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[[caption-width-right:250:Code Monkey like you... (I love you, whores!) [[note]]From left to right: Black Steve, Dave, Todd, Clare, Jerry, Mary, Mr. Larrity, Dean, and Benny[[/note]]]]

PLAYER 1 START!

Travel back in time with us, to the early [[TheEighties 1980s]], TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames. In those days, men were men, women were women, and "high-end graphics" were ones in which the sprites were more than one color.

This is the setting for G4's animated SitCom ''Code Monkeys'', which revolves around the antics at Gameavision, a fictional video game company. Aside from Jerry, an amiable Joe Average game programmer who's more than a bit of a pushover, Jerry's mischievous, obnoxious friend Dave, and Mary, the put-upon sole female programmer, most of the crew at Gameavision are crazy, stupid, or some combination of the two. There's Mr. Larrity, a hot-headed, money-grubbing, borderline insane Texas millionaire who becomes Gameavision's owner in the premiere episode and shows a fondness for [[GambitRoulette wildly complicated schemes]]; Mr. Larrity's dimwit jock son Dean; Todd, a fat, narcissistic, and often creepy uber-geek; "Black Steve", the ill-tempered accountant and token black guy; Clarence, the outrageously gay audio designer who always talks in a sing-song voice; Clare, the flirtatious receptionist; and Benny, a mouthy, hyperactive Korean kid who lives in the basement and works as a play tester.

Much of the show's humor comes from spoofing not only the video game industry, but VideoGameTropes as well. The animation style is entirely in 8-bit style pixel art (resembles ''RiverCityRansom'' sprites), complete with status bars at the top and bottom of the screen that display absurd things depending on the action in the show (like a health meter that decreases when someone gets injured or killed, or a "BORING" meter that fills up whenever someone, usually Jerry, makes a needlessly dramatic speech).

Sadly, ''Code Monkeys'' [[TooGoodToLast only lasted two seasons]] (2007-2008), with the first season on DVD and both available on Netflix (in the US). Though the theme song lives on as Film Master Adam's Review show.
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!!This series features examples of:
* AnalProbing: Todd and Dean get abducted by aliens in one episode and are anally probed while forced to suck on a strange mechanical appendage.
* ArtShift: Sort of. When John Romero pitches {{Doom}} to Larrity, the show switches over to a FirstPersonShooter perspective.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Larrity.
-->'''Dave''': Jerry, Larrity is crap-house crazy; he snacks on venison pops, he might just kill us one day for [[DisproportionateRetribution taking the last diet soda]] or passing out flyers for a rager at his house--I don't know!\\
'''Jerry''': That was you?!\\
'''Dave''': [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Do you really need to ask?]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Gameavision staff regularly has oddly profound effects on the world at large. Most dramatically, they basically forced Michael Jackson's transformation from a young black heartthrob into an effeminate light-skinned weirdo.
* BigDamnHeroes: Dave (who was presumed dead) and a former [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Protendo]] game programmer jump in when Larrity faces Matsui, Protendo's leader, on the company's rooftop when they came to rescue Benny in the Season 1 finale.
* BilingualBonus: Takeda's brother (forgot his name) actually speaks perfect Japanese. Subverted with Noshi discussing the "merger" over the phone; he was actually speaking in English. The subtitles are just there for the sake of being there.
* BlackComedy: "Its as if someone took one of my babies, except that baby was made of money, not useless baby meat."
* BlackComedyRape: Both Todd and Dave get raped by [[Series/KnightRider KITTY]]. Also, the episode "Super Prison Breakout" contains numerous rape jokes.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: most of the cast
* ButNotTooBlack: Averted. Black Steve's rap group, "Black Steve and the Black Attack Squadron (Honky Killer International), featuring Blackie Blackerson", receives thunderous applause from the all white crowd.
* ContentWarnings: Spoofed. The show contained a different gag disclaimer at the beginning of each episode, such as this one from "Super Prison Breakout":
-->This Show...\\
A) Contains content that may not be suitable for all audiences.\\
B) Might use the word (beep) a lot.\\
C) Rocks.\\
Viewer Discretion is advised.
** There was also an episode of the show which focused on this. "The Story of 420" poked fun at this backfiring with video games. First Lady [[DrugsAreBad Nancy]] [[RonaldReagan Reagan]] forces Game-a-Vision to put warning labels on all of their games stating "[[DoNotDoThisCoolThing Playing this game increases the likelihood that you will engage in drug use and deviant sex]]". While Larrity objects at first, he's then extremely happy as [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity the labels cause their game sales to skyrocket]] to the point where Reagan then has to ban them from having the labels on their games.
* CouchGag (the ContentWarnings)
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: In the Stonervision episode. Of course, this was seen coming [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCMomyKTlVc a mile away]].
* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat (in the episode "Third Reich's the Charm")
---> "No, ''vision'' makes you look fat, Todd."
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The episode "The Story of 420" First Lady [[DrugsAreBad Nancy]] [[RonaldReagan Reagan]] forces Game-a-Vision to put warning labels on all of their games stating "Playing this game increases the likelihood that you will engage in drug use and deviant sex". While Larrity objects at first, he's then extremely happy as [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity the labels cause their game sales to skyrocket]] to the point where Reagan then has to ban them from having the labels on their games.
* DrugsAreBad: The episode "The Story of 420" featured then First Lady Nancy [[RonaldReagan Reagan]], infamous for her anti-drug crusades in the 80's, ruining 420 for the Game-a-Vision staff by confiscating a huge supply of marijuana on the Mexican border. Later on when she's at Game-a-Vision, Dave unintentionally gives her the inspiration for her real life "Just Say No" campaign.
* TheEighties
* {{Expy}}: A creepy, rapist one of [[Series/KnightRider KITT]], named KITTY; several based on [[ProfessionalWrestling Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Sgt. Slaughter, and Randy Savage]]; there's a lot of these.
* HeyItsThatVoice Todd sounds a lot like [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Master Shake]], doesn't he?
** Also sounds just like Gazpacho from Chowder.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn
** A RunningGag in the show consists of famous video game designers pitching their big game to Gameavision, only for Larrity to shoot it down.
** Additionally, when Wozniak tells the company that he's planning on moving into the personal computer industry, Dave mentions that it'll be a passing fad, like {{MTV}}.
* MightyWhitey (parodied with Jerry's game ''White Karate Master'')
* MurderSimulator: One episode has a ShoutOut to the infamous TaxiDriver assassination attempt when John Hinkley is revealed to own a Gameavision game about impressing Jodie Foster, culminating in attempting to assassinate President "Ray-gun".
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie (Dave and Jerry's game ''Ninja Pirate Robots'')
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe. "The Story of 420" poked fun at this being done with video games. First Lady [[DrugsAreBad Nancy]] [[RonaldReagan Reagan]] forces Game-a-Vision to put warning labels on all of their games stating "[[DoNotDoThisCoolThing Playing this game increases the likelihood that you will engage in drug use and deviant sex]]". While Larrity objects at first, he's then extremely happy as the labels cause their game sales to skyrocket to the point where Reagan then has to ban them from having the labels on their games.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Steve Wozniak and Black Steve (though the former rarely shows up again after the first episode, and the latter isn't even ''named'' Steve.)
* PetTheDog (After Jerry squanders his million dollars from a stock increase and throws himself into huge debt troubles, Dave (who's become an actual millionaire because he actually deposited and saved his money) decides to help his friend out and pay off Jerry's debts.)
* RealSongThemeTune ("Code Monkey" by JonathanCoulton)
* ResetButton (Literally: [[spoiler:After going (more) insane in the episode "Todd Loses His Mind", Todd successfully blows up the Gameavision building with the staff inside. The screen goes staticy, & the viewer is treated to a live-action scene of somebody resetting their "Code Monkeys" cartridge. The episode ends with a repeat of its first scene.]])
* RunningGag: Any time someone utters the word "point", the point counter goes up.
* ShoutOut (VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto in the second season finale)
** Lots considering the genre and style of this show. The infamous [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy UR MR GAY]] meme makes an appearance in ''The Revenge of Matsui''.
** Mr. Wozniak has [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]] hanging on his wall in the first episode.
* SpecialGuest
** Since the show is centered around video games, most guest stars come from the video game industry itself. Usually, guests appear [[AsHimself as themselves]] (Such as [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Dave Jaffe]] and [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} John Romero]]); however, some guests have voiced a [[OneShotCharacter one-off character]] (Such as Tommy Chong [[CheechAndChong voicing a stoner]] and Jason Zumwalt [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV voicing a Eastern European criminal]])
* TheStoner / StonersAreFunny: While Dave is well established as a stoner throughout the series, the episode "The Story of 420" showed that most of the Game-a-Vision staff smokes marijuana.
* SuckECheeses (There was one in "The Great Recession" where Dave, and later Todd, got jobs at Bleakovision when Gameavision was out of business.)
* SweetPollyOliver: In "Just One of the Gamers" Mary feels disrespected at work because she's a woman. She disguises herself as a guy named Mitch. This eventually leads too...;
** SweetOnPollyOliver: In "Just One of the Gamers" Jerry has the hots for Mitch, Mary's male alter-ego. He eventually breaks down and declares himself gay for Mitch but is relieved when she reveals herself as Mary. However, Dave insists that he's still gay.
* TalkingToHimself: Todd and Benny share the same voice actor. As do Larrity and his son Dean.
* ThoseTwoGuys (Dave and Jerry, the show's primary characters)
* ThoseWackyNazis (in the episode "Third Reich's the Charm")
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Dave in Season 2. Jerry in ''Psychological Problems.'' While it was expected that everyone would make fun of Todd for the Cock Goblin, Jerry is usually the one that's the nicest to him.
* WorkCom
* WithFriendsLikeThese (Dave, towards Jerry)
* YouClonedHitler: AdolfHitler apparently has clones. Larrity keeps one in the freezer as "insurance".
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