The story revolves around thousands of adults and youth (kids and teenagers) who were forced to flee from their home to evacuate from a Bat-Flu pandemic on New Years Day in 2023. They refuge to a new town that has cyan, purple, blue and red colors with no other activity to do but watch TV since the the other activities are being repaired during quarantine.
Almost every restaurant, playground, arcade, house and hotel have been withered and destroyed or fading in the dust. Until one day, the entire city gets a TV guide in their mail saying that they need to use all 4 steps to summon their beloved characters on TV so that the town can be fixed and world will be saved. They have to be back in 25 minutes before the hourglass runs out.
Tropes:
- '80s Hair: The Generational Roommates are seem sporting mullets and perms when they first arrive at the new house.
- '70s Hair: The Generational Roommates, mainly the adults, kids and teenage characters sport long straight hair, afros with big sideburns, etc when they first arrive at the new house.
- '60s Hair: Mostly played for laughs. Particularly Beehives.
- '50s Hair: Some of the characters in the Multigenerational Household are ambiguously from a different decade sporting hairstyles like pompadours, crew cuts, poodle cuts, ponytails, and bouffants.
- '20s Bob Haircut: In the characters that are older than the others.
- The New '20s: The series takes place in 2023 and in 2024 when the New Years Has Come.
- Advertising: This is used after the bumpers/eyecatches pop up when the plot of the episode ends.
- Ambiguous Time Period: The series currently takes place in 2023 but certain characters, events, fashion, hair, media, music etc seemed to be more Vintage and Retro. Presumably seems that they're all from the past decades (The Roaring '20s-The New '10s).
- Anachronistic Soundtrack: Inverted. The series takes place in 2023-2024 the same year that the series came out. But it features both modern music and music for the 2000s-1940s in different countries.
- Alternate Tooniverse: The main theme of the cartoon.
- Animated Adaptation: The web series is a adaption on a comic by the same name
. Which was renamed and restored as a comic filled with the storyboards of each episode. - Animated Actors: Mostly shows the voice actors in the show as animated characters in the cartoon world.
- Animated Musical: An obvious staple to the series.
- Animated Anthology: Main part of the educational segments.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: With most things including emotions, plants, countries etc.
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Awesome Music: Particularly the ones that are either original, covers, remixes, mashups and made by AI. - Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Even though the generational characters wear more traditional clothing, they're still awesome roommates.
- Black Comedy: Played Straight, but it later becomes subverted due to Mood Whiplash.
- Born in the Wrong Century: Nina does this with the characters around her because of Nostalgia Filter.
- Crossover: The main theme of the series.
- Crapsack World: Basically done to reflect the issues and redeeming qualities in Real Life.
- Crude Humor: But not that extreme.
- Current Events Blog: Mostly with websites like CNN, Wikipedia etc.
- Cyberpunk Is Techno: Most of the songs in the series'soundtrack has [[Techno]] sprinkled in there.
- Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: Played Straight
- Dancing Sensation: Both original and in historical context.
- Day in the Life: The focus of the main plot for every episodes before the educational variety segments.
- Documentary/Documentary Episode: In most cases:
- Dystopia: This was done for the purpose of reflecting real life.
- Edutainment Show: Filled with News Stories, Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Biology, History, music and etc.
- Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Happens in the first episode and is now a running theme in the series.
- Fashion Dissonance: The Generational Roommates tend to wear clothes that's not specific to 2023's more modern day fashion.
- Flash In The Pan Fad: Most of the trends are like this in real life.
- Genre Throwback: The entire Cyberpunk town In-Universe.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: In most episodes where they're in different languages.
- Good Old Ways: The Generational characters are the personification of this.
- Intergenerational Friendship: The characters in modern times have a bond with older generation characters.
- Inappropriate Role Model: The creator, Nina giving bad advice to her teen audience by telling them that they should never understand or relate to adults or elders because of how boring and unnecessary it is before that lesson was changed to be more positive.
- History Repeats: Most events that happened in recent years in Real Life have happened decades or centuries ago.
- Holiday Episode: They're still
in the works - Homogenous Multinational Ad Campaign: In the multinational and multilingual ads/commercials in the breaks and they happen after the bumpers and eyecatches show up. This is mostly consistent in each episode as time goes on.
- Jukebox Musical: The series contains both original songs, pre-existing songs, mashups, Fan Music and remixes of said songs in it's soundtrack with too many music genres to count.
- Live-Action TV: Shows real life people with the animated characters and their daily routines in the Multigenerational Household.
- Learned from the News: Very prominent in personal news from public resources.
- Media Scaremongering: Used in a almost manipulative way.
- Moe Anthropomorphism: Plants, Animals, Countries etc get this treatment.
- Multigenerational Household: This shows up in episode 2 (in Season 2023) of the series, where the characters move into a new home after moving back to the U.S due to the invasion of Ukraine.
- Multiple Demographic Appeal: Both the comics and web series were originally going to appeal to males and females 11-40 years old but it was later changed to being aimed for multiple groups of people. Such as preteens age 12, teenagers ages 13-19, young adults, middle age adults, elders, and disabled or neurodivergent people.
- Multi-National Shows: Specifically the episodes where the episodes are in different languages.
- Multinational Team: The Multigenerational Household equivalent of this trope.
- My Future Self and Me: The older characters have younger selves as separate people.
- Nations as People: In the first episode, onwards.
- Outdated Outfit: The roommates (primarily the generational decades) in the Multigenerational Household are shown to be wearing old fashion clothing like bell bottoms, kimonos and most of them have frosted tip hair.
- Only In Florida: News reports from around the world also have bizarre incidents outside of America and Florida.
- Outdated Name: Betty is just a first example of this.
- Out of Order: Done on purpose to save time, so that the timeline will make more sense when the episodes are actually in order.
- Patched Together from the Headlines: This is the basis for the plot of episode in the news segments where more than one sensationalized story is out together to show how harsh and cruel the real world is.
- Pilot Episode: Episode 1
- Popular History: Very prominent in the historical segments.
- Popularity Polynomial: See the page for this trope. [1]
- Present Day: The series is set in the year it was made (2023) until the new year begins in 2024. This was mainly done to appeal to audiences and serves as a time capsule for the 2020s and history in general. From showcasing popular trends, Fads current culture, and aesthetics.
- Present-Day Past: The modern equivalent of this.
- Real-World Episode: For the Pilot Episode.
- Realism: All throughout the series.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Alot of stories, events, headlines etc in every episode are perceived as fictional when in reality they actually happened/is currently happening in Real Life.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: In many occasions.
- Refugee from TV Land: The characters from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman go to the real world when their world was starting to fade away.
- Retro Universe: Mostly modeled after the 1900s-2000s etcetera.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Many recent and current news stories about armed conflicts, crime, politics etc became the basis for the educational news segments in each episode which have many stories being covered in various news broadcasting.
- Sadist Teacher: Nina in Homeroom class.
- Saturday-Morning Cartoon: A modern example since there's no official schedule for it as of now.
- Scandalgate: The news segments have a tendency of covering scandalous stories of normal people and famous people on TV.
- Sitcom: The main theme of the series.Short Film
- Slice of Life: The series usually shows the daily lives of characters after the Educational Segments.
- Title Card: In Every Episode.
- Title Sequence: Episode 2; and onwards.
- The Generation Gap: That's to be expected for the adult and elderly characters to the child/teenage characters not fully connecting, understanding or relating to one another.
- The Musical: The animated version of this trope.
- The War on Terror: Seen in Episode 254 in Season 2023 where it takes place in the 22nd anniversary of 9/11.
- Three Successful Generations: The whole purpose of creating the roommate characters the same age as the modern day characters is to have the audience connect and relate to each other more through understanding each other. As well as having the tweens and teens learn that their parents grandparents had similar issues when they were around the same age as them back in the day.
- Transatlantic Equivalent: Many TV shows have international adaptations in different countries.
- Truth in Television: Played Straight, as the series feels more authentic and more down to earth with Real Life topics that is more relatable to the audience.
- Valentine's Day Episode: Episode 45.
- Valentine's Day Violence: There were many events that occured on Valentine's day.
- Variations on a Theme Song: The intro varies depending on what the topics and subjects in the episodes are.
- Variety Show: Prevelent through episode 1-3 with segments of educational songs, science, biology, psychology, history, colors, numbers, alphabets, foreign languages, Slice of Life and Sitcom Slapstick.
- War Is Hell: Both in current times and in history.
- Wartime Cartoon: In the historical too segments.
- Weather Report: This is always including in the weather segments of each episode.
- Webcomic: See page here.[2]
- Were Still Relevant Dammit: Most Real Life events have a tendency to do this.
- Ye Goode Olde Days: The past seems to be great than it actually is based on the events in the In-Universe world and in real life.
