History WebAnimation / SomethingAbout

* AluminumChristmasTrees: A lot of the slapstick and logic-defying movement in episodes based on older games isn't coming out of nowhere; a lot of them are common exploits or tricks used by the Speedrunning community, just taken to their single most absurd conclusion in-universe. ''Something About Breath Of the Wild'' even has a link to the speedrun it's based on in its description.

** In "Something About Super Mario 64", Mario's frequent used of rapid-fire long-jumping is a common technique used in tool-assisted speedruns of the game.

** Jesus' [[PreMortemOneLiner Pre-Mortem One-Liners]] are all direct readings from Literature/TheFourGospels. Kirbo also recites Psalm 59 before summoning Him in "Something About Kirby & The Amazing Mirror".

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Used by the heroes (with one exception) in several installments:
** "Something About Yoshi's Island" has Yoshi slap Baby Bowser, spank him, and then [[DestinationDefenestration throw him out a window]].
** In "Something About Kirby Super Star", Kirbo slaps the sun and moon and scolds them for fighting.
** In "Something About Super Mario 64", Mario slaps Bowser hard enough to outright paralyze him.
** In "Something About Super Mario World", Mario backhand slaps Bowser so hard it actually leaves Bowser's eyes bloodshot and echoes pretty loudly.
** In "Something About Smash Bros World of Light", Mario and Yoshi slap Bowser back and forth after Samus cuts off his growth to eclipse the galaxy. The last slap ''[[StrippedToTheBone turns him into Dry Bowser]]''.
** "Something About Kirby's Adventure" has Kirbo defeat Mr. Shine, Kracko, and King Dedede by slapping them.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Melee Fox VS Speedrunner Mario", where Mario tries to backhand Fox, but he dodges it.
** In "Something About Super Metroid," Mother Brain kills the Baby Metroid by slapping it. Samus didn't like that and kills her with a Hyper Beam.
** In "Something About Mega Man X," Vile slaps X with his Ride Armor.
** "Something About Yoshi's Story" has the ''entire Yoshi Clan'' slap Baby Bowser after he shatters the Super Happy Tree, reducing him to a puddle.
** "Something About Super Mario All-Stars" has Bowser show up in Peach's room after Mario has already left, but Luigi suddenly warps back in with his TimeMachine to slap him instead.
** In "Something About Smash Bros The Subspace Emissary," after Tabuu shoots the Great Fox with his EyeBeam in retaliation to its laser, Peppy gives Fox a DopeSlap.
** In "Something About Kirby 64," Kirbo slaps Ribbon's hand so hard that he launches her into the Sun. In addition, he destroys a green Pix by slapping it during his rampage in the pyramid.

** If Bowser appears in a video, he ''will'' get [[ArmorPiercingSlap slapped]].

''Something About[...]'', also known as the ''Something Series'', is a series of parody animations made by a certain Creator/JeremyChinshue, also known as [=TerminalMontage=]. The episodes are often condensed over-the-top parodies of video games, with lots of strange events, running gags, and the occasional sensory abuse... and a bit of memetic mutation, too!

* TierInducedScrappy: InUniverse. Peach in "World of Light" pleads for Mario and Yoshi to rescue her because she's top-tier now. The two pause, then go on without her.

** In "Something About Smash Bros The Subspace Emissary", Creator/MasahiroSakurai himself suddenly appears (in the exact same manner as Jesus, no less) to upgrade Meta Knight to SS Tier.

* HalloweenEpisode:
** Season 1: "Something About Luigi's Mansion"
** Season 2: "Something About The Typing of The Dead"
** Season 3: "Something About The Photon Aerospace Control Engineer" (aka "Something About Pac-Man")
** Season 4: "Something About Undertale - Alternate Pacifist Route"

* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: In "Something About Super Mario All-Stars", Mario activates a speedrun glitch in ''Mario 3'' that involves using a fake pipe that takes him straight to the ending. The actual game doesn't show what happens in the transition period-- but this video does, and naturally [[SensoryAbuse it's not pleasant]].

** M. Bison in ''Something About Street Fighter II'' makes his entrance floating down from the sky, with Creator/RaulJulia's last line from the infamous [[Film/StreetFighter Street Fighter film]].

** "Something About Kirby 64" depicts Mark Zuckerberg as one of the grotesque experimental specimens bottled up in Shiver Star's factory.
** The short "Something About Spam Bots" is a big one to Website/{{YouTube}}'s spam bots, as well as the company's inability to deal with them properly.

** The short "Something About Spam Bots" is a big one to [[Website/YouTube YouTube's]] spam bots, as well as the company's inability to deal with them properly.

** Every episode covering a ''Kirby'' game will have a scene where a Poppy Bros. Jr. is ''Fornite'' dancing in the background.

** A Poppy Bros Jr. appears behind Kirbo doing the ''Fornite'' dance as per usual, then Kirbo inhales him and uses the Bomb ability to defeat Waddle Doo.

* AscendedFridgeHorror:
** "Something About Kirby 64" takes the implications of Shiver Star being a post-apocalyptic Earth and explores it through the human Adeleine, with her becoming more uncomfortable and frightened the longer she explores the mall, which ''should'' be familiar to her but isn't due to it being long abandoned and infested with enemies.
** "Something About Kirby 64" posits that Magman, the boss of Neo Star, is actually the living embodiment of Neo Star's core, inspired by the whole area around it turning solid once it's defeated. Kirbo killing it results in the planet's core dying, leading to the planet's magnetic field disappearing alongside its atmosphere, quickly killing off everything on it and leaving Neo Star as naught but Magman's tomb as it floats endlessly through the universe. [[MoodWhiplash The pterosaur that grabbed Waddle Dee earlier somehow survives this and the vacuum of space.]]

** "Something About Kirby's Adventure" skips over the boss fights for Heavy Mole [[note]]Yogurt Yard is destroyed when Grape Gardens' castles crumble and fall onto it.[[/note]] and Nightmare Orb [[note]]Nightmare Wizard is exorcised from the Fountain of Dreams and crashes into the moon.[[/note]]. Since the video only mentions the Star Rod once at the beginning, the plot relevance of the bosses is largely overlooked.

* CoverVersion: Phantom Ganon performs his own (text-to-speech) rendition of "Suavamente" by Puerto Rican singer Elvis Crespo in "Something About Zelda Ocarina of Time PART 2: The FOREST TEMPLE"; a full-length version of Phantom Ganon's performance was given [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WtpIL_cY_g its own video]] the following day.

*** When confronting 0², Kirbo calls the other Kir Bros from "Something About Kirby & The Amazing Mirror", but they're too busy to help this time.

** In "Something About Kirby 64", Pop Star still has the hole from Marx's laser from "Something About Kirby Super Star", and when confronting 0², Kirbo calls the other Kir Bros from "Something About Kirby & The Amazing Mirror", but they're too busy to help this time.

* VillainsWantMercy: In "Something About Kirby's Adventure", Nightmare pleads for Kirbo to go away after escaping to the moon.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Used by the heroes in several installments:

** At the end of "Something About Kirby 64", two lines of text in the Wingdings font briefly appear on screen before the video cuts out. When traslated, they read "Game Genie Time Locations: Still At Large" and "THREAT LEVEL: MULTIVERSAL".

* HumanoidAbomination: Mario [[spoiler:and specifically, the Speed Demon possessing him]] is capable of violating reality and does so hilariously. He's even capable of [[spoiler:turning into Master Hand as a HeroicSacrifice and him coming back is poked on later]].
* HorrifyingTheHorror: After literally everything gets thrown at Calamity Ganon, he takes a [[EyeScream bunch of arrows to the eye]] and becomes so terrified of Link that he actually ends up backing away from him in the end. Even in his Dark Beast mode, he's frightened by Link's presence alone.