Line #29 WebAnimation/SpoilsburyToastBoy


1	[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/toastboy.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:180:Toast Boy, our mentally scarred hero.]]
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4	->''Good beetles, we are.''
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6	Spoilsbury Toast Boy is a series of three short flash animations created in 2004 and 2005 by Creator/DavidFirth, the same man who brought us the MindScrew known as WebAnimation/SaladFingers.
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8	So one can guess what is to be expected from this creation of his.
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10	The series is set in an unidentified (but rather empty) world run mostly by beetles of either normal or human proportions. Toast Boy, the nervous eponymous character, lives with his grandmother and works in a sweat-shop type toast factory with his sister, Liache. One night, the beetles decide that "pleasant thoughts are unhealthy", and burrow into Toast Boy's head through his ear. Then the nightmares and hallucinations begin...
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12	One of David Firth's lesser known works, the series is told from end to beginning as followed: [[http://www.fat-pie.com/spoils.htm Spoilsbury Toast Boy]], [[http://www.fat-pie.com/spoilsminus1.htm Spoilsbury Toast Boy -1]], and [[http://www.fat-pie.com/spoilsminus2.htm Spoilsbury Toast Boy -2]]. [[WordofGod Firth says]] more episodes are planned. ('''[[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]''').
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16	!!'''This show provides examples of:'''
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18	* BackToFront: The story is told like this, as [[spoiler:we see the ending episode which has Toast Boy getting the "Brain fixing procedure]] and the episodes that come after it show what lead up to it.
19	* BigCreepyCrawlies: The beetles come in two sizes: an inch or two, and ''as big as a human being''. One beetle is about as large as a '''house'''.
20	* BlatantLies: A good portion of what the beetles say.
21	-->'''The beetles:''' ''Beetles know this. Beetles are good doctors.''
22	* BodyHorror: Like ''Salad Finger''s, the series is rife with these, however, a special mention goes to the [[spoiler:the beetles in [[UnusualEuphemism Granny's gash]]]].
23	* ClipArtAnimation: Some of the smaller beetles are clip art pictures.
24	* CompellingVoice: During the hallucinations, the beetles will often tell Toast Boy what he should do. Another more forceful one comes from a large speaker that will appear out of nowhere and tell the slave children what to do.
25	-->'''Hallucination beetle:''' (to Toast Boy) ''I think you should kill her... slit her open and burn her nipples...''
26	* CrapsackWorld: It's David Firth, what do you expect?
27	* CreepyChild: Toast Boy. Liache also might count.
28	* DerangedAnimation: The animation is a little off kilter
29	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins.]]
30	** [[spoiler:Given the similar character design of the creepy obsessive boy in Salad Fingers 4, and the scarring on his head, one could say that the machine worked... more or less...]]
31	* FatBastard: The giant beetle the children are forced to make toast for.
32	* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:At the end of the first short, Toast Boy is stabbed to death by the beetles' "Brain Fixing Machine".]]
33	* FreakOut: Toast Boy has these, as shown when he [[spoiler:finds his grandmother dead]].
34	* GrossUpCloseUp: Mostly of the grandma.
35	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Though not cartoonish in the slightest, most of the human-sized beetles wear only hats, vests, and jackets.
36	-->'''Beetle #2:''' Oh we're such jokers.\
37	'''Beetle #1:''' Jokers in trousers.\
38	'''Beetle #2:''' Well, we're not wearing shorts!\
39	'''Beetle #1:''' It's not really the weather for it.
40	* InsaneTrollLogic: The beetles practically ''run'' on this.
41	-->'''Beetle #1:''' Why, this girl is full of keys.\
42	'''Beetle #2:''' You know what ''this'' means, don't you?\
43	'''Beetle #1:''' Yes. We must remove her nipples.
44	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Toast Boy's grandma is found dead, tipped over into the fireplace by a beetle.]]
45	* MadEye: Toast Boy and Liache, with one eye being shown bigger than the other.
46	* MindRape: The beetles seem to enjoy inflicting this on poor Toast Boy.
47	** Also ''literal'' MindRape... and yes, it is as horrific as it sounds.
48	* MindScrew: '''''All of it'''''.
49	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate:
50	-->'''Doctor Jill:''' (To Liache) ''Do you find the mucus in your nasal passage makes breathing a chore?'' (Liache nods) ''Well then, perhaps you don't deserve to breathe at all.''
51	* NightmareSequence: Several but he most notable is in ep.2 when the beetles "take care" of the boy's "unhealthy" pleasant thoughts.
52	* OminousVisualGlitch: The {{Nightmare Sequence}}s are full of these.
53	* OrificeEvacuation: Even though the beetles crawl through his ear, Toast Boy spits a few out of his mouth.
54	* OrificeInvasion: The smaller beetles enter Toast Boy's body through his ear. [[spoiler:And enter his grandma through her vagina.]]
55	* ParentalAbandonment: Toast Boy and Liache seem to live with their grandmother. Their mother isn't seen or heard and one oddly pleasant dream reveals someone who might be their father but it's never explained what happened to him, which leaves how they came to live with her mystery.
56	* PeekABooCorpse: [[spoiler:Toast Boy stumbles upon his grandma's burning corpse in the second short.]]
57	* PersonalSpaceInvader: The mass of beetles [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong crawling all over Grandma's face]] in -2.
58	* SanitySlippage: Often, for both Toast Boy and possibly the viewer.
59	* ScareChord: Whenever Toast Boy enters a FreakOut, and [[spoiler:when he finds his dead grandma in the fireplace]].
60	* SensoryAbuse: The nightmare sequences are divided by rapidly flashing erratically animated disturbing imagery accompanied by loud distorted noises.
61	* ShoutOut: The beetles distinctive way of speaking appears to be based on Mr Deltoid from ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. Also, the series seems to take it's name from "Pillsbury Doughboy".
62	** Beetles being the antagonists is possibly a reference to the Music/AphexTwin song "Beetles".
63	* SurrealHorror: The series is frightening and pretty disturbing with the odd horror to match.
64	* TalkingAnimal: All of the beetles talk, regardless of size.
65	* TheSwarm: The smaller beetles.
66	* ThreeShorts: Really, there's only three released shorts in the series.
67	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Spoilsbury Toast Boy experiences frequent hallucinations because beetles live inside his brain. It's unclear if all of it is happening inside his head though.
68	* TroubledFetalPosition: Toast Boy is often seen in one, especially during the first short.
69	* TheUnintelligible: Most of the voices are garbled but relatively understandable. Toast Boy, on the other hand, speaks in nothing but odd tones that require subtitles to be understood.
70	* UnusualEuphemism: The ''granny's gash'' which poor toast boy has to give a moisture with that cream.
71	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The doctor beetle gives Liache this lecture when she complains about her stuffy nose:
72	-->'''Doctor Jill:''' ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology Mucus is a living thing you know.]] It has a certain degree of intelligence.''

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