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** "The son of a former Secretary of Labor, everyone."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Sam's goofy behaviour in ''Game Changer'' and other Dropout shows often garners this reaction due to the humourous contrast between what he does for his job and what Robert Reich did for his.[[/labelnote]]
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** In Game Changer [=S4E1=] (2021), Brennan reacts to his Sam Says prompt by coughing loudly and all around Sam Reich. In 2023, Sam would contract long COVID.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In 2019, on the ''very first'' episode of ''Game Changer'', Izzy reveals that Brennan's greatest dream is to be a dad, and five years later, on a Fireside Chat for ''Podcast/WorldsBeyondNumber''[[note]]A non-Dropout ActualPlay podcast he produces alongside Lou Wilson, Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii[[/note]] he revealed that he and Izzy, who he had since married in 2023, had welcomed the birth of their first child.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In 2019, on the ''very first'' episode of ''Game Changer'', Izzy reveals that Brennan's greatest dream is to be a dad, and five years later, on a Fireside Chat for ''Podcast/WorldsBeyondNumber''[[note]]A non-Dropout ActualPlay podcast he produces alongside Lou Wilson, Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii[[/note]] he revealed that he and Izzy, who he had since married in 2023, had welcomed the birth of their first child.
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** GIF's of Brennan Lee Mulligan going "I will die on ''any'' hill!" are often used for people who have very strong opinions about extremely niche subjects.
* "The son of a former Secretary of Labor, everyone."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Sam's goofy behaviour in ''Game Changer'' and other Dropout shows often garners this reaction due to the humourous contrast between what he does for his job and what Robert Reich did for his.[[/labelnote]]
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: How Grant managed to beat Sam in his own game in an episode of Game Changer. The rules of that particular episode was that the players had to compete for a pile of money, with whoever did the craziest stunt getting the award. With 3000 dollars left and the challenge being to do ''anything'' involving some crickets, Grant convinces the other players to work with him, leading to each of them walking home with 1000 dollars in return for Grant simply having to wave at some crickets, and none of the other players challenging him on it.
** Also works as one for Sam, for having a graphic prepared for this instance sincerely congratulating the crew for unionising. Especially when you remember his dad was actually Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor.
** Also works as one for Sam, for having a graphic prepared for this instance sincerely congratulating the crew for unionising. Especially when you remember his dad was actually Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor.
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** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI2Z5rZl_n0 Our Best (Worst) Rejected Song Parodies (All-Nighter 2014)]]", a song reciting the digits of pi is rejected for "just being a bunch of numbers" only for them to actually do that exact video on Pi Day 2015 in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skf8NTEnrO4 The Irrationally Long Number Pi Song ("Sweet Number Pi")]] with the first 1,215 digits, it even uses the same tune.
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** Some of their parody videos could fall under this. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXr-BeXJHI this video]] explaining how it would be if the anime Creator/HayaoMiyazaki made were like other anime.
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** Some of their parody videos could fall under this. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXr-BeXJHI this video]] explaining how it would be if the anime Creator/HayaoMiyazaki made were like [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles other anime.anime]].
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** The video "Zordon is a Racist" pokes fun at the fact that the original Black Ranger and the original Yellow Ranger in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were respectively African-American and Asian by establishing that Zordon is [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero a total bigot]] who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to, and Zordon's politically incorrect attitude is so unashamedly offensive it's hilarious! Aside from being racist by lazily declaring a second black recruit "the other Black Ranger", intending to recruit a Native American as the Red Ranger and the white male recruit the White Ranger as well as the leader, plus recruiting a Mexican janitor named Jorge by giving him a sombrero and a poncho instead of a proper Ranger uniform, Zordon is also shown to be Anti-Semitic (he's accused of planning to make the Jewish recruit the Green Ranger because of [[GreedyJew the stereotype that Jews love money]]), misogynist (he makes the second female recruit the Pink Ranger just because she's a girl and shoots down the idea of her being the leader) and homophobic (he doesn't like the idea of a male recruit being the Pink Ranger because it would be "gay" and is disgusted when the Jewish recruit implies that he actually is homosexual). What especially sells it is how TheStinger has the second black recruit complain that he's actually from Connecticut when he sees that Zordon's teleported him to Africa.
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** The video "Zordon is a Racist" pokes fun at the fact that the original Black Ranger and the original Yellow Ranger in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were respectively African-American and Asian by establishing that Zordon is [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero a total bigot]] who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to, and Zordon's politically incorrect attitude is so unashamedly offensive it's hilarious! Aside from being racist by lazily declaring a second black recruit "the other Black Ranger", intending to recruit a Native American as the Red Ranger and the white male recruit as the White Ranger as well as the leader, plus recruiting a Mexican janitor named Jorge by giving him a sombrero and a poncho instead of a proper Ranger uniform, Zordon is also shown to be Anti-Semitic (he's accused of planning to make the Jewish recruit the Green Ranger because of [[GreedyJew the stereotype that Jews love money]]), misogynist (he makes the second female recruit the Pink Ranger just because she's a girl and shoots down the idea of her being the leader) and homophobic (he doesn't like the idea of a male recruit being the Pink Ranger because it would be "gay" and is disgusted when the Jewish recruit implies that he actually is homosexual). What especially sells it is how TheStinger has the second black recruit complain that he's actually from Connecticut when he sees that Zordon's teleported him to Africa.
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** The video "Zordon is a Racist" pokes fun at the fact that the original Black Ranger and the original Yellow Ranger in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were respectively African-American and Asian by establishing that Zordon is [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero a total bigot]] who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to, and Zordon's politically incorrect attitude is so unashamedly offensive it's hilarious! Aside from being racist by lazily declaring a second black recruit "the other Black Ranger", intending to recruit a Native American as the Red Ranger and the white male recruit the White Ranger as well as the leader, plus recruiting a Mexican janitor named Jorge by giving him a sombrero and a poncho instead of a proper Ranger uniform, Zordon is also shown to be Anti-Semitic (he's accused of planning to make the Jewish recruit the Green Ranger because of [[GreedyJew the stereotype that Jews love money]]), misogynist (he makes the second female recruit the Pink Ranger just because she's a girl and shoots down the idea of her being the leader) and homophobic (he doesn't like the idea of the white recruit being the Pink Ranger because it would be "gay" and is disgusted when the Jewish recruit implies that he actually is homosexual). What especially sells it is how TheStinger has the second black recruit complain that he's actually from Connecticut when he sees that Zordon's teleported him to Africa.
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** The video "Zordon is a Racist" pokes fun at the fact that the original Black Ranger and the original Yellow Ranger in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were respectively African-American and Asian by establishing that Zordon is [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero a total bigot]] who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to, and Zordon's politically incorrect attitude is so unashamedly offensive it's hilarious! Aside from being racist by lazily declaring a second black recruit "the other Black Ranger", intending to make a Native American recruit the Red Ranger and the white male recruit the White Ranger as well as the leader, plus recruiting a Mexican janitor named Jorge by giving him a sombrero and a poncho instead of a proper Ranger uniform, Zordon is also shown to be Anti-Semitic (he's accused of planning to make the Jewish recruit the Green Ranger because of [[GreedyJew the stereotype that Jews love money]]), misogynist (he makes the second female recruit the Pink Ranger just because she's a girl and shoots down the idea of her being the leader) and homophobic (he doesn't like the idea of the white recruit being the Pink Ranger because it would be "gay" and is disgusted when the Jewish recruit implies that he actually is homosexual). What especially sells it is how TheStinger has the second black recruit complain that he's actually from Connecticut when he sees that Zordon's teleported him to Africa.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: A large portion of non-furries (and even some who ''are'' furries) who watched the Furry Force series ended up rooting for Vivisector to defeat the Furry Force if only because he is their AudienceSurrogate reacting to the more sexual aspect of the furry fandom and wants the Furry Force dead. The fact that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmh5a_wSyw final part of the series]] he [[spoiler:burnt down all of his Scaly Squad to stop the world from becoming furries, [[AlasPoorVillain commits suicide]]]] ''and'', in the alternative future, suffered a MindRape to start a... "[[BlackComedyRape relationship]]" with Leon ([[{{Squick}} who he openly felt disgusted by]]) and [[{{Squick}} drowned in a sea of wolf cum]] only increase this sentiment.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: A large portion of non-furries (and even some who ''are'' furries) who watched the Furry Force series ended up rooting for Vivisector to defeat the Furry Force if only because he is their AudienceSurrogate reacting to the more sexual aspect of the furry fandom and wants the Furry Force dead. The fact that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmh5a_wSyw final part of the series]] he [[spoiler:burnt [[spoiler:burns down all of his Scaly Squad to stop the world from becoming furries, [[AlasPoorVillain commits suicide]]]] suicide]]]], ''and'', in the alternative future, suffered suffers a MindRape to start a... "[[BlackComedyRape relationship]]" with Leon ([[{{Squick}} who he openly felt feels disgusted by]]) and [[{{Squick}} drowned drowns in a sea of wolf cum]] only increase this sentiment.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The Furry Force videos are actually pretty popular with the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, despite that the videos mock said fandom. To be fair, it mocks the ''[[{{Yiff}} darker]]'' [[Rule34 side]] of it specifically, which is controversial even among the fandom itself.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The Furry Force videos are actually pretty popular with the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, [[TakeThat despite that the videos mock said fandom.fandom]]. To be fair, it mocks the ''[[{{Yiff}} darker]]'' [[Rule34 side]] of it specifically, which is controversial even among the fandom itself.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is everybody who works for Brennan's CEO characters companies really as clueless as they seem, or are they fully aware of what they are doing and ''want'' kids to eat soap and vape without concern for them as long as their making money?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Some of their parody songs are actually pretty catchy.
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** The Furry Force videos play with this line as if it was a string of yarn.
** The video "Zordon is a Racist" pokes fun at the fact that the original Black Ranger and the original Yellow Ranger in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were respectively African-American and Asian by establishing that Zordon is [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero a total bigot]] who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to, and Zordon's politically incorrect attitude is so unashamedly offensive it's hilarious! Aside from being racist by lazily declaring a second black recruit "the other Black Ranger", intending to make a Native American recruit the Red Ranger and the white male recruit the White Ranger as well as the leader, plus recruiting a Mexican janitor named Jorge by giving him a sombrero and a poncho instead of a proper Ranger uniform, Zordon is also shown to be Anti-Semitic (he's accused of planning to make the Jewish recruit the Green Ranger because of [[GreedyJew the stereotype that Jews love money]]), misogynist (he makes the second female recruit the Pink Ranger just because she's a girl and shoots down the idea of her being the leader) and homophobic (he doesn't like the idea of the white recruit being the Pink Ranger because it would be "gay" and is disgusted when the Jewish recruit implies that he actually is homosexual). What especially sells it is how TheStinger has the second black recruit complain that he's actually from Connecticut when he sees that Zordon's teleported him to Africa.
** The depths of despair [[https://youtu.be/YBO_7UezpbY the MoviePass CEO reaches]] cross into this, between answering a call from his kidnapped daughter, and the sketch ending [[spoiler: with his abduction at the hands of a LoanShark's goons]].
--->'''CEO''': Don't. Just don't. I'm hanging by a thread. And... the thing I'm hanging over, it's bottomless. If I drop, [[DespairEventHorizon I never hit the bottom]], do you get it?
** Prince Harry telling WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} that [[YoureNotMyType he's not into Asian girls]], then compromising after realizing that he's in China and asking her if it looks like a fortune cookie "down there".
** Lou in the Sam Says episode of Game Changer responding to the prompt of "Say something we'll have to bleep" by saying [[spoiler:OJ Simpson]] is innocent.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Some recurring sketches and characters become unexpectedly more popular than others.
** "If Google Was a Guy", because of his reactions to the inane and disturbing searches of his users.This reached the point that the human Google ended up being the one to comfort CH viewers as the COVID-19 pandemic began.
** Mr. S from the "Jeggings" sketches. Similar to Google Guy, he's just an average substitute teacher who gets increasingly fed up with the rules lawyering of the students in front of him.
** The unnamed OnlySaneMan agent from the "X's agent" series, for having to put up with the public relations nightmares of Music/ChrisBrown, Music/KanyeWest, Creator/NicolasCage, and Creator/ScarlettJohansson. Played by the same actor as Mr. S, Matt [=McCarthy=].
** WebVideo/PreciousPlum was discontinued after Josh (who played Mama) left. It's still one of their most popular series and people wish it would come back.
*** Josh himself was beloved by the fandom, and pretty much all his sketches met with acclaim.
** The Furry Force animations are rather popular, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDnYq0zbYYo to the point that they were nominated for]], and eventually won, [[http://www.ursamajorawards.org/UMA_2014.htm an Ursa Major Award.]]
** Brennan, due to the CEO series, his LargeHam tendencies and his work on Dimension 20, is one of the more popular cast members.
* FridgeBrilliance: On the fake Nicholas Cage movie poster for Film/ToKillAMockingbird retold where the black guy really did rape that woman, Tom Robinson is shrugging with both arms in the air. It was a plot point in the trial that Tom Robinson's left arm was crippled and thus couldn't raise it. So that fact he can here implies it was proof he did it in this movie.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Their "Not Google Plus" video has everyone not joining Google Plus. Fast forward to November 2013, when a Google Plus account is ''mandatory'' for Website/YouTube users. And then in 2018, Google Plus shut down due to low usership.
** The sixth episode of ''Prank Wars'' has Amir planting a fake marriage proposal from Streeter to his girlfriend in the middle of a Major League baseball game. When Streeter's girlfriend ''accepts'', Streeter has to inform her that he did no such thing, and the ensuing argument - and slap across Streeter's face - is broadcast to the entire stadium. Shortly afterward, the two of them broke up. Though they claimed it was for other reasons and that the break-up was amicable, it was impossible to completely detach it from the prank. This one got less harsh again in 2017 when Streeter and Amir admitted that they'd staged the prank war and that Streeter's girlfriend was in on the gag.
** In the two-part North Korean propaganda parody video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsGBzE_yS48 Kim Jong Un vs Kim Jong Il]], Kim Jong Un's brother, Kim Jong-nam is revealed to be the mastermind behind a conspiracy to depose his brother and take over North Korea. However, he is defeated in the end. On February 17, 2017, Kim Jong-nam was killed in an alleged assassination, and people close to him have claimed Kim Jong Un to be the mastermind.
** The message in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eO-HO7GLI Stop Saying "It Ruined My Childhood"]]'' (that reacting to movies and shows you grew up with being rebooted or changed in ways you don't like by claiming your childhood has been ruined when there are much worse things people have endured in their youth is ludicrously obtuse) loses some of its sincerity and comes off as hypocritical when you find out College Humor did an [[http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7043713/if-movies-had-honest-posters-march-2017-edition "honest" poster]] for ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' calling it "Childhood Ruiners".
*** One of the complaining millennials in that video is Kelly Marie Tran, whose character in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' gained a significant backlash to the point of her leaving social media.
** In March 2017, they posted a video titled ''Don't Eat the Laundry Pods'' where someone gets curious about them and despite the dangers, ends up eating some in the end. Flash forward to late 2017 where teens and kids take a tide pod challenge, eating them despite the dangers. While before, toddlers would eat/attempt to eat them because they look like candy, teens and kids are eating them by choice.
*** They would end up addressing this in a video titled ''Tide CEO: You Gotta Stop Eating Tide Pods'', in which the CEO of Procter and Gamble (not mentioned on screen for legal reasons) chastises the audience for eating Tide Pods, and then grows steadily more outraged at various products manufactured by the company for looking exactly like candy.
** A video called [=CollegeHumor=] is Shutting Down (a clip from Dropout's series Kingpin Katie) became this in 2020, when it was announced that over 100 people, including the entire cast of CH Originals, would be laid off as College Humor had lost funding from their parent company.
** In Game Changer [=S4E1=] (2021), Brennan reacts to his Sam Says prompt by coughing loudly and all around Sam Reich. In 2023, Sam would contract long COVID.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In 2019, on the ''very first'' episode of ''Game Changer'', Izzy reveals that Brennan's greatest dream is to be a dad, and five years later, on a Fireside Chat for ''Podcast/WorldsBeyondNumber''[[note]]A non-Dropout ActualPlay podcast he produces alongside Lou Wilson, Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii[[/note]] he revealed that he and Izzy, who he had since married in 2023, had welcomed the birth of their first child.
* HilariousInHindsight
** The video where [=LeBron=] James ditches the cast of ''Film/SpaceJam'' is all the funnier after James starred in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''.
** The ''2015'' video "Stop Saying 'It Ruined My Childhood'" starts with one of the characters complaining about "[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 the new Ghostbusters movie]]".
** "Stormtroopers' 9/11" as a 9/11 parody naturally goes into the theory that the Death Star was a inside job and that according to the engineering there was no way one X-Wing could blow it up. 7 years later, ''Film/RogueOne'' shows that the trooper was RightForTheWrongReasons - the Death Star was an inside job, only it was sabotaged by an'' Alliance'' sympathizer.
** "Series/GameOfThrones Wish-Fulfillment" had [[spoiler:the White Walkers finding a shortcut through the wall]] as one of the things they wanted. Come season 7 and that indeed happens.
** The fifth installment of "If Google Was A Guy" features Creator/DarcyCarden as one of the Googlers. Later that year, she would play [[Series/TheGoodPlace another take on an anthropomorphic search engine.]]
** There's a fake trailer for a DarkerAndEdgier ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpTcrtsN3U movie]] with Creator/ArielWinter as the lead character. It was meant to be an obvious tongue in cheek joke, and yet [[Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold it really happened!]] In fact, when the real movie was first announced, images from this trailer circulated claiming to be previews of the real movie.
** "Aladdin's Mistake" has WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} accidentally turning the Genie into a human when freeing him. [[spoiler: In [[Film/Aladdin2019 the live-action remake]], he ''does'' become a powerless human when freed.]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtPb8g8Jl6I Web Site Story]]'' is ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' adapted for the 21st century. Kyle Harris, who plays Tony in this video, later went on to play Tony in the 2010-2011 US National Tour production of ''West Side Story''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFK_XuVqsCQ The Pixar Intro Parody]] has [[ItMakesSenseInContext letters holding a funeral for the "I" that got crushed by the lamp.]] The funeral speaker happens to be the letter "F". [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare A certain video game released a year later would be subject to paying respects with "F".]]
*** Even later, [[WebAnimation/{{Alphabet}} An "I" would be crushed by the letter "F" in the exact same way as the Pixar lamp]].
** “If Google Was A Guy Part 2” shows a man investing in Dogecoin (a cryptocurrency that started as a joke) and becoming obscenely wealthy. Becoming wealthy by investing in Dogecoin doesn’t seem so farfetched as of January 2021, when [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/01/29/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-rises-over-400percent-after-reddit-group-talks-it-up.html Dogecoin’s price skyrocketed up by 800% in a single day]].
* JerkassWoobie: Google Guy comes off as annoying, but so would you be if you were in his shoes.
* LesYay: In the Sketch co-written by a computer, "everything is suddenly relationship goals", and Katie is seen embracing Ally.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHYGUcISsUU "Your Overly Complicated Holiday Plans"]] could pretty much be called "Katie flirts with Lily while Brennan has a mental breakdown."
* LoveToHate: The Boy from the "Giving Tree" parody is one of the most hated characters because of his selfish and cruel actions. Then again, [[HateSink this was kind of]] [[IntendedAudienceReaction the whole point]].
* MemeticMutation:
** Every time a comic about dating gets posted, [[PoliticalOvercorrectness the comment section will be fake flame wars about whether every identity in existence is represented]].
** From ''If Google Was A Guy (Part 3)'':
---> "Vaccines causes autism?"
---> "Here's one million results that say they don't, and one result that says they do."
---> "I knew it!" (takes the latter result) [[labelnote:Explanation]][=GIFs=] and clips of this part has been used as a TakeThat to the Anti-Vaxxer movement. Versions with the vaccines part removed, have also been used as a TakeThat to people who use ConfirmationBias in general.[[/labelnote]]
** "He was bread the whole time." [[labelnote:Explanation]]In "Fasting Contest" Amir Blumenfeld and Ben Schwartz discuss ''Film/TheSixthSense'' and Amir notes that Bruce Willis "[[DeadAllAlong was bread the whole time]]." This is treated as a FreudianSlip because they're having a fasting contest, but becomes a surreal BrickJoke at the end when Amir himself turns out to have been bread the whole time.[[/labelnote]]
** The only things that makes Brennan laugh[[labelnote:Explanation]]Brennan is legendarily good at keeping his face straight in ''No Laughs Newsroom'', but there are two particularily memorable moments that got him laughing that are often quoted; Trapp reading the line "all the countries declared peace on each other" and Brennan himself having to read the line "Grant caught syphilis in January"[[/labelnote]]
** GIF's of Victor Vivisector going "Ew-ew-ew!" in the second ''Furry Force'' episode has been used as a {{Squick}} reaction, especially regarding furries.
* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The Furry Force videos are actually pretty popular with the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, despite that the videos mock said fandom. To be fair, it mocks the ''[[{{Yiff}} darker]]'' [[Rule34 side]] of it specifically, which is controversial even among the fandom itself.
* MisaimedFandom: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1S32ISJJVs "If Tag Were as Complicated as German Board Games"]] is supposed to criticize German board games and the people who play them. The comments are full of people wanting to play German Tag, and seeing it as a fun improvement over regular tag.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: How Grant managed to beat Sam in his own game in an episode of Game Changer. The rules of that particular episode was that the players had to compete for a pile of money, with whoever did the craziest stunt getting the award. With 3000 dollars left and the challenge being to do ''anything'' involving some crickets, Grant convinces the other players to work with him, leading to each of them walking home with 1000 dollars in return for Grant simply having to wave at some crickets, and none of the other players challenging him on it.
** Also works as one for Sam, for having a graphic prepared for this instance sincerely congratulating the crew for unionising. Especially when you remember his dad was actually Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor.
* MoralEventHorizon: There's some debate over where this line may have been crossed in the (fictional, but presented as real) "Prank War" series, with the most common candidates being video 4 (Amir gets the audience at Streeter's standup comedy performance not to laugh), 5 (Streeter tricks Amir into thinking he's going to appear on ''Series/HumanGiant'' only to have the team berate his acting throughout the shoot and finally boot him from the sketch), 6 (Amir stages a fake proposal from Streeter to his girlfriend which gets him [[BitchSlap Bitch Slapped]] in public when he tells her the truth, implicitly ruining their relationship) and 8 (Amir pays Streeter's skydiving instructor to convince him that his parachute didn't open).
* NauseaFuel: The "Furry Force" sketches rely on this entirely for comedy.
* NightmareFuel:
** The "Super Intense ER Promo".
** An in-universe example with [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Mike Wazowski]]'s redesign for the [[WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity prequel]] in "Billy Crystal and John Goodman Meet Their Monsters". The redesign is basically Billy Crystal (Mike's voice actor) with green skin. Billy is less than pleased while everybody else, John Goodman included, are absolutely ''terrified'' by it.
** The ''Shazaam'' excerpt seems initially like a spot-on parody of kids' movies that work fantasy into the lives of children with a dysfunctional household. However, if viewers catch subtle references to other FalseMemories created by the Mandela Effect, it could prove unsettling to consider possible truth behind claims of those memories coming from an alternate universe or timeline, and a tape from such a place suddenly appearing in a spot where our universe's [=CollegeHumor=] could find it.
** [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=WkJZXW_Phbs "How To Make a Human Pot Pie."]]
** "[[https://youtu.be/RgBDdDdSqNE The New iPhone Is Just Worse]]" dips into an unexpectedly creepy atmosphere near the end, with the music slowing to a crawl and the addition of glitchy sound effects, while Tim Cook reveals to the viewer that four members of the design team have mysteriously disappeared.
---> '''Jony Ive''': [[CreepyMonotone Oopsy daisy, where did Tim go?]]
** The very end of [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=fHjbDSOmeiM&t=1s What Undecided Voters Look Like To Everyone Else]] in which the clown handles the man's intestines like a balloon animal just might make the viewer wince. [[MoodWhiplash The sudden jump]] to this combined with the dark setting of the scene, as well as the [[SoundtrackDissonance jaunty circus music]] playing in the background, just adds to the creepiness.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/RosaSalazar appears in several CH videos before her {{Star Making Role}}s in a number of big movie franchises in the 2010s.
** Amy Rutberg appeared in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEW7toPzRHo a]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKoTE68cOBo few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czkp5oQ5GKc Jake & Amir sketches]] in 2009 before she became best known to the public as Marci Stahl from ''Series/Daredevil2015''.
** Creator/LinManuelMiranda appears as an annoying rapper in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syEEuSwoaJE&list=PLsICxpoE7aQHZBY9GeJ-OWSWAR6ZHfq49&index=48 this video]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_F23P7uD1M This sketch]] features Creator/KellyMarieTran three years before her StarMakingRole as [[Film/TheLastJedi Rose Tico]].
** [[https://youtu.be/OlNP8Z0Kimk Here]] is Creator/KristenConnolly in one of the videos.
** The man who asks inane questions in the If Google Was a Guy series is Colton Dunn (Garrett on ''{{Series/Superstore}}'').
** [[https://youtu.be/OMCjWpXy_aI Why Are My Nipples Pixelated?]] features future ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member Creator/HeidiGardner.
** A very start of his career Creator/KumailNanjiani appears for a brief scene in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsdlSpA2GU "Honest College Ad"]].
** D'Arcy Carden plays a climate change denier in "If Google Was A Guy, Part 5", eight months before her first appearance as Janet in ''Series/TheGoodPlace''.
* NotSoCrazyAnymore: The "If Google Was a Guy" series began in 2012, when the idea of speaking aloud to Google directly was only seen in parodies. The Google Assistant in 2016 made it possible to speak aloud to Google, though it's not nearly as snarky as the Google in the videos. One standout is a scene where a woman asks "What song goes like this?" and then hums a song to Google, which only confuses him. Now it's possible for Google's vocal software to recognize a tune you hum and tell you the name of the song.
* RootingForTheEmpire: A large portion of non-furries (and even some who ''are'' furries) who watched the Furry Force series ended up rooting for Vivisector to defeat the Furry Force if only because he is their AudienceSurrogate reacting to the more sexual aspect of the furry fandom and wants the Furry Force dead. The fact that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmh5a_wSyw final part of the series]] he [[spoiler:burnt down all of his Scaly Squad to stop the world from becoming furries, [[AlasPoorVillain commits suicide]]]] ''and'', in the alternative future, suffered a MindRape to start a... "[[BlackComedyRape relationship]]" with Leon ([[{{Squick}} who he openly felt disgusted by]]) and [[{{Squick}} drowned in a sea of wolf cum]] only increase this sentiment.
* ShallowParody:
** The video parodying [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic bronies]] is just a ClicheStorm of the worst nerd stereotypes they could think of with a MLP themed coat of paint poorly applied to it. It also manages to be a Shallow Parody of ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' at the same time, by having the pony figures talk about stereotypical GirlyGirl things even though Friendship is Magic is largely known for breaking that mold. Needless to say, the parody caused ''quite'' a lot of backlash from real-life bronies.
** They also did a video parodying ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' called "Hunger Games Unabridged," which was all about defying the NobodyPoops trope. A hilarious idea, to be sure, and the video itself is rather well done. However, there's just one problem-- The "unabridged" excerpts read in the video are written in ''third-person point of view'', whereas the actual series is written from Katniss' ''first-person'' point of view.
** Some of their parody videos could fall under this. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXr-BeXJHI this video]] explaining how it would be if the anime Creator/HayaoMiyazaki made were like other anime.
* {{Squick}}:
** ''[[http://youtu.be/r5aRcwHULaI Back to the Future Sex Scenes]]'' - doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
** Again, the "Furry Force" videos. Seriously, it's probably better to just listen to the audio rather than watch the video itself, since you'll still be able to tell what's going on regardless...
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
** The site has changed its Originals intros often over the years. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'' video, when Amir says he hates the new intro "Because it's different!"
** The ending bit after the videos was also changed from a guy shouting "Huh!" a few years back. Afterwards every [=CollegeHumor=] Website/YouTube video would have tons of comments about where it went and that it should be brought back.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Biff, and Marty's parents in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' parody, "Back To The Future Alternate Ending". Marty's parents come off as having [[BlueAndOrangeMorality shockingly warped morals]] for mourning the death of Biff (who committed suicide because of what Marty changed in the past) and chastising Marty for criticizing him. Not only do they justify all of Biff's actions [[FreudianExcuse because of his bad homelife]], they also completely brush over Biff's AttemptedRape of Lorraine. The majority of viewers did not like the implication that the audience should feel bad for a violent rapist. [[OldShame It's one of the few skits that Collegehumor eventually removed]] from the [=YouTube=] channel.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "We Didn't Start the Flame War" is a snapshot of the Internet as of 2009, featuring many trends that have since fallen out of favor or been entirely forgotten. This includes rickrolling, Digg, the [=ROFLCopter=], ASCII art in general, outdated slang like "pwnage", sites like [=BustedTees=], and even [=CollegeHumor's=] own website. Unfortunately, {{Flame War}}s turned out to be a timeless concept.
* TheWoobie: The green-shirted woman in the animated "If Google Was a Guy" UsefulNotes/COVID19-themed videos, whose questions always relate to being terrified and lonely during the pandemic. In the third one, Google reads her New Year's Resolutions from the previous year and all of them were made impossible during the pandemic. While he snarks at most of his other clients, Google always takes the most gentle and reassuring approach with her anxiety.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Some of their parody songs are actually pretty catchy.
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** The Furry Force videos play with this line as if it was a string of yarn.
** The video "Zordon is a Racist" pokes fun at the fact that the original Black Ranger and the original Yellow Ranger in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were respectively African-American and Asian by establishing that Zordon is [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero a total bigot]] who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to, and Zordon's politically incorrect attitude is so unashamedly offensive it's hilarious! Aside from being racist by lazily declaring a second black recruit "the other Black Ranger", intending to make a Native American recruit the Red Ranger and the white male recruit the White Ranger as well as the leader, plus recruiting a Mexican janitor named Jorge by giving him a sombrero and a poncho instead of a proper Ranger uniform, Zordon is also shown to be Anti-Semitic (he's accused of planning to make the Jewish recruit the Green Ranger because of [[GreedyJew the stereotype that Jews love money]]), misogynist (he makes the second female recruit the Pink Ranger just because she's a girl and shoots down the idea of her being the leader) and homophobic (he doesn't like the idea of the white recruit being the Pink Ranger because it would be "gay" and is disgusted when the Jewish recruit implies that he actually is homosexual). What especially sells it is how TheStinger has the second black recruit complain that he's actually from Connecticut when he sees that Zordon's teleported him to Africa.
** The depths of despair [[https://youtu.be/YBO_7UezpbY the MoviePass CEO reaches]] cross into this, between answering a call from his kidnapped daughter, and the sketch ending [[spoiler: with his abduction at the hands of a LoanShark's goons]].
--->'''CEO''': Don't. Just don't. I'm hanging by a thread. And... the thing I'm hanging over, it's bottomless. If I drop, [[DespairEventHorizon I never hit the bottom]], do you get it?
** Prince Harry telling WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} that [[YoureNotMyType he's not into Asian girls]], then compromising after realizing that he's in China and asking her if it looks like a fortune cookie "down there".
** Lou in the Sam Says episode of Game Changer responding to the prompt of "Say something we'll have to bleep" by saying [[spoiler:OJ Simpson]] is innocent.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Some recurring sketches and characters become unexpectedly more popular than others.
** "If Google Was a Guy", because of his reactions to the inane and disturbing searches of his users.This reached the point that the human Google ended up being the one to comfort CH viewers as the COVID-19 pandemic began.
** Mr. S from the "Jeggings" sketches. Similar to Google Guy, he's just an average substitute teacher who gets increasingly fed up with the rules lawyering of the students in front of him.
** The unnamed OnlySaneMan agent from the "X's agent" series, for having to put up with the public relations nightmares of Music/ChrisBrown, Music/KanyeWest, Creator/NicolasCage, and Creator/ScarlettJohansson. Played by the same actor as Mr. S, Matt [=McCarthy=].
** WebVideo/PreciousPlum was discontinued after Josh (who played Mama) left. It's still one of their most popular series and people wish it would come back.
*** Josh himself was beloved by the fandom, and pretty much all his sketches met with acclaim.
** The Furry Force animations are rather popular, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDnYq0zbYYo to the point that they were nominated for]], and eventually won, [[http://www.ursamajorawards.org/UMA_2014.htm an Ursa Major Award.]]
** Brennan, due to the CEO series, his LargeHam tendencies and his work on Dimension 20, is one of the more popular cast members.
* FridgeBrilliance: On the fake Nicholas Cage movie poster for Film/ToKillAMockingbird retold where the black guy really did rape that woman, Tom Robinson is shrugging with both arms in the air. It was a plot point in the trial that Tom Robinson's left arm was crippled and thus couldn't raise it. So that fact he can here implies it was proof he did it in this movie.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Their "Not Google Plus" video has everyone not joining Google Plus. Fast forward to November 2013, when a Google Plus account is ''mandatory'' for Website/YouTube users. And then in 2018, Google Plus shut down due to low usership.
** The sixth episode of ''Prank Wars'' has Amir planting a fake marriage proposal from Streeter to his girlfriend in the middle of a Major League baseball game. When Streeter's girlfriend ''accepts'', Streeter has to inform her that he did no such thing, and the ensuing argument - and slap across Streeter's face - is broadcast to the entire stadium. Shortly afterward, the two of them broke up. Though they claimed it was for other reasons and that the break-up was amicable, it was impossible to completely detach it from the prank. This one got less harsh again in 2017 when Streeter and Amir admitted that they'd staged the prank war and that Streeter's girlfriend was in on the gag.
** In the two-part North Korean propaganda parody video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsGBzE_yS48 Kim Jong Un vs Kim Jong Il]], Kim Jong Un's brother, Kim Jong-nam is revealed to be the mastermind behind a conspiracy to depose his brother and take over North Korea. However, he is defeated in the end. On February 17, 2017, Kim Jong-nam was killed in an alleged assassination, and people close to him have claimed Kim Jong Un to be the mastermind.
** The message in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eO-HO7GLI Stop Saying "It Ruined My Childhood"]]'' (that reacting to movies and shows you grew up with being rebooted or changed in ways you don't like by claiming your childhood has been ruined when there are much worse things people have endured in their youth is ludicrously obtuse) loses some of its sincerity and comes off as hypocritical when you find out College Humor did an [[http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7043713/if-movies-had-honest-posters-march-2017-edition "honest" poster]] for ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' calling it "Childhood Ruiners".
*** One of the complaining millennials in that video is Kelly Marie Tran, whose character in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' gained a significant backlash to the point of her leaving social media.
** In March 2017, they posted a video titled ''Don't Eat the Laundry Pods'' where someone gets curious about them and despite the dangers, ends up eating some in the end. Flash forward to late 2017 where teens and kids take a tide pod challenge, eating them despite the dangers. While before, toddlers would eat/attempt to eat them because they look like candy, teens and kids are eating them by choice.
*** They would end up addressing this in a video titled ''Tide CEO: You Gotta Stop Eating Tide Pods'', in which the CEO of Procter and Gamble (not mentioned on screen for legal reasons) chastises the audience for eating Tide Pods, and then grows steadily more outraged at various products manufactured by the company for looking exactly like candy.
** A video called [=CollegeHumor=] is Shutting Down (a clip from Dropout's series Kingpin Katie) became this in 2020, when it was announced that over 100 people, including the entire cast of CH Originals, would be laid off as College Humor had lost funding from their parent company.
** In Game Changer [=S4E1=] (2021), Brennan reacts to his Sam Says prompt by coughing loudly and all around Sam Reich. In 2023, Sam would contract long COVID.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In 2019, on the ''very first'' episode of ''Game Changer'', Izzy reveals that Brennan's greatest dream is to be a dad, and five years later, on a Fireside Chat for ''Podcast/WorldsBeyondNumber''[[note]]A non-Dropout ActualPlay podcast he produces alongside Lou Wilson, Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii[[/note]] he revealed that he and Izzy, who he had since married in 2023, had welcomed the birth of their first child.
* HilariousInHindsight
** The video where [=LeBron=] James ditches the cast of ''Film/SpaceJam'' is all the funnier after James starred in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''.
** The ''2015'' video "Stop Saying 'It Ruined My Childhood'" starts with one of the characters complaining about "[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 the new Ghostbusters movie]]".
** "Stormtroopers' 9/11" as a 9/11 parody naturally goes into the theory that the Death Star was a inside job and that according to the engineering there was no way one X-Wing could blow it up. 7 years later, ''Film/RogueOne'' shows that the trooper was RightForTheWrongReasons - the Death Star was an inside job, only it was sabotaged by an'' Alliance'' sympathizer.
** "Series/GameOfThrones Wish-Fulfillment" had [[spoiler:the White Walkers finding a shortcut through the wall]] as one of the things they wanted. Come season 7 and that indeed happens.
** The fifth installment of "If Google Was A Guy" features Creator/DarcyCarden as one of the Googlers. Later that year, she would play [[Series/TheGoodPlace another take on an anthropomorphic search engine.]]
** There's a fake trailer for a DarkerAndEdgier ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpTcrtsN3U movie]] with Creator/ArielWinter as the lead character. It was meant to be an obvious tongue in cheek joke, and yet [[Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold it really happened!]] In fact, when the real movie was first announced, images from this trailer circulated claiming to be previews of the real movie.
** "Aladdin's Mistake" has WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} accidentally turning the Genie into a human when freeing him. [[spoiler: In [[Film/Aladdin2019 the live-action remake]], he ''does'' become a powerless human when freed.]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtPb8g8Jl6I Web Site Story]]'' is ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' adapted for the 21st century. Kyle Harris, who plays Tony in this video, later went on to play Tony in the 2010-2011 US National Tour production of ''West Side Story''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFK_XuVqsCQ The Pixar Intro Parody]] has [[ItMakesSenseInContext letters holding a funeral for the "I" that got crushed by the lamp.]] The funeral speaker happens to be the letter "F". [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare A certain video game released a year later would be subject to paying respects with "F".]]
*** Even later, [[WebAnimation/{{Alphabet}} An "I" would be crushed by the letter "F" in the exact same way as the Pixar lamp]].
** “If Google Was A Guy Part 2” shows a man investing in Dogecoin (a cryptocurrency that started as a joke) and becoming obscenely wealthy. Becoming wealthy by investing in Dogecoin doesn’t seem so farfetched as of January 2021, when [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/01/29/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-rises-over-400percent-after-reddit-group-talks-it-up.html Dogecoin’s price skyrocketed up by 800% in a single day]].
* JerkassWoobie: Google Guy comes off as annoying, but so would you be if you were in his shoes.
* LesYay: In the Sketch co-written by a computer, "everything is suddenly relationship goals", and Katie is seen embracing Ally.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHYGUcISsUU "Your Overly Complicated Holiday Plans"]] could pretty much be called "Katie flirts with Lily while Brennan has a mental breakdown."
* LoveToHate: The Boy from the "Giving Tree" parody is one of the most hated characters because of his selfish and cruel actions. Then again, [[HateSink this was kind of]] [[IntendedAudienceReaction the whole point]].
* MemeticMutation:
** Every time a comic about dating gets posted, [[PoliticalOvercorrectness the comment section will be fake flame wars about whether every identity in existence is represented]].
** From ''If Google Was A Guy (Part 3)'':
---> "Vaccines causes autism?"
---> "Here's one million results that say they don't, and one result that says they do."
---> "I knew it!" (takes the latter result) [[labelnote:Explanation]][=GIFs=] and clips of this part has been used as a TakeThat to the Anti-Vaxxer movement. Versions with the vaccines part removed, have also been used as a TakeThat to people who use ConfirmationBias in general.[[/labelnote]]
** "He was bread the whole time." [[labelnote:Explanation]]In "Fasting Contest" Amir Blumenfeld and Ben Schwartz discuss ''Film/TheSixthSense'' and Amir notes that Bruce Willis "[[DeadAllAlong was bread the whole time]]." This is treated as a FreudianSlip because they're having a fasting contest, but becomes a surreal BrickJoke at the end when Amir himself turns out to have been bread the whole time.[[/labelnote]]
** The only things that makes Brennan laugh[[labelnote:Explanation]]Brennan is legendarily good at keeping his face straight in ''No Laughs Newsroom'', but there are two particularily memorable moments that got him laughing that are often quoted; Trapp reading the line "all the countries declared peace on each other" and Brennan himself having to read the line "Grant caught syphilis in January"[[/labelnote]]
** GIF's of Victor Vivisector going "Ew-ew-ew!" in the second ''Furry Force'' episode has been used as a {{Squick}} reaction, especially regarding furries.
* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The Furry Force videos are actually pretty popular with the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, despite that the videos mock said fandom. To be fair, it mocks the ''[[{{Yiff}} darker]]'' [[Rule34 side]] of it specifically, which is controversial even among the fandom itself.
* MisaimedFandom: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1S32ISJJVs "If Tag Were as Complicated as German Board Games"]] is supposed to criticize German board games and the people who play them. The comments are full of people wanting to play German Tag, and seeing it as a fun improvement over regular tag.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: How Grant managed to beat Sam in his own game in an episode of Game Changer. The rules of that particular episode was that the players had to compete for a pile of money, with whoever did the craziest stunt getting the award. With 3000 dollars left and the challenge being to do ''anything'' involving some crickets, Grant convinces the other players to work with him, leading to each of them walking home with 1000 dollars in return for Grant simply having to wave at some crickets, and none of the other players challenging him on it.
** Also works as one for Sam, for having a graphic prepared for this instance sincerely congratulating the crew for unionising. Especially when you remember his dad was actually Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor.
* MoralEventHorizon: There's some debate over where this line may have been crossed in the (fictional, but presented as real) "Prank War" series, with the most common candidates being video 4 (Amir gets the audience at Streeter's standup comedy performance not to laugh), 5 (Streeter tricks Amir into thinking he's going to appear on ''Series/HumanGiant'' only to have the team berate his acting throughout the shoot and finally boot him from the sketch), 6 (Amir stages a fake proposal from Streeter to his girlfriend which gets him [[BitchSlap Bitch Slapped]] in public when he tells her the truth, implicitly ruining their relationship) and 8 (Amir pays Streeter's skydiving instructor to convince him that his parachute didn't open).
* NauseaFuel: The "Furry Force" sketches rely on this entirely for comedy.
* NightmareFuel:
** The "Super Intense ER Promo".
** An in-universe example with [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Mike Wazowski]]'s redesign for the [[WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity prequel]] in "Billy Crystal and John Goodman Meet Their Monsters". The redesign is basically Billy Crystal (Mike's voice actor) with green skin. Billy is less than pleased while everybody else, John Goodman included, are absolutely ''terrified'' by it.
** The ''Shazaam'' excerpt seems initially like a spot-on parody of kids' movies that work fantasy into the lives of children with a dysfunctional household. However, if viewers catch subtle references to other FalseMemories created by the Mandela Effect, it could prove unsettling to consider possible truth behind claims of those memories coming from an alternate universe or timeline, and a tape from such a place suddenly appearing in a spot where our universe's [=CollegeHumor=] could find it.
** [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=WkJZXW_Phbs "How To Make a Human Pot Pie."]]
** "[[https://youtu.be/RgBDdDdSqNE The New iPhone Is Just Worse]]" dips into an unexpectedly creepy atmosphere near the end, with the music slowing to a crawl and the addition of glitchy sound effects, while Tim Cook reveals to the viewer that four members of the design team have mysteriously disappeared.
---> '''Jony Ive''': [[CreepyMonotone Oopsy daisy, where did Tim go?]]
** The very end of [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=fHjbDSOmeiM&t=1s What Undecided Voters Look Like To Everyone Else]] in which the clown handles the man's intestines like a balloon animal just might make the viewer wince. [[MoodWhiplash The sudden jump]] to this combined with the dark setting of the scene, as well as the [[SoundtrackDissonance jaunty circus music]] playing in the background, just adds to the creepiness.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/RosaSalazar appears in several CH videos before her {{Star Making Role}}s in a number of big movie franchises in the 2010s.
** Amy Rutberg appeared in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEW7toPzRHo a]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKoTE68cOBo few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czkp5oQ5GKc Jake & Amir sketches]] in 2009 before she became best known to the public as Marci Stahl from ''Series/Daredevil2015''.
** Creator/LinManuelMiranda appears as an annoying rapper in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syEEuSwoaJE&list=PLsICxpoE7aQHZBY9GeJ-OWSWAR6ZHfq49&index=48 this video]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_F23P7uD1M This sketch]] features Creator/KellyMarieTran three years before her StarMakingRole as [[Film/TheLastJedi Rose Tico]].
** [[https://youtu.be/OlNP8Z0Kimk Here]] is Creator/KristenConnolly in one of the videos.
** The man who asks inane questions in the If Google Was a Guy series is Colton Dunn (Garrett on ''{{Series/Superstore}}'').
** [[https://youtu.be/OMCjWpXy_aI Why Are My Nipples Pixelated?]] features future ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member Creator/HeidiGardner.
** A very start of his career Creator/KumailNanjiani appears for a brief scene in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsdlSpA2GU "Honest College Ad"]].
** D'Arcy Carden plays a climate change denier in "If Google Was A Guy, Part 5", eight months before her first appearance as Janet in ''Series/TheGoodPlace''.
* NotSoCrazyAnymore: The "If Google Was a Guy" series began in 2012, when the idea of speaking aloud to Google directly was only seen in parodies. The Google Assistant in 2016 made it possible to speak aloud to Google, though it's not nearly as snarky as the Google in the videos. One standout is a scene where a woman asks "What song goes like this?" and then hums a song to Google, which only confuses him. Now it's possible for Google's vocal software to recognize a tune you hum and tell you the name of the song.
* RootingForTheEmpire: A large portion of non-furries (and even some who ''are'' furries) who watched the Furry Force series ended up rooting for Vivisector to defeat the Furry Force if only because he is their AudienceSurrogate reacting to the more sexual aspect of the furry fandom and wants the Furry Force dead. The fact that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmh5a_wSyw final part of the series]] he [[spoiler:burnt down all of his Scaly Squad to stop the world from becoming furries, [[AlasPoorVillain commits suicide]]]] ''and'', in the alternative future, suffered a MindRape to start a... "[[BlackComedyRape relationship]]" with Leon ([[{{Squick}} who he openly felt disgusted by]]) and [[{{Squick}} drowned in a sea of wolf cum]] only increase this sentiment.
* ShallowParody:
** The video parodying [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic bronies]] is just a ClicheStorm of the worst nerd stereotypes they could think of with a MLP themed coat of paint poorly applied to it. It also manages to be a Shallow Parody of ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' at the same time, by having the pony figures talk about stereotypical GirlyGirl things even though Friendship is Magic is largely known for breaking that mold. Needless to say, the parody caused ''quite'' a lot of backlash from real-life bronies.
** They also did a video parodying ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' called "Hunger Games Unabridged," which was all about defying the NobodyPoops trope. A hilarious idea, to be sure, and the video itself is rather well done. However, there's just one problem-- The "unabridged" excerpts read in the video are written in ''third-person point of view'', whereas the actual series is written from Katniss' ''first-person'' point of view.
** Some of their parody videos could fall under this. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXr-BeXJHI this video]] explaining how it would be if the anime Creator/HayaoMiyazaki made were like other anime.
* {{Squick}}:
** ''[[http://youtu.be/r5aRcwHULaI Back to the Future Sex Scenes]]'' - doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
** Again, the "Furry Force" videos. Seriously, it's probably better to just listen to the audio rather than watch the video itself, since you'll still be able to tell what's going on regardless...
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
** The site has changed its Originals intros often over the years. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'' video, when Amir says he hates the new intro "Because it's different!"
** The ending bit after the videos was also changed from a guy shouting "Huh!" a few years back. Afterwards every [=CollegeHumor=] Website/YouTube video would have tons of comments about where it went and that it should be brought back.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Biff, and Marty's parents in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' parody, "Back To The Future Alternate Ending". Marty's parents come off as having [[BlueAndOrangeMorality shockingly warped morals]] for mourning the death of Biff (who committed suicide because of what Marty changed in the past) and chastising Marty for criticizing him. Not only do they justify all of Biff's actions [[FreudianExcuse because of his bad homelife]], they also completely brush over Biff's AttemptedRape of Lorraine. The majority of viewers did not like the implication that the audience should feel bad for a violent rapist. [[OldShame It's one of the few skits that Collegehumor eventually removed]] from the [=YouTube=] channel.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "We Didn't Start the Flame War" is a snapshot of the Internet as of 2009, featuring many trends that have since fallen out of favor or been entirely forgotten. This includes rickrolling, Digg, the [=ROFLCopter=], ASCII art in general, outdated slang like "pwnage", sites like [=BustedTees=], and even [=CollegeHumor's=] own website. Unfortunately, {{Flame War}}s turned out to be a timeless concept.
* TheWoobie: The green-shirted woman in the animated "If Google Was a Guy" UsefulNotes/COVID19-themed videos, whose questions always relate to being terrified and lonely during the pandemic. In the third one, Google reads her New Year's Resolutions from the previous year and all of them were made impossible during the pandemic. While he snarks at most of his other clients, Google always takes the most gentle and reassuring approach with her anxiety.
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