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** Stevie, after opening his own company in [="Stevie McBusinessman"=], would kill anyone who says words related to 'small' and 'short', even in the most innocuous and different context, as [[TheNapoleon he has serious complex about his height.]] [[spoiler:Subverted when one of his executives presses his Berserk Button multiple times in a rant at how the company is a sham, and Stevie promotes him to CEO for his honesty. Double Subverted when the new CEO is thinking of a raise, and Stevie kills him for it.]]

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** Stevie, after opening his own company in [="Stevie McBusinessman"=], would kill anyone who says words related to 'small' and 'short', even in the most innocuous and different context, as [[TheNapoleon he has serious complex about his height.]] [[spoiler:Subverted when one of his executives presses his Berserk Button multiple times in a rant at how the company is a sham, and Stevie promotes him to CEO for his honesty. Double ]] [[spoiler:Double Subverted when the new CEO is thinking of a raise, and Stevie kills him for it.]]
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* EvilCounterpart: Inverted(probably);in order to quell Half-Off Oscar's threat to the universe,The Cosmic Arbiter sends a message to another salesman named Two-For-One Todd,who's able to make two of one thing(wheels,women,[[BreadEggsMilkSquick failing hearts]]) by clapping his hands.

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* EvilCounterpart: Inverted(probably);in Inverted (probably); in order to quell Half-Off Oscar's threat to the universe,The universe, the Cosmic Arbiter sends a message to another salesman named Two-For-One Todd,who's Todd, who's able to make two of one thing(wheels,women,[[BreadEggsMilkSquick thing (wheels, women, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick failing hearts]]) by clapping his hands.
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The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, yet due to a contract following the release of the second season, the long-form series is no longer available on Website/YouTube. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on]] Creator/{{VRV}}. However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].

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The first season of the show began airing on November 13th, 2014, yet due to a contract following the release of the second season, the long-form series is no longer available on Website/YouTube.Platform/YouTube. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on]] Creator/{{VRV}}. However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].
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* AndIMustScream: The announcer in the Painbot commercial gleefully explains how the titular robot feels nothing but unimaginable levels of pain all day, every day, for all eternity.


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* AwesomeButImpractical: Painbot is a machine which feels excruciating pain beyond human comprehension, being sold to the general public. In the commercial, a guy asks why he'd need something like Painbot; the announcer dodges the question by saying he doesn't need one. He needs ''two!''
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* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites:
** The first episode of the TV series focuses on a world where humans and insects have switched roles, resulting in human-sized sapient insects being irritated by tiny humans that fly around and pester them. At the end of the episode, the insect society gets nuked, and the humans crawl from the wreckage and start standing on two legs, in an inversion of CockroachesWillRuleTheEarth.
** One short skit features a man who tries to grab a milk bottle from the back of the grocery store fridge... only to be grabbed himself by a giant milk bottle, and find himself in a world where milk bottles consume refrigerated humans.
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* ComicallyInvincibleHero: Lunk, a hulking warrior who is by all appearances completely invincible and superhumanly strong. Most of the humor in his appearances comes from him being so strong that he resolves any and all threats by simply lumbering his way through any given obstacle and then brutally murdering anything that opposes him. His biggest foe is Stormy Thorncastle, who is [[VillainousUnderdog about a tenth his size and a hundredth his threat.]]
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* {{Bookends}}: The first episode of Season 1 ends with a human uprising after a meteroite wipes out all of the sentient bugs. [[spoiler:The final episode of Season 3 ends with the bugs becoming sentient after all of humanity dies from eating paint.]]

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* {{Bookends}}: The first episode of Season 1 ends with a human uprising after a meteroite nuclear explosion wipes out all of the sentient bugs. [[spoiler:The final episode of Season 3 ends with the bugs becoming sentient after all of humanity dies from eating paint.]]
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* Bookends: The first episode of Season 1 ends with a human uprising after a meteroite wipes out all of the sentient bugs. [[spoiler:The final episode of Season 3 ends with the bugs becoming sentient after all of humanity dies from eating paint.]]

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* Bookends: {{Bookends}}: The first episode of Season 1 ends with a human uprising after a meteroite wipes out all of the sentient bugs. [[spoiler:The final episode of Season 3 ends with the bugs becoming sentient after all of humanity dies from eating paint.]]
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* BookEnds: The first episode of Season 1 ends with a human uprising after a meteroite wipes out all of the sentient bugs. [[spoiler:the final episode of Season 3 ends with the bugs becoming sentient after all of humanity dies from eating paint.]]

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* BookEnds: Bookends: The first episode of Season 1 ends with a human uprising after a meteroite wipes out all of the sentient bugs. [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:The final episode of Season 3 ends with the bugs becoming sentient after all of humanity dies from eating paint.]]
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* BookEnds: The first episode of Season 1 ends with a human uprising after a meteroite wipes out all of the sentient bugs. [[spoiler:the final episode of Season 3 ends with the bugs becoming sentient after all of humanity dies from eating paint.]]
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* BrainTransplant: The surgeon who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9kvT1zhP_A performed one for Mr. Mackie]]mapparently didn't consider that when replaced his brain with somebody elses, he wasn't saving the life of his patient as much as he was reviving the idiot who killed himself in a suicidal stunt....which he uses his new chance at life to do again.

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* BrainTransplant: The surgeon who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9kvT1zhP_A performed one for Mr. Mackie]]mapparently Mackie]] apparently didn't consider that when replaced his brain with somebody elses, he wasn't saving the life of his patient as much as he was reviving the idiot who killed himself in a suicidal stunt....which he uses his new chance at life to do again.
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* KnightOfCerebus: [[MonsterClown The Silly's]] their sketches take the show from BlackComedy to [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Horror Comedy to outright horror.]]

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* KnightOfCerebus: [[MonsterClown The Silly's]] their sketches take the show from BlackComedy to [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Horror Comedy to outright horror.]] [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZWQ2XNw3SI&t=218s&ab_channel=ExplosmEntertainment Planet Silly Part 2]] where it's revealed that despite being a terrifying cosmic abomination, Silly [[IJustWantToBeLoved simply wanted friends to celebrate his birthday with]] after having lost his family.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: [[MonsterClown The Silly's]] their sketches take the show from BlackComedy to [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Horror Comedy to outright horror.]]
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** An American soldier does this scream in "The TRUTH About War", when he is run over by a truck in the background during the conversation between the American and Nazi soldier on the battlefield.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMzp3gIyHI0&t Mr. B*tch]]" takes this trope, cranks it UpToEleven, and rips the knob off.

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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMzp3gIyHI0&t Mr. B*tch]]" takes this trope, cranks it UpToEleven, to 500%, and rips the knob off.
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* IAmNotShazam: Lil' Jil from the trilogy of shorts Tiny Style is never called Tiny Style in them. Granted she is almost never noticed by others and therefore there's no one to say her name but when she whispers into Chip Chapley's ear the name she gives him is Lil Jil. Tiny style is the what she calls her *style* of doing things.

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* IAmNotShazam: Lil' Jil from the trilogy of shorts Tiny Style is never called Tiny Style in them. Granted she is almost never noticed by others and therefore there's no one to say her name but when she whispers into Chip Chapley's ear the name she gives him is Lil Lil' Jil. Tiny style is the what she calls her *style* "style" of doing things.[[invoked]]



* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator's exchange with The Arsenist in "Too Many Superheros".

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* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator's exchange with The the Arsenist in "Too Many Superheros".
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* ImNotShazam: Lil' Jil from the trilogy of shorts Tiny Style is never called Tiny Style in them. Granted she is almost never noticed by others and therefore there's no one to say her name but when she whispers into Chip Chapley's ear the name she gives him is Lil Jil. Tiny style is the what she calls her *style* of doing things.

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* ImNotShazam: IAmNotShazam: Lil' Jil from the trilogy of shorts Tiny Style is never called Tiny Style in them. Granted she is almost never noticed by others and therefore there's no one to say her name but when she whispers into Chip Chapley's ear the name she gives him is Lil Jil. Tiny style is the what she calls her *style* of doing things.
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*ImNotShazam: Lil' Jil from the trilogy of shorts Tiny Style is never called Tiny Style in them. Granted she is almost never noticed by others and therefore there's no one to say her name but when she whispers into Chip Chapley's ear the name she gives him is Lil Jil. Tiny style is the what she calls her *style* of doing things.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMzp3gIyHI0&t Mr. B*tch]]" takes this trope, cranks it UpToEleven, and rips the knob off.

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* ShoutOut: To everything from ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' to ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' and, as of recently, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''.

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To everything from ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' to ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' and, as of recently, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''.''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''.
** The ending of "Stuck" serves as a dual reference to both ''Film/ForrestGump'' and ''Film/MaryPoppins''.
--->'''Formerly Fat Man:''' ''[[Film/ForrestGump (sitting on a bench)]]'' And that's how I lost all this weight! ''(chuckles)''\\
'''Businessman:''' I don't care! ''[[Film/MaryPoppins (floats away using umbrella)]]''

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* TheBusCameBack: After 6 years, Ted Bear makes an unexpected comeback in "The Prison Break Part 2: The Clean Getaway".
** [[spoiler:And in Prison Break 3, where he escapes!]]



* TheBusCameBack: After 6 years, Ted Bear makes an unexpected comeback in "The Prison Break Part 2: The Clean Getaway".
** [[spoiler: And in Prison Break 3, where he escapes!]]
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* AffectionateNickname: Samantha's dad in "Dinner with the Folks" lovingly refers to Charlie as "Chester" every time after they first meet.
-->'''Dad:''' And this must be Charlie! Chuck, Chaz, Chester? Chester Cheetah! Ha, lay off those cheese puffs, you!


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* SatanIsGood: In "Dinner with the Folks", Samantha's parents being Satanists is initially treated as disturbing, until their ritual attracts Satan to their house, who turns out to be a cool guy.
-->'''Satan:''' Ooh, man! This spread looks great, ''and'' smells great! You're a wiz in the kitchen, Debra! Who'd you have to sell your soul to to get ''this'' good?\\
'''Debra:''' ''(chuckles)'' Oh, Satan!

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* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: The villain of season three wasn't wrong when he said people were dumb enough to drink paint is an ad told them to. As thats exactly what happens in the CruelTwistEnding of season three as humanity goes extinct after everybody literally starts drinking paint.]]

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* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The villain of season three wasn't wrong when he said people were dumb enough to drink paint is an ad told them to. As thats exactly what happens in the CruelTwistEnding of season three as humanity goes extinct after everybody literally starts drinking paint.]]]]
* WaxingLyrical: The bartender in "Drunk" quotes Semisonic's "Closing Time".
-->'''Bartender:''' Closing time! One last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer! [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion And]] get the [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] outta here!

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Cliff's diagnosis in "The Man Who Could Sit Anywhere".
-->'''Doctor:''' You have ass cancer.\\
'''Cliff:''' ''Ass cancer?!''\\
'''Doctor:''' It's, uh... It's when you have a cancer in your ass.

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