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-->'''JFK:''' I'm a Kennedy. I'm not accustomed to tragedy.

-->'''Gandhi:''' If there's one thing Mahatma Gandhi stands for, it's revenge!

''Clone High'' is an animated show parodying the TeenDrama, especially the VerySpecialEpisode.

The plot is pretty straightforward, being outlined at the beginning of every episode by the ExpositoryThemeTune. Way, way back in the 1980s, secret government employees dug up famous guys and ladies and made amusing genetic copies. Now the clones are sexy teens. Now they're gonna make it if they try. Loving, learning, sharing, judging. Time to laugh and shiver and cry. A MythArc is implied, wherein the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Secret Board of Shadowy Figures]] that created the clones check up on the progress toward conditioning them into a super-strong and super-intelligent army. However, little progress is ever made in that, or in Principal Scudworth's plan of creating a clone-based amusement park called "Cloney Island", as the series was canceled in the US after less than a season. The rest of the season aired in Canada (home of the series' lead animation studio), and the out-of-print DVD was only released in the Canadian market.

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[[folder: Among the large list of historical figure clones include: ]]

* ''Abe Lincoln'', the clumsy, lanky, nice-guy protagonist who is smitten with Cleopatra and constantly suffers [[TheWoobie physical abuse]] as he tries to live up to the original Lincoln's legacy.
* ''Gandhi'', Abe's best friend, who cracked under the pressure of living up to the original Gandhi and devolved into a wild party animal.
* ''Joan of Arc'', an angsty clone of the original Joan of Arc, who is desperately in love with her best friend Abe, and can't seem to ever make him realize said infatuation.
* ''JFK'', the cocky JerkJock who macks on all the hot clone girls at school, and has a skewed perspective of the original JFK as a "macho, womanizing stud who conquered the MOON!" Made even more hilarious by the fact that his foster parents are a male gay couple.
* ''Cleopatra'', the sexy, seductive horndog who fulfills the role of TheLibby.
* An entire plethora of minor characters useful for one-shot jokes and TwentyFourHourPartyPeople scenes, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, Fedor Jeftichew (Jojo the Dogfaced Boy), Catherine the Great ("Or should I say Catherine the So-So"), the Bronte Sisters, Nostradamus, and countless others
*Also includes MadScientist Principal Cinnamon K. Scudworth, his mechanical British servant Mr. Butlertron, who calls everyone '[[MyNameIsNotDurwood Wesley]]', and [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures]].

A lot of the humor comes from off-hand or irreverent historical references (like the scene where the clone of Buddy Holly invites Abe to ride on a broken-down plane along with Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, Jim Croce, and half of Lynyrd Skynyrd... all of whom had their real life counterparts die in plane crashes).

...Wesley.
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!!As a show with a premise based on parody, it mocks quite a few tropes:
*AdultsDressedAsChildren (Scudworth & Butlertron in the pilot)
*TheAggressiveDrugDealer ("The Pusher," who deals... raisins)
*AintNoRule Subverted with the rule that "no girls or animals can play on the boys teams", but played straight in Abe's film "It Takes a Hero" where "There's nothing in the rulebook that says a girafe can't play football."
*AllGuysWantCheerleaders (Cleo, only Cleo. Cleo Cleo Cleo Cleo Cleo.)
*AndAnotherThing (JFK in the pilot, as a variant on his trademark [[DontExplainTheJoke explaining the joke]])
*AndTheWinnerIs
*AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering (JFK does the 1-person variant a lot)
*AttentionDeficitOohShiny (Gandhi)
*BeautifulAllAlong (Joan)
*BlindSeer (parodied with Toots, who ''thinks'' he's perceptive and insightful despite his blindness)
*[[strike:BusFullOfInnocents]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPandas Bus Full Of Pandas]]
*CrapsackWorld (The minor background characters share a HiveMind mentality to make the story simpler and clearer)
*CloneJesus
*CloningBlues (Several of the clones have adopted wildly different personalities than their clone parent because the pressure to live up to them [or more accurately, TheThemeParkVersion of them] caused minor breakdowns)
*ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Mr. Butlertron was originally named Mr. Belvetron, but they couldn't secure the rights. He still calls everyone Wesley, though.
*DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment (Larry Hardcore: "I was into everything: weed, grass, ganga, reefer, marijuana, mary jane, I did it all. I even smoked pot once.")
*DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere (They say Dolphins are mentioned and/or appear at least once an episode.)
*DontExplainTheJoke (JFK. ''Constantly.'' IfYouKnowWhatIMean.)
** And by "What I Mean", I mean SEXUAL REFERENCE!
*DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime (spoofed with Snowflake Day)
*DudeWheresMyReward
*ExpositoryThemeTune ("Way, way back in the 1980s secret government employees dug up famous guys and ladies and made amusing genetic copies.")
*GoofyPrintUnderwear Pink heart boxers are seen off of Gandhi in the pilot and on a cop during the parody of ''TheBennyHillShow''.
* GullibleGuyGoesGa: Kennedy.
*HahvahdYahdInMYCah (JFK)
*HeyItsThatVoice (since the show was produced by Bill Lawrence of ''Scrubs'' fame, pretty much every main character of ''{{Scrubs}}'' has shown up as someone's foster parent or clone. Including [[AlmightyJanitor the Janitor]] as...the Janitor.)
** Supposedly, WordOfGod declares the Clone High Janitor and the Scrubs Janitor to be the same character.
*** He must live in a ''strange'' world then.
*HighSchoolAU
*HighSchoolSweethearts (parodied)
*HistoricalHilarity
*ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin (raisins)
*IfYouKnowWhatIMean: "And by swimming, I mean SEX!"
*ILikeMyXLikeILikeMyY (Gandhi likes his humping like he likes his martinis: dry)
*[[ImStandingRightHere I'm Standing Right Here]]
*InsigniaRipOffRitual (with the insignia on Abe’s basketball jacket)
*IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
*{{Jerkass}} and JerkJock (JFK)
*LamarckWasRight (subverting this is the basis for most of the characters)
*LameRhymeDodge
*LarynxDissonance ([[strike:Joan of Arc]] John Dark)
*LeFilmArtistique (Joan's entry in the film festival)
*LiteralMinded / RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
--> '''Mr. Butlertron:''' What would the real Joan of Arc have done?
--> '''Joan:''' She would have listened to her heart. And then she would've gotten burned at the stake. [nervous laugh] But what are the odds of that happening again?
--> '''Mr. Butlertron:''' 38%.
*LocalHangout (The Grassy Knoll)
*LockedInAFreezer ([[spoiler:With literally ''everyone'' who had appeared beforehand (except Scudworth and Butlertron) in the Season Finale. Although it's not quite an example of this trope...]])
*LogicBomb (used by Mr. Butlertron on Scangrade)
*LongLostUncleAesop(Ponce de Leon)
*MakeOutPoint ("Teen Sex Cove")
*MakeoverMontage (spoofed, combined with UnnecessaryMakeover)
*MemeticMutation ("'''STAMOS!'''")
*MirrorMonologue (JFK in the penultimate episode)
**Spoofed often by JFK, as they tend to devolve into Mirror Arguments.
*MixedMetaphors: (Abe has a few of these; see the trope page)
*NotQuiteStarring
*ObliviousToLove (Abe to Cleo, Joan to Abe)
*PreviouslyOn
*PrisonRape (subverted)
*PuttingOnTheReich ([[OpposingSportsTeam GESH]])
*RaceForYourLove (parodied to the point of RunningGag in one episode)
*RefugeInAudacity: the segments of Plane Crazy with Principal Scudworth and Skunky-Poo, whose interactions are almost as violent as Itchy and Scratchy, and a fair bit more profane (Skunky-Poo's catchphrase is [[ThisIsASentenceBitch "try and catch me, bitch!"]]).
* RetroactiveWish: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], and then it ''works''
*RhymingWithItself: Parodied with the whole "G-Spot rocks the G-Spot!" thing.
*RockBottom (lampshaded, subverted, combined with RetroactiveWish)
*RockOpera (the episode "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts")
*SaltAndPepper (parodied with Gandhi's film, ''Black and Tan'')
*SayMyName (See the article)
*SchoolForScheming (parodied)
*SheCleansUpNicely (spoofed repeatedly, mostly with Joan, in [[MakeoverMontage "Makeover, Makeover, Makeover:]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Makeover Episode"]])
*SpecialGuest - Ranging from Tom Green to Marilyn Manson to, of course, STAMOS himself.
*SpoofAesop
*StylisticSelfParody
*SweetOnPollyOliver (JFK and Cleo, towards "John Dark")
*SweetPollyOliver (With a disguise consisting entirely of a fake handlebar mustache. A similar disguise is also used successfully by a ''dolphin''.)
**And by [[MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]].
*TemptingFate (Many times. Also subverted once: "Don't worry about the storm. I built this house like Noah built his ark. Yep, this house is flood-proof!" Cue lightning strike, setting house on fire)
*TheExitIsThatWay (Abe, walking off a pier)
*TheKhan ("'''STAMOS!'''")
*[[{{ptitlel9hiod7i}} This Is For Emphasis, Bitch!]]
*ThisIsMySide
*TonightSomeoneDies (Mocked extensively with Ponce de Leon, so much, in fact, that this doesn't even need to have a spoiler tag)
**Extra points for bending over backwards to be the most VerySpecialEpisode on a show parodying those.
*TooGoodToLast
*TotemPoleTrench (Napoleon and Taft in "A Shot in D'Arc")
*TraumaSwing (Joan in the first episode)
*UnknownRival (Principal Scudworth, to '''STAMOS!''')
*VerySpecialEpisode (literally every single episode)
*WhoopiEpiphanySpeech (subverted with Toots)
*WildTeenParty
*XtremeKoolLetterz/ TotallyRadical (X-Stream Blu)
**"Stick it in your face-hole and SLAM IT!"
*YouGoGirl
*YouMeanXmas
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