"Who will win? Who will fall? Who is the smartest of them all? Find on tonight's episode of..."
Jeopardized Objects is the twelfth short of the first 48 Hour OSC Film Festival created by Snowypackel
. It's another Object Show competition but in the style of a quiz show.
Four teams, The "Athletes" (Ping Pong Ball and Ping Pong Paddle), The Wealthy Gems (Emerald and Sapphire), The Essays (Amy and Gabe) and The Set (Button and Podium), test their trivial knowledge where only one can be crowned the victor of Jeopardized Objects and take whatever is in that elusive briefcase.
While he didn't initially plan for anything beyond the short, Snowy had so much fun with the concept that he decided to make a series called Object Feud with Jeoporadized Objects serving as the Pilot.
The short can be viewed here.
The short contains the following tropes:
- A Dog Named "Dog": Or in this case, An Object Named "Object" for the entire cast except The Essays.
- Aerith and Bob: The essays are called by the human names of Amy and Gabe on their test papers as opposed to the naming scheme everybody else goes by.
- Air Quotes: The "Athletes" are introduced with these and on their team name because ping pong is apparently not a real sport.
- Alliterative Name: A tripler when your name is Ping Pong Paddle. A lesser extent is their partner Ping Pong Ball.
- All There in the Script: All the cast names, including those not mentioned in the short, are listed in the credits.
- Animate Inanimate Object: What else do you expect from an object show. Besides the gimmick of being styled like a quiz show.
- Art Shift: There's a noticeable style change when the short is passed off to another animator.
- Armless Biped: Ping Pong Ball, Button and Podium are the limbless variant of the trope.
- Dark Horse Victory: The Set wins by default even though they didn't participate let alone answer a single question. This is because The Wealthy Gems, the winners of Jeoporadized Objects, are insulted at and refused the meager dollar bill in the prized briefcase and Deck of Cards gave it to The Set as their paycheck.
- Exact Words: Deck of Cards states the winners of the quiz will receive whatever is inside the briefcase to which The Wealthy Gems thought it's the million. After becoming the victors, they discovered Sketchpad meant the single dollar inside the briefcase and thus got cheated out of the grand prize for assuming.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: Gabe has prominent ones and it's implied he got them from dealing with Amy.
- Game Show Host: Hosting Jeopardized Objects is none other than the top-hat-wearing Deck of Cards.
- Game Show Goofballs: While she might not act like it, Amy is such a Know-Nothing Know-It-All that she can't get any answer correct. Figures her actual grade on her test paper is an "F" she had changed to an "A+".
- Hypocritical Humour: Amy chastised The "Athletes" for thinking Ping Pong is the most beloved sport before answering "Table Tennis" for the very same question.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Amy, despite boasting about her "A+", cannot answer the simplest of questions but does so confidently and smugly. Gabe reveals her original grade was a big fat "F" but changed it with a red pen much to the Studio Audience's disapproval.
- Perpetual Frowner: Gabe spends the entire gameshow looking outright depressed with Exhausted Eye Bags, slumped on the floor and barely participating in answering the question. Guess that's what happened when you deal with someone like Amy every day.
- Pilot: The short serves as episode 0 to the series Object Feud which Snowypackel is currently working on.
- Post-Kiss Catatonia: Sapphire kisses Emerald after getting two answers right in a row who then responded by losing all function and collapsing to the floor. This caused him to miss out on the next question and barely made it in time for the final round.
- Shout-Out:
- The entire gameshow is a homage to Jeopardy! from its title to the contestants saying "What is..." before giving their answer.
- The first question was "What was the first Object Show to ever be released?" Amy wrongly answers Inanimate Insanity while Emerald correctly answers Battle for Dream Island.
- The opening has the exact intro music as Earthquake
- Studio Audience: Present as any gameshow should have. They give a round of applause when a team gets a correct answer and voraciously booed Amy when Gabe reveals she changed her grade from "F" to "A+".
- Take That!: Ping Pong is declared a fake sport throughout the short as evidenced by the Air Quotes on The "Athletes" who consists of two ping-pong enthusiasts and how everyone, save the team, is dismissive of the sport.
