History WesternAnimation / Spliced

* SpoofAesop: The "Knowing is Growing" shorts, which have included [[AnAesop aesops]] like 'don't put antelopes up your nose', 'gravy isn't a vegetable; it's a fruit', and 'don't adopt samurai as pets'.

** Two-legs Joe. THUNDER STOMP! TELEPORT STOMP!! QUANTUM STOMP!!! REGURGA-STOMP!!!! The IdiosyncraticWopes even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] how absurd these could get.

* AWizardDidIt: Most, if not all, the weirdness in the show is the result of one of the Doctor's experiments.
* AdvertisedExtra: Princess Pony Apehands is presented as a major character with the rest of the main cast but rarely did anything.

* BlackComedyCannibalism: In "Promises, Promises", Entrée tries to eat one of Patricia's swine-apple pies, but Patricia tries to keep it away from him. Entrée gets around this by eating Patricia along with the pie.
* BodyHorror: Often, but having your spine sucked viciously from your body by a baby robot comes to mind as a particularly nasty one.

** Several of the IdiosyncraticWipes address the audience.

** The boxers Peri and Entree stole from the Doctor's lab in "Stomach On Stike". Entree told Peri the boxers didn't fit him, and was interrupted before he could tell him the whereabouts of it. About a minute later, when Entree's stomach climbs out of his body, it barfs out the muffins Entree was trying to digest, and a pair of boxers.

** Two-legs Joe. THUNDER STOMP! TELEPORT STOMP!! QUANTUM STOMP!!! REGURGA-STOMP!!!! The intermission wipes even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] about this and noted on how absurd it could get.

* CastOfExpies: Most of the primary cast have a lot of similarities to several ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' main characters.
** The happy-go lucky, and extremely optimistic protagonist and his fatter, dumber, and less sympathetic friend (Peri and Entree/Spongebob and Patrick).
** A self-proclaimed EvilGenius antagonist who is an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, and lives with a much more level-headed, competent, and snarky female companion (Mister Smarty Pants and Octocat/Plankton and Karen).
** The grouchy cynic who is constantly forced to deal with the main duo's troublemaking antics (Two-Legs Joe/Squidward).
** The smarter, OnlySaneWoman female character who is friends with the main protagonists and also a FishOutOfWater in the setting (Patricia/Sandy).
** The oversized GonkyFemme female character whose personality is of a GirlyGirl who likes stereotypically "girly" things like ponies and tea parties and is frequently OutOfFocus (Princess Pony Apehands/Pearl).
* CatchPhrase: Fuzzy's "Huzzah!" and "Expedition note!", Joe's exclamations of "Horns above!" and "Sweet mercy!", and Entree's "May-O-NAAAAAAISE!"

** In "Come to the Dork Side", Peri and Entree watch another Nelvana cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/DiGataDefenders'', at the end of the episode on Mister Smarty Smarts' movie theater screen.

* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Bowled Over". Peri makes a sandwich, which then randomly grows insect-like legs and wings and begins attacking people. Later, he attempts to fix Patricia's car, but he ends up giving it sentience instead. Also in the episode "Living Hellp", Entree attempts to microwave a microwave, which results in the microwave coming to life and attacking him.

* ThreateningShark and KillerRabbit: The Wunny Sharbit is part-rabbit, part-shark, part-chainsaw, all killer.

* FanserviceExtra: One background character is a fish-headed mutant with a very curvy body.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Joe claims Lord Wingus is just the bird that hangs out on his butt in ''Stompabout'', Lord Wingus replies that maybe Joe is the one hanging out on Wingus's feet. The episode ''One Joe Wingus'' reveals that this is exactly the case.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Occurs between Entree and a whirrel he named Ed in the episode "Whirrel Call".

* GeneticAbomination: The whole cast is made up of these, being MixAndMatchCritters like a cat-caterpillar, a monkey-dolphin, a cat-octopus, a gorilla-pony, etc.

* GrossoutShow: It's not really as gross as you'd expect it to be, but there has been some instances where you get to see miles of snot, exposed brains, the sounds of stretched limbs slowly tearing apart, and the occasional inside-out bodies.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: The show's main [[RunningGag running gag]], which is often accompanied with random sound effects for laughs.

* KillSat: Octocat controls one.

* LostLoveMontage: Mr Smarty-Smart's experiences on after Octo-Cat leaves him "Of Masters and Minions". Of course, all of the scenes involve him and Octo-Cat attempting to conquer Keepaway Island.
* LustfulMelt: Patricia in "Amazon", when she first sees Eduardo.
* MakeoverMontage: Wunny Sharbit gets one.

* MirrorCharacter: In the episode "Same Difference" Two Legs Joe and Mister Smarty Smarts develop a friendship over their mutual dislike of Peri and Entree (though Mister Smarty Smarts downright despises them, while Joe just finds them annoying).

* MixAndMatchCritters: Pretty much all of the main cast.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Wunny Sharbit. It is part shark and chainsaw, after all.
* MundaneFantastic: It's a show about an island full of talking mutant MixAndMatchCritters created by a MadScientist. This is treated as entirely normal.

* RelaxOVision: Used in the episode "Pork Chop", where Entree goes apeshit on everybody after obtaining Kung-Fu powers.

** How Entree sees the Wunny Sharbit in the episode "Cleaning Up" wears a [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Goaltender mask.]] Interestingly, that depiction of Wunny is in the theme song, despite it not actually existing.
** In the episode "Nightmare On Condemned Street" Entree says [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 "I have the power!"]] Peri says the same line in "Bowled Over".
** In "Nightmare On Condemned Street" Entree says "[[Franchise/StarWars Do or do not.]]"

** In "Same Difference", one clip in Smarty-Smarts and Joe's montage shows the both of them watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'', which was created by the same people. The ''Grossology'' theme can also be heard in the episode "Yetis Don't Care About Nothin"

** To the game Breakout in ''Cube Whacked''.
** In "Pork Chop" Entree says [[AWinnerIsYou "A winner is me"]] from the NES game ''VideoGame/ProWrestling''.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: In "Compu-Peri" Peri adopts a buppy that he names Pistachio. While playing fetch, Pistachio is eaten by the Wunny Sharbit.

* {{Egopolis}}: The town on the island has this for the Doctor to an extent.

** "Stompabout" has two in-universe examples from Wingus about getting angry. Firstly that if he doesn't learn to control his anger, he'll become a cyborg and sink the island with his robot legs. The second that if he is ''too'' determined not to get angry, Fuzzy will become a SuperSoldier and take over the island (the latter became a ChekhovsGun in "Sgt. Snuggums", which itself was an example: "Don't play pranks on your friends or they'll turn into insane {{Super Soldier}}s who see everyone as evil robots that need to be destroyed")

* BunnyEarsPicturePrank: The opening sequence has a FreezeFrameBonus of the Doctor who created the mutants smiling and wearing a lei as he does the "bunny ears" gesture on Entree.

* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks and KillerRabbit: The Wunny Sharbit: part rabbit, part shark, part chainsaw, all killer.

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* CaffeineBulletTime: Peri experiences this as a result of consuming huge amounts of sugar in "Sugar Low".

* TimeFreezeTrollingSpree: Inverted and PlayedForLaughs. When Peri gets a [[CaffeineBulletTime sugar rush]] he starts moving at SuperSpeed so to him it look like everyone is frozen in time. He then spends his time doing good deeds to everyone, thinking they'll be appreciative and throw him a parade, except when he returns to normal time, nobody believes he was the one who did everything.

--> '''Patricia:''' (''after Joe chases the whirrels out'') That was amazing! but how'd you learn to control your temper like that?

'''Peri:''' (''confused'') Robot legs??\\

* NonSequiturThud: Entree does it in "Amazon".
-->'''Entree:''' Hey guy, have you seen our red fire truck?

* CompanyCrossReferences: In "Same Difference", one clip in Smarty-Smarts and Joe's montage shows the both of them watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'', which was created by the same people, and by extension the same company (Creator/{{Nelvana}}, in this case).

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[[caption-width-right:350:Half-baked and diced and regurgitated. [[note]]From T to B: [[AllGirlsLikePonies Princess Pony Apehands]], [[InsufferableGenius Mister Smarty Smarts]], [[TheQuietOne Lord Wingus Eternum]] & [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Two Legs Joe]], [[OnlySaneMan Patricia]], [[AllLovingHero Peri]] and [[FatBastard Entree]].(Not pictured: [[TheChewToy Fuzzy Snuggums]], [[HypercompetentSidekick Octocat]], [[TheSmartGuy Compuhorse]], and [[KillerRabbit the Wunny Sharbit]])[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Half-baked and diced and regurgitated. [[note]]From T to B: [[AllGirlsLikePonies Princess Pony Apehands]], [[InsufferableGenius Mister Smarty Smarts]], [[TheQuietOne Lord Wingus Eternum]] & [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Two Legs Joe]], [[OnlySaneMan Patricia]], [[AllLovingHero Peri]] and [[FatBastard Entree]].(Not pictured: [[TheChewToy Fuzzy Snuggums]] and [[HypercompetentSidekick Octocat]])[[/note]]]]

There's a mixed up group of creatures who are really quite horrific\\

Reinvented in the bowels of a lab..."''

Once upon a time, there lived a MadScientist who spent his weary days on a secluded island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. To occupy his time, he created mutants, MixAndMatchCritters, and other biological abominations that stood against all notions of sanity and common sense. But it was only a matter of time until the judicial system caught whiff of the whole situation and arrested him for his crimes against nature and "good taste". With their master forever gone from their lives, the genetic monstrosities he made, with only limited knowledge of the outside world and their customs, are left to construct a civilization of their own. Of course, HilarityEnsues.

''Spliced'' is a crazy Canadian animated television series from Creator/{{Nelvana}} that was created by cartoon writers Simon Racioppa and Richard Elliott (who had previously also developed ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'' for television). Inspired by Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' and the {{Zany Cartoon}}s of decades past, the series stars a dimwit duo consisting of the naïve optimist Peri and the selfish gourmand Entree, whose shared misadventures around the setting of Keepaway Island result in all manner of insane occurrences from bowling pin aliens and possessed golf carts to mayonnaise monsters and brain-sucking squids. Starring alongside the pair is an equally bizarre ensemble of characters, including ill-tempered half-rhino mayor Two Legs Joe; Patricia the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Platypus]]; ineffectual evil genius chimp-dolphin Mister Smarty Smarts (and his henchwoman Octocat); the cute but long-suffering Fuzzy Snuggums; and Princess Pony Apehands, a hulking brute with the mindset of a little girl.

''Spliced'' is a crazy Canadian animated television series from Creator/{{Nelvana}} that was created by cartoon writers and ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'' developers Simon Racioppa and Richard Elliott. Inspired by Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' and the {{Zany Cartoon}}s of decades past, the series stars a dimwit duo consisting of the naïve optimist Peri and the selfish gourmand Entree, whose shared misadventures around the setting of Keepaway Island result in all manner of insane occurrences from bowling pin aliens and possessed golf carts to mayonnaise monsters and brain-sucking squids. Starring alongside the pair is an equally bizarre ensemble of characters, including ill-tempered half-rhino mayor Two Legs Joe; Patricia the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Platypus]]; ineffectual evil genius chimp-dolphin Mister Smarty Smarts (and his henchwoman Octocat); the cute but long-suffering Fuzzy Snuggums; and Princess Pony Apehands, a hulking brute with the mindset of a little girl.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItWas And no]], this is not an AnimatedAdaptation of the sci-fi horror film ''Film/{{Splice}}'', even if they do both feature genetically-engineered hybrid freaks of nature.

[[JustForFun/IReadThatAs And no]], this is not an AnimatedAdaptation of the sci-fi horror film ''Film/{{Splice}}'', even if they do both feature genetically-engineered hybrid freaks of nature.

And no, this is not an AnimatedAdaptation of the sci-fi horror film ''Film/{{Splice}}'', even if they do both feature genetically-engineered hybrid freaks of nature.

And no, this is not an AnimatedAdaptation of the sci-fi horror film ''Film/{{Splice}}'', even if they do both feature mutant genetically-spliced hybrids.