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* PerkyGoth: One set of sketches features a trio of emo kids, and and fourth one who doesn't quite get it and irritates the others by being continually upbeat.

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* PerkyGoth: One set of sketches features a trio of emo kids, and and a fourth one who doesn't quite get it and irritates the others by being continually upbeat.
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** Particularly good one in a Joliment High Witness News where Harvey Crane (Cosmo) takes the viewer into the toilet to show "parts of your body you can write answers on that examiners can't check without getting in trouble."



** Particularly good one in a Joliment High Witness News where Harvey Crane (Cosmo) takes the viewer into the toilet to show "parts of your body you can write answers on that examiners can't check without getting in trouble."
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** A similar case happens with the Rex the Dinosaur segments which always ends with him [[spoiler: eating people he makes friends with because he's a tyrannosaurus rex.]]
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** Particularly good one in a Joliment High Witness News where Harvey Crane (Cosmo) takes the viewer into the toilet to show "parts of your body you can write answers on that examiners can't check without getting in trouble."
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** One of Mia's characters (Julie Willard the School Captain) takes a jab at Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and her absolute incompetence.
** Tatiana "Tats" the sailor girl runs out of food and considers catching a whale, but when faced with legal issues she says that she could say its for Scientific Research. An obvious hit at the Japanese Whalers.
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* YourMum: One sketch had a school dedicated to teaching people how to master the art of insulting others by using "Your Mum is!" in response to any comment.
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* RoboSpeak: The way Internet Speech Girl talks all the time. One occasion she actually overloads and makes the windows shutting down sound before collapsing on the table.
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''You're Skitting Me'' is an Australian youth SketchComedy produced By Jigsaw Entertainment for {{ABC3}}. It consists of 6 Teenagers (Cosmo, Mia, Molly, Jake, Hayden and Rowan) performing skits, mainly satirising modern life today.

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''You're Skitting Me'' is an Australian youth SketchComedy produced By Jigsaw Entertainment for {{ABC3}}.Creator/{{ABC3}}. It consists of 6 Teenagers (Cosmo, Mia, Molly, Jake, Hayden and Rowan) performing skits, mainly satirising modern life today.
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* {{Hipster}}: A common sketch where the eponymous hipsters take their ideals too far. (e.g. [[CrossesTheLineTwice dying in a restaraunt of eating raw chicken because they don't want to eat normal chicken]])
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Actually done in the other direction, as Jake was the prankster on an episode of the third series of ''Prank Patrol Australia'', which airs on the [[ABC3 same channel]] as ''You're Skitting Me''.
* {{Hipster}}: A common sketch where the eponymous hipsters take their ideals too far. (e.g. [[CrossesTheLineTwice dying in a restaraunt of eating raw chicken because they don't want to eat normal chicken]])
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* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: A standard tactic of the evil Girl Guides.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The show has snuck in references to pedophilia, rape, inversions of teen pregnancy and the abandonment of unwanted children among other things.
** One episode had a sketch focusing on "BFF weddings" where girls become real BFFs through a wedding of sorts. The end of one ceremony had a male member of the audience get up and announce that Male BFFs ceremonies have been legalised.



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar the show has snuck in references to pedophilia, rape, inversions of teen pregnancy and the abandonment of unwanted children among other things

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar the show has snuck in references to pedophilia, rape, inversions of teen pregnancy and the abandonment of unwanted children among other things
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The Cavemen sketches. Krunk makes consistent attempts to civilise his fellow cavemen, with ideas of modern technology from paper, to soap, to social networking, but his attempt are always futile as another caveman always ends up rejecting his ideas.
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* BedsheetLadder: One of the "Boy vs. Boredom" sketches has Jeremy attempting to escape from going clothes shopping with his mother by tearing shirts into strips, fashioning them into a rope and using a wire hanger as a crude grappling hook to climb out of a changing room. It doesn't work.
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* FormerChildStar: Parodied. A sketch focused on a guy who used to do calendar shoots when he was a baby but has lost his fame as he grew up. 14 years later he tried another photo shoot [[spoiler: in which he wore nothing but a nappy and acted like a baby.]]


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* HypocriticalHumor: The Caveman sketches often has Ugg the inventor create a new invention (like a calendar) only for his fellow caveman to criticise the invention and how it can't be useful for them. After the criticism is done a situation pops up where the invention is useful but they don't realise it.


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* RunningGag: Pops up from time to time, the most significant one was the joke about how bad a Dim Sim smells. [[spoiler: The final sketch had everyone in Jollimont High Witness News fall unconscious because a student on vacation left a weeks old Dim Sim in his locker by accident.]]
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** It is reflected in the cast interviews, where the cast begin a fake charity so zombies can be treated like humans.

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** It is reflected in the cast interviews, [[ZombieAdvocate where the cast begin a fake charity so zombies can be treated like humans.]]

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* ArtShift: Some sketches are live action, some sketches are animated.



* {{Hipster}}: A common sketch where the eponymous hipsters take their ideals too far. (e.g. [[CrossesTheLineTwice dying in a restaraunt of eating raw chicken]])

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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: One animated sketch focused on two tomatoes arguing over the pronounciation of a word like "aluminium" or "tomatoe". The guy pronouncing the words wrong often got beat up by the other guy.
* NewsParody: Jolliemont High Witness News, a news report based around a whole school.


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* TooDumbToLive: Tatiana, the rich girl who decides to go a sailing trip around the world despite having absolutely no experience and not knowing she had to take the trip alone.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Actually done in the other direction, as Jake was the prankster on an episode of the third series of ''Prank Patrol Australia'', which airs on the {{ABC3 same channel}} as ''You're Skitting Me''.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Actually done in the other direction, as Jake was the prankster on an episode of the third series of ''Prank Patrol Australia'', which airs on the {{ABC3 [[ABC3 same channel}} channel]] as ''You're Skitting Me''.
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* BrickJoke: Played between skits and even, on occasion, between a skit and the backstage interviews.


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* HeyItsThatGuy: Actually done in the other direction, as Jake was the prankster on an episode of the third series of ''Prank Patrol Australia'', which airs on the {{ABC3 same channel}} as ''You're Skitting Me''.
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* GirlScoutsAreEvil: Another loved topic of sketches.
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* DedpanSnarker / SarcasmMode: One sketch focused around a school that taught teens to be this. It also had the IncrediblyLamPun of the name Sarcademy.

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* DedpanSnarker DeadpanSnarker / SarcasmMode: One sketch focused around a school that taught teens to be this. It also had the IncrediblyLamPun IncrediblyLamePun of the name Sarcademy.
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* DedpanSnarker / SarcasmMode: One sketch focused around a school that taught teens to be this. It also had the IncrediblyLamPun of the name Sarcademy.


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* IncrediblyLamePun: On occasion.
* PostModernism: The show parodies parts of modern life including Hipsters and the newest fads.
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[[caption-width-right:340:From left to right: Cosmo, Rowan, Hayden, Jake, Molly and Mia]]
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* RealityEnsues: The ending to every Ned the Panda sketch in which he oftens ends up in an otherwordly situation [[spoiler: only to die because [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi30mtcASbw&feature=plcp he can't survive in space]] or be too deep underwater.]]
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''You're Skitting Me'' is an Australian youth SketchComedy produced By Jigsaw Entertainment for {{ABC3}}. It consists of 6 Teenagers (Cosmo, Mia, Molly, Jake, Hayden and Rowan) performing skits, mainly satirising modern life today.

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* {{Hipster}}: A common sketch where the eponymous hipsters take their ideals too far. (e.g. [[CrossesTheLineTwice dying in a restaraunt of eating raw chicken]])
* SatireParodyPastiche: The show's focus.
* SketchShow: The format.
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Parodied with the zombie segments where the zombies wish to be treated normally despite constantly eating flesh.
** It is reflected in the cast interviews, where the cast begin a fake charity so zombies can be treated like humans.
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