Line #18 WebAnimation/PancakesShow


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2	[[caption-width-right:500:From left to right: Cruncher, Mars, Waffle, Pancake, Finley, and Liam.]]
3	''Pancake's Show'' is a animated web series created by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCruMOSymknSNdpcF2x-u_IQ Fly]]. The first episode premiered on December 12, 2020. The series' titular character is Pancake, a good-natured but dimwitted person who lives with his snarky best friend Mars. He also has a friend named Liam, who's a science wiz, and a sister named Waffle, who's rather ditzy.
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5	The series can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL1hPAj7Y3V1oVw6hFU_VMj5z2-9e6Za0 here]].
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8	!!This work provides examples of:
9	* ActionPet: Cruncher in "Plant Sitting".
10	* ADayInTheLimelight: Liam gets his own centric episode with "Battle of Witz".
11	* AlienAbduction: The episode "Procrastination" ends with [[DownerEnding Pancake being abducted by aliens]].
12	* AllJustADream: The ending to "?" is like this at first, until it's revealed at the ''very'' end that [[spoiler: Pancake wasn't actually dreaming and his supposed "dream" was a reality all along]].
13	* AxCrazy: Mars is shown to be this throughout the series. For example, in "Battle of Witz", it's revealed that Mars potentially murdered his high school rival for picking on him.
14	* BeeAfraid: "A Really BEE-ig Problem" involves Pancake and Mars being sent to bee prison after touching a bee's beehive repeatedly. Bees.
15	* BreakingTheFourthWall: The show does this on occasion.
16	** In "The Great Detective(s) of Waffletown", Pancake wears his spare hat [[spoiler:since his actual hat is missing]]. Pancake says he looks like a goofball, and Mars says that he has to wear it for the whole episode.
17	** In "The Rat Problem", [[spoiler:the Rat makes a joke about Mars, and a laugh track plays]]. Mars notices the laugh track and demands the canned laughter to stop. It then cuts to a Website/{{YouTube}} video of teeth chattering getting paused.
18	** The episodes "Educational Television" and "Not-Pancake's Show" are entire fourth wall breaks, with the former episode essentially being Pancake talking to ''you'' about the wonders of nature, and the latter being about every character wanting an episode to themselves.
19	* CartoonCreature: Mars and Cruncher.
20	* CharacterTitle: ''Pancake's Show''.
21	* ChristmasEpisode: "Christmas Present" and "Holiday Hoax".
22	* CollectorOfTheStrange: Abigail is shown to be a proud collector of plug-n-play consoles.
23	** Melvin in "The Spork" also appears to be a collector of sporks.
24	* DayInTheLife: "A Day in the Life of Pancake".
25	* DeadpanSnarker: Some characters are this sometimes, mostly Mars.
26	* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: The episode "Tornado".
27	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Mars in "Christmas Present" was seen flying, which he doesn't do in later episodes.
28	* FingerlessHands: Mars is usually seen with these. Some of the human characters also used to have these in the earlier episodes.
29	* FishPeople: Finley.
30	* FourFingeredHands: Most of the characters have this.
31	* FunnyAnimal: Some characters like Abigail, Casey, and Melvin are this.
32	* GameShowHost: The Quiz Show Guy, though he's also a news reporter as well.
33	* GreatDetective: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Great Detective(s) of Waffletown]]".
34	* HalloweenEpisode: "Ain't Got No Eyes or Nothing".
35	* InsomniaEpisode: The episode "Sleepwalking" is this.
36	* LaughTrack: Parodied in "The Rat Problem" above.
37	* NeverBareheaded: Pancake and Waffle. They are rarely seen without their hats.
38	* NewscasterCameo: Quiz Show Guy is this whenever he's not a quiz show host.
39	* NewYearHasCome: The episode "New Year's 2022" where Pancake and friends watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve.
40	* NiceGuy: Pancake is this most of the time.
41	* NoNameGiven: Melvin was initially just an unnamed cat character that appeared occasionally. It wasn't until "Now on Sale!" where he finally had the name "Melvin".
42	* NonHumanSidekick: Pancake and Mars.
43	* PetContestEpisode: "Battle of Witz" becomes this at the end where [[spoiler:Liam takes his pet piranha plant Petey to the World's Best Inventions competition]].
44	* SantasExistenceClause: "Holiday Hoax" follows this trope almost to a T.
45	** The plot is basically Pancake learning how Santa Lemon Claus isn't real by Melvin, though later it turns out that Lemon Claus actually ''is'' real.
46	* SnowballFight: "Snowball War", which involves Pancake and Mars having a snowball fight using machine guns.
47	* TheCity: Waffletown.
48	* ThickLineAnimation: This show is this mostly.
49	* UnrealisticBlackHole: The black hole in "?".
50	* YouDirtyRat: The rats in "The Rat Problem".

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