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Welcome to the insane world of Parappa Abridged.

"It tastes so GOOD, I'm eating my own FLESH!!!"

— Paula, in The Hiatus.

''Parappa Abridged is an abridged series of the Parappa The Rapper anime, created by HamtaroFlower, running for 17 episodes, 3 improvised hiatus dubs and a completely improvised Christmas special between 2015 and 2020. The series stands apart from other abridged series for featuring a more dense and wacky, absurdist sense of humor (as well as it having been improvised until episode 9). The series focuses on Parappa and his friends (in a loose sense of the term) going on adventures that tend to be so beautifully far-removed from the original plots, typically in a vulgar and inappropriate manner. Playlist can be found here.

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This work provides examples of:

• Accidental Misnaming: In Matt's Depressing Birthday Bash^note  Episode 11, Matt keeps getting called Regonald. Yes, it's spelled like that.
• Adaptation Personality Change: And how. Parappa is even more of a wimp and a major airhead with occasional mean tendecies, Katy is VERY vulgar and rude, Paula is even more of a valley girl who verbally abuses her friends from time to time, PJ's even lazier and is a stoner as well as having become rather hateful and mean towards his friends, Gaster is unbelievably insane to the point that he takes medicine for it as evidenced in Episode 9, Gruber is a Dead Pan Snarker with a crush on Gaster, and Matt is the Voice of Reason... when he wants to be.
• Affectionate Parody: It's made with love, from the whole cast.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The fourth wall takes a bit of a walloping in this series:
  • In episode 4, the two voice changes in the episode are explained as demons leaving the characters affected.
  • In the first episode, Katy gets mad at Paula for "not talking when she's supposed to."
  • In episode 12, Parappa, Matt, and PJ are looking at clouds and Matt points out how one looks like a butt-plug with wings. Parappa tells Matt that the mothers watching Parappa Abridged aren't going to be happy about it. Less than a second later, Matt gets a call from an angry mother.
    • In the same scene, Matt notices how much PJ sleeps. Matt asks him if he's always been so sleepy, and Parappa's response is that he's "been like that for the last 11 episodes."
• Canon Foreigner: Matt Major gets some new family members. His mother, Mama Major, who hardly helps her son at all and apparently spends most of her time having copious amounts of sex, and Matt's brother, Matt Jr., who is very academically successful, polite, and British. While Mama Major is unseen, with the only proof of her existence being phone calls made to and from Matt Major, Matt Jr. appeared in the Christmas Special.
• Catchphrase: "Hey, you meme loving FUCKS!!!"
• Continuity Nod: There's a rough sense of continuity through the series, with mentions of past events occurring in dialogue from time to time.
• Crossdressing Voices: Frequently. The voice actors for Parappa, Matt, Gaster, and PJ are girls. Similarly, Katy would end up having two simultaneous voice actors in the last two episodes, one of them being a boy.
• Denser and Wackier: Later episodes would become this in comparison to the rest of the main series.
  • The Hiatus dubs to the series as a whole. The second and third are definitely bizarre by the series standards, but the first one absolutely defies explanation.
• Dub Name Change: MC Doberman from Episode 9 gets renamed "MC Big Dick." Sticks into the Christmas special.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In a grand sense, the first eight episodes were notable for being near-entirely/entirely improvised, as opposed to the following episodes, which were scripted, then recorded in a call with some improvisation. Other notable differences:
  • The series used to be presented in a lower visual quality and was presented in letterboxed and pillarboxed format (the series would switch to higher quality 4:3 in a 16:9 screen in episode 7, and would switch to a strictly 4:3 resolution in episode 9).
  • The style of the humor had a tendency to be more cynical and had some jokes that didn't quite fly (and the series was a bit more down to earth in general). Later episodes would have a more off the wall tone and left some of it's cynicism behind.
  • The first episode is more of an English dub with raunchier dialogue, possibly as a result of the (back then, only) two voice actresses accidentally reading the hardsubs.
• Overly Long Name: Mr. Shyman's wife's name is somehow "Cloris Doris Mc Boris Floris Hymen." By Shyman's own admission, people tend to call her "C.D Hymen."
• Sensory Abuse: The first Hiatus dub.