A Machinima made by a guy named Brandon M. Dennis and his friends, based on World of Warcraft. It follows the adventures of a Tauren, Oxhorn, and his friends.The main parts are Inventing Swear Words, the Myth Arc concering Oxhorn's guild's attempts to get around the World of Warcraft autocensor, and the Assosciate Professor Kills All X (X varies) trilogy, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. That, and the musical segments.Tropes included in Oxhorn's Short Shorts:
Alternate Character Interpretation - In "Ox Chop", the Headless Horseman is portrayed as "dying to meet with strangers", and uses cleverly-chopped quotes of his from the game. This meeting can either be considered hilarious or quite disturbing, depending on who you ask. invoked
Applied Phlebotinum - Creating new and !EVIL! forms of phlebotinum is Assosiate Professor Evil's passion.
Author Filibuster - Characters stop to explain why atheists are wrong, or why elves are lame, or why vegetarianism is silly, or which types of pie are best...
Early Installment Weirdness - In the first Inventing Swear Words video, Oxhorn is played by Mark Pfaff. In subsequent videos, Oxhorn is played by Brandon M. Dennis himself. (Strangely, Brandon M. Dennis plays Mortuus in that first video.)
The first Orcs in Space video has the voice mannerisms of Dr. Strangeorc and Dink switched compared to Orcs in Space 2 and the Orcs in Space audio skit on the album.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin - Assosciate Professor Evil Kills All Beggars/Gold Farmerssubverts this, as while all of the villainous parties perish, they die at the hands of Barnaby, his pet crab. Assosciate Professor Evil Kills All Ninja Looters, however, is closer to the mark. However, at the point the deed is done, he had already become Lieutenant Colonel Virtue.
Fantastic Racism - The creator himself hates elves, therefore so does Oxhorn. Also, there's plenty of gags involving people hurting gnomes.
Gags? There's an entire epic song about the evils of gnomes.
To be fair, there are many circles that make fun of gnomes. Gnome punting is a real sport to many players on World of Warcraft.
The Panda Exterminator, there's no place for "cute" in Orgrimmar.
Flat "What." - In Inventing Swear Words 5, The GM's response to Staghorn's statement that "warriors are too weak".
Funny Background Event - Several in Inventing Swear Words 2. Also, the undead guy and the aircraft in "Oxhorn Tells Off Xfire".
Jive Turkey - Subverted by the Master of Euphemisms, who pretty much lives up to his name. Simply put, he doesn't need to use slang to make his point, he can "swear" quite effectively using standard US English (with a southern US accent).
Played straight with Mortuus, who actually pronounces gamer shorthand phonetically.
Keet - Gnomes, espescially the Mighty Morphin' Midget Gnomes.
One-Liner, Name... One-Liner - Mr. Evil in "Mister Evil Runs For Office" says "One day, Quintus... one.... day" in the bar at the end right before he becomes Lieutenant Colonel Virtue.
Justified - he's voiced by a different person (Mark Pfaff), as is Lacy. Mark has trouble going through a normal recording session (as evidenced by the bloopers) and would not like to be the star of a machinima. Nevertheless, Staghorn has starred in a movie where Oxhorn was not even present.
The Igor - Quintus, though after Associate Professor EvilMr. Evil got demoted, he became rather bossy.
This Loser Is You - Several cases, but most obvious is "Like the Game".
Unusual Euphemism - A whole series (the Inventing Swear Words series) is dedicated to this, using the following unusual euphemisms: 'blit', 'bloit', 'grat', 'chak', 'flak', and 'wolsh'.
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