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''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' is a web series based off the daily webcomic, ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''. Since 2010, animated shorts based on the comic have been produced, gradually increasing in production quality until 2014, when the first season of a weekly ten-to-fifteen minute series was announced and successfully [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explosm/the-cyanide-and-happiness-show Kickstarted]], reaching three times its goal of $250,000. As a stretch goal, for the entire year of 2014, shorts were produced on a weekly basis (excluding weeks in which full episodes were released). Each episode of the series tends to have one of two main sketches that take up most of the run time, and a few shorter sketches that act as interludes between them.

The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, yet due to a contract following the release of the second season, the long-form series is no longer available on Website/YouTube. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on VRV.]] However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].

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!!''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' provides examples of:

* AmbiguouslyGay: In "Rudy It's a Bitch Ass Life", Rudy's son is seen with his kid and another man visiting Rudy's death bed.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Used for comedic effect in the "Star-Spangled Bastard" sketch; at the end of the sketch, the titular hero uses a handgun to ''shoot out his bedroom light'' (the bullet then [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace ricochets and hits Eagle]]).
* AxCrazy: The [[BuriedAlive grave digger]] and the [[KillItWithFire fire fighters]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zEGjlHZMiM "Opposite Day"]].
* BlackComedy:
** The opening of Episode 3, where a man places a baby in the trunk of a car alongside a bowling ball, before driving crazily through a forest with [[MoodWhiplash extremely sudden]] SoundtrackDissonance.
** Pretty much the entire "God as a next door neighbor" sketch.
* BrickJoke: In Episode 2, [[spoiler:the pirate from the Buttshark sketch returns at the end of the episode, once again ordering two whiskies.]]
* CosmicPlaything: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw8xjDgxzK0 Sad]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-w61_mzyA Larry]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXI1yHP6urk Everything]] about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFX035FYUFA him]].
* CouchGag: The whiteboard during the opening of every episode. Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The third season of the long-form series is one giant storyline [[spoiler:involving a [[TakeOverTheWorld world takeover conspiracy]] by an [[EvilInc evil]] MegaCorp which culminates in HumanitysWake.]]
* DeathByGluttony: The future version of the kid in "Too Much History" dies from 'Too Much Privalage' after eating more than a dozen Christmas turkeys by himself. Even his past self watching the vision questions why his future self would need to eat so much turkey.
* DeathByRacism: The white people aboard the bus in the past segment of "Too Much History" insisted that the black man sitting in the front move to the back, despite the fact he was in the front because he was the driver. Causing the bus to crash.
* DrivenToSuicide: The intro to each episode has a man who appears to electrocute himself to death. Also happens in the depressing episode.
* {{Eagleland}}: Parodied with the gun-loving American hero, the "Star-Spangled Bastard", in the main sketch of Episode 4.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ujjQA4vGw Aeris]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is disgusted at Cloud using Phoenix Downs on Aeris while she's still impaled on his sword, outright calling him "sick" and telling him to let her die in peace. Keep in mind, he's the one who killed her in the first place.
* ForTheEvulz: The grinning man in "Seriously" completely ruins a man's life, stealing his parking spot and dinner table when he and his wife try to have their anniversary, then stealing the man's wife and assets in court, and even goes as far as to [[ItMakesSenseInContext fake his own death to trick the man into killing himself.]] All with that same shit-eating grin glued to his face the whole time.
** It seems to be a family trait, since all his relatives at the funeral share the same look, with one going as far as to steal the tears off another's face.
* FreudianExcuse: The "Let's Get Fucked Up Grandma" sketch (of the "Christmas Episode") reveals through childhood pictures that the reason the teenager is being so ruthlessly frat-boyish to his grandma is because she did the same thing to him when he was a baby.
** Also doubles as TheDogBitesBack and LaserGuidedKarma.
* HandicappedBadass: Suzy in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3thQUC_tLY Gym Class]] short. And how.
* HereWeGoAgain: The ending of Episode 2.
-->[[spoiler:'''Pirate''': Aye, 'tis a sad story. But aye've got a sadder one! [[BrickJoke Two whiskies]]!]]
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in [[TimeTravel "Too Much Time"]].
-->'''Narrator''': Wait just a second, there! You were conceived in a Volkswagen. And Volkswagens were created in World War II. So if you go back and kill Hitler, how would the Volkswagen exist? And if there are no Volkswagen, where were you conceived? And if you were never conceived, ''then who killed Hitler?''
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Season Too, while being the show's second season, is named after the degree of intensity, and all of the episodes are titled to go with that idea.
* {{Infomercial}}: Parodied in the opening of Episode 4 with ''Not Doing That!''
* InnocentBigot: White Knight doesn't seem to understand that he's being racist by arresting only black people.
* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator's exchange with The Arsenist in e''Too Many Superheros''.
-->'''The Arsenist''': Do the title card thing.
-->'''Narrator''': I don't want to.
-->'''The Arsenist''': Dooo iiiiit!
* NonIndicativeName: The episode names for the first season have absolutely ''nothing'' to do with the contents of each episode, save for "The Depressing Episode." The latter two seasons would avert this trope.
** Most notably, "The Christmas Episode" not only has nothing even remotely holiday-related, it also came out on '''January 22nd'''.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The Tolerator. "Are you making fun of the lazy Mexicans? That's racist."
* ReducedToDust: In "Granddpa's Storytime", this happens to Grandpa's storybook [[spoiler:and then himself]].
* RunningGag: The "Most Ancient Joke In The Book" sequences in Episodes 4-6, featuring a team of scientists travelling back in time in search of the titular jokes. Turns out it's [[spoiler:a knock-knock joke]].
** Episode 6 has its own with a group of firefighters bursting into seemingly innocuous places and putting out things like candles in an over-the-top manner. The punchline is that [[spoiler:they're psychics and are predicting fires before they happen]].
** Episode 5 seems to have an obsession with hot dogs.
** Episode 11 repeatedly features a court jester trying what should be humanly impossible feats to entertain his king. [[spoiler:He gets executed the third time around.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The 60's Narrator in ''Too Many Superheros'' quits after watching Wonder Percent brutally murder white collar criminals.
* ShoutOut: To everything from ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' to ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}''.
* TakeThat: The first skit of Episode 11 is this to the concept of homeschooling and also most likely [[StrawFeminist straw feminists]].
* TearsOfBlood: One of the guys in the curse support group has this whenever he becomes sad.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: The husband in "Dirty Dealings" loves to eat nothing but hotdogs. Nothing. But. Hotdogs. When his wife says she wants something different. He honestly thinks she means she wants mustard on her Hotdogs instead of ketchup.

%%!!The ''C&H Shorts'' contain examples of:
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''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' is a web series based off the daily webcomic, ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''. Since 2010, animated shorts based on the comic have been produced, gradually increasing in production quality until 2014, when the first season of a weekly ten-to-fifteen minute series was announced and successfully [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explosm/the-cyanide-and-happiness-show Kickstarted]], reaching three times its goal of $250,000. As a stretch goal, for the entire year of 2014, shorts were produced on a weekly basis (excluding weeks in which full episodes were released). Each episode of the series tends to have one of two main sketches that take up most of the run time, and a few shorter sketches that act as interludes between them.

The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, yet due to a contract following the release of the second season, the long-form series is no longer available on Website/YouTube. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on VRV.]] However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].

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!!''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' provides examples of:

* AmbiguouslyGay: In "Rudy It's a Bitch Ass Life", Rudy's son is seen with his kid and another man visiting Rudy's death bed.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Used for comedic effect in the "Star-Spangled Bastard" sketch; at the end of the sketch, the titular hero uses a handgun to ''shoot out his bedroom light'' (the bullet then [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace ricochets and hits Eagle]]).
* AxCrazy: The [[BuriedAlive grave digger]] and the [[KillItWithFire fire fighters]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zEGjlHZMiM "Opposite Day"]].
* BlackComedy:
** The opening of Episode 3, where a man places a baby in the trunk of a car alongside a bowling ball, before driving crazily through a forest with [[MoodWhiplash extremely sudden]] SoundtrackDissonance.
** Pretty much the entire "God as a next door neighbor" sketch.
* BrickJoke: In Episode 2, [[spoiler:the pirate from the Buttshark sketch returns at the end of the episode, once again ordering two whiskies.]]
* CosmicPlaything: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw8xjDgxzK0 Sad]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-w61_mzyA Larry]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXI1yHP6urk Everything]] about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFX035FYUFA him]].
* CouchGag: The whiteboard during the opening of every episode. Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The third season of the long-form series is one giant storyline [[spoiler:involving a [[TakeOverTheWorld world takeover conspiracy]] by an [[EvilInc evil]] MegaCorp which culminates in HumanitysWake.]]
* DeathByGluttony: The future version of the kid in "Too Much History" dies from 'Too Much Privalage' after eating more than a dozen Christmas turkeys by himself. Even his past self watching the vision questions why his future self would need to eat so much turkey.
* DeathByRacism: The white people aboard the bus in the past segment of "Too Much History" insisted that the black man sitting in the front move to the back, despite the fact he was in the front because he was the driver. Causing the bus to crash.
* DrivenToSuicide: The intro to each episode has a man who appears to electrocute himself to death. Also happens in the depressing episode.
* {{Eagleland}}: Parodied with the gun-loving American hero, the "Star-Spangled Bastard", in the main sketch of Episode 4.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ujjQA4vGw Aeris]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is disgusted at Cloud using Phoenix Downs on Aeris while she's still impaled on his sword, outright calling him "sick" and telling him to let her die in peace. Keep in mind, he's the one who killed her in the first place.
* ForTheEvulz: The grinning man in "Seriously" completely ruins a man's life, stealing his parking spot and dinner table when he and his wife try to have their anniversary, then stealing the man's wife and assets in court, and even goes as far as to [[ItMakesSenseInContext fake his own death to trick the man into killing himself.]] All with that same shit-eating grin glued to his face the whole time.
** It seems to be a family trait, since all his relatives at the funeral share the same look, with one going as far as to steal the tears off another's face.
* FreudianExcuse: The "Let's Get Fucked Up Grandma" sketch (of the "Christmas Episode") reveals through childhood pictures that the reason the teenager is being so ruthlessly frat-boyish to his grandma is because she did the same thing to him when he was a baby.
** Also doubles as TheDogBitesBack and LaserGuidedKarma.
* HandicappedBadass: Suzy in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3thQUC_tLY Gym Class]] short. And how.
* HereWeGoAgain: The ending of Episode 2.
-->[[spoiler:'''Pirate''': Aye, 'tis a sad story. But aye've got a sadder one! [[BrickJoke Two whiskies]]!]]
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in [[TimeTravel "Too Much Time"]].
-->'''Narrator''': Wait just a second, there! You were conceived in a Volkswagen. And Volkswagens were created in World War II. So if you go back and kill Hitler, how would the Volkswagen exist? And if there are no Volkswagen, where were you conceived? And if you were never conceived, ''then who killed Hitler?''
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Season Too, while being the show's second season, is named after the degree of intensity, and all of the episodes are titled to go with that idea.
* {{Infomercial}}: Parodied in the opening of Episode 4 with ''Not Doing That!''
* InnocentBigot: White Knight doesn't seem to understand that he's being racist by arresting only black people.
* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator's exchange with The Arsenist in e''Too Many Superheros''.
-->'''The Arsenist''': Do the title card thing.
-->'''Narrator''': I don't want to.
-->'''The Arsenist''': Dooo iiiiit!
* NonIndicativeName: The episode names for the first season have absolutely ''nothing'' to do with the contents of each episode, save for "The Depressing Episode." The latter two seasons would avert this trope.
** Most notably, "The Christmas Episode" not only has nothing even remotely holiday-related, it also came out on '''January 22nd'''.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The Tolerator. "Are you making fun of the lazy Mexicans? That's racist."
* ReducedToDust: In "Granddpa's Storytime", this happens to Grandpa's storybook [[spoiler:and then himself]].
* RunningGag: The "Most Ancient Joke In The Book" sequences in Episodes 4-6, featuring a team of scientists travelling back in time in search of the titular jokes. Turns out it's [[spoiler:a knock-knock joke]].
** Episode 6 has its own with a group of firefighters bursting into seemingly innocuous places and putting out things like candles in an over-the-top manner. The punchline is that [[spoiler:they're psychics and are predicting fires before they happen]].
** Episode 5 seems to have an obsession with hot dogs.
** Episode 11 repeatedly features a court jester trying what should be humanly impossible feats to entertain his king. [[spoiler:He gets executed the third time around.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The 60's Narrator in ''Too Many Superheros'' quits after watching Wonder Percent brutally murder white collar criminals.
* ShoutOut: To everything from ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' to ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}''.
* TakeThat: The first skit of Episode 11 is this to the concept of homeschooling and also most likely [[StrawFeminist straw feminists]].
* TearsOfBlood: One of the guys in the curse support group has this whenever he becomes sad.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: The husband in "Dirty Dealings" loves to eat nothing but hotdogs. Nothing. But. Hotdogs. When his wife says she wants something different. He honestly thinks she means she wants mustard on her Hotdogs instead of ketchup.

%%!!The ''C&H Shorts'' contain examples of:
%%To be added/moved from the main C&H page.
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* TheyJustDontGetIt: The husband in "Dirty Dealings" loves to eat nothing but hotdogs. Nothing. But. Hotdogs. When his wife says she wants something different. He honestly thinks she means she wants mustard on her Hotdogs instead of ketchup.
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* ReducedToDust: In "Granddpa's Storytime", this happens to Grandpa's storybook [[spoiler:and then himself]].
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The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, yet due to a contract following the release of the second season, the long-form series is no longer available on YouTube. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on VRV.]] However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].

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The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, yet due to a contract following the release of the second season, the long-form series is no longer available on YouTube.Website/YouTube. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on VRV.]] However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].
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* ForTheEvulz: The grinning man in "Seriously" completely ruins a man's life, stealing his parking spot and dinner table when he and his wife try to have their anniversary, then stealing the man's wife and assets in court, and even goes as far as to [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext fake his own death to trick the man into killing himself.]]]] All with that same shit-eating grin glued to his face the whole time.
** It seems to be a family trait, since while at the funeral all his relatives shared the same look, and going as far as to steal the tears of each others face.

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* ForTheEvulz: The grinning man in "Seriously" completely ruins a man's life, stealing his parking spot and dinner table when he and his wife try to have their anniversary, then stealing the man's wife and assets in court, and even goes as far as to [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext fake his own death to trick the man into killing himself.]]]] ]] All with that same shit-eating grin glued to his face the whole time.
** It seems to be a family trait, since while at the funeral all his relatives shared at the funeral share the same look, and with one going as far as to steal the tears of each others off another's face.
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* NonIndicativeName: Most episode names has absolutely ''nothing'' to do with the contents of that episode. Averted with "The Depressing Episode" and "Too Many Trains" which is both the first Season Too episode, and features two skits relating to trains.

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* NonIndicativeName: Most The episode names has for the first season have absolutely ''nothing'' to do with the contents of that episode. Averted with each episode, save for "The Depressing Episode" and "Too Many Trains" which is both the first Season Too episode, and features Episode." The latter two skits relating to trains.seasons would avert this trope.
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The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7j5FieXSTfwPJ2GQvSIWnMj-WDFbuCD here]]. The first "season" of shorts can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7j5FieXSTc-2gbs7NkrDPhkS_rQS9XT here]], and the main channel for the project can be visited [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].

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The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, yet due to a contract following the release of the second season, the long-form series is no longer available on YouTube. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on VRV.]] However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7j5FieXSTfwPJ2GQvSIWnMj-WDFbuCD here]]. The first "season" of shorts can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7j5FieXSTc-2gbs7NkrDPhkS_rQS9XT here]], and the main channel for the project can be visited [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].

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