Friends of all shapes and sizes.
The Land of Boggs is a comedic Webisode series of short videos, depicting the misadventures of a colorful species consisting of shapes with faces and appendages effectively dubbed Boggs.Most episodes tend to focus on the extremely close friendship surrounding a large extroverted orange Bogg by the name of Boe and her introverted, literature-loving bestie named Boggo.
The series is active on YouTube and Instagram, like other Buzzfeed-owned properties.
Tropes in The Land of Boggs include:
- Allegedly Dateless: In one short depicting Boggo as a princess, she laments about how she can't get a date... while several men offer to date her.
- Armless Biped: About half the characters have two legs and no arms. The other half have two arms and no legs.
- Butt-Monkey: Both Boggo and Boe, at some point or other, have been subject to this; Boe from being picked on by her brother (among other things), and Boggo once got her identity stolen by a pile of crap.
- Cloudcuckooland: The titular land of Boggs ths shorts take place in. It's inhabited by blob-like bipedal beings (and the occasional animal).
- Crossover: The Land of Boggs has two shorts depicting the character Iscream from another Buzzfeed animated series, Chikn Nuggit. Additionally, Boe has made a cameo on another Buzzfeed series, The Good Advice Cupcake.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Some shorts depict characters being badly maimed or taken to court over minor problems.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Before the show began to focus more on Boggo and Boe, a whole ensemble of Boggs were present as main characters. When the show began to increase in quality, these characters have all but been demoted to extras.
- Extreme Close-Up: Often happens in the punchline of a short. For example in one episode Boggo reveals to Boe that she bruises easily. Cue her getting bumped into by a variety of things and a close-up of her swollen black and blue face right after.
- Foil: Boggo is an introverted busybody, while Boe is an extroverted Lazy Bum.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: Boggo and Mark suffer from this when looking at themselves, to less than thrilled reactions on their part.
- Handy Feet: The armless Boggs often use their legs for anything that requires hands.
- Horrifying the Horror: Boe does this to Iscream from Chikn Nuggit when she mutilates herself in order to save Boggo.
- Odd Friendship: The shy introvert Boggo is besties with the outspoken extrovert Boe. Several shorts lampshade this dynamic and showcase why it actually works, such as Boe helping Boggo ask her crush out on a date when Boggo herself freezes up.
- Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Although Boggo and Boe remain just friends, viewers sometimes pick up on things that wouldn't fly in a normal friendship. Things like Boe catching Boggo in the act of watching their favorite TV show with another friend that reads more like a partner catching their loved one in the act of cheating, or Boggo abandoning her actual romantic marriage to go hang out with Boe.
- Self-Deprecation: In a short that obliterates the fourth wall, Boe begins explaining the inner workings of the world they inhabit to Boggo, directly calling out the voice actors, animators, and even the director!
- The Power of Friendship: Inverted spectacularly. Boggo and Boe's friendship emits high levels of bestie energy, that causes severe climate change and natural disasters to occur all across the Earth. Both of them subsequently refuse to stop being friends and destroy the world through their friendship alone. The energy also sends them flying into outer space.
- Tarot Troubles: Parodied. In one short both Boggo and Boe get a tarot reading from Tiffany. Boe draws the Meteor card and panics, thinking it means the arriving meteor will kill them all - only for the crashing meteor to be filled with gold and jewelry and Tiffany pointing out that the meteor actually stands for great fortune. Boggo tries her luck and draws the Heart - which stands for cardiac arrest.
- Threat Backfire: In the third crossover with Chikn Nuggit, Iscream threatens Boe's little brother. Given his relationship with her, Boe actually wants the train to go faster, and actively pushes it along when the extended family become involved.
- Unwanted Rescue: One short has Boggo be rescued from a plane crash site. Boggo isn't too happy about it since she liked her quiet time away from all her chores and even tries to run away from the rescue helicopter.
- Zodiac Motifs: Several episodes use the Western Zodiac as the set-up for a punchline, such as one where a surgeon is ridiculed and fired from his job for trying to give a patient who is a virgo an aries donor heart.
