Web Comic / Geometry Dash Episodes

What if I tap?^note In the front, from left to right: Blockblock, Totalpro64, Evil Totalpro64. In the back: several Author Avatars that appear in the series.

Narration: In the world of Geometry Dash, there was a cube.
Totalpro64: Hi guys!
Narration: He wasn't just an ordinary cube, though. Because from day one, everyone knew he was destined to be...
Totalpro64: This has to be good...
Narration: A noob.
Totalpro64: Wait! Does that mean, i'm like a pro at this?

-(Trailer) Geometry Dash Episodes

Geometry Dash Episodes, also known as GDE, is a series of Scratch projects based on Geometry Dash. The series was created by Scratch users alexis_reece^note known outside of the site as Terminace and andrew_endres as a comic, but grew over time to also include animations and games created in Scratch.

GDE features a cast largely made up of its contributors' author avatars, but all episodes feature its main character: the Kindhearted Simpleton Totalpro64, a Geometry Dash Noob who can only beat the game's first level after one million attempts. Episodes began with him trying (and failing) to beat levels, but eventually expanded beyond this to include any situations he went through in its setting of the planet Geometrica.

All projects in the series can be found here.

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Geometry Dash Episodes contains examples of:

• Aborted Arc: GDE - The Canon Ending has this Played for Laughs. It effectively replaces and aborts the Story Arc leading up to the finale of the series. After Terra invites everyone over to her house to show off a gun that can turn anything into a sponge, Totalpro64 jumps in the way and is turned into one. Somehow, everyone is fine with that and Geometry Dash Episodes ends with the group playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate while completely unbothered.
• Alien Invasion: The Cookie Thieves is about aliens arriving in Geometrica to steal cookies. Given that they're threatening Totalpro64's Trademark Favorite Food and are easily defeated with a Goomba Stomp, they don't last long.
• All Just a Dream: The ending of GDE: Retray, which ditches the Stylistic Suck the rest of the episode has, reveals that its events were actually a pitch Totalpro64 was making for a new finale to the series. Then, the beginning of its sequel Retray 2: The Second Attempt reveals the project's ending itself was a dream and that everything before it actually happened. And then, at the end of Retray 2, the entirety of both episodes is revealed to have been a dream with a shot of Totalpro64 waking up as a sponge.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: In The Geometrican War, Evil Totalpro64 and Flickflock take over the Tower of Idiots and use it as both a base of operations and a prison for the people they make clones of.
• April Fools' Day:
  • April 1, 2020 had GDETale, a fake game apparently combining the series with Undertale.
  • GDE: DXL's Store was released on April 1, 2023. Though not a joke in itself, it was released three years after The Canon Ending after being worked on in secret.
• April Fools' Plot: GD Shorts: The April Fool follows Redcap21 as he pranks several others in Geometrica on April Fool's Day.
• Arc Number: The number "421" during the (now aborted) Finale Arc, representing the "targets" of someone approaching Geometrica from space.
• Audience Participation: GDE: Retray was created with votes deciding on several story events and actions by Totalpro64. Its sequel continues this with Saul_Demongamer47, an insert character the audience created themselves, entering the episode From Beyond the Fourth Wall to help Totalpro64.
• Author Avatar: There are more author avatars than other characters in the series - the main character Totalpro64 is usually one of few characters in an episode to not be one. Often, people creating an episode will include at least their own avatar in it.
• Bigger on the Inside: Totalpro64's "infinite" cookie supply box is barely larger than he is from the outside, but is big enough for him to jump inside and explore in the game Totalpro64 Missing Cookies.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • Totalpro64's own catchphrase of "What if I tap?" is a fourth wall break, as tapping the screen is how you jump in Geometry Dash and Geometrica is a world based on it.
  • The Stinger in DXL's Store ends with Skelecube directly talking to the audience and explaining what the post-credits flashback meant with a Wall of Text.
• Character Blog: Totalpro64 and Blockblock both have their own Scratch accounts, which act in-character and have even been used to upload some projects for the series.
• Character Catchphrase: "What if I tap?" for Totalpro64. Often used when he's trying to think of a way to solve a problem or get around an obstacle.
• Crossover:
  • The Geometric Side Dish is a crossover with Geometric Tales, another series of Scratch comics based on Geometry Dash.
  • Totalpro Star Allies crosses the series over with Kirby Star Allies.
  • Totalpro64 Plays Portal, naturally, puts Totalpro64 in the world of Portal.
• Delicious Distraction: Totalpro64 is easily distracted by cookies. In The Canon Ending, this ends up getting him turned into a sponge as he jumps to eat a cookie Terra was testing her new gun with.
• Evil Doppelgänger: GDE turns the clones created by the Dual portal in the base game Geometry Dash into these. Evil Totalpro64 is typically the most prominent example, but similar "evil" versions exist of other characters have appeared as well.
  • The character Reverse Flickflock exaggerates this. Flickflock is already evil, so his clone Reverse Flickflock is even more hostile to the point of always yelling with rage in capitalized text.
• Exploiting the Fourth Wall: In Retray 2, Totalpro64 accidentally causes reality to break down several times from breaking the fourth wall over and over, starting with his "What if I tap?" catchphrase. He eventually uses it to somehow summon a giant hand.
• Flashback Effects: A flashback Totalpro64 has at the end of GDE: DXL's Store depicts the end of The Canon Ending in a shadowy style with gradients backdropping it. A flash along with text saying "YEARS LATER" transitions from the flashback into the present day.
• Ironic Name: Totalpro64 is anything but a pro at Geometry Dash.
• Left the Background Music On: Subverted in The Geometrican War Part 1, where Snek hears the background music of the animation and goes to turn off the speakers in the Tower of Idiots. When that does nothing, Cubix mentions that the two of them are in a project where something might be about to happen just before Evil Totalpro64 appears and captures them both.
• LOL, 69: In GDE: The Cookie Shop, the "Funny Room" of the Tower of Idiots is said to be on Floor 69. It was apparently mistaken for being at Floor 420 instead.
• Press X to Not Die: Downplayed in Totalpro64 Missing Cookies. Totalpro's 11th-Hour Superpower is activated by pressing the space bar after a prompt appropriately labeled "press space to beat the game". If you don't press it immediately, the cut-scene simply stays paused until you do with no consequences - but there is an Easter Egg where some frustrated text appears if you wait long enough.
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • Several major locations in the series such as the Tower of Idiots, it's basement Syringe, Stikbotville, and DXL's Store are based on real Discord servers used by the GDE community.
  • Logan's house in Totalpro64 Missing Cookies appears run-down and abandoned, as he had left the community during the game's development.
• The Tower: The Tower of Idiots is an extremely large tower with at least 100 floors including apartments, a library, and food court.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Totalpro64 is obsessed with cookies. He has a "seemingly infinite" supply of them, and many conflicts he ends up in that aren't related to Geometry Dash levels involve cookies somehow.
• Travel Montage: BlockBlock Goes Missing features a montage of Totalpro64 flying from place to place on the Soda Jetpack to find Blockblock. In the last part of it, the jetpack runs out of fuel and Totalpro64 falls onto the map.

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