Web Video / Khonjin House

Khonjin: "She's out of the cab! There she is! There's still time, let's go!"
Gino: "That's a fucking baby stroller!"
Khonjin: "Yes, Gino, It's a baby stroller! I know it's a baby stroller, I know this is a frisbee, and I know that your god-forsaken flea-ridden overgrown rat is a donkey! I know these things!"
Gino: "Why are you after a baby, you psychopath!?"
Khonjin: "Oh, you wanna know something about it? The baby stole my gun, okay?"
Gino: "Shut the hell up."
Khonjin: "Listen, when I was going to the store and they don't allow guns, I left it outside so—"
Gino: "What was so important that you had to leave your gun outside for anyone to take?!"
Khonjin: "This frisbee."
(Cue Gino tackling Khonjin and then beating him up off-screen)

— From the episode "Taxi", which accurately summarizes pretty much every episode.

What a wonderful day to list the tropes associated with Khonjin House.

Khonjin House is a web series by Connor Lavery. As the title suggests, it stars Khonjin igiuL JR III and his "friends" going on wacky adventures. Starting with episode 30, the show began to have a vague story arc involving an Ambiguously Evil, Reality Warper (or potential God) named Pent, whose main motives are extremely unclear. Any episode involving him takes the show's usual Rapid-Fire Comedy set up into a much more mysterious and dramatic turn.

That's probably the easiest part to describe. The show is a cross between Xavier: Renegade Angel and old-school web cartoons that rarely makes sense. It's highly sporadic, with the average episode lasting for about a minute and often devolving into an insane mish-mash of screaming and violence by the end. Despite this, the quality of writing and voice acting is quite high (especially for a web cartoon), meaning the chaos always has meaning and every second of the episode builds to a rapid-fire sequence of jokes. The show's probably most famous for its Stylistic Suck, as the whole show is animated with single static images moving around mimicking movement similarly to a stick puppet show.

The series can be found at Lavery's YouTube channel here.

A serialized series, called Khonjin Takes a Break,^note Also known as just Khonjin or "Khonjin House Jazz". debuted on March 8, 2017. Later, a spin-off series starring Pent and Smack called "Supermental" debuted on September 30, 2017, which reveals who these two characters along with Shelby truly are.. Maybe?

On September 18, 2018, a large number of Khonjin House's episodes were either edited or deleted altogether by Connor. Among the things edited out were jokes Lavery felt were too offensive in hindsight, jokes he felt fell flat, and almost anything related to Supermental, due to Connor rewriting Supermental and removing all of the Supermental plot threads from Khonjin House canon.

Finally, on May 31, 2019, the 70th and final episode of Khonjin House was uploaded. In it, Lavery expressed that while he may return to the series later if he has any new ideas, the series is over for now. Lavery provided a file containing all of Khonjin House's assets in the description, encouraging his fans to make their own Khonjin House episodes if they wanted, ending the episode with a bittersweet montage of all the fan art Khonjin House had garnered over the years. Some cryptic messages in the final episode and a Tumblr link in the description have prompted an Alternate Reality Game to find the password hidden somewhere in the series's episodes, and The Stinger provides hints to Supermental’s new direction.

On January 1, 2021, Connor brought ''Khonjin House'' back once again to provide content while Supermental was being finished. Episode 80, confirmed to be the true finale in the Patreon description, was uploaded on January 18, 2021.

---

Both Series contain examples of:

• Ambiguous Situation: Whatever it is that's going on with Pent and Smack, at least in relation to the universe Khonjin House takes place in. Even with Khonjin removing Pent's influence in the original Episode 50, there's a lot still unexplained, even more so in the "recreated" version of the series that lacks Pent's influence entirely. Not to mention Pent himself is aware of the version of the series that lacks him entirely. And if Episode 70 is to be believed, he may still not be fully gone altogether. Not to mention the Supermental side-series and the ARG, which has its own rabbit hole of information, and to say nothing on the meta side of things, most of which pertaining to Supermental's development...
• Amusing Injuries: Gino tends to get the most of them. Whether it be from exploding, getting mauled by tigers, or being a victim to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.

• Bottle Episode: Due to each episode clocking around 1-2 minutes (in rare cases, even shorter), many plots entirely take place in one location, typically Gino's pizzeria.
• Butt-Monkey: Both Gino and Khonjin tend to suffer a lot. Gino from suffering Khonjin's psycopathic antics, and Khonjin from being victim to the psycopathic antics of the world.
• Evil Counterpart: Pent to Khonjin. Probably. He looks just like Khonjin with a sinister plot involving the nature of their entire world.
• Gag Nose: Khonjin, his dad, and Pent have very prominent, bulbous noses. Gino has admitted to having dreams of tearing off Khonjin's.
• Gamer Chick: Ruther, who loves her Nintendo Gamecube and Super Monkey Ball.

• The Mafia: The main trio is part of one, working under Khonjin's dad. They are sometimes tasked for doing jobs, such as performing heists, infiltrating rival bases, or even killing themselves to go to Heaven and steal Jesus' shoes.
• Knight of Cerebus: Pent. Any time he shows up, all sense of comedy disappears, with characters such as Khonjin or Gay Spaghetti Chef being absent or silent.
• Meaningful Name: Gay Spaghetti Chef is a gay spaghetti chef.
• New Jobs As The Plot Demands: Dumbass has been a Nigerian Prince, a game show contestant, a Mormon seller, and a waiter.
• Negative Continuity: Most of the time. With many episodes ending with characters dying only to show up just fine the next episode.
• No Ending: Almost every episode. Plots rarely have a conclusion and just end with Khonjin and his friends screaming at or killing each other, or exploding.
• Once an Episode:
  • Almost every episode starts with a character saying, "What a wonderful day."
  • At the beginning of most episodes (save for some episodes) the camera is focused somewhere else for a split second before the camera snaps into focus.
• Physical God: Pent's episodes heavily imply he might be one. This is very likely rooted in his status as Connor's icon and avatar in-universe.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: Five gags can happen in the span of twenty seconds.
• Random Events Plot: Almost every episode just has Khonjin and his friends doing random things for the sake of randomness or tormenting each other.
• Running Gag:
  • Characters spontaneously exploding.
  • Khonjin's very odd way of screaming.
  • Gino claiming Undertale (or THE MONEY, as the case may be) to be the best and worst game ever made happens throughout season 4.
• Straight Gay:
  • Gay Spaghetti Chef is the voice of reason half of the time.

• Stylistic Suck: Almost every character is just a static image that moves around.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Khonjin, Gino and Gay Spaghetti Chef die several times throughout the series.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pepperoni Pizza for Khonjin. In fact, his main basis for always bothering Gino is to eventually get Gino to give him his pepperoni pizza.

Khonjin House (2015-2022) contains examples of:

• Artifact Title: You would think that a series called Khonjin House would greatly feature, well, Khonjin's house. However after the first few episodes the show firmly establishes that Gino's Pizza is the actual main setting of the series, with Khonjin's abode showing up sporadically.
• Art Shift:
  • Gino and Khonjin go through multiple different animation styles once Khonjin touches a "magic."
  • The entire second half of episode 50 is featured in smooth animation rather than the Stylistic Suck.
• Bookends: Episode 1 starts with Khonjin wanting pepperoni pizza, episode 50 starts with Gino offering free pepperoni pizza to Khonjin.
• Bittersweet Ending: One interpretation of the Season 5 finale. Pent's antics have been stopped and his control over Khonjin's universe has been revoked, leaving Khonjin and co. to continue their crazy lives in peace; However, Pent is still broken up over Shelby's death, and it's left ambiguous if he and Smack will make amends.
• Canon Discontinuity: In addition to the edits made to previous episodes on September 18, Lavery removed the entire Supermental plotline from the series's canon thanks to problems with the game's development. The Series Finale implies, however, that Supermental's canonicity is still very much intact.
• Christmas Episode: Episode 26, it is about Khonjin cheating Gino out of 100,000 dollars, which has nothing to do with Christmas. That is until Khonjin gets run over by Santa's sleigh and is left with a disfigured face.
• Clip Show: Subverted, in episode 40. Gino remembers that he fired Gay Spaghetti Chef back in episode 1, queue the typical harp music that usually plays for flashback, only for the scene to immediately stop when Gay Spaghetti Chef says that he doesn't remember that moment. Gino then tells him that he's "fired again" and then shoots him with his gun.
• Courtroom Episode: "Court" is about Gino suing Khonjin for slander after Khonjin claims that he killed his wife and children.
• Creator Cameo: At the very end of Episode 80, represented by Connor's actual head pasted onto Khonjin's body.
  Connor: This is the worst thing I've ever created, and I hope I'm dead within four years.
• Downer Ending: The true Series Finale ends with Khonjin dead as Ruther and her friends proceed to torment him in the afterlife.
• Extra-Long Episode: Both "Grand Finale" and "Finale" (season 8) are five minutes long. Which are more than 4-5 times the length of a normal episode. While the former is a mostly serious wrap-up to the arc involving Pent and Smack, the latter is the actual Series Finale of the show — but is effectively just a normal episode in tone, just longer.
• Foreshadowing
  • In episode 15, there was an advertisement line that said, "HAVE YOU'RE hUSBAND MADE LOVE?". In episode 50, the same line is shown again but is then revealed to be an anagram for "hER MOVE, A NEVER DEAD SHELBY UAVOU"?
  • In episode 44, Pent (disguised as Khonjin) asks Gay Spaghetti Chef about Shelby, a character that won't be mentioned again until episode 50.
• Game Show Appearance: Khonjin hosted a game show called "Guess the Answer You Fucking Idiot" with Dumbass as the only contestant. The rules being that he has to ask Dumbass a question and give him three tries to answer it correctly, and much to the horror of Khonjin, the prize for winning the game is having full legal authority to burn down his house and killing his family. When Dumbass gets the answer wrong Khonjin laughs and yells to him the answer, completely forgetting that he still has two tries, which leads to Dumbass winning the game show. Khonjin then decides to blow up the entire building with gasoline, killing himself and Dumbass.
• Genie in a Bottle: The Pizza Mambo employees throw one through Gino's window in Episode 41. Gino wishes for Khonjin to be castrated by a scorpion.
• Groin Attack: Khonjin is presumably castrated by a scorpion off screen in Episode 41.
• Halfway Plot Switch: Episode 49, titled as "Hell", seems to be about Gino, Khonjin and his dad killing themselves and going into heaven to steal Jesus' shoes. Gino immediately backs out of this and leaves them instead. The plot then shifts to Gino receiving a letter from Smack.
  • The first half of "Bowling" has nothing to do with bowling. Khonjin grows in size and causing widespread panic until out of nowhere, Gay Spaghetti Chef invites Khonjin to bowling.
• The Infiltration: Episode 45 and 46. Which involve Khonjin and the gang sneaking into an enemy base.
• Last Episode, New Character: Smack. Who was mentioned a few brief times throughout the series but never seen until "Grand Finale".
• Megaton Punch: Khonjin's father does this to Gino in "Father" to the point that he actually blows up. All because he called his son a retard.
• Multi-Part Episode: Heist, T-Shirt, P.I. 2, Infiltrator and P.I. 3.
• Once a Season: Every season has an episode named "Finale" at the end.
• Official Couple: Khonjin and Gay Spaghetti Chef, according to Word of God and Dadjin's Tumblr. No longer the case as of Episode 44.
• Out of Focus: Episode 50 barely focuses on the main trio and instead focuses on Pent and Smack.
• Outside-Context Problem: The Story Arc beginning in episode 30 is this. Since it involves the affairs of Pent and Smack, along with a deceased person named Shelby; beings seemingly from another dimension. They are dealing with something that none of the characters (except maybe Gino) know or are given the full context of even after it is all done.
• Series Fauxnale: Parodied and Exaggerated. Every season ends with an episode titled "Finale," complete with a more extensive credits sequence, and the next season just picks up like normal. The Season 5 finale could be considered a more straight example of this, as it puts an end to the plot threads concerning Pent and Smack, but continues from there with the main cast's continuing antics in the next season. Interestingly, the actual Season Finale's episode is titled "The End."
• Stable Time Loop: Maybe? After Khonjin removed Pent's influence in the original Episode 50, Pent was retroactively removed from the previous episodes, preventing him from ever appearing to begin with. However, given Pent later appears in Episode 70, it's possible this only delayed his arrival.
• Time Travel: Episode 43 features Khonjin going to the future, 9/11 and The Flintstones.
• The Unreveal: How exactly did Khonjin turn into a penguin in "Dweebus"? No one bothers to question in it.
• Wham Episode: Episode 30, in which Pent makes his debut and begins to linger in the background for the next twenty episodes.

• Wham Shot:
  • In "Blind Date", after Gay Spaghetti Chef explodes due to them breaking up, Khonjin finally takes off the blindfold, revealing it was Pent in disguise all along.
  Pent: Surpriiiise.
  • Towards the end of the Series Finale, the montage of Khonjin House fan art begins to shift from the main cast of Khonjin and co. to the characters of Supermental, which at first just seems like Lavery throwing a bone to anyone disappointed over Supermental's Canon Discontinuity... and then we hear what sounds like someone flying out a window and screaming, and suddenly we're treated to a shot of Pent, crash-landing somewhere in a field by a city...

Khonjin Takes a Break (2017) contains examples of:

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Gay Spaghetti Chef noticeably makes no appearances throughout the whole show.
• Cliffhanger: Every episode so far ends on one.
• Cut Short: This series was originally planned to have 10 episodes. Though due to lack of interest, Connor decided to end the show with episode 8, wanting to return back to the episodic nature of the previous show.
• Downer Ending: How the show ultimately ends. Gino, Khonjin and his dad are all dead and end up in heaven. Khonjin makes fun of God, causing him to be thrown into the pits of hell.
• Grand Finale: Episode 8, a Sequel Episode to "Hell" from the previous series.
• Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: The series went through a number of name changes. First being titled Khonjin, then Khonjin House Jazz, to Khonjin Takes a Break (which seems to be the common one most people are familiar with), to lastly Khonjin House Bonus Season.
• Out of Focus: Gino disappears relatively early on and shows up for the finale.
• Prison Episode: The penultimate episode has Khonjin in prison after becoming a Corrupt Cop.
• Random Events Plot: Despite the show being serialized, there is no coherent plot going on other than Khonjin ending up in increasingly bizarre adventures. In the span of nine minutes, the series goes from Khonjin and Gino trying to capture the Crabcrab, to Khonjin trying to save a penguin orphanage by making a commercial then trying to win a basketball game, to Khonjin becoming a Corrupt Cop and is then sent to prison, to Khonji, Gino, and Gilmore ending up in Heaven on a mission to steal Jesus' shoes.
• Sequel Episode: Episode 8 is this to "Hell" from the first series. In the original series, Gino ultimately left Khonjin and Gilmore to perform the mission while in this episode we see what would happen if Gino was dragged along.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • Gino does this to Khonjin in episode 2 after annoying him too much.
  • He does this again in Episode 8 once Khonjin botches the mission.

---

GOOD BYE

idiot!!!

---