History Website / CollegeHumor

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[=CollegeHumor=] was a website started in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen. It features videos, pictures, and articles meant to be [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin humorous to college students]]. The website can be found [[http://www.collegehumor.com/ here]].

Its sister site, ''WebAnimation/{{Dorkly|Originals}}'', tends to focus mostly on video game parodies, often in the form of comedic sprite animations poking fun at the original games.

On January 8, 2020, [=CollegeHumor=]'s parent company IAC [[https://twitter.com/samreich/status/1214985379343822849 stopped financing them, resulting in the layoffs of over 100 people]], leaving [=CollegeHumor=] and its series' future uncertain. The company was sold to its chief creative officer Sam Reich. ''Dorkly'' was quickly picked up, along with its staff, by Creator/LowbrowStudios. Since then, its web site now redirects to its [[https://www.youtube.com/collegehumor YouTube channel]], but much of the [[http://web.archive.org/web/20191001142819/http://www.collegehumor.com/ old site can still be accessed via the Wayback Machine]], alongside sketches recorded prior to the layoffs continuing to be uploaded to both the channel and affiliated streaming service ''Dropout''.

As of 2021, ''Dropout'' shows have resumed production, funded by Dropout subscribers and featuring many returning cast members. ''Game Changer'', ''Dimension 20'', ''Um Actually'', and ''Breaking News'' remain some of the most popular series under the [=CollegeHumor=] brand.

On the fifth anniversary of ''Dropout'' in 2023, Sam Reich announced that after 24 years, [=CollegeHumor=] was officially rebranding as ''Dropout'', with the [=YouTube=] channel changing names to coincide with the announcement.

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'''Prominent Features:'''
* ''Series/{{Adam Ruins Everything}}'': Adam Conover brings up all the terrible things about common aspects of life. Began as a series of skits before moving to Creator/TruTV.
* ''WebAnimation/TheAdventuresOfKimJongUn'': A series of over-the-top fake [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea North Korean]] propaganda starring an over-the-top parody version of Kim Jong-un.
* ''WebVideo/{{Badman}}'': A parody of Batman.
* ''Bleep Bloop'': A talk show centered on video games.
* ''CH Live'': A series of stand-up comedy shows.
* ''WebAnimation/DinosaurOffice'': A series of stop-motion cartoons about an office filled by dinosaur employees.
* ''Dire Consequences'': CH employees bet to do increasingly outrageous stunts. Probably related to the earlier sketch "What Will Kevin Do For Ricky's Money?"
* ''WebVideo/{{Downbeat}}'': A {{Mockumentary}} focusing on the lives of six different musicians.
* ''WebVideo/DoraTheExplorerAndTheDestinyMedallion'': A live-action ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' miniseries, not to be confused with the official live-action Dora movie.
* ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'': A series of sketches based on fictionalized versions of CH employees.
* ''Hot Date'': Murph and Emily live through various dates and talk about adulthood and relationship. Eventually adapted into a TV show where several characters, almost all played by Murph and Emily, face challenges in their relationships.
* ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'': A series of videos based on CH employees Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld.
* ''Paranoia'': Two people are intoxicated, and must attempt to pass as completely sober in various situations.
* ''POV'': A series using a POVCam and the character's InnerMonologue.
* ''Prank War'': A prank war between Amir and Streeter Seidell. The pranks grow increasingly elaborate over time.
* ''WebVideo/PreciousPlum'': A series which parodies ''Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo'', which is about a not so bright girl named Plum, and her fat and equally dumb mother going around road trips to beauty pageants.
* ''Rank Room'': CH employees solve life's greatest questions, such as "what's the best invention that has yet to be invented", by each offering two answers and then picking the best one
* ''WebVideo/StreetFighterTheLaterYears'': An original sequel to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''.
* ''WebVideo/VeryMaryKate'': The misadventures of a CloudCuckoolander twenty-something woman.[[/index]]



'''Dropout Series:'''
* ''{{WebVideo/Troopers}}'': A parody of ''Franchise/StarWars'' centered on a pair of Stormtroopers...er, ''"[[LawyerFriendlyCameo Dread Troopers]]"'', originally a series on the [=CollegeHumor=] website from 2011.
** ''Troopers: Rise of the Budget'': A new series focusing on a new group of Troopers set after the original series for the Dropout.TV service in 2019.
* ''[[WebVideo/UmActually Um, Actually]]'': A game show hosted by Mike Trapp in which contestants are given incorrect pieces of trivia from various pop culture, and must correctly identify the mistake. Starting with Season 9, Ify Nwadiwe became the new host and Creator/BrianDavidGilbert replaced Michael Saltzman as fact-checker.
* ''WebVideo/BreakingNews'', in which four of the personalities are set in a newsroom and given the wackiest lines imaginable, but have to deliver them without {{Corpsing}}.
* ''WebVideo/Dimension20'': A tabletop adventure series with Brennan Lee Mulligan as the dungeon master and various past and present members of CH as the players.
* ''WebAnimation/WhatTheF101'': A BlackComedy educational series in the vein of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus''.
* ''Rank Room'': A PanelShow featuring CH regulars who are tasked with figuring out and ranking the answers to some of life's most important questions.
* ''Total Forgiveness'': With the premise of paying off their student loan debt in exchange, two people take on humiliating challenges.
* ''WebVideo/GodsOfFood'': A {{Mockumentary}} series about six celebrity chefs and the food culture surrounding them.
* ''WebVideo/KingpinKatie'': A series in which, while attempting to fuel her own drug addiction, a woman accidentally becomes a drug lord.
* ''WebVideo/GameChanger'': A game show hosted by Sam Reich in which every episode has a different format and goal, with none of the contestants having any prior knowledge of how to win.
** ''WebVideo/DirtyLaundry'': A game show in which four people try and guess whose dirty secret is currently being aired. Hosted by Lily Du, with Grant O'Brien as the bartender, teaching viewers how to mix the drinks featured on the show. A spinoff of the ''Game Changer'' episode "Never Have I Never".
** ''Make Some Noise'': A spin-off of ''Game Changer'' based on the "Noise Boys" episodes, also hosted by Sam Reich. The contestants are prompted with some manner of noise, event, character, or scene to imitate - similar to ''Whose Line Is It Anyway'' "Scenes From a Hat".
** ''Play it By Ear'': An improvised musical game show hosted by Mano Agapion, with two regulars, Jess [=McKenna=] and Zach Reino. Spunoff from the "Official Cast Recording" episode of ''Game Changer''.
* ''WebVideo/UltramechatronTeamGo'': A series about a dysfunctional team of mech pilots trying to battle the machinations of space wizard Galatax.
* ''WebVideo/VeryImportantPeople'': Comedians are put into costumes and make up, improvise a character on the spot and go into an improvised celebrity interview with Vic Michaelis. Essentially a remake of ''Hello My Name Is" hosted by Pat Cassels and every guest played by Josh Ruben.
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* FourOneNineScam: There's [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/117084/gwammi-mufasta a sketch]] with the twist being that the Nigerian prince funds really were legit, only for the email to be deleted by a jaded college student!
* AcidTripDimension: Shows up in the 8D segment in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2aCVlnLow Ice Age in 4D]]".
-->'''Thing:''' I liked it. I thought Ray Romano was hilarious.
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7C_tE8H_A "The Six Monsters You'll Have As Roommates"]] video. The "vampire" is a metaphor for the HandsomeLech who stays out all night partying and picking up young women (which is why he doesn't like sunlight). It doesn't help that this particular individual is a broody {{Goth}} type who doesn't like to eat garlic knots.
* ActorAllusion: In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTwWqzKeXc End of the World]]" parody, Sam Reich appears playing his real-life father, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9eHdb2bR9g Grease Dilemma]]" sketch does this to [[Theatre/{{Grease}} Kenickie]], as a deconstruction of his line "Did she put up a fight?" from the song "Summer Nights". His friends question this at first, but shrug it off. Then his lines get increasingly criminal, pretty much admitting to being a date rapist before his disgusted pals beat him up.
* AffablyEvil: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRUVCo-FQc Dominiq Machetehands]] takes a moment to congratulate Jessica on doing well on her diet.
* AffectionateParody:
** One parody is of "It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt", rewritten with lyrics about global warming, AIDS, terrorism, and zombie invasions.
** Another one is a spoof of ''Series/TheXFiles'' revival done in the style of the old series, right down to meeting the Cigarette Smoking Man (now vaping instead of smoking to get with the times) leaving cryptic clues for our heroes about the great conspiracy responsible for the revival.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HetzOYLyCF8 I Need More Intel: Is That Hot Guy Gay?]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfJxmorY4DY its sequel]] parody SpyFiction, with pretty much every trope from the genre being used, as well as Grant abusing his spy gadgets and using his VoiceWithAnInternetConnection for personal purposes, just so he can figure out if a guy he's drinking with is gay or not.
* AfraidToHoldTheBaby: The subject of "Don't Make Me Hold Your Baby."
* AlasPoorVillain: Victor Vivisector and his minions. They just want to turn all of America's national forests into parking lots, but they keep getting foiled by incredibly creepy furry superheroes. They're baffled at first, but become more grossed out as they see some of the more sexual aspects of the furry fandom, until even Victor begs one of his henchmen to kill him.
* AIIsACrapshoot:
** Parodied in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVCghLfdzsY Kinect Self-Awareness Hack]]''. A guy upgrades his Kinect so that it possesses artificial intelligence. It quickly turns against its creator, deems humans inferior beings, and then launches the end of the world as we know it by hacking into the U.S. defense network and launching its Nuclear arsenal.
** The one where Sarah's unwatched Netflix movies fight back.
* AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles:
** In the "His Netflix is F*cked Up" Sketch, the girl discovers that the guy watches anime, commenting that all anime looks pervy to her. Also Invoked since the anime section in the sketch is filled with {{Hentai}}. [[HePannedItNowHeSucks Though keep in mind that the website itself is NOT anti-anime]], since they also produced some anime-themed sketches such as "If Miyazaki Movies were like other anime".
** In "Tumblr CEO: No More Porn", the disgruntled CEO comes across animated octopus porn when searching under the cartoons tag.
* AllGermansAreNazis: The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDLoTemBtV4 Gunter Granz]]'' sketches. The eponymous character is a German marketing expert who joined the staff at [=CollegeHumor=], but turns out be a vehemently antisemitic Neo-Nazi, and is usually at odds with the Israeli-born Amir. At the end of both sketches he seems to subvert the trope, as he expresses regret for what happened in the past, but then he double subverts it as it turns out that he was being Nazist after all.
* AllMenArePerverts: Deconstructed in the "Every 7 Seconds" videos, which bases itself on the myth that men think about sex every 7 seconds. The guy in question can barely get through a conversation because he's constantly being distracted by sexual phantasies that [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness appear completely real]].
* AlphaBitch: The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ecihqk4kQ We Ruin Your Bar]]", parody of Music/{{Kesha}}'s pro-homosexuality song "We R Who We R" is about a group of these attention-seeking girls trashing a bar, and well, doing lots of illegal things.....
* AlternateHistory: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOSUEFqszK8 If Things Turned Out Differently]].
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents:
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLG6WqjOEo The Six Ways You'll See Your Dad]]", one of them is 'The Clown', where the son starts to see his father as an unfunny dork.
** Deconstructed in ""[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7AZX5Xtiks Teen Romance Is Too Dramatic]]", in which the daughter in question ''acts'' as if her mother is being embarrassing, while in reality she's making a series of increasingly accurate points.
* AmbiguousEnding:
** Defying this trope is the whole point of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ntY4Ty3KGU Ambiguous Endings Resolved]]". ''Film/TheWrestler'' ends with Randy possibly jumping to his death, but his doctor suddenly interrupts his match to tell him his heart is actually fine; ''Film/LostInTranslation'' reveals that Bob Harris and Charlotte [[LoveConfession declared their love for each other]] during their hug at the end and discuss how to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Charlotte's husband]]; ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'' ends with the deputy interrupting Sheriff Bell's solemn ending monologue to inform him that they caught Anton Chigurgh; ''Film/TheGraduate'' has Elaine and Ben realizing how inappropriate it was to run away at her wedding; and ''Series/TheSopranos'' reveals what happens after the notorious NoEnding in the series finale--Tony Soprano has been shot and killed by some rival mobsters.
** ZigzaggedTrope by "''Film/{{Inception}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wee1OlbIkcc Ending Extended]]", which ended by leaving open the possibility that it was AllJustADream. The credits go back and forth between the spinning top, the top stopping, the top spinning again, etc.
* AncientConspiracy: According to the "truthumentary" '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo Deceptive Deceptions]]', the world is now, has always been, and will forever be controlled by a shadowy elite who trump the government, the Freemasons, and the Illuminati combined: [[spoiler:The [=CollegeHumor=] staff]].
* AnimalAthleteLoophole: Invoked in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBdSJ5uxvko&ab_channel=CollegeHumor this sketch]] parodying various improbable sports movie premises.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Parodied with the two-episode cartoon ''Furry Force,'' starring a gang of {{Funny Animal}}s who only stop their nemesis Victor Vivisector because he's absolutely disgusted by them and would rather die (to whit, he shot himself in the temple) than fight back.
* AnnoyingPopUpAd: Lampooned in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHkZP0i7FqU video]] "Porn Site Strip Club". Among other internet peculiarities, such as age restrictions being easily surpassed by underage users and time-limited previews, the main character is harassed by a crossdressing man who appears out of nowhere with a "pop" sound and worries that his computer will get a virus. At the end, ten more copies of the guy appear at once.
* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: InUniverse. In "''Film/TheMatrix'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM Runs On Windows XP]]", there is a parody of the annoying Microsoft Office assistant 'Clippy', who appears at the wrong times. The first time, Neo gets annoyed enough with Clippy's appearance that he bends Clippy.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification:
** The premise of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM Font Conference]]'' and the later ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6djQHeqMwQ Font Fight]]'': conventions of personalized Microsoft Word fonts.
** ''If Google Was a Guy'' is a series of sketches featuring Website/{{Google}} portrayed as a middle-aged office worker getting increasingly exasperated with the idiocy of its users and the bizarreness of their searches.
*** Apple's Siri gets in on the act in ''Part 3''.
----> '''Siri User:''' How big is the Serengeti?
----> '''Siri:''' No problem. *turns to Google Guy* Show me pictures of spaghetti.
----> '''Google Guy:''' That is NOT what she asked for!
** The "Professor Wikipedia" sketch seems to parody the problems relying on information from Wikipedia has. Namely: the fact that Ryan Seacrest contains many of the elements necessary to facilitate a chemical reaction. The guy who coined the word "enzymes" was widely believed to be a total badass, and in 1908 won the Nobel Prize for Mustache. Also, Amir only wants to know about cunnilingus. Though you can tell that Jeff seems to know a fair bit about the culture on Wikipedia.
* AnthropomorphicTypography: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFK_XuVqsCQ Pixar Intro Parody]] has multiple anthropomorphic alphabet letters acting like real people. As the lamp murdered a letter I, all of the letters want him executed.
* AnyoneRememberPogs: The premise of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOSUEFqszK8 this]] video.
* ApocalypseHow: The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTwWqzKeXc End of the World parody]]" pokes fun at western society's obsession with "end of the world" scenarios that are constantly catered to by ratings-driven news media going through cycles every few months to hype a new, singularly horrible catastrophe to come.
* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: This [[http://www.moillusions.com/2009/02/video-optical-illusion-girlfriend.html video]] from the site features an "Optical Illusion Girlfriend" who looks like a pretty girl to her boyfriend but an ugly hag to his friend. After an argument with his friend over her ambiguous driver license picture and them both trying to explain to each other just what they see in it, the boyfriend's perspective of her suddenly switches to the "ugly hag" and he flees in horror whereas his friend begins seeing the "pretty girl" instead and approaches her with a leer.
* AppropriatedAppellation: {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5758387/we-are-douchebags We Are Douchebags]]''.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Discussed in their 30 for 30 parody of ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'', regarding the coach's press conference where he discussed allegations of performance enhancing angels:
-->'''Steve Harlow:''' The only reason why the guy wasn't getting laughed out of the room was because it was the 90s, and there were a lot of bizarre things happening in the world of sports.
-->'''Tim Kurkjian:''' If [[Film/HappyGilmore a hockey player can win the Masters]], if [[Film/AirBud a Golden Retriever can play basketball]], if [[Film/SpaceJam Michael Jordan can play with Bill Murray and Tweety Bird]], then maybe we can believe that the Angels can actually win baseball games.
-->'''Calvin Fanning:''' And to show you the hold Knox has on the press, there's only one person in the room who questions the thing. ''[shows footage of said reporter]''
-->'''Steve Harlow:''' [[JerkAssHasAPoint The truth is, the guy was making some really legitimate points, but no one listened to him, 'cause the guy just sounded like a jerk.]]
* ArcWords: In the POV series, "How's this even possible?!"
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** In an episode of ''Bleep Bloop'', the 'Phantom of the Office' pays a visit and lists his favorite games as follows "Let me see, hoop stick, drown the cat, drown the rat, hobble the goat, and ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}''. ''Frogger'' was hard!"
** In the "The Problems with Jeggings Continues" sketch, Mr. S lists off inappropriate articles of clothing that will not be allowed in class, such as "NO cellophane hoodies, NO bra cardigans, NO U-Neck T-shirts, NO Hollister CLOTHES! That's just a personal preference." The class agrees with him there, as Hollister is just too slutty even for them.
** In "Fake News Investigative Journalists", a woman pitches a story that accuses Harry Reid of being a murderer, a Satanist, a fascist, a rapist and an [[HollywoodAtheist atheist]].
* ArtifactTitle: The content has to a considerable extent aged along with its creators, and most of their sketches since 2012 or so involve characters who seem to be in their late 20s or early 30s. But "Late Twentysomethings Looking Back With Increasing Nostalgia on [=CollegeHumor=]" has less of a ring to it.
* AscendedMeme: For a few years now, various people have claimed to have seen Sinbad portray a genie in a '90s family comedy movie titled, ''Shazaam''. However, Sinbad denies such a movie ever existing.[[note]]Sinbad ''did'' dress up as a genie while hosting a 1994 Creator/{{TNT}} airing of ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'', raising the likelihood of '90s kids' memories somehow combining that with ''Film/{{Kazaam}}''.[[/note]] On April Fool's Day 2017, College Humor shared [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0rchvuoMU a supposed excerpt]] of ''Shazaam'', with Sinbad himself in the eponymous role. Eagle-eyed viewers might notice other apparently non-existent items people still somehow remember.
* AskAStupidQuestion: From one sketch of "If Google Was A Guy".
-->'''Man:''' "Is it okay to drink expired milk?"\\
'''Google:''' [''impatiently handing him a paper''] [[SurroundedByIdiots "No!"]]\\
'''Man:''' [''[[TooDumbToLive with a visible foam around his mouth and half-emptied milk jug on his hand]]''] "What happens ''if'' drank expired milk?"\\
'''Google:''' [[BigOMG "Oh my God!]] [[WhatTheHellHero Why did you ask me in the first place!?"]]
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: [[invoked]] In the video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExfV_xKaiM&t=105s Nicolas Cage's Agent]]", the titular agent tries in vain to talk Nicolas Cage, who is notoriously unselective about his acting roles, out of starring in bad movies such as "''Puke Bus''", "''Space Ass''", "''[[Film/SchindlersList Schindler's]] [[ActionizedAdaptation Fist]]''", ([[RaceLift an all-white remake of]]) "''[[Literature/TheColorPurple The Color Purple]]''", "''Dick Hole Black Hole''", "''[[TheRemake Schindler's Pissed]]''" "''A Very [[FinalSolution Pol Pot]] Christmas''", "''[[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird]]''" ([[BrokenAesop retold so that]] [[AdaptationalVillainy the black guy really did rape that woman]])", and "''Fuck Asian People''".
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** "Nintendo UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Rejected Game Concepts", which include:
*** $5/Hour (playing a short order cook). Jeff is shown flipping screen burgers.
*** Tea Time (Amir uses his remote to pretend to stir cream into an empty teacup, clinking the side of it)
*** Tattoo Artist
*** Bus Pervert
*** Airport Security (Sarah waves a remote like a wand)
*** Literature/MeinKampf
*** Hot Hands
*** Stand-Up Comedy - where you speak into the pointer like you would talk into a microphone
*** Hari-Kiri
*** Ex-Boyfriend (Sarah makes out with the remote, then pulls back and says, "We can't do this anymore."
*** Ouija Board
*** Nuclear Holocaust ([[VideoGame/{{DEFCON}} which has actually been made already]])
** Do you love ranch, but find it shameful? Then try new [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmWcnI6y1I Hidden Hidden Valley Ranch]]. With Hidden Hidden Valley Ranch, you'll always have some delicious, creamy dressing right up your sleeve, literally! Everyone knows ranch is a poor man's, unsophisticated sauce, but that doesn't mean it's not delicious. Hidden Hidden Valley Ranch is easy to use. You just wear the dispenser on your back in a concealable backpack, with a hose you can run up your arm (after pressurizing with a foot pedal) to secretly dispense the ranch dressing. It's just too good, even if it does make you feel like a trash opossum. Also, be careful not to let anyone bear-hug you, or it will explode and cause a massive ranch-splosion.
* AtArmsLength: "Adulthood vs. Childhood" has the former using this against the latter.
* AttackBackfire: "Christmas vs. Hanukkah" has the latter using his JewishMother to induce guilt upon Christmas, only for it to backfire on him.
* AudienceSurrogate: The main character in "The Six..." videos (played by Josh Ruben, later replaced by Emily Axford) is supposed to be a completely ordinary guy. Every one of them starts with some form of "This is you [representation]".
* AutoErotica: ''[[http://youtu.be/r5aRcwHULaI Back to the Future Sex Scenes]]'' starts at the point where, when Marty is "parking" with Lorraine, she kisses him, but pulls back upon realizing she feels like she's kissing her brother. From here, the sketch explores what could have happened if Lorraine had decided that she wanted to carry on kissing Marty (who bearing in mind is ''[[ParentalIncest her future son]]'') - she notes that "it just feels wrong. And yet...so ''right!''" Doc is appalled when Marty informs him that he had sex with his own mother, and as a result, he frantically tries to undo this, [[EpicFail which only makes the problem]] [[FromBadToWorse even worse]]:
-->'''Doc:''' You had a ''threeway?''
-->'''Marty:''' ''(quietly)'' Yeah...
-->'''Doc:''' With your ''[[{{Squick}} MOTHER?!]]''
-->'''Marty:''' ''(quietly)'' Uh-huh...
-->'''Doc:''' ''[[ScrewYourself AND YOURSELF?!?!]]''
* AutoTune: Parodied in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JelGcEyS6Aw Sing Talk]]'', a spoof of Music/{{Kesha}}'s song 'Tik Tok', which lambasts this style of music in general.
* AxCrazy: InUniverse, Chris Brown is portrayed as this in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fEt3uERI_w Chris Brown's Publicist]]". His real life violent behavior is exaggerated [[PlayedForLaughs for comic effect]]: the acts he admits having committed to his publicist include beating up Music/NickiMinaj--by breaking into her home--driving over a whole band with his car, attacking animals and children, murdering several people (one directly over the phone line), and digging up Music/TupacShakur's corpse to use it as his personal punching bag. Ironically, being "a stupid, violent, lunatic" [[KarmaHoudini has no effect whatsoever on his record performance or public standing]].
* BadBoss: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6HJjay8niA She's Terrible, and She OWNS It!]]" riffs on a female CEO whose behavior is ''extremely'' toxic, but she excuses it because [[AtLeastIAdmitIt she owns up to it]] (even when [[HypocriticalHumor she doesn't]], like lying to her best friend about sleeping with the woman's fiancee).
* BackingAwaySlowly: In the short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Dyqas6Sm8 Furry Superheroes Are Super Gross - FURRY FORCE]], the bad guys back away slowly as the cow girl (as in half girl-half cow) demonstrates some martial arts, resulting in some pretty extreme JigglePhysics.
* BandOfBrothels: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u98K-UaK1hk Toon]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP06P1yYMo8 Tang]], a brothel where humans can hire cartoon characters as escort.
* BatSignal: In the animation "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywMOuMqNuI The Dark Knight Meets Superman]]", Superman gets one of his own, but because of his much more super powers, there is a slight difference in the way it functions in practice.
--> '''Batman''': "What the hell is this?"
--> '''Commissioner Gordon''': "Oh, this thing is great. I just turn it on, and he shows up with the bad guys!"
* BearsAreBadNews: Parodied in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6282246/cartoon-bears-are-still-bears Cartoon Bears Are Still Bears]]'', in which various fictional bears (Bernstein Bears, the bears from the Charmin' toilet paper commercials, Smokey the Bear, Franchise/WinnieThePooh, etc.) all turn out to be hyper-aggressive man killers. Even the usually SickeninglySweet ''Franchise/CareBears'' are no exception.
* BestialityIsDepraved: In the second [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP06P1yYMo8 Toon Tang]] video, the brothel madam Velma Shreetrock (Wilma Flintstone) explains that the brothel caters to a variety of different men's fantasies. For example, they have a teenage detective who deals exclusively with bestiality. [[DescriptionCut Cuts to]] Franchise/ScoobyDoo doing Daphne doggy-style.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Their parody of the "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea" commercial, where various consumers' bizarre requests result in a killer cyborg computer that fires a gatling gun that destroys the camera.
** The protagonist of "What Going Back to the 90s Would Actually Be Like" [[NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe wants to visit the 90s to experience the pop culture]] and has his wish granted. The TotallyRadical genie figure who grants the wish then informs him that [[spoiler:[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he's now morally obligated to prevent 9/11]], the only plausible way to do it being by killing Mohamad Atta while he's at flight school in Florida, then forcing tighter airport security by [[HeroicSacrifice staging a fake 9/11 and taking the fall for it]].]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Reporter:''' Eric, why would someone shoot an innocent aviation enthusiast and then hijack an airplane?]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Eric:''' [[AnyoneRememberPogs I just wanted to play Pogs!]]]]
* BedFullOfWomen: In the sketch "The Six Monsters You'll Have For Roommates," TheProtagonist contemplates having [[ThreeWaySex a three-way]] or a four-way with some girls from school, or just "stay[ing] in bed all day and eat cake and hot wings" when he gets a single dorm room. [[spoiler: He then finds that having a roommate makes it much easier to deal with ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight.]]
* BedmateReveal: In the "I Got a Feeling" music video parody, a college guy cheats in front of his girlfriend at a party with Karen Matchett, which would at least be WorthIt--except he finds the much homelier Karen ''Black'' in his bed.
* BeerGoggles: Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsci--s8J48 a sketch]] in which as a guy has more to drink he lowers his standards... for his next beer.
* BenevolentBoss: The Oreo CEO doesn't see any reason for his employees to work hard or even show up to work if they don't want to, reasoning that the cookies are so popular and delicious that they basically sell themselves. He's exasperated by the team's insistence at coming up with increasingly-ludicrous flavors, telling them to just relax, go home, and keep cashing the checks.
* BiggerThanJesus: The article [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1811645 "If The Internet Had Always Existed"]] saw a depiction of what Twitter would have looked like in TheSixties with Music/JohnLennon tweeting, "We have more followers than @Jesus."
* BigWordShout: "Powerthirst," a spoof advertisement for a made-up energy drink. About half of the runtime of the video (and of the sequel) involves a man who clearly is doped up on steroids shouting random catchwords like a drill sergeant.
* BitingTheHandHumor: In "Jake and Amir: Behind the Scenes of ''The [=CollegeHumor=] Show''", the Phantom of the Office is interviewed and starts complaining about how Creator/{{MTV}} (the network that aired ''The [=CollegeHumor=] Show'') never plays music anymore while Amir makes "cut" gestures to the cameraman.
* BlackComedy:
** The "Honest ''New York Times'' Ad" is generally light, minus this one:
-->'''Man sitting at his desk:''' I like the Book Review. I find it helps my own writing. ''[holds up a ransom note as a kidnapped boy struggles, BoundAndGagged, in the background]''
** Their set of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKKQ8u5d1U Inappropriate DirectHD Commercials]], which are done by making commercials out of iconic sequences from ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'', and ''Film/RequiemForADream''.
* BlackComedyRape: In ''{{Series/CSI}}: Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', Velma was "raped, beaten, murdered, and then [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment super-raped]]."
* TheBoardGame:
** Parodied with ''Film/TheHungerGames: The Boardgame''. The story about a publicly televised duel game in which teenagers have to kill each other until only one is left is now marketed towards love-crazed teen girls. Justified, as some commenters on the video speculate that the game is meant to be a product sold by the Capitol specifically for the giggly, shallow, capitol consumers that focuses mainly on the romantic aspect of the 74th Hunger Games. For kids in the capitol, the Hunger Games are "just a game" to them, so the horrible things that happen to the tributes mean absolutely nothing. They don't care that children are dying, and the romance is the only reason they'd even bat a eye.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1S32ISJJVs If Tag were as complicated as a German board game]]
* BodyHorror:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytq6hZ0lok This video shows women who engage in increasingly disturbing forms of birth control]].
** Pretty much the [[NauseaFuel entirety]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_t_c8neC4 Don't Worry: My Sunburn Will Turn Into a Tan]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe9JVLEBgcc The Guy Who Won't Call In Sick]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhyLXlEti6s Aladdin's Mistake]] has Genie become "a halfling mutant with deformed fetus legs" after Aladdin wishes for him to become human, just as he comes out of the lamp.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Brutally mocked and deconstructed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6VP7Qp-Y8 No, You Weren’t “Born in the Wrong Decade”]] When Siobhan repeatedly tries to claim this, only for Trapp to point out how the horrible downside to whatever time period she names, and how she is obviously just focusing on only the good parts of those eras instead of the reality. Also they wouldn't have had cell phones or computers.
* BrainlessBeauty: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIPJrrQlxzY The Six Girls You'll Date in College]]", there's 'The Dumb Hot One', who dates the AudienceSurrogate simply because she once saw a Creator/WesAnderson movie and thinks he's "quirky".
* BrandNameTakeover: Spoofed in "Googling With Bing," a ParodyCommercial for the search engine Bing that consistently uses the verb "google" to describe what it does.
-->"With Bing, you can google anything you can think of. Google hotel info. Google coffee shops. Google health information. Google restaurants. It's all googled lightning fast. By Bing."
* BrickJoke: They love these. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISLyJDe_ds&list=ELAbgPJNk4vQM&index=4&feature=plpp_video the bartender who runs out of drinking glasses]].
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In ''Everything is a Dating App'':
--> '''Katie''': ''"That's awful."''\\
'''Trapp''': ''"And dangerous."''\\
'''Zac''': ''"And awfully dangerous."''
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The "Most Fucked-up shit" nominees in ''The Oscars for Frat Bros'' were [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]] being a [[Film/TheHobbit dick suddenly]], [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Hans turning out to be evil]] and ''Slavery'' in ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave''.
* BrutalHonesty:
** One video is an honest video for 4 Loko illustrating just how bad the side effects are.
** The parody college commercials for the fictional Quendelton State University are honest advertisements for a "once-called-adequate college". There's one for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsdlSpA2GU the College itself]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M98x-FLp7E the Graduate school]], and [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6446809/honest-online-college-ad the Online school]]. The same actor makes an appearance at the end of every video, and sums up the whole video in one line.
-->'''Guy at College:''' If we were a good university, we wouldn't have a commercial.
-->'''Guy at Graduate school:''' Because if we were good at life, we wouldn't need more school.
-->'''Guy at the Online school:''' Because if we were a real college, we would have to do stuff.
** The "Honest [X]" series of videos is made of the cast expressing the things most people are thinking internally during the event in question.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In the ''Breaking News'' segment "Ummm...We've Met Before", Katie has to improvise long monologues about how her character has met Mike and Sam's characters before on separate occasions, which neither of them remember. But ItGetsWorse when Sam loses the game and has to try to remember the first time he met Katie, Mike and Brennan in RealLife--and completely fails on all three counts: not only did he not remember that he met Brennan a full five years before the time he guessed their first meeting was, he also apparently completely forgot that he and Katie are ''cousins''.
* ButThatIWouldBelieve: The fake [[https://youtu.be/LHY8NKj3RKs trailer]] for a ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}'' movie has a tense scene where the instructor tries to get a recruit to admit his real motives for sweeping mines.
-->'''Drill Sergeant''': Why are you really here?\\
'''Soldier''': I want to make this land safe.\\
'''Drill Sergeant''': Why are you here, soldier?\\
'''Soldier''': I'm here because I'm bored!
* CallBack: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6863374/tommy-lee-jones-is-not-amused Grumpy Tommy Lee Jones is Not Amused]] Uses the same clip of Creator/BrendanFraser at the end as their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eX45Ce_MW8 extended video]] of Creator/NataliePortman laughing.
* CardCarryingVillain: [[Theatre/{{Grease}} Kenickie]] is depicted this way in "Grease Dilemma", openly singing about drugging and raping women, and additionally insulting Danny as a "square" when [[EveryoneHasStandards the T-Birds begin to realize what he's been up to]].
* CargoShip:[[invoked]] Spoofed with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEzlBwaFKHc a young woman buying a vibrator who turns out to be a sentient, stand-in boyfriend]]. Eventually it becomes jealous when she finds a real guy.
-->'''Vibrator boyfriend:''' You used me!\\
'''Girl:''' ''That's the whole point!''
* CallingYourAttacks: Used constantly in the "321 Fight" series.
* CasualKink: Ally, Grant and Rekha treat every holiday as sexual, even father's day (or rather Daddy's Day), ''except'' for Valentine's day, which instead is a day of reverence for the actual Saint Valentine.
* CelebrityCasualty:
** "Chris Brown's Publicist" features a hapless publicist trying to deal with Music/ChrisBrown's antics, including his killing Sisqo, Music/{{Usher}}, and Music/{{Mya}}, all of whom are still alive.
** "If Things Turned Out Differently" has President Howard Dean dying from avian bird flu.
* CelestialBureaucracy: In "God's Boss Craig", {{God}} is not in charge of Heaven. He has a boss [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HUBOD7Qt74 named Craig]].
* ChainmailBikini: There's an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin uncreatively-named]] straight-up parody of the trope [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6550847/female-armor-sucks here]].
* CheatersNeverProsper: "VideoGame/DuckHunt: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPAO26ijm2U Behind the Scenes]]" explains the reason why when you hit level 100 on Duck Hunt, the duck flies all over the screen so fast that you can't predict where it is: the Duck Hunt Dog, aware that the player is a cheating bastard through his use of a Game Genie and putting his controller directly to the screen, secretly arranges for one of the ducks to be injected with RD-601, a super-formula made of crystal meth, jet fuel and pixie sticks. Of course, there is a downside: the formula eventually kills the duck by causing his heart to explode.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM Font Conference]]", featuring [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personifications]] of Word document text fonts, French Script is a bit of a FrenchJerk who immediately offers up his seat when he's interjected by Rage Italic, an angry German wearing lederhosen.
* ChekhovsGun: In the "Whodunnit" episode of ''Game Changer'', a real knife was swapped out for the retractible prop knife, turning a fake murder into a real murder. Grant and Rekha find the prop knife in the Returns bin and screw around with it a little bit before mostly forgetting about it as they continue to investigate. Then [[spoiler: Grant]] is unmasked as the murderer and grabs the knife to underline a dramatic MotiveRant. Everyone acts like it's an actual knife, [[spoiler: until Grant stabs himself and remembers it's a retractible plastic blade.]]
* ChildHater: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJCc_2_zmA this]] sketch, there's a subversion. Gary hates holding babies...but it's not because he ''actually'' hates babies. It's because he's deathly afraid of accidentally hurting something so fragile...and being responsible for it.
* ChocolateOfRomance: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB3sjfAKeLo If Chocolate Ads Were Honest]]" is a parody commercial that shows what would happen if chocolates were advertised to women as a way to boost their sex drive.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Y2zAj9moY Your Girlfriend's Six Friends]], this describes the Possessive One. Played with in that she's jealous of anyone getting near her ladyfriend, not her boyfriend.
* CloseEnoughTimeline: In the 6D segment of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2aCVlnLow Ice Age in 4D]]":
-->'''Girl:''' I miss my sister.\\
''(the screen flashes and the sister reappears)''\\
'''Twins:''' Everything is back to normal!\\
''(they hug; the camera pulls back to reveal they are half-slug)''
* TheComicallySerious: One video parodies [[Creator/TommyLeeJones Tommy Lee Jones's]] performance in the ''Film/MenInBlack'' trilogy by showing Jones being unamused by the most absurd stuff.
* ComingOutStory: Parodied to hell and back when Grant admits he's attracted to men, as none of his coworkers bat an eye, much to his frustration - [[spoiler: until me mentions that it's because he's bisexual, [[NoBisexuals and all hell breaks loose]].]]
* CondescendingCompassion: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aimQ6bH-Mw Jessica and Katie in this video]], after briefly making fun of Brennan's shirt, spends the rest of the video talking about how he's such a delicate little crybaby that they shouldn't insult his feelings.
* ConspiracyKitchenSink: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo Deceptive Deceptions]]'. Among the things "uncovered" as part of a massive conspiracy embracing all of humanity in this "truthumentary" are events that ''include'': the shooting of Music/TupacShakur being arranged by the government, Creator/DanAykroyd's role in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}} 2'' and ''Film/NothingButTrouble'' being the obvious link, the late John Candy also being in on it, Music/PaulMcCartney's replacement by a doppelgänger so he could compose "Helter Skelter" and possess UsefulNotes/CharlesManson with the spirit of the Anti-Christ: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, who is actually a cyberganic demon created by Nazi scientists, who then created a faux-space agency called UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} to fake the moon landings on a special stage, the UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy assassination (which is described as "Tupac-esque"), the moon being a prehistoric hologram hiding a gigantic spaceship, ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' being made to cover this up by Dick Cheney and a pentagram of corporations that control our world (comprised of Nabisco, AOL, CITGO, Atkins, Adidas, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the New York Knicks]]) alongside Hooters and Website/{{Google}}. And the identity of the secret cabal that is more powerful than [[TheGovernment the American government]], the Freemasons, and TheIlluminati: [[spoiler:The [=CollegeHumor=] staff]].
* CoolestClubEver: Inverted for laughs in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQ7ymCmBzs Dance Clubs Are The Worst]]" video. The guy has to bribe the bouncer to get in, way too many people are packed together in a small space, the drinks are overpriced, his coat is stolen, and he ends up hooking up with the wrong person because he was too drunk.
* {{Corpsing}}: One episode of ''Game Changer'' has a literal example: Josh is playing a murder victim, and Rehka and Grant are discussing who could have done it. At one point, Rehka insults him, and it cuts to a shot of Josh chuckling on the floor. He never breaks "character" otherwise.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Z-JCP4Q6A Chester Cheetah doesn't care if his workers die in a cheese accident.]]
** Reelect [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVl8vfev4L8 Mayor Ed Ward]] as mayor of Sim City. He built the city, and he can destroy it.
* CouncilOfVampires: They spoof this trope in a video where {{Dracula}} calls a meeting between all the fictional vampires. Because [[OurVampiresAreDifferent they all operate on different rules]], they quickly get into a dispute about what they should do as vampires, like [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward harping about his love for Bella]] and being a VegetarianVampire, and [[Series/TrueBlood Bill being confused about the point of the meeting]] because he thought they had already discontinued TheMasquerade.
* CourteousCanadian: "If Canadians Made a Rap Diss Video": a couple of highly-stereotypical backwoods Canadians try to diss America...but are just too polite to pull off properly.
* CrazyCatLady: ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6854922/batman-vs-cat-lady Batman vs Cat Lady]]'' parodies ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} with a character clone who is a classic CrazyCatLady.
* CreditsGag: At the end of the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRTXJSyTjo Head of Skate]]" video, which parodies Sarah Palin as a hockey mom in a bad Disney movie, all the credited members of the movie's production team are in fact members of the Nazi Party.
* CrocodileTears: Used in the Photoshop North Korea tutorial, where Brian O'Neil Hughes is being held captive by the North Korean government and being forced to Photoshop their pics.
-->'''Brian O'Neil Hughes:''' Now let's move into some closeup shots of the crowd. Okay, these people are going to need to be A LOT sadder. So this is where our Warp Tool comes in. We'll just droop these a jowls a bit, okay. Just drag this frown down here. Yeah, just really make this woman look like a rotting misery pumpkin. We'll take the soft brush here and add in a few tears. ''[The result is that the woman looks cartoonishly miserable, with over-the-top tears exploding from the side of her face]'' And I've gone ahead and done that for the rest of these people as well. Whoops, got a little smudge there! Let's take care of that real quick. ''[He draws a box around a soldier pointing a gun at these mourners; with a button press, the gun is replaced with a cat]'' Great. Everything's great.
* CreepyChild: Parodied in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6841887/horror-movie-daycare Horror Movie Daycare]]'', which unites many of the creepy, satanic, possessed, ghost, and alien children of horror movies in the same daycare.
* CutenessProximity: In "Don't Make Me Hold Your Baby," a man who's AfraidToHoldTheBaby is forced into it and rants about his fears at great length, but no one in the room notices a thing he's saying because they're so enraptured with the baby, cooing and "aww"ing through every word.
-->'''Gary:''' Why?! Why, why, why? Why would you trust me? This is the most valuable, fragile thing you have! Do you wanna see the most valuable, fragile thing ''I'' have? This! ''(holds up cracked smartphone)'' This is my baby! Look at it! This is what I'm gonna do to your baby!\\
'''Dad:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Awww, I think he likes you!]]
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* DaChief: "''Where the Fuck is Edward Snowden''", a parody of ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'', exaggerates the live action TV series' chief to the logical extreme of this trope.
* DamselInDistress: The frequent abductions of Princesses [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach]] and [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] are playfully deconstructed in [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6386756/peach-and-zelda-catch-up here]].
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUT_h950obU This video]] illustrates the gritty reboot process.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGugJnsPYAU "Fresh Prince: Gangsta Version]]" recasts the opening theme to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' as a GangstaRap song: Will is a drug dealer and pimp who flees to Bel Air after murdering two people, thinks his upper-middle class relatives are a bunch of losers ("Carlton's a faggot!"), and [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt shacks up with a bored white trophy wife]].
* DarkHorseVictory: "Adulthood vs. Childhood" ends with the ManChild winning.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates:
** A ''[=CollegeHumor=]'' strip features a version of this...starring a teenage [[VideoGame/BioShock Little Sister and her Big Daddy.]]
** Parodied in another [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5314892/n00b-boyfriend sketch]]: Mr. and Mrs. L33t are shocked to meet their daughter's n00b boyfriend. Complete with lines like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "How dare you bring his kind into our home!"]]
* DeadAllAlong: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksKLHt9Kzg Shyamalan]]'' parodies the decline of Creator/MNightShyamalan's career by casting M. Night AsHimself in a Shyamalan-esque supernatural thriller. At the end the mysterious man who haunts Shyamalan reveals the truth:
-->'''M Night:''' My career is dying.\\
'''Pale Man:''' ''Your career has been dead this whole time''.
* DeadlineNews: In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTwWqzKeXc End of the World parody]]", several of Channel 9's reporters are killed on live television, including a newscaster being [[ZombieApocalypse devoured by zombies]] invading the studio.
* DeathIsCheap: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and mocked in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHm2XrwpGtI Realistic Superhero Funeral]]". A [[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]] {{expy}} grows annoyed at the city apparently holding multiple funerals for whenever [[Franchise/Superman Alphaman]] dies, pointing out that he's always back a few weeks later because "the most popular superheroes never stay dead."
* DecadeThemedParty: In "Realistic 80s Costume Party", Janie and Raph attend an 80's dress up party. Janie is excited because she loves popped collars, big '80s hair, dancing to music heavily relying on synthesizer and wearing leggings, but it turns out others find her generic "'80s girl" costume baffling, because literally millions of girls lived in the '80s...
* DeconstructiveParody:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMU-AnCLZkg Doctor Sim]]'' is this for ''VideoGame/TheSims''.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=6_NTyMl1HJU A Complaint to Mario Bros. Plumbing]]'' shows what would happen if the conventions of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' happened in real life. Mario and Luigi are plumbers, who, according to the guy making the complaint, are seen taking psychotropic mushrooms and trying to squeeze themselves down the toilet. Their personalities would fit the profile of someone with a drug addict, for instance, "Meanwhile, the shorter one [Mario] was eating, yes ''eating'' my wife's prize-winning seasonal orchids. When I pleaded with him to stop, he threatened me with some drug-fueled fantasy about spitting fire," and "I assumed he was under the delusion he could demolish bricks with his fists when he [Luigi] tried punching through my ceiling." At the end of the video there's a parody of ''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}'', where a kid is chased by a construction worker, the grim reaper, and a tornado.
** Additionally, there are deconstructive parodies of ''Franchise/DuckTales'' and another one for ''VideoGame/TheSims'', which are listed on this page under PooledFunds and VideoGameCrueltyPotential respectively.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7Ha3VDbzE This video]] shows off that the destruction of the Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope'' was the Galactic Empire's 9/11.
* {{Demonization}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-_JhRJ0tWA If The Other Party Wins]]" uses this (as a spoof, of course) against both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party of the United States during the 2008 elections, from the other Party's perspective:
** '''If Obama wins (according to Republicans):''' [[MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack Mexico will take back the Southwestern US states]]. New England will become New Canada. Weed will be grown everywhere. American flags will be burned in school chemistry demonstrations. Students are rewarded for no achievements. Terrorists and illegal immigrants will run rampant. Medical care requires filling out a thousand forms. The family unit will break down into pansexual group marriages between pot-smoking hippies.
** '''If [=McCain=] wins (according to Democrats):''' The coastline will be submerged by global warming. [[MegaCorp Walmart gets its own country in what was once Wyoming and Montana.]] The southern border is covered by an electric fence. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Homosexual]] is sent to jail. Students are indoctrinated with patriotic jingoism. There is no money in the school budget to provide ink for test papers. [[ChildSoldier Students get drafted to fight in overseas wars]], and fight each other with assault rifles in recess. Some students are pregnant. People are refused medical care because they're not covered. The food is contaminated by oil spills. [[BigBrotherIsWatching People are monitored constantly in their homes]].
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** A POV episode featured a student ogle his classmate's assets, and thinking to himself, "Girl with big boobs has such big boobs!"
** {{Discussed}} with a lot of HypocriticalHumor in "Workshopping Your Insane Writing," an installment in a WholePlotReference spoof of ''Film/TheShining'' where Trapp plays the role of Jack Torrance.
--->'''Ally:''' [[{{Understatement}} It's a little bit repetitive]]. You know, it's kind of redundant.\\
'''Rekha:''' You're saying the same thing over and over, it's just a little repetitive.\\
'''Raph:''' Like, you say one thing and then you say it like...again...Like the same.\\
'''Zac:''' It's restating.\\
'''Katie:''' Personally, I found it redundant.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: From the same episode, in the end, he says, "Ah, now that that's over, time to go back and look at the girl with big boobs... That was definitely out loud. How is that even ''possible!?''"
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[https://youtu.be/RgBDdDdSqNE "The iPhone 7 is Just Worse"]], satirizing Apple's introduction of iPhone 7, specifically how it removes the 3.5 mm headphone jack, without realizing that this creates many new problems for users.[[note]]The typical workaround being a third party dongle[[/note]]
-->'''Tim Cook:''' It's all about simplicity, everything will run through one port. Now, you might be asking yourself, "What if I want to charge my phone... (''in realization'') while listening to music?" Shit!
* DidntSeeThatComing: One of the puzzles in "Escape the Green Room" involves driving a remote-control toy car to knock over some pins while being unable to actually see it (the controller is mounted to the wall away from the window). The intent is clearly that one contestant look out the window and give instructions while another drives. Lou and Siobhan ''try'' that for all of two minutes, and then decide to video-call each other on their phones so Siobhan can see what she's doing instead, something Sam genuinely did not expect.
* DiningInTheBuff: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVdPhv6TIhM "Unsexy Naked Time"]], Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy get naked and order Kung Pao chicken.
* {{Disneyesque}}:
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS-aerse5Ig Colors of the Wind: Stoner Edition]]" (aka "Tokahontas").
** "''Franchise/DuckTales'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KRQSpORW0 Theme Gone Horribly Wrong!]]". And by "GoneHorriblyWrong", they mean it.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFK_XuVqsCQ Pixar Logo Gone Horribly Wrong!]]" The lamp that jumps on the letter I ends up killing the letter. The letter I is buried, while the lamp is put on trial and sentenced to the electric chair.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka8p7AfSdWM Prince Harry as a Disney Prince]] casts the UK Royal Family's Prince Harry as a Disney Prince, with predictable results: he's a stereotypical bro or chav in all the roles. Most humorously, he gets along with [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] just swimmingly.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhyLXlEti6s Aladdin's Mistake]]". At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Aladdin wishes for Genie to [[HumanityEnsues become]] ''[[HumanityEnsues human]]'' (not ''free''), and he also does this just as Genie comes out of the lamp. As a result, Genie becomes [[BodyHorror a helpless mutant]] with a death wish.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20GeLSd31VY Be Our Bachelor]]," in which an WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}-esque guy, "Beau", is entertained by singing spoiled food and kitchen appliances.
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: ''Hot Date'''s "Adult Disney Fans Are Weird" is a TakeThat to Disney theme park obsessives:
-->'''Emily:''' That sounds like a cult.
-->'''Murph:''' Just because I was indoctrinated as a child, I ignore all the bad parts about it and yield fully to its influence over me does not mean I'm in a ''cult.''
-->''(Long, awkward pause.)''
* DocumentaryOfLies: In "Deceptive Deceptions", a truther uncovers the gargantuan ConspiracyKitchenSink that has controlled humanity since the dawn of time through an absurdly long stream of InsaneTrollLogic.
-->'''Narrator:''' Did the Vatican suppress the fact that Jesus and Mary Magdalene together had... '''a dog'''? Was Princess Diana really killed in the Challenger space shuttle disaster? Was the Loch Ness monster actually a descendent of Jesus' magic dog? Did the Twin Towers ever really exist? The clues are '''everywhere''' if one chooses to make stabs in the darkness.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** "Basicness" (read: being interested in stereotypical gendered activities and interests) is treated like HIV in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaghIdSJKvQ How to Tell If You're a Basic Bitch]]" sketch. It's treated like cancer in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7nQrtMQEw How to Tell If You're a Basic Bro]]".
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4yIWg_LElc This Monster Has No Phone Case]]" treats a guy traveling around with his iPhone naked like he's a neglectful parent.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwm2bpISnHg This Monster Doesn't Clean Her Inbox]]" treats a woman who hasn't emptied her email inbox like she's a hoarder.
* DoubleEntendre: According to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-eo-tsaso Metaphor-Free Radio]]", when the poetic bullshit is taken from your favorite songs, the lyrics become very sexual.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQnIJ-ljctk "X-Box Girls Get Revenge"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KECbmNnT7cs "X-Box Girls Strike Back"]] both do this. Though they do it, in part, to draw attention to the frequency of sexual harassment in online gaming, they also seem to imply that '''threats of rape and sexual torture''' are funny when they happen to men.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Discussed and averted for laughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7mJFNkLAU "80s movies hijinks were mostly rape"]], where Zac and Trapp want to try out some classic pranks from 80s movies on Murph. Pat is horrified at how all of their suggestions are sexual assault at best or straight up rape at worst.
* DownerEnding: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k71wde-FPUc Their parody depicting the events of]] ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'' as an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary shows this was what happened to the California Angels after the literal angels left: the team fell back to last place without the angels there to help them, George Knox lost his position as the Angels' coach, and in 2005, some of the players on the 1994 Angels team testified before Congress regarding PED allegations.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Inverted in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQEaPzd_UnQ Walking Contradictions]]" video, where characters behave the exact opposite from how you would expect them to. The Drill Sergeant shouts down his recruits, but by showering them with praise.
-->'''Drill Instructor:''' I will make it my mission to get hot fudge sundae - extra cherry - for each and every one of you! You have beautiful eyes!
* DrowningMySorrows: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEgwWtyXxN8 Best Friends In Rom Coms Are All Alcoholics]]", Kassia Miller's solution to every one of her coworker's minor problems (Siobhan being dumped by her boyfriend, Katie getting stuck in traffic, Mike getting a papercut) is to get them a bottle of wine to down. As the day progresses, she becomes more and more tipsy, to the point she's carrying barrels full of wine bottles to the office...[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome forcing her coworkers to stage an intervention]].
* DumpMonths: Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPtwxIaoxI "March Movies Suck"]], which argues that March is an extension of the "winter dump season".
* {{Eagleland}}:
** [=CollegeHumor=] portrays the average American citizen as someone who's in a relationship with [[DomesticAbuser an abusive boyfriend]], but who defends him when others bring up their concerns about him.
** The titular, ''America Sucks Less'', is a mixed flavor (though the singer prefers Canada). While United States may not be a perfect country, it is more preferrable to a CrapsackWorld, such as NorthKorea.
* EarWorm: Lampooned in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyEIM2cpkoE "One Week" song parody]]: Streeter plays an amateur band player who gets so obsessed with a catchy song that it drives him insane, leading to sexual dysfunction, hallucinations, threatening his girlfriend's parents with a hammer, threatening his own fans with a handgun, attempting assassination, and eventually [[DrivenToMadness ending up in an insane asylum]].
* EmptyNest: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfSIvEjbnI this]] sketch, a young man returns home for Thanksgiving, only to find that his parents have started feuds with neighbors they previously liked, taken up unusual hobbies, redecorated several times over, put up a RoomFullOfCrazy's worth of photos of him, and taken in foreign exchange students because they just can't cope without him.
* EnragedByIdiocy:
** The CEO videos run on this, with several of them having comedy provided from the corporate executive's frustrations at his employees developing poorly thought-out products and ideas that will only land the company into further trouble as well as hearing his employees' asinine excuses for their poor decisions.
*** The ABC CEO, in the wake of controversies involving the ''{{Series/Roseanne}}'' reboot and ''Series/LastManStanding'', is prompted to read off new programs airing this season - including "News for White People with Creator/MelGibson & [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten Any Blonde Woman]]." It gives him a nosebleed.
*** The Tide Pod CEO becomes irate over his employees developing cleaning products that can easily be mistaken for candy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he appears to be out of whatever patience he had left after his employees then start making cleaning products that could still be ingested by mistake and hearing that UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump encouraged people to drink bleach.
** The Oreo CEO is actually an incredibly chill guy who knows he doesn't need to work hard to make money since the cookies' popularity sells itself, and gets angrier and angrier throughout the video at his staff's unwillingness to stop overworking themselves in order to invent hundreds of different new kinds of Oreo's that don't taste any different.
** The agent series is all about the guy in charge of famous celebrities careers being continuously enraged by his clients refusal to do things that don't damage their reputations.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExfV_xKaiM&list=PLE6k_24dlrsa6C0WpYHo4VXxS_NSBc6q6&index=2&t=0s Nick Cage's agent]] can't get him to say no to any film role offered to him[[AudienceAlienatingPremise no matter how bad it is]]. Even ones the agent makes up on the spot and screams down the phone in a fit of rage.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fEt3uERI_w&list=PLE6k_24dlrsa6C0WpYHo4VXxS_NSBc6q6&index=3&t=0s Chris Brown's publicist]] keeps having to find some way to spin his client's increasingly blatant acts of violence, until he snaps when Chris starts trying to beat up the phone hes talking to him with.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yRb4vOun8&list=PLE6k_24dlrsa6C0WpYHo4VXxS_NSBc6q6&index=3 Kanye West's social media manager]] can't get him to stop tweeting horrible things since he admits to being addicted to feeling shame. Eventually asking for [[TranquilFury him to ask Ted Nugent if he could get his gun for him]].
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7l1xxZ2oe4 Scarlett Johanson's agent]] is continually frustrated by her refusal to not play [[RaceLift roles not suited for her]] no matter how much flak she gets for it because she is an 'act-or'.
* EpicFail: What happens in college when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJniTi9kLY all of the Residential Advisors (RA)s]] get placed on the same floor.
* EscalatingWar: The infamous "Prank War" between Amir Blumenfeld and Streeter Seidell, which they would later admit was staged but which nonetheless got them a gig as hosts of the MTV show ''Pranked.''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In "This Kidnapping Is SO Hot", the kidnapper is willing to hold a man's son hostage for a considerable ransom, but ''highly'' frowns upon any kind of sexual deviancy (to the point where he's revealed to be [[spoiler: a virgin]] at the end of the episode).
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Even though [[Theatre/{{Grease}} Danny and co.]] may be delinquents, they are pissed off when Kenickie admits to essentially drugging and raping Rizzo in "Grease Dilemma". Enough to the point that [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown they eventually beat him to a pulp]].
** The fake NextTimeOn ''Bear Shark'' from the episode "Space" has the titular duo attempt to eat their hapless victim again after popping out of his closet. This causes him to have a heart attack and seemingly die, making the two ashamed of what they did and leave without even trying to eat him.
* EvilTwin: Shows up in an episode of Hardly Working, where killing him is [[RidiculousProcrastinator one of the many things Raph is putting of doing]].
-->'''Grant''': What about you, are you ever going to kill your evil twin?
-->'''Evil Raph''': Yeess, do you have it in you?
-->'''Raph''': Ugh, anytime we fight he's always anticipating my every move, it's a whole thing.
* ExcrementStatement: The country singer in the ''Livin' Mask-Free'' music video prepares to take a dump in a box of masks near the end of the song as one demonstration of his suicidally stubborn stance against wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
* ExperimentedInCollege: Taken to logical extremes with [[MadScientist Claus]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQzFJDgwaCw "Experimenting (literally) in College"]].
-->'''Claus''': I committed many an experiment which defied the laws of God and Man!
* FailedDramaticExit: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ This skit]] parodies the StealthHiBye employed by ''Franchise/{{Batman}}.'' Bats tries to ninja-sneak off the roof of Gotham PD but just doesn't quite make it.
* FairWeatherFriend: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUZFuS0c0Ak one sketch]], Katie suspects that her friends are leeches who only like her because they can use her for her Costco membership.
* FakeFood: [[invoked]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJFLQLxG-U This Photoshop "tutorial"]] highlights just how much difference there is between Chinese food menu photos and the actual product. Including:
** A filter that makes a modern photo look like it was shot in 1977 by an incompetent photographer.[[note]]Most of the photos from Chinese restaurant menus are usually shot by restaurant owners who don't know how to use a camera, or a computer for that matter[[/note]]
** Chicken doesn't look like chicken but more like some sort of overcooked mystery meat type thing (here, achieved by applying the textures of a bunch of different animals to the chicken)
** Photos of pork don't exactly show the feeling of wanting to take a nap after you eat it.
** Rice in the photos is aged digitally to look like that stuff you forget about for two weeks then drunkenly try to eat with ketchup
* FakeRealTurn: They made a trailer for a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' gritty action movie. It was so popular, fans insisted they make an actual film. So they did. [[HilariousInHindsight And then fast-forward to]] [[Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold 2019]]...
* FanDisservice: This seems to be the point of the "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6791913/call-me-maybe-parody Call Me Maybe]]" parody. The music video opens with a well-built guy who starts to mow a lawn [[ShirtlessScene while shirtless]]... but the EatingTheEyeCandy abruptly stops when he's revealed to be a Neo-Nazi fanatic.
* {{Fanservice}}: Usually avoided, but "If You Competed in the Olympics" is basically just an excuse for Siobhan to run around for five minutes in a gymnastics leotard. You're welcome, boys and girls.
* FictionAsCoverUp: The conspiracy theory spoof video "Deceptive Deceptions" claims that ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' was made on the orders of Dick Cheney (at the time Congressman of Wyoming, where the movie was filmed) and his co-conspirators to cover up previous UFO landings.
* FiendishFraternity: Phi Rho Kappa from "The Problem With Frats", whose members have engaged in racism, sexual assault, and even outright letting freshmen die to alcohol poisoning. Worse still, its members [[IgnoredEpiphany disregard all the horrific stuff they committed after moments of clarity]].
* FightForTheLastBite: Discussed. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_PD-taVSoI You Can Never Take the Last Cookie]]" is about how it's considered rude to take the last cookie. The characters keep dividing the cookie (so nobody is rude) until it creates a nuclear reaction.
* FightingGame: "321 Fight" pits two things against each other in one of these. Among them include UsefulNotes/BarackObama vs. Mitt Romney, Adulthood vs. Childhood [[spoiler:(and a ManChild)]], Christmas vs. Hanukkah, and Cat vs. Dog.
* FinishingMove: "Cat vs. Dog", depending on which of the two you choose, has the victor pulling off a [[MemeticMutation "Meme]][[Franchise/MortalKombat ality"]].
* FirstWorldProblems:
** This trope is played with in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eO-HO7GLI video]]. A group of Millenials whine about Creator/BenAffleck being cast as Film/{{Batman|V Superman Dawn of Justice}} and the new intro for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as ruining their childhood while other diners (and one waiter) comment on the catastrophes (sister raped, abusive father, Holocaust, racism, Vietnam War, polio, etc) disrupting their youth.
** In the same vein, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBiP208aKZc "Stop Saying 'I'm So Broke'."]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eO-HO7GLI Stop Saying "It Ruined My Childhood."]]
--->"Look at my phone."
--->"Is that a 6 Plus?"
--->"Yeah, I dropped it when we did molly at that music festival in the desert that we all flew to? I'm just too broke to fix it!"
* FiveTokenBand: {{Parodied}} in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsdlSpA2GU honest college ad]] (at about 1:00). It shows a group with a black man in a wheelchair, an Asian girl, a white guy, a mixed-race girl and an Indian guy who says, "We're actors. This literally never happens."
* FlameWar: Wonderfully demonstrated in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3980096/we-didnt-start-the-flame-war We Didn't Start the Flame War]]''. It even provides the page quote.
* FlippingTheBird: The country singer in "Livin' Mask-Free (Music Video)" flips the bird several times in the video while expressing his selfish contempt towards the practice of wearing masks when out in public during the COVID-19 pandemic to lower the cases of infection.
* ForWantOfANail: Described in the 5D segment in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2aCVlnLow Ice Age in 4D]]".
-->'''Girl:''' I loved it so much I went back to the actual ice age, killed a bug, and now my sister doesn't exist.
* FlockOfWolves: The premise of [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3602789/all-ra-floor this sketch]] is that at one time, Kwantlen University accidentally put all the Resident Advisers on one floor. HilarityEnsues as they gather around for a fun meeting not knowing that they're all Resident Advisers.
* {{Fratbro}}: Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaS6mlUS5Kw "If I were a Bro"]], wherein Sarah dresses up as a stereotypical frat boy [[OneOfTheBoys hanging out with the rest of the dudes]].
* FreePrizeAtTheBottom: Why settle for one prize when you can get a cereal box made entirely of prizes? "All Prizes Cereal" has all the toys you crave without all that boring cereal. It's the best thing to happen to breakfast since marshmellows!
* FreezeFrameIntroduction: Episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_tQRGq6clE Font Fight]]" has a freeze-frame intro of its protagonists.
* FreudianSlip: Murph and Emily refer to [=CrossFit=] as a cult. ''Multiple times''.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Subverted in the sketch, "The Six Monsters You'll Have for Roommates." The "vampire" isn't actually a vampire, just a {{Goth}}y college kid who happens to share some traits with them: he stays out all night, has an aversion to sunlight (because he is NotAMorningPerson, probably because he's out partying all night), is never seen eating (or at least doesn't eat garlic bread), and has ''no'' trouble [[TheCasanova hooking up with several different girls]].
* FriendsWithBenefits: This was the premise of former show "Full Benefits", where this sort of relationship occurred between fictionalized versions of staff members Sarah and David. Later they tried to "take it to the next level" by becoming romantically involved as well.
* FunnyAnimal: {{Deconstructed}} and {{played for laughs}} with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbs0vSwCWs8 Narnia Dogs Can't Stand]]", where the titular dogs not only try to stand but do other human things even though it's really unnecessary. When the children aren't looking they go right back to doing things like sniffing each other's butts or licking themselves.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_YPslQ7UWs Viral Video Politician]]'' is purposely built with multiple examples going on, and also includes lots of tropes including speaking with a VaderBreath.
* GayBestFriend: One of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Y2zAj9moY Your Girlfriend's Six Friends.]]
** In "Making Bigoted Jokes Because You Care", Grant plays this role to Katie (even though he is ''technically'' bisexual).
* TheGhost: In the video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7C_tE8H_A "The Six Monsters You'll Have As Roommates"]], "The Ghost" is both a figurative and literal example. He's a roommate who you never see because he's always out or going around unnoticed, to the point that you start to doubt that he even exists.
* GirlbossFeminist: In the video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6HJjay8niA She's Terrible, and She OWNS It]]", CEO and feminist icon Mary Seabird is famous for her accomplishments regarding her all-female makeup brand. However, she is shown to be [[MeanBoss an abusive bitch to her employees]], acting like "owning" her bitchy attitude somehow makes it okay. She knocks lemonade out of her own niece's hand for not using "good ice," fires an employee (who she claimed she liked ''and'' was a new mom) for wearing red, sleeps with her best friend's husband, and offers no paid family leave.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Memorably referenced by Emily Axford in "Yay or Nay: Is North Korea Awesome?"
-->"Oh sure, North Korea, we believe you. You've got nukes and missiles and a girlfriend in Canada..."
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBkTEI5ZqkU Realistic Sobriety Tests]]", one of the non-standard tests is to introduce a 20-something female drunk driver to Lisa, an art major with a very open attitude to her sexuality. When they drunkely start making out, both of the cops and even the guy who was hit by the car (still lying on the ground with broken bones and covered in his own blood) try to catch a glimpse.
* GirlsLikeMusicians: Lampooned in a set of videos titled "Learning Guitar/Piano To Get Laid". The guys in the video managed to attract ''an entire harem'' by the end. Also, no, learning [[NobodyLovesTheBassist the bass]] will NOT get you laid.
* GotMeDoingIt: The narrator of Apple Watch ad parody "Apple: Call It the [=iWatch=] and We'll Kill You" complains of this after [[HypocriticalHumor violating his own]] InsistentTerminology.
* GrammarCorrectionGag: "When Not To Correct Someone's Grammar," where a man compulsively corrects the grammar of a friend as he describes the circumstances of [[ComedicSociopathy his brother's suicide]].
* GrammarNazi: A pastiche of ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' (specifically, Chapter 1 "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France") takes this trope literally, and shows that some Grammar Nazis are, in fact, [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1935115 actual Nazis]].
-->'''Perrier [=LaPadite=]:''' There was no Jews here.
-->'''Col. Hans Landa:''' Jew, or Jews, plural?
-->'''[=LaPadite=]:''' Plural.
-->'''Col. Hans Landa:''' WRONG! You have to match your subject with your verb!
** Except that "Jews" is the object; "there" is the subject.
-->'''Col. Hans Landa:''' Hiding under the floorboards, I have finally found you. ''(points his gun at the floor to fire)''\\
'''Perrier [=LaPadite=]:''' Wait. You are hiding under the floorboards, or is she?\\
'''Shosanna:''' ''[below the floorboards]'' A dangling participle?\\
'''Col. Hans Landa:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone A dangling participle...]] ''([[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself under the chin]])''
* GreatDetective: Parodied twice, with Trapp as the detective.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMkde3z4LY Who got me sick?]]", Trapp launches a Hercule Poirot-style investigation to find out who got him sick. [[spoiler:It was Siobhan]].
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzprnDqPt6w&t=68s When you don't recognize a friend request]]" is more of a Literature/SherlockHolmes pastiche, with Siobhan as TheWatson. [[spoiler:The friend request in question is an old college classmate, he doesn't recognize her because he's a shitty person]].
* GymBunny: Lampshaded in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YCdcnf_P8 Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends]]'':
-->'''Guy in Kitchen''':"All of us are ripped. It doesn't seem statistically possible, and yet it's true."
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Picnicface NFL Crunchtime starts about a football video game, then is about the player stuck in prison, and finally about reintegrating to society after being released.
* HandsGoDown: In "Comic-Con Cosplay Catastrophe", the panelists are fed up with non-normal cosplayers in the audience. Joff asks the audience questions who are ''not'' gender-swapping or Digimon versions of non-Digimon things (with hands going down), until he finds a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]]...who turns out to be Manga/InuYasha.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIPJrrQlxzY The Six Girls You'll Date in College]]", there's 'The One Who Likes To Party', though it's more drug abuse than alcohol.
* HarmlessVillain: Victor Vivisector is a near-demonic looking supervillain with a skull-like face, laser guns, and an army of robots equipped with chainsaws. What is his evil, diabolical plan? To cut down all of America's national forests and replace them with parking lots. Problem is, he's so easily grossed out by the Furry Force that he gives up the first time, and bashes himself to death the second.
* HeelRealization: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRotukq30AI "The Problem With Frats"]] has the fratboys gradually realize how awful they are and by the end, they all cheer at the prospect of turning themselves into the police. However, one of the guys' parents call in a favor, [[IgnoredEpiphany stopping them from repenting]] and Ox, the only one that isn't remorseful, [[KarmaHoudini is now making more money then you.]]
* HelpHelpTrappedInTitleFactory: In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ce_954P20I photoshop tutorial video]], a project manager who has been kidnapped by North Korea to edit their publicity photographs eventually tries to use the instructional video to give his co-ordinates to any possible rescuer, only to be beaten up by the guard.
* HesJustHiding:[[invoked]] In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHm2XrwpGtI Realistic Superhero Funeral]]", a funeral is being held for Alpha Man. However, Barry Allen / The Flash doesn't take the funeral seriously, as this is the sixth time Alpha Man has "died".
-->'''Mayor:''' Alpha Man seemed invincible. We all remember when it looked like he had been killed while saving us from that supernova. Or when he died defending the Earth from laser tigers. Or that time he fell into that open sewer grate and contracted sentient hepatitis. Each time, no matter how certain his demise, Alpha Man was back a few weeks later, the status quo miraculously restored.
* HistoricalInJoke: They made a video where [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] claims credit for the power outage that happened at the Superdome during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII.
* HiveMind: The depiction of the twins in the 7D segment of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2aCVlnLow Ice Age in 4D]]":
-->'''Horde of Twins:''' We are all. We are many. We are one.
* HiveMindTestimonial: Used in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ9wtQkSHqw Legalize Shrooms]] PSA, to great hilarity.
* HollywoodNewEngland: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOnisDd1IM Boston Chahams Cereal]], with its mascot, a baseball kid named "Mickey the Masshole". He takes Bobby and Sandy on a fountain of Sam Adams into a cartoonish Boston. Marshmallows include "Chowdah, [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Sox]] and [[Creator/MarkWahlberg Wahlbergs]], a hand {{flipping the bird}}, pints of Samuel Adams, and Jeter sucking A-Rod's dick." It also turns milk to Jameson's. For the AdjacentToThisCompleteBreakfast shot, they show a bowl of Boston Chahms cereal next to a side of beans, a pint of Guinness, and a pile of Boston Creme donuts.
* HollywoodPudgy: [[invoked]] Humorously [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRbYdTIORc this]] video, which features a college-age woman complaining about her size as Hollywood Pudgy characters tend to do ("Look at these love handles! I'm a muffin top!") while her friend reassures her that she's not fat at all. The twist is that the two actresses ''are'' [[BigBeautifulWoman notably plus-sized and attractive women]], which creates an interesting clash of visuals and words.
* {{Homage}}: The art style and morbid subject matter of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPz9Fcvb1II "Everything That Will Kill You... From A to Z"]]'' is a direct ShoutOut to author/illustrator Creator/EdwardGorey and, more specifically, his book ''The Gashlycrumb Tinies''.
* HowIsThatEvenPossible: This phrase being said verbatum is a running gag in the point-of-view sketches.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: The aptly-titled "[[https://youtu.be/iYyLPsIF2fk Only I Can Insult My Mom]]" sketch.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** Batman states that only cowards hide behind guns and vows not to kill...only to be nonchalantly killing off {{Mook}}s and then shooting a gun at the end to kill the Penguin
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8-8tzxL1u0 This]] parody video was created in light of Paula Deen getting fired from the Food Network for using racial slurs. She's still going at it even while apologizing.
** The music video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ecihqk4kQ We Ruin Your Bar]]'' has "Tonight we'll cry alone, 'cause we all lost our phones/call mom to take us home."
** The jeggings videos have the teacher go off on a tirade against inappropriate clothing worn by the students, but will usually be revealed to be wearing something similar at the end.
** The "Tumblr CEO: No More Porn" sketch, which [[TakeThat throws shade at]] Tumblr's controversial decision to purge their website of adult content, ends with the Tumblr CEO refusing to take down the site's single non-porn post even if it's from a Neo-Nazi advocating genocide under the reasoning that removing the post goes against freedom of speech. Playing the "freedom of speech" card isn't a good move to make when one sees bigots wishing to cause harm to those they discriminate against as having the right to say such things while refusing to allow users on the same website to post risque content.
* IceCreamKoan: "How to Sound Smart" [[{{Discussed}} discusses]] and analyzes this by demonstrating the rhetorical devices that make these kinds of statements seem profound.
-->'''Trapp:''' ... It's called "antimetabole." He mirrored his phrase, switching two words around in order to sound smart.
-->'''Brennan:''' Come on!
-->'''Trapp:''' No, it's true, you can do it with anything. Listen to this: "If you want love to be a part of your life, you must first make life a part of your love."
-->'''Grant:''' ...''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint THAT IS SO WISE!]]''
-->'''Katie:''' Oh my god, I ''love it!'' I love it so much and I don't even understand it!
-->'''Brennan:''' ''(typing on his phone)'' "Make life a part of..."
* IdealizedSex: ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1820859 Realistic Hollywood Sex Scene]]'' parodies this trope. It's awkward, gross, creepy, and pathetic... and it ''still'' manages to seem just a teensy bit sweet and romantic.
* IdenticalStranger: Grant is this to Keith from [=BuzzFeed=], as lampshaded and exaggerated in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxJJ2LBI604 Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed]]?"
* IHatePastMe: This is one of the older Joes' reaction in ''Looper Has Sex with Himself'' when the younger Joe refuses to [[ScrewYourself give the older ones a blowjob]].
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: In "Adulthood vs. Childhood", the latter fighter uses this as his SuperMove.
* ImmortalityPromiscuity: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' "My Elf Girlfriend" videos: a human in an InterspeciesRomance has to come to terms with the fact that his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYeEFFdQKU girlfriend]] has 2000 years more sexual history than him, including with her entire social circle in the first millennium.
-->'''Ryan''': ''Orcs?!'' Elowyn, ''orcs?!''
-->'''Elowyn''': Everyone has a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad-boy phase]] in their 1200s!
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Lampshaded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7Ha3VDbzE here]]. Stormtroopers are apparently good shots until they put on their helmets.
* InnerCitySchool: The parody of the trailer for ''Film/DangerousMinds'', set in a school like this for wizards, with [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] as the teacher. [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5803618/dangerous-wands It is even better than it sounds!]]
* InnocentInaccurate: The Tumblr CEO (see below) is ''very'' ill-informed about a number of things.
-->'''CEO''': Martha, I'm not angry, I'm just- I'm trying to understand how this didn't get to me. When I started this website, I wanted it to be about [[FunWithAcronyms Buddies Doing Social Media]] - that's why I started the {{UsefulNotes/BDSM}} tag! ...it's full of ''what''?!\\
'''CEO''': Why is nobody obeying Rule 34? Be polite!\\
'''Carmen''': That's not RuleThirtyFour.\\
'''CEO''': Is there a different Rule 34?\\
'''Carmen''': A ''very'' different Rule 34.
* TheInternetIsForPorn:
** They parodied this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHkZP0i7FqU Porn Site Strip Club]], showing some of the pitfalls of online porn. Among other things, age verification being a joke in actually preventing access to teenagers, "free" previews being anything but, and annoying pop-up ads.
** And invoked in "[[https://youtu.be/CtUuab1Aqg0 Tumblr CEO: No More Porn]]", who attempts to avert this trope with [[Website/{{Tumblr}} the platform]] only to be told...
--->'''CEO''': Conservatively... what percentage of our platform is porn?\\
'''Carmen''': Nine-\\
'''CEO''': ''Nine'' percent?\\
'''Carmen''': -ty...\\
'''CEO''': ''Ninety''?!\\
'''Carmen''': [[EscalatingPunchline -eight]].\\
'''CEO''': ...(''[[DidNotThinkThisThrough Screams]]'')
* InThatOrder: There's a variation where Batman, circa ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', spends his dying breaths [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enOHraf3LEk&feature=player_embedded&hd=1 relating had sex with Talia]], going in detail on how he explored her orifices...and "in an order that would surprise you", cueing {{Squick}} from Bane.
* InherentlyAttractiveProfession: "Meet Cute with a Ghost": Jess meets a really cute ghost during a seance. She originally wanted to contact her dead grandfather, but the ghost turns out to be "tall, muscular, with dark hair" and a doctor to boot. She's delighted. The psychic is baffled why she wants to pursue him, but Jess says dating in LA is hard.
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: The ''Hot Date'' episode "The Skinny Bitch Diet Menu" has Emily and Murph trying to order off a diet menu comprised entirely of dishes with these kinds of titles.
* IResembleThatRemark: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJ0STT8JRw one sketch]], Katie pitches various sketches which clearly are describing each of the other staff members seated at the table.
* {{Irony}}:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrPqpY6tfgM&feature=channel This]] Video parodies the Alanis Morissette song and makes it [[TitleDrop "actually ironic"]].
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0rchvuoMU We Found Sinbad's SHAZAAM Genie Movie!]]", as a boy searches the attic for a physical memento of his MissingMom, his sister assures him, "We have our memories. They're real. No one can take that from us."... except the whole video is a nod to the MandelaEffect where memories ''aren't'' real, including the supposed movie ''Shazaam'' where Sinbad plays a genie in the first place. Background details include a ''Curious George'' book where he has a tail, a painting of Henry VIII Holding a turkey leg, a ''Berenstein Bears'' book, and a newspaper reporting on Nelson Mandela's death several years in advance. Plus, the VHS gets interrupted by a Fruit Loops commercial and a ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'' clip in which Carmen wears a yellow trenchoat.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: It rains when they bury the letter "I" in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFK_XuVqsCQ Pixar Intro Parody]]".
* ItsAllAboutMe: The country singer in "Livin' Mask-Free (Music Video)" doesn't even deny that his refusal to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic is because he doesn't give a damn about how his decision will hurt other people.
--->'''Singer''': Fuck you! I don't care about all the deaths\\
Don't care how much I kill with my stupid breath\\
'Cause I'm coughin' freedom out from sea to sea\\
But I'm not talkin' about your freedom to live\\
I mean your freedom to look at all the shits I give\\
'Cause the only guy I care about is me.
* JailBake: In the video "[[Creator/VinceOffer ShamWow Guy]] In Jail", Vince pitches various items to the other inmates. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMMxIAn_76g#t=57s/ One of them]] is a cake slightly smaller than a football with a hacksaw hidden inside.
* JerkassGods: The titular god in "The Tetris God" who won't give the player an I-block when they're trying to make a tetris. And when they decide to plug the gap with an L-block, he just gives the player four I-blocks in a row to spite them.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Google from the ''If Google Was a Guy'' series. He's sarcastic and easily exasperated, but in his defense, he's SurroundedByIdiots, and he ''does'' work tirelessly to give people answers. On the rare occasion he gets people who aren't being stupid or gross, he's perfectly pleasant, and his exasperation gets directed at other factors--such as an NSA guy snooping in when a man asks where the nearest mosque is. The "heart of gold" is especially prominent in the quarantine special released for the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic; he's pissed at people who carelessly disregard social distancing rules and put others in danger, but extremely gentle towards a woman who's obviously distressed and wondering if things will ''ever'' feel normal again.
* JokeOfTheButt: In the video "Nicolas Cage's Agent", the actor in question keeps picking projects with an AudienceAlienatingPremise to the bewilderment of his agent. One of these is a turd called ''Space Ass'', wherein Cage plays an astronaut whose ship explodes, except for his ass, which retains consciousness and has to make its way back to Earth.
* JokeTitleRealRole: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM This skit]] parodies the opening scene from ''Film/IngloriousBasterds'' by making the Nazi antagonist Colonel Hans Landa a literal GrammarNazi--he threatens to execute Mr. [=LaPedite=] for continually making grammatical errors, but when [=LaPedite=] catches him making a grammatical error, he [[SelfPunishmentOverFailure shoots himself out of shame]].
-->'''Col. Landa:''' Hiding under the floorboards, I have finally found you.
-->'''Mr. [=LaPedite=]:''' Wait--you are hiding under the floorboards, or is she?
-->'''Shoshanna Dreyfus:''' (''hiding under the floor'') A dangling participle!
-->'''Col. Landa:''' A dangling participle... [''shoots himself'']
* JumpingTheShark:[[invoked]]
** Parodied in one the NextTimeOn ''Bear Shark'' segments in which the shark jumps a pen full of Fonzies while on water skis. [[spoiler: [[NeverTrustATrailer The sequence doesn't actually appear in the next episode at all.]] ]]
** Another sketch took the concept up a notch in "Jump The Shark": A new SpinOff is introduced, TonyHawk [[CelebrityStar appears as a Guest Star]], [[WillTheyOrWontThey two characters get engaged]], they move to a new building, Amir gets [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]], and [[MindScrew Jeff gives birth to]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a baby Supreme Court justice]]. Finally, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a [[YoungerAndHipper younger cast]].
* JustFriends: Hilariously, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZsleyKons Adam finds himself sent to the friendzone by Eve]], despite them being the only people in Paradise. When she tells him that she just got out of a bad relationship, [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys it turns out to]] [[SnakesAreSexy be the snake]].
* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQnIJ-ljctk these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KECbmNnT7cs two]] sketches, a gamer is bullied and sexually harassed by gamer girls. Warning, audio is NSFW!
* KarmaHoudini: Played depressingly straight in "The Problem With Frats." The frat bros realize that they are all extremely racist, sexist and have helped cover for a rapist to the point where the victim had to leave school, and resolve to turn themselves in to the police. Said rapist's father pulled some strings and got them out of trouble. Meanwhile, the frat bro who ''spraypainted swastikas on a Jewish dean's car'' got a job on Wall Street and now makes more money than you.
* KillThePoor: In ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6633406/we-are-the-1 We Are The 1%]]'', the richest 1% of the country decide that since they only control 43% of the nation's wealth, they should own all of it.
* KleptomaniacHero: Hilariously parodied, and [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructed]] in [=CollegeHumor=] Original [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kedjhnguKhc RPG Heroes are Jerks]].
* KlatchianCoffee: Parodied with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs&ob=av3e Powerthirst]], an energy drink which makes outrageous claims about its potency; the drink was later Defictionalized and contains a staggering 190 mg of caffeine per 16 ounces. (For reference, Bawls Exxtra packs 150 milligrams per 16 ounces.) The end of the second video makes it pretty clear what you are drinking:
-->'''''POWERTHIRST!!''''' '''It's like Crystal Meth in a can! It's Crystal Meth in a can! Powerthirst is Crystal Meth!'''
* TheKrampus: There's a video of "Kovert Krampus", a BlackComedy version of SecretSanta exchanges.
* LackOfEmpathy: The country singer in "Livin' Mask-Free (Music Video)" rather bluntly admits that he doesn't give a damn about the people who will die because of his refusal to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic.
* LastNoteHilarity: [=CollegeHumor=] is fond of this trope. See for instance [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nPeTfeFALk Awkward Rap]]. Several other songs end in similar ways.
* LawOfInverseFertility: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veq4Oc8S7-I an animation]] that parodies those [[TheTalk health class films shown to children about puberty]], that discusses the pitfalls of aging, the trope is lampshaded. "A 15-year-old girl making a mistake on prom night has a better chance of getting pregnant than a 40-year-old woman actively trying to conceive with her husband." In the animation itself, a teenage girl goes into a bathroom with her boyfriend while an adult woman gets in bed with her husband...followed by the girl suddenly developing an ObviousPregnancy right away, and the adult woman crying at a doctor's office as yet another pregnancy test comes back negative.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: In-universe. In "Adulthood vs. Childhood", when the latter tries to attack ManChild with "Saturday Morning Cartoons", he counters by using a "Limited Edition DVD Box Set" as a shield.
* LineOfSightAlias: Done when Katie, trying to come up with a sketch, desperately looks around the room and says it's about... a woman... named... Amir Raphael Wallstripes Turkey Helmet Couch Floor Table Tube Hair Sweater Blanket Guitar Wood Chair Cushion Dragon Map Beard Pen Astronaur Spill Garbage Can Used Kleenex Laptop. And her last name is Lamp Trophy Boardgame Globe Books Door Gnome Ceiling Phone Frame Poster Dumbass Plant Notebook Lights Pillow. And then it turns out that not only was this something Katie had already come up with, she'd already told Sam about it and he liked it.
* LyricalDissonance:
** The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlsLopZUi1M Honest Holiday Card Song]]". The faces on the card photos sing a ridiculously upbeat melody about all of the various problems they are struggling with, like estranged marriages, struggling with obesity, losing one's job.
** The "End of the World" Parody. The musical beat is joyful, the lyrics are about the many ways news media claim we should expect TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* MadLibsDialogue: To be expected in a trailer for ''[[Series/MadMen Mad Libs]]'', the popular 1960s drama that airs every Sunday night on Creator/{{AMC}}ow. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLkIPt0VeYU Sneak preview]]:
-->'''Don Draper:''' You see it's about selling the American Dream. People don't fly to get to a destination. They fly to get to a [[spoiler:booger]].
** And gems like:
--->'''Joan:''' Mr. Draper, your wife's on the line.\\
'''Don Draper:''' Tell her I'll [[spoiler:flatten]] the kids another time. After last night's [[spoiler:walrus]] party, I have a [[spoiler:queef]] popsicle.
** Or:
--->'''Betty Draper:''' Don, I feel like I don't even know you any more!\\
'''Don Draper:''' You think I like [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein]] baking me [[spoiler:nipple]] pies?!
* ManChild:
** The ''Website/CollegeHumor'' Original "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6868252/321-fight-adulthood-vs-childhood Adulthood vs. Childhood]]" has Adulthood and Childhood facing off in a fighting game, only to be interrupted by a third contender: the MANCHILD.
** There's also the doctor in "Retarded Tests", who likes to give people ShmuckBait in place of a real psych evaluation just as an excuse to "diagnose" them retarded when they fall for it. When his patient turns the tables, all he can do is pout and yell at him to shut up. Once apologies are said, he pulls out a toy truck and starts playing with it.
* MediaScaremongering: Parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTwWqzKeXc&ob=av3e here.]] Set to R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", they showcase basically every ratings-driven media panic frenzy of the past 10-15 years, including [[MillenniumBug Y2K]], [[MayanDoomsday 2012]], [[PostPeakOil Peak Oil]], terrorist attacks, GlobalWarming, and the imminent ZombieApocalypse, RobotWar, and AlienInvasion.
* MediumAwareness: A parody skit of ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ZMyK9Ko74&feature=channel_video_title had Cookie Monster replaced by a "pot cookie monster"]]. By the end of the video the drug's effects cause him to realize that he's just a puppet.
* MeetCute: Exaggerated in [[https://youtu.be/B3WVwy82UQQ "7-Way Meet Cute"]]
* MemeticMutation:[[invoked]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRPGgfz5hcE You became a Meme]]'' showcases the reaction that the meme's subjects have to their memetic mutation.
** Regardless of whether one picks the cat or dog to win in the short "Cat vs. Dog", their {{Finishing Move}}s are both named "Memealities".[[note]]The cat's is a combination of [[WebOriginal/LOLCats Longcat and Ceiling Cat]], while the dog's is based off [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-this-is-dog "HELLO? YES, THIS IS DOG"]].
* MenBuyFromMarsWomenBuyFromVenus:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs immortal]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk Internet]] example... [[TestosteronePoisoning Powerthirst]]!
-->It's energy for MEN! '''MENERGY!!'''
** And the {{defictionalization}}[[invoked]] of [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} Brawndo]] got commercials like this as well.
--->"Drinking Brawndo is like '''RIDING a PONY''', which probably sounds not dangerous, except that the pony is '''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever THREE HUNDRED FEET TALL]]''' and '''[[ChainsawGood COVERED IN CHAINSAWS]]!'''
* MilkmanConspiracy: Played for laughs in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo "Deceptive Deceptions"]] video, which reveals that the ridiculously massive ConspiracyKitchenSink designed to control humanity is being led by the dorky members of the [=CollegeHumor=] staff.
* MillsAndBoonProse: College course texts are reinterpreted as cheap [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1721631 bodice rippers]].
* MisaimedMarketing:[[invoked]] "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6743777/the-hunger-games-game The Hunger Games]]" parodies this by turning ''Film/TheHungerGames'' into a board game targeted towards love-obsessed teenage girls, whereas the story itself is about a literal duel to the death set in a dystopian North America.
* {{Mockspiracy}}: The sinister conspiracy is played completely for laughs in the College Humor video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo "Deceptive Deceptions"]]. Basically, ''[[ConspiracyKitchenSink everyone]]'' is in on it, the proof of their connections is laughably absurd, and it ultimately amounts to a MilkmanConspiracy.
* Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld: He always feels comfortable..... even when he shouldn't. He once gave a touching eulogy..... for a man who was still alive. He once watched the entire ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy in one sitting....at a busy intersection. His ignorance knows no bounds. He is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3RU_Z_oMGc the Most Oblivious Man in the World]].
* MonsterMash: The sketch "The Six Monsters You'll Have for Roommates" personifies college roommates as these. The NeatFreak is the Robot, HeWhoMustNotBeSeen is the Ghost, TheCasanova is the Vampire, the CloudCuckoolander is the Alien, and TheSlacker is the Zombie. The Mummy apparently has his own place off-campus.
* MonsterRoommate: The sketch "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7C_tE8H_A The Six Monsters You'll Have As Roommates]]" humorously characterizes the types of college roommates as various kinds of monsters: the antisocial control freak is a robot, the one you never see because he's always out is a ghost, the {{Guyliner}}-wearing goth who somehow always gets laid is a vampire, the foreign exchange student with strange customs is an alien, and the one who's always tired and lifeless is a zombie. The last Monster is the fact that there ''are'' no more monsters - i.e., you live alone, and are now completely freaked out at night because [[NothingIsScarier there's no one to blame the noises in the night on]].
* MoodWhiplash:
** "Mix Up at the Snack Factory", a parody of 90's snack commercials, starts off with a boy asking his grandfather how "Quadruple Cheese Cheezos" got so cheesy. This segues into a flashback to when the grandfather used to work in a "Cheezos" factory. The flashback starts off cartoonishly when someone notices that too much cheese has been poured into the "Snack-a-tron", resulting in an explosion that creates the "Quadruple Cheese Cheezos", but the "Cheez Level" suddenly goes critical, resulting in a flood of liquid cheese that leaves the workers panicking and desperately scrambling to get out. The foreman, a parody of Chester Cheetah, watches the catastrophe unfold and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sinisterly decides to let the workers drown so he can replace them all.]] The grandfather manages to escape before the emergency doors activate, only able to watch in horror as his comrades are left to drown in cheese.
-->'''Grandfather:''' ''[solemnly]'' And that's how they got... so cheesy. ''[reaches towards his now shellshocked grandson for a Cheezo and bites into it]''\\
'''Announcer:''' Buy Quadruple Cheese Cheezos! Now with four times the cheese!
** "Grease Dilemma" begins as a cheerful re-enactment of [[Theatre/{{Grease}} "Summer Nights"]]... before Kenickie begins spouting lines essentially confessing to raping Rizzo.
* MoonLandingHoax: As part of the ConspiracyKitchenSink video, '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo Deceptive Deceptions]]', the moon landing was faked by Usefulnotes/{{NASA}} to hide that the moon is really [[spoiler: a prehistoric hologram that hides an enormous starcraft behind it.]]
* MoreThanThreeDimensions: Lampooned in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2aCVlnLow Ice Age in 4D]]":
--> '''Announcer 1:''' People can't stop talking about ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' in 3D. For a limited time only, see ''Ice Age'' in 4D.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' The fourth dimension is time.\\
'''Announcer 1:''' Go to select Loews theaters and see ''Ice Age'' in 5D.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' The fifth dimension is another possibile reality caused by choice or chance somewhere along the course of time.\\
'''Announcer 1:''' Get a large popcorn and see ''Ice Age'' in 6D.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' The sixth dimension allows you to jump between possible realities.\\
'''Announcer 1:''' Get your 7 Up helmets and see ''Ice Age'' in 7D.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' The seventh dimension is all conceivable possibilities in our universe.\\
'''Announcer 1:''' Go to the drive in at {{Area 51}} and see ''Ice Age'' in 8D.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' The eighth dimension is another possible universe caused by a different combination of particles after the Big Bang.
* MortonsFork: "What Going Back to the 90's Would Actually Be Like" has a man wish he went back to the 1990's, only to be faced with the difficult choice of preventing 9/11 (which he is told can only be done successfully by becoming a terrorist himself) and going back to the present day with the knowledge that he let 9/11 happen when he could've prevented it.
* MundaneMadeAwesome:
** Creator/MichelleRodriguez [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dS5AAWbCt8 can make pillow fights become this]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4yIWg_LElc This video]] shows a guy using an iPhone with no protective case and approaches the whole situation as if the phone is a neglected and abused child.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyWx1CkMTtI Imagine]] that the events of ''Film/RockyIV'' were real and how they helped end the Cold War. Some ESPN anchors and sports journalists even are brought in to comment on the action.
--->'''Hank Pierce (Philadelphia Enquirer):''' Just to give an idea how hard these guys were punching, [[FightSceneFailure sometimes the punch didn't even land but their head flew back anyways, like from the air or something.]]
*** HBO Boxing analyst Max Kellerman has only one thing to say: "I’ve only cried twice because of a sporting event: When Film/HappyGilmore accidentally killed Chubbs,[[labelnote:*]]Played by Carl Weathers[[/labelnote]] and then when Apollo died."[[labelnote:*]]Played by Carl Weathers. Notice a pattern?[[/labelnote]]
* MundaneWish: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka8p7AfSdWM "Prince Harry as a Disney Prince"]], Harry-as-WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} uses his three wishes for [[ButLiquorIsQuicker two shots of Jäger and a pack of condoms]]. Jasmine is not amused.
* MultipleEndings: "Christmas vs. Hanukkah" and "Cat vs. Dog" allow the viewer to choose which of the two fighters wins.
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* NaughtyByNight: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIPJrrQlxzY The Six Girls You'll Date in College]]", there's 'The One Who Goes to Church', who's easily impressed by the NiceGuy AudienceSurrogate, and (with her modest attire and seemingly naive nature) seems out of place at the frat party where she meets him, but in the bedroom, she is ''not'' the naive virgin she appears to be, and is apparently heavily into bondage.
* NeatFreak: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7C_tE8H_A The Six Monster You'll Have As Roommates]]", the "Robot" is such because he's a rigid neat freak who suffers a technical malfunction as soon as one dirty sock soils the floor.
* NerdsAreSexy: The skit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxx6BupgRmI "I'm Such A Nerd,"]], in which a nerd [[GeekyTurnOn happily discovers]] that the rather attractive girl he's dating is herself a giant nerd... who then promptly dumps him for not being nerdy enough.
-->'''Girl:''' I thought he was different, you know, but he ''wasn't''. He...he couldn't even name all of the current Batman titles!
* NeverTrustATrailer: {{Invoked|Trope}} in the ''Game Changer'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZSmxmxWl4 Season 6 trailer]]: it shows a tense scene of Jacob yelling at Sam that he's crossed a line, then calmly declaring he's going home and walking off-set, complete with dramatic music ... before panning over to show that the screen next to Sam reads "Do something great for the trailer", and everyone cracks up.
* NightmareFuel: InUniverse, the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcJcnnqeEv8 Super-Intense ER Promo]]":
-->'''ER Narrator:''' It's the episode [[ExecutiveMeddling NBC told us not to air]], and we told them to [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck themselves]]. Don't watch this episode pregnant. You'll ''miscarry''. When we showed the rough cut to an insane asylum, the patients were cured and the staff went ''insane''. It's the episode Newsweek called "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" (...) When they showed this episode to a third grader, he drew a very disturbing picture. ''[Shows a child's drawing, with a tombstone over his dad's grave, his mom hanging herself from a tree, and their house on fire]'' Features a twist so shocking that when the writers came up with it, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation they locked themselves in a basement]], [[CouldntFindAPen wrote "God is a Lie" on the wall in blood]], [[DrivenToSuicide and hung themselves with their own intestines.]]
-->'''Announcer:''' [[MoodWhiplash Then, at 11, Jay's all new with Drew Barrymore and snake expert Rupert Blaggins!]]
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90TW-p3rkQk This video]] starts out by parodying the VideoGame/NaziZombies concept, then adds werewolves, vampires, and other permutations to the mix.
* NoBisexuals: One sketch used this as the punchline for a ComingOutStory, as Grant's admission that he's attracted to men is met with indifference, and he's infuriated because he expected a stronger reaction. This persists until he mentions that he's bisexual, not homosexual, and everyone in the office invokes this trope.
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QCs3PnQBc Learning Guitar to Get Laid]]" ends with a (fake) ad for a video cassette called "Learning the Bass and NOT Getting Laid."
-->'''Bassist:''' ''(playing some muddled chords for a bored-looking girl)'' That was "Free Falling," I think.
* NoDressCode: Parodied in the hit sketch series, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZ8L6SZmaA "The Problem with Jeggings."]]
* NoEnding:
** The video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ntY4Ty3KGU Ambiguous Endings Resolved]]" is a video that attempts to resolve the endings for movies or TV shows that ended on cliffhangers:
*** ''Film/LostInTranslation'': We learn what Bob really whispers into Charlotte's ear at the end (if she wants to marry him).
*** ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'': we have [[Creator/TommyLeeJones Sheriff Ed Tom Bell]] talking to his wife about the two dreams involving his late father. The conversation is interrupted with an excited deputy appearing in the window to break the news to him that they've caught Anton Chigurh, then helps himself to some of the bacon on Bell's plate.
*** ''Film/TheGraduate'': Benjamin and Elaine are on the bus having escaped the wedding. Then they realize how wrong this is as the bus continues down the road.
*** ''Series/TheSopranos'': [=CollegeHumor=] has their own answer to how the show ends: the screen going black on the last word to "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey is because [[spoiler:Tony Soprano gets whacked]].
* NonNudeBathing: The "Dorm Bathroom" sketch featured a POVCam of a "typical" dorm bathroom, wherein TheProtagonist takes note of a ShowerShy student stepping out of the shower in his swim trunks and still having a minor NakedFreakout upon being seen and wraps a ModestyTowel over his swim trunks as he leaves. TheProtagonist ask himself, "How self-conscious can you be?" just as another student steps out of the shower ''fully-clothed'' and still wraps himself in a ModestyTowel over his clothes.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Jokingly referenced in the video [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6644920/in-the-unlikely-event about airplane safety instructions]] when the captain assures the passengers that if they crash in the mountains, there's no need to resort to cannibalism for at least one winter. However, if they do run out of food, they're going to [[KillThePoor start with the third-class passengers]] and gradually move up to the first class.
* NotAMask: In the ''CSI: Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' parody, Shaggy immediately suspects that a cop is the culprit. He grabs for the guy's face and pulls it off, revealing...the inside of the cop's face.
* NotHyperbole: In "If Your Girlfriend Was Actually Crazy," a typical guy discussion of "crazy" girlfriends takes a dark turn as it becomes increasingly clear that one of the guys is dating an AxCrazy psychopath whose previous boyfriend disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
-->'''Rick:''' Dave, you need to break up with this girl!\\
'''Dave:''' Come on, don't do that! I didn't tell you you need to break up with your girlfriend!\\
'''Rick:''' Because she's not actually crazy! That's just something I say when she's mad at me!\\
'''Dave:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Yeah, your girlfriend gets mad at you when you drink too much, mine gets mad when she can't see the moon]].
* ObsessiveSpokesperson: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=427rUyZ64Zo Extremely Real People Who Are Definitely Not Actors]]," a group of "[[BlatantLies real people, not actors]]" in a battery commercial go absolutely berserk over the obscure-award-winning power of Omnivolt batteries. One girl breaks a table and another guy's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes]] after learning that Omnivolt was the second most reliable battery in a consumer survey.
* OffscreenRealityWarp: [=CollegeHumor=] brings us [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6574533/the-six-monsters-youll-have-as-roommates The 6 Monsters you'll have as Roommates]], the "ghost" of which messes up and opens every single cabinet door in the kitchen while his roommate isn't looking.
* OffTheRails: The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-5n5QS2M50 Alternate]] ''Series/MadMen'' Intros". The animated title sequence starts the same way, but midway through, something happens to derail the opening (like the black figure who falls past the advertising people smacking the sidewalk and dying instantly, him landing in an alcoholic drink and ending up plastered, being intercepted by Superman; the office furniture collapsing; his briefcase falling open revealing pornographic tapes; the figure being kicked into the ''Series/BreakingBad'' title card).
* OldTimeyAnkleTaboo: "If the Internet Always Existed" has bare ankles on the 1900 version of Website/YouTube.
* OminousVisualGlitch: Glitches are part of Brennan's outro when he pleads viewers to keep watching more CH videos, otherwise he will vanish. His image starts to have glitches, gets pixelated and he gradually disappears while he screams.
-->'''Brennan:''' Hey guys, it's Brennan from ''[=CollegeHumor=]''. Click here to subscribe. Click here for more fun stuff. And please keep watching, because if you stop watching, I start to vanish. Do you get it? I'm not ''really'' real. I'm just a thing in your screen. Agh! DON'T FORGET MEEE!
* OnePhoneCall: The page image is taken from the video "Realistic Sobriety Tests", where two police officers use all sorts of inventive ways to trip up suspects involved in drunk driving incidents. One of the drunk drivers is later seen in the station and is handed a phone by one of the officers, only to call up his girlfriend and talk a bunch of nonsense.
* OneOfTheBoys: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIPJrrQlxzY The Six Girls You'll Date in College]]", there's 'The Friend', who is basically the same character as the AudienceSurrogate but female, so making the move to a relationship just becomes weird.
-->'''Narrator:''' She's definitely your hoodie. ''But who in their right mind would fuck their hoodie''?!
* OneSteveLimit: They have an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedA1-bFvC8 entire video on the subject]] (in real life). Specifically, a video telling parents to stop naming their children Mike (or Michael) because of the absolute ''fuckton'' of Mikes in the US, and the only result will be that people give him nicknames, or use his last name. The video is narrated by [[LastNameBasis Mike Trapp]].
* OnlySaneMan:
** The page "Facebook History Of The World" has two characters playing this role, one called "Common Sense" and the other called "Hindsight", who are the only ones to realize how idiotic the various historical figures are.
** The Tide CEO is apparently the only one in the company who stopped to think that if they don't want anyone to eat their products then they shouldn't go out of their way to make it look like food.
** The ABC CEO seems to be the only one in the entire company who sees something wrong with how racist and generally offensive their new line-up is, [[spoiler: and the only one unaware that most of their viewers actually ''want'' to see racist programming based on the surveys that were taken.]]
* OpposingSportsTeam: Spoofed with [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1896300 this]] video. As it turns out, it's the same group playing in multiple sports, trying (and failing) to win against a werewolf pointguard, a field goal kicking horse, and a child in magic shoes. And finally, with a cry of, "We are ''done'' being made the fool! OOH-RAAAAAAAH!" the team turns rather...psychotic.
* OrganTheft: In the "UrbanLegend ER" video, a doctor is about to perform an organ transplant when a woman bursts into the ER claiming that the kidneys are actually hers and that she woke up in a bathtub full of ice that morning with two huge scars on her back. After she faints, the doctor tells the nurse to give the woman her kidneys back.
* OscarBait: "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/7012104/21-steps-to-making-an-oscar-movie 21 Steps to Making an Oscar Movie]]" spoofs the process of making an Oscar-worthy, serious, dramatic film. They outline the steps to create an [[TrueArtIsAngsty angsty]], [[ColorWash grey-tinted]] PeriodPiece called ''American Gay Racist'', about a secretly-gay soldier going through marital problems with his wife ([[BeautyInversion played by a beautiful actress in ugly facial prosthetics]]) and coming to terms with his own racism in 1921 before he [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdD0jbsIg8k Vampire Reunion]]" shows in a very humorous manner the inherent problems this trope makes with creating any sort of IntercontinuityCrossover with more than one series that includes a vampire. Among the vampires featured are [[{{Dracula}} Count Dracula]] (who naturally is the leader because he's been around longest), [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], [[Series/TrueBlood Bill]], [[Series/SesameStreet Count Von Count]], Film/{{Blacula}}, Series/{{Angel}}, and [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Count Chocula]]. Even the assorted {{vampire hunter}}s waiting to strike in the next room (Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}, Film/{{Blade}}, and Film/VanHelsing) can't agree on what methods they should use to kill the vampires. It also carries shades of YourVampiresSuck, since Dracula calls Edward out on the fact that he doesn't have fangs, and Edward in turn states that at least he doesn't look like Angel, who has a monstrous true form.
* PaddingThePaper: The site has some tips exactly for this, and suggests cranking the fonts, margins, spacing, etc, as well as using a picture.
* PaperThinDisguise: Used in a video that is a TakeThat to British Petroleum's response to the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Tony Hayward and other executives in BP's London offices announce to us after showing a video from an actual focus group that cleaning up the spill is difficult, so they're changing their name to Baby Otter Smiles & Co. Then Hayward and another employee Sally Harris (both of whom are wearing false mustaches) go to the house of Sarah Schneider (one of the focus group members). Sarah sees through their cover, says "You guys are monsters," and shuts the door on them.
* ParentsAsPeople: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLG6WqjOEo The Six Ways You'll See Your Dad]]", the last way you'll see your father, after viewing him as a superhero, a clown, a tyrant, a sell-out, and a source of income, is that he's a guy with his own hopes and dreams just like you.
* ParodyAssistance: Happens quite a bit.
** Most noteworthy being Martin Ferrero reprised his role as Donald Gennaro in "Jurassic Park Character's Awful Realization".
** Later, Creator/ChrisPratt and Creator/BryceDallasHoward reprised their roles as [[Film/JurassicWorld Owen Grady and Claire Dearing]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HFXgyTya0 My Dinosaur Is A Service Animal]]".
* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsGye4NLcQU this video]], where the trope plays out with a guy coming to the house to check for a gas leak. After doing the deed, he then dies in the woman's bed from carbon monoxide poisoning. Then the trope plays out exactly the same when a guy from the coroner's office shows up to collect the body.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: The video "Zordon is a Racist" spoofs the untinentionally politically incorrect connotations of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Zack Taylor being African-American and the Black Ranger as well as Trini Kwan being Asian and the Yellow Ranger]] by depicting Zordon as a complete bigot who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to. After kicking out a second black recruit and a Jewish recruit, the remaining recruits call out Zordon on his bigotry and walk away in disgust.
* PooledFunds: Deconstructed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KRQSpORW0 this video]], where Scrooge [=McDuck=] accidentally breaks all of his bones after jumping into his pool of money, resulting in him being immediately rushed to the hospital where he has a heart attack on the operating table and dies. A funeral is held for him, where he is buried with all of his money, and as a result his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie go crazy over their granduncle's death and end up in prison, their uncle (and Scrooge's nephew) WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck becoming very angry with them and refuses to pay their "duck bail", before finally going bankrupt and committing suicide.
--->Franchise/DuckTales! (Whoo-hoo!)\\
Get to the ER before his brain swells! (Uh-oh!)\\
Stabilize his neck. Oh, no! His heart failed!\\
Book a funeral, time for mourning\\
Happened so fast without warning\\
This peaceful bird's now a duck angel! (Uh-oh!)\\
Kids can't cope and wind up in a duck jail! (Uh-oh!)\\
Donald's pissed and he refused to pay the duck bail! (Uh-oh!)\\
Family falls apart, now there's no more Franchise/DuckTales! (Boo-hoo!)
* PoorMansSubstitute: [[invoked]] Parodied--if you need help but can't afford ''Series/TheATeam'', perhaps you can hire [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6185597/the-a-b-and-c-team the B-Team, C-Team, or F-Team]]. They all include a guy who's TheStrategist (Hannibal), TheCharmer (Face), [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} The Crazy One]] (Murdock), and [[ScaryBlackMan The Tough Black Guy]] (Baracus). However, the substitute teams get increasingly less impressive on these fronts:
** The A-Team:
--->'''Narrator:''' One year ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you have a ton of money, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
** For those who can't afford the A-Team, there's the B-Team.
--->'''Narrator:''' A different Commando unit was also sent to prison for a crime they might have committed. These men eventually escaped from a medium security facility, to a motel in Fresno. Today, still more or less acknowledged by the government, they survive as soldiers for hire. If you have a problem, if it's sort of urgent, but you don't need anything fancy, you can probably just hire the B-Team.
** Then there's the C-Team.
--->'''Narrator:''' I'm not sure I should tell you this, but one year ago, a group of drug addicts were sent to a prison for crime they openly confessed to (they, uh, [[ShootTheDog shot the mayor's dog]]). [[OffOnATechnicality These men were released after their case was thrown out on a technicality.]] Today, pretty much forgotten by the government, they get by with odd jobs here and there. If you have a problem, if you're totally spaced, and you just need someone, literally anyone, and if you can offer a hot meal in exchange, you can always hire the C-Team.
** Lastly, there's the F-Team.
--->'''Narrator:''' OK, I don't usually mention these guys, but...one year ago, four idiots started fighting over half a steak left in a dumpster behind a TGI Friday's. These men---look, you don't really want to hire these men. They just-oh come on! Oh and that crazy guy? He has mild OCD! And he's clearly not black, what is he, Indian? Not even close. Look, I'm gonna level with you here. You're probably just better off taking care of it yourself. Really. Why would you ever hire anyone named the ''F-Teem''?
* PornStash: In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM Matrix Runs on Windows XP]]" sketch, MissionControl Cypher supposedly creates a closet full of guns for Neo to find, only for a pile of porn [=DVDs=] to fall out after Neo opens it.
-->'''Neo:''' Amateurs. ''Woah''.\\
'''Cypher:''' ...I don't know how those got there.
* {{Portmanteau}}: The "Powerthirst" commercials thrive on this (and MundaneMadeAwesome). Flavors include Shockolate, Rawberry, Manana, Fizzbitch (?), Juice Springsteen, "Godberry: King of the Juice," and [[OddNameOut Gun]]. (And don't forget, it's energy for men... '''MENERGY!!!''' Also contains [[TestosteronePoisoning preposterous amounts of testosterone...]] '''''PREPOSTERONE!!!''''']])
* PowerPerversionPotential: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NggUSbgRUhc "Wish I Had a Portal Gun"]] explores a range of things that would be made possible by possessing the titular gun from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', including autofellatio.
* PrisonersLastMeal: The video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7KAR4TpwFw "I Can't Decide What My Last Meal Should Be"]] is about an annoying young woman on death row who can't make up her mind on what to have for her last meal. [[spoiler: In the end, she attacks the guard asking her for her last meal request and takes a bite out of his neck]].
* ProsceniumReveal: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27TX5aJPPcs The Last Supper at a Chain Restaurant]], we start with Jesus delivering the Last Supper at a regular banquet table, with bread on it, and his apostles surrounding him. He gives a speech, but then suddenly stops and asks, "Okay, who are you?" Suddenly the ethereal lighting vanishes, revealing that we are actually in a [[KitschyThemedRestaurant Wacky Jack's Rodeo Barn & Grill]], and a waiter named Steve shows up to take their food orders.
* PottyFailure: Katie shits her pants in several sketches.
* PovertyPorn: {{Parodied}} in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZwY99womA sketch]] about an "Adopt-A-Graduate" program, that parodies those "sponsor a child" programs. It features recent college grads staring forlornly into the camera and crying because GrowingUpSucks.
* PuffOfLogic: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaADQTeZRCY&feature=relmfu Professor]] Website/{{Wikipedia}}", a student asks Professor Wikipedia to tell everyone his knowledge about her. Another student points out that she's "not notable" even though she edits the yearbook, and she vanishes into nothing while screaming.
* RandomNumberGod: "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5767906/the-tetris-god The Tetris God]]" will manually choose which piece will be next.
--> ''"Thou art a '''cruel''' and '''angry God!!"'''''\\
'''''"LINE PIECE!"'''''
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: "Grease Dilemma" takes the rather concerning lyric of "Did she put up a fight?" from [[Theatre/{{Grease}} "Summer Nights"]] and runs with it: Rizzo eventually breaks down sobbing as her friends wonder what happened, and Kenickie becomes a pariah to the point that Danny authorizes his group to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat him up]].
* RedAndWhiteComedyPoster: Parodied with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MoxKXEBRC8 Big Red Text]]''.
* RedShirt: "''Film/JurassicPark'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHGvdI1jizI Character's Awful Realization]]" is explicitly about this, wherein the main cast are arguing over who should distract the T-rex with a flare. Donald Gennaro ([[AdamWesting Martin Ferrero reprising his role]]) is elected for this, and accuses the others, "I'm only here to die, aren't I?" The other characters fail to reassure him ("[[BlatantLies You're a very important character!]]") and an argument ensues wherein GenreSavvy Gennaro insists it's unfair to ask the most obviously doomed character to go out there, saying Grant and Ellie are both needed experts, Malcolm is the charismatic comic relief, and Tim and Lex [[ImprobableInfantSurvival are kids]], and he's simply "the lawyer." The others try and convince him maybe he's a MauveShirt instead. [[spoiler:Malcolm ultimately [[KickTheDog tosses him out of the Explorer]] and after a failed attempt to persuade the T-rex he's plot-relevant by saying [[BlatantLies he's Tim and Lex's real father]], he gets nommed.]]
* RedundantParody: They made a fake trailer for a version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' done in the style of the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' TV show. Much of the humor seems to rely on the apparent fact that a movie about this incarnation of Batman would turn out way too silly. Someone must not have gotten word that this TV show ''does'' have [[Film/BatmanTheMovie a very silly movie]].
* RidiculousProcrastinator: {{Exaggerated}} in "Don't Bother Fixing Your Problems" and "Lazy Ghost Has SO Much Unfinished Business."
* TheRoast:
** They've done several fictional examples of this. There's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPUgZlN6cdA the roast]] of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1rZUjAm64 the roast]] of ''Website/{{Facebook}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en9LDlQnkBs the roast]] of {{Creator/HBO}}, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP_aGGgR4Vs the roast of weed]].
** Done for real in a Roast of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKXjslJv0aE Amir Blumenfeld]]
* RolePlayingGame: A recurring feature on the site is to cast TV shows what they would be like if they were made as an RPG videogame instead. So far they've done ''Series/JerseyShore'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTSOCnr2Rw link]]), ''Series/GameOfThrones'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftnySHVnF0 season 1]] ([[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6580687/game-of-thrones-rpg-deleted-scenes deleted scenes]]) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lE2ns_vUY season 2]], ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' ([[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6683770/battlestar-galactica-rpg link]]), ''Series/BreakingBad'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zgGd_7pTSI link]]), ''Series/TheWire'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAiZ2Y4UJ6U link]]), ''Series/{{Lost}}'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJWyjkJkuc link]]), ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' ([[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6867017/homeland-rpg link]]), and ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMVxZ8pGzA link]]).
* RunningGag:
** After "This True Crime Documentary Will Make Me Famous," [[https://youtu.be/JJM2VXjFt7s references to Mike Trapp having killed former head writer Pat Cassels.]] The "storyline" had a few twists including the reveal [[spoiler:that Pat was NotQuiteDead and out for revenge.]]
** In the Sales Pitch episode of ''Game Changer'', in which Trapp, Grant, and Rekha must give their best sales pitches for strange objects to host Sam Reich, nearly every pitch ends up beginning "Now, Sam, where are you from?" Trapp and Grant eventually abandon the gag, but Rekha never does.
** Each member of the company's IT department has a hybrid name and an eccentric habit, mannerism and/or physical feature:
*** Tedward [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II03SfoHaic has an enormous unibrow and has never seen or heard of anything,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30ae1jSDoA including ''Game of Thrones''.]]
*** Ronathan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TChRv8m79zs listens by interrupting you,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GbpVZTgAk has a wonky walk, and finishes your sentences for you.]]
*** Elizabertha [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HDy1ZCrJVI doesn't move her mouth when she speaks.]]
*** Jimothy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HDy1ZCrJVI talks in a Southern accent so extreme as to be unintelligable.]]
*** Sethany [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HDy1ZCrJVI has enormous eyebrows and speaks unintelligably.]]
*** Lenjamin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku-xWZQFG3c overhypes everything.]]
*** Gartholemew has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqfbCzOLtLw a rat-tail and an accent that several other characters find very sexy.]]
*** In the same vein, although she's not stated to be from IT, Blueronica [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksG3mTPqd4w is ridiculously "low maintenance", and cares so little about anything that she literally disappears.]]
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes:
** In the 3D segment of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2aCVlnLow Ice Age in 4D]]", the twins exclaim, "We saw it three times!" In the 4D segment, the twins exclaim, "We saw it three million times in an hour!"
** In one installment of "What Will Kevin Do For Ricky's Money?", Kevin goes to seven consecutive showings of ''Film/BeverlyHillsChihuahua'' for $200. At the end of the ordeal, Pat notes that he's probably seen it more than anyone else in the country.
* SchmuckBait: The video "Retard Test". The patient is given this riddle: the red man lives in the red house, the orange man lives in the orange house, and the blue man lives in the blue house. So who lives in the white house?
* SchoolOfNoStudying: {{Subverted}} in "If College Movies Were Honest," a [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] for a college movie in which SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs.
-->"I can't make it to rehearsal for acapella regionals tomorrow! I have a physics final!"\\
"[[SeriousBusiness Beth, if we don't win]]...[[BaitAndSwitchComment it won't matter in the grand scheme of things, I guess]]."\\
"Yeah, it would be insane of you to skip your physics final for this."\\
"Yeah, this extracurricular has no intrinsic value to us after we graduate."
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: {{Invoked}} by Amir in the final "Prank War" video to explain how he supposedly managed to get Streeter's skydiving instructor to convince him that his parachute didn't open. ([[DoNotTryThisAtHome There would be a lot of legal problems with attempting this in real life]].)
-->"So I called the skydiving place, and they said, 'No, absolutely not, we wouldn't wanna jeopardize, you know, the life of one of our paying customers or the life of one of our employees.' And then I said, 'What if I gave you a lot of money?' And they said '[[EveryManHasHisPrice All right, sounds great, what day works best for you?]]'"
* ScrewYourself: Parodied in ''Film/{{Looper}} [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6853540/looper-has-sex-with-himself Has Sex with Himself]]''. The TimeTravel in the film is employed specifically to invoke this, but all of Joe's older duplicates can't agree on who is going to give who oral sex.
* SelfAbuse: One of the patients in the "UrbanLegend ER" video is a teenage boy who developed hair growth on his palms after masturbating.
* SelfDeprecation:
** "[[Theatre/WestSideStory Web Site Story]]".
** Along with SelfParody, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC_05UmLG6U Adam Ruins College Humor.]]
** This conversation in "Watching TV Is Work" (while ''Hot Date'' plays in the background).
--->"I want ''you'' with ''me,'' not you up watching some under-the-radar comedy about a young urban couple navigating their way through life and love!"
--->''"Catastrophe?"''
--->"No, the other one!"
--->''"Casual?"''
--->"No, the other one!"
--->''"Love?"''
--->"No, the ''other'' one!"
--->''"You're the Worst?"''
--->"I don't know, maybe!"
* SelfPlagiarism: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RGU6Tcvcpk This]] parody turns [=Seth McFarlane's=] tendency to copy his own shows by showing a bunch of fictional shows he created that follow the same premise with only the setting being different.
* SeriousBusiness:
** Brennan considers Ice Breakers - [[https://youtu.be/u7MBoi2m31w as well as a host of other games]] - to be this. While the rest of the cast is more fun about it, the minute someone accuses it of being childish and unserious, it turns into this. Exaggerated when they swap to Musical Chairs, and he breaks out ''[[BatterUp a barbed-wire baseball bat]]'' and hockey pads.
-->'''Brennan''': I'm having fun. Getting the answers right is fun for me.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4yIWg_LElc&feature=youtu.be This Monster Has No Phone Case]]" see Rekha and a "protective surfaces" guy treating Trapp using his iPhone without a case like he were a neglectful dad.
* SettledForGay: ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6846855/gay-men-will-marry-your-girlfriends Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends]]'' has an assortment of gay men cheerily listing [[AllTheGoodMenAreGay their advantages]] as husband material while explicitly threatening to {{Invoke|dTrope}} and {{Exploit|edTrope}} this trope if the straight male viewing audience refuses to support gay marriage. They go so far as to debunk the idea the marriage would be sexless
-->"...We could play her like an upright bass! And the kind of threesome ''she'' wants? Oh, we're cool with that."
* SettleItWithoutWeapons: Parodied in "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6035867/goldeneye-stand-off GoldenEye Stand-Off]]" (based on ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997''), where Bond and Trevelyan run out of ammo and go at each other with [[EmergencyWeapon basic melee attacks]]:
-->'''Bond''': Then it's settled... brutal hand-to-hand combat it is.\\
'''Trevelyan''': To the death.\\
'''Bond''': [dramatic whisper] ''Slappers only.''
* SevenMinuteLull: "Awkward Rap" references this.
* SexForProduct: Parodied in the "Powerthirst" ads. "BABIES! You'll have so many babies! '''''FOUR HUNDRED BABIES!'''''
* SexyDiscretionShot: Played with, as it's not really ''sexy'', but we fortunately don't get to see most of the pornographic content that Brennan is exposed to in "Tumblr CEO: No More Porn", instead being clued in by his incredulous reactions.
* {{Shipping}}:[[invoked]] "Shipping, the OTP Dating Commercial" features a dating agency where a fangirl with ShippingGoggles pairs different fictional characters to their own bemusement. Her choices include quite a few {{Crack Pairing}}s and {{Crossover Ship}}s.
* ShirtlessScene: Parodied in the "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6791913/call-me-maybe-parody Call Me Maybe]]" parody. Like in the actual music video, an attractive guy starts lawnmowing a backyard, but when a girl takes note of him and he takes his shirt off, he's revealed [[ThoseWackyNazis to be a Neo-Nazi]] on account of the huge swastika tattoo on his chest.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Sam spends the first four episodes of the 2017 Halloween special "The sCHing" racing to rescue his friends, only to get axe murdered at the end of the fifth episode after he finally shows up at the house the writers were staying at.]]
* ShowerOfLove: Deconstructed in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_BaagA_qc Showering with Girls]]'', in which Dan states that while he would like to see this trope happen, he goes into (perhaps too much) detail as to why it would be difficult, uncomfortable, or even downright dangerous in real life.
* TheSiege: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Nog6T6iuY The Fall of Pinterest]]".
* SignatureStyle: Affectionately spoofed in the "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6342539/if-other-directors-made-the-social-network If Other Directors Made The Social Network]]" video. If ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' were directed by Creator/WesAnderson it tries too hard to be quirky and off-kilter, directed by Creator/MichaelBay it's a by-the-books action blockbuster with a blue-orange filter, directed by Creator/ChristopherGuest it's a {{mockumentary}} about character relationships, directed by Creator/QuentinTarantino it's an incredibly violent movie with gangsters who talk about pop culture, directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro it's in Spanish and about a DealWithTheDevil gone wrong, and directed by Creator/FrankCapra it's a sentimental piece that emphasizes the importance of friendships.
* SleepDeprivation:
** Sketch "The Horrors of Hungover Traveling" has Zac trying to catch a flight while being brutally hungover and extremely sleep deprived. The flight gets delayed and he passes out lying over several seats at the airport.
** "I Got NO Sleep Last Night": Small talk about how you couldn't sleep and have to drink coffee to get though the day is considered the most boring conversation imaginable. Zac keeps bringing it up and wants to tell it in elaborate detail.
* SnakesAreSinister: In the sketch "Adam and Eve in the Friendzone," Eve tells Adam that she doesn't want to start a relationship with him because "she's just out of a really long relationship and wants to keep her options open." As Adam wonders who this alleged ex could possibly be, the snake (a puppet) pops up from behind a log, wearing a leather jacket and a [[EvilRedhead red]] mohawk, and invites Eve to the Tree of Knowledge. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys She accepts his invitation]], leaving Adam behind to sulk. [[spoiler: God tells Adam that He can make him a ''new'' partner, but that He will need another rib to do it. Adam declines, saying that he and Eve will make it work somehow.]]
* SodaCandySplosion: The skit "Urban Legend Ward" takes place at an emergency hospital ward that is being overrun by victims of various UrbanLegend-inspired disasters. One patient in particular has washed down Pop Rocks with coke, and the doctors can only watch in horror as his belly bursts open in a geyser of soda and gore, killing him instantly.
* SofterAndSlowerCover: "The Worst Pokémon Go Deaths" accompanies a memorial slideshow of cast members supposedly killed while playing ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' with a weepy acoustic cover of the Pokémon theme song.
* SongParody: Some sketches are song parodies, such as "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/4013249/dont-stop-your-screaming Don't Stop Your Screaming]]" or "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6066326/sing-talk-tik-tok-parody Sing Talk]]".
* SophisticatedAsHell: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6772454/25-things-you-hate-yourself-for-saying?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+collegehumor%2Farticles+%28CollegeHumor+Articles%29 This]] article.
--> ''I believe it was Sigmund Freud who once said, “Sometimes horrific things just fall out of your mouth before you can muster up the strength to stop them. That’s just the worst, man, for real.”
* SpaceWhaleAesop:
** [[SpoofAesop Played for laughs]] in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR07vsnWjA public service announcement]]: It warns you that smoking will cause [[spoiler:a RobotWar]]. It's also combined with DoNotDoThisCoolThing. Quite a few commenters find it awesome that smoking [[spoiler:willl turn them into badass killer cyborgs]].
** "The Boy Who Cried Literally" suggests that you will be stabbed to death by a vagrant if you ever [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misuse a word from its established meaning]].
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion:
** The article [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1813069 "Things to Do Before Dying in a Freak Accident"]] ends with the main character of the piece suddenly blowing up.
** The brief 3-frame animation graphic that plays before any of the site's animated shorts depicts a man handing a lighted stick of dynamite to a friend, covering his ears, and spontaneously combusting.
* SpotTheImpostor:
** One of their shorts involves the game with identical copies of Creator/ElizabethMitchell. Played with, as it's obvious from the start who the copy is, [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6420227/sexy-clone-dilemma-with-elizabeth-mitchell but the player is hoping to get laid, and the original isn't putting out]].
** [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6867508/shoot-the-clone-a-choose-your-own-ending-comic-adventure An article]] on the site featured this in a {{Gamebook|s}} format, with a woman torn between shooting two identical-looking versions of her husband.
## If you shoot the one with the green shirt, [[spoiler:both the remaining guy AND the girl are revealed to be aliens.]]
## If you shoot the one with the yellow shirt, [[spoiler:you killed the alien impostor.]]
## And if you shoot neither, [[spoiler:the woman instead suggests a threesome between herself, her husband, and the alien clone, which is then [[AllJustADream revealed to be just a nightmare]] that the real husband was having.]]
* StagParty: They've done [[http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6966244/bachelor-parties-in-movies-vs-real-life this]] about bachelor movies contrary to what movies say. Just a plain old affair. [[SincerityMode No, seriously]].
* StalkingIsLove: {{Parodied}} in "Obsessive Boyfriends Are SO Romantic!"
* StimulantSpeedtalk: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP_aGGgR4Vs The Roast Of Weed]]" gives us a depiction of a bag of cocaine, personifying the drug as a very fast talker and taking deep breaths in between sentences. After being well for about 20 seconds, it eventually faints after the rapid fire roasting it gives weed.
* TheStinger: There are a surprising few of these, considering the number of videos they have made.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGh0EMmMC8 Female Armor Sucks]] has the girl in full armor, while the guys are barely armored. (A complete inversion of what is portrayed in the main video.)
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD8OcPGScRU Cell Phone Reunion]] sees the other cell phones use a fart app on the [=iPhone=] against its will.
* StrictlyFormula: [=CollegeHumor=] itself has been known to poke fun at the one-joke nature of ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'', such as in the Roast of Amir Blumenfeld (Jeff Rubin: "This roast gives me a great idea for an episode of ''Jake and Amir!'' Like, you guys could be at a roast or something, right, [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine and then you do something, like, childish and naive, and then Jake gets annoyed about it]]!") The ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'' skit "Daylight Savings" distills the whole series down to the following:
-->'''Amir:''' [[CatchPhrase Dinner tonight?]]
-->'''Jake:''' Stop that, Amir, that's very annoying.
* StunnedSilence: During the Breaking News episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcX_lXP977g True Facts About Grant Anthony O'Brien]]", everyone on the set is stunned into silence by Grant's appallingly bad [[OldShame acting choices]] when he was younger. Then it happens ''again'' when it's revealed that Grant sodomised himself with a dildo in the shower, and then ''[[{{Squick}} didn't clean it off and put it away]]'' before going to work.
* SubvertedKidsShow:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jN-UAB3AWE ConquistaDora]] [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer The Explorer]]'', in which [=ConquistaDora=] teaches children how to enslave and conquer the tribes of the New World for the royal kingdom of Spain. [=ConquistaDora=] and Boots give the natives disease-covered blankets filled with smallpox, use an anthropomorphic rifle to terrorize the natives into submission, Benny the Bull pits two tribes against each other, [=ConquistaDora=] whips a tribesman to pan for gold for her, Diego takes the tribeswomen as war brides, and [=ConquistaDora=] guns down Scalper the Fox (Swiper wearing a headdress and carrying a machete) when he confronts her as she and Boots burn down his village.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpVfNihAUs8 The Magic Chinatown Bus]]" involves Miss Frizzle taking a Chinatown bus into a human body, and HilarityEnsues.
** Recurring segment ''WTF 101'' is built on the premise of this, and it too is a parody of '''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus''.
* SuckySchool: There's a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsdlSpA2GU fake commercial]] for the Quendelton State University, where you can get ADegreeInUseless in literally thousands of disciplines, renovation projects will take decades to finish, the football team is worthless, and the nearby community is a complete ghost town.
-->''"If we were a good university, we wouldn't need a commercial!"''
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Lampooned in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywMOuMqNuI video]], which provides the page image.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U49gsRQg7M This video]] of a "First Person Shooter Trial" shows how the various antics you can get away with in first person shooters ''will'' get you court-martialed.
** The video [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6828454/realistic-fighting-game Realistic Fighting Game]] has two characters Ryan and Greg engaging in a somewhat awkward WimpFight in a bar instead of fights similar to the likes of ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. [[spoiler: Ryan "wins" by shoving Greg in the back and he hits one of the tables headfirst. Unfortunately for him, he is arrested since that action has damaged Greg severely.]]
** The guy who 'hires' the F-team to protect him despite the narrator bluntly telling him that the team is worthless and he'd be better off not hiring anybody over hiring them, simply because they worked free, and he'd get abducted and killed because the F-team were too incompetent to save him.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6VP7Qp-Y8 Trapp explains exactly the kind of problems you'd have if you lived in another decade]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGj227OVKY In a similar vein, travelling back to the 90s would make you morally responsible for preventing 9/11, and preventing historical tragedies from happening is easier said than done because no one will believe that you are warning them about events that haven't happened yet and it could be impossible to prevent the event from happening without having a different atrocity take its place.]]
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEgwWtyXxN8 Best Friends In Rom Coms Are All Alcoholics]]", Kassia's response to every office worker's minor issues is to [[DrowningMySorrows convince them to get drunk with her]]. The rest of the staff stage an intervention.
** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFKenDQFIE Americans Eat Japanese Toys For The First Time]]… [[spoiler:and most of them die from said toys]].
** The Conversational Ripcord is a great way to escape awkward conversation traps, provided there's somewhere for you to land. Katie at one point tries to get out of an [[RightBehindMe awkward situation]], only to get lodged in a wall.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6VP7Qp-Y8 No, You Weren’t “Born in the Wrong Decade"]], Shibhoan expresses belief that she'd have fit in in earlier decades. Mike deconstructs her idealized image of each decade, pointing out, in order: interracial marriage was illegal in most states (in the 1960s), there was no vaccine for polio and organized crime was at the height of its power (in the 1920s), slavery / indentured servitude and lack of proper healthcare (in the 1770s), and a lack of phones, computers and dental hygiene (in most of these decades).
* SurroundedByIdiots:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOBzWF0Aws The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B759dzymyoc Google]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJD1Iwy5lUY Guy]]. Poor Google has to deal with so many stupid questions and assumptions.
** The CEO played by Brennan Lee Mulligan in the "CEO" videos runs into this problem a lot, with many of the videos having him constantly frustrated by his employees not thinking things through and allowing the creation of products that will only get the company into further trouble after his attempts to save face from the company's latest gaffe or scandal.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBO_7UezpbY Ceo of Moviepass]], when found sleeping on the floor:
-->"My house is fine. I have my house still."
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* TheTalk: Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veq4Oc8S7-I this]] sketch about "second puberty", which discusses the pitfalls of the ''aging'' process in a fashion like those films you may have been shown in health class (or by your parents) about ''actual'' puberty.
* TheTalkShowWithHostName: Parodied with a prank sketch where Dan Gurewitch's colleagues break into his house in the middle of the night so he can host ''The Late Late Late Show'' from his bed.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: In "Meet Cute with a Ghost", Jess meets a really cute ghost during a seance. She originally wanted to contact her dead grandfather, but the ghost turns out to be "tall, muscular, with dark hair" and a doctor to boot. Jackpot!
* TakeThat:
** "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3980096/we-didnt-start-the-flame-war We Didn't Start The Flame War]]" (itself an AffectionateParody of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire) is a big TakeThat against Internet trolls.
** A big TakeThat at Wikipedia's expense in "Professor Wikipedia", who starts delivering a lecture on chemical reactions that has some interesting things in it:
-->"The word enzyme was coined by physiologist Wilhelm Kuhr, widely believed to be a total badass. ''(Daniel looks up)'' In 1908, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Mustache."
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzLRP8e4vE Tim Burton's Secret Formula]]" seems to be a jab at how Creator/TimBurton's movie formula is just the same thing recycled. You can tell that from the DullSurprise reactions of the executives to Burton saying that the studio plans to make another film. Also, when the casting director is told "get me Creator/JohnnyDepp and my wife on the phone," he says, "I can't ever not do that," and we see that the cell phone in question can only call Johnny Depp and Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RGU6Tcvcpk Seth MacFarlane's Secret]]" does the same thing in regards to Creator/SethMacFarlane's creative process. All his animated series, which comprises ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' are all suspiciously similar. All three feature the same generic family unit, composed of a stupid, fat, but lovable father; an attractive, gentle mother; an awkward son or daughter; a comically sociopathic baby; and a supporting non-human character that can somehow talk. [=CollegeHumor=] pitches more show ideas, such as ''Country Life'', ''Big City Man'', ''Suburban Family Time'', ''Ma, Pa And Kids'', and three unnamed ones. The first four characters are almost identical across the shows, but the talking non-human supporting character are respectively a stereotypically French cat, a Nazi guinea pig, a Republican giant anteater, an "urban" pterodactyl, and a sassy snowman, Fratty Elf, and a blender that's a vampire. [=MacFarlane=] didn't seem to mind though, and later showed up in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGyMsGiL_y4 Seth MacFarlane's Rejected Pitches]]", poking fun at ''Film/{{Ted}}'', a film he directed.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpVfNihAUs8 The Magic Chinatown Bus]]" involves Miss Frizzle taking a Wung Fa bus into a human body, which none of the passengers approve of. The name of said Chinatown bus is a Spoonerism of Fung Wah, a Chinatown bus line shut down by the US Department of Transportation for safety violations.
** In the second installment of "If Google Was A Guy", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B759dzymyoc&t=53s a Google Glass]] user looks up how to avoid being bullied for wearing Google Glass. [[KickTheDog Google laughs at him.]]
*** Similarly, one segment has a man asking about various failed Google products before Google starts hyping up their next idea, with the implication that it would also fail miserably.
*** Both of the Quarantine Edition videos feature a jab against people deliberately disregarding the quarantines enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic to do what they want. Each video has one person ask Google about where they can party, with Google responding by chewing the person out for how their selfishness and recklessness during the pandemic will only increase the rates of the coronavirus spreading.
** This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDjz5qHIzsc video]] skewers the anti-Vaccination movements with the TooDumbToLive adults trying to destroy the vaccines in a misunderstood attempt to save the kid that it would give him autism. Before all of them melted from measle infected body.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q1GetC83ec "If The Speech From Independence Day Happened Today"]]: How people would react to President Whitmore's RousingSpeech in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' if it happened in the present day, mocking every political viewpoint pundits and random bloggers would have about the speech.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HFXgyTya0 My Dinosaur Is a Service Animal]]": A video released at a time when the airlines cracked down on fake service animals, [[Film/JurassicWorld Owen and Claire]] (played by the actual actors) try to check in a ''velociraptor'' as a service animal.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVlT2g__9zE I wore makeup for a week and here's what happened]]" is a massive one directed at [=BuzzFeed=]-style social stunts.
---> I'm don't wanna say I'm a hero. But I hope someone else says it.
*** [=BuzzFeed=] and its click-driven ilk come in for another skewering in the ''Hardly Working'' episode "The Epic Bacon Boys: Internet Popularity Consultants."
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUuab1Aqg0 Tumblr CEO: No More Porn]]" cracks down hard at Tumblr after their decision to forbid all adult content in the site in late 2018. The video portrays the CEO, who usually is portrayed as the OnlySaneMan in the other [=CEO=] videos, as completely out of touch with the userbase of Website/{{Tumblr}} and the several kinks that were freely posted there. In the end, the CEO refuses to take down the only non-porn post on the site, a Neo-Nazi advocating genocide, due to freedom of speech, which refers to how Tumblr is riddled with Neo-Nazi content but decided to focus on getting rid of the porn instead (also doubling as a dig at free speech absolutists who believe the right to say whatever one wants immediately absolves them of the consequences of saying things like hate speech and harmful rhetoric).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRotukq30AI The Problem With Frats]] is one directed at frat bros, with one standing up to give a stirring speech... And the others slowly come to realize that ''everything'' he's saying is very racist, sexist, or straight-up rape.
--->'''Upon realizing there isn't a single black guy there''': This might be emblematic of a bigger problem.
** The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMZyZObOB54 Livin' Mask-Free]]'' music video is a blunt middle finger aimed at people who refuse to wear a mask when outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the country singer rather blatantly admitting that he refuses to take scientific claims about limiting the rate of infection seriously and that he doesn't care about how many people will die if he continues to infect people while never wearing a mask. The video ends with "In Loving Memory: Earl Crust (1980-2020)", implying that [[KarmicDeath he died of COVID-19 as a consequence of his stubborn insistence on disregarding the recommended safety measures]].
* TanLines: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1735099 This article]] presents a few other variations...
* TechnologyMarchesOn:[[invoked]]
** ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3599015/if-all-movies-had-cell-phones If All Movies Had Cell Phones]]'' demonstrates a number of movies where the plot conflict could easily be reduced or the story shortened because characters had cell phones to call for help/look up information/reveal information to people that had been withheld from them/etc.:
*** In ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', Juliet gets the message to Romeo that she will fake her own death, rather than a mixup happening with the Friar's message.
*** The ''Film/HomeAlone1'' clip shows Kevin being called by his mother right after he finds himself all alone, and tells him to go to a friends house - which if done in the actual movie would have reduced the running time to about 45 minutes. Except for the fact that this doesn't explain how then booby trapping the house to stop Harry and Marv would work.
** Done again with the Internet in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6383699/if-movie-characters-had-the-internet If Movie Characters Had The Internet]]''.
*** In ''Film/BasicInstinct'', for instance, the damning evidence against Catherine Trammell is that her Internet search history indicates she's been reading websites with information about how to use an ice pick as a murder weapon.
** With smartphones in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSCjbru1Gk If All Movies Had Smartphones]]''.
*** In ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', the main character is talked out of suicide with an iPod.
** [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3052195/24-the-unaired-1994-pilot 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot]] imagines what ''Series/TwentyFour'' would have been like if it took place in 1994. Complete with getting emails through AOL and Windows XP being very slow.
** "Film/TheMatrix Runs on Windows XP", and HilarityEnsues:
*** When Neo is being jacked in, Trinity cannot tell the difference between the monitor and projection cables.
*** The Agent Training Program scene starts like it does in the film, with Morpheus talking to Neo while they walk down a bustling street with Neo being bumped by passerby. This time, Morpheus is telling Neo about how the Matrix used to run fast but it slowed down over time. Then the woman in the red dress walks by. All goes well until Morpheus orders the program to freeze upon the moment the model Agent Smith draws his weapon. When the image fails to unfreeze, Morpheus tells Neo to go on without him, then yells to the operators, "Try CTRL-ALT-DELETE!"
*** Clippy appears multiple times, trying to offer his help to Neo. The first time, "It looks like you're trying to bend a spoon with your mind. Can I help you with that?" Neo bends Clippy with his mind.
*** Neo gets accosted by Agent Smith in an alleyway. Smith fires his pistol at Neo, and suddenly, the bullet freezes in flight inches from Neo's head, with a progress bar showing up.
*** The lag time is long enough that Agent Smith starts cloning as he runs towards Neo in frustration, after being put on hold trying to call Agent Brown and Agent Jones who are up in Connecticut.
* TelephoneSong: There is a sketch called 'The Other Side Of Adele's "Hello"'. Mike Trapp is Adele's ex-boyfriend and she keeps calling him during their meeting. He keeps picking up and taking to her because he's afraid... that she's gonna write a song about him.
-->'''Adele:''' [singing] Hello, can you hear me?\\
'''Mike:''' Barely. It sounds like you're calling from the middle of a windstorm or something.\\
'''Adele:''' [singing] Hello from the ouuutsiiiiiiide.\\
'''Mike:''' Go inside.
* TestosteronePoisoning: One of the main selling points in the Powerthirst videos. ''Preposterous'' amounts of testosterone.
-->'''''PREPOSTERONE!'''''
* ThanksForTheMammaries: This happens in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nPeTfeFALk Awkward Rap]]".
* ThermalDissident: One video [[https://youtu.be/d2NNm8MTboA?si=byFpthKmZqXXeqy2 "Why Summer is Women's Winter"]] depicting the differing opinions of the women and men in an office about the AC settings. All the men enjoy the summer atmosphere played up to the point of them being in Hawaiian Shirts and board shorts throwing beachballs around the office whereas the women are depicted as being covered in ice and having to cover themselves in blankets.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: InUniverse, in parody of Google forcing Website/YouTube users to sign up for Google+ to comment on videos, Google has introduced "Google Blackmail". The user can sign up for Google+, or they'll release ''all'' the user's private information.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: In one of the jeggings videos, where teenagers keep coming to school wearing inappropriate clothing, the exasperated teacher eventually asks them what their parents have to say about it. When one of them confesses that all of their parents have died, he pauses and admits that does make sense.
* TomatoInTheMirror: In "Pot Cookie Monster" (yes, it's a parody of ''Series/SesameStreet''), the eponymous monster comes to realize that the reason he can't digest his pot cookies is because he's just a puppet.
** "Is Grant Keith from Buzzfeed?" concludes with a near-literal version of this trope, as Mike complains about the ''four'' Grant/Keiths in the office before pointing out a fifth... which is a mirror.
* TomatoSurprise: At the end of "Why The Hell Is He Her [Katie's] Boyfriend," we get the answer.
-->'''Katie''': He has [[spoiler:the only [[Film/{{Waterworld}} map to dryland]] tattooed on his back]]!
-->'''All''': Ohhh.
-->[Camera pans out to show that [[spoiler:the CH offices are part of a barge convoy in an endless sea]].]
* ThoseWackyNazis: In the "Wolfenstein" episode of "Hardly Working", Owen finds a trunk full of Nazi paraphernalia belonging to his grandfather, but he mistakenly thinks his grandfather is a [[VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D Wolfenstein]] fan. It gets worse when he accidentally invites neo-Nazis to the office, thinking they're an underground Wolfenstein fan club.
-->'''Pat''': They're so huge!
-->'''Owen''': Yeah, they're ''covered'' in Wolfenstein tattoos.
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNMC45u27A "Why Girls Are Cold on Halloween"]], partying on a hotel rooftop, one girl gets her tongue stuck to the metal of another girl's costume while licking a body shot off her.
* TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket: The CH staff knows [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_GNzfEBKI what kind of person needs infomercial products]] with the "Has this ever happened to you?" opening tagline.
## First, he bumps into tables, pulling the cloth off one of them.
## He fails to open the door because he can't use the knob right or give any leverage.
## He is unable to start his car because the battery has died. When a little girl comes up to him, he rolls down both windows on the driver's side of the car. She asks him, "How many times has this happened to you?" He says "Happens to me every fucking day. Every day."
## At home, when moving a boiling pot of pasta to the strainer in the sink, he drops it because he isn't using potholders.
## He keeps all his plastic cups in the same top cupboard, so they all fall out when he opens it.
## He cuts his finger while slicing a carrot.
## He gets tangled up in his phone cord as he tries to call 912.
## [[RuleOfFunny From nowhere]], more plastic cups rain down on him.
## Depressed, he sits down on his bed and puts a gun to his head to kill himself, but when he pulls the trigger, it clicks empty, informercial music starts playing, an X is emblazoned on the screen, and an announcer shouts, "ARE YOU TIRED OF UNRELIABLE GUNS?!" revealing that we were just in another infomercial.
* TooKinkyToTorture: In a sketch, a kidnapper tries to hold the children of a rich guy ransom, only to immediately regret it when they start treating it like a kink thing.
* TooDumbToLive:
** The Batman (Nolan) version taken up to eleven with each sketch
** The girl in ''Even More Problems With Jeggings'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUV2BJIEPk who decided to wear....a shiv....in her neck]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjbDSOmeiM The patient]] who has a life-threatening condition has to choose who will perform the operation. A doctor who specializes in the surgery he needs and has a perfect track record....and a clown. Not a doctor dressed as a clown. Not a clown who has studied as a doctor. Just a regular clown with no medical training who has never performed an operation where the patient survived. He ignores the doctor's stellar record because he would rather be the guy famous for having life-saving surgery performed on him by a famous clown. Smash cut to him lying dead on the operating table with the clown making balloon animals out of his guts.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The hypothetical "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6471804/if-movie-trailers-ruined-endings If Movie Trailers Ruined Endings]]", where the trailer guy goes out of his way to spoil the endings and plot twists. Warning: spoilers for ''Film/FightClub'', ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', ''Film/TheCryingGame'', and ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. Also includes references to LukeIAmYourFather.
* TrappedInContainment: So how did new Quadruple Cheese Cheezos get so cheesy? Well, it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Z-JCP4Q6A all started one day, at the Cheezo factory.]]
* TravelingSalesman: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKdKcGJ4tM If Internet Ads Were Salesmen]]" has an [[InternetAds internet popup]] take on the form of a 1920s traveling salesman who tries to constantly sell Zach things he doesn't need, like shoes, a shirt you don't have to tuck in, and live ladybugs.
* TrojanGauntlet: They parody this in the POV series where buying condoms is shown from both the guy's perspective and his girlfriend's. The guy finds it embarassing and tries to hide it by buying half a dozen unrelated items. The girl doesn't know the guy's size so she just buys all of them.
* {{Troll}}: Parodied in a sketch featuring an Internet troll living under a bridge. He blocks the road and shouts racist, sexist, homophobic or just plain inflammatory comments at people until they lose their temper, at which point they get sent flying ''[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Monty Python]]'' style. The only way to defeat them is to agree with everything they say until you can get them to unironically and genuinely admit vulnerability and the need for friendship, which imposes the same fate on them as their victims.
* TrollingCreator: InUniverse, ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' writer Creator/GeorgeRRMartin is parodied as this in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFfP4gZGpok George R.R. Martin Responds to Game of Thrones Backlash]]". After several important characters are rather unexpectedly killed off in season 3 of the TV adaptation ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and some fans start complaining, he lashes out. "Martin" says he revels in upsetting his fans, and proceeds to bash their hopes for his own joy.
-->'''Martin:''' Your sorrow is my playground! Your tears are the fountain I frolic in!
* TrumanShowPlot: Referenced in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4yXge1T-Y&list=PLuKg-Whduhkm-sPPaq1T9mQhNHBxjMBkb&index=4 The Surprise Murder Mystery Game Show]]" episode of ''Game Changer'', right after TheReveal that [[spoiler:Grant is part of the mystery and Rekha is the only actual contestant]].
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: There's a skit where a genie claims to have been imprisoned for "millions of your Earth eternities."
* TyrannicalTownTycoon: "VideoGame/SimCity Mayor Mayor" is a faux campaign ad where the mayor of Sim City basically threatens to destroy the city with natural disasters unless he gets re-elected.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: "Awkward Rap":
-->I'm an elevator ride you want to oppose
-->I'll say I'm pressing open, but I'll press "door close"
-->If you make it in, I will devise
-->A way to look everywhere but in your eyes
-->Then I'll follow you right out the door
-->Take a look around, this ain't my floor
* UnfazedEveryman: A lot of the humor from the "Horror Movie Daycare" sketch comes from the fact that the teacher is a completely ordinary, cheerful, sweet woman working with children from every horror movie you can think of -- and, despite them being demons, monsters, or all-around {{Creepy Child}}ren, she treats them like regular kids from a normal daycare.
* UnfortunateImplications:[[invoked]] ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5817723/zordon-is-a-racist Zordon is a Racist]]'' parodies how in the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', the Black Power Ranger was played by a black guy and the Yellow Power Ranger by an Asian girl by making Zordon into [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero an utter bigot]].
* UrbanLegends: [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3195952/urban-legend-er Urban Legend ER]], explores a lot of known urban legends including: hit by a penny thrown from the Empire State Building, being struck by frozen airplane waste, swallowing eight spiders in one night, Music/EltonJohn gulping down seven gallons of semen, a train derailing from pennies placed on the tracks, a woman [[OrganTheft waking up in an ice-filled bathtub to find her kidneys missing]], a kid getting a facial expression frozen on their face, a teenage girl getting pregnant from swimming in a sperm-filled pool, and Little Mikey's "death" by Pop Rocks and Coke.
* VerbThis: A short named "Cell Phone Reunion" where iPhone and [=BlackBerry=] start fighting. At one point, [=BlackBerry=] says, "At least I know what I'm hitting. Look at you. ''Ooh. Touch-screen. Look at my touch-screen.'' I've got something you can touch." *grabs crotch* "Right here!" *points at it with his other hand* "Dial this up!"
* VictoryQuote: The ManChild gets one in "Adulthood vs. Childhood":
--> "I'm not sure if marriage is right for me!"
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Deconstructively parodied in ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5665288/the-sims-horror-movie The Sims Horror Movie]]'' trailer. The characters are plagued the same way as is possible in the game: drowning them by removing the pool ladder, keeping the police out with a waist-high fence, blocking the exits with furniture, and keeping them deprived of food and sleep.
* VirtualAssistantBlunder: In the "If Google Was a Guy" skits, Website/{{Google}} is personified as a middle aged office worker that people come to in order to ask questions. At one point a woman tries to ask a question through the Apple interface Siri, who repeatedly messes up the question. Much later in the skit, [[BrickJoke Siri is still misinterpreting the question]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJD1Iwy5lUY The skit in question.]]
--> '''Siri User:''' How big is the Serengeti?
--> '''Siri:''' No problem. *turns to Google Guy* Show me pictures of spaghetti.
--> '''Google Guy:''' No, that's not what she asked for!
* VisualPun: In "The Matrix Runs in Windows XP", which is a spoof of both ''Film/TheMatrix'' and Windows XP (and thus contains many computer-related jokes), the Oracle welcomes Neo into her kitchen while she's holding a plate of freshly-baked cookies, and tells him that she hopes he has "cookies enabled".
* VitriolicBestBuds: ''Jake and Amir.'' Amir was also often portrayed as having this dynamic with Streeter Seidell bordering on FriendlyEnemy, most notably in the (wholly staged) "Prank Wars" series.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: In the video "Tumblr CEO: No More Porn", the head of Tumblr vomits on-screen after searching "[[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Yiff Party]]" and looking at the search results.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: Played for dark comedy in "The problem with frat bros," where said hijinx includes a lot of actually ''awful'' stuff, up to and including ''rape''. The frat bros come to realize that they are actually awful people and decide to turn themselves in.
* WhamLine: From "The Six Christmas Movies You'll Live Through," after the focus character and his girlfriend have broken up, and he's now living through "the Christmas Carol:"
-->'''Narrator:''' It's good thing there's no such thing as "ghosts from the past."
-->''(the door opens, and...")''
-->'''Ex-Girlfriend:''' ''(smiling)'' Merry Christmas.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse, their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUgDCYsxx_0 parody]] of the GEICO "Googly eyes" commercials. It starts off with the Googly eyes on a wad of money, but then it goes a few steps further:
** Guy is watching TV: "It's right here, it's easy. It's the jacket you could've worn if you tried out for the varsity football team."
** Guy is sitting on the toilet: "It's the heart disease you could've avoided if you didn't let yourself go."
** Guy is getting in his car: "It's the years of your life you could've enjoyed if you didn't spend time in prison for insurance fraud."
** Guy is having a nightmare in bed, gets up, and hears a baby crying: "It's the baby you could've had if you didn't drive Michelle away with your drinking."
** Guy prepares to hang himself in his garage: "It's the peace you could have if you have the balls to go through with it." ''[He hangs himself]''
** GEICO: Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen years of regret, misery and desperation.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGmjmazE5c parody]] of "I Gotta Feeling". The guy breaks his leg, antagonizes his girlfriend, and sleeps with an unattractive girl. In the end he decides that it was worth it, since he got in a nice fight and even better, now has an awesome kite.
** Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PA6MQs2ak this video]]. Crossed with UnreliableNarrator.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7Ha3VDbzE Stormtroopers' 9/11]]'' shows the fact that the Death Star's destruction was probably similar to a terrorist incident like 9/11 for the [[{{Mook}} Stormtroopers]].
** Touched upon in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' canon; the Stormtroopers were indeed mourning, but it was less "terrorist attack" and more "disastrous military operation". However, the Stormtroopers were able to channel that mourning into devastating fervor during the Yavin base ground battle in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and avenge their fallen brethren.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The accent [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Master Splinter]] is given in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxqQGmbAFCI Donatello Gets Screwed]]" is a little all over the place. It sounds like the voice actor is going for a straight Japanese accent, but the accent in question sways back and forth between Japanese, Italian, and Arab.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: A faux game example: They did a video imagining the first season of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as an SNES era video game. When the "player" plays as Jaime Lannister and elects to attack Bran when Bran sees him [[{{Twincest}} sexing up Cersei]], the video makes it clear that it doesn't approve of this. [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6579356/game-of-thrones-rpg Link.]]
-->''Like, seriously? He's only ten!'' *player selects again to do the attack* ''Wow. OK. I mean, I understand that you don't want to people to know you're porking your sister, but still... wow.'' *Jamie's attack sends Bran flying out the window, triumphant music plays* ''You defeated Bran Stark! Obviously. Because, you know, he's ten!''
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnM8NPeTanM Every Teen Movie Ending]]". All the classmates and their teacher meet very unfortunate ends, and the narrator [[PosthumousNarration died when he was still a kid]] and never actually saw these people graduate.
* WholePlotReference: The video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYromrN7OI Charlie and the Apple Factory]]", which is like ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' except that it has the kids being taken by Steve Jobs on a tour of Apple's factory after winning their Golden [=iTickets=]. They are taken first to the Apple Room, which is like the Chocolate Room, with Apple devices growing on the trees. Charlie is briefly taken by Bill Gates, who wants to know the secret to Apple's success. Ultimately, Jobs shows Charlie why Apple products are popular.....an empty room, because they pride themselves on showmanship. It ends with a ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' Oompa-Loompa song.
* WhosOnFirst: "[[https://youtu.be/rBG9qrEhLVA DROPOUT Is a Netflix]]" centers around the various [[BrandNameTakeover Netflixes]] there are, as well as some of the confusing naming conventions.
* WimpFight: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DxiW1xwqLM Realistic Fighting Game]]" depicts one between the characters [[RyuAndKen Ryan and Greg]]. Attacking each other does nothing to their health meters. In fact, their health meters only go down when a random woman comes up and hits Ryan with her purse apropos of nothing, and when Ryan pushes Greg into a table.
* WitchClassic: In a sketch called "The Apothecary Barista", a witch (enthusiastically portrayed by Brennan) is hired to treat people at College Humor's office. She looks old, wears a brown robe and brews potions with magical properties. Those Millenials though... She's baffled by their tastes and general approach to her craft.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Victor Vivisector may be a ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' villain parody, but it can be hard not to feel sorry for him having to witness the {{Squick}}-inducing Furry Force.
* WondrousLadiesRoom: [=CollegeHumor=]'s rather disturbing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxxsP7VWVN8 solution to the mystery]] of "Why Girls Don't Fart" - a secret gas decompression chamber reachable through the toilets.
* WordSaladHumor: For 2019, College Humor partnered with [[https://www.botnik.org Botnik Studios]], the predictive text engine behind ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh'', to do a sketch. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjngNWP9C5s The results...]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFpGU0TODw Botnik also did their take]] on the finale of ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: At the end of the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF6KVE7tzpI National Fart Hearings]]" skit, we see a bundle of ''The Newsly Times'' wherein it looks like the Senator's farts are more newsworthy than the end of World War II.
* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: Taken [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGUWQHReIzM literally]] by having a personification of "TheNineties" actually call someone to say they want their outfit back.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY:
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'' meets ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' can be seen here [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0_-aVaEyP8&feature=related this video]]. Velma is shown to have been "raped, beaten, murdered, then super-raped." Parodies of some known CSI things happen, like {{Bat Deduction}}s and Fred taking off sunglasses like David Caruso. Additionally, [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo is the killer.]]
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceE1MHb4aLo Mash-Up Television]]" features this, since it shows your favorite shows TWO AT A TIME! Included are a mash-up of ''Series/{{ER}}'' and ''Wrestling/{{WWE}}'' (''WER''), ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' and ''Series/GossipGirl'' (''Gossip Golden Girls''), ''Inside the Actors's Studio'' and ''NBA Sports'' (''Inside the [=NBActor=]'s Studio''), ''Series/DoogieHowserMD'' and ''[[Series/{{House}} House M.D.]]'' (''Doogie House M.D.''), ''Series/DeadliestCatch'' and ''[[Series/{{Dateline}} To Catch a Predator]]'' (''Deadliest Catch a Predator''), and ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' and ''Series/TheHills'' (''King of the Hills'').
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZmewEe_L8 The Tron Lebowski]]" is set in the world of ''Film/{{Tron}}'', but features the plot of ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', another movie that Creator/JeffBridges is famous for.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ1FWrYgNqM The Slumdog Price is Right]]" is basically the plot of ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'' but with the game show featured in the movie being ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' instead of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fkc5r2lFZs This video]] shows what would happen if [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy Bill Nye]] appeared in ''Series/BreakingBad''.
* YouBastard: Get off the internet (or [=CollegeHumor=]) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAKGugtMzk&feature=g-vrec&context=G2505e7cRVAAAAAAAABg GO TO SLEEP!!!]]
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The subject of "The Boy Who Cried Literally", with a guy using "literally" in its well-documented "figuratively literally" instead of "literally literally" meaning, and is berated by his roommates for it. When he does use it correctly after he's been stabbed, they ignore him and he dies of his wounds.
* YourMom: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIeq4i-us8I this sketch]], a bunch of "your mom is so fat" jokes are treated like a serious medical condition.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou:
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_U1oRRDiBg this video]], Sarah is dealing with her unwatched Netflix videos piling up, with the movies themselves complaining about how she hasn't yet watched them.
** Netflix proudly brings you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDqMQQ_WgJw "Cringe-Watching"]]:
-->'''Narrator:''' Here at Netflix, we know the only thing people like more than binge watching, is cringe watching. Which is why in 2017, we're rolling out a whole new lineup of shows guaranteed to make you squirm. Just finished ''Making a Murderer'', and can't wait for more harrowing glimpses to life in the American Midwest? Then get ready for ''Poor Tours''. A new documentary where we take a camera crew into the houses of lower class residents of Manitowoc County, and force them to talk to us about their sad, awful lives. It's basically poorn! Pretty grim, right? Don't worry, we're just getting started. Next we'll investigate the cruel world of abusive nursing homes with ''Elder Scare'', an in-depth documentary that will leave you questioning whether or not human kindness is actually a lie. Want something a bit more close to home? Then choke down a Zoloft and get ready for ''Thin Walls'', the first ever documentary that's actually just a live feed of the couple that lives next door to you having a really aggressive and loud argument. Will it get abusive? Should you have called the cops? Are you a bad person for enjoying this? There answer is "yes". Almost certainly. But that's never stopped you before.\\
Documentaries not your speed? Don't worry, we've got something for everyone to try their best to suffer through. Check out these great new shows and movies streaming soon: Next fall, we'll drop our first ever prank show, ''White People Being Openly Racist on Camera''. Then in summer 2017, get ready to fall in love with a new season of the critically acclaimed British reality series ''Close-up Footage of a Guy Picking a Hangnail''. And finally, next winter, a very special treat for all the Marvel fans: It's ''[[Series/Daredevil2015 Eight Hours of Wilson Fisk Crushing People's Heads in Car Doors]]''.\\
Still craving more cringeworthy content to try and simulate emotion within your joyless husk of a body? Then keep your sweatpants on, shitbeak, because in 2018, we're releasing nothing but Adam Sandler movies, every month, until someone goes crazy and murders him. Then we'll make a documentary about his murder investigation, thus beginning the cycle anew.\\
Netflix. '''Because if it doesn't feel like work, then it's not worth watching.'''
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* ''[[WebVideo/UmActually Um, Actually]]'': A game show hosted by Mike Trapp in which contestants are given incorrect pieces of trivia from various pop culture, and must correctly identify the mistake. Starting with Season 9, Ify Nwadiwe became the new host.