History Series / TheCryOfMann

* AudienceParticipation: The callers now have a physical stand-in, "Sarah" the prisoner, where they can chat with the soldiers.

On 2018, a new series, "The Call of Warr" was announced, continuing the Trool Day celebration. This time the focus shifts to a group of soliders from the "M" Company lost in an abandoned town, along with some civilians. The callers and "Ghost Lady" now take on a more active role, and must decide to help the soldiers survive or aid the mysterious "Vid."

On 2018, a new series, "The Call of Warr" was announced, continuing the Trool Day celebration. This time the focus shifts to a group of soliders from the "M" Company lost in an abandoned town, along with some civilians. The callers and "Ghost Lady" now take a more supernatural role and are more involved, and must decide to help the soldiers survive or aid the mysterious "Vid."

On 2018, a new series, "The Call of Warr" was announced, continuing the Trool Day celebration.

!!"Call of Warr" contains examples of:

* SmallNameBigEgo: Sam Weiner.

Episodes of the show were followed by "Tanking Mann", a parody of aftershows like ''[[Series/TheWalkingDead The Talking Dead]]''.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Unlike other Wham City projects, ''The Cry of Mann'' lacks an ARG for fans to discover and dig through in order to find extra material. As [[WebVideo/NightMind Nick Nocturne]] explains, the series is more in line with their live shows, which features audience participation similar to what ''The Cry of Mann'' accomplishes with the phone calls.

* LoveTriangle: Jouglat is attracted to Agent Martinez who may be attracted to Berry.

Episodes of the show were followed by "Tanking Mann", a parody of aftershows like [[Series/TheWalkingDead The Talking Dead]].

Episodes of the show were followed by "Tanking Mann", a parody of aftershows like [[TheWalkingDead The Talking Dead]].

* HearingVoices: When Gergiev plants an orange tooth in Jack's ear, he begins hearing voices, which becomes the main method of how callers interact with Jack.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Both Ghost Lady and Gergiev could communicate with the stream's chat. Played down with Ghost Lady, as she was her usual kooky and adorable self. Played straight with Gergiev, who actively threatened the chat on a regular basis. [[spoiler: After Jouglat dies, he also joins the chat, wondering where he is and eventually gets comforted by those in the chat.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Something is very wrong with this family.]]

'''The Cry of Mann: A Trool Day Holiday Spectacular''' is a series by Creator/WhamCity that streamed on the Creator/AdultSwim website in late October/early November 2017. It tells the story of a family whose patriarch, industrialist Tank Mann, has gone missing; meanwhile, due to the machinations of the stepmother, Courtney, the company is on the verge of a hostile takeover. [[AudienceParticipation Viewers could call in and talk to the characters]] thanks to the many orange phones that the "Ghost Lady" sets up around the house.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Both Ghost Lady and Gergiev could communicate with the stream's chat. Played down with Ghost Lady, as she was her usual self. Played straight with Gergiev, who actively threatened the chat on a regular basis. [[spoiler: After Jouglat dies, he also joins the chat. Wondering where he is and eventually gets comforted by those in chat.]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's implied that Frank was drown by Gergiev and is controlled via some form of necromancy]].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Unlike other Wham City projects, ''The Cry of Mann'' lacks an ARG for fans to discover and dig through in order to find extra material. As WebVideo/NightMind explains, the series is more in line with their live shows, which features audience participation similar to what ''The Cry of Mann'' accomplishes with the phone calls.

* BittersweetEnding: While [[spoiler: Tank Mann returns and the family seems to be slowly returning to normal, Jouglat was killed by Frank and Jack has turned into an orange-muscled behemoth.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Jack]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's implied that Frank was drown by Gergiev and is controlled via some form of necromancy]]

* InsistentTerminology: Berry like the fruit, Jouglat like the plant
* LoveTriangle: Jouglat is attracted to Agent Martinez who may be attracted to Berry

* AdamWesting: Sam Weiner

* SmallNameBigEgo: Sam Weiner

* TheCameo: [[RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]] was one of the callers on the show; he was the one who kept saying "no" to Courtney in episode 3 and was was subsequently deemed a "giggly machine".

* ColorMotif: Orange is associated with "supernatural" element, including the phones, Ghost Lady, and [[spoiler: Jouglat's funeral clothes]].

* BittersweetEnding: While [[spoiler: Tank Mann returns and the family seems to be slowly returning to normal, Jouglat was killed by Frank and Jack has turned into an orange-muscled behemoth.

'''The Cry of Mann: A Trool Day Holiday Spectacular''' is a series by Creator/WhamCity that streamed on the AdultSwim website in late October/early November 2017. It tells the story of a family whose patriarch, industrialist Tank Mann, has gone missing; meanwhile, due to the machinations of the stepmother, Courtney, the company is on the verge of a hostile takeover. [[AudienceParticipation Viewers could call in and talk to the characters]] thanks to the many orange phones that the "Ghost Lady" sets up around the house.

* ShoutOut: Most of Frank's cryptic questions to the callers are references to various HPLovecraft stories.

* ActorAllusion: Alan Resnick again plays [[Series/ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt an artist who gets yucky ear]]. Also, when asked about painting with the color orange, he says he used to paint with "stupid" colors, like [[AlanTutorial "fucking blue"]].