Packed your bags cause this Object Show is going global!
Objects Around The World (OATW) is a web-animated cartoon series created by Lukeman 141
and released on 12th February 2021. It's one of those Object Shows but OATW's gimmick is how it takes inspiration from Total Drama World Tour as opposed to the first season.Conjoined twin brothers, Tele and Phone, enlisted six bored individuals to be their contestants in their around-the-world competition with their special, all-expenses-paid passport. The winner would receive the passport but outside the show, Mechanical Hand and his two henchman wants the elusive prize and would stop at nothing to claim it.
A Spin-Off was released under the name of Object Knockout with the main series pilots, Octopus Hanger and Ctrl-Z, hosting their own competition show.
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The show contains the following tropes:
- A Dog Named "Dog": Substitute "Dog" with "Object" and it's the same thing.
- Animate Inanimate Object: It's like Total Drama World Tour but with sentient objects.
- Armless Biped: Paper Bag and Phone is a straight example while Corn Popper and Tele are inversions (With the former having arms but wheels for legs).
- Eject the Loser: While not initially planned for one, the hosts let Transformy take the liberty of throwing the eliminated contestants out of the airlock to fall 30,000 ft. to their demise.
- Floating Limbs: VR Headset's arms are VR controllers that hover around him.
- MacGuffin: Tele and Phone's passport which allows the all-expense-paid World Tour competition to happen and is given away as the grand prize. All the contestants want it and so does Mechanical Hand.
- Spin-Off: In order to fill up the time between episodes, Object Knockout was conceived which starred the OATW pilots hosting their own version of the competition with a different cast presumably picked out of the passengers' list.
- Two Girls to a Team: Clipboard and Paper Bag are not only the two sole female contestants but also in the cast.
- Weakened by the Light: Intense heat and sunlight affects Transformy's ability to shapeshift and makes him tired out easily. This is why Transformy didn't fare well in the desert for "Digging For The Truth".
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The grass fields where the show began are undescriptive as well as the locations the cast travelled to given their generic names and backgrounds such as "The City" and "The Desert".
- World Tour: The appeal of OATW is that the contestants are able to battle in different, exotic locations in the object world. This is made possible with the hosts' passport and Octopus Hanger and Ctrl-Z's airplane in spite of the cast being delegated to decrepit third-class accommodations by the latter two.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Transformy's schtick is to shapeshift into anything and anyone under the sun although his transformations are always black-and-white colored like his default form.
