History WebVideo / VideoGameHighSchool

* AnAesop: Season 3 episode 2: underage drinking and driving is bad.

* CoolLoser: Brian is skilled, funny, and becomes famous seemingly ''worldwide'' in the span of what appears to be no more than a couple of days. Yet, at VGHS, he gets picked on by pretty much everyone. Possibly justified: he has a ''huge'' rep after killing Law, and almost everyone is convinced that it was a flash-in-the-pan moment. They're not interested in being friends with Brian, they're interested in being the one that kicks his ass, as a kind of surrogate butt-kicking to the Law. They can't beat the Law, but they ''can'' beat Brian, who beat the Law, and that's almost as good.

* PowerWalk:
** [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6plly1C8e1rzamn4o1_1280.png Brian, Ki, and Ted in the show intro]].
** All of the VGHS students in the series finale, heading to the final battle.

* BadassBaritone: In Jenny's dream in season 3 episode 2, she owns a unicorn named Summ'rwynd who has a ''very'' deep voice.

* [[spoiler:TheyDo: Brian and Jenny get together at the end of the third episode of Season 2.]]

Ran for three seasons from 2012 to 2014, with episodes being released on [[http://www.rocketjump.com/ RocketJump's site]] and on [[https://www.youtube.com/RocketJump their YouTube channel]]. Each season was made with the help of crowdfunding; Seasons 1 and 2 with Website/{{Kickstarter}}, Season 3 with Indiegogo.

-->''"Well screw you, Calhoun," the students did say,\\

*** When a girl shows up at school looking for the random named [=TacoBoy14=] she fought in a pub. Now she wants revenge, and she's not leaving until she gets it.

*** When [[spoiler:The VGHS team is short on players]].

** Annihilist challenges Brian D to a game because he's a noob (freshman). His own in-school score is so low that [[spoiler: losing automatically gets him expelled.]] He was apparently so certain of his own victory, [[WhatAnIdiot he never even considered what would happen if he lost.]]

* ShesGotLegs: One shot in season 3 episode 2 features a nice horizontal-moving shot of Jenny's legs while foxy music plays in the background. The music stops immediately when we see Jenny loudly coughing and sniffling into a tissue.

* WeaponOfChoice: Brian's quite skilled with tomahawks and grenades, and seems to prefer assault rifles. The Law has his custom gold-plated pistols, and Games Dean loves his [=SMGs=].

** For Season 1: In Episode 1 Brian killed The Law once in Field of Fire and got into VGHS due to a failed pub-stomp involving a grenade on his head. In Episode 9 [[spoiler: Brian kills The Law using an extension of the same pub-stomp fiasco that got him into VGHS, [[UpToEleven except against an army of 6,]] and ends with The Law getting killed by 2 shots to the leg and a grenade planted on his chest.]]

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: Brian gets expelled for, in Calhoun's words: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown assaulting a student, inciting a brawl]], and stealing [[NiceHat a hat]].]]

* NiceHat: Games Dean wears one. [[spoiler: Brian steals it near the middle of episode 7.]] Worth noting that the hat was originally Brian's but he threw it away. Cue Games Dean appearing behind the crowd wearing Brian's hat, being complimented on it (even by people who'd just seen Brian toss it) and getting a lovely lady on each arm before smugly walking off.

%%* FiveManBand: The JV team are a loose version of this:
%%** TheLeader: Jenny Matrix.
%%** TheLancer: Brian D.
%%** TheSmartGuy: Games Dean.
%%** TheBigGuy: Jumpin' Jax.
%%** TheChick: Moriarty and Rapwnzel.
%%** SixthRanger: The Law.

* BadassBeard: Calhoun. Then again, it's [[WebVideo/EpicMealTime Harley Morenstein]] who's playing him...
* BadassMustache: The Law gains one as part of a "disguise," and it stays for the remainder of the episode. [[RuleOfFunny The only reason he gets it is because he's wearing a shirt that says "Like My Stache?".]] You can tell he's just ''begging'' for someone to ask about it, but no one does until much later.

** The Law may beat them both, his harassment of Brian frequently segueing into hilarious insanity. His out-of-nowhere BadassMoustache, for instance.

* RealityEnsues:
** [[spoiler:Brian stands up to The Law and beats him. Afterwards, he is expelled for assaulting a student, inciting a brawl, and stealing a hat.]]
** [[spoiler:Brian tries to use the fact that his record is still in the system to play in the tournament, only for the dean to nearly stop him. Programming oversights do not get to override being expelled.]]
** [[spoiler:A positive example shows up in the series finale when the Barnstormers' mother berates them on having already produced and shipped millions of humongous cans of energy drink declaring them the champions of their own bowl. Since they lost, the cans are worthless and the company lost too much on printing cans and hiring the Napalm team for her to think they could run a mega mall.]]

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ScNjBd118 Video Game High School]]'' is the first feature-length WebVideo project from Website/YouTube star Freddie Wong and Creator/RocketJump, his ProductionPosse.

* {{Adorkable}}: Wendell Brixby and Ted Wong.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** When the Law is mocking Brian once again.
---> '''The Law''': I've got the girl of your dreams S-ing My D. ''[takes out a comb]'' Styling My 'Do.
** Used to pretty comical effect after Brian attacks the Law: "Someone S my D!"

* NeverLiveItDown: [[spoiler:Brian's loss to The Law in the scrimmage match]]. It gets so bad that his name becomes an in-universe [[MemeticMutation meme]] for failure.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In [=S2E5=], Calhoun, who until that point always treated Brian as his personal ButtMonkey, confronts him and actually gives him comfort and advice after an incident, even telling him to take the next day off. He quickly goes back to berating Brian when others enter the scene [[JerkassFacade for the sake of keeping up appearances]]. Of course, it could all just be in [[ChristmasEpisode the Spirit of L33tmas]]...

* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: Occasionally, it's called "VGHS: Video Game High School."

** Episode 2 takes this to the extreme. This episode has noticeably mixed reviews on YouTube because both the characters and the plot of the episode as a whole are severely out of character with the lighthearted antics of the previous two seasons.

** [[spoiler: Games Dean in Episode 9. When one of Brian's teammates [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out for being expelled]] and says he has no chance on their team, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Games Dean defends Brian,]] despite mocking him in Episode 6 and spreading a rumor about Brian and Jenny in Episode 7.]]

Ran for three seasons, with episodes being released on [[http://www.rocketjump.com/ RocketJump's site]] and on [[https://www.youtube.com/RocketJump their YouTube channel]]. Season Three launched on October 13, 2014. Each season was made with the help of crowdfunding; Seasons 1 and 2 with Website/{{Kickstarter}}, Season 3 with Indiegogo.

** Subverted once with Ted, though, who gets a can out of a vending machine, opens it, and pulls out a pizza. Of course, Pizza is shown to be a pretty popular food item among the cast too, and its seen being eaten constantly.

* SwappedRoles: Jenny and Brian, as of the second half of the final season. At the beginning, he was a social pariah, disliked for getting into the school by beating Law, eliminating a player on his first day, and a number of embarrassing losses, while Jenny was a popular, well-liked and respected gamer who everyone looked up to with admiration. By the third season, however, Brian had mostly became respected among the school, including developing a close relationship with the JV team, thanks in part to a lot of successful victories earning him their admiration, while Jenny ends up sinking her reputation and popularity when she [[spoiler: loses the game to Napalm high thanks to unintentionally distracting Brian and missing the final shot]]. At this point, Jenny ends up being picked on by most of the school, taunted in class, and subject to lots of ridicule. [[BreakTheCutie She doesn't take this situation particularly well, to say the least]].