Line #86 WebAnimation/SoThisIsBasically


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3	''So This Is Basically...'' was a WebAnimation series created by [=JelloApocalypse=] (real name Creator/BrendanBlaber), best known for his ''WebAnimation/WelcomeTo'' series. In fact, ''So This is Basically'' was a SpiritualSuccessor to that series, but instead of summarizing websites, Jello explained pieces of media, mainly WesternAnimation, {{Anime}}, and VideoGames. It was his dominant series after the final installment of ''Welcome to''.
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5	Each episode featured Jello as a narrator talking about the work in question, with his own illustrations displayed instead of screenshots from the work (episodes after the first few were drawn by other artists in Jello's style, though Jello still did storyboarding). Most of the humor is carried over from ''Welcome to''; expect lots of [[BetterThanABareBulb lampshading]] and lighthearted (and some not so lighthearted) jabs at the work's problems, even if he has no clue what he is talking about.
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7	With the release of ''So This Is Basically VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' in May 2022, Jello sadly confirmed that he's not currently planning on making more episodes due to an increased focus on other projects, such as his voice acting career, various gaming highlight videos, and the ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'' novels.
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9	The episodes can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHACfIDFF66rhd6lplzOG_5oOs-ugb8gd here]]. In order, the series tackled:
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11	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
12	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug''
13	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''
14	* ''Anime/CowboyBebop''
15	* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''
16	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''
17	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
18	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''
19	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''
20	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''
21	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''
22	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''
23	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''
24	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem''
25	* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''
26	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney''
27	* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''
28	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''
29	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''
30	* ''VideoGame/Persona5''
31	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' series
32	* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact''
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34	While the series was active, contributors to Jello's [[https://www.patreon.com/jelloapocalypse Patreon]] were able to vote for what the next episode of ''So This is Basically'' was.
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37	!!''So This Is Basically...'' a Trope List:
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39	* AccidentalMisnaming: One of the biggest {{Running Gag}}s is Jello [[EntertaininglyWrong getting names wrong]] in his narration. They generally persist for the entire video.
40	** ''Steven Universe'': Amethyst is "Armrest", Pearl is "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward]]", Rose Quartz is "Mrs. Marshmallow", Jasper is "Wrestling/HulkHogan", Ronaldo is "Curly Fries Man", and Yellow Diamond is "the evil space giraffe".
41	** ''Miraculous Ladybug'': Ladybug is "Ladybubs" (real name given as "Marionette") and Cat Noir is "Catnerd" (his real name is given as "[[Series/TheBradyBunch Brady Bunch]]").
42	** ''Gravity Falls'': Mabel is "Marbles", Dipper is "Dipstick", Grunkle Stan is "WesternAnimation/MartinMystery", Gideon is "[[Literature/HarryPotter Gilderoy Lockhart]]", Soos is "Creator/DrSeuss", and Bill Cipher is "Razzle-Dazzle Dorito".
43	** ''Cowboy Bebop'': Spike Spiegel is "Creator/SpikeSpencer", Jet Black is "VideoGame/JetSetRadio", Faye Valentine is "[[Anime/YuGiOh Mai Valentine]]", Ed is "Music/DannyElfman", and Julia is "Mrs. Bebop".
44	** ''Overwatch'': There's one for ''every single playable character'' (well, the ones that were playable at the time of the video's creation), plus extra ones for Soldier: 76 ("VideoGame/CallOfDuty" for when he was Jack Morrison and "VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts" for how he is now) and Reaper ("Death Gun" for when he was Gabriel Reyes and "Little Timmy's First OC" for how he is now).
45	*** Genji and Hanzo are collectively referred to as "WesternAnimation/DragonTales", [=McCree=] is "[[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo Mr. McGoo]]", Pharah is "[[{{Franchise/Metroid}} Samus Pharan]]", Reaper is "La Catrina", Soldier: 76 is [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad "American Dad"]], Tracer is "[[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Tracy]]", Bastion is "Play of the Platform/GameAndWatch", Junkrat is "WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest", Mei is "[[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Chinese Bootleg]] [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]]" (with her shirt reading "Eslo"), Torbjörn is "{{SugarWiki/Toblerone}}", Widowmaker is "Wimblebimble", D.Va is "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Neon Pink Evangelion]]", Reinhardt is "Music/MCHammer", Roadhog is "Outback Steakhouse", Winston is "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E19AFishCalledSelma OOOOOH Dr. Zaius!]]", Zarya is "It's not a phase, ''mom''!", Mercy is "[[VideoGame/{{PROTOTYPE}} Necromercer]]", Symmetra is "[[Franchise/{{Halo}} Cortana]]", Zenyatta is "Build-A-Buddha", and Ana is "Ana-nother One". Lúcio is the odd man out, as his name is actually given correctly.
46	** ''Adventure Time'': Princess Bubblegum is "Princess Bobobo", The Ice King is "Ice Cream", The Lich is "The Snitch", and BMO is "Beebo".
47	** ''Pokémon'': [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Professor Kukui]] is called [[ThemeNaming "Professor Tree"]].
48	** ''Danny Phantom'': Tucker and Sam become "[[{{Spoonerism}} Sucker and Tam]]".
49	** ''The Legend of Zelda'': Every place where Link's name should be said is replaced by one of Link's [[HeroicMime signature]] [[VoiceGrunting yells]]. It even replaces the word "link" when it shows up ("linked" timelines and the GBA Link Cable). Ganondorf is once referred to as "Gambledork".
50	** ''Rick and Morty'': Rick is "Brick" and Morty is "Mortar".
51	** ''Star vs. the Forces of Evil'': Surprisingly, nobody is incorrectly named, but the show itself is called ''Star vs.'' ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames the Faces of Evil]]''.
52	** ''My Hero Academia'': Deku is referred to as both "[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Deku Scrub]]" and "Small Might". Uraraka is "[[WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock Interplanet Janet]]", Iida is "Manga/InitialD", Mina is "Slip-N-Slide", Momo is "Easy Make Oven", Tsuyu is "[[WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven All Frogs Go to Heaven]]", Bakugou is both "Anime/{{Bakugan}}" and then when he's introduced in the roll call he and Aoyama are collectively introduced with "[[Music/{{Queen}} Gunpowder Gelatine, Dynamite With a Laser Beam]]", Sero is "Caught on Tape", Tooru is "Not on Tape", Kirishima is "[[ThoseTwoGuys Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu]]", Fumikage is "Two Birds, One Hero", Kouda is "VideoGame/AnimalCrossing", Kyouka is "Damn it, how do these things always get so tangled?", Todoroki is "[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender That's Rough, Buddy]]", Shouji is "Oh, uh... Ew."; Rikidou, Ojiro, Mineta, and Kaminari are given the ThemeNaming of "Soda", "OJ", "Purple Stuff", and "Two Kinds of Sunny D", respectively. Shigaraki is also referred to as "Bad Touch Man" and Toga is referred to as "This Girl Who Looks Like She's on the Verge of [[ImmodestOrgasm Climaxing]]".
53	** ''[=JoJo's Bizarre Adventure=]'': The title is renamed to "[=JimJim=]'s Bizarre Advimvims", while the main protagonists are all called "Joje" instead of "[=JoJo=]" like they usually are.
54	** ''Ace Attorney'': Phoenix is "Knick-Knack Paddy Whack", Maya is "[[TrademarkFavoriteFood Hamburger Helper]]", Pearl is "Literal Toddler", [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Kay]] is [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything "Technically Not a Thief"]], [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Rayfa]] is "[[Music/{{Abba}} Dancing Queen]]", Franziska is "~She's So Pretty~", [[VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney Luke]] is "This Reminds Me of a Puzzle", [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Trucy]] is "Gramaryevil", and Edgeworth is "Miles Legwork". Averted with Gumshoe, Apollo, and Athena.
55	** ''RWBY'': Ruby is just Ruby, Weiss is "Whines", Blake is "Bland", and Salem is "Mommy Salami". And let's not start with how many times he butchers "RWBY" including "Rwubby", "Rude Bees", "[[Series/LazyTown Robbie Rotten]]", "Kanga-RWBY", and "Roomba". He also refers to Faunus as "[[Franchise/FireEmblem Laguz]]".
56	** ''Sonic the Hedgehog'': Sonic is "Sonic Hedgehog", Dr. Eggman is "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Large Egg]]", Eggman Nega is "[[AlternateSelf Rotten Egg]]", Chaos is "[[MakingASplash Scrambled Egg]]", Mephiles is "[[AncientEvil Century Egg]]", Zavok is "[[BigRedDevil Devilled Egg]]", The Egg Robos are "[[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Easter Eggs]]", Erazor Djinn is "Egg... Benedict" and Shadow is "[[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver Gamer Sonic]]". As well, the Chaos Emeralds are known as the "[[PowerDyesYourHair Hair Dye Crystals]]".
57	** ''Persona 5:'' The protagonist/Joker is "Nasty Crimeboy," the Phantom Thieves of Hearts are "The Do-Crimers", and Goro Akechi is "Sketchy Akechi."
58	** ''Trails of Cold Steel'', Erebonia is "Will Bone Ya", Rean is given the title "Human Friendship Speech" and you'll probably lose track of ''all of his friends''.
59	* ActingForTwo: [[invoked]] Lampshaded in the ''Gravity Falls'' episode, wherein one of its major mysteries is that "half the cast is voiced by Soos" (Creator/AlexHirsch).
60	* ActorAllusion: Jello refers to Mermando (played by [[Creator/TheBrothersChaps Matt Chapman]]) as "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]]".
61	* AffectionateParody:
62	** It's clear that Jello loves the series he's making fun of, aside from a few criticisms. The sole exceptions are ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', and ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''.
63	*** With ''Adventure Time'', Jello finds that Finn, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum are unsympathetic leads, the humor is awkward and stupid, the excessive ToiletHumor is annoying, the show [[AbortedArc doesn't conclude character arcs]], and it focuses too much on romantic subplots. Jello much rather prefers the stories of the tertiary cast over the main story.
64	*** With ''Kingdom Hearts'', Jello believes that the series' infamous KudzuPlot makes it basically impossible to understand, the fact that the characters seem to [[AssPull pull sudden plot developments out of nowhere]] makes it annoying, and that the HoYay implications between multiple characters (Sora and Riku especially) are impossible to ignore. To prove the first point, Jello replaces the word "darkness" with the word "bees" throughout the video, saying that it makes just as much sense as the actual plot.[[invoked]]
65	*** With ''RWBY'', Jello finds that the show has too many plotlines that [[AbortedArc go nowhere]]. Jello argues that the show has too many characters and no idea what to do with any of them (especially singling out Blake as being bland and uninteresting). Jello saves most of his main criticisms for the plot, saying it takes forever for the main plot to start, tries to paint Ozpin as morally grey and fails at it, and doesn't do sufficient world building for a world that really needs it. He feels the pacing of the first three volumes is flawed such that it's best to view them all as one long season, and he then says to avoid volumes 4 and 5 altogether as they are garbage.
66	* AnimalMotifs: The {{Original Character}}s in the hypothetical ''[=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure'' Part 9 get appropriately ridiculous outfits in the style of the series, with Joanne adorned with ladybugs, her TagalongKid wearing a milkman suit with a cow-patterned hat and bowtie with a cowbell, and the user of Smash Mouth having a row of sharp teeth while wearing alligator-themed clothing
67	* AuthorAvatar: A drawn version of Jello occasionally pops into the screen to express something.
68	* AuthorFilibuster: Jello will occasionally break character and go on a tangent when he covers a specific character or plot point he does not particular care for, such as in the ''Steven Universe'' and ''Gravity Falls'', or if he is not fond of the series entirely like ''Adventure Time'' and ''Kingdom Hearts''.
69	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In "So this is Sonic the Hedgehog", Jello claims that Sonic can breathe in space because [[InsaneTrollLogic there's no water around to get in the way]].
70	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Lampshaded in "So This is Basically Fire Emblem" where Jello says "killing is OK so long as it's gross people."
71	* BitingTheHandHumor:
72	** "So This is Basically ''Persona 5''" was sponsored by Atlus, the creators of the ''Persona'' series. The whole video is an AffectionateParody of ''Persona 5'', but Jello was still essentially paid by Atlus to roast their game.
73	** Ditto with his NIS America/Falcom sponsored ''Trails of Cold Steel'' episode.
74	* BlankWhiteEyes: Generally the standard for character's eyes as depicted in Jello's art style, though higher-detail pictures use normal eyes.
75	* BrokenAesop:
76	** The ''Pokémon'' episode points out that, while the games push the idea that the titular creatures should be treated as friends and you should use the ones you love, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation the actual mechanics]] make some Pokémon objectively worse than others, and the best way to get a good one is massive amounts of inbreeding.
77	** The ''Persona 5'' episode points out how the Phantom Thieves keep questioning their "morally light-light-grey" actions, featuring Ann and Ryuji wondering if it was okay that they changed the heart of Thomas Babyeater, The Inventor of Eating Babies. The joke is ''of course'' it's okay for the Phantom Thieves to stop those kinds of criminals from doing any more crimes, yet the game keeps acting like the Phantom Thieves are not that different from their targets and somehow morally compromised.
78	* CallBack: In ''Trails of Cold Steel'', Rean has a ThousandYardStare as he's reminded of Crow, who was also apparently turned into a bird. Just like Qrow.
79	* TheCameo: WebComic/{{Sonichu}} makes a brief appearance in "So this is basically Sonic the Hedgehog".
80	* CrazyEnoughToWork: In the ''Sonic'' video, Sonic Hedgehog notices that people are making fun of him a lot. So he decides to revitalize his brand through an emphasis on humanizing the characters with humor, and adding in a dose of SelfDeprecation to him. And as Jello notes, "this actually worked", as Sonic ends up holding large wads of cash in his hands with a big smile on his face.
81	* CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit: One episode talks about WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom and shows a scene where Danny fights off a ghost in a diving suit saying puns as he fights, possibly being a reference to the ghost of Captain Cutler from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''.
82	* CursedWithAwesome: Lampshaded in ''RWBY'', when Qrow explains to Ruby that he was given the power to turn into a bird. Except that it's explicitly not a curse, because he can control himself as a bird, and can switch between his human and bird forms at will. Ruby points out that this sounds exclusively beneficial, but Qrow is too into his rant to care.
83	* DeadUnicornTrope: A few of the archetype parodies in the ''Fire Emblem'' video fall into this.
84	** The "red-haired mage who isn't good yet!" is close, but falls short of the mark. While "early-joining mage with bad starting stats" is fairly common in ''Fire Emblem'', only three of them (Azelle, Ewan and Ricken) have been redheads--if there's a stereotypical hair color for early-joining mages in the series, it's probably green (Merric, Asbel, Lugh, Soren) or purple (Arthur, Erk, Lute).
85	** The EvilChancellor is a young and beautiful woman, when in the ''Fire Emblem'' franchise, the Gharnef archetype as the fandom calls them, is AlwaysMale and typically elderly. The series is known for its usage of FemalesAreMoreInnocent, so female villains rarely get to be as devious as the male villains. According to Jello, this was due to the Vizier being a CompositeCharacter of Nergal (a member of the Gharnef archetype) and Sonia (a minor villain) from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade''.
86	** There also is not a single ''Fire Emblem'' game, in the entire franchise, that has exactly four enemy generals consisting of "the fun crazy one", "the boring one", "the one that dies offscreen", and "the noble one".
87	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Parodied in the ''Gravity Falls'' episode; when Jello explains that Dipper wants to learn who wrote [[GreatBigBookOfEverything the journals]], a musical {{sting}} plays as it zooms in on Waddles the pig.
88	* EatsBabies: The Do-Crimer's targets in ''Persona 5'' include Thomas Babyeater, the inventor of eating babies. Naturally, the thieves extensively debate if stopping him was the right choice.
89	* EntertaininglyWrong: In the ''Persona 5'' video, Sae Niijima says that Nasty Crimeboy/Joker is extremely lucky to have gotten away with his crimes for as long as he did. So she concludes that he must have had help from a leprechaun.
90	* EpicFail: In the ''Persona 5'' video, Mishima tries to summon his Persona by tearing off his mask. Not only does it take him a few tries to do it, but he rips off part of his face and bleeds to death on the ground.
91	* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''Ace Attorney'', for a split second, Prosecutor Ducky (who was last seen cheerfully calling out penalties for not keeping time with the game's logic) reacts like the killer's InsaneTrollLogic that keeps a guilty verdict on the judge's mind is beyond ''her'' scope.
92	* {{Expy}}:
93	** The lord in the Fire Emblem video resembles [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Lyn, especially her hair,]] and has [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Roy's comically late promotion.]]
94	** Joanne, the protagonist of the hypothetical [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo Part 9,]] looks like a mixture of Jolyne and Giorno. Her KidSidekick is reminiscent of Emporio, with a cow-print outfit similar to Rikiel's. The second villain she encounters has a design similar to Donatello Versus.
95	* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In ''[=JoJo=]'', he brings up how characters tend to forget about certain powers of their own stands, like Kakyoin being able to use paintings to injure Jotaro in his introduction arc. "Part 9" has Cow Hat Boy needing to be outright told to use his Stand while Joanne is being fought by Smash Mouth.
96	-->'''Cow Hat Boy''': ''(crying)'' If only I could help her somehow...!\
97	'''Bystander''': Use your Stand, you idiot!
98	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Jello is talking about how Jerry from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is a spineless loser, a computer monitor in the background can be seen that reads, "Patient: Jerry Smith; Prescription: Euthanasia".
99	* TheGenericGuy: In-universe, Jello's opinion of [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Morty.]]
100	-->'''Jello:''' Brick is an amoral mad scientist and the smartest man in the universe, with enemies lurking in every corner of the galaxy! ...And Mortar is also there.
101	* HijackedByGanon: The TropeNamer himself gets called out for this in the ''Legend of Zelda'' episode.
102	-->'''Jello''': Ganon is always the bad guy even when he isn't. Sometimes he shows up at the end of the game to steal another villain's hard work using the darkest magic of all: ''plagiarism''. ''(accompanied by Ganondorf showing a nervous [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Zant]] a "Twilight Realm Deed")''
103	* HurricaneOfPuns: The "Typical Danny Phantom Fight Scene" illustrates this with an OriginalCharacter, Rebreather.
104	-->'''Danny''': Change of plans: it's time for some ''cruise control''."\
105	'''Rebreather''': ''(traps Danny in a ghostly fishing net)'' FOOL! You've fallen for my trap ''hook, line, and sinker''! Now, prepare to sleep with... THE FISHES! ''(shoots fish skeletons at Danny)''
106	* InformedAttractiveness: In "So this is basically Sonic The Hedgehog", Eggman/Large Egg is described as hot. He is a bald, egg-shaped man with cartoony proportions, for those who don't know.
107	* KickTheDog: Parodied in the episode on ''[=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure''. In the hypothetical Part 9, Joanne is hit in the head with a tooth by the villain "Music/SmashMouth", but survived because before it hit her, it killed ''multiple dogs.''
108	* LateCharacterSyndrome: Lampshaded in ''Persona 5'', where Haru is pushed off-screen by Sketchy Akechi because the game doesn't have time to make her a character.
109	* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: One of the characters in "So This Is Basically Fire Emblem" is a "red-haired mage who isn't good yet".
110	* LukeNounverber: ''Persona 5'' mentions a target named Thomas Babyeater.
111	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Jello is a professional voice actor ''and it shows.'' He's performed near-perfect imitations of [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Principal Nezu]], [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit]], [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]], [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Ruby, AND Qrow!]] Keep in mind that Ruby is a squeaky-voiced teenage girl and Qrow is a gravelly-voiced alcoholic in his mid-forties.
112	* MorePopularSpinoff: InUniverse. Jello notes that WebAnimation/RWBYChibi uses the characters better than the actual series. Mind you, that's less praise towards ''Chibi'' and more damning towards the main series.
113	* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: In the ''Persona 5'' video, like with every other Persona awakening in the game, Mishima pulls his mask off in a spray of blood in order to summon Fawkes...and then immediately passes out from the sudden blood loss.
114	* NoBudget: InUniverse, Jello claims that the sudden popularity of ''RWBY'' was despite being made on "a budget of seven dollars".
115	* NotHyperbole: During the ''Kingdom Hearts'' episode, when Jello is discussing the ([[KudzuPlot likely]]) scenario of fans of the games having lingering questions after playing, a text bubble pops up on-screen reading "Xehanort can track Sora because he has an "X" on his shirt!" While this may sound like a NonSequitur joke answer to those not in the loop, this is an ''actual plot point'' in the games.
116	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: When Jello introduces [[BigBad Vicious]] in the ''Cowboy Bebop'' episode, a note below his name reads "That's not a joke, it's seriously his name".
117	* PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales: In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' episode, he points out that male Sonic characters only wear shoes, while female Sonic characters wear entire outfits. He theorizes that this is because they all have to cover up the sexiest part of the body; the toe.
118	* ParodyAssistance:
119	** The episode on ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' had Creator/ButchHartman, the creator of the series, designing and voicing an OriginalCharacter, Rebreather, in the style of the show's usual MonsterOfTheWeek villains.
120	** The ''Persona 5'' episode was sponsored by Atlus, the creators of the ''Persona'' series, and includes an ad for the then-recently-released ''[[UpdatedRerelease Persona 5 Royal]]'' at the end of the video.
121	** Ditto with the ''Trails of Cold Steel'' episode, which was sponsored by NIS America and Falcom, includes an ad read at the end for ''Trails of Cold Steel IV'' (including a giveaway for both III and IV) and even has Sean Chiplock, Xanthe Huynh, and Edward Bosco reprise their roles as Rean, Altina, and Machias respectively.
122	* PasteEater: In the ''Adventure Time'' episode, Jello claims that ''Adventure Time's'' writers come up with endings by eating glue and writing down whatever they see.
123	* ReplacementScrappy: While Jello himself has the opposite opinion of her, he takes a jab at the ''Ace Attorney'' fans who consider Athena to be one for Maya, which he represents via Sal Manella holding a sign that says "Fey is BAE!". [[invoked]]
124	* RuleThirtyFour: Discussed in the episode on ''Animal Crossing'' by saying that Isabelle has "a name that you shouldn't Google in the workplace", owing to large amounts of porn of the character.
125	* RunningGag:
126	** The frequent misnamings of characters.
127	** Jello often demonstrates a character being a {{jerkass}} by depicting them attacking a dog with a jackhammer.
128	** In the ''Pokémon'' episode, a mockup of the "Who's That Pokémon?" screen appears thrice, each time showing a forgotten/ridiculous Pokémon (Qwilfish, Probopass, and Alomomola) in place of an iconic one (Qwilfish replaces a silhouette of Charmander, and Probopass a silhouette of Pikachu, though Alomomola really is the third silhouetted Pokémon.)
129	--->"Shoutouts to the best Pokémon... [name]! ''(sunglasses descend onto the Pokémon)'' Keepin' it real since [inaccurate year]."
130	** Throughout the ''Zelda'' episode, any mention of Link's name is replaced by one of Link's random screams or grunts. This includes uses of the word "link", such as HYAH cables or explaining how the timeline [=HAAAHs=] the games together.
131	** In the ''Kingdom Hearts'' episode, he declares that you could replace the word "darkness" with "bees" and everything would make just as much sense. And then he does just that for the rest of the video: in the monologue, in the images (bees surround everything tainted by darkness), and in having darkness-infused [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit]] tell Sora that he should be a beekeeper.
132	* RunningGagStumbles:
133	** In the ''Adventure Time'' video, the jackhammer gag is turned on its head by having Jake the Dog be the one to use it on something (specifically, a worm).
134	** Similarly, after the reveal of the massive dog slaughter in the hypothetical 9th ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure JoJo]]'' series, one of the dead dogs is clearly shown to be lying next to a jackhammer.
135	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Discussed in the ''Gravity Falls'' video:
136	--> '''Jello''': After the 20th “Marble’s Crush of the Week” episode, they thought “Man, let’s not leave Dipstick out of this hot action, so they made Wendy. Guess they’re called the Pines twins cause they’re always ''pining'' after someone! ([[IncrediblyLamePun chortle]]) The writers actually start to use her a bit in Season 2, before realizing “Oh, no! [[OnlySaneWoman She’s too competent!]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter Better put her]] [[OutOfFocus back in her box!]]”
137	* ScrappyMechanic:
138	** InUniverse, the ''Zelda'' episode brings up the series's habit of generating these.
139	--->''Enjoy dealing with each installment's signature annoying mechanic, like [[ViolationOfCommonSense kinstone merging]], [[ThatOneLevel the Temple of the Ocean King]], [[RunningGag HMMM]] [[PlayerDataSharing cables]]... [[TakeThat all of]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]...''
140	** In ''Ace Attorney'' he makes fun of some of the requirements for advancing the cases.
141	---> '''Prosecutor Ducky:''' Hold on now. You can't present this banana. You need to present the PHOTO of the banana. They are completely different. [[SuddenlyShouting PENALTY!]]
142	** ''Persona 5'' says that you can spend time with your friends to "unlock massive quality-of-life improvements that really have no business being optional", along with others that are "totally worthless".
143	* SeasonalRot[[invoked]]:
144	** Jello sees the later seasons of ''Danny Phantom'' as this, with the cited reasons being a weak finale, poor use of the established cast, and neglecting elements that had made the early seasons worthwhile.
145	** While Jello can recommend watching the first three volumes of WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} as a single season, he suggests people simply ask others who already watched 4 and 5 what happened so they don't have to watch garbage.
146	** Jello points out that ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' was so bad that it literally retconned itself out of existence. It was at that point that fans kept mocking Sonic to the point where he decided to mock ''himself''.
147	* SelfDeprecation: Discussed with ''Sonic the Hedgehog''. After people started endlessly mocking Sonic, Sonic Hedgehog starts mocking himself as a carnival barker so people can dunk him in a water tank, with a focus on humor to humanize him. And "somehow, this actually worked," revitalizing Sonic's brand and making Sonic a ton of money.[[invoked]]
148	* ShoutOut:
149	** In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' video, one of the abilities in the ''Birth By Sleep'' finisher screen is "Okay I Believe You", one of the many constantly-repeated phrase in Just a Pancake's ''WebVideo/KingdomHeartsInANutshell'' series.
150	** In the ''Genshin Impact'' video, "Series/{{Nanalan}}" is named as a potential new nation to explore later in the game, which is signified by a giant Mona[[note]]The one from ''Nanalan'', not ''Genshin''[[/note]] looming in the distance.
151	* ShownTheirWork: Whether Jello is making fun of a series or praising it (usually the former), he always does his research on it so his riffs are accurate. For his video on ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure,'' he read ''every single volume of the manga''. It took him three months.
152	* SpaceX: The "SPACE MAIL" from ''Cowboy Bebop''.
153	* SpecialEffectFailure: Jello complains about this in the ''RWBY'' video, quipping that the character models have so much clipping and clopping that they might be mistaken for horses. He's also surprised that it became such a smash hit despite looking like it had a total budget of seven dollars. [[invoked]]
154	* TakeThat:
155	** ''Adventure Time'', ''RWBY'', and to a lesser extent, ''Kingdom Hearts'' are the series that Jello outright dislikes, and he picks apart the series for several flaws.
156	** TheStinger of the ''Pokémon'' episode takes a shot at the [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Shadow Pokémon]] [[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness duology]], which Jello isn't fond of from a gameplay perspective.
157	** [[invoked]] When talking about [[ScrappyMechanic bad mechanics]] in the ''Zelda'' games, Jello mentions "all of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]''" as one. He also mentions the ''Literature/HyruleHistoria'' timeline as something that "makes everything worse" and thus should be [[FanonDiscontinuity ignored]], fitting with the video showing the cast as composites of all their appearances.
158	** In his ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' video, he calls people who call the series ''[[GratuitousJapanese Boku no]] Hero Academia'' "annoying", and tells people to stop sexualizing the cast since they're fifteen. He also picks on Class 1-B (saying they don't matter), implies that he doesn't understand why [[{{Invisibility}} Tooru Hagakure]] is so popular and accuses her of [[FlatCharacter not having a personality]] and takes a shot at people who nitpick at him. He makes a jab at the shipping in the fandom towards the end of the episode, but this one feels a bit more playful.
159	** In his ''Kingdom Hearts'' video, aside from Jello not liking the series in general very much, one of the lingering questions he thinks people may have is "Why does [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded Re:coded]] exist?"
160	** The ''Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' video has several of these aimed at the show's first season. He calls Ferguson and Alfonso so boring and terrible that he doesn't even remember their names and asks why the network didn't think that the female leads Jackie and Jana were better characters and didn't give as much focus on them from the start. He finishes the video by praising the third season being more plot-focused, and hopes it doesn't go back to the bad stuff or focus on irrelevant things from season one (he then complains about ''Steven Universe'' doing exactly that in its own later seasons).
161	** His ''Persona 5'' video sees him taking potshots at Atlus for not allowing same sex romance options but being okay with Joker romancing adults, particularly the alcoholic Ohya.
162	** His ''[=JoJo=]'s Bizarre Adventure" video makes it pretty apparent that Jello has absolutely no care for Kakyoin, blatantly comparing him to being a [[FlatCharacter cardboard cutout]]. The description of the video makes it even more apparent, as it says "stop pretending kakyoin has a personality guys"
163	* ThoseTwoGuys: You think Sonic's biggest friends are Tails, Knuckles and Amy? Nah. It's Mighty, Danica Patrick and the US President.
164	* UniquenessDecay: How Jello feels about Keyblade Wielders in his ''Kingdom Hearts'' episode. Where only one can wield them, yet there are multiple Keyblade wielders in the series he feels like these things are given away like lollipops from the dentist.
165	* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: In-universe, Jello has trouble pronouncing "[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Alomomola]]".
166	* VillainyFreeVillain: In the ''RWBY'' episode, Jello says that the writers want the audience to think of Ozpin as morally gray, but "keep forgetting to have him do anything evil" to justify this.
167	* TheWorfEffect: In the ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' video, Jello describes Weiss' (or "Whine's") special power as "losing every single fight she's ever been in."

Context WebAnimation / SoThisIsBasically