When it comes to the infamous "grounded videos", it's common for GoAnimate/Vyond users to make their own versions of another person's video, though many of them aren't very different aside from the characters and (sometimes) the setting.
- Some "Gets Held Back" videos have similar if not almost identical misdemeanors or reasons for the troublemaker being held back. Compare these
two videos for instance. - Blatantly seen with a lot of the "X Misbehaves At Great Wolf Lodge" videos, as not only are the grievances committed by the troublemaker exactly the same almost every timenote , but many of the videos have the same exact lines of dialoguenote and even the same exact stock images. This has gotten to the point that even a common misspelling gets reproduced - ever wonder why the troublemaker often says the phrase "here's something that always guards people" when they're about to claim a dangerous animal is in the water park? This is likely because of a misspelling or mistake with the text to speech engine that caused scares to be mispronounced as scars (which in itself isn't necessarily incorrect) in one or more of the first few videos, but then someone else mistook it for guards, and the mistake stuck, ingrained into many a copy that came afterwards.
- Nearly every visit from a troublemaker to the principal/headmaster's office starts with the line "So (troublemaker's name), why are you here?", the troublemaker stating why, and then the principal going volcanic without giving them a chance at a defense or to talk things out, as an expulsion or school career-stunting suspension is immediately handed out. Even when the troublemaker knows that a call to the office starts with this, they just accept the punishment and try to hurry past the standard script and get to their sentence, the principal then accuses them of back-talking and increases the punishment solely for that reason. Also very apparent is that guidance counselors or sub-principals, who usually deal with discipline issues or try to help students be better, are nowhere to be found in the vast majority of videos, leaving authority figures and antagonistic teachers swearing at their charges and making things much worse dealing with punishment issues.
- This can also apply to the "littering" strand of videos where, even if the innocent party is picking up the litter to dispose of it, the police officer is racing over to slap cuffs on them before they can do so and not even let them explain they're picking up litter or point out the actual offender.note The falsely accused character almost always breaks out of jail afterwards to point out the true troublemaker to an adult figure.
- Many "(character) OS" videos typically start off with a protagonist on their computer or other device of choice before a suspicious ad or message window for something like a free game or an OS update appears, sometimes with a warning about its suspicious nature, and they proceed to click it.note An antagonist (usually your typical cast of "baby show" characters or another character the video creator hates) will then appear, scolding the protagonist for their hatred of them before replacing their OS with a sub-standard one themed around the antagonist. The protagonist then attempts to use the OS's several features, each one either being ridiculously restrictive, very unstable and buggy, or exist simply to spite them. Eventually, the protagonist has enough of the OS and finds a conveniently hidden (or not hidden) kill switch, which the antagonist apparently forgot to remove, that removes the OS once and for all, and the protagonist's previous OS is promptly reinstalled.note
- Most rant videos made with GoAnimate open with the uploader making fun of the name of the rant subject (usually a TV show)note , before proceeding to give an insulting "overview" of the subject, which is then followed by nitpicking the subject's flaws (e.g. "the characters are (insult)") without going in-depth on the subject itself. Afterwards, they state characters or people that supposedly like or hate the subject before dissing it (along with another thing they hate) one last time before proclaiming that another thing is much better than the subject. Lines like "(subject's characters, if it's a show or other fictional work) like to go on failure adventures", "nobody gives a (profanity) about this character... not two, three, four, either. Not even(absurd number)", and "Do you know who likes/hates this (format of subject)? (character)!" are pretty much status quo in them. The sheer fact that these rants boil down to "it sucks Because I Said So" combined with this trope in general make most GoAnimate rants Narm territory by default. The same also applies to the inverse salute videos.
- If the subject of the rant is a show or other fictional work, there is a chance that the uploader will bash the creators or writers (in a style vaguely similar to The Mysterious Mr. Enter, who has been criticized for this) for doing something as simple as creating the work.
- That's not even getting into the rant videos made out of these rants and salutes themselves. While it's understandable for these uploaders to hate the rants, most of the time they always use the same words or points without specifying their actual opinion at all.
- Blatantly seen in almost every "X Misbehaves at (restaurant)" videos, which are in of themselves always reenactments of this scene from South Park. The troublemaker will ask their parent if they can go to their favorite restaurant, only for their parent to dismiss them, leading to the troublemaker repeating "I want to go to (restaurant)" several times before crying. The second parent will then announce that they're out of food, and the first parent will take the troublemaker to the restaurant. Once they get there, the two will order their meals, only for the waiter to inform them that one item on the troublemaker's order is out of stock, but offers a replacement instead. The troublemaker will often reject the replacement and throw a tantrum before going berserk and destroying the entire restaurantnote , sometimes even killing all but two people who escape the restaurant the moment the troublemaker gets mad. During the drive home, the troublemaker will ask the parent to return to the restaurant, only for the parent to dismiss this for destroying the restaurant. In some videos, the event will be broadcasted on GNN news.
- This video is a slight change to the formula in the videos; When Dora is unable to order a tropical punch at McDonald's, Veena covers Dora's mouth with her hand and orders the lemonade, successfully preventing Dora from having a breakdown in the store. However, it still doesn't prevent Dora from hating the lemonade, and she proceeds to flip the dinner table over and gets grounded for doing so.
- This video
- "X Error" videos involve a protagonist suddenly having their "(OS) session" interrupted to display a malware-esque "error" based around another character. The "error" explains that the character it's themed after was killed by another character who put a bomb in their lair, which is set to explode after a certain amount of time. Despite the "error" warning to not turn the computer off, the protagonist repeatedly shuts off the computer or does other things (such as blocking the screen) that reduce the remaining time and increasingly piss off the "error" character. Eventually, the "error" character loses it and has the protagonist guess a code. The protagonist typically fails to correctly guess it, and the "error" character then grounds them and ruins their computer.
- Every Warren Cook video will have Warren on the computer deciding to make a fake VHS opening to a Disney movie, in the same And That's Terrible territory. The chances of finding a video where Alan does not call every single one of his friends to scold Warren for his actions, as well as one where Warren is not given cruel or humiliating punishments such as being forced to wear diapers, is sadly uncommon.
- If a video has a character being punished or attacked by being flushed down the toilet, usually the flushing sequence is identical across many videos: The character goes down the drain yelling "nonononononono" all the way, goes through a series of small pipes before ending up in an Absurdly Spacious Sewer, then sees a drop off ahead ("No, not the drop. Waaa-aaaaaaaaaa-yo-ah."); they either get rescued just in time, or go over it and fall to their death (as there's only solid ground below for whatever reason). This is almost always set to the same stock music cue as well. (A rock tune.)
- "X Gets Sent To The Audience" videos have the troublemaker being sentenced to the titular Audience, a crowd of unsettling-looking people.note After being sent there, the troublemaker sits among The Audience and questions as to what's happening before The Audience suddenly flies off, taking the troublemaker with them. After this, a crowd of people laugh at what just happened for a few seconds, and then another group, usually consisting of US politicians, namely Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, show up from nowhere and demand The Audience to come back before grounding them.
- "X Swaps Report Cards" videos start off with Report Card Day at school. Upon getting bad grades, the troublemaker swaps their bad report cards with their rival so that they can make their parents proud at their enemy's expense. After school, the rival ends up with the troublemaker's bad report card, causing their parental figure to call the principal about a "very fishy" happening. Meanwhile, with the troublemaker, they present their report card to their family, claiming that "they worked extra hard that term". Proud of their child's success, they go out for dinner at their favorite restaurant. After heading home, they find the principal, the teacher, the troublemaker's rival and their fellow parental figures on the lawn. The troublemaker's family are told that their child swapped report cards, since "they were the one with such bad grades", and the principal proceeds to hand the parents their child's real report card. The parents get angry that they spent a large amount of money on a worthless celebratory dinner for someone who got poor grades on their real report card, and the troublemaker is promptly grounded.
- These videos are even more pointless now that the vast majority of school districts just email or text links to report cards direct to parents; even without this happening though, most report cards are given out in the last five minutes of the class day or placed in a student's folder handed out at dismissal so the switcheroo would rarely be successful without attention being drawn, and the 'F is magically an A' trick is now long a thing of the past thanks to them being printed rather than written out.
- Some "X Gets Y Expelled" videos start with a student, usually a rival of the troublemaker, getting an A on a test and celebrating while the troublemaker gets a poor grade. The troublemaker tells them to stop rubbing it in, and the other student states they weren't doing so. After the troublemaker flips out at the student, the teacher sarcastically congratulates the troublemaker and sends them to the principal's office. In the office, the principal asks the usual response to when someone comes in, and the troublemaker claims they don't know and that the teacher is an idiot with a non-working brain who sent them to the office for no reason. The principal knows this is a lie, and demands the troublemaker to tell the truth, which they do. The troublemaker then gets suspended or expelled for a week or few, and their parents promptly ground them. The troublemaker then hatches a plan that involves creating a robot that resembles the student to frame them for a wrongdoing and get them expelled. After a sequence of them building a robot, the troublemaker then goes to school and hides in a locker and uses a remote control (which looks like a PlayStation 4 controller) to control the robot and destroy a location such as a bathroom. The principal sees the destruction and admits the student would never do such a thing, but decides to call them to the office anyways since they believe the surveillance footage couldn't have been tampered. The footage is replayed to the student, who is then expelled. The wrongly-framed student then goes back to class, explains what happened to the teacher, and then the teacher and the principal have a conversation. The teacher angrily leaves after almost getting fired before the parents of the student come in and scold them as if they had actually done such a thing. After another teacher/principal talk, the principal undergoes a Narm reaction to the full event after seeing what the troublemaker did. The principal then calls in the troublemaker to get on them for getting the student expelled, and then the troublemaker gets expelled from the school. The parents of the troublemaker are called, and then the troublemaker gets grounded. After this, the student is no longer expelled and their parents are proud of them for this.
- "X Gets Sent to Bed Early" episodes involve a troublemaker refusing to eat the dinner that their family made; instead, they want to go to their favorite restaurant. One of the family members argues to the point where the troublemaker decides to throw their dinner at the window, breaking it. The family gets angry and banish the troublemaker to their room with no dessert. Here's an example of the format using Kelly and Taylor from Total Drama.
- "Big Fat Meanie" videos are essentially reenactments of the SpongeBob SquarePants scene it came from: it starts off with the teacher giving a class lecture. Most videos have a good character draw the picture and leave it on their enemy's desk, while others have an innocent classmate accused of drawing the picture (when in reality, the bad person did it). The teacher walks over to the student's desk and finds the picture unflattering. Then they send that student to the office, because "the big fat meanie said so". The principal does not believe that the student was framed, and the student gets punished for it.
- "X Takes Steroids" videos feature someone (usually a friend) smuggling steroids and giving them to a troublemaker. Once the effects kick in, the teacher announces that the school will be doing a medical checkup in the Nurse's office. Matters don't go well when the nurse finds out that the troublemaker has been taking steroids, sending them to the Principal's Office. End result: the troublemaker gets expelled and reprimanded by their parents. However, the smuggler never gets punished for bringing the drugs to school in the first place.
- "X Sets The House On Fire" videos are egregiously the same thing - Not only does the troublemaker get the same inspiration for attempting a stunt with a candle (someone accidentally lighting their head on fire with a lighter), but the method and results are always the same.note The plot itself originally comes from the SuperMarioLogan movie "Bowser Junior's House Fire!", which originally used a host from a Subverted Kids' Show doing a stunt involving fire to become "a birthday candle".
- "X Ungrounds Y and Gets Grounded" videos often have a character telling another character that they are ungrounded, and the ungrounded character takes their parents outside to point out who ungrounded them, only to end up being grounded again by their parents after telling them so. They then call the parents of the character who ungrounded their kid, and the ungrounding character is promptly grounded. Here's an example featuring an infamous user and Gary Smith.
- "X Pours Rat Poison on the School Lunch" begin with the chefs making lunch. Just as they leave, the troublemaker sneaks in and pours rat poison in the chicken, moments before the chefs come back. The chefs serve the tainted chicken to the kids. While they are eating, said troublemaker records their miseries with a video camera. Little do they know is that the teacher comes in and tells them to come to the principal's office. Troublemaker is confronted by the principal, the teacher, and the two chefs, who tell them that what they have done, the children have to get their stomachs pumped in the operating room. What is more is that the chefs have to make better chicken and wait for the kids to come out. They get suspended for up to a year. At home, said troublemaker is told to eat dinner, which is the leftover of the school lunch he or she tainted, otherwise they would be grounded for even longer. They eat the food, and end up puking.
- One common type of video is "X Calls The Baby Stupid", wherein when a new baby is born or brought home, the older sibling will call the baby stupid. This will cause the baby to cry, and the parents will ground the older sibling for a ridiculously long time, causing them to run away crying. They will then calm the baby down and tell them their older sibling can't bother them anymore.
- Most "X Goes to the Girls' Bathroom" have the titular troublemaker, almost always a male, temporarily excuse themselves from class to go to the bathroom, only to discover that the boys' bathroom is an utter mess, complete with poop coming out of the urinals. They decide to go to the girls' bathroom instead, discovering that it's much nicer and cleaner than the boys' bathroom. Not long after, a girl walks in to the bathroom, discovers the troublemaker, and reports them to the principal. Typical GoAnimate punishments are then given to the troublemaker.
- "X Gets Homeschooled" involves the character in question (and several others) sitting in an environment more reminiscent of a traditional classroom, asking something along the lines of "Oh my god. Why do we have to be homeschooled?" before another character explains why. Then, the teacher (who's usually the first character's parent) introduces themself to the class and asks them three questions (often about what the sun is (see the entry below) or something related to Author Appeal). The class invariably gets these questions wrong, prompting the teacher to respond by changing their appearance and playing a sound from outside GoAnimate (Dr. Robotnik saying "That's disgusting!" and a loud, high-pitched sucking sound are oddly popular for this) before correcting the student. After the students are done asking questions, the teacher says they'll be watching TV shows, then asks a student what show they'll be watching, with the answer invariably being something the creator dislikes. As with the questions, expect the teachers to respond with "that's disgusting" before telling them the show they're actually going to watch, usually telling the student the show they answered with is a "rip-off" of something else. Another student then steps in by saying "no (whatever channel the show aired/airs on or studio it's from)" before the teacher tells them the same but with "yes" in place of "no," reiterating that they're watching the show the teacher said they'd watch. A third student responds by saying "start hating (usually the show in question, but sometimes a complete Non Sequitur) right now," to which the teacher says to shut up, sometimes telling them that nobody hates the show in question before finally starting the show. The students comment about how much they hate the show in question, often claiming it to be a rip-off of another show the creator dislikes, saying that it is/was "way better than [the show they're watching]." One student says that they'll change it into a show the creator hates, and then does so, before being chastised by the teacher, often telling them that the show they changed it to was a rip-off of a show the creator likes, then saying "that's it, the next show we are watching is (show)!" Rinse and repeat twice, and then the teacher finally decides to call everyone's guardians, grounding their own children.
- Not so much recycled script as a recycled joke: GoAnimators who want to indicate a character's ignorance will have them state that they think the sun is a planet.
- "X Hosts a Slumber Party" videos start with the parents or guardians of the titular troublemaker telling them to behave while they're out of town. The troublemaker then contacts their friends for a slumber party. Meanwhile, a neighbor is enjoying a joke with their friends until they hear a noise through their house. They arrive to the troublemaker's house, only to be knocked out with sleeping gas. Once the neighbor and their friends awake, they contact the troublemaker's parents about what their child did, consequently doing rounds of calls to the families of the troublemaker's friends. Each of the parents arrive and say the name of their children. As the other families take their children home, the troublemaker's parents send their spouse (or sometimes another relative) to unlock the neighbor and their friends. The parents then tell the troublemaker that they would've invited them to a previous destination they took, but blew it because of the slumber party.
- "X Behaves at [store]/Ungrounded" videos all have the same plot: A character asks their parent or guardian if they can go to said store and are told yes. When they get to the store, they'll always see a troublemaker with their parent at the store, usually begging said parent to get the most expensive product in the store and not wanting a cheaper one. When the expensive product is purchased, this will always get said troublemaker's attention, who is caught by their parent and walked out of the store. The last half of the video consists of the behaved character coming home and telling their parent/guardian they behaved while also mentioning the troublemaker they saw.
- A common event in these videos (but not present in all of them) is the troublemaker's behavior being so embarrassing that two or more people will gather nearby, with a shocked gasp on their faces.
- "X and Y Suck at Hungry Pumkin" videos involve two troublemakers applying for a job at a restaurant and, upon immediately landing the job, being given a tutorial by the restaurant's manager, who expects both of them to do well on their first shift. The Hungry Pumkin from Pumkin Land then comes to the restaurant, and the troublemakers bungle his orders, whether it be by giving him a pepper vegetable instead of a condiment, eating a food item (usually a hot dog) he asked for (and, in return, getting a food item of the same kind that they saved for their promotion day eaten by the Pumkin), swiping the Pumkin's order off the table, or refusing to serve him a specific food item by giving him another one (with the Pumkin rejecting it) and eventually one of the troublemakers trying to encourage him to eat them instead (which leads to the Pumkin throwing them across the restaurant). After many of these (and sometimes also more) screw-ups, the thoroughly dissatisfied Pumkin storms out after declaring how awful the experience was and that he'll never come back, and the troublemakers are fired after asking about how they did and for a promotion. These videos typically end with the troublemakers angrily spewing gibberish and ranting on how they were fired and thus cannot make the money needed to buy something (such as a video game console or tickets to a theme park), but there are some that end with the troublemakers getting grounded.
- The Hungry Pumkin also appears in some "Character Elimination" videos (which are further elaborated below) in a challenge where the competing teams must score the most points by correctly fulfilling his orders to avoid the risk of one of their members being eliminated.
- "Character Elimination" video series are the GoAnimate community's take on the ever-popular "Object Show" genre of web animation (as well as similar shows like Total Drama), featuring fictional characters and sometimes even real people, who are battling it out for a cash prize through a series of challenges, with the viewers usually deciding who wins or who goes home.
- There are usually troublemakers who sabotage their respective teams, causing said teams to lose their challenges and being forced to hold a "Vote Me Out!" sign (a reference to Firey holding a similar sign in Episode 23 of Battle for Dream Island). Predictably, the viewers send said troublemakers home, and this repeats for the first couple of eliminations until all troublemakers are eliminated.
- Also taking inspiration from Battle for Dream Island's second season, viewers also vote for characters eligible for elimination to receive a prize, the most common one being immunity the next time said character faces elimination, which is mostly redundant anyway when the same viewers are also voting for that character to be eliminated.
- Interns are also a common staple in the videos, with all the interns consisting of troublemakers. Predictably, they're killed off one by one in a morbid fashion, likely in reference to the interns being treated poorly in Total Drama. With each intern eliminated, either the host or a player in the game causing their demise announces "X down, Y to go.", followed by a list of remaining interns still remaining, making it some sort of de facto hitlist.
- Most of the challenges are repeated as well, such as eating a giant cake (with a troublemaker putting something disgusting on said cake).
- "X and Y Kill Their Parents" videos involve the first character, X, going downstairs to get food, before promptly getting grounded for 500 more centuries for doing so while grounded. X then mocks the parent who did the grounding in their room, before they get the idea to kill their parents with a gun. They then call Y for help, and they then proceed to meet in an abandoned house's dungeon to plan it out, before proceeding to steal guns from a store and going back home. The next day, the two confront their parents with the guns; X's parents beg X not to kill them, while Y's parents threaten Y. Regardless, the parents die, and a passerby hears the gunshots from one of the houses and calls the police. X and Y hide in the dungeon where they are promptly found, and are sent to prison. A character then goes to the prison and frees X and Y before proceeding to give them a punishment day, with the final punishment being them getting knocked out and sent back to prison.
- "Windows (OS version) End of Life" videos have a character using a Windows computer when they are suddenly greeted by a window announcing the impending end of support for the version of Windows they are using. Upon seeing this message, they and a number of other characters race to upgrade to a supported version of Windows (then or currently depending on which Windows OS is the subject of the video) as a depleting progress bar counts the amount of seconds left before support for the OS officially ends and the logo for a supported version of Windows rapidly approaches Earth. The first character seen in the video is assisted with installing a supported Windows version by another character, and they and the other characters seen in the video manage to install their supported Windows versions just in time before the Windows logo from earlier crashes into the White House and causes it to explode, and a group of characters evacuating on a school bus express their relief at having survived the explosion. These videos typically end with a scene of one of the characters using their newly-installed Windows OS and another one watching the start-up screen.
- "X Appears on TV" videos start with the troublemaker and one of their parents, usually their dad, watching TV together. They flip through various channels in search of something worthwhile to watch and make negative remarks on the shows that come up on the TV as they do so. Towards the end of the video, they flip to a channel announcing that they are about to play a video of a person whose description matches the troublemaker's doing something like dancing to a song, playing an instrument or, in the case of TV show characters, playing their show's intro. The troublemaker begs their parent to change the channel before it plays, but their request falls on deaf ears and the video then plays. Cue grounding.
- "X Brings an NC-17 Rated Film to School" videos have the teacher announce that the next day of school is to be a movie day and that the students are to only bring G or PG-rated films, with any films outside the accepted rating range resulting in punishments. The video then cuts to the next day (sometimes after a scene where the troublemaker plots bringing an NC-17-rated film at home), and everybody presents their brought movies and receive praise and punishments based on the MPAA ratings of the films they brought. The troublemaker, who comes in last, is sent to the principal's office and expelled by them for bringing an NC-17-rated film and are promptly grounded by their parents.
- "Funtime" videos open with a group of protagonists introducing themselves and telling the viewer that they are going to see a movie. When they get there, a troublemaker is chastised by one of or both their parents for going to watch a different movie than they wanted them to, and the parents either take away the privilege of watching a DVD the troublemaker likes and making them watch a baby show instead or ground them altogether. After the troublemaker and their parent(s) leave, the protagonists buy tickets to see their movie of choice and watch it. After the movie is over, the group then goes to a restaurant and order food, but as they enjoy their food, another troublemaker throws a tantrum over wanting to eat at another restaurant instead and are also grounded for it by their parents. The video then typically ends with the protagonists going home and watching a TV show.
- "X Gets Fat at (restaurant)" videos involve a troublemaker going to a restaurant and ordering an impossibly large amount of food. When the worker taking the order tries to decline the order, the troublemaker forces them to make it anyways and the worker tells them to find an empty seat. After the food is delivered (and sometimes the worker paid), the troublemaker then proceeds to eat all of the food in one sitting. After they remark on the deliciousness of their meal, they suddenly turn fat (whether it be in the form of their model getting horizontally stretched out, using the fat character model or both) and, in shock, remark that their parents will be extremely angry upon seeing their new state. Cut back to the troublemaker's house, and their parents indeed go volcanic and ground them.
- When Jake Crader (who later changed his YouTube channel name to HiHiPuffyAmiYumiRules2001) had a GoAnimate account, he recycled scripts from other people's videos:
- His video "Ash and Pikachu Babysit Nicole" is a copy of "SpongeBob SquarePants and Mr. Krabs Babysit Pat" (which is mentioned on the Narm subpage), but with multiple "Drops by Squidward's House" jokes added.
- He made several PBS logo videos that were copied from videos by Willy Freebody and TheSuperdog19, among others.
- He made a video called "Technicolor Bloopers", which is recycled from an episode of Technicolor Logo Bloopers (which itself is based on Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers) but with logos as the characters. At one point, the line "Martha's a munter" from the original video was changed to "Martha's a mother", even though there's nobody named Martha in the remake. Jake presumably realized his mistake, since his captions for the video try to pass off the line as "Month is a month-er".
- He also made his own version of GoAnimate: The Movie (which itself is recycled from Greeny Phatom: The Movie) called Patrick's Big Movie. In this movie, he also copies the ending of The Lion King 1 ½.
- His video "Ash and Pikachu Babysit Nicole
- Most “X misbehaves at (movie)” videos usually begin with the troublemaker's parents telling them they are going to see a movie because another character wants to do so, which the troublemaker protests because they want to watch a movie the creator hates instead. The parents then say that they are not going to see the movie the troublemaker wants to watch and insult it (usually saying it is a ripoff of another movie) before the gang goes to the cinema with the troublemaker proceeding to insult trailers that play before the movie. Then, before the movie starts, the troublemaker will usually escape to the film they wanted to watch (usually by saying they need to go to the bathroom). However, after both movies are completed, the parents will catch the troublemaker leaving the screening and ground them.
- "Sings The Fat Controller Song" videos are based on a parody song from the YouTube Poop "Some Trains Fock Around With Ducks" by cartoonlover98 that is about Sir Topham Hatt (aka The Fat Controller) from Thomas & Friends and is set to the tune of the opening theme of Bob the Builder. As the title exactly states, the troublemaker(s) sing the aforementioned song and, after doing so, are confronted by either their parents/guardians or The Fat Controller himself. If the parents/guardians are confronting the troublemaker, they claim it is a ripoff of the Bob the Builder theme before grounding their child. If the Fat Controller is confronting the troublemaker, he airs his distaste for the song before calling the troublemaker's parents or grounding them outright.
- "X Gets in Dead Meat" all follow the exact same premise: the school the troublemaker attends passes out "behavior cards" to the students (usually characters from other works) based on their behavior, with the characters the video creator likes getting the better cards along with outrageous rewards such as graduating early or getting an extended break from school, while characters the creator hates or "baby show" characters get the bad cards followed by some kind of punishment. Finally, the titular troublemaker always gets the worst card and is expelled, followed by going home and getting grounded or being given a punishment day (or both).
- "X Gets Executed": The troublemaker commits some offense (no matter how minor it may be) and is arrested and put on trial, with the supposed "witnesses" just going off on why they hate the troublemaker in question with no actual relation to the crime committed. The troublemaker is then declared guilty and sentenced to death via electric chair, with the troublemaker's haters watching the execution and celebrating once it's over.
- "Cusses/Swears in Class" videos often copy the scene where Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny get in trouble for using profanity in school in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. As with that scene, these videos typically open with the teacher asking the class a math problem that a student incorrectly answers and is chastised for. After the teacher asks for someone who actually knows the answer, another student says they know the answer before another student mocks them, which ends up setting off a very similar sequence of insults and profanity drops as the movie's scene, including the teacher calling out each of the four students for using such language and things eventually culminating with the mocking student directly insulting the teacher and repeating said insult loudly, causing them or all four students who swore to be sent to the principal's office, where they are promptly punished.
