Creativity meets the Interweb:
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Works
- 1983: Doomsday is The Day After meets Threads meets Testament meets WarGames meets Fallout.
- Afterlife SMP is Origins SMP meets X Life SMP. For its de facto successor series, New Life SMP, add Hollow Knight for Owen's episodes specifically.
- Alex Meyers is The Nostalgia Critic meets Harold and the Purple Crayon
- All A Cross is Skies of Arcadia meets Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
- The Annoying Orange is Spongebob Squarepants meets Happy Tree Friends.
- Apocalypse Johto is Poké Wars running under Nuzlocke rules.
- The Boxing Tribune has a "What If" feature described by its own author as Harry Turtledove meets (boxing historian) Bert Sugar.
- The Backrooms is the SCP Foundation meets Infinity Train and Made in Abyss.
- The Arkn Mythos has been described by creator DeathlyLogic as "Supernatural and The Matrix had a three-way with the Slenderverse (without Slenderman)."
- Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews is The Nostalgia Critic meets Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- Candle Cove is H.R. Pufnstuf meets The Twilight Zone.
- Chaos Fighters:
- Chaos Fighters II-Cyberion Strike is Chaos Fighters meets Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force.
- Chaos Fighters II-Chemical Siege and Chaos Fighters: Chemical Warriors-KIMIA are Chaos Fighters meets Element Hunters.
- Checkpoint is X-Play meets The Daily Show.
- Checkmate, Lincolnites! is Contrapoints meets Gettysburg, or possibly even more fittingly Gods and Generals.
- The Chimera Bazaar
is Cthulhu Mythos & Ancient Mythologies meet ×××HOLiC with a hint of Fruits Basket.
- CollegeHumor:
- Troopers is Bob & Steve meets Star Wars.
- CollegeHumor also did their own version of this in "Mash-Up Television". Included are a mash-up of ER and WWE, The Golden Girls and Gossip Girl, Inside the Actors's Studio and NBA Sports, Doogie Howser, M.D. and House, Deadliest Catch and To Catch a Predator, and King of the Hill and The Hills.
- Dimension 20 uses this premise for each of its campaigns:
- Fantasy High is Harry Potter meets The Breakfast Club.
- Escape From The Bloodkeep is a Perspective Flip of Lord of the Rings meets The Office (US).
- The Unsleeping City is Dungeons & Dragons meets New York City.
- Tiny Heist is The Borrowers and Toy Story meets Ocean's Eleven.
- A Crown Of Candy is Game of Thrones meets Candy Land.
- Of Mice And Murder is The Wind in the Willows meets a Victorian Britain/Genteel Interbellum Setting murder mystery story of the Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie varieties.
- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is, as described by Stephen Colbert: "Top Gear with Nigella Lawson Food Porn and comedy."
- Dark Dungeons is Chick Tracts plus Reefer Madness: The Musical (thankfully not the original) minus The Musical.
- Darwin's Soldiers is Die Hard meets X-Men meets Half-Life meets Resident Evil meets furries.
- Demo Reel is Be Kind Rewind meets The Office.
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is Sesame Street meets David Cronenberg, meets Eraserhead, meets Wonder Showzen, meets Candle Cove, meets Videodrome, and meets Aqua Teen Hunger Force, with a bit of The Truman Show.
- Dream SMP is Game of Thrones meets Minecraft.
- Alternately, it starts off as Minecraft meets Breaking Bad meets Hamilton, then everything goes downhill from there in a form of chaos and amalgams that can only be described as the Dream SMP.
- Epic Chef is Epic Meal Time meets Iron Chef.
- Epic Meal Time: Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee meets Metalocalypse.
- Fandom Secrets: Post Secret meets....TV Tropes.
- Feed Dump: LoadingReadyRun meets What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?.
- FoxTale2614 is Solid jj meets Ninjago.
- Freshy Kanal is Epic Rap Battles of History meets the matchup styles of DeathBattle and Celebrity Deathmatch.
- Frozen '50s Man is Blast from the Past meets a setting-updated Mike Hammer with a bit of Police Squad! thrown in.
- In Ryan Hollinger's analysis video on Gemini Home Entertainment, he described the Analog Horror series as "a combination of Twin Peaks, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Colour Out of Space."
- Half in the Bag was described by Mike Stoklasa as "Siskel & Ebert meets an Eighties sitcom".
- If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device is Warhammer 40,000 meets Mystery Science Theater 3000 meets Johnny Got His Gun meets Spitting Image meets South Park meets Team Fortress 2.
- Incognito Cinema Warriors XP is MST3K meets Resident Evil.
- Internet Historian is Down the Rabbit Hole meets SsethTzeentach.
- The Interface Series is A Scanner Darkly meets the Cthulhu Mythos.
- The Isle of Rangoon is Channel Awesome meets The Muppet Show.
- Jimquisition is Zero Punctuation meets The Colbert Report.
- Or Last Week Tonight meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show by way of Divine.
- JoJo's Copyright-Free Adventures is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets Inferno Cop with text-to-speech voices and stock images.
- Journey Through the Multiverse is Kingdom Hearts as written by Gen Urobuchi and Yoshiyuki Tomino.
- The Last Podcast on the Left: Coast to Coast AM as hosted by the Game Grumps.
- Limetown is Welcome to Night Vale meets Serial.
- The video essays of Lindsay Ellis are Real Time with Bill Maher meets Roger Ebert.
- Loki IRL: Invader Zim meets Drawn Together meets Pokémon.
- ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ is Marble Hornets as created by the author of Candle Cove and filmed on VHS tapes.
- Mega64: cKy (the video series, not the related band) meets video games in general.
- Mandela Catalogue is ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ meets The Binding of Isaac meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
- Monster Factory is basically Regular Show with the plotline of Making Fiends.
- Monster Island Buddies is Godzilla meets Action League NOW!
- Mortal Kombat: Rebirth looks like Saw meets Se7en meets Fight Club meets Batman Begins meets The Dark Knight.
- The New Hansel And Gretel is Coraline in Goo Goo Getup as an episode of The Twilight Zone.
- The Nostalgia Critic: At The Movies meets Mystery Science Theater 3000, but somehow even Denser and Wackier than what that description may imply.
- The Out Crowd is officially described as The Breakfast Club meets The X-Files, but it could also be described as The Breakfast Club meets World of Darkness.
- Pirates SMP is Sea of Thieves meets Divergent in a Minecraft setting, with a dash of The Promised Neverland and The Truman Show.
- Project Fia is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Wild ARMs, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Thaumcraft and the Final Fantasy games, most notably Final Fantasy XIV.
- Qwerpline:
- NewsRadio meets Northern Exposure.
- Qwerpline was also described during Desert Bus 9 as "Welcome to Night Vale by way of UHF."
- The podcast RABBITS advertises itself by referencing a review describing it as Ready Player One meets Serial meets Lost.
- Rats SMP is described by one of the creators to be The Secret World of Arrietty meets Flushed Away, with a dash of Minecraft.
- Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider - Pre-Teen Raider: Tomb Raider meets Kim Possible.
- Real-Time Fandub is the concept of The Abridged Series meets Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
- RebelTaxi is Familiar Faces meets Lazy Game Reviews In the Style of Toonami.
- Regular Car Reviews is often described as "Mr. Plinkett if he reviewed cars."
- Retsupurae is Mystery Science Theater 3000 meets video games and the Internet.
- Sailor Nothing: Sailor Moon meets either Watchmen or perhaps Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- The Salvation War is World War Z meets the Book of Revelation.
- Sans Gaming is Undertale with the memes and style of humor of SiIvaGunner.
- The SCP Foundation is Lovecraftian Creepypasta meets the Men in Black and The X-Files, all mixed together with a bag of crack laced with copious amounts of acid.
- The Slender Man Mythos:
- As a whole, it's the works of H. P. Lovecraft as re-interpreted by The Internet.
- Marble Hornets is The Blair Witch Project meets The Ring, with a dash of Chzo Mythos on top.
- Seeking Truth is Dirty Harry meets A Study in Emerald.
- SMPEarth is what happens when a bunch of streamers play NationStates within Minecraft.
- SMPLive is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia meets Minecraft.
- Spirits Of Life is like a combination of Naruto and Hayao Miyazaki's works.
- Spongebob & Friends Adventures is Pooh's Adventures meets Kingdom Hearts meets One Piece.
- SsethTzeentach: MandaloreGaming meets 4chan.
- SuperMarioLogan is amateur The Muppets meets Super Mario Bros. meets Family Guy meets It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia meets Rocko's Modern Life.
- There Will Be Brawl: Sin City meets Super Smash Bros.. with a good helping of The Silence of the Lambs thrown in.
- Twig: Chronicles of Chaos meets Frankenstein with elements of Worm (which makes sense, as Twig and Worm are written by the same author).
- Twitter Story Earth 5 AR is Fantastic Planet meets The New Hansel And Gretel as a Short Film.
- Unskippable: MST3K meets... more MST3K. But with Video Games!
- Welcome to Night Vale:
- "The News from Lake Wobegon" meets Creepypasta.
- Or a more blatantly supernatural Twin Peaks meets A Prairie Home Companion.
- Creator/NPR meets The Mothman Prophecies.
- According to Kate Leth, it's like "if Stephen King and Neil Gaiman started a game of The Sims and then just left it running forever."
- What the Fuck Is Wrong with You? is Mystery Science Theater 3000 meets defictionalization of Dumb and Dumber meets Channel Awesome.
- What Madness is This? and What Madness Is This? Redux is what happens when you put Warhammer 40,000, Starship Troopers, Dr. Strangelove, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, Fallout, many classic dystopian novels (i.e. Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World), the works of Harry Turtledove, Stephen King, J. R. R. Tolkien, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Bloch into a blender with a side order of Bioshock Infinite and the creator's insane childhood.
- Winter of '83 is ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ meets Doctor Who (more specifically, the revived series episode "The Snowmen") all while being framed as a Found Footage Analog Horror story.
- Worm:
- Heroes meets Godzilla meets the works of H. P. Lovecraft with the darkness and moral ambiguity of Game of Thrones.
- Alternatively, A Song of Ice and Fire meets X-Men meets Gone
- It's also been summarized as the The DCU version of Animorphs.
- Wormtooth Nation: A Midsummer Night's Dream meets Dark City IN A SUBTERRAINEAN STEAMPUNK WORLD!
- Wrestling With Wregret is The Nostalgia Critic meets WrestleCrap.
- The Mysterious Mr. Enter is pre-episode 36 Familiar Faces meets TV Trash.
Characters
- Everyman HYBRID: HABIT is totheark meets Killer BOB.
- Kevin Smith + Guy Gardner + Comic Book Guy + Walter Sobchak + Archie Bunker = Josh Hadley.
- Incognito Cinema Warriors XP:
- Rick Wolf is Mike Nelson meets Chris Redfield.
- Dr. Blackwood is Dr. Forrester meets Dr. Wily.
- Jonathan Kincaid is Albert Wesker meets Season 1 Dr. Forrester.
- Neopets: Doctor Sloth is The Grinch meets Doctor Neo Cortex.
- The Nostalgia Critic is Daffy Duck crossed with Jay Sherman crossed with Professor Fate.
- JonTron is Nathan Lane, baked inside The Angry Video Game Nerd, baked inside Daffy Duck.
- PeanutButterGamer is The Spoony One meets Mabel Pines.
- The Mysterious Mr. Enter is a much less caustic Confused Matthew meets a pre-season three Chad Rocco.
- Diamanda Hagan + Zapp Brannigan = SF Debris' version of Captain Janeway.
- The With Voices Project is The Abridged Series meets Let's Plays.
- Qwerpline's Derek is Matthew Brock meets Whiny-Voiced Teen.
- SuperMarioLogan
- Jeffy is Ed meets Jimmy Valmer meets Eric Cartman meets Cheese.
- PhantomStrider is a considerably less caustic The Mysterious Mr. Enter meets Watch Mojo.
- SCP Foundation:
- The SCP Foundation itself is the Men in Black meets S.H.I.E.L.D. with elements of the B.P.R.D.. Their Evil Counterpart in the form of the Chaos Insurgency, meanwhile, is HYDRA but with the aesthetic of Those Wacky Nazis replaced with the modern military-industrial complex.
- The Global Occult Coalition is a mix of the aforementioned B.P.R.D. and the Global Defense Initiative.
- The Church of the Broken God are basically what would happen if the Adeptus Mechanicus were also Gnostics. Their Arch-Enemy - the Sarkic Cults - are essentially Gnostics given Lovecraftian Superpowers.
- Mario Teh Plumber is Sammy Classic Sonic Fan if he got corrupted and turned into a Horror.
