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Fixing some of the zero context examples. I also don't think that a segment getting one whole episode devoted to it counts as an overused running gag. The video for the Your Head A Splode entry also doesn't work, proving once again that Weblinks Are Not Examples.


* BankruptcyBarrel: The ''Horse Apples'' episode that makes up the entirety of the episode "Mathematics" features a character clad in only a barrel named Barold Q. Mosey.



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%%* CrapsaccharineWorld* CrapsaccharineWorld: The setting looks like a ''Sesame Street'' pastiche, but is full of violence and depravity.



%%* CringeComedy: Yes.
%%* DeepSouth: Parodied relentlessly in "Horse Apples".
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%%* CringeComedy: Yes.
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* DeepSouth: Parodied relentlessly in "Horse Apples".
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with the ShowWithinAShow ''Horse Apples'', which generally runs on Southern stereotypes.
* DerangedAnimation: The animated segments can get pretty wild and grotesque.



%%* DoubleStandard: Invoked.



%%* KidsAreCruel

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%%* KidsAreCruel* KidsAreCruel: Children are shown to be prone to acts of violence and casually bigoted.



* MaliciousMisnaming: Chauncey often calls Wordsworth insulting variants of his name, such as "Turdsworth" or "Nerdsworth".



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%%* NationalStereotypes
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* NoFourthWall: The show can't seem to go five minutes without addressing the audience and acknowledging itself as a television show.



* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted in the above mentioned Aunt Flo sketch.

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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted in the above mentioned Aunt Flo sketch.sketch, where the whole point is a girl getting her first period.



* OverusedRunningGag: During the second season, they were ''really'' pushing it with ''Horse Apples''. After its debut in "Knowledge," it was then given its own full episode, and a lot of the bonus features on the Season 2 DVD were related more to ''Horse Apples'' than ''Wonder Showzen''.



%%* ShowWithinAShow: "Horse Apples".
* SouthernBelle: The sole female character, Sthugar, during a parody of ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''.
* SpinoffBabies:
** The "Wonder Showzen Preemies" sketch.
** And its spinoff show, "Wonder Showzen Embryos."
** And ''its'' spinoff show, "Wonder Showzen Spermies."

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%%* * ShowWithinAShow: "Horse Apples".
''Horse Apples'' is a redneck comedy created by the personification of Middle America in the episode "Knowledge", which later has a whole episode shown for the entire duration of "Mathematics".
* SouthernBelle: The sole female character, Sthugar, acts like a Southern girl during a parody of ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''.
''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' in the episode "Justice".
* SpinoffBabies:
** The
SpinoffBabies: Parodied in the "Wonder Showzen Preemies" sketch.
** And its spinoff show, "Wonder
sketch, which shows infant versions of Chauncey, Him, Wordsworth and Sthugar. The same segment has the cast watch their favorite show ''Wonder Showzen Embryos."
** And ''its'' spinoff show, "Wonder
Embryos'', who in turn watch their favorite show ''Wonder Showzen Spermies."Spermies''.



%%* WriterRevolt: The last two episodes.
* YourHeadASplode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phoW-Z-tcnU Celebrate our Differences!]]

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%%* WriterRevolt: The last two episodes.
* YourHeadASplode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phoW-Z-tcnU Celebrate our Differences!]]The "Celebrate Our Differences" sketch ends with the single Caucasian character (who is also the one character who isn't a racist stereotype) having his head blow up.
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%%* ButtMonkey: Wordsworth.

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%%* * ButtMonkey: Wordsworth.Wordsworth suffers a ton of abuse, most of it at Chauncey's hands.

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%%* HomelessHero: Parodied with "The Winobot".



%%* VoxPops: "Clarence's Movies".

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%%* * VoxPops: "Clarence's Movies".Movies" have him bugging random people on the street by asking them questions.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Spoofed in the "Winobot" sketch in the episode "Time", where the chief of police tries to save a cop blown to bits in an explosion by asking a doctor to bring him back as a cyborg, but a misunderstanding results in the doctor instead rebuilding a homeless alcoholic who was injured in the same accident, leaving the chief of police stuck with a cyborg who can only be remotely useful in fighting crime when he is convinced that the crooks intend to prevent him from getting wine.
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* TalkingPoo: The episode "Body" features the Letter P's extracted body fat entering a relationship with sentient feces.
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%%* CreepyTwins* CreepyTwins: A pair of creepy twin girls occasionally appear, modeled after the ones who appear in ''Film/TheShining''.



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Letter P getting liposuction in "Body" is used as an allegory for getting an abortion, complete with protestors haranguing her for her decision and decrying her for having no value in her fat.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Letter P getting liposuction in "Body" is used as an allegory for getting an abortion, complete with protestors haranguing her for her decision and decrying her for having seeing no value in her fat.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Letter P getting liposuction in "Body" is used as an allegory for getting an abortion, complete with protestors haranguing her for her decision and decrying her for having no value in her fat.



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%%* FromTheMouthsOfBabes* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Children are frequently shown saying things that sound politically incorrect, like joking about domestic abuse.
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* BigNo: At the end of "History", Number 2 screams "No" after Chauncey reveals that he had her surgically reconstructed into a 0.


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* FaceOnAMilkCarton: The episode "History" features a ParodyCommercial for Tragedy Farms, who boast that their milk cartons have five pictures of missing children on them instead of just one.


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* StockScream: The Howie Long Scream is used a total of four times in the episode "History".
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There's now a Muppet Babies reboot. Revising to avoid confusion between the two Muppet Babies cartoons.


* ShoutOut: There's a segment in one episode that parodies ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' as "Wonder Showzen Preemies". It's animated in the same style as Muppet Babies, and it even takes place in ''the exact same nursery that Muppet Babies took place in''.

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* ShoutOut: There's a segment in one episode that parodies ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' as "Wonder Showzen Preemies". It's animated in the same style as Muppet Babies, and it even takes place in ''the exact same nursery that Muppet Babies took place in''.

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* BrotherSisterIncest:

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* BrotherSisterIncest:BrotherSisterIncest: From the "We Went to the Farm" segment in "Space".



* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God, after losing a battle over the fate of the world.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God, [[spoiler:God kills himself in "Space", after losing a battle over the fate of the world.]]



%%* FluffyCloudHeaven: In episode "Space".

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%%* * FluffyCloudHeaven: In episode "Space"."Space", Chauncey and the young girl Kaitlyn end up traveling to Heaven, which has the standard kingdom of clouds look.



* GodIsDead: [[spoiler:He killed himself...]]

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* GodIsDead: [[spoiler:He killed himself...[[spoiler:"Space" ends with God committing suicide.]]


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* HollywoodAtheist: Chauncey is very vocal about not believing in God in "Space" and initially dismisses Kaitlynn's belief in God.
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* HalfWittedHillbilly: A main part of the premise of ''Scooter [=McJimmy=]: Hillbilly Boy Genius'', where the titular character uses his intellect to help out yokels with problems that they are too stupid to handle themselves.

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* HalfWittedHillbilly: A main part of the premise of ''Scooter [=McJimmy=]: Hillbilly Boy Genius'', where the titular character uses his intellect to help out yokels with problems that they are too stupid to handle themselves.themselves or, more accurately, take advantage of their idiocy to play tricks on or do disturbing things to them. The sketch has him calm down a man who thought a bar of soap in his washtub was a monster, plug up a man's anus with a cork so that the potatoes he eats stay in his belly (the man not realizing that consumed food is supposed to leave the body after being digested), tricks a man wanting to join fishermen on the TV he's watching into running against the TV screen to fry up [[CirclingBirdies the birds that spin around his head while he's dazed]] and runs a successful food stand where he fries more birds produced from hitting the customers.
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Our rule is that a show can't really be getting crap past the radar if it was made for an adult audience in the first place.


* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Too many examples to count, which, considering the show aired on Creator/{{MTV}} 2, at ''10 PM'', should tell you something.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: In the deleted ''Scooter [=McJimmy=]: Hillbilly Boy Genius'' sketch, one hillbilly Scooter helps out is apparently married to a dog.


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* HalfWittedHillbilly: A main part of the premise of ''Scooter [=McJimmy=]: Hillbilly Boy Genius'', where the titular character uses his intellect to help out yokels with problems that they are too stupid to handle themselves.
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%%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Clarence uses this.

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%%* * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Clarence uses this.bothers people even when they tell him to stay away.
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%%* HulkSpeak: Him.

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%%* * HulkSpeak: Him.Him talks in third person.
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[[caption-width-right:245: Kids' show, kids' show/ [[oh good lord it's a kids' show BlatantLies]] ]]

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[[caption-width-right:245: Kids' show, kids' show/ [[oh show/oh good lord it's a kids' show BlatantLies]] ]]
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[[caption-width-right:245: [[Kids' show, kids' show/ oh good lord it's a kids' show BlatantLies]] ]]

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[[caption-width-right:245:[[Kids' show, kids' show/ oh good lord it's a kids' show BlatantLies]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:245:[[Kids' [[caption-width-right:245: [[Kids' show, kids' show/ oh good lord it's a kids' show BlatantLies]]]]BlatantLies]] ]]
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[[caption-width-right:245:Kids' show, kids' show/ oh good lord it's a kids' show]]

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[[caption-width-right:245:Kids' [[caption-width-right:245:[[Kids' show, kids' show/ oh good lord it's a kids' show]]show BlatantLies]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:245:It's the Chernobyl of kids' TV shows!]]

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[[caption-width-right:245:It's the Chernobyl of [[caption-width-right:245:Kids' show, kids' TV shows!]]show/ oh good lord it's a kids' show]]
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* OverlyLongGag: The first season finale. PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' The episode was about patience, and they made it to test your patience as much as possible. People talk as slowly as possible, there's the above joke with Clarence trying to get the old guy to say "Patience" right, and to take it UpToEleven, halfway through, they run the first half of the episode backwards to "literally undo any damage [this episode] may have caused", with a few segments abridged, and with a few minor changes (including "Punctuation Marks with Punk Mark" not having music in the background). After that the episode turns into one on the topic of "Speed" for about five minutes, but THEN, at the end, a recap of the entire episode (including the recap itself) is played at warp speed during the credits.

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* OverlyLongGag: The first season finale. PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' PATIENCE! ''PATIEN!'' The episode was about patience, and they made it to test your patience as much as possible. People talk as slowly as possible, there's the above joke with Clarence trying to get the an old guy to say "Patience" right, and to take it UpToEleven, halfway through, they run the first half of the episode backwards ''backwards'' to "literally undo any damage [this episode] may have caused", with a few segments abridged, and with a few minor changes (including "Punctuation Marks with Punk Mark" not having music in the background). After that the episode turns into one on the topic of "Speed" for about five minutes, but THEN, at the end, a recap of the entire episode (including the recap itself) is played at warp speed during the credits.
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DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God, after losing a battle over the fate of the world.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God, after losing a battle over the fate of the world.]]



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Too many examples to count, which, considering the show aired on Creator/{{MTV}} 2, should tell you something.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Too many examples to count, which, considering the show aired on Creator/{{MTV}} 2, at ''10 PM'', should tell you something.
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%%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God]].

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%%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God]].[[spoiler:God, after losing a battle over the fate of the world.]]

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* MindScrew: Many of the show's finer moments come from these.
* MissingEpisode: The episode "Health" was only broadcasted on MTV 2 once due to the "Beat Kids" segment with a kid dressed like Hitler. Doesn't seem like too much for ''Wonder Showzen''? [[HarsherInHindsight This episode aired on the day of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Israel, which is also potent in the US.]]

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* MindScrew: Many of the show's finer moments come from these.
* MissingEpisode: The episode "Health" was only broadcasted on MTV 2 once due to the "Beat Kids" segment with a kid dressed like Hitler. Doesn't seem like too much for ''Wonder Showzen''? [[HarsherInHindsight This episode aired on the day of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Israel, which is also potent in the US.]]
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Adding context to a couple of the zero-context examples.


%%* ContentWarnings: See the page-topping quote.

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%%* * ContentWarnings: See All of the page-topping quote.episodes begin with a warning stating that the show contains content that is "too controversial and too awesome" for actual children to watch.



%%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Clarence uses this

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%%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Clarence uses thisthis.



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%%* SubvertedKidsShow* SubvertedKidsShow: It's got puppets and children teaching/learning stuff, just like ''Series/SesameStreet''. Said stuff they teach/learn is blatantly adult subject matter that wouldn't make it on an actual kids show.
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Name was missing a "h".


--->'''Cauncey:''' ''I lied. [Chauncey looks at the camera as it zooms into his face and a fart sound plays]''

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--->'''Cauncey:''' --->'''Chauncey:''' ''I lied. [Chauncey looks at the camera as it zooms into his face and a fart sound plays]''
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** "Horse Apples", a {{parody}} of ''HeeHaw'' and Blue Collar TV.

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** "Horse Apples", a {{parody}} of ''HeeHaw'' ''Series/HeeHaw'' and Blue Collar TV.

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** "Horse Apples", a {{parody}} of ''HeeHaw'' and ''BlueCollarTV''.

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** "Horse Apples", a {{parody}} of ''HeeHaw'' and ''BlueCollarTV''.
Blue Collar TV.



* ButtMonkey: Wordsworth.

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* %%* ButtMonkey: Wordsworth.



* ContentWarnings: See the page-topping quote.
* CrapsaccharineWorld

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* %%* ContentWarnings: See the page-topping quote.
* %%* CrapsaccharineWorld



* CreepyTwins
* CringeComedy: Yes.
* DeepSouth: Parodied relentlessly in "Horse Apples".
* DerangedAnimation

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* %%* CreepyTwins
* %%* CringeComedy: Yes.
* %%* DeepSouth: Parodied relentlessly in "Horse Apples".
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* DoubleStandard: Invoked.

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* %%* DoubleStandard: Invoked.



* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God]].

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* %%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:God]].



* FluffyCloudHeaven: In episode "Space".
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes

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* %%* FluffyCloudHeaven: In episode "Space".
* %%* FromTheMouthsOfBabes



* HomelessHero: Parodied with "The Winobot".
* HulkSpeak: Him.
* IAmAHumanitarian: In the second episode "Space" the a couple of kids talk about eating Jeremy because he was bad. "Murderlisous".

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* %%* HomelessHero: Parodied with "The Winobot".
* %%* HulkSpeak: Him.
* IAmAHumanitarian: IAmAHumanitarian:
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In the second episode "Space" the a couple of kids talk about eating Jeremy because he was bad. "Murderlisous".



* KidsAreCruel

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** ''[[MadnessMantra "I'm a woman now...I'm a woman now...I'm a woman now..."]]''

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** ''[[MadnessMantra "I'm a woman now... I'm a woman now... I'm a woman now...I'm a woman now..."]]''



* NationalStereotypes
* NoFourthWall
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Clarence uses this

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* %%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Clarence uses this



* ParodyCommercial: In the episode "Health", [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Christopher Meloni]] is good enough to warn us about [[GirlsHaveCooties the dangers of cooties]].

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* ParodyCommercial: ParodyCommercial:
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In the episode "Health", [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Christopher Meloni]] is good enough to warn us about [[GirlsHaveCooties the dangers of cooties]].



* ShowWithinAShow: "Horse Apples".

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* %%* ShowWithinAShow: "Horse Apples".



* SpinoffBabies: The "Wonder Showzen Preemies" sketch.

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* SpinoffBabies: SpinoffBabies:
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The "Wonder Showzen Preemies" sketch.



*** And ''its'' spinoff show, "Wonder Showzen Spermies."
* StylisticSuck: "Cooperation" shows the characters watching ''Wondy Showzy'', a cheap knock-off of their show, with crudely made sock puppets and poorly produced segments (though some are regular ''Wonder Showzen'' segments put through a low-grade filter).

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*** ** And ''its'' spinoff show, "Wonder Showzen Spermies."
* StylisticSuck: StylisticSuck:
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"Cooperation" shows the characters watching ''Wondy Showzy'', a cheap knock-off of their show, with crudely made sock puppets and poorly produced segments (though some are regular ''Wonder Showzen'' segments put through a low-grade filter).



* SubvertedKidsShow

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* VoxPops: "Clarence's Movies".

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* WriterRevolt: The last two episodes.

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* DreamWithinADream: The episode "Health" is revealed to be a nightmare Wordsworth was having; he complains about the cheap cop-out, but he's happy to be at least healthy... until he sees he's nailed to a cross. It then turns out that the episode was actually a dream of Chauncey, who fell asleep during Wordsworth's boring speech shown at the beginning; he also complains about the cheap cop-out. A post-credits sequence then reveals the episode was a dream Jimmy (a boy who was featured in a cartoon earlier in the episode), now a talking hot-dog, was having while asleep in class.
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* {{Crawl}}: Used to great and exaggerated effect in the mock news segments.

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* {{Crawl}}: Used to great and exaggerated effect in the mock news segments. Unfortunately, it scrolls by at warp speed, making it almost impossible to read even with freeze-framing.



* KnuckleTattoos: The "Beat Kids" segment's logo is the name tattooed across two fists. The ''Wondy Showzy'' knock-off equivalent, "Hit Children", also uses a knuckle tattoo logo despite not having an eight-letter name, which results in a three-fingered fist alongside a eight-fingered fist.



* RefugeInAudacity: Practically the sole reason for the existence of the "Beat Kids" segment, where a young boy can ''dress up like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] and march down a busy street in New York'' because he's a kid.

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* RefugeInAudacity: Practically the sole reason for the existence of the "Beat Kids" segment, where a young boy can ''dress up like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] and march down a busy street in New York'' because he's a kid. Even the ''name itself'' counts: one could say it's meant to imply "kids on the beat", but the KnuckleTattoos logo implies otherwise...
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''Wonder Showzen'' was a grotesque parody of ''Series/SesameStreet'' that managed, against all odds and ExecutiveMeddling, to last two complete seasons on Creator/{{MTV}} 2. It features delights such as:

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''Wonder Showzen'' was a grotesque parody of ''Series/SesameStreet'' by art collective PFFR that managed, against all odds and ExecutiveMeddling, to last two complete seasons on Creator/{{MTV}} 2. It features delights such as:



* AntiHumor: Some segments seem to exist purely to irritate the viewer. The "Patience" episode seems built around this concept.

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* AntiHumor: Some segments seem to exist purely to irritate the viewer. The "Patience" episode seems built around this concept.concept (see OverlyLongGag below).



* YourHeadASplode: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmIaUxtpYo&feature=related Celebrate our Differences!]]

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* YourHeadASplode: [[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmIaUxtpYo&feature=related com/watch?v=phoW-Z-tcnU Celebrate our Differences!]]

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