Web Animation / Doobus Goobus

"Doobus Tropus"

Doobus Goobus is an animator and voice actor known for his minimalistic art and animation style. He is particularly well known for his Friday Night Funkin' parody series Friday Night Hunkin', and has even made a number of collaborations with other YouTubers.

His YouTube channel can be found here.

His Newgrounds page can be found here.

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Doobus Goobus provides examples of:

• Actor Allusion: When Toad says his favorite movie is Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in "Mario discusses the Movies", Mario mocks him for choosing a Chris Pratt movie.
• Adaptational Dumbass:
  • Only five Gorons are capable of any form of cognizant communication. The rest just grunt and eat rocks all day.
  • "Resident Evil 4, but Leon is Stupid" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, where Leon S. Kennedy has taken the RE4 Remake's "Moushley" Twitter meme at face value (in 2004, no less!), and gets very disheartened and angry when he discovers his target isn't actually a tiny cartoon mouse.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In "The Horrors of Pikmin", a Bulborb gains sentience and talks solely to process the horrors of Louie eating the Pikmin.
• Adaptational Modesty: Exaggerated in "Harley and Ivy are Great Friends", where Poison Ivy is turned into a potted plant.
• Adaptational Species Change: Freddy Fazbear is portrayed as an actual live bear as opposed to an animatronic designed to resemble one.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Sonic the Hedgehog is drawn with an elongated head, a fat belly, and eyes detached from his body.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • In "Wife Amy Rose", Amy Rose nearly kills Tails in front of Sonic as revenge for constantly getting rejected for the past 30 years.
  • In "Ren and OJ Stimpson", Stimpy is portrayed as killing his own wife.
• Advertised Extra: Discussed in "Mortal Kombat's Story is No Good" where Scorpion complains to Ed Boon about how he's always advertised on the cover of the games, yet ends up being either sidelined or killed off.
• Age Lift: In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Tails and Big are supposed to be 8 and 18 years old respectively, but are explicitly stated to be 4 and 3 years old in "Big the Pet Cat".
• Anthropomorphic Food: Lampshaded in "Pizza Tower for People Who Haven't Played It", where Peppino films a commercial for his restaurant and notes that "all of our ingredients are alive so we always piss off the vegans", saying "It's awesome!" before slicing the Pineapple Toppin vertically in half as it screams while the other 4 just watch in horror.
• Ask a Stupid Question...: In ''The Chaotix Neighbors (& Knuckles)", Charmy the Bee gets stuck in Knuckles' scalp. When Sonic asks if it hurts, Knuckles replies with:
  Knuckles: NO! IT'S LIKE I'M BEING HUGGED BY MY OWN MOTHER! WHAT DO YOU THINK?
  Sonic: You know what? That was a dumb question.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: "Courage and the Big Meanie" has Courage getting smacked by Eustace for various reasons. In order, Eustace smacks Courage for ordering Dominos instead of Pizza Hut, not warning him that buying an oversized hat would "make [him] look like a jerk", not warning him that voting for the "Jaguars Eating Faces" party would get his face eaten, and for no reason in particular. After the last one, Eustace tells Courage he loves him, causing Courage to correctly assume that he's dreaming.
• Berserk Button: Robotnik gets really angry when anyone calls him their daddy, particularly in the case of Sonic, and eventually Sage.
• Biting-the-Hand Humor: "YouTube's Sick Little Games", mocking the algorithm for downvoting anyone who doesn't constantly pump out content — such as Doobus Goobus himself when he's not feeling well:
  Doobus Goobus: I don't get it, my audience was supportive!
  YouTube: ''I'M NOT THE AUDIENCE, I'M THE ANALYTICS! I FUCKING HATE YOU!'
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Sora is capable of giving a Sexual Education lesson but only in KH metaphors and has no idea what a penis actually is unless it's called a keyblade.
• Call-Back: In "Sonic Banned From the Frontiers", Eggman's appearance causes Sonic to point out that the former was given the death penalty by Rouge in "Daddy Eggman":
  Eggman: I WAS! LAST THING I REMEMBER WAS THE FAINT SMELL OF CHLOROFORM, (as Sonic projects a mental image of Sage applying the chloroform) AND THEN-
  Sage: Dada!
  Eggman: I'M NOT A GODDAMN FATHER!
• Captain Ersatz: Wabus Dwabus in "My Evil Rival, Wabus Dwabus" is meant to be an obvious Wario knockoff. The thumbnail of the cartoon even has the label "Not Wario" pointed at him:
  Wabus: I eat... (squints over a copyright law document, then an onion with "not garlic" written on it appears in his hand) onions!
• Casting Gag: In Big the Pet Cat, Big states that he is "thwee" in a Duke Nukem voice while sporting the hairdo and shades. Big is voiced by Gianni Matragrano, known for doing Duke Nukem impressions, and Jon St. John officially played both characters.
• Cloudcuckoolander: The Judge in Doobus's Ace Attorney shorts is portrayed as a senile old fool who plays with jingling keys, openly admits to having No Object Permanence, and sentences Edgeworth to death for being rude.
  • Sophie the giraffe takes this to extreme levels. Case in point: in "The Money", Brent the hobo skunk is about to have his toes chopped off by Katie, an adorable little gangster caterpillar, unless he finds the $300 he owes her within the next minute. Sophie literally coughs the money up, on condition that Brent has to talk to her. By the end of it, Brent wishes he'd let Katie chop off his toes instead.
• Crippling Castration: Mickey Mouse threatens Sora with this in "Kingdom Hearts Sex Ed" if he doesn't stop talking about sex education:
  Sora: What's a penis?
  Mickey: IT'S SOMETHING I'M GOING TO RIP RIGHT OFF YOUR GODDAMN BODY IF YOU DON'T ZIP THAT YAP!
• The Cutie: Winnie the Pooh is portrayed in the cartoons he's in as having an Incorruptible Pure Pureness, which even carries over to when he became president of the United States, and Doobus just doesn't have the nerve to explain issues like Big Pharma, the separation of church and state, and abortion when Pooh gave innocent answers, mishearing the first two into something else and not knowing what the latter is.
  • This even extends to when he becomes king of the entire world, where he thinks depression itself is a sentient being and says he wants it to be happy too.
  • Tails is portrayed in the cartoons as innocent and adorable child complete with a baby-like appearance, a parasol beanie and a childish voice.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • In "Silent Hill 2 for people who haven't played it", Doobus refuses to make a joke about Angela, a deeply traumatized survivor of sexual assault who ends up Driven to Suicide, much like Doobus once was in real life:
    Doobus: I don’t wanna make a joke about this one.
  • After a Bulborb witnesses Louie eating Pikmin in "The Horrors of Pikmin", its brain evolved specifically to process the horrors it witnessed and promptly chews out Louie for subjecting it to the ensuing nightmares.
• Elvis Lives: And he was under Doobus' foot the entire time, even years before Doobus was even born. However, Elvis then immediately goes to Subway and chokes on a sandwich... on the toilet.
• Fetishized Abuser: How Harley Quinn sees the Joker in "Harley Quinn is not very smart", who states upfront that he doesn't love her and will do all kinds of unpleasant things to her, and yet it doesn't faze her one bit:
  Joker: Oh, and I'm only telling you this to avoid a future lawsuit, you know; like, I would omit this if I could for cruel intentions.
  Harley: Fully aware!
  Joker: Alright, and finally I'm totally willing to cut your face off purely for sick pleasure.
  Harley: (blushes) That's hot!
  Joker: HOT?! (beat) You know, maybe I kinda do like you. Heh heh!
• Finger in the Mail: Steve in "Blue's Clues Gets Bad News" receives one and gets distressed. Not understanding the gravity of the situation, Blue puts a pawprint on it since it was a clue. Steve isn't angry, but even further distressed since it has to be turned in to the police and now it's possibly contaminated.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: After Charmy eats Sonic's comically-sized crowbar, Knuckles gets ready to pull him out. Vector tries to stop him since Charmy will die if he's not pulled out delicately, but Knuckles asks why he should care since everybody but Vector hates Charmy.
• Furry Reminder: In "Freddy Fazbear Causes Disrepair", Freddy states he couldn’t talk with Goobus about him watching the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie in the past six months because he really wanted to take a nap. At first, Goobus is annoyed and confused that someone would nap for six months before remembering that Freddy is a bear.
• Gone Horribly Right: In "A Typical Ace Attorney Trial", after running out of patience dealing with everyone's nonsense and them trying to pin genocide on Maya, Nick decides to turn the case against Edgeworth, the prosecutor. And this does succeed. However, Nick clearly didn't expect that such a result wouldn't get Edgeworth jailed, but straight up executed.
• G-Rated Drug: Played for Laughs in "Tears of the Kingdom - Goron Addicts" in regards to the Marbled Rock Roast that the Gorons have been eating, which is addictive, bad for them, and has been making them irritable. Link very quickly realizes that they’re basically on meth.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Espio in "The Chaotix Neighbors (& Knuckles)" speaks in whatever random Japanese vocabulary that he could find. When Sonic asks what he says, Vector says that it's just gibberish. However, he does know one proper phrase, which translates to "Your mother is gay!":
  Charmy: (gasps) She is not!
• Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty: In "A Typical Ace Attorney Trial", Nick goes through the grueling process of proving Maya Fey's innocence regarding the crime of nuking Turkey, only for Edgeworth to smugly point out that someone obviously had to be guilty... and eventually for no logical reason (or at least as much logic as Edgeworth assuming Maya did it), Phoenix decides to accuse Edgeworth, and the Judge buys it without a second thought. Phoenix still doesn't feel good about that, pointing out that he may have just sent an innocent man to his death.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Edgeworth pointing out someone needs to be guilty of nuking Turkey, ends up getting himself accused of it.
• I Ate WHAT?!: When Doobus does a video explaining that he is not a broccoli, a fat character is currently in the process of eating his hair when he drops this bombshell:
  Doobus: If you all must know to end this slanderous lie, I am actually a toxic goo that grew out of the earth, (the character stops eating and musters a shocked look) that if you ingest you will die immediately. (the same character's heart stops in an instant and he keels over dead) Okay, I didn't really like that guy, 'cuz he was eating me, so I don't care. anyway...
• Insult Backfire: When the tall frog finds out that one of the songs the short frog wrote is titled "Samus Aran should make me a sandwich (because she is a woman)" in "Gamer Frogs: Epic Videogame Parody", he tells him that his entire existence is a women's rights violation, to which the short frog finds legitimately touching:
  Tall frog: I feel like your continued existence is a women's rights violation.
  Short frog: I'm genuinely touched!
• It Amused Me: When Knuckles tries adopting Tails, the latter calls him Uncle Knuckles, annoying him. Sonic taught Tails this because he found it funny, so when Tails says it again while Knuckles is sulking away, the latter takes out his frustrations on Sonic.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: In "Gamer Frogs: The Gamer Code", the short frog refers to Samus as "it":
  Tall frog: What is "it"?
  Short frog: The woman.
  Tall frog: Are women really just objects to you-
  Short frog: Unquestionably, un-fucking-questionably.
• Kill and Replace: In "Nobody Wanted a Gollum Game", it’s revealed Gollum ended up being to sole programmer of his game despite never touching a computer, because every time a programmer said the game was a terrible idea, he killed them and then took over their job.
• Major Injury Underreaction: In "Kingdom Hearts Sex Ed", even after Mickey Mouse (the corporate mascot, not the KH version of him) smashes Sora's head in with an I-beam, the latter only expresses mild inconvenience and is still lucid enough to keep giving his sex-ed class despite Mickey's protests:
  Sora: OOF! That smarts!
• My God, What Have I Done?: In "Winnie The Pooh is Not Scary", the creator of a Winnie the Pooh horror movie (implied to be Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey) begins to feel this way after Pooh simply requests to add a disclaimer to the movie apologizing to anyone who his movie depiction scares.
• No Ending: Lampshaded by Knuckles in "The Chaotix Neighbors (& Knuckles)" where Knuckles calls out Sonic for not doing anything about Charmy still being stuck in Knuckles' head after Charmy eats Sonic's comically-sized crowbar to not hurt Vector's feelings.
• No Indoor Voice: Eggman seems to only have two levels of volume: loud and Hell Is That Noise.
• No-Sell: In "Chun Li's Legs", Chun-Li is able to kick the majority of the Street Fighter roster into submission. However, Zangief is completely unaffected due to being homosexual, which is her undoing.
• Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: In "Courage and the Big Meanie", Eustace berates Courage for a variety of petty reasons, like for ordering from Domino's instead of Pizza Hut and not telling him voting for the "Jaguars Eating Faces" Party would result in his face getting eaten off. One of these times, he openly admits he doesn't even have a specific reason and just doesn't like him.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: In "I Tried Tinder Once," Doobus has an awful Tinder chat in which a woman nastily compares him to Bob Ross with a vomiting emoji, then suggests he must be trans. He notes it's pretty unbelievable, but then he shows a screenshot from Tinder to prove this really happens.
• Of Corpse He's Alive: In "Weekend at Antman's", Hulk accidentally sits on Antman during the Avengers roll call. Thor even compares the situation to Weekend at Bernie's:
  Thor: Did he get squished?!
  Hulk: No no no, Ant just have bad posture!
  Iron Man: "Bad posture"? His spine's a goddamn slinky! You can play the accordion on his back!
  Hulk: NO NO, ANT ALIVE, LOOK! (clears throat, moves his finger up and down while it handles Ant Man) Look at Ant! Ant not dead! Doot do doo! No lawsuit needed! Doot do doo!
  Iron Man: We didn't say anything about him being dead.
• Only Sane Man: Brent in the 'Brent and Sophie' episodes. Especially in "The Hobo", when he not only has to put up with Sophie but Gus (a senile seal) as well.
• Parody Assistance: In "Chun Li's Legs", Aleks Le reprises the role of Luke for his appearance.
• Plant Person: Subverted with Doobus, despite looking like he could be a person made out of broccoli, he is actually "a toxic goo that grew out of the earth" that just so happened to look like one.
• Prized Possession Giveaway: In "Jimbo’s Gift", Hugh Neutron passes down his r/duck Reddit Account to Jimmy.
• Propeller Hat of Whimsy: Tails wears a small propeller hat, fitting given his baby-like appearance.
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • Or rather, negates the plot. In "Creepy Stranger Sonichu", which is supposed to symbolize Sonichu's creator Chris Chan, Doobus abruptly interrupts the cartoon to say that Chan was bailed out of prison while he was making the cartoon, and that he has no idea how to end it.
  • Taken literally in "I used Tinder once", where every line up until "You're succeeding at fucking with me. I'll give you that." was an actual conversation Doobus had over Tinder.
• Riddle for the Ages: What was the game Frog A likes that everyone else doesn’t?
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: In "The Foolish Samurai Warrior!", Samurai Jack admits to Aku that he doesn't know how to count since he spent his twenty-year education exclusively learning how to swordfight.
• Screw Yourself: In "Chun Li's Legs", Zangief and his alternate skin engage in a "battle of tongue" in celebration of resisting the temptations of Chun-Li's legs.
• Smash Cut: "Ace Attorney for Those Who Haven't Played It" involves one in the middle of Phoenix giving an overly convoluted explanation of the last time Maya was out of containment and he had to gather evidence to prove her innocence again:
  Phoenix: ... so excuse me if I don't trust you to be unsupervi—
  Judge: (as Phoenix blinks and immediately finds himself and Maya in the courtroom) We are here for the trial of Maya Fey for nuking the country of Turkey.
  Phoenix: I LITERALLY BLINKED! HOW CAN YOU GET ACCUSED OF THAT WHILE I WAS BLINKING?
• Slime Boy: Doobus is, quote, "a toxic goo that grew out of the earth."
• Straw Misogynist: One of the frogs in the "Gamer Frogs" series is very open about his hatred for women. His Straight Man friend openly ridicules him for this.
• Take That!:
  • "Big Brother Sonic" is one towards Game Theory— more specifically, its claims that earnest everyman Mario is actually a sociopath, and that Sans and Ness are somehow the same character:
    Sonic: Now what did MatPat say about Mr. Sans?
    Tails: He said Sans was Ness from EarthBound.
    Sonic: And when I took you to Wario's bar mitzvah, who were guests there?
    Tails: Sans and Ness, discussing Simpsons reruns.
    Sonic: And that would mean?
    Tails: That MatPat was wrong?
    Sonic: Okay, then repeat after me, "MatPat is always wrong."
    Tails: MatPat is always wrong.
    Sonic: Now that's my little buddy!
  • "YouTube Removing Dislikes Is Good Actually" is one towards YouTube for its decision to hide the dislike counter. Doobus tells YouTube that hiding the dislike counter will make it easier for scammers and liars to get away with what they do. YouTube says that being shown dislikes will simply scare new creators, but he gets defensive when Doobus points out that most of the videos that get mass-disliked were from mega-corporations.
  • "MrBeast Curing the Blind is Bad" is an obvious swipe at how Twitter accused MrBeast of taking advantage of people with a treatable form of blindness by paying for their treatments, Twitter saying that people basically need to be cherry-picked by someone with lots of money to pay for a life-saving medical procedure. Granted, Doobus does agree that the system is broke, but he still finds Twitter's reasoning for blaming MrBeast backwards. He even shows what happens if MrBeast did play into their "expectations" of him. To top it off, Twitter admits how it's never happy.
  • "The Confederacy was Bad" puts Lost Cause faux-historians in the hotseat for trying to recontextualize the Civil War and the Secession of the Confederate States being over an ambiguous "states rights" rather than being primarily motivated by the potential abolishment of slavery to avoid talking about the racially-charged nature of the events that they're uncomfortable discussing. Doobus counteracts by stating that the leaders of the Confederacy actively said in correspondence and speeches that it was primarily about the expansion of slavery as an economic fixture, that there is no pride to be found in a movement that lasted four years and was openly branded as an act of treachery, that regardless of whatever horrible things the Union did that it doesn't change the fact that the Confederacy fought to expand slavery, and repeatedly drives his point home by asking the burning question of "States' rights to do what?":
    Lost Causer: Well, it's our heritage—
    Doobus: It lasted [four] years! The Annoying Orange has existed longer than the Confederacy did! The fucking Annoying Orange, dude! You're gonna celebrate a nation so fucking weak the Annoying Orange outlived it?
    Lost Causer: …well… well state’s rights…
    Doobus: Get Douglass’d.
    (Frederick Douglass suddenly shows up and crushes the Lost Causer with his elbow as he screams in agony)
  • invoked "I Don't Care for Freddy Fazbear" has Doobus express his disinterest regarding Five Nights at Freddy's, portraying the titular Freddy Fazbear as an actual bear trying to get him into the series and taking jabs at the Kudzu Plot of the series by having the bear make pathetic attempts to drum up mystery by mentioning William Afton, the Rule 34 community for the franchise by comparing Chica's canon appearance to "burnt Play-Doh", and MatPat's videos regarding the FNAF lore with a MatPat impression suddenly appearing and claiming that the animation proves Afton is black:
    Doobus: I have heard the name "William Afton" about five thousand times and I still don't know who the fuck that is, and hopefully I never will.
  • "YouTube's Sick Little Games" is a blatant one to how YouTube's algorithms work, with the analytics berating Doobus for not pumping out a video and disregarding that he was too sick and sad to make one. The analytics then forces Doobus to make a video that progressively gets worse in visual quality until it's nothing but sticky notes.
  • "Winnie the Pooh is Not Scary" is one to Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. Pooh's response to the film manages to guilt the filmmaker out of doing it:
    Filmmaker: It's, like… Winnie da Pooh, but he do de murder.
    Doobus: Dude, he shouldn't see this! Also, he didn't even do anything to you! Why would you make this?
    Filmmaker: 'Cause it's a passion project I've had in my mind since I was a little baby. This is like, what my life has been leadin' up to, man—
    Doobus: (interrupting) You got this from a Robot Chicken sketch.
    Filmmaker: Shut the fu— shut up.
• Tap on the Head: Mickey Mouse does this to Sora in "Kingdom Hearts Sex Ed" with a girder to stop him from teaching sex education. However, Sora is merely inconvenienced and still lucid enough to try and reason with Mickey without realizing he's talking to the corporate mascot rather than his KH self.
• True Art Is Angsty: Discussed in "Mario Discusses the Movies", where Mario says his favorite movie is RoboCop (1987) and gushes about how violent and dark it is, before asking Luigi what his favorite movie is. Luigi nervously says that it's Muppet Treasure Island, expecting Mario to mock or criticize him for it. To his relief, though, Mario says that that's a great movie in its own right, and that we should judge movies based on what they're trying to accomplish:
  Mario: One's trying to be cynical and one's trying to be whimsical, and they both do a great job!
• What Does She See in Him?: In "Harley and Ivy are Great Friends", Ivy tries to coax an explanation out of Harley as to why she's still obsessed with the Joker and won't leave him despite being a horrible partner. The only reason she gives is that "He's the Joker, (baybee)", which is a quote that came from a funny video she saw of a cosplayer and immediately went to find the Joker. She also adds on the fact that she can't have sex with a head in a pot, to which Ivy concedes.
• Yank the Dog's Chain:
  • Defied in "I Got The Gold Brick", where a pink guy with a top hat and curly mustache shows up to destroy Doobus’s just-acquired Golden Play Button with a hammer because “comedy dictates that failure now must happen”, only for Doobus to immediately repeatedly slap him into oblivion:
    Doobus: Fuck you! I don’t care if I’m supposed to make a big failure happen as a joke. No! I’m just happy. (puts the Golden Play Button on a hook on the wall) I did it…
  • In "The Chaotix Neighbors (& Knuckles)", Charmy eats the comically-sized crowbar that Vector was going to use to get Charmy out of Knuckles' head:
    Knuckles: Why did you eat it?
    Charmy: 'Cuz I'm a— 'Cuz I'm a bee. It's what I do.
    Vector: Charmy, I don't think bees eat crowbars.
    Charmy: Really? Oh, shit. I guess I'm just a freak.
  • In "Chun Li's Legs", a forlorn-looking Cammy confesses to being a lesbian and asks if Chun-Li is one too. Chun-Li kisses Cammy on the cheek, with a moment of silence before Chun-Li responds with a Little "No" and kicks the heartbroken Cammy.
• Younger Than They Look: Sonic is shocked to learn that despite his massive size, Big is only 3 years old. When he asks Tails about this, the latter explains that Big has gigantism.

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