The asdfmovies are a series of short, rapid-fire, surrealYouTubeweb cartoons produced by Tom Ska, partially adapting strips from asdfcomics, hiswebcomic. The skits are short, as are the movies overall, and the humour is random, but amusing in its own, strange way. If you can keep up. Or are similarly insane.
asdfcomp (July 17, 2010): The announcement of a competition to make a skit to be remade and used in the third movie. This competiton garnered over a thousand entries (most of them, naturally, obvious puns or Non Sequiturs without wit).
asdfmovie3 (December 30, 2010): The third movie. Also onNewgrounds. Thetheme from its credits and from other videos by TomSka is available on Newgrounds and on SoundCloud.
I LIKE TRAINS (asdfmovie song) remix (September 30, 2011): The full version of the theme from the first music video's credits, a remix of the first music video itself. Thesong is available on Amazon.com and on iTunes.
"asdfmovie6 song" (February 9, 2013): The full version of the song from the sixth movie's credits, by Lil Deuce Deuce.
DO THE FLOP (February 9, 2013): A 10-minute-long remix by Lil Deuce Deuce of one of the skits from asdfmovie6, which features none other than the man himself as a character.
The short skits mean that knowing what's in them will spoil the (what can loosely be called) gags very easily, so we recommend you watch the movies before reading the trope list. It won't take long.
There's also a cake in the first episode, who a guy cuts, but is unaware that the cake is alive. The cake then dies from its wounds and falls off the table.
In the sixth episode, there is a burger that announces that it used to be a cow.
Art Shift: Most of the backstory in the Mine Turtle song is drawn in a much different style.
Continuity Nod: Instead of playing off prior asdfmovie skits like the rest of the song, it refers to another TomSka video, done in a different style.
Ax Crazy: People fire off guns, attack each other and summon random large objects with complete abandon.
Bait and Switch: A guy is asked to hold a live bomb. The guy who gave him the bomb comes back a few seconds later and takes it back. No explosion, next skit. Look closely and you'll notice the fuse gets longer at the end.
"This is a robbery." *dramatic sting and close-up* *hangs up and walks away*. Next skit.
Breakout Character: Following his debut in the second movie, the "I Like Trains" kid was apparently liked enough to show up in the third movie as well as in Lil Deuce Deuce's music video and star in the "I Like Trains" music video.
Cool Shades: The potato in the second movie, as well as the "I Like Trains" kid in the I Like Trains song.
Creator Cameo: Twice in Mine Turtle: two versions of Ridgewell appear - his EddsworldAuthor Avatar (as a sphinx in one of turtle's photos) and the "realistic" version, which created the first Mine Turtle.
Depth Deception: In asdfmovie 4, that kid trying to grab a ball thrown at him isn't standing far away. He's just really small. And gets squished under the ball.
This particular skit is repeated in the Mine Turtle music video, resulting in the "Stegosaurus" being blown up by the Mine Turtle. Then a whole army of Mine Turtles comes out of the time machine, leading to a hilarious instance of Phlebotinum Killed The Dinosaurs.
In the trailer for the fifth movie, Tom's dog's dog tag briefly shows the face of the "I Like Trains" kid before switching to "TOM'S DOG"
In the third movie's skit with the bomb, the fuse goes back to its original height for a single frame at the end, though this is most likely just a Blooper (as it doesn't seem to happen in the Newgrounds version).
In the 5th movie, right before the car lands on the guy next to Mine Turtle, you can see a smile on his face for a SPLIT second.
The guys who do the flop frown as they fall to the ground.
French Jerk: He won't run out of muffins. He works at the muffin factory.
Genius Loci: The Earth in asdfmovie3, and the Moon in asdfmovie5.
Genre Savvy: Two skits involving the Mine Turtle exploding later, the guy in the third is smart enough not to step on it. It doesn't save him.
Infant Immortality: Seemingly averted: "Honey, why is the baby on fire?" but actually played straight in that the baby suffers no ill effects and actually smiles whilst still being on fire.
No One Could Survive That: Some kids seem indestructible; to wit the "I Like Trains" kid and his assumed Spiritual Successor the airplane baby. (Then again, they could be asdf's version of Kenny.)
Averted with the girl drawing a bear... on a real bear. (CHOMP)
Literal Genie: The twenty minute movie provides a meta-example, as rather than being 20 minutes long, it was made in 20 minutes — the commenter who inspired it said to make one for 20 minutes, after all.
Literal-Minded: One character is told carrots are good for one's eyesight. He tries to test it by jamming two large carrots into his eye-sockets.
Organ Theft: Lungs, specifically and a face in the fourth movie.
Orphaned Punchline: The funniest thing you've ever seen, from really far away. The first line is almost impossible to hear properly, the rest of it is much clearer.
Subverted Trope: A lot of the humor is derived by doing the complete opposite/something different than what you're expecting to see. Also, the second and third movie repeat and subvert some earlier skits.
Talking Animal: Mine Turtle. The ducks are a more unusual case; when one of them quacks, the other remarks (in English) how he was just about to say the same thing.
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