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Untitled Object Show (UOS) is a web-animated cartoon created by Creepsington with a runtime from 23 May 2021 to 2nd August 2021.

Specifically, it's what Object Shows call a joke show which the creator haphazardly made in-between his other two shows, SSSFLDNAP and IOTFOEC, out of boredom. The premise is as follows: A Game Show Host appears out of nowhere, forced eight people into his competition and commences challenges and eliminations.

Creepingston stated there would not be a second season due to not liking UOS anymore as it went on but will use the cast for future shows.

    Contestants 
  • 111: A three-headed number who constantly bicker with each other (9th, last)
  • Almonds: A can of almonds (8th)
  • Creepsington: A multi-colored bookshelf and the Author Avatar of the show's creator who joined the UOS as a debuter (5th)
  • Card I Found On The Street: An orange playing card who is very skillful in challenges(2nd)
  • Discouragement Redirection Cube: (7th)
  • Electrical Transformer Box: An apathetic contestant who doesn't want to participate at all, only for the universe to say otherwise (3rd)
  • FAQ card: A frequently answered question card (4th)
  • License Plate: A faceless license plate who is confident in his abilities except for those that requires a mouth (1st)
  • Nut: A hex-nut (6th)

Full playlist can be found here as well as a full compilation of all ten episodes.

The show contains the following tropes:

  • A Dog Named "Dog": There's the standard fare of objects being named after objects but then we get to...
  • Aerith and Bob: Between the cast, the names are a mix of regular self-explanatory names (111, Almonds, FAQ Card, License Plate and Nut), overly specific self-explanatory names (Card I Found On The Street, Discouragement Redirection Cube and Electrical Transformer Box) and Creepsington
  • The Ace: Card I Found On The Street is able to do a multitude of things, except making donuts, which enables him to reach the final 3.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: As par for an object show, anthropomorphic objects competing in a game show for a prize, yay.
  • Audience Participation: Only twice for voting in a debuter to join the show and getting one of the previously eliminated contestants back into the game.
  • Cliffhanger: After License Plate won the prize which turns out to be a mysterious orb, he boops it and activates a black hole that sucks everyone, except 111 and Discouragement Redirection Cube, into its unknown abyss.
  • Flat Character: A whole lot of characters don't have any personality or screentime to the point you question if they just exist to get eliminated. One prominent example would be FAQ card who claim fourth place but doesn't have any character traits to stand out.
  • Multiple Head Case: 111 has three heads whose clashing personalities are excited, angry and exasperated. Unsurprisingly, their lack of cooperation causes them to lose the first challenge and be the first one out.
  • No Mouth: License Plate doesn't have one (since he has no face of any kind) which proves detrimental when the show has several mouth-based challenges (eating cake, brushing your teeth, etc.).
  • No Name Given: Unlike the contestants, the host is never named onscreen so it's assumed the name is just his Evil Twin (well, seventh cousin twice removed) Evil wPad (who is never shown on-screen) minus the "evil" part, which would mean he's a tablet with a flip case.
  • Once an Episode: Like clockwork, the host would greet the audience, show off the cast, cue the intro, the contestants would do the challenge in which one would be in last place and explode and the episode ends. Do this ten more times and that's the whole show.
  • Short-Runners: Lasted ten episodes with a runtime of about two months.
  • Stylistic Suck: While the whole series was made with no effort, episode 7 had the least amount of effort such that it goes into the negatives. To point it out, there is a lack of intro, the animation got sloppier, the title is called "dg" and at the end, the creator notes that he honestly thought the show was a mistake. People down in the comments joked that after Electrical Transformer Box (the fan-favorite and who got eliminated in the previous episode) left, the show went downhill quickly.
  • Running Gag:
    • Every episode he's in, Electrical Transformer Box would do absolutely nothing and exclaims he's not gonna do the challenge. Yet, he somehow wins on complete accident or divine intervention. Even for the episode where he finally got his wish and is eliminated, he rejoins shortly thereafter because he's the fan-favourite.
    • Whenever there are challenges that require a mouth, License Plate would bemoan the fact he doesn't have one, gets dangerously close to last and asks Card I Found On The Street to do the challenge for him.
    • All contestants who are eliminated explode in a loud explosion sound.
  • Take That!: The final episode has the remaining cast being trapped by an Evil Counterpart of the host, only for them to say "screw this, this has been done to death in the OSC", leave the place and continue the finale like nothing happened.
  • Tempting Fate: Electrical Transformer Box would always exclaim he's not doing the challenge in any capacity, only for the universe and circumstances he can't control to say otherwise.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: A whole bunch of contestants didn't say or do anything much to begin with before they got eliminated. Examples include Almonds, Nut and FAQ Card (who got fourth place by the way).

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