History WebVideo / BillWurtz

* AnAesop: "ball & stick" ends with one about violence being bad, referring to the titular stick bouncing the ball on the wall.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Bill's videos are filled with nonsense lyrics and quirky takes. Then he actually adds music and shows that he's a gifted singer and multi-instrumentalist (playing ''at least'' the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and piccolo). WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan and WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess demonstrate he's able to preserve these traits while providing more-or-less accurate history lessons.
** Music analysts and theorists tend to note Bill has a fairly advanced knowledge of music structure and composition in addition to playing, frequently pointing out songs like "La de da de da de da de day oh" or "i wanna be a movie star" for the complicated chord progressions or erratic and unusual times and meters... while still sounding quite good.

** Music analysts and theorists tend to note Bill has a fairly advanced knowledge of music structure and composition in addition to playing, frequently pointing out songs like "La de da de da de da de day oh".

** Fruit and bread? [[spoiler:probably not]]

** Is it a four-lettered word you can use in various ways that are mostly positive?[[note]]i LOVE moms;the beach;electronics;the mexican nation;/inside/outside baseball;crowd surfing;a warm night by the fire;early bollywood films;competitive vaping;stairs[[/note]] [[spoiler:[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Hell Yeah.]]]]

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: From "history of japan":
--> ''knock knock. it's the United States, with huge boats (with guns). (gunboats)''
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Bill's videos are filled with nonsense lyrics and quirky takes. Then he actually adds music and shows that he's a gifted singer and multi-instrumentalist (playing ''at least'' the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and piccolo). WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan and WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess demonstrates he's able to preserve these traits while providing more-or-less accurate history lessons.

''Guess they don't want me goin' to the mall, cause I'm just too small (too small for the mall!)''\\
''Then I built some trains, and I'm travelin' somewhere new''\\

* RuderAndCruder: His videos are generally profanity-free, except his two long history videos ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'' and ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'', which each contain a few scattered instances of profanity, whilst "new canaan" begins with a PrecisionFStrike[[note]]Only on [=YouTube=], though. The version on streaming services excludes this line.[[/note]].

* {{Scatting}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HCZ4YGqbw La de da de da de da de day oh]]" naturally features a lot of this.

->''"I don't remember why I first saw the mountains, but they've always been there. Now that I see them, I'm wondering why they're there. But they're here. I can't climb them."''

[[https://billwurtz.com Bill Wurtz]] is an American musician and video creator; his works are distinct in their use of musical jingles and surreal colorful visuals. He initially focused on Vine videos with songs intermingled and had some success there, but eventually expressed a desire to create longer unrestricted videos on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/billwurtz his YouTube channel]]. The result of this was ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'', which swiftly went viral. After working 11 months on it, he presented the follow up, ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess''.

* LastNoteNightmare: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HCZ4YGqbw "la de da".]]

** Asking “[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Is this the Krusty Krab?]]” will reward a “Creative Question Award”.

** "i wanna be a movie star" [[UpToEleven goes all over the place with this]]. Much of it is in the already-uncommon 9/4 time, but each verse briefly shifts the meter, all of them asymmetrical and always in flux (sometimes switching to 12/4 or 13/4, and the bridge is in 9 measures of 3/4).

** Getting a PNF-404 on his website leads to a page that says “Oh no, where is my pink tutu?” Asking the same question in the questions section will lead to a page that says “Oh, here it is.”

* EasterEgg: On his website's questions page, inputting "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner How do you type with boxing gloves on?]]" pulls up [[https://billwurtz.com/questions/boxing-gloves-answer.html a unique page]] of keyboard-smashing.

* RapidFireComedy: Most of his videos were created for WebOriginal/{{Vine}}. Even as he's moved away from it following the site's collapse, it's been a staple of his.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1NJQ0UP_Q "steve"]] has to point out when answering a letter that isn't actually his name, but he doesn't care and he hasn't given his real name.

** Starting with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNTaVTMoNTk "here comes the sun"]], Bill's videos have included 3D graphics and animation in his usual style.

* [[spoiler: MadeOfExplodium]]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgKGUua7DhA Ol' Macdonald had a farm,]] [[spoiler: [[StuffBlowingUp AND IT EXPLODEEEEED!~]]]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** Any video that is longer than ten seconds.
** ''[[https://youtu.be/M8izj_mKa-8 a Play featuring an iphone power block and a mechanical pencil]]''

[[https://billwurtz.com Bill Wurtz]] is an American musician and video creator; his works are distinct in their use of musical jingles and surreal colorful visuals. He initially focused on Vine videos with songs intermingled and had some success there, but eventually expressed a desire to create longer unrestricted videos on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/billwurtz his YouTube channel]]. The result of this was WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan, which swiftly went viral. After working 11 months on it, he presented the follow up, WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess.