Line #109 WebAnimation/LlamasWithHats


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/llama_small_5547.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[-All the fun of llamas, but with the added comfort of hats!-] ]]
3	->''"I do not kill people. That is-- that is my least favourite thing to do."''
4	-->-- '''Carl'''
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6	'''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE8C175E9FAAA34A Llamas with Hats]]''' is an animated web series created by Jason Steele of Creator/{{FilmCow}} that ran for four episodes from 2009-2010 as a fun and well-received DarkComedy, then later revived for a further eight episodes from 2014-2015 that turn the show into something much ''darker''.
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8	The original series featured two llamas, both wearing hats. One of them (the sane and logical [[StraightMan Paul]]) accuses the other (the murderous and in-denial [[TheSociopath Carl]]) of committing a monstrous crime. Carl's crimes become more grandiose with each episode. A fifth episode was planned, but cancelled when fans easily predicted the joke.
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10	As detailed in [[http://www.filmcow.com/2015/02/12/llamas-with-hats-an-explanation/ this spoiler-heavy analysis from the creator himself]], the show's revival came about when he had an idea for a legitimately surprising fifth episode and decided to extend the idea into a fully-fledged, eight-episode {{story arc}} that would deconstruct the show's comedy with a sense of dark meta-humour as the viewer became privy to Carl's tormented, self-destructive psyche. Being inherently less funny, the revival was at first panned by some fans as an attempt to cash-in on the earlier episodes' success, but this faded as the series reached its climax.
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12	In late 2019, a SpinoffBabies [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhPqfjYbvo picture book]] titled ''Llamas with Hats: Babies'' was released.
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14	In 2023, the original series got demonetized. In retaliation, Jason Steele made a "Re-Cut for Brand Conscientiousness" video, which consisted of a personification of [=YouTube=] hosting a compilation of the original videos [[BitingTheHandHumor edited to remove all the gore and have Paul and Carl dubbed over with generic voices spouting out blind praise of sponsors and bottled water]]... [[CosmicHorrorStory Before going off the rails entirely.]]
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16	On April 9, 2024, a [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1556971210/llamas-with-hats-epilogue Kickstarter]] for an epilogue to the series was announced, with the intent to create a final installment that is about the length of the previous twelve parts combined.
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18	!!'''''Llamas with Hats provides'' examples of:'''
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20	[[folder:Episodes 1-6]]
21	* AffablyEvil: Carl is a mass murdering, remorseless psychopath. A ''cheerful'' mass murdering, remorseless psychopath, that is.
22	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Second vid:
23	-->'''Paul:''' Carl, I watched you fire a harpoon into the captain's face!\
24	'''Carl:''' That sounds dangerous!\
25	'''Paul:''' You were headbutting children off the side of the ship!\
26	'''Carl:''' That, uh, that must have been horrifying to watch.\
27	'''Paul:''' And then you started making out with the ice sculptures!\
28	'''Carl:''' Well, thank ''god'' [[ThinkOfTheChildren that the children weren't on board to see it]]!
29	** Subverted in 4, where it looks like Carl's latest crime is ruining the carpet with muddy hoofprints... [[spoiler:then the nuke detonates.]]
30	* ArtisticLicenceBiology: How Carl was able to eat a hotel bartender.
31	-->'''Paul:''' Your mouth unhinged like a snake.
32	* AskAStupidQuestion:
33	** In episode 1, after Paul discovers that Carl killed someone and ate their hands.
34	--->'''Paul:''' What is ''wrong'' with you, Carl?!\
35	'''Carl:''' Well, I-I kill people and I eat hands. That's-- that's two things.
36	** And from episode 4, we have:
37	--->'''Paul:''' Why would you think ''any'' of this was a good idea?\
38	'''Carl:''' Probably because I'm a dangerous sociopath with a long history of violence.\
39	'''Paul:''' ...Oh.\
40	'''Carl:''' [[LampshadeHanging I don't understand how you keep forgetting that.]]
41	* AxCrazy: Is an InformedAttribute of Carl's. The bloody remains and the orphan meat are a good indication anyway.
42	** He certainly has a taste for human flesh.
43	** While we still don't really ''see'' Carl kill anyone, after Episode 4, Carl's insanity gradually becomes less and less of an informed attribute. [[spoiler:He begins hallucinating, and believes that a mask of Paul's face is telling him to murder everything in the world, including himself]].
44	* BaitAndSwitch: Episode 4 opens with Paul whining at Carl the way he always does, but only over Carl treading mud into the house (which for once is an offence the whining is actually appropriate response to), with Carl making his usual [[ImplausibleDeniability insane excuses]]. Then their entire house is blown away by a nuke detonating in the background and it starts raining human faces tied to party balloons.
45	* BlatantLies:
46	-->'''Carl:''' I do not kill people. That is- that is my ''least'' favorite thing to do.
47	** Carl's refusal to take the blame for the muddy hoofprints on the carpet in episode 4.
48	--->'''Carl:''' [[NeverMyFault I'm not responsible for this, I've been jamming on the saxophone all morning.]]\
49	'''Paul:''' They're clearly your hoofprints, Carl.\
50	'''Carl:''' [[InsaneTrollLogic Then there is an imposter on the loose!]]\
51	'''Paul:''' They lead directly to you!\
52	'''Carl:''' [[LogicalFallacies Clue #1: The imposter is a]] ''[[LogicalFallacies phantom!]]''
53	* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
54	-->'''Paul:''' Tell me, Carl, ''exactly'' what you were doing before I got home!\
55	'''Carl:''' Alright, well... I-I was upstairs...\
56	'''Paul:''' Okay.\
57	'''Carl:''' I was, uh, I was sitting in my room...\
58	'''Paul:''' Yes?\
59	'''Carl:''' Reading a book...\
60	'''Paul:''' Go on.\
61	'''Carl:''' And, uh, well, this guy walked in...\
62	'''Paul:''' Okay...\
63	'''Carl:''' So, I went up to him...\
64	'''Paul:''' Yes?\
65	'''Carl:''' And I, uh, I stabbed him 37 times in the chest.\
66	''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]''\
67	'''Paul:''' ''[[RunningGag Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarl]], that kills people!''
68	** In episode five, Carl donates to the local girl scouts, washes the car, bakes banana bread for his neighbor Pat... [[spoiler:and rips a crack in space-time to steal baby hands.]]
69	* BreatherEpisode: Horribly, '''horribly''' subverted with Episode 4. [[spoiler:Amusingly, Episode 5 could be viewed as this, which is even lampshaded by Paul.]]
70	* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:In Episode 6, Carl finishes the Meat Dragon he mentioned he was working on in Episode 3.]]
71	-->'''Paul''' [[spoiler:Did you finish your Meat Dragon, Carl?]]\
72	'''Carl:''' ''Maybe...''\
73	'''Paul:''' [[spoiler:''(sigh)'' It's horrifying, Carl.]]\
74	'''Carl:''' [[spoiler:...Thank you.]]
75	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Slaughtering and mutilating humans, crossing the MoralEventHorizon, all of this is just another weekday to Carl. Of course, even Paul starts getting used to it. Carl's response is to find another MoralEventHorizon to cross.
76	* CallBack: In Episode 3, Carl mentions he's stuffed their luggage with Orphan Meat because he's building a Meat Dragon. [[spoiler:In Episode 6, Carl's "surprise" is that there's a giant Meat Dragon outside their house.]]
77	** In Episode 1, Carl mentions having the rumblies in his stomach, that only hands can satisfy. In Episode 10, Carl mentions having the rumblies and being hungry for hands. He even asks Paul if he remembers.
78	** In Episode 2, Carl says that the sound of forgiveness is "screaming then silence." [[spoiler:The last episode ends with Carl, finding out that he indirectly killed Paul (and everyone else on earth as well, [[AMillionIsAStatistic but meh]]), [[DrivenToSuicide flinging himself from an overpass, screaming his name like Paul did.]] As he hits the water, the music and sound goes quiet...]]
79	* CardCarryingVillain:
80	-->'''Paul:''' Why would you think ''any'' of this was a good idea?!\
81	'''Carl:''' Probably because I'm a dangerous sociopath with a long history of violence.\
82	'''Paul:''' ...Oh.\
83	'''Carl:''' [[SanityBall I]] ''[[SanityBall don't]]'' [[SanityBall understand how you keep forgetting that.]]
84	* CharacterCatchphrase: ''CAAAAAAARL!'
85	* ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun: When Carl is asked where the other lifeboats are, he calculates his response based on the trajectory of the Moon and the Sun... before concluding that they're at the bottom of the ocean, because he bit lots of holes in them.
86	* ComedicSociopathy: It becomes obvious that Carl is a total psychopath, but he otherwise acts like a normal person, which is kinda why it's so damn funny.
87	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Paul doesn't appreciate Carl's birthday gift of human faces tied to balloons. Carl assumes it's because the nuclear explosion left them undercooked.
88	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Carl likes to be inventive and creative with his homicidal urges. And then he likes to do stuff with the remaining corpse. Sometimes [[ImAHumanitarian eating them]], sometimes building furniture out of them, sometimes creating monsters out of them.
89	* DeadlyRotaryFan: In the third video, Carl has apparently pushed people, including a South American resistance leader, into a giant fan.
90	* DeconstructiveParody: Episodes 6 (and later 8) are mainly about Paul getting fed up with Carl's psychopathic antics, and like a normal person, [[spoiler:deciding to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave]].]] [[spoiler: Things proceed [[SanitySlippage to go downhill from there]].]]
91	* DisproportionateRetribution
92	** The lovely elderly couple from 2B, who were liquefied by Carl for hogging all of the crescent rolls during the cruise.
93	** One of Carl's neighbours, Mrs. Bigsby, was BuriedAlive by Carl because she didn't keep up with weeding her garden.
94	* DissonantSerenity: Carl, especially in the aftermath of [[spoiler: the nuke.]]
95	-->'''Paul:''' ...CAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRL!\
96	'''Carl:''' Happy birth''daaay~!''
97	* DontYouLikeIt: Carl's birthday gift to Paul in episode 4 consists of a city-levelling nuclear explosion and severed human faces tied to balloons. Paul is, understandably, horrified.
98	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Raw face is just gross.
99	* EvilIsPetty: Don't hog the crescent rolls -- if you want to live.
100	* FailedState: Episode 3 starts out with South America completely in shambles, with Carl having been the perpetrator yet again.
101	-->'''Paul:''' You toppled the South American government, Carl!\
102	'''Carl:''' The people have spoken. "Viva la resistance!"\
103	'''Paul:''' You pushed the resistance leader into a giant fan!\
104	'''Carl:''' He was a traitor and a scoundrel!\
105	'''Paul:''' He was trying to stop you from pushing ''other'' people into a giant fan.
106	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
107	-->'''Carl:''' I'll have to try harder next time.
108	** As well as the music at the end of Episode Six being a semi-tone lower. [[spoiler:And then slightly distorted in the next episode. And more distorted in the next. And the next, almost as if the show were decaying.]]
109	* FlatWhat: Carl's response to his roommate's UnsettlingGenderReveal.
110	* FromBadToWorse... and then it got worse some more... then it got worse again, and finally, yep, [[SerialEscalation it got even worse]].
111	* HowDidThatGetInThere: Carl's first reaction to the body in the first episode.
112	* HowIsThatEvenPossible: Paul's reaction to [[spoiler:Carl nuking an entire city in the fourth episode]].
113	-->'''Paul:''' How did you even ''do'' this?
114	** Gets a CallBack in the next episode, when Carl escalates it further and gets upset that Paul isn't more shocked:
115	--->'''Carl:''' How did I even do this?\
116	'''Paul:''' I don't understand how or ''why'' you do anything!
117	* HypocriticalHumor: This moment:
118	-->'''Paul:''' I can't go anywhere with you, Carl.\
119	'''Carl:''' That hurt my feelings. Now we're ''both'' in the wrong.
120	* ImplausibleDeniability: Carl, all the time. He will stand next to the corpse of the person he killed and cheerfully deny having any part in their death.
121	* ImprobableWeaponUser: In Episode 3, Carl kills LaResistance with a giant fan.
122	* InMediasRes: The first 3 episodes take place ''after'' Carl's rampages. The fourth episode seems to continue this trend by starting with Paul upset at Carl for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking tracking mud into the house]]... [[spoiler: Then the nuke goes off.]]
123	* InstantTurnOff: Carl is shocked to learn that his roommate, Paul, is a man (he assumed that Paul was a woman because of his effeminate hat). After the reveal, Carl ends the episode with this remark:
124	-->'''Carl:''' Well, if you'll excuse me, I have some pictures to delete from my computer.
125	* InsultBackfire: In Episode 6:
126	-->'''Paul''': All you do is kill people, Carl!\
127	'''Carl''': That's like saying all Mozart did was write songs.
128	* LighterAndSofter: Horribly, horribly subverted by the fourth installment.
129	* LimitedAnimation: Most of the episodes feature no movement from anything but the characters' faces. Lampshaded in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wmcru2frls the ad for the iPhone game]].
130	-->'''Paul:''' I literally never see you move!\
131	'''Carl:''' Now that you mention it, I never see you move either.\
132	'''Paul:''' Oh my god, you're totally right!\
133	'''Carl:''' This is really strange.\
134	'''Paul:''' I can't move anything except my mouth and my eyes!
135	* MattressTagGag: Carl blames a [[spoiler:nuclear explosion]] on him ripping the tag from a mattress. That, or fairy dust.
136	* AMillionIsAStatistic: Discussed by Paul. Even if it is a higher body count, simply saying you mutilated millions of babies just doesn't have the same shock value as [[spoiler:a nuke going off in your own home city]].
137	* MinimalistCast: Carl and Paul are usually the only characters on the show. Or rather, the only survivors of Carl's rampages.
138	* MonochromeCasting: When Carl rips a tear in space time to collect baby hands, Paul noticed that out of the millions of hands flying out of the portal, every single one of them came from a white baby. Carl points out that he specifically targeted white babies.
139	-->'''Carl:''' Well, you know, Whitey's gotta pay. And the payment is baby hands.
140	* MonsterRoommate: Yes, Paul is very annoyed that Carl is a psychopathic monster who destroys people, ships, and countries when they're on vacation. [[spoiler:In Episode 6, he's finally had enough and decides to leave.]]
141	* MoralGuardians: Parodied. When Paul accuses Carl of making out with the ice sculptures on the cruise ship, Carl's reaction is to thank God that the children (whom he'd headbutted off the side of the ship) weren't on board to see it.
142	* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Always... If there is not a reason, Carl will find one.
143	* NeverBareheaded: The llamas, appropriately enough.
144	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: In early episodes, Carl attempts to play himself off as this. It becomes increasingly clear that he's aware of what he's doing as the series proceeds, though.
145	* NoNameGiven: Until the third animation, Paul's name was never given. Not even Carl could remember it.
146	* PhraseCatcher: ''"Caaaaaaaaaaaarl!"''
147	* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Carl harvests orphan meat. Why? "Well, I'm going to build a meat dragon, and not just ANY meat will do!"
148	* ProperlyParanoid: Paul is this by episode 5. "I know you've done something. You've always done something. It's a lovely day out, we're having a good time. What have you done?"
149	* LaResistance: ...no longer exists, thanks to Carl and a [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath giant fan]].
150	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilised: Mostly Carl's fault.
151	* RubberOrifice: Mentioned in episode three, where Paul tells Carl that his "mouth unhinged like a snake", allowing him to swallow a hotel bartender whole. A foot kicks in Carl's stomach, stretching from Carl's midsection before recoiling back.
152	* SayMyName: Paul's catchphrase.
153	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The trailer for the iPhone game has Carl pull this. [[spoiler:Paul has had enough and is prepared to leave in Episode 6, and does by Episode 7.]]
154	* SeenItAll:
155	-->'''Paul:''' You know what? Forget it. I'm not even shocked anymore.\
156	'''Carl:''' Aww, that's no fun!\
157	'''Paul:''' This has become the ''norm'' for you, Carl!
158	** In full effect by episode five.
159	--->'''Carl:''' Fine. [[spoiler:I may have created a crack in spacetime, through which to collect millions of baby hands.]]\
160	'''Paul:''' ...Huh.\
161	'''Carl:''' What do you mean, "huh"?\
162	'''Paul:''' I think I was expecting worse.\
163	'''Carl:''' Worse? But this is totally fudged, bro.
164	* SerialEscalation: In the first video, Carl killed one person ([[AssholeVictim an implied trespasser,]] it must be admitted). In the second he sunk an entire cruise ship and in third he toppled the south-american government. Then in the fourth, he [[spoiler: nukes an entire city]]. Lampshaded and subverted in the fifth, where Paul notes that after that, Carl [[spoiler: stealing baby hands through a rip in spacetime is comparatively minor.]] [[spoiler: By the end of the series, Carl's actions have seemingly ''wiped out all life on earth.'']]
165	* TheSociopath: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Carl himself.
166	* SpoofAesop:
167	-->'''Carl:''' Shhhh... do you hear that? That's the sound of forgiveness.\
168	'''Paul:''' That's the sound of people drowning, Carl!\
169	'''Carl:''' ''That'' is what forgiveness sounds like. Screaming, and then silence.
170	* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Guess who.
171	* StuffBlowingUp: Episode four. Carl's responsible. Not that it's a surprise.
172	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: On Carl's part. A lot.
173	* SwallowedWhole:
174	-->'''Carl:''' I appear to have swallowed an entire person.\
175	'''Paul:''' That would be the hotel bartender.\
176	'''Carl:''' Well, that explains why my mojito was taking so long.\
177	'''Paul:''' It was horrifying. Your mouth unhinged like a snake.
178	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Paul's hat.
179	-->'''Carl:''' Oh. I thought you were a woman.\
180	'''Paul:''' Why would you think that?\
181	'''Carl:''' Mostly the hat.
182	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The dead guy from Episode 1, who was stabbed 37 times in the chest by Carl.
183	* ToServeMan: Cooked hands, orphan meat, entire live human beings...
184	* ToughActToFollow: [[invoked]]Parodied and lampshaded to hell and back in the fifth video. Yeah having [[spoiler: baby hands from another dimension fall around]] is pretty bad but compared to completely [[spoiler: annihilating a city from existence with a nuke]] then having flayed faces rain from the sky, it's almost a relief. In fact, depending on how the whole [[spoiler: other dimension]] thing works it's entirely possible that Carl didn't kill or harm a single person in the video.
185	* TrivialTitle: Despite being mentioned the title, the llama's hats are entirely incidental to the series' narrative. The only time they're even brought up is in Episode 3 when Carl explains why he thought Paul was a woman.
186	* UnnecessaryTimePrecision: While not technically time-based, Paul's conversation with Carl rings off this trope. The former asks the latter for the rest of the lifeboats. Carl seems to be calculating trajectories as if the boats just got lost adrift. Instead, they sunk because he bit holes in them.
187	-->'''Paul:''' Where are the other lifeboats, Carl?\
188	'''Carl:''' Looking at the trajectory of the moon and the sun, probably at the bottom of the ocean. I bit lots of holes in them.
189	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Paul's gender, to Carl.
190	-->'''Carl:''' Are you sure?\
191	'''Paul:''' Of course I'm sure.\
192	'''Carl:''' Well, if you'll excuse me, [[BrainBleach I have some pictures to delete from my computer]].
193	* VacationEpisode: Episodes 2 and 3. Carl enjoys himself rather more than Paul does.
194	* VillainProtagonist: Carl, of course.
195	* VillainsOutShopping: Carl will try to play off almost ''anything'' as normal, then admit to it... but it sounds like he was telling the truth about his activities of the day in episode 5. He just neglected to mention the rift in spacetime he "may have" opened.
196	* TheWatcher: Paul.
197	* WouldHurtAChild: Carl allegedly headbutted children off the side of the cruise ship in episode 2. Episode 3 has it implied that he killed orphans [[spoiler: to use their meat to build a "meat dragon"]]. [[spoiler:And of course there were bound to be children in the city he nuked in episode 4]]. Explicit by episode 5, where Carl [[spoiler:steals the hands of millions of babies]]. By episode 6 [[spoiler: he has built a conveyor belt to carry ground-up orphans through the house, and he's finished the aforementioned meat dragon]].
198	* YouExclamation: Crossing over with HeyYou, Carl's comeback to Paul at the end of Episode 3 provokes Paul's ArmorPiercingQuestion.
199	-->'''Carl:''' I'll have to try harder next time!\
200	'''Paul:''' Please don't.\
201	'''Carl:''' I feel like I've been issued a challenge.\
202	'''Paul:''' Caaaaarl!\
203	'''Carl:''' It's too late now... You!\
204	'''Paul:''' ''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]'' ..."You"?\
205	'''Carl:''' [[ArmorPiercingResponse I totally don't remember your name.]]\
206	'''Paul:''' We've known each other for ''[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe three years]]'', Carl!\
207	'''Carl:''' [[StealthInsult And what an impression you've made!]]
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210	[[folder:Episodes 7-12]]
211	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After learning he killed his old friend Paul during his 15 year rampage, Carl is DrivenToSuicide and jumps to his death off a bridge, his final words being an imaginary conversation he's having with Paul with tears running down his face]].
212	* AmbiguousSituation: It's left unclear in episodes 9-11 if the Carl mask actually came to life or if it was just a hallucination. [[spoiler: Episode 12 showcasing it as being a lifeless mask hanging on Carl's neck after he discovers Paul's skeleton implies it was just a hallucination, however.]]
213	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Paul is revealed to have starved to death some time between Episode 8 and the final episode. Carl kills himself when he finds this out]].
214	* ArcWords: [[spoiler:"You must finish your work, Carl," said by Carl's hallucinations of the Paul Mask. It has been confirmed by the creator that the work that must be finished is [[DrivenToSuicide Carl himself]].]]
215	* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:By Episode 11, Carl has apparently eradicated all life on Earth.]]
216	* BeardOfSorrow: Starting in episode 8, Carl gains a stubbly chin. In episode 11, it becomes a full beard.
217	* BlackComedy: Considering that it's Creator/FilmCow we're dealing with, it's ''[[SurrealHumour Surreal]]'' BlackComedy. The last episode seems like a [[SubvertedTrope straight up depressing ending...]] [[WordOfGod until Jason said]] that it was the funniest way to end the series he could think of.
218	* CallBack: A subtle one in episode 12. [[spoiler: After Carl finds Paul's corpse, he screams at the top of the bridge, and then kills himself. This causes the music to cut out as well. That's what forgiveness sounds like, screaming, and then silence.]]
219	* CerebusSyndrome: Starting with Episode 7, the videos start focusing less on humor, and more on the disturbing aspects of Carl's mental state, and it only gets darker and darker as the series continues. Steele commented on this saying it would be like if the last season of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had the sun go out and the characters spending every episode in hopeless despair before freezing to death.
220	* DarkerAndEdgier: Although the series has always been dark, Episode 10 brought it to a whole new level by [[spoiler:having Carl end up in a pit full of dead bodies with great damage done to him, including broken bones, a torn ear, a few bruises, etc. All the while, the Paul Mask is convincing him that he needs to do more.]]
221	* DeadHatShot: [[spoiler:The last episode ends with Carl's hat slowly submerging into the water after he drowns himself. Considering that the llamas are known for their hats, this is more tragic than other examples.]]
222	* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Carl, after discovering Paul's corpse.]]
223	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The final episode ends with all life on Earth destroyed, Paul dead and Carl, no longer hallucinating the Paul Mask, committing suicide by throwing himself off a bridge and drowning himself. Unlike the rest of the series, this is not played for BlackComedy in any way.]]
224	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Carl, consumed by his loneliness, casts himself off a bridge into the ocean after having found Paul's corpse.]]
225	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: How the series ends. Carl killed off every living thing in the world, discovers that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Paul is among his victims]], and then [[DrivenToSuicide ended it all]]]].
226	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As much a monster Carl is, it shows that Carl definitely cares for Paul, in his own twisted way. [[spoiler:Finding his corpse in the finale is what breaks him entirely.]]
227	** [[spoiler:His leaving in the first place is what seems to really push Carl off the deep-end, taking him from his "normal" psychopathic behavior to something so destructive that it ends up with the death of all life on Earth]].
228	* EverybodyDiesEnding: By the end of the series,[[spoiler: everyone on Earth, including Carl and Paul, die.]]
229	* EvolvingCredits: Throughout the second half of the series, the ending theme becomes increasingly distorted and out of tune, mirroring Carl's SanitySlippage. [[spoiler:Special mention to the final episode's credits, where although the music is suddenly back to normal, this is the only time it plays fully to the end instead of fading out after a few seconds like it does before.]]
230	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Paul Mask has them whenever it's not around Carl's neck.
231	* IntelligibleUnintelligible: In Episode 7, a sheep with a Paul mask [[OneShotCharacter temporarily]] [[ReplacementGoldfish replaces Paul himself]], despite lacking proper speech, Carl can understand it just fine.
232	* InternalDeconstruction: The second group of episodes explores the implications of Carl's mental state and trademark escalation to a logical and very dark conclusion.
233	* KilledOffscreen: ''Everyone'' who dies, due to the LimitedAnimation, with the exception of [[spoiler:Carl when he offs himself]].
234	* LatexPerfection: The mask Carl makes of Paul's face after he moves out.
235	* MoodWhiplash: The final few episodes are definitely more creepy than the rest, but [[spoiler:the ending hits the ball out of the park, what with Paul dying offscreen, Carl finding his decayed carcass and then tearfully committing suicide by throwing himself off of the side of a bridge.]]
236	* NeverMyFault: Carl refuses to take any blame whatsoever for any of his actions.
237	-->'''Carl:''' I burned my house down once it had enough swans inside, and I used up the rest of my savings buying the swans.\
238	'''Paul:''' And whose fault is that, Carl?!\
239	'''Carl:''' Society. Society and the swans.
240	* NewhartPhonecall: The entirety of Episode 7 is presented as this to the viewers because the sheep wearing the Paul mask's dialogue is unintelligible.
241	* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Carl ends up being this. In the final episode he wanders around a barren wasteland, with absolutely no signs of life left, except for himself. [[DrivenToSuicide He changes that.]]]]
242	* OneShotCharacter: The sheep that wore the Paul mask that appears in Episode 7, that's the sheep's only appearance, maybe a TragicOneShotCharacter due to the fact that Paul [[KilledOffscreen killed said sheep off]] [[NoodleImplements in a blood canal.]]
243	* PutOnABus: Paul decides to move out in the sixth episode. He's last heard in the eighth. [[spoiler:In the finale, Carl finds [[BusCrash his dead body]]]].
244	* RecycledSoundtrack: Episode 12 ends on Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
245	* ReplacementGoldfish: Episode 7 sees Paul replaced by a sheep (in a Paul mask, no less!) that despite lacking the ability to speak can still hold the same sort of conversation with Carl. [[KilledOffscreen It doesn't last though.]]
246	* SanitySlippage: The entire StoryArc revolves around Carl undergoing this as a result of Paul leaving.
247	* SayMyName: In Episode 12, [[spoiler:after discovering that Paul is dead, Carl starts shouting Paul's catchphrase over and over again to try to deal with the loneliness.]]
248	* SoundtrackDissonance: After Carl sees that [[spoiler:Paul (and everyone else) is dead]], the scene fades out to a few slow-panning shots of the [[SceneryGorn burning, desolate landscape]] as Music/PachelbelsCanon plays.
249	* StatusQuoIsGod: Averted. When Paul says he's moving away in Episode 6, he means it. He's not present for Episode 7, and has been replaced by a sheep in a Paul Mask.
250	* TimeSkip: According to [[WordOfGod Word of God]], [[spoiler:Episode 11 takes place fifteen years after Episode 10.]]
251	* WhamLine: In Episode 9, "Carrrrl!", said [[spoiler:by the mask without Carl's mouth moving. This is the first indication we get that Carl has become truly insane.]]
252	* WhamShot: In Episode 12, [[spoiler:the shot of Paul's decayed skeleton. Also notable in the shot is that the Paul Mask is no longer floating, but hanging around Carl's neck, meaning Carl has broken his own illusion.]]
253	[[/folder]]
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255	-->''[[OverlyLongGag "CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARL!!"]]''

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