Line #15 Creator/Wileyk209zback


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4	[=Wileyk209zback=] (also known as Zak Wolf) is a well-known [=YouTube=] Pooper and UsefulNotes/FurryFandom figure from New England (specifically from the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts.) He is well known also as the co-creator of ''WebVideo/GoldenBookVideoKillers'' with user Tomblappy. He and his brother have also collaborated together on WebVideo/BarneyBunch-themed Speakonia dubs of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episodes, under the [[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15dTpZ2SbSRtygyDGTLRLq_Fhv8mv45m8 BigBoyRats alias]] (named after the "Big Boy" baby in "Angelica's Worst Nightmare," the first episode they dubbed).
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7	!!His videos provide examples of:
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9	* ActorAllusion: Fairly common in his [=YouTube=] Poops, and also featured in a few of the [=BigBoyRats=] WebVideo/BarneyBunch-themed ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' dubs (such as making the Creator/JamesBelushi -voiced Santa Claus actor in the "Babies in Toyland" special being the same crooked mall Santa from ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'', whom Belushi also played.)
10	* AllJustADream: "Daffy Duck's Wuvluv Nightmare." It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] earlier on, when [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Mushu]] assures Daffy that he's in a dream and to go along with hit, saying "Anything can happen in a dream!" He also stops Daffy from ending it early to avoid sleep paralysis.
11	* AmbulanceCut: He's fond of doing this in his [=YouTube=] Poops when someone gets injured or seriously sick, often utilizing a very simple animation of an ambulance driving by on a white background accompanied by a very fast high-pitched siren. In his [=YTP=] "Cecil Goes Crazy," this happens to [[WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil Cecil]] because he got sick from ''[[SmokingIsNotCool smoking a cigar]]''.
12	* AndYouWereThere: Done at the end of "Daffy Duck's Wuvluv Nightmare." Daffy even [[LampshadeHanging compares it to]] ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' while doing it.
13	* AuthorAppeal:
14	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Golden Book Video, [[PointAndClickGame Point-and-Click Games]] (especially the ones by Creator/HumongousEntertainment and ''VideoGame/LivingBooks'') and ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' (though this one is more out of ironic love than genuine love).
15	** [[FunForSome Fire alarms]], something he's uploaded several videos of to his channel. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as this is a special interest for him since he has Asperger syndrome.
16	* BerserkButton: Of a sort; when cosplaying as Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs Big Bad Wolf]], at conventions or whatnot if someone [[MistakenIdentity mistakes his costume for]] WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, he'll end up telling them in character, "Does Goofy have fangs like this, and a tail like this, and does he chase after the Three Little Pigs?"
17	* CatchPhrase: In his [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs Big Bad Wolf]] Creator/{{Disney}} read-along review vlogs, he usually ends his introduction before putting on the cassette or record with "But enough of this yakking; let's see the pictures, hear the story/record/tape, and read the book!"
18	* ClusterFBomb:
19	** The main focus of his ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' YTP "The Foul-Mouthed Genie!", which dubs over the Genie with lines from Creator/RobinWilliams' stand-up shows, lamp-shading the way on how film companies use salty comedians to voice roles in children's movies.
20	* {{Deconstruction}}: His Platform/GoAnimate videos tend to do this, poking fun at the "WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} Gets Grounded" trend popular in the community, most notably when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4wzY4ga9U the family goes to court]] for Boris constantly grounding Caillou. Even though Boris accuses the court of being a KangarooCourt with a JokerJury, it actually turns out to be a positive outcome for Caillou, as it screws up big time for Boris and he is declared mentally insane for having a "grounding fetish", all while Boris attempts to paint Caillou as the most obnoxious brat in history, and as the only sane person in his family, even going as far as to try and ground the courtroom when the sentencing is handed down and he is arrested.
21	** Later on he did another one where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ANtE-zd0oY Caillou's family attends a family therapy session]], where once again it doesn't end well for Boris and he is similarly declared mentally insane for his unhealthy grounding obsession, and even tries grounding everyone in his family ''and the therapist''. But of course things turn out well for Caillou, Rosie and Doris, and they earn their family bliss, but not in the way they expected.
22	* ExpressiveMask: The fursuit heads he built of Zak Wolf and the Creator/{{Disney}} [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs Big Bad Wolf]], made with fairly-decent moving-jaw mechanisms.
23	* FanVid: He's produced quite a few of these as well...
24	** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDaK41SU87Q first YouTube video]] was one of these, taking clips of the "I'm Gonna Always Love You" song sequence from ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' set to the theme song for the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' animated series.
25	*** As a fifth anniversary video for his current channel and for the 30th anniversary of the original ''Muppet Babies'' series, he made an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlknYCozMo improved high-definition remake]] of said video, most notably featuring a clip of Baby Animal from the 2014 Lipton Tea commercial featuring Franchise/TheMuppets at the "Animal dance!" lyric (compared to the still image of a Baby Animal photo puppet at that part in the original.)
26	** There's one he made using clips from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtZ4bBP3EhM set to the "Macarena" song]], largely due to (and prominently featuring) a clip from "Play it Again D.W." where a group of adults at the party the Read parents attend perform a dance move resembling the Macarena.
27	** Two of them are of [[Series/LazyTown Robbie Rotten]]'s "MasterOfDisguise" song. One is of Transfer the wolf from ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'', and the other is of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]]. Notable of the former is the "It's so easy to deceive you" verse accompanying Transfer disguised as his boss Sullivan and pulling a MirrorRoutine on him, and at the [[LarynxDissonance falsetto]] "Oh I'm so tricky" (accompanying Robbie DisguisedInDrag) playing under a clip of Transfer [[AttractiveBentGender disguised as a beautiful female doe]]. Notable with the latter is the "I'm as sneaky as can be" verse accompanying Sylvester disguised as a scarecrow with stilts (and it even looks like [[MickeyMousing his animation is timed to the music]]), the "You walk right by me, not knowing that I'm slimy" lyric accompanying Tweety walking by Sylvester standing behind the fence wearing a rubber goat mask, and the aforementioned "Oh I'm so tricky" playing under [[DisguisedInDrag Sylvester disguised full-body as a pretty female dog]].
28	** For the 2012 holiday season, he did a [=YouTube=] Poop Music Video, using Music/BobRivers's "[[AntiChristmasSong The Twelve Pains of Christmas]]" song set to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlJ1YQslrU various clips, largely from "Arthur," "Caillou" and the CD-i Nintendo games]]. Worth of note is WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} playing the BrattyHalfPint for eight, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda]] worrying about facing her in-laws for six, Caillou's mommy not enjoying sending Christmas cards for four, [[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Buster Baxter]] experiencing hangovers for three (including a clip of his ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-esque counterpart at one point), and David Read attempting to rig up the Christmas lights for two.
29	** He's also done a video showcasing clips of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sVaVH3He_Q characters smoking]] accompanied by Tex Williams's "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" song, concluding with [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Babs Bunny]] exclaiming "CIGARETTES ARE GROSS!!!"
30	** There's also one he made for celebrating his 28th birthday, showcasing clips from ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears [[BirthdayPartyGoesWrong and Too Much Birthday]]'' set to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTsjcfLXlr0 "It's My Party (and I'll Cry if I Want To)"]] by Lesley Gore. Given the context of the episode, the song fits with the animation very well.
31	** [[https://youtu.be/Z25LX4oDU-Y This music video]] compiles various scenes of characters pretending to be a train in a tunnel (such as WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner the Road Runner]], [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou Shaggy and Scooby]], [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 the Muppet Babies]], [[WesternAnimation/Cars2 the Galloping Geargrinder]] and [[Series/TheATeam Murdock]], set to the Ice Man song from ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (as that episode had a few instances of characters pretending to be a train in a mine tunnel).
32	** He also did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNv4HbRgP9E an AMV]] of the ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'' anime set to the "Something There" song from the animated Disney classic ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. This came from starting to watch the anime after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic affected his area and because [[HeAlsoDid he had also recently worked on the costume committee]] for his college's theater company's performance of the stage adaptation of Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast''.
33	* GoofySuit: Not just his own fursuits, but he also performs as a kangaroo mascot for a local college-league baseball team, and has shared a few videos of his mascot antics on his channel.
34	* HindenburgIncendiaryPrinciple: On the 80th anniversary of ''UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg'' disaster, he uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahKmZN-zOmY a montage]] of this trope occurring in animation.
35	** In his "Let's Play" video of ''VideoGame/SPYFox in Dry Cereal'', he compares the crash of William the Kid's getaway blimp to ''The Hindenburg'' and even refers to said blimp as "The Hindenwilliam."
36	* HollywoodNewEngland: He's a Greater Boston native, and some of his railfanning videos prominently show [=MBTA=] trains. He also uploaded a recording of a Dunkin' Donuts commercial involving TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, further placing his status as a New Englander owing to Dunkin' Donuts' huge presence in the region.
37	* LatexPerfection: Some of his costumed egos utilize such masks, although in most cases they are [[OffTheShelfFX mass-produced rubber Halloween masks]] from different eras that aren't very expressive, including latex masks of Franchise/ScoobyDoo and WesternAnimation/WileECoyote (the latter one of the rarer masks in his collection), along with [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs the Big Bad Wolf]] (before making a [[ExpressiveMask moving-jaw fursuit head]] of him in spring 2016), WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, a cartoonish PigMan (resembling the pig mask from the 1984 ''Unfaithfully Yours'' remake), a couple other cartoonish wolves and a few others.
38	** And of course, he's done a [=YouTube=] Poop making fun of this trope, appropriately entitled "The Age-Old Mask Device", in which "[[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} The Brain]]" (who spoke the line the title is based off of) channel-surfs and [[YourTelevisionHatesYou keeps coming across the latex mask device]] on each TV channel, and it keeps annoying him so much until he's driven to ShootTheTV!
39	* MasterOfDisguise: He has several costumed alter-egos and different masks he has appeared wearing online, starting with the Big Bad Wolf in October 2009, and continuing on with WesternAnimation/WileECoyote, Franchise/ScoobyDoo, one of the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, K-O the Kangaroo (the mascot for a local baseball team he often performs as), to name a few. In August 2019, he debuted his nondescript/original character fursona Zak Wolf and in October 2022 he debuted another fursona - Sam Valentino, the private toon fox detective.
40	** In 2018, he produced a FanVid with clips of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]]'s various disguises set to [[Series/LazyTown Robbie Rotten]]'s "Master of Disguise" song, in memory of the then-recent passing of Robbie's actor Stefan Karl.
41	* MirrorRoutine: One video involved him doing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzCMunzM28 a full-blown remake]] of this gag from the classic ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "[[Recap/ScoobyDooWhereAreYouS1E7NeverApeAnApeMan Never Ape an Ape Man]]", utilizing ChromaKey technology, a gorilla suit and a Scooby mask and costume. The result looks pretty impressive.
42	** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LoC0GB6Kco this video]] demonstrating the video effects from the pre-2007 versions of Apple's [=iMovie=] Non-Linear Edit software, when Zak Wolf gets to the "Mirror" effect he acts this out with the mirrored image of himself. He even mentions he should've brought his Franchise/ScoobyDoo mask or a [[Film/DuckSoup Groucho Marx costume]].
43	* MultiLayerFacade: He has occasionally showed this skill with LatexPerfection masks, even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrcwXUjBIbs wearing one Scooby-Doo mask under another]] as a gag!
44	** For AprilFoolsDay 2020, he did a video as Zak Wolf exclaiming he was going to reveal his actual face under the fursuit for everyone and [[DramaticUnmask dramatically removes it]] as the audience from ''Series/TheMaskedSinger'' chants "Take it off! Take it off! Take it off!"... only to [[spoiler:reveal [[TheUnreveal a tight latex grey cartoonish wolf mask]] underneath his fursuit head, to which he [[TheTease teasingly says "April fools.."]]]]
45	* MushroomSamba: He's pretty good at simulating this in [=YouTube=] Poops, especially if using software like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X.
46	* PrecisionFStrike: He is fond of using a voice recording of the Tourettes Guy saying "HOLY SHIT!" in a majority of his [[YoutubePoop YTPs]] to lampshade moments when this trope would be applied if the show was not made for a child audience. Sometimes, a voice recording of a loud "FUUUCK!" is also used as well for the same reason.
47	** Mostly averted otherwise in his fursuit videos.
48	* RailEnthusiast: He is one of these, and has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ab7EXQc9JM fairly large HO-scale model railroad layout]] in his basement that he has shared videos of on his channel, utilizing a neat mix of older and newer model train equipment from TheSixties to the present, and even has a working DriveInTheater! (with a tablet in the screen streaming intermission snack bar advertisements and trailers)
49	* RunningGag: His [=YouTube=] Poops have several...
50	** Whenever a character says “Ssh!”, the music from the [[Creator/JamesLBrooks Gracie Films]] logo plays. Once in a while, the text "You've been GRACIE FILMED" will appear on a blue background, or [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] will sing along with the music "And now the show is o-ver [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment now!]]"
51	** [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget “Woah! It’s a fire drill!”]]
52	** Whenever a particular piece of Arthur background music is played, either [[Series/DavyCrockett "Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee..."]] or [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues "Up a mountain and over a bridge..."]] is heard on top of it.
53	** When someone is injured or seriously ill, [[AmbulanceCut a very simple animation of an ambulance driving by plays accompanied by a very fast high-pitched siren]].
54	** The Brain from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' commenting in exasperation "The age-old mask device?" when an example of LatexPerfection occurs.
55	** His [=YouTube=] Poops of animated Creator/{{Disney}} features typically open with a spoof of the 1988-1994 Walt Disney Classics VHS opening VanityPlate, with [[VideoGame/MarioIsMissing Weegee]] in place of Sorcerer Mickey, and also featuring Mario commenting "[=YouTube=] Poop. Where there's smoke, they pinch back." and the finished logo reading "Walt Disney POOP CLASSICS."
56	** EatTheCamera moments or other similar zoom-ins are often accompanied by some form of the Creator/{{Viacom}} "V of Doom" logo music.
57	* ScoobyDoobyDoors: He's done a video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kj6fRNUz7I recreating this gag in live-action]] featuring himself wearing his Scooby-Doo costume. He even named the video after the trope name on Website/ThisVeryWiki!
58	** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIzc5stLcwg this video]], he takes the chase scene from ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' that incorporates this gag and syncs it to the "Happy Haunted Sunshine House" song from "[[WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo Bravo]] [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Dooby Doo]]". It surprisingly fits very well. Worth of note is Charlie Brown briefly quoting Johnny wondering if "Jinkies" is "a breakfast cereal or something."
59	* SelfParody / TakeThat: His Platform/GoAnimate videos were more or less made to make fun of the usual "Grounding" plot devices used in such videos. A minor arc involved WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} and his mother finally having had enough of the father [[DisproportionateRetribution always grounding him over every little thing he does]] and they go to court over it.
60	* ShaveAndAHaircut: In most of his Big Bad Wolf videos where he plays a record of the Disneyland Records studio cast version of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'', there's a part where the Wolf on the record knocks this way on Practical Pig's brick house, and usually after that, the actual Big Bad Wolf sings "Two bits!" This is borrowed from a gag he and his friend Tomblappy came up with for ''WebVideo/GoldenBookVideoKillers''.
61	* SignatureStyle: He commonly uses [[WesternAnimation/TheBusyWorldOfRichardScarry kids']] [[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} shows]] that are PopularWithFurries in his [=YouTube=] Poops, mainly those by Canadian company Creator/{{Cinar}}.
62	** He also uses anything by Creator/HannaBarbera and Creator/WarnerBros in his poops, as well as ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'', which was also a Cinar cartoon.
63	** He'll also often do [=YouTube=] Poops of Literature/TheBerenstainBears, utilizing both the 1985 and 2003 animated shows (the latter seemingly to be used more.)
64	** He's also often done LetsPlay videos of computer games of his childhood, most notably several titles from Creator/HumongousEntertainment, along with some of the Literature/LittleCritter / Mercer Mayer CD-ROM games of the mid-to-late 90s (such as ''VideoGame/TheSmellyMystery'').
65	* StockSoundEffects: He often enjoys pointing out or spoofing certain sounds, if need be. His favorite sound effects libraries to use, as pointed out in a few vlogs, are the "Cartoon Trax" sound effects library from the Hollywood Edge (which contains many classic Creator/{{Disney}} sounds), the Creator/HannaBarbera [=SoundFX=] Library and the Creator/WarnerBros Sound Effects Library from Sound Ideas. He has especially made extensive use of the Hanna-Barbera library in his ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' YTP "Disney Buys Out Hanna-Barbera."
66	* SyntheticVoiceActor: Besides his WebVideo/BarneyBunch and Platform/GoAnimate videos, he's also used such means in [=YouTube=] Poops...
67	** In "Big Bird Brings Death to Sesame Street," he uses Microsoft Sam pitched up to make Ernie (whose dialogue was simply described by the narrator in the original) say, "I'm going over to visit Betty Lou, because she has a contagious fatal illness, with [[Film/MrsDoubtfire diarrhea forever]]." It makes Big Bird's "Ohhh" reaction more convincing, though.
68	** He has also done a few videos utilizing the text-to-speech feature in the [=KidWorks=] 2 productivity software he used in his childhood, even making ''Drew Pickles'' speak with it in one video.
69	** In "The Age-Old Mask Device," this is used for a couple of TV announcers, including one saying "Today on ''Series/MissionImpossible'', a ClipShow of this past season's highlights," and the other saying "And now, back to ''[[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful]] [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toons]] ChristmasSpecial''." Both were done using the [=PlainTalk=] feature in Platform/MacOS.
70	* UmbrellasAreLightningRods: He simulates this in his Zak Wolf vlog demonstrating the video effects in the older versions of Apple's [=iMovie=] video-editing application; during a demonstration of the "Rain" effect he opens an umbrella, only to then get struck by lightning (via the "Electricity" effect.)
71	-->"I already demonstrated the electricity effect!"
72	* VlogSeries: When not doing fursuit vlogs as Zak Wolf, he'll also do vlogs cosplaying as [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs the Big Bad Wolf]], often showing or talking about something relating to Creator/{{Disney}} (most notably ranting about their live-action remakes of animated classics, and their buying Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox).
73	** He's also done a few vlogs as WesternAnimation/WileECoyote, usually about something relating to ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' or Creator/WarnerBros, such as when AT&T bought Time Warner in 2018.
74	** Recently he's done a few Zak Wolf vlogs that debunk some of the myths and rumors about the whole COPPA/FTC rules that have gone into effect in January 2020, including explaining how the automated content-detection system [=YouTube=] implements is flawed (and has personally gone through [[ArchivePanic all 1,100+ videos on his channel]] to set their audience settings.)
75	* VocalEvolution: Some of his character impressions; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that he's been on [=YouTube=] for over ten years...
76	** His voice for [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs the Big Bad Wolf]] has since gotten even closer to the original voice by Billy Bletcher, though once in a while [[OohMeAccentsSlipping it may start to revert to his earlier impression voice]].
77	** His WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck voice started out more higher-pitched, that is, when doing it at regular speed, as in some earlier vlogs he'd basically do a Sylvester-like voice and raise the pitch in post, very much like when Creator/MelBlanc voiced Daffy. He doesn't do this as often anymore, since his Daffy voice has improved a lot to the point where he doesn't need to use the Mel Blanc technique. Regardless, it still bears a strong resemblance to Creator/DeeBradleyBaker's Daffy voice from ''Film/SpaceJam'' and ''WesternAnimation/NewLooneyTunes''.
78	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: An in-universe example in a Big Bad Wolf vlog where he reviews the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzNxsmQ8d2w soundtrack-story album LP]] of ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol'', commenting on how it's yet another adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale and adding that "Movie and TV writers [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons have been milking that goat for years]]."

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