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1A ShowWithinTheShow on ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' created by Rachel Bighead, formerly credited as Ralph Bighead.
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3It stars three characters:
4* Betty Baloney, the only female.
5* [[PunnyName Sal Ami.]]
6* And Mr. Cheese (or Lester Roquefort), the best character on the show, better than the salami and the baloney combined.
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8The show is about them having weird adventures in the deli where they were created.
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10The show was actually Rachel Bighead's [[SpringtimeForHitler attempt at getting fired]] so she could do other stuff. But the [[ContractualObligationProject executives forced her to make another show]] after the success of her previous series ''JustForFun/MeetTheFatheads''. Soon, she decided to embrace her job, and so tried to run the show on her own, which ended up leading to its demise.
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13!!''Wacky Delly'' contains examples of:
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15* AnimateInanimateObject: The entire cast is made up of these.
16* AnthropomorphicFood: A salami, a baloney and Wacky Delly's best charakter, a cheese.
17* AntiHero: Sal Ami can be one, DependingOnTheWriter.
18* BlackComedyCannibalism: Sal Ami eats Betty, but Mr. Cheese, who's better than the other two combined, survives.
19* {{Bowdlerise}}: A scene where Sal Ami whacks Betty Baloney with a telephone was edited out in later runs, though this may have less to do with [[WomenAreDelicate Betty being a girl]], and more with time constraints.
20* CartoonCheese: The best character of the show Mr. Cheese, of course.
21* CatchPhrase:
22** Sal Ami: "[[FantasticRacism I HATE BALONEY!]]''
23** Betty Baloney: "Oh boy! What a beautiful day!"
24** Mr. Cheese: "[[SmallNameBigEgo I am the cheese! I am the best character on the show! I am better than both the salami and the baloney combined!]]"
25* CrossdressingVoices: Betty is voiced by a male wallaby named Rocko.
26* DerangedAnimation: And ''how''! Most of the show consists of cartoon violence (including Sal Ami beating up Betty Baloney with a telephone), and no plot whatsoever.
27* DisneyDeath: Betty Baloney comes back to life seconds after being bludgeoned to death.
28* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "10 Minutes of Mayo"
29* FantasticRacism: Sal Ami '''really''' hates Baloney.
30* FlatCharacter: Mr. Cheese has almost no personality, but he's still the best character of the show.
31** Better than the salami and baloney combined, in fact.
32* GenkiGirl: Betty Baloney.
33* GenreShift: Season 2 took a drastically different direction from season 1 by abandoning the more comedy-oriented structure of season 1 and opting for a more artistic direction. Needless to say, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks it didn't go over well with viewers]] and led to the show's swift demise.
34* HamAndCheese: Mr. Cheese is better than the ham, who doesn't show up, because he knows that he's not as good as Mr. Cheese.
35* LeaveTheCameraRunning: "10 Minutes of Mayo", as the name implies, is an episode consisting of nothing but a jar of mayonnaise sitting motionless on a table.
36* LimitedAnimation: Especially the episode "10 Minutes of Mayo". It's just a jar of mayo on screen.
37** Even more so with another episode comprised entirely of overexposed footage.
38* MinimalistCast: Only 3 persons: A salami, a baloney and Mr. Cheese (who is the best, better than the other two combined.)
39* MoralGuardians: The media painted ''Wacky Delly'' as a major threat to the country because of its "confused morals".
40* NoFourthWall: Mr. Cheese wants to remind you he is the best character on the show.
41* NoIndoorVoice: Sal Ami screams over the phone.
42* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Subverted. Rachel Bighead delegated most of the work to other artists early on, with the fan-favourite debut episode featuring almost no input from her at all. When she took a more hands-on role at the end of the show's run, critical and commercial reception plummeted instantly, leading to the show's cancellation mid-episode.
43* ThePowerOfCheese: He is the best character on the show, better than the salami and baloney combined.
44* PunnyName: Sal Ami.
45* ReachingBetweenTheLines: Sal Ami attacks Betty Baloney through the phone.
46* ShoutOut:
47** "Ten Minutes of Mayo" is one to the works of Creator/AndyWarhol.
48** During the first episode, we hear both [[WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} Goofy's]] yodel and his signature holler.
49* SmallNameBigEgo: Mr. Cheese, who says he's the best character of the show.
50* SpiritualSuccessor: To Rachel Bighead's previous series ''JustForFun/MeetTheFatheads''.
51* SpringtimeForHitler: Meta-example, as Rachel Bighead had intended for the show to fail, to the point of attempting to ''sabotage production''.
52* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Betty Baloney is the only female of the three.
53* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The second season was a massive departure from the first, and fan reaction was very negative.
54* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Inverted and played straight. "Ten Minutes of Mayo" and the overexposed episode seem incomprehensible but were hailed as brilliant, while the second-season episodes that went in a more artistic (and narratively-coherent) direction turned off the audience.
55* VomitIndiscretionShot: One episode has Sal Ami grabbing Mr. Cheese, [[ImAHumanitarian eating him]], and then puking him out.
56* WouldHitAGirl: Sal Ami has no qualms about whacking Betty Baloney with a telephone. But see {{Bowdlerise}} above.
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