Web Animation / Obama's Hidden Info Objects

Wonder what's his last name?

Obama's Hidden Info Objects (Known better by its initials OHIO) is a web-animated series created by TaxeAndStuff on 21st July 2021. It's what the OSC commonly referred to as a "Joke Show" which was adapted from Taxe's webcomic of the same name with major Alternate Continuity.

So as far as Object Shows go, ten objects were chilling in The White Void when all of the sudden, a Game Show Host called Record Case appears out of thin air. She has important information regarding the 44th president of the United States of America, namely Obama's last name, but wants to give it to a singular object. Thus, the only way to settle this is with a good ol' fashion competition.

The episodes can be found on Taxe's YouTube channel as well as the official soundtrack.

Contains the following tropes:

• Adapted Out: A huge portion of the cast from the webcomic^note Boyfriend FNF, Carlitos, Crafting Mama, Evil Default Discord Profile Picture, Folder, Hand Sanitizer, Netherite Scrap, Profily and Speed Bass Dog were excluded due to a poll deciding on which contestants should be in the show. Word of God states that they want to introduce them later in the second season as contestants or cameos.
• Adaptation Expansion: The city was only briefly mentioned in the OHIO webcomic but in the web adaptation, it had a whole episode centered on it. The reason why we rarely see other characters besides the main cast is because they lived in the city while OHIO takes place in the empty space that's the rest of the White Void.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Pan Flag and Wii U were dating fairly early on in the webcomic and there was also a Ship Tease between 420 and Sweater. Neither relationships are present in the show since the former pair are barely acquaintances while the latter pair never interacted as Sweater was first eliminated.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Everyone is named after the Animate Inanimate Objects they are (Record Case is a record case, Paper Baggy is a paper bag and so on).
• Alternate Continuity: The webcomic vastly deviates from the show to the point it can count as a different object show altogether with the same cast. These variations are as followed:
  • The webcomic's competition lasted six seasons, including a Spin-Off and an epilogue, compared to the show's ongoing one.
  • The prize keeps adding on from the initial Obama's last name info with the person who said it and a McDonalds gift card or are completely different prizes
  • Boyfriend FNF, Carlitos, Crafting Mama, Folder, Hand Sanitizer, Profily and Speed Bass Dog were all Adapted Out while Paper Baggy is a Canon Foreigner.
  • Pan Flag and Wii U formed an alliance then later became an Official Couple and there's the Ship Tease between 420 and Sweater. Their counterparts, however, barely acknowledge one another especially when Sweater was the first one eliminated and Pan and Wii U are on neutral/unfriendly terms.
  • 69 was a lot more competent and less ditzy but is somewhat of a Big Brother Bully to 420.
  • Default Discord Profile Picture (DDPFP) became Record Case's Co-Host after winning the first season. He also has an Evil Counterpart named Evil Default Discord Profile Picture.
  • Everyone freely swears in the webcomic although it's limited to dropping a few F-bombs. The show itself is G-rated.
  • However, there's only one similarity between the shows and that is they share a challenge and title^note "Twitter Sucks" where the contestants have to uncancelled Record Case from Twitter as their first episode/issue.
• Animate Inanimate Object: As OHIO is an Object Show, the show is populated by anthropomorphic objects and nobody else.
• Anthropomorphic Typography: The inherently-funny number siblings 69 and 420.
• Armless Biped: 420, Paper Baggy, Street Sign and Sweater are all contestants that don't have their arms.
• Audience Participation: The show encourages viewers to vote down below in the YouTube comment section on who they want to eliminate next episode^note Though this only garners around twenty votes within a 48-hour time period much to Record Case's disappointment as well as recommending characters as extras in the official discord server.
• Blank White Void: The White Void where all the contestants live in. It's not all that empty though since there are shops, a police department and the big city.
• Brick Joke: Space steals a bowl of Deez Nuts in "Going Nuts" for the challenge. The thievery would be brought up two episodes later and becomes Space's downfall when he's arrested by Wii U who then asked Record Case to eliminate him and solve the three-way tie.
• Canon Foreigner: Paper Baggy is the only object not to be established in the webcomic, whether Adapted Out or otherwise.
• City with No Name: The city in the Blank White Void where everybody else resides doesn't have an official name and is just called as it is.
• Expy: Lowercase h is a parody of the Algebralien species. They showed up out of the blue in episode 3 when someone (69) says they're bored, go by he/they pronouns, have a lengthy title for their Object Show and want the disinterested objects to compete in it for a million dollars. Record Case is having none of it and asks her contestants to get rid of them which they do.
• Foregone Conclusion: The prize the contestants are competing for is Obama's last name, the joke being Obama is his last name since this is a rift on the misconception that Obama is his first name when it's actually "Barrack".
• Fun with Acronyms: The show title's acronym spells out the 17th state of the United States of America.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: After Paper Baggy's debut, the cast is perfectly divided into four females (Chocolate Bar, Paper Baggy, Record Case and Sweater), four males (69, Bobux, DDPFP and Space) and four others (Pan Flag, Street Sign and Wii U are non-binary while 420's has yet to be confirmed)
• Instrumental Theme Tune: The OHIO intro is "Athletic" from Yoshi's Island.
• MacGuffin: Obama's last name serves nothing more than an excuse for OHIO to happen in the first place. As a joke of a prize as it is, it's highly sought after by all of the contestants.
• Minimalist Cast: There's one Game Show Host, eleven contestants and a debuter for the main cast which would slowly dwindle as the episodes and eliminations go on.
• Mythology Gag: In "Going Nuts", Sweater believes that Street Sign would be the first one eliminated and mock them if they have any final words, only for Record Case to reveal it's actually her. This alludes to the webcomic where Street Sign was the first last-placer of that series.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: Pan Flag, Street Sign and Wii U identify as such and are anthropomorphic objects.
• Pilot: There was an early concept of the show called "Many Contestants' Perilous Expedition" where only 420, Bobux, DDPFP, Street Sign and Sweater competed alongside pilot-specific contestants Cup Stack and Kinemaster Logo and the quality is significantly lower than its future iteration.
• Shout-Out:
  • The grand prize and the show's title reference the Obama's last name meme.
  • The second challenge involved getting Record Case a bowl of Deez Nuts from the nut shop.
  • Space saying "Aw, fiddlesticks" followed by a "Dang it!" arm motion is reminiscent of the circles' Elimination Catchphrase in Battle for Circle.
  • The record Default Discord Profile Picture's team got in "Into the City" was "Anxiety at the Ballroom".
  • The speakers 420 used to blast classical music are the assets of The Announcer.
• Stating the Simple Solution: 420 wins in the first episode by telling Record Case to delete the Twitter app to escape being canceled.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: You can distinguish the females from the males and non-binaries by their presence of eyelashes.