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7->''"The town of [[EverytownAmerica Millville]] is in danger! {{Monster|OfTheWeek}}s and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking tropers]] are [[SelfDeprecation shoehorning examples into this page!]] I, Wendy Mercier, am here to stop them!"''
8-->-- '''Wendy''', paraphrased version of the opening narration
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10''Millville Mornings'' is a 52-episode animated FantasticComedy created by Tropers/MikuruFan. Currently, this is mostly a dumping ground for my thoughts on playing with tropes.
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12'''Note''': The episode numbers on this page are outdated. There are being replaced with titles or are being moved to the recap pages.
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14!!Works:
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16!!! Games
17* DarthWiki/MillvilleMorningsASplashOfColor
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20!! Take a good long look at these examples. Mmm-hmm.
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22%%* ActionGirl
23* AdultsAreUseless: The adults who appear in this show are either perverts, villains, or too incompetent to provide anything of use to the cast.
24%%* AffectionateParody
25%%* AliensInCardiff: Episode 2.
26%%* AmusementParkOfDoom: Episode 3.
27%%* AmusingInjuries
28* AnimationBump: Suspiciously, the eroge episode has a much higher quality of animation than the rest of the show.
29* {{Animesque}}:
30** Uses some animation techniques of anime, but not a lot.
31** Episode 4, with ''Cheese-chan and Baby''.
32* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The group of people following "monsters" in the OpeningNarration for every episode is usually more favorable than them.
33* ArtShift:
34** Sometimes takes on a more modern cartoon appearance with BlackBeadEyes, ThickLineAnimation, and NoodlePeople-esque art.
35** {{Animesque}} is used on episode 4.
36* ArtStyleDissonance: ''Cheese-chan and Baby'', with its pastel colors, SuperDeformed style, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick pornographic content]].
37* AttractiveBentGender: Clark is considered attractive in his female form. [[DisguisedInDrag Eliza]] as well.
38* BaitAndSwitchComment: Bryan mentions the consequences of sex.
39-->'''Bryan:''' It creates a mess... and cum.
40* BarbieDollAnatomy: Parodied. A featureless naked man is shown in "Beach Episode". In the next scene, after he is forced to put on a swimsuit[[note]][[FanDisservice like that helps the viewer's eyes any]][[/note]], he gets [[GroinAttack hit in the groin]] by a volleyball. The FridgeLogic does not escape Bryan.
41* BattleOfTheStillFrames: That's when the battles are shown ''at all''.
42* BeachEpisode: Episode 6, appropriately titled, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Beach Episode]]". The episode has a lot more of FanDisservice.
43* BetterThanABareBulb: Lampshade hangings are common; some subtle, some more explicit.
44%%* BigBallOfViolence
45* BitingTheHandHumor: There are a few joking references to the network [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwing the show over]].
46-->'''Wendy:''' Wonder what they'll do next. [[CreditsPushback Maybe they'll put the credits in the corner in favor of an ad]]?
47* BlackComedy: Started with lots of it, but has become rarer and the humor focused more on the nonsensical.
48* BlackComedyRape:
49** A choice that pops up commonly in ''[[HGame Cheese-chan and Baby]]'' is "[[BlindIdiotTranslation Use force it on her]]".
50** The rape scene in Bryan's film fro "Bryan and Clark Break Up".
51* BlandNameProduct: US Airlines for US Airways, [=DorMart=] for Walmart, Pepido for Pepsi, Papermitt for Paper Mate, among may others.
52%%* BowlingForRatings: Episode 8.
53* BrainsAndBrawn: Bryan is brains and Wendy is brawn.
54%%* BritishRoyalGuards: Seen dancing during one song.
55* CaliforniaDoubling: Lampshaded in an InUniverse movie that starts with the line, "Once upon a time, in a far away land within an hour's drive from Palm Springs..."
56%%* CartoonBomb: In episode 8, the characters ''play bowling'' with it.
57* CartoonlandTime: The cast is able to visit Florida and ''Austria'' with minimal time or budget limits.
58* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler:Undo Transformation Gun]] appears very briefly next to the Female Transformation Gun in the scene where James looks back at it.
59%%* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 9.
60* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: As the show shifted from focusing on a large group to a somewhat MinimalistCast where most of the plot focused Wendy, Bryan, Clark, Cromwell, and the monsters. Remember Susan?
61* ClothingDamage: Not intended for fanservice, but often lumped together with AmusingInjuries tropes like AshFace.
62* CookingDuel: Episode 21 has one between Wendy and Casey.
63%%* ComedicSociopathy
64* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: Lampshaded. Wendy and Bryan are trapped in a hallway with many doors. Only one door will lead outside.
65-->'''Bryan:''' How about that door? It's less dull than the others.
66* CouchGag:
67** The group of people following "Monsters" in the opening narration changes based on the plot of the episode.
68** The object that lands on Clark varies.
69* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cromwell tells Wendy, Bryan, and Clark that the trip to the mountains to resolve the GenderBender plot could have been avoided if [[spoiler:they had just went to Cromwell and asked for the Undo Transformation Gun]].
70* CutawayGag:
71** Normally averted. Jokes are preferably incorporated into the plot, [[RapidFireComedy adding them as it goes along]].
72** Parodied in episode 16. Wendy gets thrown into a pit while fighting the MonsterOfTheWeek, leading to this:
73--->'''Wendy:''' Aw, this is worse than time a fight scene was interrupted by a cutaway gag!
74--->[''cut to Wendy fighting another monster we haven't seen already'']
75--->'''Wendy:''' This is worse than the time my brothers wrestled at the last family picnic!
76--->[''[[HalfwayPlotSwitch cut to the family picnic, where the rest of the episode takes place]]'']
77* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 19 was told in the point of view of a MonsterOfTheWeek. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation It managed to portray Wendy]] as a [[PlayingWithSyringes heartless eugenicist]].
78* DeadpanSnarker:
79** Clark is a subversion. He does make sarcastic and snide comments with a straight face before reflexively smiling.
80** Wendy, sometimes.
81* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Parodied in episode 4. Apparently piracy will [[SpaceWhaleAesop suck you and your female friends into an Eroge world.]] [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing Which may]] [[AllMenArePerverts not necessarily]] [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex be bad...]]
82* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Taiko-1's job, protecting the game from copying, can be a type of DRM.
83* DontTryThisAtHome: Spoofed.
84--> '''Wendy:''' You can try this at work. You can try this at school. You can try this on a freaking yacht if you want, but please, don't try this at home!
85* DramaBombFinale: Both the Season 1 and Series finales. The series finale is even [[LampshadeHanging named]] "[[Recap/MillvilleMorningsS2E26DramaBombers Drama Bombers]]".
86* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse example where Wendy and Albert join a studio audience for a sitcom. After a character mentions a female coworker who was run over by a train, another character asks why a train would go through the kitchen. Albert stands up and tells the actors that that joke isn't funny. Both Wendy and Albert get kicked out of the studio.
87%%* DysfunctionJunction
88* EmotionEater: Many of the monsters are created by or are fueled by some sort of emotion.
89* EndOfTheWorldSpecial: Episode 29. [[StatusQuoIsGod The world gets better, though.]]
90* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Parodied. Albert says a completely inappropriate response to walking in on another couple making out. Everybody suddenly laughs. Bryan keeps laughing after everyone else is done, which the captioner cuts to a black screen with a caption saying, "We'd love to show you more laughing, but unfortunately, our timeslot has come to an end."
91* EveryCarIsAPinto: Exaggerated/parodied in episode 22. Wendy throws a beach ball at a car in HonestJohnsDealership and ''every car in the dealership explodes.''
92%%* EverytownAmerica: Millville.
93* FakeInteractivity:
94** Subverted.
95-->'''Wendy:''' Will you help us find the golden map?
96-->[''{{Beat}}'']
97-->'''Wendy:''' No? Oh, I planned this whole thing out where you can help us find things... it was part of our exec's audience participation program. Oh well.
98** Parodied in episode 5 with a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''-[[CaptainErsatz esque]] show that Bryan and Clark use to learn Spanish to impress Maria and her friends. The requests are far more demanding than an average toddler should be able to do.
99--->'''"Dora":''' Repeat after me: "''Voy a la casa con mis primas hermanas.''"
100--->'''Bryan and Clark:''' [''monotonously''] ''Voy a la casa con mis primas hermanas.''
101* FalseCameraEffects: Bryan's independent film includes CameraAbuse, JitterCam, and even the sound of wind blowing into the mic.
102* FanDisservice:
103** Most of the BeachEpisode. Includes the obese woman in a bikini sitting on Bryan.
104** Episode 26. [[OutOfClothesExperience Everyone is in their own world, naked,]] and losing to their own fears. For example, Bryan getting stabbed repeatedly.
105** Scenes that look like they're supposed to be titillating but instead apply extreme OffModel to the characters so that the result looks more silly.
106** The {{Stripperiffic}} outfits of the Action Girls Club. They range from amusing to downright disturbing.
107* FauxActionGirl:
108** Wendy may be one, depending on interpretation. The StylisticSuck format makes it that no battles are shown directly, all of them offscreen or shown in still frames. However, the battles are strongly implied to happen.
109** Parodied with the "Action Girls Club" from episode 1.
110* FirstLawOfGenderBending: Averted. Clark stays as a girl for two episodes only.
111%%* GagSeries
112%%* GameShowAppearance: Episode 22.
113* GenderBender: Cromwell keeps a Transformation Gun that can turn anything into a human girl. The only time he used it on another human was on Clark in episode 23.
114* GratuitousRape: InUniverse example where Bryan decides that he wants the villain to be [[MoralEventHorizon completely evil]].
115* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: Hirsch's library, though it is small, has books on any subject as if it were {{Hammerspace}}.
116%%* HalfwayPlotSwitch
117%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bryan and Clark.
118* HonestJohnsDealership: One of Cromwell's allies run one. It gets destroyed in episode 22.
119* HumanPopsicle: In the TimeTravel arc, Clark gets frozen when he falls into the lake on an ice fishing trip. He gets found a thousand years later by ice farmers in a world that's mostly flooded.
120* IdiotHero: Used InUniverse. In Bryan's film, he decides that he wants the hero to be one so the [[ExpectationLowerer audience will have someone to feel superior to]].
121* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: Most of the text in ''Cheese-chan and Baby'' is [[WordSaladHumor incomprehensible]]. It was pirated, after all.
122* TheInternetIsForPorn: Willow can access the internet with her mind. Clark thinks that she uses this ability to read porn on it.
123%%* IrisOut: When the episode does not end with a PastelChalkedFreezeFrame.
124* ItCameFromTheFridge: Episode 17 has a food monster created by Mr. Montgomery hoarding food and not throwing it out when it becomes expired.
125* ItWasHisSled: InUniverse example where the characters reveal something of a popular movie that is obvious, preceded by a "Spoiler Alert".
126* LightbulbJoke: Due to {{Metaphorgotten}}, the plot of episode 20 becomes finding out how many citizens of Millville can replace the lightbulb at Town Hall.
127* LimitedAnimation: Used deliberately for a {{Retraux}} effect.
128* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Subverted with [[GenderBender Clark in episode 23]]. He looks shocked, then touches his breasts, and looks down. He screams and panics.
129* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy:
130** Mr. and Mrs. Mercier, at least in their interests. Mr. Mercier enjoys cooking and sewing while Mrs. Mercier builds things in the shed.
131** In episode 14, this trope becomes the norm.
132* MeaningfulName: Many of the monsters' names. Sunny is the one at the beach while Pinn is the one from the bowling alley.
133* MediumAwareness: Wendy knows that she's a cartoon character and often addresses the staff and audience.
134* MenBuyFromMarsWomenBuyFromVenus: Parodied/inverted. A company that makes dresses aired an advertisement that said that they aren't for men. [[ReversePsychology Every man]] [[RealMenWearPink started wearing dresses]] in that episode.
135* MonsterOfTheWeek
136* MoodDissonance: A main source of humor. The scenes all look like ones from serious dramas, but the dialogue is actually really comedic and random.
137* MoodWhiplash:
138** "Earl of Sandwich", one of the most lighthearted episodes, aired before "Feary Canal", one of the most disturbing.
139** Within "Feary Canal", we see Wendy's fear sequence, where she gets torn apart by dogs. [[GoryDiscretionShot Offscreen]], but still. Then we see Bryan's fear sequence. He fails a vocabulary test in the most absurd way and the teacher punishes him [[DisproportionateRetribution with death]] with a ScaryFlashlightFace. Bryan immediately makes a BigNo Then we see Clark's fear sequence, which takes the slapstick that happens to him, turns it on its head, as if to [[TakeThatAudience ask the viewer what they were thinking when they laugh at what happens to him]].
140** "Seeking a Franz for the End of the World" starts out to take the subject of Maria's disappearance and the end of the world seriously, then shows an extended sequence in which Wendy, Bryan, and Clark squick over [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs finding]] RuleThirtyFour [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs of themselves]]. Then it goes back to them being worried about what happened to Maria because they couldn't find her in her home.
141* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: ''Cheese-chan and Baby'', the pirated version. Using it will suck the player and his female friends into the game.
142* TheMountainsOfIllinois: The cast visits Florida to climb mountains that wouldn't look out of place in Anhui, China.
143* MundaneMadeAwesome:
144** The bumper cars scene in episode 3.
145** In the CookingDuel episode, SlowMotionDrop is used for breaking an egg. {{Repeat Cut}}s of Wendy and Casey mixing the batter ''while screaming'' were used.
146** Clark finally makes the ultimate sandwich in episode 29. Suddenly, dramatic orchestral music plays and crepuscular rays shine on the sandwich, as he lifts the sandwich on a high place with people below bowing in a "[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 The Circle of Life]]"-esque way. Being [[TheChewToy Clark]], he drops the sandwich... and it falls ''[[RuleOfFunny up]]''. It turns out that aliens abducted it.
147* NeverSayDie: Parodied.
148-->'''Albert:''' Why can't you just say "die"?
149-->'''Wendy:''' [''pauses, turns to the audience''] Because the show's distributed by [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Childs Media]], [[TakeThat so even an aborted fetus can watch it alone]]!
150* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Millville is loosely based on Moscow, Idaho.
151* NoFourthWall: Wendy often addresses the audience and predicts their reactions to events in the show.
152* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Used to make Cromwell look more manipulative and James more of a pervert.
153* NoodleImplements:
154** Random objects are seen flying off from some of the offscreen fights between Wendy and the monsters. One fight involved a tricycle, a mailbox, and a copy of ''Eight Easy Ways To Get Men To Notice You''.
155** Mrs. Mercier brings unusual objects to the shed in the backyard for her project.
156* NoodleIncident: In episode 2, Clark calls Wendy asking her how to give a squirrel a handjob. Why he would need to do so and the circumstances that led to the incident has never been questioned.
157* NoPunctuationIsFunnier: The captions have no punctuation. For example, "[[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No animals were harmed]] in the making of this cartoon or humans or plants but we did step on a mushroom somewhere"
158%%* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome
159* OpeningNarration: Usually takes the form: "The town of Millville is in danger! Monsters and X are Y! I, Wendy Mercier, am here to stop them!" X is a group of people related to the plot, and Y is an action that X is doing. X is usually [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking more favorable than the monsters]].
160* OutOfClothesExperience: The fear sequences in episode 26.
161* OverlyLongGag:
162** Clark making sandwiches at varying speeds in episode 25.
163** Wendy staring at James's left cheek in episode 28.
164* ParentalNeglect: Wendy's parents were not good at watching her when she was little and are mostly ignorant of what she is doing.
165* ParodySue:
166** Wendy's only important trait is that she's an ActionGirl. She also has little bad traits. Characters [[LampshadeHanging call attention]] to this heavily and this makes her more susceptible to {{slapstick}}.
167** Maria Susana is a subversion. Her name literally translates to "[[MeaningfulName Mary Sue]]" in Spanish, and she is considered physically attractive, but her immaturity and AxCrazy tendencies make her unwanted.
168* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: Many of the episode endings. This gets lampshaded by the captioner in episode 9.
169* PermanentlyMissableContent: [[spoiler:The Male Transformation Gun falls out of Clark's hands, off the cliffs, and into uncharted gorges.]]
170%%* PoliceAreUseless
171%%* PostModernism
172* PowerTrio: Bryan and Wendy are {{Foil}}s, being BrainsAndBrawn, with Clark as the balance being neither.
173* PronounTrouble: Everyone runs into this problem at some point when trying to talk about [[GenderBender female Clark]].
174* PunBasedTitle: Often, to the point where the title card for episode 29[[note]]"[[Film/SeekingAFriendForTheEndOfTheWorld Seeking a Franz for the End of the World]]"[[/note]] has the caption, "An oppuntunity not taken is an oppuntunity lost."
175%%* RapidFireComedy
176* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Averted for comic effect. Characters constantly talk over each other, stutter, or have random asides. Lampshaded when Hirsch makes a list of things with the list showing up in the side, messing up, the item in the written list being crossed out, and replaced as he corrects himself.
177%%* {{Reconstruction}}
178%%* ReferenceOverdosed
179* RepeatCut: Parodied. Sometimes they zoom in a bit too much on the subject, sometimes it's used as an OverlyLongGag, and sometimes an unrelated clip (like a goat bleating) is put in the middle between the cuts.
180* {{Retraux}}: The animation in general is supposed to be evocative of Dark Age cartoons, involving large amounts of StylisticSuck.
181%%* RuleOfCool
182%%* RuleOfFunny
183* RuleSixtyThree: Episode 14 runs this on all characters. ''Including the mooks''. The result is an adorable boy [[DoubleStandard beating up a bunch of older women]].
184* RushmoreRefacement: Pennington does this in episode 7 to change the faces to himself, Cromwell, and [[ChekhovsGun two other people]].
185* SaidBookism: Referenced. Clark calls {{Deadly Euphemism}}s "dead bookisms". He also has "bed bookisms" for MillsAndBoonProse.
186* SceneryPorn:
187** There's a good chance that whenever the characters are launched into the sky, there will be more focus on the scenery.
188** This trope is used when the writers consider the characters' discussions to be boring, along with fanservice.
189* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Clark and Bryan can be on either side of this dynamic. Usually, Clark is more emotional and Bryan more reserved, but Clark's interests are associated with men.
190* SequelSnark: Episodes are said ToBeContinued, even if they wont. In "Clark to the Future, Part III", a caption appears at the end that "there might even be a Clark to the Future, Part IV!" Followed by a "[[DontExplainTheJoke That was sarcasm]]."
191* SexyDiscretionShot:
192--> '''Wendy:''' Sorry... things are not turning out like they're supposed to. While we fix things, we'll show you a clip of an attractive girl undressing.
193--> [''Cut to a black screen with white text that reads, "[[StrawFeminist Clip removed per request of the Millville Feminist Organization]]"'']
194* ShaggyDogStory: The GenderBender arc, where Wendy, Bryan, and Clark go on a journey to the mountains to find the Male Transformation Gun. [[spoiler:Said gun [[PermanentlyMissableContent falls into a gorge]], and the three go back to Cromwell to complain. Cromwell just lets them use the Undo Transformation Gun, which changes Clark back to a boy]].
195* ShouldersUpNudity: Parodied. [[MediumAwareness Wendy complains to the cel artist that the screen is too close to her face]]. The screen zooms out, but [[{{Fanservice}} a bit too much]]. The screen zooms back in slightly.
196* ShoutOut: Many examples border on this and TakeThat. Many are in the PunBasedTitle of each episode.
197** There's one to Website/ThisVeryWiki. In episode 17, Clark sees the [[ItCameFromTheFridge food monster]] and quips that someone's putting it on the FridgeHorror page. Bryan asks him, "You're reading TV Tropes again, are you?" Clark says maybe.
198** In one scene, a bored Wendy watches TV. Someone on the TV says "[[VisualNovel/{{Kanon}} Uguu]]".
199** When Clark [[GenderBender gets turned into a girl]], Bryan tries to [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf douse him/her in hot water to turn Clark back into a boy]]. He panics and tries to avoid it.
200* SkinshipGrope: This exchange from episode 19:
201-->'''Stacy:''' Wow! Can I, like, touch your boobs?
202-->'''Wendy:''' No.
203-->'''Stacy:''' Really? I mean, we're both girls, so it's okay, right?
204-->'''Wendy:''' [''slaps Stacy''] [[DefiedTrope I said no.]]
205* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Elements of the show are obviously meant to be scary, though most of the time they're played for laughs.
206* {{Slurpasaur}}: The "extremely scary monster" from Bryan's film, who's actually Clark's pet rabbit.
207* SmallReferencePools:
208** Averted to the point of lampshading at the amount of obscure references.
209--> '''Bryan:''' Who the hell is [[BigBadFriend Yasu]]?!
210** Parodied in the game show episode where all of the questions are very simple ones because the show's creators cannot think up more difficult questions. Many people seem to get the answers wrong. It turns out that MindControl is involved and the contestants uncontrollably say the wrong answer.
211* SpaceWhaleAesop: Plenty, and mostly PlayedForLaughs.
212** In episode 4, if you pirate a pornographic video game online, you and your friends will be sucked into the game.
213** In episode 17, hoarding food will create a food monster that will destroy the whole town's food supply.
214* StealthInsult:
215** After Mr. Pines shows his {{Jerkass}} behavior, Clark asks Wendy if "i before e" applies to his case.
216** When the cast visit Kansas, the welcome sign reads "Welcome to Kansas, the Poquoson State".[[note]]"Poquoson" is a word in a Native American language meaning "flat, boring land".[[/note]]
217* StockNessMonster: The Monster of the Firth of Forth from episode 43.
218* StrawFeminist: The [[ScoutOut Ladygirlswomen Club]] and Millville Feminist Organization.
219* {{Stripperiffic}}: Parodied. Everyone on the Action Girls Club wears clothes that are so absurdly revealing that they become [[FetishRetardant more amusing than arousing]]. When Wendy joins them, they force her to wear a Stripperiffic outfit, much to her disgust.
220--> '''Bryan:''' She has to wear that?!
221--> '''Wendy:''' [[NoJustNoReaction But... but...!]]
222* StuffBlowingUp: The result of Wendy defeating a monster. No explanation is given for this phenomenon at all.
223* StylisticSuck:
224** The {{Retraux}} animation.
225** The scenes of Wendy defeating the MonsterOfTheWeek are just stand-alone shots of explosions. The monster disappears afterwards.
226** The film created by Bryan in episode 10.
227* SugarBowl: Parodied.
228--> '''Caption:''' EVEN THE SLUMS ARE DELICIOUS
229* {{Technobabble}}: Lampshaded. Here are just some of the examples:
230--> '''Bryan:''' Find the square root of the molar mass of sodium carbonate, multiplied by the mass to volume ratio of the ball and the time to pull the trigger is... Now!
231* SuperDeformed: Some of the monsters.
232* TimeTravel: Episodes 11, 12, and 13. [[HumanPopsicle Clark gets frozen at a fishing trip and ends up on the year 30--]]. The government sends him back via time travel, but an accident sends him into TheDungAges. He tries to get back to the present by freezing himself again, [[SpringtimeForHitler only to fail at this task]].
233* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: InUniverse. Bryan's dad is watching PornWithPlot, which has surprisingly good writing, and remarks that he would love to show Bryan and Wendy the show if not for the porn.
234* ThoseTwoGuys: Albert and Benson.
235* ToBeContinued: Used even if the plot will [[SequelSnark not be continued at all]].
236* TokenTrio: Played with by making the white female the hero and making the minority male AmbiguouslyBrown.
237* TransformationRay: There's a Male Transformation Gun, which turns objects into human men, a Female Transformation Gun, which turns objects into human women, [[spoiler:and an Undo Transformation Gun, which changes them back to their original states]]. Cromwell owns the Female [[spoiler:and Undo]] Transformation Guns, and the Male Transformation Gun is buried somewhere in the mountains.
238* TrappedInTVLand: Bryan buys a cursed Eroge online. The game corrupts his console and traps him and every female in the neighborhood into the game.
239* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse example in episode 15. Wendy gets defeated by a MonsterOfTheWeek and is left to die. She contemplates her life and the world with excessive WordSaladPhilosophy. [[spoiler:She's actually telling a story she wrote to other people in a reading group. The sudience asks Wendy if she just wrote the story that way to appeal to them]].
240%%* TwoGuysAndAGirl
241* ViewersAreGoldfish: Defied.
242** When Stacy is introduced in episode 18, a caption showing her name appears every time she appears on the screen. [[MediumAwareness Wendy]] tells whoever is in control of the captions that she's sure that the audience knows Stacy's name by now.
243** In the same episode, Willow recaps and flashback to events that happened five minutes ago. Everyone else tells her to get on with it already.
244* ViewersAreMorons: Wendy treats the audience this way.
245* WackySoundEffect
246* WeirdnessMagnet: The statue in downtown Millville.
247* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where the Hell Is Millville?]]: It's never stated where Millville actually is. It's based on Moscow, Idaho, but it's clear that the show does not take place there.
248* WhoWritesThisCrap: Asking this is one of the captioner's most defining traits.
249* WhyDontYouMarryIt
250** In episode 9, Bryan gets a paddleball for Christmas and he spends the rest of the year playing with it and bringing it everywhere. Wendy asks him this question.
251** And in episode 11, it's revealed that Bryan and his paddleball became legally married.
252** In episode 24, the paddleball is [[HumanityEnsues transformed into a woman.]] Bryan loses interest in her because she's not a paddleball anymore.
253* WordSaladTitle: The eroge, ''Cheese-chan and Baby''. Cheese is a BlindIdiotTranslation of Chizu, and the plot involves finding a DoorstopBaby.
254* WraparoundBackground: Parodied.
255-->'''Bryan:''' Didn't we already go through this neighborhood?
256-->'''Wendy:''' I don't know. I might as well be driving in circles.
257-->[''Cut to Wendy driving in an area circled by the background'']
258* YearX:
259** The work takes place in the year 20--.
260** In "Clark to the Future", Clark ends up on the years 30--, 10--, and 19--.

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