it's laden with.
64	* ForceFeeding: Hal forces on of his unfortunate co-stars to consume endless amounts of meat to keep her from going cannibal [[EntendreFailure after she says she is 'always hungry for meat']].
65	* {{Foreshadowing}}
66	** In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhAzIVC9iw Chuck's New Tux]]'', Chuck says he looks sharp in his new tux. [[spoiler: He ends up impaled on a pointy metal fence at the end of the video]].
67	** In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYRfpaBwnc Hitman Absolution: Hiding in Plain Sight]]'', Foster walks past a mirror, and like everything else, his reflection appears to be Agent 47. [[spoiler: After surviving an assassination attempt, he retaliates and reveals himself to have been the real 47 all along.]]
68	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: The Dragonborn does this to a nerd in "Song of Skyrim", telling him to stop [[{{Wangst}} Wangsting]] about his crappy life when [[MundaneMadeAwesome he could be playing]] ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''!
69	* {{GIRL}}: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMRSRyYZtuk Back to Tamriel]]", which is about VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline:
70	-->'''Harry:''' You're a chick in real life, right?\
71	'''Elf Mademoiselle:''' ''([[VocalDissonance in an obviously male voice]])'' Yes.
72	* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Trilby Dogtooth's comic art depicts him as about ten times more muscular than he actually is.
73	* HotterAndSexier: Played for laughs in "Nicolas Cage Wants Chocolate Cake". Tea Leoni is a beautiful woman, but most people probably don't remember her looking like a super-busty swimsuit model in ''Film/TheFamilyMan''...
74	* HulkingOut: '''''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOUjJbhdOZA THREE DEE!]]"'''''
75	* HypocriticalHumor: Stephen The Lesbian's first decree as King of the Lesbians:
76	--> '''Stephen:''' "I shall bang each and every one of you! ...except the ones that look like dudes, 'cause that's ''totally gay!''"
77	* IdenticalStranger: ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution: Hiding in Plain Sight'' has [[spoiler: Foster's wife apparently revealed as this, having been killed by the real Agent 47, who was actually disguised as Foster himself.]]
78	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:In "Chuck's New Tux", it seems like Chuck is gonna land head first into a wedding cake, which will ruin his new tux. Instead he gets impaled on a metal spiked fence. Ironically, his tux is still ruined.]]
79	* IncestuousCasting: Harry's sister Holly played one of the porn stars in 'Hal the Misinterpretive Porn Star'. Harry himself played Hal.
80	* InformedAbility: Trilby Dogtooth claims that he is "the greatest monster-killer to ever live... born 100 years too late", but the only monsters he ever really faces are PeeveGoblins with {{Weaksauce Weakness}}es, the more impressive and dangerous monsters having been driven to extinction by his historical predecessors.
81	* InsaneTrollLogic: Of course, this would imply that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTbFN0EsDM "Stephen the Lesbian"]] runs off of ''any'' kind of logic.
82	* LargeHam: Many characters in his shorts are hammy, but the hammiest of all so far is Dr. Bees.
83	* LiteralGenie: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXsvVQe34k8 Hal the Misinterpretive Porn Star]] seeks to invoke this in every scene he does. For instance, if a porn starlett were to proclaim that she "can never get enough man meat", he'll tie her down and force feed her until she throws up.
84	* MagicFloppyDisk: Apparently, all of ''Skyrim'' can fit on a single floppy. A ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#5+1.E2.81.844-inch_floppy_disk_.28.22Minifloppy.22.29 5.25]]'' floppy, at that...
85	* ManOfAThousandVoices: He does the voice work for the majority of the characters in his shorts.
86	* MeaningfulName:
87	** Hal The Misinterpretive Porn Star
88	** Michael The Terrible Boyfriend
89	* MindScrew:
90	** The entirety of "Hitman Absolution: Hiding in Plain Sight". Agent 47 goes into a police station. A cop notices him, and thinks he recognizes him.. as Foster. After the other cop leaves, Agent 47 is seen in a rather large donut. When Foster goes home, he walks past his two dogs with Agent 47's face, gives his hat to his son with Agent 47's face, playing with a girl with Agent 47's face, as Agent 47 is on the Television, and while Agent 47's head is seen on a fish. He goes into the kitchen to see his wife, who has Agent 47's Face. Agent 47's face is seen on a chicken that is pulled out the oven, while Foster kisses his wife, Agent 47. When Foster goes to bed, the wife, Agent 47, kills him. But Foster survives and kills Agent 47.. only to turn out to be Agent 47.
91	** ''The Justin Bieber Show''. What does it MEAN?!?
92	** "Stephen The Lesbian". The only thing that makes sense is the titular Stephen is obviously not a lesbian.
93	* MoodWhiplash: Harry's cartoon's are known for going from lighthearted fun to absolutely terrifying in the blink of an eye.
94	* NightmareFace: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3GzMPzGa1Y But the pain will be more than real...]]''
95	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Justin Bieber, in ''The Justin Bieber Show''. His roommates range from a mildly disturbing, human-sized talking raven wearing a coat and hat (which is not drawn like a FunnyAnimal), to a crazed woman holding a dead baby that she doesn't quite realize is dead, and a [[BodyHorror guy with]] ''[[BodyHorror a beehive growing out of his face]]''.
96	-->'''Justin:''' Oh, you guys!
97	* NonHumanUndead: Vampire T-Rex in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAYf9YJSKXc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUir4goG7LBQCh5rc3frkHuA With Animation You Can!]]" as an example of the crazy shit ''you'' can make with animation.
98	* OnlySaneMan: The only remotely normal roommate in ''The Justin Bieber Show'' is the Victorian Raven. Yeah, it's weird, but considering the fact that Justin shares his house with a demanding Termite King, a homeless man washing a hole into his arm, a man with a beehive in his face, a man with ''no face whatsoever'' and a woman in denial about her dead baby, and all the Raven said was "Please tell us, Justin!", it's easy to deduce that the Raven is the most "normal" resident.
99	* ThePowerOfRock: Mordin's plan for defeating the Reapers in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqHUa2LfNY cartoon debut trailer.]]
100	* RagingStiffie: Look close (or don't) at the end of ''Skyrim''... a rather literal example of {{Nerdgasm}}.
101	** Repeated and with additional players in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPfo-VMSEE collaboration]] with Music/DanBull to celebrate the re-launch of ''Skyrim Special Edition''.
102	* RefugeInAudacity: Stephen the Lesbian goes to a lesbian bar and starts doing things so outrageous that nobody even has the nerve to question his authority.
103	* SelfDeprecation: Some of his vids, but they usually make things funnier.
104	** On Creator/NicolasCage Wants Cake: "I promise I will never make anything this retarded ever again."
105	** Through this exchange:
106	--->'''Announcer''': Do you like the Web Cartoons of Harry Partridge?
107	--->'''Nerd''': Well actually I prefer Creator/{{Egorapt\|or}}-
108	--->'''Announcer''': Then you'll love...
109	** He portrayed himself as a lazy ManChild in a 2016 announcement cartoon.
110	** The Starbarians April Fools episode, he makes fun of himself for how high his artistic standards are, and how that's caused his output to drop over time.
111	* ScheduleSlip:
112	** Acknowledged in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpb1q2fmpag&feature=c4-overview&list=UUir4goG7LBQCh5rc3frkHuA intro video]] for the first part of the second ''Starbarians'' episode (the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3873765523&feature=iv&src_vid=gpb1q2fmpag&v=Jwl0IByq1ME actual video]] being hosted on the [=HuHa=]! channel):
113	-->'''Emaciated, Starving Fan:''' So...hungry...
114	** ''"STARBARIANS - EPISODE III...COMING EVENTUALLY"''
115	* StrongFamilyResemblance: Animated Harry's parents, as seen in the ''Skyrim'' video.
116	* SubvertedKidsShow: Seems to be a favorite trope of his.
117	** Examples include ''Bo Starr'', a ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]]'' parody, and ''Chuck's New Tux'', a bit of wacky SaturdayMorningCartoon hi-jinks that ends in {{Gorn}}, and ''Mass Effect''.
118	** Inverted with ''WebAnimation/SaturdayMorningWatchmen'' and ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls Adventures with the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Dovahkids]]'', which take already bleak works and turn them into lighthearted kid's shows.
119	* SuperPersistentPredator: Taken to extremes in "[=BearShark=]" as per RuleOfFunny.
120	* SurrealHorror: ''The Justin Beiber Show''. And often coupled with SurrealHumor.
121	* TakeThat:
122	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Pjgs9I9Ns This video]] takes a major jab at "animation" programs like Platform/GoAnimate that use canned animations and text to speech functions to create "animations" easily.
123	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-delgGVmw This cartoon]] takes jabs at Music/{{Oasis}} for trying to sound like Music/TheBeatles. It also takes jabs at other bands who have tried to imitate the Beatles, including Music/{{XTC}} [[note]] Harry's father, Andy Partridge, was the lead singer and guitarist for XTC[[/note]]
124	** He's also amongst many of those mocking a certain [[{{Webcomic/Sonichu}} Christine Weston Chandler]], having the womanchild appear in several of his animations.
125	** Subverted in ''The Justin Bieber Show'', which--despite focusing on [[Music/JustinBieber one of the most hated cultural figures at the time]]--has essentially nothing to say about Bieber himself, other than the implication that he has no problem living with some seriously ''weird'' roommates.
126	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VViTfSmpYtI Johnny Depp in Burtonland]]" is a straight example against Creator/TimBurton. Tim Burton is the Mad Hatter in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', and Creator/JohnnyDepp gets lost in Burton's kingdom, suffers deja vu about his previous roles in Burton's films, and has to traverse a variety of obstacles and avenge Creator/MichaelKeaton's "cinematic death" post-1992.[[note]]This ignores of course that Johnny Depp in fact loves working with Burton time and again.[[/note]]
127	-->'''Pumpkinhead Kid:''' Mr. Depp! Welcome to your home... ''forever''...
128	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAYf9YJSKXc With Animation You Can]] contains one directed towards WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}, calling it "totally bland."
129	* {{Troll}}: Hal the Misinterpretive Porn-Star. Because the end of the animation implies he knew exactly what his female co-stars were saying.
130	* TropeName: ''Skyrim'' has Harry wearing a blue shirt with the text "POP CULTURE REFERENCE". ''Back to Tamriel'' shows that his years of adventuring have caused the shirt to become tattered with several holes. Fitting the theme of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPfo-VMSEE Return to Skyrim]]'', his younger self from the original ''Skyrim'' has undamaged clothes when he's restored to help Dan Bull explore the Nordic homeland once more.
131	* UnfortunateName: A lesbian bar called "The Big Dyke". There's even a giant billboard right next to the building attempting to explain it:
132	-->'''Billboard''': "Dyke", as in a natural or artificial embankment which regulates water levels. -The Management
133	* TheUnreveal: In ''The Justin Bieber Show'', nobody finds out ''who Justin saw at the mall''.
134	* VisualPun: Harry's 2014 update videos is FULL of these.
135	* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Before Chuck dies after getting impaled, he pukes out ''his insides''.]]
136	* WeaksauceWeakness: The weakness of the Snapperchap faced by Trilby Dogtooth? Sugar. So much as a handful of gumballs will make its teeth so fragile that they shatter from a single bite.
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