Are those raindrops?
Brim’s Room, a series following two frosting puffs in kindergarten trying to live their lives.It currently only has one episode, but is planned for 12 more. It’s pilot released February 5, 2022. And you’d think there’d be at least 2 more episodes by now.
This series provides examples of:
- Always Identical Twins: Not only are Brim and Puffette twins, their younger siblings are also gender mixed twins who ALSO bear an uncanny resemblance to the twins as babies.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Most people in this show are literal white (or sometimes yellow) to emphasize the "stickmen" artstyle. Minorities aren't exempt from this either: Black people are dark gray note , and other minorities such as Asians and Hispanics just have the same skin tones as white people.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Brich and Puffina, the twin’s younger siblings.
- Anthropomorphic Food: The main characters are literally just anthropomorphic pieces of blue frosting. They also have a neighbor which is the Gingerbread Man himself.
- Art Evolution: The first few episodes of the series are DRASTICALLY different from each other. The pilot's artstyle is completely different from the succeeding episodes and has overdone Stylistic Suck (it is toned down a bit in after the pilot). It is black and white, excluding the last minute, and it lacks any of the cel animation effects that make Brim's Room Brim's Room. The next episode introduces the cel effects, but with pencil. The next episode uses proper dropshadows, and then Jasper E. Chess'es has the finalized art style that uses a digital paintbrush to color in and the other such.
- Baby Talk: Done on Brim to make him sound like a toddler. For some reason, none of the other preschoolers have this except for the high pitched voices.
- Chekhov's Gunman: You’d exact EAS Guy to only have almost one appearance since he has such an insignificant job, but he’s a pretty deep character.
- Crapsaccharine World: Also somewhat the premise of the series. Despite it looking all cutesy and stuff when you first see it, it's pretty much the opposite of a Sugar Bowl.
- Deliberate VHS Quality: Some episodes, such as the Halloween special, use this to achieve a certain effect.
- Dirty Kid: For a 5 year old, Puffette is ridiculously sex-obsessed.
- Dropped Afterthe Pilot: The duo named “Stacey and Heredia”. Although a bit reasonably since they were sent off to the principals office. But it shouldn’t take more than a few hours on there, should it?
- Emergency Broadcast: We see one as early as Episode 2.
- The DVDs are VHS quality to give the feel of a show on VHS, not DVD.
- The Face of the Sun: Done as an attempt to parody children’s shows. It is shown to be a fake construction paper sun with a smiley face. Sometimes it talks and sometimes it fits the theme, but it’s mostly just there a lot and completely ignored. He’s called the “Sunny Sun”.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: Mary’s mom, who is obsessed with Japan to the point she regularly wears a kimono and also regularly sprinkes Basic Japanese mostly basic into daily conversation.
- Gingerbread House: Quite literally as in the Gingerbread Man’s house. The Noncibiums (aka Brim’s family) live in a giant cake.
- Girls vs. Boys Plot: The third episode, literally titled “Boys vs. Girls”, have the boys and girls see who’s the best by hosting a sleepover for each gender after the girls find the boys screwing around in the bathroom. A rare example as the boys win over the girls, but the girls aren’t really made to be seen as inferior made.
- Half-Identical Twins: Brim and Puffette are completely identical twins, aside from a mole on Puffette’s feet. They only look different because they dress differently.
- Held Back in School: Rebecca, despite being in a kindergarten class, is actually 8 years old but has been held back several times.
- Hostile Animatronics: Chuck E. Cheese in the Chuck E. Cheese’s episode fires lasers at kids.
- Humans Are White: Despite the creator himself being black, almost EVERYONE is whitenote in Season 1, save for some Hispanicsnote and Brim's classmate who is Japanese.
- Kids Raiding the Wine Cabinet: “Sleepover or Hangover” where the kids find beer and wine thinking it’s a normal drink and they let all the kids in their party drink it with them. Surprisingly, they never get caught, despite there being a huge mess when they get home.
- Limited Animation: The first episode. The creator thought that if it was in black and white, less time would be spent on animating it.
- Manchild: Mary’s mom, to the point Mary is almost a mother figure for her.
- The Man in the Moon: This is also done to accompany the Sunny Sun, but his design is inconsistent and sometimes he doesn’t even have a face. When he has a face he is normally a crescent as another jab at preschool shows.
- Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Brim and his friends are only 5 but it’s still very adult.
- Millennium Bug: Season 3 episode about the mass hysteria before Y2K. This show is a late pioneer of this trope; the trope only somewhat works due to Season 3 being set in 2000.
- Mistakenfor Prostitute: When they met, Bill straight up posed the question: “Are you a prostitute?”
- Only Six Faces: Almost every face is the same, which is mostly because of the simplistic Stickman art style.
- Parental Favoritism: Firey gets grounded for almost everything he does, while his brother goes completely undisciplined.
- Phonýmon: Chokemon. A messed up fan translation of the original Pokémon games that turns into the official English version of Pokémon and becomes popular worldwide. At the end they also anticipate “Chokemon GO coming in 20 years”.
- Present-Day Past: Season 1 is set in 1998 and Season 2 ‘99. It looks like the 90s, feels like the 90s, it has the pop culture of the 90s, but a lot of current events happen in it to stay “up to date”.
- In the episode Goash, the ice cream truck has SpongeBob popsicles on the list. You can even tell the creator was aware of it since it was edited.
- Retraux: The animation is supposed to look like cel animation from the 90s, with very slight dropshadows and even being colored with a (digital) oil paintbrush. Taken even further with the Post-Processing Video Effects 16mm filter to make it look like it’s on old 35mm film (despite the filter actually being 16mm). Most things related to it are also Retraux, like the game which will be for the Gameboy Color.
- Spoiled Brat: Intentionally exaggerated as a jab at preschool shows and actual toddler behavior.
- Stick Figure Animation: Because it was derived from the creator’s art style but slightly more advanced. At first, the look wanted to have a cartoony art style to feel mainstream, but sooner it was abandoned for the creator’s natural drawing style.
- Stop Faux-tion: It’s very common to see fake stop motion paired with the fake cel animation in this series. It’s even pictured above. They usually consist of a construction paper texture animated on the same layer as the cel animation, since both techniques have the same dropshadow, although there are separate layers if more is needed.
- Speaking of stop motion dropshadows, the second episode (the first to use dropshadows) had dropshadows made from a pencil texture, originally with imitating early South Park in mind. But when halfway the creator tried to replicate cel animation, it ALSO used dropshadows.
- Subverted with the frame rate. Despite how it seems, the 12fps is not to emulate stop motion. It’s just for a faster production process.
- Stylistic Suck: The show itself is made to look intentionally crude. You can especially see this in their crudely drawn mouths.
- This is more prominent in the in-universe show Ouedyza Distany, which is a ripoff of Brim’s Room that the twins (Brim and Puffette) enjoy watching. The animation is literally just a video of a flipbook with voices. It also seems to have a Soviet agenda.
- Subverted Kids' Show: The show is mostly in the style of a preschool show, mostly ones from the early 90s to mid 2000s. The intro depicts the show as a happy go lucky preschool show, as well in the backgrounds where you depicts an happy paper cutout sun and clouds with rosy cheeks on their faces. This trope somewhat came into effect with the decision to make episodes 6-7 minutes, most preschool shows being 5 minutes with 2 more minutes to make a coherent story.
- Suck E. Cheese's: Quite literally. There is a whole episode planned about a trip to Chuck E Cheese’s that goes horribly.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: Ignoring their clothes, makeup, etc., almost EVERY single person in the Noncibium family share this look but aged down or up.
- Unique Pilot Title Sequence: The pilot uses what would’ve been an unused intro as there was not enough time to make a new one.
- Vocal Evolution: In the pilot, everybody has the voice of J.R., expect for Rebecca, Brim, Brueed, and Mrs. Hernandes.
- Welcome Episode: The pilot is about dealing with a homeless man on the street (Jack) and their new neighbor, the Gingerbread Man.
- White Maskof Doom: EAS Guy.
