In mid 2011, Thunderbirds101 decided to separate the story segments from his main series, Microsoft Sam Reads Funny Windows Errors. The result starts with this series, a juxtaposition of internet humor and Civil War-era China, with a rogue AI takeover as well.
A laconic of each episode:
- Episode 1 (2011/07/20): A treaty is signed to split the Republic of My into two countries, which Linux Anna of the Communist Linux Penguin Army agreed under the condition that neither side causes a deadly provocation. The Supreme AI overthrew Linux Anna and violated the treaty, causing the titular war.
- Episode 2 (2011/07/27): The leaders of ROFLica and South My, Sam and Scotty respectively, must fly to the planet Soiturranna as the CLPA advances into the South My capital, to retrieve a rare energy crystal to counter the Supreme AI's unfair technological advantage. The Supreme AI independently sets her eyes on that crystal to power up the Kill Sat she seized from Sam to revive past villains from the main series mentioned above.
- Episode 3 (2011/08/01): The heroes are still in search of the rare energy crystal, but the mine is invaded by the CLPA, and both find the crystal. The CLPA takes the crystal without competition, and have wiped out both South My's military and the Soiturranna military and Emperor Soiturn himself. The Supreme AI won the competition for the crystal and successfully revived the elite supervillains.
- Episode 4 (2011/08/20): The Supreme AI wins the war on the homeland, but the heroes must go to Mars to learn of her weakness. Natural Sam kidnaps Scotty upon their landing. The heroes later leave with the Supreme AI's weakness, and try finding Scotty, but Jokermingo0044 is back from the dead and infiltrated their ship. Scotty is taken to Hell for questioning.
- Episode 5 (2011/08/31):
This series provides examples of the following:
- 0% Approval Rating: In the Bad Future at the beginning of episode 4, the Supreme AI declares a revised treaty to claim the entire Republic of My to herself and her seized armies, and asks what everyone thinks. A moment of silence ensues followed by Chirping Crickets.Supreme AI: Oh fuck you all, I don't need to be recognized by other countries. The Republic of My belongs to me now. The USSR can laugh in hell in their excrement thanks to the Diarrhea Death Star: Supreme Excrement Edition! Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Supreme AI is a rogue but nigh invulnerable machine, dead-set on conquering the whole world for herself.
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: In episode 2, after Sam, Mike, and Scotty left for the planet Soiturranna, the CLPA closed in on the South My capital and stormed the building, only to find it unoccupied.
- Bad Future: Episode 4 begins with the heroes being taken a few months into the future, where the Supreme AI finished the war without their interference.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: In episode 3, the CLPA trapped the heroes in the Soiturranna mine and left their ship untouched, thinking they will just die there. That is, until Scotty found a pile of C4 bombs nearby.
- Book Dumb: Upon seeing that the Supreme AI overthrew Linux Anna when he tried contacting the latter, he panicked about history repeating itself and him only getting 0.2% on his history class.
- Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: In episode 5, the operator of the Diarrhea Death Star accidentally presses the self-destruct button instead of the launch button when attempting to destroy Earth 2, which sent the Supreme AI past her Rage Breaking Point and made her order the elite villains to carry out an all-out offensive.
- Card-Carrying Villain: The Supreme AI is not shy to flaunt her pride of evil, even going as far as positively referring to her alliance as "the most evil villains".
- Cluster F-Bomb: Routinely used, but played for laughs halfway in episode 4.Sam: Alright, no more fucking bullshit! Let's get the fuck out of this fucking space fucking shuttle so we can fucking explore the Martians fuckity fuck fucking surface!ROFL Robot: Error: Not enough fucks detected in sentence. Sentence must consist of nothing but fucks.Sam: Oh shut the fuck up Mr. ROFL Robot!
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Episode 3 is mostly that of the CLPA defeating the militaries of South My and Soiturranna.
- Dude, Not Funny!: In episode 1, Torres responds to Scotty's laughter at the word "booby trap" with "What, are you fucking 10 years old? This is how you fucking respond to the deaths of at least 7 of our infantry?"
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The story takes place in an equivalent to East Asia, with My being equivalent to Manchuria or another part of China, and control of the region is split between the Communist Linux Penguin Army (People's Liberation Army) and the Democratic Radar Overseers Society (Kuomintang).
- Foreshadowing: In episode 1, when Radar Overseer Torres laments about how boring it's been since the ROM split, Scotty warns to still be careful of the Linux Penguins stealing all the South's baloney. Downplayed, as the following invasion was under the orders of an usurper.
- GIS Syndrome: The backdrops are predominantly stock images, as well as characters who aren't stick figures.
- Heh Heh, You Said "X": In episode 1, Scotty laughs at the word "booby" when Torres reports to him of the booby trap in the downed CLPA jet that killed the infantry who were sent to investigate it.
- Here We Go Again!: In episode 1, Scotty laments of the Supreme AI being the new ROFL-9000 but worse.
Sam: What, more cheap-ass villains? You mean it's...ROFL-9000 version 2?
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Scotty is sent to Hell for interrogation at the end of episode 4, to be subjected to a brutal torture chamber to get him to spill out information for the villains.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: In episode 4, the Supreme AI crashes the Supreme Mainframe as he was about to tell the heroes what he knows about the former's weakness
- Kill Sat: ROFLica's Orbital ROFL Laser, whose status voice narrates when it's charging.
Status Monitor: Warning! Warning! Orbital ROFL Laser is now charging. Imma chargin mah lazer! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, warble warble w-warble. Laser now ready for firing.
- Made of Plasticine: A plastic spoon can cause severe injury to Linux Anna, and Scotty worded his side of the story like plastic spoons can actually kill people.
- Minor Injury Overreaction: The Supreme AI simply hit Linux Anna on the head with a plastic spoon, and she "went down screaming like a bitch".
- Mr. Exposition: The Supreme Mainframe in episode 4, who was only there to explain to the heroes what they missed after the events of episode 3.
- Mugging the Monster: In episode 2, Sam mocks the unnamed Soviet leader's British accent for not being truly Soviet, prompting him to retaliate with an EMP strike to take down Sam's ROFLCopter to try to assassinate him.
Leader: Now you've really pissed me off! Preparing an EMP device for detonation!
Mike: Wait, what EMP—-
[The EMP detonates and crashes the ROFLCopter]
- Pink Means Feminine: Linux Anna is colored pink, while the other stick figures are colored black.
- Plot-Driven Breakdown: In episode 1, the orbital ROFL laser randomly loses its targeting system and accidentally opens fire on Moscow. Either that, or The Supreme AI sabotaged it at the last minute to Make It Look Like an Accident and justify invading ROFLica in response.
Sam: Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck! God damn these cheap-ass targeting systems!
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The portrait for the Supreme AI
is exclusively colored in shades of red with a black background. - Shout-Out: The artwork for the Supreme Mainframe is a modified version of The Designers Republic logo (AngryMan), with the noticeable difference being the mouth is now a rectangle.
- Skewed Priorities: Scotty cares more about baloney sandwiches than his team's objectives.
- Stick-Figure Comic: Not really a comic. It's partially or sparsely animated, but it works more like a slideshow on top of a radio drama. The characters are all simplistic stick figures that are only primarily distinguished by their hair and eyes.
- Take That!: In episode 1, the crew of the ROFLican orbital ROFL laser targets a cancelled unfinished hotel in North My, which is pictured as the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, which is in limbo instead of cancelled. Sam assumed that the project was cancelled because the government got lazy and stopped building it a few weeks earlier, and that some Jerkass stole their toilet paper and left them no choice but to use their own money as toilet paper. Windows Vista is also depicted as a digital bio weapon that's nicknamed "the operating system so bad it can't even run Pong properly".
- The Stinger: Each episode is brought to you by Clean Ass Toilets, inc., humiliating Sam by being impossible to infest with diarrhea.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Scotty is ungodly obsessed with baloney sandwiches, and puts them above his duties.
- Undignified Death: The Supreme AI described Linux Anna's death as very anticlimactic. Plastic spoons are enough to cause severe injury and then followed by finishing her off with a dysfunctional version of Windows Vista.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Sam still carries the same insensitive and facetious demeanor from Funny Windows Errors.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The Supreme AI's main weakness is somehow IWAY cookies!!!!, and the context to do with the "awesome face" meme was already foreshadowed in episode 4 when the ROFL Robot fatally overloads the Supreme AI's robo-enforcer with the awesomeness of the music playing.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Episode 3 ends with the Supreme AI ditching the CLPA and destroying the Orbital ROFL Laser after reviving the top supervillains of Funny Windows Errors.
