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"Welcome to the Mother Ship of amateur comedy writing! (Amateur means we don't pay you to do it.)"

The poor, meme-ridden "comedy" website Uncyclopedia is the stuff of Internet legend and infamy. The site, which is thought to have originated in 1860 as an American imperialist tool for global domination, is now a multi-national effort and is seen as the best of its kind by some. Uncyclopedia currently specializes in tedious mockery of perceived competitors and petty in-fighting, with much of the content seen as mass-produced junk. Yet, there remains a peculiar fondness for some of the articles by fanatics.

— Uncyclopedia, on Uncyclopedia

The Other Wiki. No, the other Other Wiki.

Uncyclopedia is an Affectionate Parody of Wikipedia that would like to be to wikis what The Onion is to newspapers. It advertises itself as the "content-free encyclopedia".

Uncyclopedia can be found both here and here, as a large handful of the site's members executed a fork in January 2013, meaning that two versions of the site are now active. The "good" articles (so judged by Uncyclopedia users) are listed both here and here.

The site's guidelines and rules are written in a truthful and non-satirical, but still humorous tone, the best example of which is "How To Be Funny and Not Just Stupid".

International editions are notorious for sometimes creating new puns for their titles.

• Désencyclopedie ("discyclopedia"), the French version, has a pair of dice ("dés" in French) as logo.
• The Norwegian version is called Ikkepedia ("notpedia").
• The Russian version is Absurdopedia.
• The Finnish version is Hikipedia ("sweatpedia").
• The Spanish version is Inciclopedia.^note (It was Frikipedia until a certain Spanish copyright organization did a massive legal bullying upon it, and its mantle was passed to the Inciclopedia. And while Frikipedia still survived the legal onslaught, it was no longer relevant and disappeared in January 1, 2016.
• The Danish version is called "Spademanns Leksikon", a pun between respected Danish encyclopedia Lademanns Leksikon and "spade", Danish slang for "retard".
• In the Mandarin version, the name is still transliterated from Wikipedia, but the first word used here also means "fake".
• Necyclopaedia, the Latin version, simply transposes the first two letters of "encyclopaedia"^note archaic alternate spelling to form the Latin word ne, "not".
• The Italian version is called Nonciclopedia, basically the same pun as the original one.
• The Japanese version is called Ansaikuropedia, from the katakana rendering of Uncyclopedia and is notorious for such bashing of Japanese media, including anime; they are not hesitant to ridicule other countries, especially China and Korea.
• The Hebrew version is called "Eincyclopedia". The prefix "ein" means literally "there isn't", so the translation of the full name would be something like "there's-no-cyclopedia" or "Nocyclopedia" (to leave no doubts about the pun, the N letter is in the form that is only supposed to appear at the end of a word).
• The Indonesian version is called "Tolololpedia", punning on the words "tolol" (Indonesian for "stupid") and "LOL".
• The Polish version is called "Nonsensopedia" and has grown divergently, changing a bit in tone and having many more articles about games that could do well on the original.
• The Greek version, like the original Spanish one, is called Φρικηπαίδεια.
• The HK Chinese version is called 偽基百科, combining "Fake (偽)" and "Wikipedia (維基百科)".

Let it be noted that we listed them before they listed us.

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Tropes:

• Affectionate Parody: The parody and satire here is in good humor for the most part, and doesn't contain anything purposely shocking.
• As the Good Book Says...: Japanese TV series centered around battles where powerful creatures are summoned using some small object that usually has a real-life equivalent of these battles in the form of a game, except in real life, you don't actually get to summon any creatures states the description for the section describing The Abridged Series is paraphrased from the Holy Bible.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Just about every weapon here.
• Big "NO!": Nooooooooooooooooooo!
• Bishōnen: They have their own car company!
• Bigger Than Jesus: Things Bigger Than Jesus, But Smaller Than The Beatles.
• Bilingual Bonus: The full name given for Idiocrates is "έναν μικρό εγκέφαλο αλλά ένα μεγάλο πέος", which translates to "A small brain but a big penis."
• Blob Monster: Richard Stallman is one, apparently.
• Blood Sport: Water Polo... With Sharks!
• Born in an Elevator: "HowTo: Deliver A Baby"
• Captain Obvious: "Captain Obvious" is a superhero whose superpower is "Ability to point out details people already know in a heroic way" His twin brother is Captain Oblivious, who keeps forgetting everything. His rival is Professor Subtle, whom Captain Obvious has failed to apprehend in any way.
• Cluster F-Bomb:
  • This article analyses a grammatically correct sentence consisting entirely of variations on the word "fuck", in the same vein as "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".
  • The opening quote to the former page of The Last Jedi contains exactly 24 instances of the word 'fuck' and ends on a Curse Cut Short.
• Confusing Multiple Negatives: "Double negative"
• Conspiracy Theorist: "Jaws did WTC"
• Cute Kittens: ...Let's huff 'em!
• Deadpan Snarker: Articles frequently show a biting, snide wit.
• Died During Production: invoked"HowTo:Cut Your Own Head Off With a Chainsaw". The author also appears to have been Killed Mid-Sentence.
• Equippable Ally: the List of Weapons That Don't Exist, But Should lists an item called the Bulemic Zombie Gun, which is a zombie with Super Spit used as a gun. It also has a category called "Animal Launchers", which fire living creatures; from Fat kids to Elephants to genetically-engineered man-animal hybrids.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Hardly and barely.
• Faux Horrific: 2 Girls 1 Calculus Equation, a parody of a notorious shock video.
• Fantastic Drug: Kittens.
• Finger Gun: Handgun
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: "'No More Room In Hell' Act"
• Giant Enemy Crab: The significance of giant enemy crabs in Japanese history is described.
• Groin Attack: It's one way to avoid pregnancy, I guess.
• Historical Villain Downgrade:invoked To Adolf Hitler of all people.
• Hypocrite: Subverted with Hypocrites (with a hard 'e', as in a fictional Greek philosopher), which describes the life of Hypocrites (450-339 BC) instead of people who don't practice what they preach. However, it does bring up his six-part treatise 'Do As I Say, Not As I Do'.
• The Hyena: "Hyena", which one narrates.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: List of weapons that don't exist, but should contains a lot of them.
• Interactive Fiction: All of the games here.
• In the Style of: The articles for Twitter and TV Tropes faithfully reproduce the sites' layout and CSS, while the content itself is written like they're actual excerpts from the websites.
• Lemony Narrator: Quite a lot of pages. See this category.
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: "The defense rests, your honor"
• Moe:invoked Moë. The Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut is significant.
• MST: Appropriately enough, the page on Mystery Science Theater 3000 gets riffed by Joel and the bots as you read it (it doesn't seem to work on mobile, though).
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Inciclopedia's quotes for Manuel Rosales.
• The Nothing After Death: You Are Dead.
• Overcomplicated Menu Order: We have the Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Chocolate Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet, and Ice.
• Overly Long Name: Japanese TV series centered around battles where powerful creatures are summoned using some small object that usually has a real-life equivalent of these battles in the form of a game, except in real life, you don't actually get to summon any creatures. In short, it's the page for Anime.
• Overly Long Scream: AAAAAAAAA!
• Parodic Table of the Elements: The Idiotic Table, the Canadian Periodic Table, and the Occasional Table.
• Public Medium Ignorance: You know the Vocaloids? Japan was actually stealing from the Greek, and they'd prefer you wouldn't know that.
• Pun:
  • Their use is a prominent Running Gag of the site.
  • On Inciclopedia's country page: "Those who don't know their country's hymn are called 'hymnorant'. Haha."

• Rule of Fun: Pretty much runs the place.
• Russian Reversal: "CCCP World Fair"
• Schmuck Bait: Do NOT click any links!
• Self-Demonstrating Article:
  • AAAAAAAAA!
  • And many, many more, such as the Angry Huffed Article and Nihilism.
  • The article on plagiarism is copied verbatim from Wikipedia.
  • The full text of the article on "Brevity" reads "Brevity is."..wit.
  • Recursion, which redirects to Recursion.
  • Zero Punctuation and XKCD get them as well.
  • Pikachu. Pikakapikaa.
  • Roger Ebert has a glorious one written from his point of view and in his writing style.
• Self-Deprecation:
  • It's very often declared in the articles that anyone reading or writing Uncyclopedia must be a morbidly obese male virgin and a tragic waste of skin that the world would be better off without. Among the index "Things you will never have" are brains, common sense, a girlfriend, happiness, hope, intelligence, knowledge, popularity, sex, a sense of proportion, success or talent.
  • The former page for The Last Jedi states that Uncyclopedia hasn't been popular since 2010 and the community is made up of 'nihilistic Reddit fuckholes who drink Dr. Pepper and joke about their depression'.
• Self-Referential Humor (every page here.)
• Sequelitis:invoked "Fire Hydrant 2: Rehydrated"
• Serious Business: I don't appreciate your attitude towards my potato chip situation
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The page on big words.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: "Assassins from the future"
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: "Fire Hydrant" and "The O. Henry Collection"
• Shaped Like Itself: The category "Recursive categories", which contains only one category: "Recursive categories". This was based on a silly category that someone else did on The Other Wiki.
• Shipper on Deck: Many crossover ships are placed within the wiki, usually for comedic effect. The strangest one involves Cheetor and Haru.
• Shown Their Work: The site's contributors clearly know their subject matter in a way that those on other similar projects definitely don't. The British Politics section is particularly well researched.
• Stalker with a Crush: Martina Hingis
• Strawman Political: Things do not get much more left-wing than this.
• Super Cop: "Amanda Steele, Action Cop"
• Take That!:
  • The majority of the wiki. There are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of pages with jabs at President Bush, and that's just the tip of the iceberg:
  • Rivals like Encyclopedia Dramatica don't get a pass. Typing in the name of the founder of ED, will redirect you to an article titled "Douche".
  • Every single article on Malaysia apparently written by an angry Indonesian. A very angry Indonesian. With a good sense of humor.
  • They even have a rather amusing one towards TV Tropes.
  Most tropers also appear to be unaware of the existence of what are called Discussion Pages.
  • They aren't fans of the Inheritance Cycle either.
• Toilet Humour: I maed a yuky doody
• Unreliable Narrator: Unreliable Narrator, which is less about the actual trope and more about the tropes Lemony Narrator and Broken Record. If anything, the Narrator's inability to give a description without being interrupted is why they're unreliable.
  Stripper: If I had to guess, I would say an "unreliable narrator" is someone who tells you a story and you can't really rely on them at all to tell you the whole story, like that man over there drowning himself in the whiskey sours. I mean, if there's one person you shouldn't trust, it's a guy who goes to a place like this and just drowns himself in well drinks.
• With Friends Like These...: The page for Attack of the Clones notes that the first scene with Obi-Wan and Anakin in a elevator is the only scene in the whole movie where they aren't at each other's throats, despite Obi-Wan calling Anakin "a good friend" in A New Hope.
• A Wizard Did It: Wow! It's magical or something!
  • Four wizards, a slutty nurse and Dennis Kucinich did it.
• Written Sound Effect: "These are things with names that would look totally awesome as comic sound effects."
• Wrongfully Attributed: Oscar Wilde says a lot of things.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Yup, They have an article about those too.
• Yin-Yang Clash: What happens when Mr. T and Chuck Norris fight? The collision of their fists creates the Big Bang.
• You Fool!: The sole purpose of this.
• Zombie Puke Attack: The Bulimic Zombie Gun, which is this plus Equippable Ally.

Tropes specific to the Norwegian version:

• Can't Take Criticism: The article "How to handle criticism" teaches you how to lash out if your "masterpiece" doesn't get the praise you believe it deserved. It contains advice like "abuse copyright law to censor negative reviews" and suggests quite a few personal attacks you can use against your critics.
• Deliberate Flaw Retconinvoked: Mocked in the article "How to handle criticism", which suggests that you can insist the glaring flaws of your "masterpiece" were intentional.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • In "How to fail religious studies", the student claims that religion makes you unable to think for yourself... before admitting that he copied this opinion from one of the "cool kids".
  • The article on spelling and grammar has extremely poor spelling and grammar. It "teaches" you several incorrect rules, but doesn't even follow those consistently.
• Never My Fault:
  • In the article "How to handle criticism", one suggested way of handling criticism is to admit that your work was terrible and throw everyone you worked with under the bus. For instance, it tells you to blame others for failing to catch your mistakes while taking no responsibility for making the mistakes in the first place.
  • "How to put the blame on others" is a guide. For instance, if you fail Social Studies because you don't know the name of your prime minister, clearly that's the prime minister's fault for not appearing on the Hot 100.
• Parody Retconinvoked: The article "How to handle criticism" suggests that you can counter any criticism by claiming that your poorly-made work was intended as satire. The article "explains" that satire is immune to criticism because you can always claim that its flaws were deliberately put there to make fun of the thing you're satirizing.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: The article on spelling and grammar is full of misspelled words.
• Self-Demonstrating Article: Zig-zagged by the article on correct writing, which has extremely bad grammar and spelling. The article "teaches" you several incorrect rules, but doesn't even follow those consistently.
• Small Name, Big Ego:
  • The narrator in the "How to be stupid and not funny" article thinks he may become famous by writing a terrible article on Uncyclopedia.
  • The "you" in the "How to handle criticism" article is a terrible creator who is lashing out after their "masterpiece" was poorly received.
• Stylistic Suck: The "How to be stupid and not funny" article features a very childish and stupid example article. The first sentence translates into "The fork was invented by MacGyver and Chuck Norris in 10000000000 BC XD", and it's all downhill from there.
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: The article on spelling and grammar has questionable punctuation. One of the "grammar rules" is that each question mark must be preceded by three commas, and there are several "rules" that teach you to overuse apostrophes.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: The article on spelling and grammar tells you not to use unusual and exotic letters while using a lot of them.

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