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Article Insanity is a powerpoint-animated Object Show created by Florence100 ❤CLASSIC❤ on 30th January 2014.

The series ran for five episodes before discontinuation though it can still be found on this official playlist.

Contains the following tropes:

  • A Dog Named "Dog": All the characters are named after the objects they take after.
  • A Lizard Named "Liz": The "-y" suffix strikes again onto some of the objects' self-explanatory names with Cashy (A coin), Rampy (A ramp), Signy (A sign) and Treasurey (A treasure chest).
  • Animate Inanimate Object: The entire cast is full of sentient objects of all kinds.
  • Anthropomorphic Food: Cauliflower, Guacamole, Lettuce, Sour Cream, Smoked Sausage and Yoyleberry are the living ingredients for a salad.
  • Armless Biped: The show thus follows the trend of Object Shows having contestants having legs but no armsnote .
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Cashy's main schtick. Some examples include lampshading Object Show cliches, acknowledging the audience and manually changing the audio playing "New Friendly" by grabbing the icon button in her first appearance.
  • Catchphrase: Tranquilliser Gun would always scream "BANZAI!" before shooting out his darts and knocking out his unexpecting victims.
  • Expy: Butter Knife is just a female version of Knife pre-Character Development and like him, she was eliminated for her Jerkass attitude.
  • Forced Transformation: Eliminated contestants get turned into iron balls by Treasurey and kept in a vault until the contest is over. But that's not the worst part as they remain sentient but lose all their limbs and are stacked on top of each other, forcing them to deal with each other without the free will to move.
  • Short-Runner: The series ran a total of five episodes in one year and was supposed to undergo a reboot but was discontinued for good as the creator's YouTube channel has been inactive since August 2014.
  • Take That!: The first episode plays "New Friendly" for a few seconds before Cashy complains about how incredibly overused the soundtrack is in Object Shows then physically smacks the PowerPoint audio icon to change it to less-generic music.
  • Tranquillizer Dart: Tranquilizer Gun would always randomly shoot out these darts yelling "BANZAI!" and immediately incapacitate whoever it hits because of his nature as, well, a tranquilizer gun. This behaviour is what got him eliminated since the viewers didn't like how detrimental he was to his team for shooting them in the crossfire.

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