History WesternAnimation / TheMidnightGospel

* PsychopathicManChild: Clancy, for how eloquent he seems to be, proves to be horrifically self-centred and immature when things don't immediately go his way.

* {{Hammerspace}}: Clancy carries around a duffel bag that contains, among other things, a pyramid, an ancient Greek temple, a Rubiks cube, and a pool stick.

* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: Creatures from worlds that don't resemble Earth in any way reference our culture. I.e. a giant dog on the clown planet talks about Christianity.

* BloodierAndGorier: Than Pen Ward's previous work. One preview video features deer-dog creatures tearing clowns limb from limb. Another preview video features a centipede creature that transforms into a small robot, which later transforms into a gun and shoots Clancy.

* BalefulPolymorph: Every time Clancy travels around the multiverse with the simulator, his physical appearance changes.

* JudgementOfTheDead: ''Annihilation of Joy'' has Bob have his heart weighed on a scale every time he dies, and is sent back to the prison to relive his experience when deemed guilty. This is a reference to Egyptian mythology, where a dead soul's heart is weighed against a feather, and if it's heavier, it is devoured by Ammit.
* MilkmanConspiracy: ''Turtles of the Eclipse'' has the Grim Reaper talk about the "Death Industrial Complex" wherein Civil War embalmers propagated the notion that preserving a dead body for funerals/wakes was an absolute necessity so they could stay in business even in peacetime.[[labelnote:*]]This is partially TruthInTelevision, based on the fact that after Lincoln's assassination his body was preserved so it could last on a national tour. Undertaker's from then on made it a part of marketing strategy to emphasize embalming in their funerary practices as a necessity so they can inflate prices.[[/labelnote]]

* VerySpecialEpisode: [[spoiler: Episode 8, which is a podcast between Clancy and his deceased mother, goes from show's usual abstract philosophical ramblings into a frank and eventually tearful discussion on the grieving process.]]

* SkewedPriorites: The protesters at the beginning of the first episode, who continue angrily mobbing outside the White House ''in the midst of a zombie apocalypse''.

--> '''Clancy[[note]]who at this point is extremely drunk [[/note]]''': Haha! That's fucked. Never do that again.

* AfterlifeExpress: The bus [[spoiler:Yancy boards]] in the final episode is full of dead characters from the series.
* {{Alternet}}: Yancy's spacecast is on some unnamed internet equivalent that can broadcast and teleport objects to other parts of the multiverse.

* {{Alternet}}: Yancy's spacecast is on so.e unnamed internet equivalent that can broadcast and teleport objects to other parts of the multiverse.

--> '''Clancy:'''[note]who at this point is extremely drunk [/note] Haha! That's fucked. Never do that again.

* DeathIsCheap: Well, depending on the world. In some, death is permanent [[BloodierAndGorier and plentiful]], in others, the inhabitants (such as the clown dogs or the prisoners in the Esoteric Prison) don't seem to be all that fazed by it. Clancy himself is mortally injured as an avatar several times, but returns to real life without a scratch (except that time his computer [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame made it so he could die for real]] to "experience the ecstasy of death").

* MilkmanConspiracy: ''Turtles of the Eclipse'' has the Grim Reaper talk about the "Death Industrial Complex" wherein Civil War embalmers propagated the notion that preserving a dead body for funerals/wakes was an absolute necessity so they could stay in business even in peacetime.[[labelnote:*]]This is partially Truthi television, based on the fact that after Lincoln's assassination his body was preserved so it could last on a national tour. Undertaker's from then on made it a part of marketing strategy to emphasize embalming in their funerary practices as a necessity so they can inflate prices.[[/labelnote]]

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The teddy bears who show up in the final episode.

* MilkmanConspiracy: ''Turtles of the Eclipse'' has the Grim Reaper talk about the "Death Industrial Complex" wherein Civil War embalmers propagated the notion that preserving a dead body for funerals/wakes was an absolute necessity so they could stay in business even in peacetime.

From Creator/PendletonWard, the mastermind behind ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and comedian Duncan Trussell comes ''The Midnight Gospel'', a Creator/{{Netflix}} original animated series concerning the exploits of Clancy (voiced by Trussell), a space podcaster who uses a multiverse simulator to interview beings living in other worlds. The show is more or less an AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Duncan Trussell Family Hour'' podcast, with the episodes using clips from Duncan Trussell's said podcast.