History WebAnimation / DaThings

* InstantlyProvenWrong: In "Postman Tap 2: Double Tap", Mrs. Goblins reacts to the news that they're going to turn off the water by joking that "they can't turn off the lemonade". Moments later, she's lamenting that they're also going to turn off the lemonade.

** In "Movies Feels Good", Nicole says that the [=AMC=] theaters make the movie watching experience "perfect and powerful, and powerfect, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers purple.]]"

* ContentWarnings: Content warnings have been a standard feature since '''80s Mercedes''. The most elaborate one to date has been in "No, Do Harm" (a YTP of 2013 Creator/{{NBC}} show ''Do No Harm''), wherein Ellie opens the YTP with a disclaimer stating that she does not condone the source material's [[ValuesDissonance badly outdated and harmful]] depiction of dissociative identity disorder (DID), multiplicity, and plural people.

* ButtMonkey:The poor, poor workers, as seen in the "Wow! It's Made!" series. In each video, some manufacturing process requires horrifically mangling the workers, in increasingly absurd methods.

* ButtMonkey: The poor, poor workers, as seen in the "Wow! It's Made!" series. In each video, some manufacturing process requires horrifically mangling the workers, in increasingly absurd methods.

* AdaptationNameChange: Olive is renamed Ollie and Martini is renamed Martunities in "Ollie the Friggin' Reindog."

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GwRYKzyjXo Movies Feels Good]]," Nicole is telling the viewer about various things we need movies to make us do.

* CharacterSelectForcing: In "Smash Bros. Alternate," Sakurai says that there's no penalty for sticking with Ivysaur, implying there is a penalty for the Trainer's other two Pokemon.
* TheCoconutEffect: From ''Cinnamon Bunglasses at Night'':"To make the cinnamon roll look a little more realistic, I'm gonna make a real cinnamon roll and I'm just gonna paint it."

** In "Seeder Point," one of the attractions is listed as "challenging challenges."

* MeaningfulName: In "Jenson's Impact," Jenson adds Dave ''Goelz'' to his team, noting he is a puppeteer with ''goals''.

** In "Seeder Point," the instructor is discussing the extinguishers used in the park.

** In "Jenson's Impact", the list of gay Muppets includes Ert and Bernie, and Statdorf and Waltler. Jim Henson himself is also [[AdaptationNameChange renamed to "Jenson."]]
** In "Movies Feels Good," Nicole says that the [=AMC=] theaters make the movie watching experience "perfect and powerful, and powerfect, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers purple.]]"

** From the fifth "Wow! It's Made" video there's "one side is a smooth knit, while the other is a nitwit." ''(video of Dennis Prager is superimposed onto the sheet.)''

* TokenHuman: In "Jenson's Impact," Jenson was the only human in Greenville Mississippi at the time he was born.

* AGodAmI: Dr. Young in No, Do Harm.

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The channel is still far and away one of the cleaner [=YouTube Poop=] channels on the site compared to other YTP channels, but later [=YTPs=],
particularly from late 2019 onward, have seen a slight but still noticeable uptick in adult humor, to the point that some videos now open with {{content warning}}s.

* JustifiedCriminal: TheStinger of "Eccentric Severe 2mors" suggests that grocery story employees shouldn't report incidents of shoplifting, as the thief probably needs the food more than the store needs their money.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Never mind, Charlie" for Grandpa Joj in ''Will Wonk and the Chalk Factory".

** [[WebAnimation/BamanPiderman Baman and Piderman]] are mentioned when the narrator is talking about various Marvel heroes in [[Series/AncientAliens Amciemt Aliems.]]

* ActorAllusion:
** "No, Do Harm" has Dr. Ruben Marcado (played by Lin-Manuel Miranda of all people) sing a few lines from {{Theatre/Hamilton}}.
** A gag in "Wonder Bros." refers to Daisy with the gender-neutral honorific Mx. Daisy, as a reference to how she's voiced by the nonbinary Giselle Fernandez.

* ActorAllusion: "No, Do Harm" has Dr. Ruben Marcado (played by Lin-Manuel Miranda of all people) sing a few lines from {{Theatre/Hamilton}}.

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The channel is still far and away one of the cleaner [=YouTube Poop=] channels on the site compared to other YTP channels, but later [=YTPs=], particularly from late 2019 onward, have seen a slight but still noticeable uptick in adult humor, to the point that some videos now open with {{content warning}}s.

* ShapedLikeItself: In "Wow! I'm Hungry", the beef jerky segment describes "flavory flavors".
* OverusedRunningGag: "Soup or Smash Bros." repeatedly cuts to the "23: Clear Movies" splash. After a certain point, the overusedness of the gag becomes its own gag. Lampshaded after about the tenth appearance, with a fake comment from "[=Fleelfmeister471=]" complaining about the joke getting old.
* NightmareFetishist: Aside from smoking weed during the movie, Nicole visits CBD theatres for “ghost images” she can fear.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The second half of "Jore Jarrison on Drinks" mostly consists of [[Music/TheBeatles George Harrison]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ranting about]] YoutubePoop.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The first half of "The King Files His Taxes" is based loosely on the tax troubles Ellie herself was having at the time. The second half (no longer available) consists of Link BreakingTheFourthWall to tell the viewers about the Ko-Fi raffle she's holding to raise the needed money.

* OccidentalOtaku: In "The 2010s we're Forever Ago", Music/PharellWilliams is obsessed with ''Anime/LuckyStar'' and stays up all night watching it.

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