History WebVideo / JakeAndAmir

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: "Dog."
* BlackComedyRape: "Interrogator Part 2."
* BloodBrothers: In the episode of the same name, Amir unsuccessfully tries to convince Jake to take the requisite BloodOath.
* BloodyHilarious: "Tongue."

''Jake and Amir'' is a popular internet series of short videos by ''Website/CollegeHumor''. Like ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'', they are filmed in and around the College Humor office and revolve around Jake Hurwitz, a ''usually'' normal guy, and his co-worker, Amir Blumenfeld, an unstable, unbalanced and generally ''weird'' ManChild who is obsessed with Jake and determined to prove that they're "best friends".

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: The GrandFinale ends with Jake and Amir [[spoiler:finally getting fired]], with plenty of LeaningOnTheFourthWall ([[spoiler:"You guys are ''done'' at Website/CollegeHumor!"]])

The complete episode archive can be found at http://www.jakeandamir.com/archive or the College Humor website.

* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: Nobody has any idea what Amir's job is, least of all Amir himself. It's variously implied that he fills a hard-to-replace role and gets paid more than Jake, that his cousin is pulling strings to keep him employed, and that he's a glorified intern who never moved up from tasks on the level of refreshing the site's homepage repeatedly so that he can tell the programmers if it breaks. ''Fired'', "Table Read" and its sequel, and "Relocation" imply that he's a writer.

'''''Jake and Amir''''' is a popular internet series of short videos by ''Website/CollegeHumor''. Like ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'', they are filmed in and around the College Humor office and revolve around Jake Hurwitz, a ''usually'' normal guy, and his co-worker, Amir Blumenfeld, an unstable, unbalanced and generally ''weird'' ManChild who is obsessed with Jake and determined to prove that they're "best friends".

* AmbiguousDisorder: Many different theories are brought up as to what exactly is wrong with Amir. All that people know for sure is that there's something ''very'' wrong with him.

-->'''Jake:''' [[LampshadeHanging You change moods so quickly, it's obviously a problem]]. Right? [[AmbiguousDisorder A version of psychosis, I think]].

* WorthyOpponent: Despite their (equivalent levels of) absurdity and ineptitude, Amir and his SitcomArchNemesis Doobs take each other highly seriously, overreacting to each other's [[LameComeback Lame Comebacks]] and respecting one another to the point where Amir will defend Doobs against Jake's scorn. It borders on FriendlyEnemy at times.

* SurpriseCreepy: At the end of "Lottery" [[spoiler:[[SpidersAreScary a family of spiders crawls out of]] [[NasalTrauma Amir's nose]].]]

* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: "Gallon Challenge" and "iPhone Case." {{Subverted}} in "WebVideo/AutoTuneTheNews"; Amir acts embarrassed by Music/TheGregoryBrothers' StupidStatementDanceMix of his needy Facebook video messages to Jake, but it gradually comes out that [[spoiler:he paid them to do it.]]

** Many of the early videos ended with [[HereWeGoAgain Amir saying Jake's name as if to start another conversation]]. The joke extended to Jake's computer software reading Amir's [=IMs=] aloud in "Instant Messages," Jake reading a note Amir left him in "Pictionary," and Jake reading through Amir's attempts to use Google (using the address bar) in "Jake's Computer."

* HammyHerald: In "Shia," Amir ushers Mike Fink, an intern he's convinced is Shia [=LaBeouf=], around the office by singing a rewrite of "Prince Ali" from ''Film/{{Aladdin}}''.

** In "Nuggets," the loss of Amir's chicken nuggets is treated like a classic cinematic DisposableWoman situation, with direct references to ''Film/MysticRiver'' and ''Film/{{Contagion}}.''

* CruellaToAnimals: Taken UpToEleven by Amir in "Fur" when he goes on a "morbid spending spree" that ends in him wearing an outfit comprised of a fur hat and coat, a mink scarf, two dead doves for shoes, a wallet made from a dead rat, and just for the hell of it [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals an iguana that he strangled to death sticking out of his pocket]].

-->'''Jake:''' Then you reply, again: "I'm in tears. I am a baby in each one of your arms. Let me suckle on your tit and drink that sweet, sweet confidence juice." [[UpToEleven None of those words, not a single one, was spelled correctly]].

* ThereWillBeToiletPaper: [[http://www.jakeandamir.com/post/7891643072/shaving Shaving]] takes this UpToEleven, as Amir cuts himself so deeply and so frequently that he passes out from blood loss at the end.

* AdamWesting: Rick Fox plays himself in several episodes as an egg-obsessed tractor thief.

* RealEventFictionalCause: "Q" reveals that Amir [[spoiler:is the author of the 4chan posts that gave rise to QAnon.]]

* GenderFlip: The All-Nighter sketch "Jake and Amir's Dream" has several guest comedians briefly playing the roles of Jake and Amir, including a sequence where they're respectively played by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of ''Series/BroadCity'' fame.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Emily likes to see Murph [[FightingIrish get violent]] on Jake, to the point where she starts masturbating in public in "Table Read 2".

* LifeEmbellished: A web show about two [=CollegeHumor=] employees named Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, made by two [=CollegeHumor=] employees named Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld. More so early on when the two were actually employed as writers for the site, and the desks they filmed at were really where they worked; as the show was picked up by the site and gained popularity, it eventually became their full-time job, making their desks effectively just the set where they filmed their skits. Some viewers were confused about where the line was, to the point where Hurwitz was frequently asked if Amir was "really like that" (he isn't: the two are best friends in RealLife).

* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: In "Fur":
-->'''Jake:''' You know, there's also a dead iguana in your pocket.
-->'''Amir:''' Or am I just happy to see you?
-->'''Jake:''' It's a dead iguana.
-->'''Amir:''' I’m also happy to see you!

* CheekCopy: Amir's attempt in "Copier" is [[RealityEnsues more of an ordeal than the standard representation]].

* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Amir tries this on Jake in "Los Angeles." [[RealityEnsues It doesn't work]].

* LockedInARoom: Amir hopes that the ElevatorFailure in "Elevator" will go this way, [[SubvertedTrope but they're seemingly only stuck there]] [[RealityEnsues for a matter of minutes]].

* RealityEnsues: The finale opens with [[spoiler:a rolling shot that moves through the entire office depicting the exasperated reactions of Jake and Amir's coworkers as the two argue in their trademark style at full volume in the middle of the work day. They're subsequently called in by their boss and fired, not only for being constantly disruptive, but [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything for barely accomplishing anything else in eight years]].]]

-->'''Jake:''' You're forcing an epiphany, okay, but you're not actually--