History Sandbox / MetropolisOSC

* DisproporationateRetribution: blow up the moon, rightfully retaliate by blowing up earth

* SoulSuckingDeskJob: Briefcase... 100% done, end-credits show he was recently divorced with his wife taking away the kids, did a real number on him, emotional sobbing wreck, so empty inside by the time of the short

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* LiterallyShatteredLives: crushed by falling debris

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* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-inverted. Mauve immediately went on the offense when the monster targeted Sen and proceeded to chase after and tried to kill it despite already scaring it off.

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The festival had a huge turnout with over a hundred groups, both individual and team effort, creating a total of 92 shorts and five hours and twenty-seven minutes of animation. It also introduces the festival's {{Mascot}}... Film Strip

Check out the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH7hp35LMyg full screening]].

* AlliterativeName: '''B'''ank '''B'''reakers, The '''C'''olour '''C'''rew, A '''C'''up Of '''C'''hange, '''M'''agical '''M'''alfunction, '''M'''etro '''M'''emoir, The '''M'''etropolis '''M'''ayor, '''M'''oonlight '''M'''emories, '''P'''aint Can '''P'''eril, The '''P'''lant '''P'''rotest, '''T'''ale of '''T'''wo Cities, Troop 16, '''C'''ritter '''C'''rusaders and '''W'''indow '''W'''ipers

* CityNoir:

* ElevatorButtonsMash: Corn presses all ninety-two buttons on the elevator just to spite them, the film festival is on the ninety-second floor, the segways go through all the floors,

* {{Mascot}}: Film Strip

* ShipperOnDeck: The livestream was set to release during pride month so there were a lot more LGBT couples and intimate moments this time around. As such, the chat was in a particular frenzy, chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" whenever something romantic or intimate happens between characters, including the chat modulators and big OSC creators.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome:
* TheComicallySerious:

* InsaneTrollLogic: Cigar speculate he had a friend, allergic to pickles but ate him anyway, threw up and needed to go to the bathroom, his colleagues were so dumbfounded by what he's saying that they had to stop his ImagineSpot and told him off for being useless to the case

** This is visually obvious, but the font that was used to narrate the beginning and end of the film was the same font as what BFB/TPOT primarily uses (which is the Albertus Nova font, to which I nearly forgot to download it as I began video editing since it was done on my new phone which was barely over a month old at the time so I had to install again the font I wished to use)

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: FloatingPlatform stairs

* ShoutOut: The supervillain of the short has the PunnyName of "[[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Peavil]]".

* LongTitle:

* RepetitiveName: City of Cityplace, Ty Tie, sounds similar to his [[SpeciesSurname last name]]

* StickyFingers: Moss, also have a guitar, tambourine and triangle in their possession

* ImprovisedWeapon: bent stop sign

* CrazyHomelessPeople:

* LuminescentBlush: magnifying glass and picnic basket

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling:

* ShoutOut: their objects are

* QueerColors:

* {{Callback}}: [[TitleDrop namedrops]] the previous OSC film festival, Rob Boss (Object-Rama), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=335YyMRdeNM Ray William Johnson's cool transition]] sound effect, Calilou pops up out of nowhere
-->'''Fish Cake:''' ''Sandbox/NaturesBliss''
* CompanyCrossReferences: jumps through the portal, ''Object-Rama'', ''Object Requiem''
* LookBehindYou: excited by the prospect of another Dango trio, look out their room window, Shell takes the opportunity to swipe their [portal portal] before they discover the ruse

** Hotel OJ ripoff, Teh Elimination Hotel
* SweetieGraffiti: Wrench had craved a heart with his and Fish Cake's initials into a tree during a challenge. ...looking pleased with himself
* SyntheticVoiceActor: The middle dango, lampshades how their voice sounds weird/funny
* TheVoiceless: Wrench does not say a word during the short since he spent the only scene he was in outside of photos rather his lips do the talking/ gave Fish Cake a ShutUpKiss for reassurance
* TwoBeingsOneBody: Dango, three heads on one body/stick

* OnlyKnowByTheirNickname: Joe, Cappucino

* ShoutOut: There's a news segment with Pie the helicopter traffic reporter about the chase which is a direct homage to "Arnie Pye in the Sky" from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Folder gave a rather flirtatious response to Tie, implying to have a crush on them... However, since the obvious and stronger ship is Tie and Cranberry, we will never know if Folder does or is a ShipperOnDeck

* NonHumanNonBinary: Cranberry and Tie
** tie is they/he and cranberry is they/it/she, they're both non-binary
* NonMammalianHair:

* RuleOfFunny: The awkward placement of Staple's legs at the center of their body was solely because the group thought it was hilarious-looking.

** The back of the seeds Tie bought has the silhouette of Bec's head from Homestuck, intended as a reference to one of the crewmembers's hyper fixations/obsessions, EasterEgg
** Tie's official pose is a reference to the ''Series/YoungSheldon'' pose
* ShipTease: strong chemistry, as though they were already a couple, their reunion implied that they both have feelings for each other
** 80% of the chat replay was begging them to kiss... also the animator for the reunion scene actually intended it to imply they had feelings for each other

* WordOfGod: Rephrased ad Transfer
** folder was not intended to sound flirty but i just kind of stuck with it
** the cast/team ship eraser and stop sign for absolutely no reason

** CityNoir, the detective thing was something I suggested in a rush, there isn't much else other than a character concept I almost lost
** grandpa fern initially had a leaf beard which was also scrapped
* WriteWhatYouKnow: pogdogbytes
** grandpa fern is based off my dad

** cranberry is based off of me!

The festival had a huger turnout with ....a total of 92 shorts, five hours and twenty-seven minutes

It also introduces the festival's {{Mascot}}... Film Strip

Not be confused with the [[Film/{{Metropolis}} film]] or [[Anime/Metropolis2001 anime]] of the same name.

* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: subverted in that no...paid for bus and train fare, huge disappointment

** The assets of both Bolt and Sparkles featured the number 48 to intentionally reference the 48-Hour Film Festival. Their assets will continue being used as to pinpoint the roots of this upcoming sequel temporarily called "The Electric Saga (Part 2)"

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Byte was originally going to be one of the protagonists as the original story was going to be a team of 5 superhero objects saving the city from the chaos caused by a dooming power outage, but due to the sheer number of characters, we had to cut down the number of characters to 3 and turned Byte into one of the antagonists.
*** That 5-member superhero team featured the 3 characters that made it to the final film, the other 2 will be featured in the sequel of the film.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Rephased and Transfer
** The group accidentally made an entirely different concept days before the theme was dropped and had to quickly came up with another one afterward. It was originally a {{pilot}}, later titled "[[WorkingTitle Aurora Polaris]]", about
*** about a town called Frosthaven, where all of the winter of the world is trapped so every {{Object Show|s}} grass fields stay green forever, the mc is a wrench named Polar and her job is to check on the barrier and touch it up now and again

* CheatersNeverProsper: lied about being scientist so they can have the orb to themselves
* {{Cyclops}}: Radio (on her knob) and Time Stopper

* MinimalistCast: Only Mike and Aaron are the only characters to appear in the short

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Just another Tuesday, the title implies, nothing new, doesn't even turn around or respond to the hero and villain battle behind him

* {{Cliffhanger}}:
* GigglingVillain:

* AerithAndBob: Ty and Claire Wilson, Tuts and [...], [[ADogNamedDog Gravestone]] smackdabbed in the middle
* ALizardNamedLiz: Ty the Tie
* ArmlessBiped: Ty, armless variant becomes a clue ...Banana, inverted

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tuts
* CreepyUndertaker:
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: grayscale
* DesecratingTheDead:
* DudeNotFunny:

* EveryoneHasStandard: even he is creeped out at the {{Undertaker}}
* GenderBlenderName: Tuts, pronounced as "Toots", slang when addressing a woman, is a guy

* IdeaLightbulb: Lightbulb of season 1 style ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity''
* InelegantBlubbering: Claire Wilson's wife... her beloved spouse is now deceased, is of no use in the case
* LiterallyShatteredLives:
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Tuts... mouth, open and closes at the seamline/brim
* RepetitiveName:
* SuddenAnatomy: arms, plot hole, there's supposed to be no fingerprints

* StickyFingers:

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-inverted. Mauve was not happy the monster was targeting Sen, immediately went on the offense, didn't stop him from running after and trying to kill it
->'''Mauve:''' "Hey! Nobody messes with my ''boyfriend''!" [Whacks the monster upside the head with a stop sign]

* ShoutOut:

* TheBigDamnKiss: Fishcake and Wrench's reunion... As if on cue, the entire [[ShipperOnDeck livestream chat]] went absolutely nuts at finally getting what they wanted from the previous [[ChastityCouple couples]].

* CompanyCrossReferences: ''Object-Rama'', ''Object Requiem''

* TheVoiceless: Wrench does not say a word during the short... rather his lips do the talking/ too busy kissing him/ gave Fish Cake a ShutUpKiss for reassurance

* WordOfGay: states that Wrench is pansexual

The festival had a huge turnout....92 shorts, five hours and twenty-seven minutes

Introduces the festival's {{Mascot}}... Film Strip

* ChastityCouple: just hug, the chat becomes comically outraged when they don't kiss

** The word "saga" was featured twice in the script, one was in the title, and one was in the first scene, it was called "Blackout Saga", and I guess it was because I liked using the word "saga" more recently to pertain to either chaotic or potentially disastrous events or a massive mission or quest to save the masses like how the mobile video games use the word "saga"

* AlienInvasion: threw their

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* EnragedByIdiocy: Pen, at Cigar's absolute idiotic nonsense, InsaneTrollLogic, punched his lights out than hear another word from him

* InsaneTrollLogic: speculate he had a friend, allergic to pickles but ate him anyway, threw up and needed to go to the bathroom, his colleagues were so dumbfounded by what he's saying that they had to stop his ImagineSpot and told him off for being useless to the case

* NotSoBadassLongcoat: completely useless, imbecile

* AerithAndBob:
* ALizardNamedLiz:

* DeliberatelyMonochrome:

* EurekaMoment: IdeaLightbulb, Lightbulb of season 1 style ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity''

* NoNameGiven: The widowed wife of Claire Wilson is only referred to as such with the credits listing her as "".

* ShipperOnDeck: The livestream was set to release during pride month so there were a lot more LGBT couples and intimate moments this time around. As such, the chat was in a particular frenz, chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" whenever something romantic or intimate happens between characters, including the chat modulators and big OSC creators.

* SupportingProtagonist: Glass Shard is the second main character after Sundew even though they only appeared in the last scene. ...help guide Sundew

* ShoutOut: One of the protagonists is a , ''Music/TheBeatles'', Music/TheWhiteAlbum

* RelationshipReveal: At the end of the short, ... live together, share a bed and holding hands in the credits, a couple, the live chat was especially pleased

* BuryYourGays: The murder victim Claire Wilson was revealed to have a now widowed wife, making her the only confirmed LGBTQ character to [[KilledOffForReal permanently die]] in the film festival.

* NoNameGiven: The widowed wife of Claire Wilson is only referred to as such

* LiterallyShatteredLives:

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-inverted. Mauve was not happy the monster was targeting Sen, didn't stop him from running after and trying to kill it

* GivenNameReveal: [[ALizardNamedLiz Lampy]], how original

* AmbiguousEnding: Lemon ... "it should be up to interpretation", Lemon is conspicuously absent (Missing from where he should be seated from)
* AmbiguousGender: Flag, Lemon, Comic Book are not mentioned in the third person throughout the short, WordOfGod

* WholePlotReference: ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''

* MoodWhiplash: heartfelt moment rudely interrupted

* ShipperOnDeck: The livestream was set to release during pride month so there were a lot more LGBT couples and intimate moments this time around. As such, the chat was in a particular frenzy and chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" whenever something romantic or intimate happens between characters, including the chat modulators and big OSC creators.

* InsaneTrollLogic: speculate he had a friend, allergic to pickles but ate him anyway, threw up and needed to go to the bathroom, his colleagues were so dumbfounded by what he's saying that they had to stop his ImagineSpot and told him off for being of no use to the case

* NotSoBadassLongcoat: completely useless

* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: was totally fine

* AlienInvasion:

* OneHeadTaller:
* RelationshipReveal: At the end of the short reveals they live together, share a bed and holding hands in the credits, a couple, the live chat was especially pleased

* ArmlessBiped: Ty, becomes a clue ...Banana, inverted

* NoNameGiven: The widowed wife of Claire Wilson

* QueerColors: Night Light... non-binary sticker on their violin

->'''Maw:''' "Hey! Nobody messes with my ''boyfriend''!" [Whacks the monster upside the head with a stop sign]

* AnchorismStew: The Sheriff proclaims that technology shouldn't exist yet but if there isn't then how come he knows what to call it in the first place ... a tv, a smartphone (The Sheriff himself) and a keyboard cap living amongst the townsfolk.

* LuminescentBlush:

* ShoutOut: One of the objects, ''Music/TheBeatles'', Music/TheWhiteAlbum

** Byte was originally going to be one of the protagonists as the original story was going to be a team of 5 superhero objects saving the city from the chaos caused by a dooming power outage, but due to the sheer number of characters, we had to cut down the number of characters to 3 and turned Byte into one of the antagonists.
*** That 5-member superhero team featured the 3 characters that made it to the final film, the other 2 will be featured in the sequel of the film.

** Only the first half of "The Electric Saga" was actually storyboarded. This was because I, [=IreneThePhoenix=], was getting too burnt out on storyboarding that I offered to sacrifice for animating the remaining two scenes and hand over the storyboard of the first two to my other animator, Compital.

* InNameOnly: During production, mossyhaven only came up with the film's concept before they [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere straight-up ghosted]] and left all the hard work of actually creating it to the rest of their teammates like every school group project. In spite of this, they were still credited first for the short.

* MotorMouth: Radio's instructions for Sundew on how to properly manage the Orb is so complex and so fast that you need to [[FreezeFrameBonus pause every second]] to read [[InfoDump all the text]] flying past the screen. ...
-->'''Radio:''' The orb in question contains a massive amount of data pertaining to the laws of the universe. Damage done to the orb could cause catastrophic results and may be irreversible. The employee manual states multiple times to never interact directly with the orb unprepared. Orb monitoring is strictly only for short periods as [[{{Pun}} overexorbbture]] could cause illness though these illnesses don't usually cause death, they may break the fabric space. Never let orb data exceed 9223372036854775807 or else it would collapse-
-->'''Sundew:''' Um, miss? Can you uh--
-->'''Radio:''' [Without skipping a beat] -The orb may be volatile and decide to lash out at times. This may be just to spite you. Modification to the orb to fit your own worldly ideals is illegal. You will be executed. The orb's data is similar to a computer's. If you have coding experience, it would be easier and [[{{Understatement}} that's all you have to do]].

** The group accidentally made an entirely different concept days before the theme was dropped and had to quickly came up with another one afterward. It was originally a {{pilot}} later titled "[[WorkingTitle Aurora Polaris]]"
*** about a town called frosthaven btw, where all of the winter of the world is trapped so every object show grass fields stay green forever
the mc is a wrench named polar and her job is to check on the barrier and touch it up now and again

*** There was supposed to be a scene after the white screen where Glass Shard reassures Sundew about the whole mess and then shows them how to get down via the elevator, but due to time constraints it didn't make the cut. Perhaps I'll show it in a director's cut version with the raw audios and the storyboards!
* WordOfGod: A sequel is not planned but had it been made, it will be about Glass Shard's vacation of just sleeping for days on end.

* CheatersNeverProsper:

* FlyingSaucer:
* RepetitiveName:

* RelationshipReveal: they live together, share a bed and holding hands in the credits, a couple, the live chat was especially pleased

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: punny pathetic fools (Pronounce with "ph-")

* ShoutOut: the PunnyName of "[[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Peavil]]"

* UndignifiedDeath: both Cotton Candy and Dr. Peavil, WeaksauceWeakness, melted/disintegrated... spray bottle filled with ordinary lukewarm water... threw a latex eraser at her, gravestone lampshading it

* NonStandardCharac

** The group accidentally made an entirely different concept which was a {{pilot}} titled "[[WorkingTitle Aurora Polaris]]" days before the theme was dropped and had to quickly came up with another one afterward.

* WorkingTitle: "Magical Malfunction" was initially called "Aurora Polaris" before the festival actually began. The group scrambled to come up with names such as "Sundew's Disastrous First Day", "Cosmic Nexus Corporation" and "Magical Malfunction at Cosmic Nexus Corporation" before finally settling on the current title during the last few hours of the deadline.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer:
* BuryYourGays: The murder victim Claire Wilson was revealed to have a now widowed wife, making her the only confirmed LGBTQ character to [[KilledOffForReal permanently die]] in the film festival.

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->'''Maw:''' Hey! Nobody messes with my ''boyfriend''! [Whacks the monster upside the head with a stop sign]

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* TheBigDamnKiss: Fishcake and Wrench... [[ShipperOnDeck the entire livestream chat]] going absolutely nuts as they became the first on-screen kiss on the lips in the ''Sandbox/FortyEightHourOSCFilmFestival''
* {{Callback}}: [[TitleDrop namedrops]] the previous OSC film festival
-->'''Fish Cake:''' ''Sandbox/NaturesBliss''
* CompanyCrossReferences: ''Object Rama'', [...]
* DarkHorseVictory: No one had expected ''FRAGMENTS'' to receive third place, especially [...] himself, given that fourth-placer ''Justice Never Sleeps'' was better acclaimed and had more votes. This is because the one and only vote the short had to its name was a $100 donation, easily bringing it up to the top three, compared to ''Justice Never Sleeps'''s total of $72.
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* LookBehindYou: dango
* PhotoMontage: the credits, seen previously at the beginning but show more pictures of Fishcake and Wrench in-between

** Hotel OJ ripoff
** Ray William Johnson transition sound
** The Dango Trio/Brothers have a poster of Music/{{Jamiroquai}} with the outfit he wore for his "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE Virtual Insanity]]" music video
* ShutUpKiss:
* TheStinger: rare for a short, the host yells at the contestants they can leave now that the competition is over, only to find the hotel empty, forget it and go play video games/take a nap
* SweetieGraffiti:
* SyntheticVoiceActor: The middle dango, lampshades how their voice sounds weird/funny
* TheVoiceless: Wrench... rather his lips do the talking/ too busy kissing him/ gave Fish Cake a ShutUpKiss for reassurance
* TransparentCloset: Fish Cake reveals to Shell that Wrench is his boyfriend and is worried sick he might forget him while competing. Shell, however, is completely unsurprised by this:

* TwoBeingsOneBody: Dango, three heads on one body/stick

* WordOfGay: states that Wrench is pansexual

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* TheBigDamnKiss: Fishcake and Wrench... [[ShipperOnDeck the entire livestream chat]] going absolutely nuts as they became the first on-screen kiss on the lips in the ''Sandbox/FortyEightHourOSCFilmFestival'' as a whole

* DarkHorseVictory: No one had expected ''FRAGMENTS'' to receive third place given the fourth-placer ''Justice Never Sleeps'' was better acclaimed and had more votes. This is because the one and only vote the short had to its name was a $100 donation compared to ''Justice Never Sleeps'''s , easily bringing it up to the top three.

-->'''Fish Cake:'' "SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!!"

The big city

* AudienceSurrogate:
* ButtMonkey:

* ElevatorButtonsMash: Corn presses all ninety-two buttons on the elevator just to spite them, the film festival is on the ninety-second floor, the segways going through all the floors,

* {{Intermission}}:

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* CheatersNeverProsper:

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* RepetitiveName:

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
* AllThereInTheManual:

* KillItWithWater:

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* EveryCarIsAPinto: StuffBlowingUp

* StuffBlowingUp:

* ElevatorButtonsMash: press all the buttons on the elevator just to spite them, the segways going through all the floors,

** Byte was originally going to be one of the protagonists as the original story was going to be a team of 5 superhero objects saving the city from chaos caused by a dooming power outage, but due to the sheer number of characters, we had to cut down the number of characters to 3 and turned Byte into one of the antagonists.
*** Oh, and btw, that 5-member superhero team featured the 3 characters that made it to the final film, the other 2 will be featured in the sequel of the film.

** This is very subtle, but there was actually audio cut from the original audio file my audio editor sent, which was some sounds of stepping on fractured floor tiles, which I did not realize initially.

* InNameOnly: During production, mossyhaven only came up with the film's concept before straight-up ghosting and leaving all the hard work of actually creating it to the rest of their teammates like every school group project. In spite of this, they were still credited first for the short.

* PointyHairedBoss: Radio, incompetent, makes bad decision, Glass Shard lampshades how bad of a job Radio is doing when letting a mere intern take care of such a huge responsibility without proper guidance, InfoDump, gloss over

** Sundew's tentacles were supposed to be at the front but foxlias griffin thought it was better at the back, causing everyone to follow suit for consistency.
** Sundew originally was going to say a pretty depressing line but it wasn't storyboarded and thus their voice actor never recorded it.
*** There was also supposed to be a scene after the white screen where Glass Shard reassures Sundew about the whole mess and then shows them how to get down via the elevator, but due to time constraints it didn't make the cut. Perhaps I'll show it in a director's cut version with the raw audios and the storyboards!

* WorkingTitle: "Aurora Polaris", The group scrambled to come up with names such as "Sundew's Disastrous First Day", "Cosmic Nexus Corporation" and "Magical Malfunction at Cosmic Nexus Corporation" before finally settling on the current title during the last few hours of the deadline.

** ''Reach For The Sky!''

* TheBully:

* SelfDeprecation: Yisan, the creator of te short, made it quite clear that they were not happy

** The group accidentally made an entirely different concept which was a {{pilot}} titled "[[WorkingTitle Aurora Polaris]]" days before the theme was dropped and had to quickly came up with another one afterwards.

* WeaksauceWeakness:

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* ArmlessBiped: becomes a clue

* TheBigDamnKiss: [[ShipperOnDeck the chat]] is rightfully happy, the first on-screen kiss on the lips

* ShoutOut: Music/{{Jamiroquai}}, the outfit he wore for his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE Virtual Insanity]] music video

* TransparentCloset: Fish Cake reveals to Shell that Wrench is his boyfriend and is worried sick he might forget him. Shell, however, is completely unsurprised by this:

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* MediumBlending:
* ScarsAreForever:

** grandpa fern is based off my dad
** there's symbolism behind the country-side objects
** Rosehip puree is actually something my dad makes for me
** cranberry is based off of me!
** my friend actually texted me mid-premiere to ask if I voiced grandpa fern because she "recognized that scream anywhere"

** grandpa fern initially had a leaf beard which was also scrapped

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: CityNoir, the detective thing was something i suggested in a rush, there isnt much else other than a character concept i almost lost

92 shorts

* TheCameo: During intermission #6, Dandy, last year's second placer, ''WebAnimation/DandelionTheWorldBeginsWithYou'' ...YouLookFamiliar

* ChastityCouple: just hug, the chat becomes a bit disappointed when they don't kiss

* ElevatorButtonsMash: press all the buttons on the elevator just to spite them, the segways going through all the floors

* ShipperOnDeck: The livestream was set to release during pride month so there were a lot more LGBT couples and intimate moments this time around. As such, the chat was in a frenzy and chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" whenever something romantic or intimate happens between characters, including the chat modulators and big OSC creators.

* InsaneTrollLogic: speculate he had a friend, allergic to pickles but ate him anyway, threw up and needed to go to the bathroom, his colleagues were so baffled by what he's saying that they had stop his ImagineSpot and tell him off for being worthless to the case

* ALizardNamedLiz: Sunflower named "Sunny", fedora named "Fredoric"

* MotorMouth: Radio's instructions for Sundew on how to properly manage the Orb is complex to say the least, was going so fast that you need to [[FreezeFrameBonus pause every second to read all the text flying past the screen]]. ...

* PointyHairedBoss: Radio, Glass Shard lampshades how bad of a job Radio is doing when letting a mere intern take care of such a huge responsibility without proper guidance

*** The group had accidentally made an entirely different concept days before the theme was dropped, we quickly came up with our current concept. The old one is going to become a {{pilot}} titled "Aurora Polaris"
*** The one really good looking bg that people thought was 3d isn't actually 3d at all
*** Sundew's tentacles were supposed to be at the front but
*** fox did them at the back and I decided to follow them for consistency and because it does look better
*** Sundew was originally going to have a pretty depressing line but I forgot to storyboard it and so samu didn't make the audio for that part
*** There was also supposed to be a section after the white screen where Glass Shard reassures Sundew about the whole mess and then shows them how to get down via the elevator, but due to time constraints it didn't make the cut. Perhaps I'll show it in a director's cut version with the raw audios and the storyboards!
* WordOfGod: While a sequel is not planned, it will be about glass shard's vacation (literally just sleeping for days straight)

* BlackComedy: kiss the corpse

* BuryYourGays: The murder victim Claire Wilson was revealed to have a wife, making her the only confirmed LGBTQ character to [[KilledOffForReal permanently die]] in the film festival.

!!Bad Case of the Unknown

* EyepatchOfPower:
* ManlyGay:

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-inverted. ...was not happy the monster was targeting Sen
->'''Maw:''' Hey! Nobody messes with my ''boyfriend''! [Whacks the monster's head with a stop sign]

* AnchorismStew: The Sheriff that technology should not exist yet but if there isn't then how come he knows what to call it in the first place ... a tv, a smartphone (The Sheriff himself) and a keyboard cap living amongst the townsfolk.

* QueerColours:

* TheBigDamnKiss:
* ShoutOut: Music/{{Jamiroquai}}, [[Virtual Insanity]]

* TransparentCloset: Fish Cake reveals to Shell that Wrench is his boyfriend and is worried sick... Shell, however, is completely unsurprised by this revealation, wondering when he would come out of the closet, ...WordOfGod states that Wrench is pansexual
* TwoBeingsOneBody: Dango

!!The City That Sleeps

** The Pom brothers - He/Him

* CoDragons: The Pom brothers

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Xeluma has a surgical scar across their [[EyeScream right eye]], adding onto her character as the BigBad of the short.

* WholePlotReference: ''Series/{{Seidfeld}}

* MotorMouth: Radio's instructions for Sundew on how to properly manage the Orb...complex to say the least, was going so fast that you need to [[FreezeFrameBonus pause every second to read all the text flying past the screen]]. ...without skipping a beat
-->'''Radio:''' The orb in question contains a massive amount of data pertaining to the laws of the universe. Damage done to the orb could cause catastrophic results and may be irreversible. The employee manual states multiple times to never interact directly with the orb unprepared. Orb monitoring is strictly only for short periods as [[{{Pun}} overexorbbture]] could cause illness though these illnesses don't usually cause death, they may break the fabric space. Never let orb data exceed 9223372036854775807 or else it would collapse...

-->'''Radio:''' ...The orb may be volatile and decide to lash out at times. This may be just to spite you. Modification to the orb to fit your own worldly ideals is illegal. You will be executed. The orb's data is similar to a computer's. If you have coding experience, it would be easier and [[{{Understatement}} that's all you have to do]].
* PointyHairedBoss: Radio, Glass Shard lampshades how bad of a job she's doing when letting an intern take care of such a huge responsibility without proper guidance

* ChasistyCouple: the chat was a bit disappointed when they don't kiss

* SelfDeprecation:

* AllThereInTheManual: While not mentioned in the short itself, the standalone video's description states that Sundew goes by "[[NonHumanNonBinary they/them]]" and CNC, the company Sundew works at, stands for "Cosmic Nexus Corporation" which keeps track of all the laws worldwide using the Orb.
* BigDamnHeroes:
* ColorCodedSpeech
* InNameOnly: mossyhaven only came up with the concept then just dipped and left all the hard work to the rest of their teammates like a school group project

* MotorMouth: Radio's instructions for Sundew, was going so fast that you need to [[FreezeFrameBonus pause every second to read all the text flying past the screen]]. ...without skipping a beat
-->'''Radio:''' The orb in question contains a massive amount of data pertaining to the laws of the universe. Damage done to the orb could cause catastrophic results and may be irreversible. The employee manual states multiple times to never interact directly with the orb unprepared. Orb monitoring is strictly only for short periods as [[{{Pun}} overexorbbture]] could cause illness though thse illnesses don't usually cause death, they may break the fabric space. Never let orb data exceed 9223372036854775807 or else it would collapse...

-->'''Radio:''' ...The orb may be volatile and decide to lash out at times. This may be just to spite you. Modification to the orb to fit your own worldly ideals is illegal. You will be executed. The orb's data is similar to a computer's. If you have coding experience, it would be easier and that's all you have to do.

*** Our group accidentally made a whole other concept days before the festival began. When the theme dropped, we quickly came up with our current concept. The old one is going to become a lil pilot titled "Aurora Polaris"
*** We didn't settle on a name until the last few hours, where we decided we kinda had to go for one. So Magical Malfunction it is. (It could've been several other names like Sundew's disastrous first day or just Cosmic Nexus Corporation or Magical Malfunction at Cosmic Nexus Corporation)
*** We did not name a single city.

*** No sequel is planned, but if we ever made one it'd be about glass shard's vacation (literally just sleeping for days straight)
*** Devy animated 3 scenes. I did the entire storyboards and one scene. Fox animated one scene and did that one bg. Samu did all the music. Dawn did the editing. Moss.... They only came up with the film concept and then straight up dipped
*** Sundew's... Um, dews? Were supposed to be at the front but fox did them at the back and i decided to follow them for consistency and because it does look better
*** Glass Shard is the second main character despite only appearing in the last scene.

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* ElevatorFailure: blackout

* ShipperOnDeck: As the livestream was set to release during pride month, there were a lot more LGBT couples and intimate moments this time around...in a frenzy, the chat was chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" when something romantic/intimate happens between characters, including the chat modulators and big OSC creators

* EnragedByIdiocy: Pen, at Cigar's absolute nonsense, InsaneTrollLogic, punched his lights out than hear another word from him

* InsaneTrollLogic:
* NotSoBadassLongcoat:

* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody:

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* EnragedByIdiocy:

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* ALizardNamedLiz: Sunflower named "Sunny"

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* LimitedAnimation:

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* MotorMouth: Radio's instructions for Sundew, FreezeFrameBonus
-->'''Radio:'''

*** Our group accidentally made a whole another concept days before the festival began. When the theme dropped, we quickly came up with our current concept. The old one is going to become a lil pilot titled "Aurora Polaris"

*** The one really good looking bg that people thought were 3d isn't actually 3d at all

*** There was also supposed to be a section after the white screen where Glass Shard reassures Sundew about the whole mess and then shows them how to get down via the elevator, but due to time constrains it didn't make the cut. Perhaps I'll show it in a director's cut version with the raw audios and the storyboards!

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->'''Maw:''' [Whacks the monster upside the head with a stop sign]

* YouAreNumberSix:

* YouCantGoBackHomeAgain:

!!The Plant Protest

* ALizardNamedLiz:

* WholePlotReference: Film/TheBluesBrothers

* QueerEstablishingMoment: Fish Cake reveals to Counch Shell that Wrench is his boyfriend, who is unsurprised, wondering when he would come out of the closet, ...WordOfGod states that Wrench is pansexual

* ImmediateSequel: ''Sandbox/NaturesBliss''

* DoubleMeaningTitle: