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* DramaticUnmask: "You've Got Blackmail" mostly plays it for laughs, but it also offers a genuine example. The masked blackmailer is at first revealed to be Ruddy Weaver, only to be Fratbrostein, then Batty Bradley, then Sea Captain, then Crack Rickelson, then Svengoolie, and finally Ruddy again. After Trevor questions why someone would wear all of these masks, we get the real twist: it's really [[Series/ToonInWithMe Bill the Cartoon Curator]].
* DreamWithinADream: "Ain't No Party Like a Donner Party" has Sventoonie experience horrible nightmares in succession: Kerwyn proving more popular than he is, Trevor being the real host of the show, and (what he considers the worst one of all) [[SelfDeprecation co-hosting a weekday show about cartoons]].
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Episode 5 is titled "An American Vampire in America".
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* BookEnds: Season 2 begins and ends with episodes featuring Ruddy Weaver taking over the show- the first, by turning it into a daytime talk show, the second, by hosting a "best guest star" contest.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first couple episodes had more make-up under Sventoonie's eyes, and a bigger mustache and goatee. Both were refined in short order. Also, the first two episodes didn't have Trevor Ground. And the first two episodes also didn't feature the extensive amount of pointing arrows during the movie recaps.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first couple episodes had more make-up under Sventoonie's eyes, and a bigger mustache and goatee. Both were refined in short order. Also, the first two episodes didn't have Trevor Ground. And the first two episodes also didn't feature Ground or the extensive amount of pointing arrows during the movie recaps.

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''Sventoonie'' is a spin-off of both ''Series/ToonInWithMe'' and ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'' which debuted in 2022 after the latter. Hosted by Toony the Tuna in Svengoolie attire, it's billed as the "official Svengoolie after-party", and even takes place in the same dungeon as that program. Unlike ''Svengoolie'', this show doesn't air full movies but instead recaps them in humorous fashion. This is accompanied by skits starring Sventoonie, his co-hosts Blob E. Blob and Trevor Ground, as well as various recurring and one-shot characters. It was renewed for a second season, which debuted on October 1, 2022. Originally airing at 10 pm/9 central, it was pushed back to 10:30/9:30 once its preceding program ''Svengoolie'' expanded to 2 1/2 hours starting in 2023.

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''Sventoonie'' is a spin-off of both ''Series/ToonInWithMe'' and ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'' which debuted in 2022 after the latter. Hosted by Toony the Tuna in Svengoolie attire, it's billed as the "official Svengoolie after-party", and even takes place in the same dungeon as that program. Unlike ''Svengoolie'', this show doesn't air full movies but instead recaps them in humorous fashion. This is accompanied by skits starring Sventoonie, his co-hosts Blob E. Blob and Trevor Ground, as well as various recurring and one-shot characters. It was renewed for a second season, which debuted on October 1, 2022. Originally airing at 10 pm/9 central, central on [=MeTV=], it was pushed back to 10:30/9:30 once its preceding program ''Svengoolie'' expanded to 2 1/2 hours starting in 2023.
2023. (Unlike the parent show, it has discrete seasons and does not run 52 weeks a year; rather than repeats, the downtime between seasons has ''Series/Batman1966'' run in the timeslot.)



* FreakyFridayFlip: "I Wanna Seance With Somebody" featured the souls of Sventoonie, Trevor, Blob, and Svengoolie switching around.

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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: The penultimate episode of Season Two, "Slightly Later with Sventoonie", has him interview Svengoolie and Internet personality Goth Dad talk show style, complete with a unique title sequence and no movie recap.
* FreakyFridayFlip: "I Wanna Seance With Somebody" featured features the souls of Sventoonie, Trevor, Blob, and ''and'' Svengoolie switching around.



* HalloweenEpisode: "Sventoonie's Scary, Merry Halloween!" is a double-length episode that also doubles as a ChristmasSpecial (due to Sventoonie's belief that Christmas specials always overshadow the Halloween ones). The featured movie is ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'', while the skits mix Halloween and Christmas tropes together (such as a horror-themed gift exchange).

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* HalloweenEpisode: "Sventoonie's Scary, Merry Halloween!" is a double-length episode that also doubles as a ChristmasSpecial (due to Sventoonie's belief that Christmas specials always overshadow the Halloween ones). The featured movie is ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'', while the skits mix Halloween and Christmas tropes together (such as a horror-themed gift exchange).



* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Subverted in the Season 2 ChristmasEpisode: Trevor Ground wishes he'd never ''died''. Ruddy Weaver shows him how horrible the world would've been if he had stayed alive, starting with Sventoonie having to show cutesy movies (hence the episode's subject, ''The Great Rupert'').

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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Subverted in the Season 2 ChristmasEpisode: ChristmasEpisode "It's a Wonderful Loss of Life": Trevor Ground wishes he'd never ''died''. Ruddy Weaver shows him how horrible the world would've been if he had stayed alive, starting with Sventoonie having to show cutesy movies (hence the episode's subject, ''The Great Rupert'').
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** "You've Got Blackmail" has a joke towards the end about how many of Kevin Fleming's characters seem so similar when viewed one after another, which suggests an actor with limited range. Sventoonie (voiced by Fleming) naturally doesn't see it.
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* ToiletHumour: Fart jokes are common, especially for Trevor Ground.
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* InstrumentalThemeTune: Two notes repeated a few times on a synthesizer. It sounds like something that would come from an '80s horror movie.
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** Sventoonie frequently says "Whoops-a-doopsas!" during the movie recaps.

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** Sventoonie frequently says "Whoops-a-doopsas!" "Oopser doopsers!" during the movie recaps.
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''Sventoonie'' is a spin-off of both ''Series/ToonInWithMe'' and ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'' which debuted in 2022 after the latter. It's billed as the "official Svengoolie after-party", and even takes place in the same dungeon as that program. Unlike ''Svengoolie'', this show doesn't air full movies but instead recaps them in humorous fashion. This is accompanied by skits starring Sventoonie, his co-hosts Blob E. Blob and Trevor Ground, as well as various recurring and one-shot characters. It was renewed for a second season, which debuted on October 1, 2022. Originally airing at 10 pm/9 central, it was pushed back to 10:30/9:30 once its preceding program ''Svengoolie'' expanded to 2 1/2 hours starting in 2023.

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''Sventoonie'' is a spin-off of both ''Series/ToonInWithMe'' and ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'' which debuted in 2022 after the latter. It's Hosted by Toony the Tuna in Svengoolie attire, it's billed as the "official Svengoolie after-party", and even takes place in the same dungeon as that program. Unlike ''Svengoolie'', this show doesn't air full movies but instead recaps them in humorous fashion. This is accompanied by skits starring Sventoonie, his co-hosts Blob E. Blob and Trevor Ground, as well as various recurring and one-shot characters. It was renewed for a second season, which debuted on October 1, 2022. Originally airing at 10 pm/9 central, it was pushed back to 10:30/9:30 once its preceding program ''Svengoolie'' expanded to 2 1/2 hours starting in 2023.
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* ProductPlacement: In "You've Got Blackmail", [[Series/ToonInWithMe Bill Leff]] turns out to be the man behind all the masks, as he just wanted to participate in ''Sventoonie''. This is accompanied by "Shameless Plug" on the screen.
* PuppetShows: Sventoonie and Blob are performed this way; everyone else is typically regular actors interacting with them.
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* SpinOff: ''Sventoonie'', a spin-off of both ''Svengoolie'' and ''Series/ToonInWithMe'', featuring Toony in Sven attire. Unlike ''Svengoolie'', this is only a half-hour long and instead of showing a full movie, Toony recaps it in humorous fashion. The rest of the episode contains various skits about the movie, similar to ''Svengoolie'' but a bit edgier in the humor.
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''Sventoonie'' is a spin-off of both ''Series/ToonInWithMe'' and ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'' which debuted in 2022 after the latter. It's billed as the "official Svengoolie after-party", and even takes place in the same dungeon as that program. Unlike ''Svengoolie'', this show doesn't air full movies but instead recaps them in humorous fashion. This is accompanied by skits starring Sventoonie, his co-hosts Blob E. Blob and Trevor Ground, as well as various recurring and one-shot characters. It was renewed for a second season, which debuted on October 1, 2022. Originally airing at 10 pm/9 central, it was pushed back to 10:30/9:30 once its preceding program ''Svengoolie'' expanded to 2 1/2 hours starting in 2023.

!!Sventoonie provides examples of:
* BlackmailBackfire: In "You've Got Blackmail", Sventoonie, Trevor and Blob plan to beat the blackmailer at his own game by revealing embarrassing secrets before he can.
* CatchPhrase: Ruddy Weaver starts most sentences with "Lemme tell ya somethin'..."
** Sventoonie frequently says "Whoops-a-doopsas!" during the movie recaps.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first couple episodes had more make-up under Sventoonie's eyes, and a bigger mustache and goatee. Both were refined in short order. Also, the first two episodes didn't have Trevor Ground. And the first two episodes also didn't feature the extensive amount of pointing arrows during the movie recaps.
* FreakyFridayFlip: "I Wanna Seance With Somebody" featured the souls of Sventoonie, Trevor, Blob, and Svengoolie switching around.
* FriendlyZombie: "Specimen Container" introduces Trevor Ground, who worked in a video store before he died. He showed up simply to get an old tape back, but as video stores are long gone, he stayed on as Sventoonie's other sidekick. He's typically credited with selecting the movies going forward.
* HalloweenEpisode: "Sventoonie's Scary, Merry Halloween!" is a double-length episode that also doubles as a ChristmasSpecial (due to Sventoonie's belief that Christmas specials always overshadow the Halloween ones). The featured movie is ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'', while the skits mix Halloween and Christmas tropes together (such as a horror-themed gift exchange).
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Subverted in the Season 2 ChristmasEpisode: Trevor Ground wishes he'd never ''died''. Ruddy Weaver shows him how horrible the world would've been if he had stayed alive, starting with Sventoonie having to show cutesy movies (hence the episode's subject, ''The Great Rupert'').
* LatexPerfection: A RunningGag in "You've Got Blackmail".
* OnceAnEpisode: Svengoolie briefly opening his coffin to address something said on the show, and shutting it immediately afterwards.
* OurProductSucks: A frequent gag in the commercial parodies.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Sventoonie considers himself the best ''fish'' HorrorHost there ever was.
* {{Pixellation}}: Blob E. Blob's mouth is often presented that way -- presumably he's swearing when that happens.
* {{Retool}}: The second season premiere briefly tries to retool the series as a late night talk show. It quickly reverts to the usual format though.
* RomanticComedy: Parodied in one skit, where a trailer posits Trevor as a dead NiceGuy that falls for an EndearinglyDorky girl with severe allergies.
* SelfDeprecation: Sven makes occasional cameos to complain about how loud the characters are being.
* SpinOff: ''Sventoonie'', a spin-off of both ''Svengoolie'' and ''Series/ToonInWithMe'', featuring Toony in Sven attire. Unlike ''Svengoolie'', this is only a half-hour long and instead of showing a full movie, Toony recaps it in humorous fashion. The rest of the episode contains various skits about the movie, similar to ''Svengoolie'' but a bit edgier in the humor.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In the season 2 premiere, Ruddy Weaver replaces Svengoolie with a woman dressed as him named Svengoonie. It's part of his ill-fated and short-lived attempt to retool the show.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Invoked: A gag when video store clerk Trevor Ground is introduced -- he died three decades ago and is unaware that people watch movies on their phones now, instead of on VHS. Trevor sarcastically remarks how much fun that sounds, and mimes holding a landline phone to his ear.
* TheVoiceless: Blob E. Blob, whose only sounds are typically air horns.
* WaxingLyrical: Done repeatedly in "Chairman of the Circuit Board": Sventoonie works in numerous Frank Sinatra song titles while recapping ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenArm''.
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