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* SingingTelegram: In the episode "Special Delivery", the RunningGag of a [[BarbershopQuartetsAreFunny barbershop quartet]] in inappropriate situations continues with the quartet now delivering singing telegrams. In the short, they (comically and in song) inform a man that his girlfriend is breaking up with him, and has in fact been cheating on him with one of the members of the quartet.
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* BerserkButton: Do not call Stevie short. He is very sensitive about his height...and will freaking kill you will his incredible psychic powers if you even say 'short' within earshot of him.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Jimmy Williams does not even pretend to hide that he's the worst kind of person. He bluntly admits he's awful. When he wins the election he is suprised that people were dumb enough to vote for him and his inaugural speech starts off by saying they're going to need a miracle to fix the damage he'll do to the country.
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* BadBoss: The director of Ted Bear and the eponymous program "Ted Bear Survivalist". During one part of the production, the director orders him to ''literally bite his own penis off''. And when Ted refuses, he gets fired for it. He got fired ''just for trying to stay safe''. Even James Cameron wasn't this cruel to his subordinates.
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* BathroomBrawl: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nGhmukF5s "Public Bathroom"]] has two men fighting over toilet paper in the mens room, which spills over into the ladies room.
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* ExactWords: In "That's It", a father tells his kids who are arguing in the backseat that's he going to turn the car around if they don't calm down. Naturally, they don't listen and the father makes good on his threat... Turning the car around ''driving backwards'', causing traffic accidents as he goes much to his children's horror.

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* ExactWords: In "That's It", a father tells his kids who are arguing in the backseat that's he going to turn the car around if they don't calm down. Naturally, they don't listen and the father makes good on his threat... Turning the car around and ''driving backwards'', causing traffic accidents as he goes much to his children's horror.
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* ExactWords: In "That's It", a father tells his kids who are arguing in the backseat that's he going to turn the car around if they don't calm down. Naturally, they don't listen and the father makes good on his threat... Turning the car around ''driving backwards'', causing traffic accidents as he goes much to his children's horror.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-ZdRuwRXg "Fart in a Jar Martin"]] plays this trope to a T, with the titular Martin continuing to insist that it was one time in fourth grade. Except that keeps bringing the jar to school every day and won't stop showing it to everyone. Then it's revealed that his bedroom is lined wall to wall with farts in jars that he's been collecting for years.

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-ZdRuwRXg "Fart in a Jar Martin"]] plays this trope to a T, with the titular Martin continuing to insist that it was one time in fourth grade. Except that he keeps bringing the jar to school every day and won't stop showing it to everyone. Then it's revealed that his bedroom is lined wall to wall with farts in jars that he's been collecting for years.
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* BarbershopQuartetsAreFunny: Used a couple of times, once with a barbershop quartet of surgeons and again with a skit where a barbershop quartet hits on a woman from a passing taxi.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-ZdRuwRXg "Fart in a Jar Martin"]] plays this trope to a T, with the titular Martin continuing to insist that it was one time in fourth grade. Except that keeps bringing the jar to school every day and won't stop showing it to everyone. Then it's revealed that his bedroom is lined wall to wall with farts in jars that he's been collecting for years.
-->'''Martin''': {{I lied}}.
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* SadClown: The "La Comédie" short, with a heavy dose of StepfordSmiler.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: The Third season’s has pain tech and Wesley meadows.

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''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' is a web series based off the daily webcomic, ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''. Since 2010, animated shorts based on the comic have been produced, gradually increasing in production quality until 2014, when the first season of a weekly ten-to-fifteen minute series was announced and successfully [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explosm/the-cyanide-and-happiness-show Kickstarted]], reaching three times its goal of $250,000. As a stretch goal, for the entire year of 2014, shorts were produced on a weekly basis (excluding weeks in which full episodes were released). Each episode of the series tends to have one of two main sketches that take up most of the run time, and a few shorter sketches that act as interludes between them.

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''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' is a web series based off the daily webcomic, ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''. Since 2010, animated shorts based on the comic have been produced, gradually increasing in production quality until 2014, when the first season of a weekly ten-to-fifteen minute ten-to-fifteen-minute series was announced and successfully [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explosm/the-cyanide-and-happiness-show Kickstarted]], reaching three times its goal of $250,000. As a stretch goal, for the entire year of 2014, 2014 shorts were produced on a weekly basis (excluding weeks in which full episodes were released). Each episode of the series tends to have one of two main sketches that take up most of the run time, and a few shorter sketches that act as interludes between them.
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* BrainTransplant: The surgeon who performed one for Mr. Mackie apparently didn't consider that when he did so, 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 apparently Mackie]]mapparently didn't consider that when he did so, 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 performed one for Mr. Mackie apparently didn't consider that when he did so, 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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* FirstRuleOfTheYard: Subverted in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5mSsMOSk0 Prison]]", where a new prisoner plans to beat up the biggest, meanest looking guy around to gain respect. He lands a series of sucker punches on a huge, heavily tattooed man... and finds out that the guy he attacked is the most beloved and nicest man in the prison. All the other prisoners promptly attack the new guy in outrage.
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* CorruptPolitician: Jimmy Williams is equal parts this and inept. He should be in prison for life never mind running for office. How bad is he? His opponents campaign ad campaign is two minutes of pure slander about him that Jimmy actually approves of being a hundred percent true. He's so terrible that even he didn't vote for himself, is shocked when he wins, and shames everyone who helped him into office by bluntly stating they screwed up, and whatever things he does to ruin the country, they basically asked for it.
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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 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. [[https://vrv.co/series/G6P8Z1G56/The-Cyanide-Happiness-Show You can watch all three seasons on VRV.]] on]] Creator/{{VRV}}. However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].
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** If the viewers choose to Vote in Jimmy Williams as president, as bad as he is he will be shocked that the people chose to vote in someone as terrible as himself into office. Even telling the audience that they made a stupid decision and whatever he does now, they asked for it.
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* DeconstructiveParody: "The World's Greatest Detective" is one for ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''. After the detective correctly reveals that everyone in the train killed the victim together, making them all accomplices, he asks them to politely turn themselves in when they get to the station. Instead, the other passengers murder him and pass it off as a suicide.

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* DeconstructiveParody: "The World's Greatest Detective" is one for ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''. After the detective correctly reveals that everyone in the train killed the victim together, making them all accomplices, he asks them to politely turn themselves in when they get to the station. Instead, the other passengers murder him and pass it off as a suicide. [[spoiler:In the original novel, however, Poirot goes along with the murder plan and agrees to keep secret, agreeing that the murder victim deserved it]].
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* CreditsGag: "Waiting for the Bus, Pt. 2" is a short video followd by extremely long credits that mention the most unnecessary things, including "Not Starring Miley Cyrus", "Baby Shaker Louise Woodward", "Awful Music Red Hot Chilli Peppers", "Please by: Our Book", etc.
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* DeconstructiveParody: "The World's Greatest Detective" is one for ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''. After the detective correctly reveals that everyone in the train killed the victim together, making them all accomplices, he asks them to politely turn themselves in when they get to the station. Instead, the other passengers murder him and pass it off as a suicide.
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* DeathByGluttony: The future version of the kid in "Too Much History" dies from "Too Much Privalage" after eating more than a dozen Christmas turkeys by himself. Even his past self watching the vision questions why his future self would need to eat so much turkey.
* DeathByRacism: The white people aboard the bus in the past segment of "Too Much History" insisted that the black man sitting in the front move to the back, despite the fact he was in the front because he was the driver. Causing the bus to crash.

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* DeathByGluttony: The future version of the kid in "Too Much History" dies from "Too Much Privalage" "too much privilege" after eating more than a dozen Christmas turkeys by himself. Even his past self watching the vision questions why his future self would need to eat so much turkey.
* DeathByRacism: The white people aboard the bus in the past segment of "Too Much History" insisted that the black man sitting in the front move to the back, despite the fact he was in the front because he was the driver. Causing driver, causing the bus to crash.
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* YoungAndInCharge: "The Delivery" [[UpToEleven]], President Baby.

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''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' is a web series based off the daily webcomic, ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''. Since 2010, animated shorts based on the comic have been produced, gradually increasing in production quality until 2014, when the first season of a weekly ten-to-fifteen minute series was announced and successfully [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explosm/the-cyanide-and-happiness-show Kickstarted]], reaching three times its goal of $250,000. As a stretch goal, for the entire year of 2014, shorts were produced on a weekly basis (excluding weeks in which full episodes were released). Each episode of the series tends to have one of two main sketches that take up most of the run time, and a few shorter sketches that act as interludes between them.

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 VRV.]] However, the shorts are still available and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment here]].

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!!''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'' provides examples of:

* AmbiguouslyGay: In "Rudy It's a Bitch Ass Life", Rudy's son is seen with his kid and another man visiting Rudy's death bed.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Used for comedic effect in the "Star-Spangled Bastard" sketch; at the end of the sketch, the titular hero uses a handgun to ''shoot out his bedroom light'' (the bullet then [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace ricochets and hits Eagle]]).
* AxCrazy: The [[BuriedAlive grave digger]] and the [[KillItWithFire fire fighters]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zEGjlHZMiM "Opposite Day"]].
* BlackComedy:
** The opening of Episode 3, where a man places a baby in the trunk of a car alongside a bowling ball, before driving crazily through a forest with [[MoodWhiplash extremely sudden]] SoundtrackDissonance.
** Pretty much the entire "God as a next door neighbor" sketch.
* BrickJoke: In Episode 2, [[spoiler:the pirate from the Buttshark sketch returns at the end of the episode, once again ordering two whiskies.]]
* CosmicPlaything: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw8xjDgxzK0 Sad]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-w61_mzyA Larry]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXI1yHP6urk Everything]] about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFX035FYUFA him]].
* CouchGag: The whiteboard during the opening of every episode. Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The third season of the long-form series is one giant storyline [[spoiler:involving a [[TakeOverTheWorld world takeover conspiracy]] by an [[EvilInc evil]] MegaCorp which culminates in HumanitysWake.]]
* DeathByGluttony: The future version of the kid in "Too Much History" dies from "Too Much Privalage" after eating more than a dozen Christmas turkeys by himself. Even his past self watching the vision questions why his future self would need to eat so much turkey.
* DeathByRacism: The white people aboard the bus in the past segment of "Too Much History" insisted that the black man sitting in the front move to the back, despite the fact he was in the front because he was the driver. Causing the bus to crash.
* DrivenToSuicide: The intro to each episode has a man who appears to electrocute himself to death. Also happens in the depressing episode.
* {{Eagleland}}: Parodied with the gun-loving American hero, the "Star-Spangled Bastard", in the main sketch of Episode 4.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ujjQA4vGw Aeris]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is disgusted at Cloud using Phoenix Downs on Aeris while she's still impaled on his sword, outright calling him "sick" and telling him to let her die in peace. Keep in mind, he's the one who killed her in the first place.
* ForTheEvulz:
** The grinning man in "Seriously" completely ruins a man's life, stealing his parking spot and dinner table when he and his wife try to have their anniversary, then stealing the man's wife and assets in court, and even goes as far as to [[ItMakesSenseInContext fake his own death to trick the man into killing himself.]] All with that same shit-eating grin glued to his face the whole time.
** It seems to be a family trait, since all his relatives at the funeral share the same look, with one going as far as to steal the tears off another's face.
* FreudianExcuse: The "Let's Get Fucked Up Grandma" sketch (of the "Christmas Episode") reveals through childhood pictures that the reason the teenager is being so ruthlessly frat-boyish to his grandma is because she did the same thing to him when he was a baby. Also doubles as TheDogBitesBack and LaserGuidedKarma.
* HandicappedBadass: Suzy in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3thQUC_tLY Gym Class]] short. And how.
* HereWeGoAgain: The ending of Episode 2.
-->[[spoiler:'''Pirate:''' Aye, 'tis a sad story. But aye've got a sadder one! [[BrickJoke Two whiskies]]!]]
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in [[TimeTravel "Too Much Time"]].
-->'''Narrator:''' Wait just a second, there! You were conceived in a Volkswagen. And Volkswagens were created in World War II. So if you go back and kill Hitler, how would the Volkswagen exist? And if there are no Volkswagen, where were you conceived? And if you were never conceived, ''then who killed Hitler?''
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Season Too, while being the show's second season, is named after the degree of intensity, and all of the episodes are titled to go with that idea.
* {{Infomercial}}: Parodied in the opening of Episode 4 with ''Not Doing That!''
* InnocentBigot: White Knight doesn't seem to understand that he's being racist by arresting only black people.
* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator's exchange with The Arsenist in "Too Many Superheros".
-->'''The Arsenist:''' Do the title card thing.\\
'''Narrator:''' I don't want to.\\
'''The Arsenist:''' Dooo iiiiit!
* NonIndicativeName: The episode names for the first season have absolutely ''nothing'' to do with the contents of each episode, save for "The Depressing Episode". The latter two seasons would avert this trope. Most notably, "The Christmas Episode" not only has nothing even remotely holiday-related, it also came out on '''January 22nd'''.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The Tolerator. "Are you making fun of the lazy Mexicans? That's racist."
* ReducedToDust: In "Granddpa's Storytime", this happens to Grandpa's storybook [[spoiler:and then himself]].
* RunningGag:
** The "Most Ancient Joke in the Book" sequences in Episodes 4-6, featuring a team of scientists travelling back in time in search of the titular jokes. Turns out it's [[spoiler:a knock-knock joke]].
** Episode 6 has its own with a group of firefighters bursting into seemingly innocuous places and putting out things like candles in an over-the-top manner. The punchline is that [[spoiler:they're psychics and are predicting fires before they happen]].
** Episode 5 seems to have an obsession with hot dogs.
** Episode 11 repeatedly features a court jester trying what should be humanly impossible feats to entertain his king. [[spoiler:He gets executed the third time around.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The '60s Narrator in "Too Many Superheros" quits after watching Wonder Percent brutally murder white collar criminals.
* ShoutOut: To everything from ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' to ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}''.
* TakeThat: The first skit of Episode 11 is this to the concept of homeschooling and also most likely [[StrawFeminist straw feminists]].
* TearsOfBlood: One of the guys in the curse support group has this whenever he becomes sad.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: The husband in "Dirty Dealings" loves to eat nothing but hotdogs. Nothing. But. Hotdogs. When his wife says she wants something different. He honestly thinks she means she wants mustard on her Hotdogs instead of ketchup.
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