History WesternAnimation / UncleGrandpa

* BigRedButton: For whatever reason, the microwave in "Wasteland" has a red button clearly labeled "Evil". Naturally, Uncle Grandpa presses it when he tries to microwave the talking leftovers he promised to eat, combining them into a giant food monster.

* NotHyperbole: In "RV Olympics", Pizza Steve says that Uncle Grandpa can't tell the difference between a banana and a microphone. Sure enough, he's talking into a banana, then pulls a microphone out of his lunch bag, attempts to peel it like a banana and eats it.

** In "King Gus", one of the stands at the food court is named "[[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Feed Me, Seymour!]]" Later when Pizza Steve is banished, he becomes Literature/TheManInTheIronMask.

** In "Bad Morning", when trying to persuade Pizza Steve to confess to moving Uncle Grandpa's racecar bed, Mr. Gus rips his pepperonis off... which, given where they're set on his pizza body and Pizza Steve's pained howls, looks like a very uncomfortable variation on the old [[PurpleNurple Texas Tittie Twister]].

** In "Uncle Grandpa Sings the Classics", one song (titled ''Mr. Gus is Green'') has Uncle Grandpa dressed as Creator/GGAllin. How is this radar-dodging? Allin was a ''genuine drugged-up psychopath'' whose lyrics expressed themes of misogyny, pedophilia, blasphemy, and racism, not to mention his outlandish live performances, which often featured transgressive acts such as coprophagia (read: ''[[Main/{{Squick}} eating feces]]''), self-mutilation, and physically assaulting audience members (which got him arrested more than once). He promised for years he would commit suicide on stage, but ultimately died of a heroin overdose. How a reference to Allin made it past the censors is beyond us.

* BoringButPractical: Unlike Uncle Grandpa's wacky ways, Aunt Grandma use simple practical solutions to help children. Justified as [[spoiler:She's not a RealityWarper, but a normal human]].

* DownerEnding: "Uncle Caveman" ends with Uncle Caveman making a snowcone machine that turns out to be way too powerful,[[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs wiping out the dinosaurs]] and [[HistoricalInJoke causing the Ice Age]].

* BigRedButton: The microwave in "Wasteland" has a red button clearly labeled "Evil". Guess what happens when Uncle Grandpa presses it when he tries to microwave the talking leftovers he promised to eat.

** David Gemmill and Jason Reicher usually draw exaggerated faces from the characters, evident in episodes like Ball Room, Land of the Lost Shadows, and Anger Management.

** {{Double subver|sion}}ted in "Hide & Seek" when Uncle Grandpa looks for Mr. Gus in the salt shaker and the salt stops just above his eye, then he squirts hot sauce in it.

* DenserAndWackier: Especially when compared to most other shows on Cartoon Network nowadays (with the exception of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''). On the show itself, most of the later episodes are a lot more focused on wacky adventures than Uncle Grandpa helping kids.

Okay, so what happens when you take the zany artwork of Don Martin-era MAD, throw in visual gags and slapstick that would make The Golden Age animators shed tears of pride, add a spoonful of heavy metal, and then contaminate the batch with [[WidgetSeries large portions of pure]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs undiluted weirdness?]]

[[OnceAnEpisode A typical plot]] would start with Uncle Grandpa traveling in his [[DrivesLikeCrazy RV like a madman]], usually crashing into the homes of disgruntled youths. To them Uncle Grandpa is nothing but a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass bumbling nuisance]] in rainbow suspenders and an [[BagOfHolding insanely portable fannypack... ahem, 'Belly Bag']], but it's only when [[HilarityEnsues events start to blow out of proportion]] (usually the result of his attempts to win them over) that the LetsGetDangerous side of Uncle Grandpa springs into action. Together with the help of a pizza slice, a green lizard man and a [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy giant realistic flying tiger]] (again, don't ask), he and his young companion-of-the-week embroil in an epic battle, and once the day has been saved, our protagonist has gained a great deal of respect for their Uncle Grandpa, only to find that he has [[ButNowIMustGo already left the scene]], ready to spread his magic upon the lives of other unsuspecting folk:

** Andres Salaff (who worked on only season 5) had a [[strange OffModel way]] of drawing Uncle Grandpa, who looks wider.

** "The Grampies" at the end of "Pizza Eve" could be seen as a Take That toward Nickelodeon and their Kids' Choice Awards, with Uncle Grandpa managing to sweep every single category (like ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' often does, leading to rumors of rigging), including "Best ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' Episode", as well as how Nickelodeon often treats of their shows that aren't Spongebob or some other CashCowFranchise, as Uncle Grandpa informs all the characters in the audience (all of them existing CN characters) that their shows have been cancelled.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Pizza Steve

* MoodWhiplash: "The Lepre-Con" ends with Uncle Grandpa wishes for the extinction of all leprechauns, traps a leprechaun in a glass orb and smashes it to pieces. [[WhatTheHellHero Wait, what?!?]]

** And again when they follow the missing Giant Realistic Flying Tiger's trail to the pet cemetary, making Uncle Grandpa think she died of grief at not getting a salutation from UG that morning.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Mr. Gus is at least 1.993 billion years old as shown in "Jorts", and Uncle Grandpa is even older according to "Uncle Grandpa Sitter".

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Mr. Gus is at least 1.993 billion years old as shown in "Jorts", and Uncle Grandpa is even older according to "Uncle Grandpa Sitter" (if one fan theory is to be believed, he's a direct descendant of Adam and Eve who ate from the Tree of Life).

** In "Uncle Grandpa Sings the Classics", one song (titled ''Mr. Gus is Green'') has Uncle Grandpa dressed as Creator/GGAllin. How is this radar-dodging? Allin was a ''genuine drugged-up psychopath'' whose lyrics expressed themes of misogyny, pedophilia, blasphemy, and racism, not to mention his outlandish live performances, which often featured transgressive acts such as coprophagia (read: ''[[Main/{{Squick}} eating feces]]''), self-mutilation, and physically assaulting audience members (which got him arrested more than once). He promised for years he would commit suicide on stage, but ultimately died a heroin overdose. How a reference to Allin made it past the censors is beyond us.

* AbsenteeActor: Both Mr Gus and Pizza Steve doesn't appear in several episodes.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Manchild And His Giant Realistic Flying Tiger]]

The character then went through a couple of years of DevelopmentHell, only to reemerge on an episode of the equally surreal ''WesternAnimation/SecretMountainFortAwesome'' (also by Browngardt). When SMFA got axed Browngardt decided to switch gears and focus back on Uncle Grandpa, expanding its cast of characters and retooling it as a VarietyShow, with almost each episode backed up by a short B-story that sometimes given [[ADayInTheLimelight other characters created by the crew their chance to shine]]. He succeeded, and the show eventually premiered in September 2013 much to the delight of fans of the original shorts. Even UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation purist Creator/JohnKricfalusi seems to have been pumped for the show [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/john-k-draws-uncle-grandpa-76314.html judging by these sketches]].

* AbsenteeActor: Pizza Steve was absent in "New Kid" and "Messy Bessy." He and Mr. Gus both didn't appeared at all in "Even More-er Shorts" and "In the Clouds."

** Also, the whole "Guest Directed Shorts" episode is full of this trope.

* ButtMonkey: Hot Dog Person.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Out of all the artists in the show, Nick Edwards (who draws the show's title cards) had the most unique art style. He tends to draw characters off-model, especially making Uncle Grandpa and Mr. Gus fatter than usual.

* DownerEnding: "Uncle Caveman" ends with Uncle Caveman making a snowcone machine that turns out to be way too powerful, [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs wiping out the dinosaurs]] and [[HistoricalInJoke causing the Ice Age]].

** In "King Gus", Mister Gus looks noticeably fatter for the first few scenes. This is pretty much the case whenever Nick Edwards board an episode. See Depending on the Artist above.

* LongRunners: Not the show itself as it's set to run for around 5 seasons, but one skit parodies this by showing the gang in the future where the show has ran for 100,000 episodes.

* EvilCounterpart: Kid Cousin, G-Dog and Tony Pepperoni (the three basketball players from "Ballin") they even have a Scary Realistic Growling Pitbull.