Line #24 Creator/WongFuProductions


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:If at the end of the day there's someone out there who has a better day because of us, then we've succeeded.]]
3	->''"It's the end of the week! A Wong Fu week! It's Wong Fu Weekends!"''
4	-->-- a line Phil goofily sings as an intro to their "Wong Fu Weekend" Website/{{Youtube}} video shorts.
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6	During their years at the University of California San Diego, budding Chinese-American filmmaker friends Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, and Philip Wang, collaborated and produced a number of music videos and short films, along with input and support from their friends.
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8	Eventually their skillful videos got picked up and were featured in a number of national and international film festivals, including the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.
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10	This landed them professional careers in the filmmaking business, as they made official music videos for established musicians, commercials for well-known companies, and video collaborations with other filmmakers. Soon this gave them opportunity to put up their media company, Wong Fu Productions.
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12	Composed of mainly Chinese-Americans along with others of different Asian heritage, Wong Fu Productions gained Website/{{Youtube}} celebrity status over the years 2008 and on. This was mainly due to their consistent high quality, well thought out, and entertaining Youtube videos. Their subjects vary from video to video, such as love, friendship, East and West culture, and many more. Wong Fu Productions' style is known to be very wholesome and ideal for all ages to watch, unlike other Website/{{Youtube}} channels that are more suited to mature viewers.
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14	Part of Wong Fu Productions' success might be because the cast and crew are full of attractive Asian-Americans.
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16	One of their most popular videos is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC_ycDO66bw Yellow Fever]]", a comedic look at the MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow trope. It was uploaded on a friend's channel and garnered two million views. The most viewed video on their official Youtube channel however is the short film "[[http://youtu.be/tSdELZxEnHY Strangers, Again]]".
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18	Collaborated with [[Creator/{{Nigahiga}} Ryan Higa]] on "Agents of Secret Stuff". Tropes pertaining to "[[FunWithAcronyms ASS]]" should be placed in the appropriate area on the Ryan Higa page.
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21	!!Examples:
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23	* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[InvokedTrope invoked]] in ''Kung-Fooled''.
24	* AsianAndNerdy: Once in a while, you'll spot one or more in a couple of their short films and skits, even occasionally applying to RealLife with the cast and crew.
25	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC6VwJx9odo The End of Wong Fu]]'', Phil wished that Wong Fu Productions never existed and he got to experience the not so distant future where Wong Fu Productions had disbanded and Phil, Ted and Wes had gone their separate ways.
26	* BigNo: Phil yelled this out when [[spoiler: Ted died in his arms]] in ''The End of Wong Fu''.
27	* BilingualBonus: Sometimes Wong Fu skits have spoken languages other than English, ranging from just a few words or phrases to whole dialogues in Chinese, Korean or Spanish. Or, you could say some skits went SuddenlyBilingual.
28	* CrossOver: They are known to do this quite a lot with their friends and fellow Website/YouTube celebs Creator/{{Nigahiga}}, WebVideo/KevJumba, Creator/FreddieWong, and occasionally or once with WebVideo/{{Smosh}}, WebVideo/CommunityChannel, and Creator/{{DeStorm}}, to name a few.
29	* DoggedNiceGuy: Their older videos frequently played this trope straight, with their protagonists often getting rejected by the women that they’re interested in due to the AllGirlsWantBadBoys trope. They eventually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] this with their video series [[https://youtu.be/yU58jrx4pXs “Just Another Nice Guy”]], where they explore the EntitledToHaveYou mindset that this trope often inspires.
30	* FreudianTrio: TheSuperego Wes is a perfectionist almost all the time, whether the situation calls for seriousness or fun, TheId Phil is the most energetic (at times hyper) and outspoken, and TheEgo Ted is the calm, nonchalant wise cracker.
31	* GambitPileup:
32	** EVERYONE is trying to cheat each other in ''Kung-Fooled''.
33	** ''Everyone'' is "secretly" trying to get together with Cathy in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtSlGQFFlAU The Screen Test]]''.
34	* HereWeGoAgain: The ending of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1L9-YALU6s She Has A Boyfriend]]'' after [[spoiler: Frank is walking away with his girlfriend]], the two cupcake workers moan how another girl that they were interested in already had a boyfriend, similar to what Frank was doing in the beginning.
35	* HeterosexualLifePartners: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJVt8kUAm9Q Bromance]]'' is all about this.
36	* HilariousOuttakes: Blooper reels are actively uploaded on WFP's Youtube and website.
37	* HopelessSuitor: Frank in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1L9-YALU6s She Has A Boyfriend]]'' has a montage of this where all the girls he was interested in already had a boyfriend by the time he met them.
38	* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow:
39	** The focus of "Yellow Fever."
40	** GenderInverted in ''Home is Where the Hans Are" when the main character's white mother marries an Asian man. Played straight with the lead and his [[FlirtyStepSiblings Asian step-sister]]. The younger brother also name-checks several films that involve this pairing.
41	* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: The couple in ''Two Weeks Later: Resolution Fails'' start yelling about how they hate each other when both of them mess up cooking something.
42	* MonochromeCasting:
43	** Parodied in the "Saved by the Bell Remake", where they stated all the characters would be recasted with asian actors... Except for Lisa, because ''nobody messes up with the african-american community''.
44	** Subverted otherwise, since most of the recurring cast are of asian-heritage, with few ocassional non-asians as guest stars.
45	* NewYearsResolution: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sZQP36bt4 Two Weeks Later: Resolution Fails]]'' mocks this trope and shows how each resolution fails spectacularly.
46	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Phil's character in ''Hugger''. His attempts to hug one person who HatesBeingTouched are hilarious.
47	* PlotAllergy: The short skit ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUSWXzHi0GE The Allergy]]'' is a hilarious take on this.
48	* PutOnABus: During the 2014 "Offline" series, Ted leaves the Wong Fu offices to look for other Awkward Animals. [[TheBusCameBack He returns]] [[BackForTheFinale in episode 10]].
49	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The [[http://areyouaniceguy.com/collections/awkward-animal Awkward Animals]] in the official Wong Fu Store.
50	* ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler:Invoked]] in ''Kung-Fooled''.
51	* SilverFox: Ted stopped dying his hair, resulting in his new grey look.
52	* ShoutOut:
53	** In ''The End of Wong Fu: A Christmas Story'', Phil is seen by Cathy, leading to this conversation that shout-outs one of their earlier vidoes ''Stranger, Again''.
54	---> '''Cathy''': "Who's that?"\
55	'''Wes''': "Just a stranger."\
56	'''Cathy''': "Again?"
57	** In ''Kung Fooled'', the two fake sensei mentioned are [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku-san]] and [[Franchise/PowerRangers Zordon]].
58	* {{Squee}}: Wes and Ted act like this over the discovery of a little baby possum in their office.
59	* TokenMinority: Cleverly inverted in the mini-series ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZkfwDFKOc Home is Where the Hans Are]]''.
60	* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC6VwJx9odo The End of Wong Fu]]'', Ted borrowed money from the mob, leading them to hunt him down and [[spoiler: shoot him dead]] when he was unable to pay off his debts.
61	* WhiteMaleLead: Most of their films have Asian leads. However, ''Home is Where the Hans Are'' has a white male lead. Interestingly, Wong Fu has said that this was the show they'd make if they were interested in making something for regular TV.
62	* WhatTheHellHero: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krNO3yFoMWM Ted's Best Man Friend]], Wes delivers one to Ted when he discovers [[spoiler:Ted had been manipulating them into being nice to him with the excuse of picking a Best Man. Ted only broke the news when the passive-aggresive war between Wes and Phil went out of control]].
63	-->'''Wes''': [[PrecisionFStrike What the f*]], Ted?

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