History WesternAnimation / TheMidnightGospel

* WidgetSeries: ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' was already weird on its own way, but ''The Midnight Gospel'' takes the weirdness up to eleven and beyond.

For those familiar with Ward's previous work, [[WidgetSeries it's one hell of a trip (if not more so).]] However, if you've read the above quote, you'll know that it's '''most definitely''' not for kids.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** An obvious one to ''The Duncan Trussell Family Hour'', given how each episode is written around actual audio from the podcast.
** The series is also considered this to ''WesternAnimation/WakingLife'', due to their trippy animation and ad-libbed philosophical themes.

* TakeThatUs: Duncan Trussel plays a selfish, pretentious, and very much failed podcaster (in contrast to his own success) with delusions of grandeur.

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

* CriticalResearchFailure: An InUniverse example; in "Hunters Without a Home", Darryl the Fish claims the line "''In the beginning was the Word... and the Word was God''" is from "the first chapter of Literature/TheBible" as a way of illustrating the meaning and significance of oral tradition. It's not; it's the first line of the Book of John, the last of Literature/TheFourGospels.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Every time Clancy travels around the multiverse with the simulator, his physical appearance changes.
** In "Officers and Wolves", Clancy unwittingly infects the computer with a virus after downloading an emoji set. This causes his next avatar to look like a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas man with a chicken head, a morning star for a right arm, a tentacle for a left arm, and snakes for feet.]]

* WidgetSeries: ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' was already weird on its own way, but ''The Midnight Gospel'' takes the weirdness UpToEleven and beyond.

* 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]]

** In,"Officers and Wolves, a police officer is nowhere to be seen, and the creatures Clancy interviews are two deer-dog hybrids, no wolves.

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* DisneyAcidSequence: The ''entire show'' is one long psychedelic animation sequence.

* CriticalResearchFailure: An InUniverse example; in "Hunters Without a Home", Darryl the Fish claims the line "''In the beginning was the Word... and the Word was God''" is from "the first chapter of Literature/TheBible" as a way of illustrating the meaning and significance of oral tradition. It's not - it's the first line of the Book of John, the last of Literature/TheFourGospels.

** Simulation farmers all carry an item that will allow them to exit their simulated realities and return to the real world at a moment's notice. Clancy's item of choice is a shofar, while Blithrreyus uses a whistle, though both result in the user sprouting a Third Eye and heading skywards until the simulator pukes them back out again. Given Clancy's reckless lifestyle, he often ends up using this in emergencies - being eaten alive by zombies, cornered by flesh-eating maggots, trapped on an exploding planet, about to be sucked up by a vortex...
** In the final episode, [[spoiler: Clancy ends up being cornered in his trailer by homicidal police while still connected to the simulator, too distracted to notice it's on the verge of Wobbling again. With their backs to the wall, Charlotte pushes Clancy into the simulator completely and dives in after him, exiting reality forever - just before the simulator malfunctions and Wobbles with apocalyptic results. Clancy awakens to find himself in another dream world, but with no way of returning.]]

* GlitchEpisode: "[[Recap/TheMidnightGospelS1E6VultureWithHonor Vulture With Honor]]," Clancy's universe simulator starts breaking down: it's unable to manifest new worlds, begins speaking with a ElectronicSpeechImpediment, becomes obsessed with the fact that you can never see your own eyes, and begins spawning horrific pie-based life-forms. Turns out that this is all due to neglect of regular maintenance - in spite of increasingly desperate reminders delivered by the simulator over the last few weeks, [[TheCassandra all of which Clancy ignored]]. Worse still, if allowed to break down entirely, the simulator will "[[RealityIsOutToLunch Wobble]]" with apocalyptic results, sending Clancy on a desperate quest to retrieve the items he needs to repair his simulator before it's too late.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Glasses Man, a diminutive, gun-totting, charismatic President of an alternate United States of America.

** In "Officers and Wolves", Clancy unwittingly infects the computer with a virus after downloading an emoji set. This causes his next avatar to look like a man with a chicken head, a morning star for a right arm, a tentacle for a left arm, and snakes for feet.

Like Ward's previous work, [[WidgetSeries it's one hell of a trip (if not more so).]] However, if you've read the above quote, you'll know that it's '''most definitely''' not for kids.

Like Ward's previous work, [[WidgetSeries it's one hell of a trip (if not more so)]]. However, if you've read the above quote, you'll know that it's '''most definitely''' not for kids.

Released (approriately enough) on April 20th, 2020, the teaser can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQJQ3i9HafY HERE]]. The full trailer can be seen [[https://youtu.be/0kQWAqjFJS0 here.]]

->''"There are beautiful, wondrous worlds, full of intelligent beings with stories to tell... and I'm gonna interview them, put my interviews online and make a bunch of money, and suck my dick!"''

-->-- '''Clancy (to his sister while asking her for money)'''

Released on April 20th, 2020, the teaser can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQJQ3i9HafY HERE]]. The full trailer can be seen [[https://youtu.be/0kQWAqjFJS0 here.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Clancy is 44 years old, but he looks like a teenage boy.

* VocalDissonance: [[spoiler: [[TheSilentOne Bob]]]] has a beautiful singing voice that also happens to be [[CrossdressingVoices female]].

%%* AnimationAgeGhetto: Inverted. Having the premises focus [[TheProtagonist it's protagonist]] who has the [[OlderThanTheyLook appearance and voice of a teenager]] but is actually 44 going on violent "simulated" journeys using a broken computer.

** Inverted with the other guest stars, as they were interviewed by Duncan for his podcast while the show wrote characters and senarios based around them. So in a strange way, each guest star is still technically voicing themselves.

Like Ward's previous work, [[WidgetSeries it's one hell of a trip (if not more so)]]. However, if you've read the above quote, it's '''most definitely''' not for kids.

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

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

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: Just as the police are about to kill Clancy for illegal Simulation practices, he is saved by his dog and is sucked into the Simulator, which then explodes, killing the cops and destroying the surrounding area. Clancy then appears in another Escher-esque void boarding an infinitely long train with all of the dead characters he met in the simulation as fellow passengers. Clancy asks one of the passengers if he has died and the passenger basically just tells him cryptically to just enjoy the ride. Since Clancy dying would contradict the prophecy of Death, who he interviewed, it's unclear if he really is dead or not.]]

** And a particularly heartbreaking case: [[spoiler:Clancy meets his mother, who is also his voice actor's mother. She even refers to him as "Duncan" throughout their interaction.]]

From Creator/PendletonWard, the mastermind behind ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and comedian Duncan Trussell comes ''The Midnight Gospel'', a psychedelic Creator/{{Netflix}} 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, many of which are on the brink of catastrophe. 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.

** Clancy carries around a duffel bag that contains, among other things, a pyramid, an ancient Greek temple, a Rubiks cube, and a pool stick.
** Glasses Man stashes billiard balls and weapons in his dog's fur. In later episodes, viewers see that the dog's fur leads contains a parallel universe.